⚡️Poignant place for President Zelenskyy and Irish PM @MichealMartinTD to meet. Михайлівський золотоверхий монастир / St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery wall. Here the wall is 10 years ago: blank. Today, with photos of the 10s 1000s of Ukrainian soldiers who died fighting Ruschism since 2014.

⚡️Zelenskyy's Plight. Two summers ago I wrote about Putin's Plight. It is the oldest story we have about power changing hands. Putin was living its darkest telling. This week Zelenskyy stepped into the same story. He is living the bright one. 🧵 1/18 🧵

⚡️ It’s Amazing What Regular People Can Do For six months now I’ve been training a neural network to distinguish Disinfolklore. One challenge sits under everything. We swim in Disinfolklore. Infolklore is scarce… Wherever you get your podcasts, and here: www.disinfolklore.net/p/podcast-ac...

Podcast | Federov and Ukraine's Disinfolklore Channel My investigation into allegations that Truxha was re-archetyping Federov before his forced resignation as Ukraine’s defence minister… Available wherever you get your podcasts and here: www.decodingtrolls.net/p/podcast-fe...

⚡️Podcast | Outflank Dugin. Don’t Rebut. “…If you want a single piece of paper that ends the question of whether Alexander Dugin is a serious philosopher, this is it…” Available wherever you get your podcasts, and here: www.disinfolklore.net/p/podcast-ou...

⚡️Ukraine’s Forty-Day Kinetic Troll How Consciously is Ukraine Hexing Ruschia? Exactly one year ago, Ruschia was Delay, Delay, Delay - just fifty more days we need to take all of Donetsk and Luhansk. Donald took the bait… www.decodingtrolls.net/p/ukraines-f...

⚡️ We thank you for your observations @andrewmichta 1/13 🧵

⚡️Steele’s Dossiers, Mandelson, Manafort, Deripaska, Zaluzhniy, Aughinish Same characters. Year after year. New roles. @emptywheel argued convincingly someone (Deripaska?!) adulterated first Steele dossier with nonsense to punish credibility of the whole. Here we go again

⚡️Podcast | Golem and the Grand Inquisitor Ruschist people have decided to exchange prosperity for freedom? Re-surfacing of the Grand Inquisitor archetype. Yakubova gets right underneath, undermining these immanences — these archetypal myths… www.disinfolklore.net/p/the-golem-...

⚡️Disinfolklore is folklore made on purpose, by a state, to do you harm — stories with familiar shapes that slip past your guard because they feel like things you know. One story is a meme you can catch. A whole galaxy becomes a matrix: a made world whose walls you never see.

Ukraine's refusal is the archetype's defeat. 17/17

⚡️ Disinfolklore doesn't invent the suffering — it chooses real grief, amplifies it, and aims it. A grandmother really dies in the war-caused queue at a broken bridge. The lie is in what's cropped out: who broke the bridge, who started the war. The tell is what gets left out

⚡️The whole framework lives here, free. If you’d rather read than scroll: explore disinfolklore.eu. This account is the on-ramp. That site is the house. If this is landing, follow & stay. Tomorrow we pick up the first tool — the one everything else is built on.

⚡️Disinfolklore is disinfo that works the way folklore works — by archetype & repetition, not by argument. A fake state performs competent, tender, normal government: a parade, a foreign minister, a hospital transfer. The tell isn't the lie. The tell is the boredom.

⚡️A small map of where we’re going: the tools (how to see), the archetypal stock characters in all their guises (what to look for), the machinery (how it’s assembled), and then the best part — how to heal a captured story instead of just exposing it.

⚡️Disinfolklore is folklore-like storytelling built to capture you rather than shelter you. Usually it's a loud character — the Nazi bogeyman, saintly grandmother… Sometimes it's a shape with a hole in the middle, exactly where one true word should sit. Read the absence.

⚡️Lunin Plot Thickens. Russian security services now got our attention. Western influencers are rapt. New Lunin walk-in: his wife and his on/off death. Characters in a Netflix. Even as we cancel Netflix. Oh, why does Masha live alone with a bear? What’s wrong with her?!

⚡️Iran’s Winning Midas-Temptation Strategy Don’s on/off ceasefire/civilisational erasure tweets move global markets, yielding trillions. A temptation is a vulnerability. Don’s trapped by his greed. Iran’s goal is to destroy Don and American power. Permanently. Full steam ahead for Iran.

⚡️Disinfolklore.eu doesn’t requires us to be experts. It requires us to slow down for one second longer than the meme wants us to. Almost everything good begins in that one second.

⚡️The Pick-Up Artist: a stranger running a script. Six tells, you need only some — backhanded compliments, instant "you're so special", hot-and-cold, rushing you, peeling you from your people, tiny steps that add up. Name it and its power halves; the spell works only while invisible. 1/3 🧵

⚡️The Disinfolklore.eu method has twelve tools. The first is Archetypal literacy. A set of 6 within the 12 form a code that lets you judge. The 12th teaches us to read the deep code beneath the meme: Cryptotypic Literacy Over the coming weeks I’ll open each one.

⚡️Whole point of a walk-in is that nobody seems to have sent it. Storm-1516 is the machine for making sure of that. Now look at Lunin. Actor by that name threatening Putin with a mutiny watched 11 million times. His video walked-in our timeline exactly as a walk-in should.

⚡️Two Ukrainians who've both stood close to power posted about the same war this week. One made you want to give up. The other made you want to keep going. They weren't arguing about facts — they were striking two of the oldest notes there are. 1/11 🧵

⚡️Why I think this viral "Russian soldier threatens Putin with a mutiny" video — 11 million views — is staged by Russia's own security services. I've been reading Russia's Disinfolklore archetypes since 2015 in occupied Ukraine. Lunin is a textbook walk-in. 1/6 🧵

⚡️“Don’t poke the bear.” The most powerful piece of Disinfolklore ever. Four words. Notice what they do: They make your self-defence the provocation, and the aggressor’s next move look like a sad inevitability. That’s not a phrase. That’s a spell. We’ll dismantle it.

⚡️ So this thread does something for your family. It takes the tools I use on state propaganda and hands them to a teenager, a child, a grown-up — as protection not against an idea, but against a moment. The kind of moment people get talked into and later can't explain… 2/2

⚡️We start with the figure almost everyone meets — the Pick-Up Artist. Learn to read him and you can read the bully, the scammer, the recruiter, the sooth-sayer. Tricks aimed at boys, at grown-ups, at the elderly. Learn one, you've learned them all. 1/2

⚡️Just as Netflix gets cancelled, Ruschia’s going through Some Things. Meanwhile, after an horrendous 2025, Kvartal95’s Greatest Show Ever’s just getting going. Ruschian Empire’s end days.

⚡️The propagandist’s real target isn’t our opinion. It’s our moods, our attitudes, our intentions and our motivations: see disinfolklore.eu/Disinfolklor... Such are the well from which all our activities draw their Mana/power! Capture our MAIM, and our opinions follow on their own.

⚡️A meme is not information. It’s a delivery system for a feeling. The text is the wrapper. The feeling is the payload. I see trolls as any emotion-moving activity of body, speech or mind. We’ll spend a lot of time on the payload communicated by trolls.