⚡️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.

⚡️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.

⚡️ Disinfolklore.eu method was built to read war propaganda — Kremlin memes, semiotics of artillery strikes, troll-farms, presidents trolling each other online. 1/3

⚡️ Disinfolklore.eu method was built to read war propaganda — Kremlin memes, semiotics of artillery strikes, troll-farms, presidents trolling each other online. 1/3

⚡️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.

⚡️Think of Disinfolklore.eu as an immune system for the mind. We don’t have to refute every lie — there are too many, and that’s by design. Here, we learn the shapes the lies come in. After that, we recognise the shape - pattern literacy- and the rest follows.

⚡️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.

⚡️We’re not gullible. The truth is more interesting: We are literate in stories, deeply susceptible to artists’ wiles. Propagandists take that literacy. Turn it against us. Disinfolklore literacy combats their tricks and trolls by honing our archetypal antennae.

⚡️Ruschia’s latest ‘anchoring’ Anchorage troll. Kahnman won a Nobel for showing how anchoring effects manipulate identities. Ruschia’s latest Archetyping of nothing as the ‘Anchorage Formula’ is just a masterful use of language to conjure into being mere spectral fever dreams.

⚡️The deepest metaphor in the Disinfolklore method is the troll. Not the internet kind only — the older kind. A troll is anything that moves your emotions: energy/Mana. A person, a meme, a folktale character, a president posting at 3am. Trolls simply move us. That's the definition, stripped bare.

⚡️Lavrov: ready to resume talks “at any time, from the point where they left off” — while blaming the West and still demanding Ukraine surrender the Donbas. Aping the peace-pose! Peace without Russia’s 100% withdrawal’s impossible.

Good points made

⚡️The Istanbul Peace Talks archetype is back. In 2022 Russia used "peace talks" as theatre — a pause to regroup and rearm while the killing went on. The set-piece never dies; it just recasts. The tell of staged peace-theatre: it relieves the aggressor, never the victim.

⚡️Podcast | In Defence of Ancient Ukraine We say ancient Greece and ancient Egypt without a flicker. So, by the rule we already use for everyone else, there is an Ancient Ukraine. To withhold the name is not scholarly...: www.disinfolklore.net/p/podcast-in...

⚡️Krim has had the same archaeological culture as Ukraine for 6,000 years. It is highly likely now that Ruschia will destroy itself trying to keep a stolen island than retreat and save itself. Reverse Napoleon. Ruschia’s vulnerability is its predictability.

⚡️ Russia's "Social Design Agency" is seeding fake "reference" sites and think-tanks to poison search results — and what AI chatbots learn from. The new front isn't our feeds. It’s the machine that answers us. Ask what chatbots cite, not just what they say.

⚡️@sternenko calls out ⚡️Truxha as Ruschist collaborators. I called them out as such in 2022 on basis of them referring to Kosova as "Kosovo i Metohija," a formula only Serbia/Ruschist Federation uses. Yet, X cancelled my account so my original tweets only exist now in archive

⚡️ Russia's foreign minister Lavrov this week: Russia is "ready to talk with Kyiv… at any time," and it is Europe that is "the main obstacle to peace." The aggressor, perpetually willing; the victim's friends, the problem. 1/2 🧵

⚡️ Russia's spokesman Peskov this week called Ukraine's strikes on a military supply road in occupied Crimea "the barbaric actions of the Kiev regime" — while Russia, he said, is busy "restoring fuel supplies to the population." 1/2 🧵

⚡️ This week a post went round claiming Piotr Cywiński — director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum — had called for Zelensky to be barred from Holocaust commemorations. He said no such thing. Russia put its smear in the mouth of the one voice no one would dare doubt. 1/3 🧵

⚡️ A video went round this week stamped with the logo of French magazine Le Point: "France confirms 22,000 mercenaries in Ukraine." Le Point never ran it. Russian outlets forged the masthead — and even stole two of its real reporters' bylines. (Debunked by StopFake.) 1/3 🧵

⚡️ Disinfolklore: disinformation that works like folklore. Propaganda that doesn't persuade you with mere facts. Rides ancient stories you already carry: Archetypal Disinfolklore. Learn the stories, archetypes in all their guises, and the spell stops working. Follow along.

Russia's defence ministry posted footage of its troops raising flags over Lyman and Kostyantynivka — towns "taken." The Institute for the Study of War says it has "reason to believe the footage may be AI-altered." A victory you can watch, but no one can confirm. 1/3 🧵

The aim isn't to fool the soldiers on the ground; it's to make the whole front look like it's collapsing — to us, and to anyone negotiating. When a victory arrives as footage but not as confirmed ground, treat the image as a claim. Ask: who has independently checked the town changed hands? 3/3

Russia's defence ministry posted footage of its troops raising flags over Lyman and Kostyantynivka — towns "taken." The Institute for the Study of War says it has "reason to believe the footage may be AI-altered." A victory you can watch, but no one can confirm. 1/3 🧵

⚡️ When your account’s cancelled on Twitter, without notice, no reason, meaningful appeal or a human interaction, all your oeuvre goes too. Everything you’ve written on here. The public written record no longer contains those 67,000 tweets cataloguing day-by-day Ukraine’s defence. Impermanence.

Yesterday RT's headline: "Zelensky threatens to attack Belarus." The next line undoes it — Ukraine asked Belarus to switch off the relay stations it says guide Russian drones onto Ukrainian homes. A plea to stop the bombing, sold as a threat. 1/3 🧵

On the night of 17th to 18th June, Ukraine flew the largest swarm of drones at Moscow since the full-scale invasion began. Russia's own air-defence ministry boasted it had shot down nearly a thousand across the country in a single day. 2/22

⚡️ Russia shells its own capital, and films it - How On Brand! 1/22 🧵

'Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.'

⚡️Mythos, Epstein, and the Nice (AI) Model You Got There 1/21 🧵

The Trito myth is the most attested story in the whole Indo-European inheritance, the seed of every religion the family ever grew, from Hinduism to Christianity, and it was first told on these very river valleys, in Ukraine, before 2500 BC. The shape of it never changes. 5/22

I wish I had a laptop to be pumping out Ukraine stuff. stupid Finland

⚡️Draining and Damming the Swamp Two mythically connected matters were reported on the same day. Donald fake-explained why Russia failed to take Kyiv. Russia bombed the dam that keeps Europe’s largest nuclear power plant safe. www.decodingtrolls.net/p/draining-a...

⚡️Draining and Damming the Swamp Two mythically connected matters were reported on the same day. Donald fake-explained why Russia failed to take Kyiv. Russia bombed the dam that keeps Europe’s largest nuclear power plant safe. www.decodingtrolls.net/p/draining-a...

⚡️The Serpent at the Dnipro Dam 1/22 🧵

⚡️ Iran's "Last War" Hopes 1/15 🧵

⚡️ Russia shells its own capital, and films it - How On Brand! 1/22 🧵

⚡️Let's decode Medvedev's "Nazi medal" for Zelenskyy. 1/16 🧵

⚡️Let's decode Medvedev's "Nazi medal" for Zelenskyy. 1/16 🧵

“In Alexandra Prokopenko’s report the word #genocide does not appear once. Neither does “war crime,” “atrocity,” “Bucha,” or “Mariupol.” The word “structural“appears eight times.” #Russia #Ukraine @ceip-politika.bsky.social

⚡️Carnegie Gets Trolled Again By Russian ‘Insiders’ - Ukrainian Voices Silenced. On 17 June @CarnegieEndowment published a paper by Alexandra Prokopenko, “Loyal but Powerless: The Downgrading of Russia’s Elite.” It is careful, well-sourced, scholarly yet… www.decodingtrolls.net/p/the-powerl...

⚡️Carnegie Gets Trolled Again By Russian ‘Insiders’ - Ukrainian Voices Silenced. On 17 June @CarnegieEndowment published a paper by Alexandra Prokopenko, “Loyal but Powerless: The Downgrading of Russia’s Elite.” It is careful, well-sourced, scholarly yet… www.decodingtrolls.net/p/the-powerl...

⚡️Podcast | “None of This Is On Me”: The Distributed Tyrant Here is what the Russist apparatus wants us to think. None of this is on me. I’m a small person. I didn’t start the war. I don’t make policy. I just live here. Judge the Kremlin, not me. www.disinfolklore.net/p/podcast-th...

⚡️The Siege of Crimea — the dragon dies guarding its hoard. 14–15 June, dozens of Russian drones and at least fifteen ballistic missiles set the roof of the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra ablaze… www.decodingtrolls.net/p/the-siege-...

⚡️Nama — you need to name it. You name the mana. Nama: you name the mana. Ruschist apparatus has spent 30 years making sure you cannot name it. They deliver the mana, then they misname it… Yakubova names it: the beast from the abyss… www.disinfolklore.net/p/podcast-th...

⚡️Podcast | The Beast from the Abyss The Mocker Archetype: Refusing Fake Virtue: Mana and Name in Sync. The beast from the abyss. Naming the beast. This is Larysa Yakubova’s masterpiece. She is one of the greatest scholars of Ruschist totalitarianism… www.disinfolklore.net/p/podcast-th...