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Protest works. Organization is decisive. Draw your own conclusions. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

I remember sitting in the no smoking section of an airplane.

Ukrainian National Guard troops rescued six cats from Russian-occupied Oleshky in an unusual drone operation. With help from locals, the cats were placed in a specially designed cage and flown more than 10 km across the Dnipro beneath a heavy bomber drone. All six made it across safely. #Ukraine

Putin's trying to win the war by magic. They dug up the bones of a mediaeval prince who became a saint in 1988, and sent them to protect refineries and front lines by people praying to them. Ukraine hit the refineries and now the front lines, destroying the relics though "almost no one" was killed 😂

On the front line, Ukrainian soldier Serhii shares touching moments of caring for, feeding, and cuddling local cats. For him, taking care of these small lives is a personal mission and a way to hold onto humanity amid the ongoing war. Video: fasst1k / Threads.

Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it™️

Residents of Russian-occupied Oleshky are facing severe food shortages, with reports of civilians eating grass and weeds, Ukraine’s FM Sybiha says. Medicine, clean water, electricity and medical care are increasingly unavailable. He called for humanitarian access and evacuation. #Ukraine

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Election in occupied areas by Russia - voting under military supervision.

Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller. Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch. No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2 🗃️🧪

Ukrainian defense tech company Firepoint has launched a game on its social media: guess the next Wildberries warehouse to be destroyed and win merch. It looks like the campaign to destroy logistics centers is continuing.

ok reasonable

Kudos to Irish journalist and film producer Caolan Robertson for single-handedly dismantling the myth of his country's 'neutrality' by exposing the collaboration between Ireland's political elite and the russian terror state!

Day 1600 of my 3 day war. I remain a master strategist.

This is the first I’m hearing about this. The amplified call to prayer is for 3 min on Fridays around noon. Might pop by this week to see if I can hear it.

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Ukrainian drones are ineffective cos Russian surface to air missile went air to surface to make an oil terminal surface to air. I remain a master strategist.

8 February, 1590, Jane Money of Rainham, Kent was fatally wounded by the discharge of a 'snapphawnse' which was resting on a table when a small pet dog jumped onto it and set it off (TNA KB 9/676b m248 - reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/857912/) mutatis mutandis

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

The Biscuit Maker Union message resonates through the many worlds: "The kneads of the people come first!" If you like my creations, please follow and visit my print shop at nathannunart.etsy.com for all kinds of great cat posters. Thank you, Cats of Yore!

The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.

I keep thinking about the documentary Fires of Kuwait (1992). I support Ukrainian sanctions, but god, the environmental harm being caused is no joke. And it would stop in a heartbeat if russia just… went home.

Partly funded by Canadian govt. Not good.

This sounds bad, and it’s only surface level: much of the sound data centres produce is not audible to the human ear, and yet it can cause very serious illness. youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo?...

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Australian oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros offering a hymn of thanks...

I am excited that I have a new edition and new publisher for my book KAIBYO: THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN. I increased the text, added some new images, and basically fixed all the stuff that has been bugging me since it's first release 8 years ago. It's a banger. www.amazon.com/Kaibyo-Super...

The USA has asked Ukraine for weapons to defend against Iranian drones. Zelensky told them to negotiate as they don't have any cards.

30 years. This video should be on every network.

A new artificial intelligence (AI) agent could equip Europe to better defend itself against the barrage of Russian disinformation attacks.

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

Just a friendly reminder that Ukraine was disarmed by the US in coordination with russia. This is if you want to say that the US had no obligation towards Ukraine

Free speech in America continues its death spiral—just like Trump and MAGAs wanted.

There are more of us than there are of them. Our sincere love for each other and our simple wish to live is stronger than their hate. Here is a link hopefully it works www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Just sent out this post. Trump has a basic "tell" which indicates things he does not care about (and those he does). When he expresses a concern about people's lives (such as Ukrainians) it’s a bluff. He could not care less. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

In his recent op-ed, Oleh Kotsyuba of Harvard University’s Ukrainian Research Institute compares the current protests in Minneapolis to Ukraine's 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity, noting similarities in both the staging and spirit of both events.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

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I'm not asking you to leave a review. I'm asking you to tell your friends. www.amazon.com/dp/B0B544R6LP

OTD in 1991 Ukrainians, including those in Crimea, voted overwhelmingly for independence from USSR. I don't like that vote result, so I am changing the voters and having new votes.

OTD in 2021 Russian Embassy on Londonograd reported that US & UK were manipulating false claims of a Russian invasion & occupation of Ukraine to spread panic. Which is why you can believe us now we say we want peace.

It's true that I self-publish, and maybe that means my stuff is not as polished as the big publishing houses claim their stuff is. OTOH: nothing I put out has had AI touch it with a bargepole. My work is my own. Available on Amazon, ibooks, B&N, & KOBO. Links in comments.

It's somewhat amusing that you can pass yourself off as a Russia expert commenting on this "peace deal" as messy but at least "a way to end the war" without realising Kremlin sees it as just a tactic to continue it later. It will end nothing.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.