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i forgot to upload the all-important broken ma-ma mp4 loop after bsky got video support

best bit in this book: khrushchev describing plans for cuba missile deployment as "throwing our hedgehog in the americans' pants" i must adopt this metaphor

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finally bother to check a song's translation and D: IT'S ABOUT SOMETHING I JUST THOUGHT ABOUT IT IS A SIGN ...that pop music frequently touches on common themes

The Moscow Times’ website has been taken offline temporarily as a precaution following reports of critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language used by many websites. We are working to restore access as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.

this raises some questions about who becomes the president of belarus

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Moscow’s Kitay-Gorod became a gathering place for alternative-dressed teenagers, but complaints about drinking and fights followed. Police now sweep the neighborhood, sometimes detaining young people simply because of how they look, Bereg reports. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

it's always amusing how the US russian diaspora is invisible until you go to one of the events where _everyone_ is speaking in russian (despite this being the rather not russian georgian natl dance company)

> they enshittified & that it didnt work IMPOSSIBLE. IT ALWAYS WORKS

there is nothing like a nicely packed box 😄

"gotta work tomorrow, i should kick night owl mode in the head and get to sleep aaaaaa" <first time disco elysium playthrough pops up on the twitch machine with ukrainian readout of the narration text> "welp that sleep hope's fucked"

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The Russian comments under stories that YandexTaxi is offline are perfect:

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summary: world's least successful Zenit ad meets quick flight path+geography quiz

somewhat odd to have a theatre experience for a zvyagintsev film there was more laughter than i expected 🤷

the минотавр screening is _decidedly_ more crowded than anything else ive been to here lol i am also not the youngest person in the theatre for once

today's ORB pull quote is less serving its intended purpose as being wonderfully bereft of context for a piece that's broadly about trans literature > On the left, for some reason, was Sundar Pichai we all love unexplained sundar pichai

This vintage miss piggy piggybank from 1978 has coin slot cleavage and I may never recover.

I have a list of things that I would buy if I were to ever really Hit It Big and the first thing on that list is this: www.ebay.com/itm/17623400...

waaaaaaaaaaa i need to do writing but it's boring transcription of handwritten stuff into its digital copy and i dont wanna it's so booooooooriiiiiiiing esp since i cant edit all the parts i dont like, to properly preserve the (flawed) original

Goodnight. May we sail the river of night gently until we reach the safe harbour of morning. 🖼️ Mandy Tsung

Bat, Frederick II, De arte venandi cum avibus, c.1310. 🦇 #Gothtober #Baturday #31daysofhalloween

The purpose of teaching is to deliver that correct knowledge to students while showing them how much remains unknown and contested. Why would we do research if we weren't supposed to communicate what is true to others? Oh yeah - this is why they want to end humanities & social science research.

“Hey babe, whatcha cookin?” “MAPS FOR THE MEUSE-ARGONNE OFFENSIVE.”

So far I’ve learned that hectograph gel smells AWFUL (think burnt hair and tennis balls) and will make your significant other seriously question your cooking skills if they sniff it unaware.

Going full mad scientist in my kitchen replicating how the U.S. Army printed orders and maps in the trenches of the Western Front… (Just a very normal research day.)

do u ever sometimes lowkey feel like a dogshit writer

something something traditional family values idk i mean i guess you can spin vampires as slavic tradition but idk if it's the sort the patriarch endorses also don't think they're supposed to glisten traditionally but what do i know im not a medievalist

the less fortunate sibling of "there are no elevators"

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Spotify ads out here with the hard hitting questions i shoulda clicked i bet it doesn't actually know lol