"Vigorous exposure" sounds vaguely kinky.

PSA: do not follow seemingly pro-Ukrainian accounts that consist only of reposts of actual pro-Ukrainian accounts. Those are bots created with who knows what intentions. The proper response is blocking.

We got invaded PRIOR to becoming anti-Ru. Invasion _caused_ anti-Ru sentiment, which is completely logical and justifiable. Pic of dynamics of good/bad (blue/orange) attitude towards 🇷🇺 & 🇷🇺ns attached. Marked by arrows are Feb. 2014 and Feb. 2022 — PRIOR to killings on Maidan & full-scale invasion.

Marine's client needs things done _now_ and will settle for creating chaos even if he can't have someone specific in office.

This after the planned summer offensive went sooooo well...

I won't be original noting that Trump has evaded answering basically every single question as it was posed, but my favorite part in this Oval Office encounter isn't even the "same suit" shade. It's the "Republic of the Condo".

OTD in 2021 Prez published "On the historical unity of Russia and Ukraine". 7000 rambling words about how Ukraine shouldn't exist. So when we put our army in place to make that a reality, it was western warmongers to blame.

OTD in 1940 USSR invited Nazi ambassador over to pass very warm congratulations to Hitler for the rapid Nazi conquest of France. The sort of thing an ally would do...

Wuss-in-chief.

That's what you get once you decide it's less escalatory to pussyfoot around an aggressive country. Had Russia gotten its teeth kicked in at least in 2014, the world would have been a safer place today. Ukrainians were the first victims & the West decided to drip-feed them into the maw. FAFO.

The end is nigh...

Every time there is thunderstorm in Kyiv, you're like, is it thunder or Oreshnik?.. Thankfully, it's thunder atm.

I did a podcast for people who like contrarian takes and are naturally attracted to the "what if russia were actually right about a lot of things in this war?" position. Check it out and share it with your contrarian friends podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/2...

Can't comment bc OP has restrictions on who can comment on his posts, but no, this is not Ru/Ukr punctuation. This is (mostly) a perfectly cromulent English way of handling adverbials or other inserted remarks. Specifically, no Ru/Ukr-speaker would ever put "by telephone" in commas.

Take the fictional character quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac... (I cheated. I skipped 2 characters from Sense8 bc for me, that was an empty show focused on visuals & comedy of errors, so I don't really think of it as having characters w/ a personality).

Wow, the times we live in... Microsoft is on the tentatively non-evil side.

I deleted DL back in early January after they'd "upgraded" animations to include cheerful explosions at the end of a completed lesson. I have enough adrenaline from actual explosions happening very much within earshot a couple of times a week to find this amusing. Email to DL went unanswered.

So the Trump administration are saying that unless Europe accepts their plan to help Russia they'll...help Russia. If you're trying to get people to do what you want, it generally helps if your carrot is different from your stick.

This article from January 1945 highlights the disproportionately high price paid by Ukrainians compared to Russians during WWII. Generations have been taught to ignore this reality and to instead regard all “Soviet” losses as “Russian”

Random thought: Maybe adding Goldberg to the Signal thread was Waltz "blinking" (you know, as in, "if you are being held against your will, blink") & finding a limited-damage way out of this? Or, alternatively, an attempt to push Hegseth out (bc he was probably _bound_ to do something like this)?

OTD 76 years ago 90 thousand Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, including toddlers, were deported to cold and misery of Siberia. Many did not return. That was 5 years after the end of WW2. This is what 🇷🇺 “peace” means under 🇷🇺 occupation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

What stood out to me in The Atlantic article on US war plans being broadcast to random phone numbers is that VP Vance seems to genuinely just dislike Europe. I'm somehow getting the same vibes as from Ruᛋᛋіa hating Ukraine. Civilizational cradle that stayed distinct from the nouveau-riche offshoot.

A ballistic missile hit Odesa a minute ago.

These are just not some abstract principles that can be sacrificed to some kind of "realist" expediencies. If 🇷🇺 is allowed to keep even 1 sq. m of 🇺🇦 territory, its aggression has paid off. This means it will be back for more. This means I can't plan a life here, given I'm not a billionaire...

Ambulances wailing somewhere in my neighborhood after a massive drone attack. It never was just Poo-tin's war. Poo-tin has been enabled by the Russian people. Now Poo-tin is being enabled by Tr*mpian America. Every single Tr*mp voter has blood on their hands now.

This piece of news is likely not about how stupid or not stupid 🍊🤡 actually is, but about appearances that senior White House officials feel they must keep up. It's just spin to pretend 🍊🤡 could still get tough on 🇷🇺 & is not just one-dimensionally intent on extorting Ukraine. (Spin) buyers beware.

Russia launched 252 "peace signals" at Ukraine overnight.

I am fervently hoping Budanov is actively looking to get his hands on whatever 💩-tin has on 🍊🤡 so that it could be made public.

Most money for US aid to Ukraine went to US manufacturers. It is literally American industry, and part of the funding was for expanding US industrial capacity. It's next level lying. Lies wrapped in lies, stacked in a pile of BS. Reality inverting lies. Piss-on-my-leg-and-tell-me-it's-raining lying.

Every single one of the Trump supporters sounds like a domestic abuser. "You should've let him hit you, you shouldn't have complained in public, you're never grateful, you never say thank you."

I wonder if there already is a firm (though not yet publicly acknowledged) understanding in all NATO members who are not the US that the US will very soon become _incapable_, not just unwilling, of being of any help in case RU attacks NATO. Bc Hegseth & all that shitshow. That's the ballgame now.

The Trump administration's behaviour seems to reflect all the stupid, racist, imperialist assumptions about Ukrainians that caused Russia to make the catastrophic mistake of thinking it could take Ukraine in 3 days.

Ruᛋᛋіans are celebrating by once again doing something that sounds like explosions from where I sit.

I used to feel guilty towards all the decent people in the US of A for wishing that Tr*mp would apply his toxic masculinity to "owning the libs" by "proving the Russia hoax wrong" by becoming tough on Russia & doing what Biden Adm was too timid to do. He would've gone into history...

Trump’s numbers on US & European aid to Ukraine are completely fabricated — Europe has given more to Ukraine and the US hasn’t reached anywhere near $350 billion.

What an illustrious company the United States finds itself in... Sic transit...

Annual reminder that Russian aggression against Ukraine began on February 20, 2014, as noted on the Russian MOD medal "For the Return of Crimea."

This seems to be a popular product on Etsy rn.

Whatever this slush fund will be composed of (I do think UA will hold its ground), what it will be USED FOR is targeted infrastructure projects / any kind of local help for communities in battleground states before next elections. Tr*mp's name plastered all over it. You heard it here first. ...

Ukraine has a law on international agreements & it sets out a whole-ass procedure on that. The President doesn't have the right to just sign a piece of paper. I know the US regime is currently running roughshod over laws & procedures, but Ukraine is still trying to be a democracy with rule of law.

Can someone in the US of A make it into a bumper sticker? Asking for a friend.

Indeed. What the russians heard loud and clear: I’m here today to directly and unambiguously express that you are free to invade anywhere in Europe at your own convenience and timetable.

Watching a country burn a global hegemony built over a couple of centuries just because doing so makes a handful of insecure men feel briefly powerful is absolutely crazy.

Air raid sirens wailing in Kyiv. Threat of ballistic missiles from the northeast. Ruᛋᛋia is showing everyone how it is working toward "peace". Anyone who dares utter the word "peace" without calling for Ruᛋᛋia's defeat & helping to achieve said defeat is a fucking hypocrite & genocide enabler.

I feel for the attendees of MSC. Decision pressure is not fun. Or maybe fun for some, but still stressful.

The super tough masculine anti-woke bros are surrendering

America is going to get smaller & smaller, instead of greater, as companies get sucked into fighting idiotic overreaches by the federal govt instead of doing something useful with their time. Conservative policies of small govt & supporting business activities my ass. A literal Big Brother regime.

Don't know how well-known in the Western world is that little joke/parable where a Jew comes to his rabbi & says, "Rabbi, my life is absolutely miserable. Please give me some advice, how can I be happy?" The rabbi says, "Go buy a goat." The Jew follows the advice and buys a goat. A month later, ...

The United States is officially a banana oligarchy.