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For all its faults Tumblr has truly ruined all other social media for me because my friends all have Instagram and are all trying to get me on Instagram more but every time I open Instagram there are like fifteen things screaming for my attention and when I get over myself long enough to start scrolling it's like. Where is my chronological dash. Where is the following-only option. Who are these people. Why are there so many videos. Everyone is screaming at me. And then before I know it I'm thirty minutes into scrolling and I haven't seen a single thing that I actually care about. At least on Tumblr when I see stuff I don't care about I know someone I follow has found a new interest.
Russia revives Stalin-era controls, policing women's reproductive choices to offset war losses and create a new workforce.
Russian authorities have made women's bodies a domestic "second front" of the war, reviving Stalin-era controls over reproduction and private life, according to the Feminist Anti-War Resistance, a leading Russian opposition movement.
The findings were detailed by Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service, which published an account of the movement's annual research into women's rights under repression and militarization on its official website on June 9.
According to the intelligence service, the campaign reflects a systematic effort to seize control of women's reproductive choices to offset Russia's battlefield losses and raise a new, disenfranchised workforce—a regression the movement's researchers describe as a catastrophic return to the worst practices of the Soviet past.
The service reported that Russia has effectively outlawed the public expression of childfree views. Women now face heavy fines for discussing a wish not to have children, or even for candid social-media accounts of difficult births or postpartum depression, the account noted.
The Health Ministry, it added, has introduced mandatory questionnaires for teenagers; a girl who indicates she does not currently want children is referred to a psychologist for "corrective" counseling.
Citing the movement's research, the intelligence service stated that several regions now offer payments to pregnant schoolgirls to encourage them to give birth, despite polling showing that 74% of Russians oppose underage motherhood. Authorities openly press the message that a woman's central purpose is to abandon other goals and bear five to ten children, the report indicated.
The treatment of abortion has grown steadily more punitive, the movement reported, with women already facing prosecution for terminating pregnancies. The intelligence service noted that the Kremlin is working to scrub the internet of information about safe abortion, replacing it with religious and psychological services that pressure women to carry to term.
The war has also fueled a sharp rise in violence inside Russia itself, the service warned. Reports of domestic abuse have climbed by more than half, a trend the movement ties to the decriminalization of such offenses, which the Orthodox Church has lobbied to entrench.
The militarization of schooling drew similar criticism from the movement's researchers. They described expanding propaganda in classrooms, shrinking coverage of human rights in curricula, and a growing emphasis on military-patriotic education that, in their assessment, conditions a generation to treat war as normal.
How to draw underwater settings: make everything floaty and weightless. Done! ✅ Unless you're a geek like me and want to learn all about how to paint the lighting: the highlights of the ripples, the bluish glow, the reflections.. there's a lot to think about but it's so satisfying once you get it right!
I painted these for last month's Patreon challenge on underwater lighting! If you like drawing challenges, join us: we’re studying wrinkles and folds this month. It's time to walk away from those face-smoothing filters and draw some textured skin!
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