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thinking of changing my username and icon bc im not into DC anymore (to say it softly). Unfortunately, I don't have good ideas! I'm in a creative crisis mode!
Changed to:
Keeping the name for now because a) still don't know what to choose 2) want to have some time for adjustment
But yeah, if you suddenly see a yellow and blue bird on your dash, that's me!
Spin this wheel. The result you get is a prediction you receive that will happen to you tomorrow.
How fucked are you?
Incredibly dead
This is pretty bad, but not life ending
Not good, but not terrible
Nothing changes in my life
This actually slightly improves my life
This is everything I've ever wanted
Can't spin/can't read/bald/nuance
I don't know if this is the wrong conclusion for me to come to, but Russian Americans are, from my own personal experience (both online and in person) often genuinely awful when it comes to recognizing or discussing current and past Russian imperialism/colonialism. "Sasha Meets Russia" is a Russian American, "RevolutionaryTh0t" is a Russian American (while using the "I have a Ukrainian grandparent, so I know more than Ukrainians living in Ukraine" excuse so many other Russian Americans use). It's like they've taken the worst of the worst elements of American (I live in a deep red state, so I've seen some of the worst of American exceptionalism) and Russian societies, and based their entire personality and selective empathy around them. The worst of both worlds, as some might put it.
Nothing to add, really.
Every russian working on killing us is just a mini putin. Not living breathing people making conscious choices.
Putins telling me and San (prev) and other Ukrs being Ukr on main that we're nazis, that we should kill ourselves, that we're just being mean to russkis. Little putins hitting the trigger twice on missile spam, once for the first responders to get there and again to take those first responders out.
Hundreds of thousands of dead putins sitting on the border cause russia doesn't want them back for failing in their mission to destroy Ukraine and rape and torture every Ukr.
Hundreds, thousands of putins stealing Ukrainian children and indoctrinating them into 'russia is best. russia is king. Ukraine is nothing'.
Hundreds, thousands of putins looting Ukr artworks and artifacts and just plain old every day items and sending them back to the putins back in russia.
Thousands of mini putins bragging to their families about the terror and murder they are inflicting on innocent civilians.
Every Western country, you condemn their military and normal every day people. Why is russia different? Why do you get to use "we don't like our gov't either" for a country like russia where they have shown, in droves, how much they like being total orcs?
Letting Russia return to Olympics is to collude in slaughter of Ukrainians
Not to be outdone by squalid antics of Infantino, the IOC made my stomach lurch when I found out they had been readmitted for 2028 Los Angel
One is dragged reluctantly, almost with a sense of horror, to write about the men and women who see themselves as the guardians of sport but who are involved in some grotesque competition of their own. Who can be more unscrupulous? Who can more cravenly distort what sport is supposed to be about? Who can more graphically place venality, power and greed above whatever ideals still exist in these invented games?
It was seen as a watershed when Gianni Infantino took a call from Donald Trump objecting to the suspension of a star player (although admitting his ignorance of the meaning of a red card), only for Fifa to overturn the suspension. This wasn’t “merely” Fifa awarding competitions to nations on the basis of rigged votes but a decision that could affect what happens on the field of play....
...But, then, not to be outdone, up pops the IOC to lift its suspension on Russia, a nation that has not just systematically doped its athletes but also wages a pitiless and illegal war on a neighbour, bombing indiscriminately, raping women, mutilating prisoners and kidnapping children. The IOC president, Kirsty Coventry, a woman who curried favour with the Mugabe regime, revealing the absence of any moral compass, justified this on sporting grounds, in effect saying that it isn’t fair for Russian athletes to be disadvantaged by the actions of their government.
I felt my stomach lurch when reading this pretext for the readmission, the naked inversion of ethical logic, the smooth attempt to turn right into wrong. Russian athletes must not be disadvantaged by their government, she says, while Ukrainian athletes are bombed, targeted and subject to mass murder by the same government? Russian athletes can return to the grand stage — their victories milked by this century’s Hitler — while the sporting infrastructure of Ukraine is bombed to smithereens, its facilities destroyed, its talent wiped out?
Does Coventry have the faintest idea what is happening in the world she claims to speak for? Does she know about Yuri Orlov, a hockey player who earlier this year was killed after his home was struck by a Russian missile; Victoria Kotlyarova, a Ukrainian footballer who was killed in a devastating attack on Kyiv; Arina Shnabska, a brilliant young taekwondo fighter who was killed in Kherson when Russian occupiers opened fire?...
...Let us be clear: Russia will have an advantage on the field of play because they are wiping out the competition, even discounting that the head of their anti-doping commission is alleged to have been involved in covering up failed tests.
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Seeing Russian/Russian American Heated Rivalry fans saying stuff like "I finally feel represented" or "we finally have positive representation" is kinda infuriating, because they *have* had positive representation in Western pop culture, for decades in fact, they just deliberately choose to ignore it so that they can complain about "Russophobia." Ukrainians, meanwhile, have basically zero positive representation in Western pop culture (they deserve a ton, don't get me wrong), yet I rarely see them complain about it.
It's not only Ukrainians, but also other Eastern, Central and South Europeans tbh. I'm just begging people not to consider this being their representation bc it's "close enough"; it's enough that Americans, Canadians think we're interchangeable, we don't need to play into this.
how much better would it be, if he was from Kazakhstan, or from Belarus, moved to russia for hockey. you could even add, for more angst, him having problems with his native language, from moving so young and his culture being so repressed.
he doesn't have to be from moscow except for the reason that this is the only city in eastern Europe westernes consider dark and mysterious...
the lost potential is sad.
Canada used to have the largest Ukrainian diaspora before the full-scale invasion, by the way.
16th July 1991: Women dressed in national costumes celebrate the first anniversary of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine in Kyiv. The Soviet Union collapsed at the end of the year.
Such beautiful bird 🩵
Thanks! I love tits / синиць
Altho to be transparent, this is not my photo, I took it from Google. Here's some photos of birds I've taken instead:
Gotta draw my own representation ✂️✂️🇺🇦
‼️Russians attacked civilian vessels flying the flags of Tanzania and Liberia in the Black Sea, — Odesa Regional Military Administration.
The captain of one of the vessels was killed in the attack. The crew of 11 people was evacuated to shore, three of them were injured.
‼️Last night, Russians attacked a civilian ship flying the flag of the Marshall Islands in the Odesa region, killing 2 people, — Odesa Regional Military Administration.
‼️A 61-year-old man was killed when a Russian drone hit a civilian car in the Kharkiv region, the regional prosecutor's office reported.
According to the investigation, on the evening of July 14, on the Zolochiv-Maksymivka highway near the village of Berezivka in the Bogodukhiv district, a Russian UAV, previously a Molniya type, hit a civilian Peugeot car.
Photo: Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office
"It Is the Rotting of the Corpse" by Yuriy Tarnawsky
‼️As a result of Russian shelling of the Odesa region, port infrastructure was damaged. A moored commercial vessel under the flag of the Republic of Togo, which was transporting mineral fertilizers, caught fire.
Five crew members were killed, ten more were injured. They are being provided with all necessary medical assistance.
>video of ukrainian woman staying in bomb shelter
american comment:
albanian comment:
‼️The Russians dropped three guided bombs on people in Sumy: the attack killed four people and injured seven others.
‼️The death toll from the Russian attack in Sumy has risen to 5, including a child.
Vehicles and a balcony of a nine-story building were set on fire by the impact. Rescuers evacuated 140 people from the building, including 20 children.
Emergency services extinguished all fires.
I had a girl in the high school I attended that was very obsessed with her supposed Russian roots, would get intensely upset whenever Russia was talked about in a bad light (Infamously during history class. Pro-tip: very common if you're teaching Romanian history. Lmao.), said Ukrainian is just 'an ugly Russian', would play the victim if anybody put on the news about Russian war crimes aggression in Ukraine, and refused to learn Ukrainian geography for the graduation exam (In Romania, if you're taking geography, you need to learn all of its neighbours more in-depth than the rest of Europe).
I could go on but I'll only make her sound like the kind of specimen she was couldn't exist and I assure 100% I unfortunately had to deal with that
Anyway.
This is what people crying Russophobia online sound like to me.
💯, and I unfortunately know people like this
