Sonya Heaney Author

Historical author with HarperCollins/HQN. Raised Ukrainian harpercollins.com.au harpercollins.com harpercollins.co.uk sonyaheaney.com

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8th June 1956: Pupils of one of the kindergartens of the Bila Tserkva district of the Kyiv region of Ukraine.

[glorious-spoon]

certainly not a new sentiment but i am becoming increasingly sour on the entire concept of 'consuming content'. you're not reading a book or watching a show or listening to music or looking at art, you're consuming content. it's such a weird, bland, homogenizing way of talking about art, and i get that it exists as a shorthand, but i'm not at all convinced it's a good or useful one

[5soswfttwtaf]

getting this news in real time was horrifying bc at first we were laughing at them like oh they knew how many soldiers they were gonna lose and came prepared but then Bucha happened, Mariupol happened, and the moment we realised it was for us made my blood run cold

[snovyda]

Same as when their authorities published instructions on how to dig mass graves. We thought it was also due to them preparing for losses, but it was all planned for us. A lot of us did end up in those mass graves, in Kyiv region, in Izium, in Mariupol, but they had plans for do much more...

[wordswithoutaworld]

I’m ashamed that this fact — even though I read those news reports at the time — faded into the background in my mind over time.

But at the same time, you realize how huge the whole SYSTEM of genocide working against us is, that sometimes you can’t even keep in your head all the methods Russians use to get rid of you, to destroy you completely.

Meet the incinerator IN-50.1K — a mobile crematorium designed for the disposal of human remains.

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Emus in the snow around Mount Hotham in Australia's Victorian Alps. X

[catchymemes]

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Winter fog over the valleys of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

9th June 2019

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Ukrainian actress Natalia Doroshenko. Early 1900s. X

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Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary in Canberra, Australia.

By rich.pixel on Instagram.

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Fortified Normandy beach photographed on the 9th of June, 1944.

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[dailyclassicart]

Peder Mørk Mønsted - "Sanctuary on the Cliffs of Bornholm" (1882)

[emma-ofnormandy]

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever.

@janeuary-month 2026 l Day #24: Letters

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[asharkapologist]

Russia: We are against Ukraine because they want to be independent from us, align themselves with the West to get protection from us, and have the audacity to have their own culture and language that isn't us. Also, we are invading them for reasons that are easily disprovable such as some alleged genocide against Russian speakers in Ukraine that 100% totally exists and isn't just made up to justify imperialism and the fact that their government is run by Nazis, even though their president, who won in a landslide victory, is literally Jewish, and had family both die in the Holocaust and fight against the Nazis in the Red Army.

Ukraine: We are against Russia because they literally invaded us, committed/are committing horrific atrocities and crimes against humanity against us such as torture and execution of civilians and POWs alike, systematic kidnapping of Ukrainian children, forcing Ukrainians in Russian-occupied territories to fight against their own country, widespread rape as a weapon of war, and film such atrocities and even send such videos to the family members of the victims.

Centrists and/or tankies: I literally cannot tell you apart, but, just to be safe and to end the war as soon as possible, Ukraine should just roll over and give Russia everything it wants. Oh, what's that? Bucha? You're afraid that what happened in Bucha is an indication of what would happen in Ukraine as a whole if Russia took over? Nonsense! Putin once promised security or something if Zelenskyy flew to Moscow, and I'm sure if we ask Putin super nicely, he'll keep his promise not to invade more of Ukraine and commit more atrocities because he's denying that Russia is even did anything bad in Bucha, and obviously, he's telling the truth, because it's not like he's a mob boss murderous dictator who casually kills his opponents and has broken 182397429384 treaties with Ukraine in the past.

Did I get that right? I'm not Ukrainian, so please educate me if I got something wrong, but that seems to be my understanding of things and how certain people react to the war....

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8th June 1956: Pupils of one of the kindergartens of the Bila Tserkva district of the Kyiv region of Ukraine.

[blignick]

[venustapolis]

Walkers on an Avenue (Hubert Robert, 1733 - 1808)