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[unhonestlymirror]

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[fairycosmos]

fucked that you can’t fix other people especially when you really care about them. Oh so im just supposed to be there for you while you suffer. like a useless cunt gargoyle

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Letting Russia return to Olympics is to collude in slaughter of Ukrainians

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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[the-wolf-and-moon]

LDN 43, Cosmic Bat

[rubacmk]

🎶🎶🎶

[unhonestlymirror]

Lithuania's President Returns from Turkey with a Pistol: A Gift from Erdogan

"Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda returned to Lithuania from the NATO summit in Ankara with an unusual gift – a pistol. The weapon was presented to him by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

"This gift, like many others the president receives, will be presented at the presidential palace," presidential adviser Frederikas Jansonas told Delfi.

The leaders of other NATO countries also returned from Ankara with similar gifts. International media reported that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer also received pistols."

What's funny is that Lithuania became the only country which took the gift home AND decided to display it in the Presidential Palace - where, on certain occasions and holidays, people can go to excursions and admire the exhibits, including the gifts. Poland, as far as I know, decided to hide it in governmental storage.

Considering that countries like Netherlands, UK and Germany refused to take the guns at all, handling them to their embassies in Turkey, the Lithuanian President's gesture displays an interesting symbolism: that Lithuania is not predisposed to biases, is not afraid or ashamed of trustworthy alliances, especially military.

[unhonestlymirror]

- Mirror, how could you be so rude??? Why did you say "It seems like there are at least several people wishing to join our conversation"?? The old woman who seemed interested in making contact with us left embarrassed!

- I don't like overcrowded places where people intentionally violate my space and try to intervene in a conversation for no reason. Besides, if you're so worried about that woman's feelings, why don't you go and meet her yourself? I even gave you a perfect occasion to make a new friend: you can apologise for your daughter's incredibly rude behaviour.

Mom's speechless face was priceless. XD

[rabarbaras]

2026.

[sicheslavchyk]

Стільки всього хочеться написати але в голову нічого не лізе окрім "ви ніколи не зрозумієте в чому жах війни якщо вона вже двісті років не приходила на вашу землю"

Всі ці американці які розказують які ми погані дискримінуємо росіян не здатні усвідомити, через яке пекло пройшов кожен українець, бо остання війна на їхній території пройшла настільки давно, що цього розуміння просто не може виникнути. Взагалі я притримуюся думки, що той, хто на власній шкурі не відчув війну, зрозуміти її не зможе (так, включаючи тих, хто народився після 2 світової та усіх інших військових конфліктів що по ній відбувалися), але у цьому конкретному випадку ця прірва помножена на два (століття)

[flowers-nonsense-ua]

Річка прекрасна пливе

У жовтокосих осиках

Сни роздивляється тихі

Ніби нема в світі лиха

І лиш добро є живе.

Плавають жовті листки

І непомітні лососі

З берега вербочки босі

Довгі повісили коси

А в річці усе навпаки.

Цей віршик я написала ще минулого літа, але він мені досі подобається. Розберетеся, в чому його прикол? ;)

[gwenllianwales]

Шось на багатому

[gwenllianwales]

Ситуація наступна

[unhonestlymirror]

+40 in summer. -30 in winter

In fact, you have to choose both, Neo

[gwenllianwales]

Це правда

[unhonestlymirror]

Wordplay:

"After sado you have to maso"

Sado - similar to "sad"/"sadyty" - "garden/gardening"

Maso - similar to "maz'"/"mazaty" - "smear/spread/apply ointment".

The joke is that you have to apply anti-joint-pain ointment after hours of working in a garden, all disguised as "S&M".

[gwenllianwales]

[unhonestlymirror]

Druskininkai expands list of in-demand professions

City authorities have added two more professions to the list of in-demand professions: sound engineer and event technical support specialist.

Students who choose these programs can expect tuition of up to €3,000 per year or a monthly stipend.

The support program, which has been in effect since 2020, helps the city attract specialists in education, healthcare, and culture.

📷 Druskininkai Municipality

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[lastoneout]

At some point in your life you'll be making congee and the recipe will tell you to cook it for a specific amount of time, and when that timer goes off you'll think "it's far too watery, maybe I should add some corn starch or just let it cook for five or ten minutes longer" but this is the devil speaking. It's that watery now because it's hot. It will firm up a bit when it cools off, and then even more if you put it in the fridge, and even more if you used stock instead of just water. If you cook it too much longer or add a thickener you're gonna be eating rice jello instead of porridge.

Trust the recipe. Learn from my mistakes.

[unhonestlymirror]

Oh, I love it when people who call themselves "Belarusian" can't even spell their own country's cities properly.

*with that meme voice* OH MY GAAAWWDD WHAT IS THAT :O :O

Now, there are actually several ways to write Polatsk correctly (and Polotsk is NOT one of them):

1. Połack - in łacinka, Belaruthian Latin form. Not very suitable for passports or basic keyboards, but this is the official name for Polatsk you can find in Belaruthian newspapers like Naša Niva.

N.B. Some people don't like using the hard L letter [ł] so they write Polack instead, and just write [li] to highlight the soft L sound, e.g., "kaliandar" - calendar.

2. Polatsak (Połacak) - this is how they used to call Polatsk in taraškievica spelling system (more traditional), before the narkamaŭka spelling system.

"In August 1933, the chairman of the Soviet People's Committee of the BSSR, Galadzed, signed a decree on changes, simplification and actual approximation of the spelling of the Belarusian language to the russian one. At the time of this Bolshevik "reform", most of the leading Belarusian linguists were already in prisons and exiles. By the moment when they are all shot in 1937, the new simplified and close to russian spelling system was already completely prevailed in the BSSR." (c) Radyjo Svaboda about narkamaŭka.

I should add that both taraškevica and narkamaŭka are quite widely used because some people prefer traditional spelling more and some people (my mom) don't like too many letters in one word. If you're studying Belaruthian, it's up to you which system to use, and using narkamaŭka doesn't make you a bad person.

Nevertheless, if you want to be more historically accurate, you better call Polatsk "Polatsak/Połacak".

"Polotsk" is a RUSSIFIED VERSION, and it is as much correct to use as "Kievan Rus" and "Byelorussia". You're not a russian chekist time travelling to our days from 1940s, aren't you?