TO UKRAINIAN FRIENDS

If you are looking for an emergency exit from Ukraine, Poland will open EIGHT safety points on the border with Ukraine (you will get warm food, medical help and from there you will be guided to safety) in two of our voivodeships: lubuskie and podkarpackie. It is confirmed by the Polish Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Paweł Szefernaker.

SOURCES:

https://www.rp.pl/konflikty-zbrojne/art35748991-szefernaker-na-granicy-z-ukraina-powstaja-punkty-recepcyjne-dla-uchodzcow

https://www.wprost.pl/polityka/10633681/polska-reaguje-na-agresje-rosji-na-ukraine-powstana-punkty-dla-uchodzcow.html

I've marked those voivodeships on the map!

Please share because it can save lives!!!!!!

EDIT: THERE WILL BE NINE SAFETY POINTS IN THE FOLLOWING PLACES: Dorohusk, Dołhobyczów, Zosin, Hrebenne, Korczowa, Medyka, Budomierz, Krościenko and in Przemyśl organized on the train station.

SOURCE: https://www.gazetaprawna.pl/wiadomosci/kraj/artykuly/8365281,punkty-recepcyjne-granica-z-ukraina-uchodzcy.html

EDIT2: ADDITIONAL HELP FROM MY UNIVERSITY LOCATED IN THE SOUTH OF POLAND (more precisely in Katowice or Sosnowiec):

"Dear!

Members of the community of the University of Silesia!

Today we are all Ukrainians.

Twice in our history we have been deprived of our own state by the aggression of empires, and thus cut off from the sovereign exercise of the rights and values of a free, democratic world. Without this foundation, the real university cannot exist as well.

Our Ukrainian friends, we understand your suffering, we join in indignation and protest against the aggression of the Russian regime, we declare all possible help.

Our community consists of students, PhD students and employees from many former Soviet republics. We assure you that everyone who respects the rights of our community will find peaceful shelter, and good conditions for studying, research and work here. Please, be attentive to anyone who needs help in this difficult time.

For specific activities, Plenipotentiary of the Rector for Aid for Ukraine was appointed (Sylwia Ledwoch, phone number: 573 490 580), to whom you can report both the need for aid, and support initiatives, including the willingness to individually get involved in helping (food collection, support in finding a job or a flat, medical assistance, etc.). Additionally, we are preparing system support for studying and working people from Ukraine regarding education, legal advice, health and psychological advice, as well as support in finding a job or a place to live. You might also be interested in help from our translators and interpreters.

The Student Government of the University of Silesia, the Doctoral Student Government, and the Student Legal Clinic at the Faculty of Law and Administration is at your disposal and declares any help in matters related to studying and residing in Poland.

We are available via e-mail: urss@us.edu.pl, spp.us.kontakt@gmail.com, doktoranci@us.edu.pl

In the following days, we will launch a website with all necessary information on our actions and support.

We hope that Ukraine will defend the most precious value of any country – independence – and the civilised world will save the global peace.

Let’s be together in mutual help.

HM Rector of the University of Silesia

Student Government of the University of Silesia

Doctoral Student Government of the University of Silesia"

SOURCE: https://us.edu.pl/solidarni-z-ukraina

The letter written by the university authorities was posted in four languages!

SMALL ADJUSTMENT: AUTOCORRECT ON MY PHONE MISSPELLED THE NAME OF ONE VOIVODESHIP: IT SHOULD BE LUBELSKIE INSTEAD OF LUBUSKIE.

EDIT 4:

You can take your beloved animals with you! "Imports of  animals other than pets accompanying travelers, including farm animals, are carried out in accordance with the applicable rules set out in the European Union regulations"

Check the site of our government to download those conditions provided in three languages: https://www.wetgiw.gov.pl/main/aktualnosci/Tymczasowa-procedura-przemieszczania-zwierzat-towarzyszacych-z-terytorium-Ukrainy-na-teren-Polski-przez-osoby-nie-posiadajace-kompletu-dokumentow-weterynaryjnych-dla-psow-kotow-i-fretek/idn:1999?fbclid=IwAR02ePJLb-_jSudCB_jlaSyUsuruhc7Tb98DkXTDwKT1pSO9KgXPkEoIMOI

For the next month, until 25.03.2022, Ukrainians can use PKP Intercity trains (TLK and IC) within the borders of Poland for free (seats in second class). For the free use, they need to show some document confirming ukrainian citizenship, and pick up free tickets at the ticket counter / conductors of the train.

https://www.intercity.pl/pl/site/o-nas/dzial-prasowy/aktualnosci/ - source of the info in ukrainian

https://www.intercity.pl/pl/site/o-nas/dzial-prasowy/komunikaty/

https://www.intercity.pl/pl/site/o-nas/dzial-prasowy/komunikaty/bezplatne-przejazdy-dla-obywateli-ukrainy-pociagami-pkp-intercity.html - source in polish

Also PKP Intercity trains reach Ukraine. They depart from Kyiv to Warsaw, from Kyiv - Korosteń- Podzamcze- Lviv to Przemyśl, from Kyiv - Winnica - Chmielnicki - Lviv to Przemyśl, and from Odesa to Przemyśl.

There's a reception point at the train station in Przemyśl, with food, medical and legal aid, and temporary shelter.

Warsaw makes history tonight as millions of women revolt against the government’s control of female bodies.

I know everyone is obsessively refreshing their feeds to find out what’s happening in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia right now, but take a look at what’s happening in Poland.

Poland is 100% f'ing DOING it and I love those protestors SO. DAMN. MUCH.

I’m so happy for them 💜 Our lives, our choice!

but meanwhile in texas….                                                

Solidarity with Polish Women.

Keep fighting the good fight.

26.10.20 - the fifth consecutive day of protests against Poland’s court’s near-total ban on abortion.

they follow a ruling by Poland’s Constitutional Court that abortions, even in cases of foetal defects, are illegal.

it means that abortion is now only valid in cases of rape or incest.

the fight is about the right to choose.

Poland just made it legal to torture women.

abortion law in Poland was already the strictest in Europe, abortion was allowed in only 3 cases:

another problem is that there is something called "conscience clause" among Polish doctors which means that they can deny a patient certain treatment if it's against their conscience or beliefs (yes, it mostly applies to conservative, catholic doctors). some doctors went as far as not telling women about foetal defects until it was too late to terminate pregnancy. what's more, abortion in case of rape happens very rarely, since it's difficult to prove rape in the eyes of Polish law.

in 2019, only 1100 legal abortions took place in Poland, a country populated by 38 milion people. 98% of these abortions happened because of foetal defects.

on October 22nd 2020, Poland's top court ruled abortion due to foetal defects inconstitional, basically making abortion illegal.

Polish women will be forced to give birth to children with basically no chance to live. they will be tortured physically and mentally. rich women will be able to visit neighbouring countries to have abortion there but there are plenty of women who will have unsafe, illegal abortions, endangering their lives.

there are protests happening all over the country. not for the first time though, we've been protesting abortion ban for few years now. there's a sense of solidarity among us but the truth is, we're afraid.

this is how catholic extremism looks like. Poland is becoming a real-life Gilead and it's fucking terrifying.

I hate how you’re just born out of nowhere, forced to go to school and get a job. What if I wanted to be a cat.

Guillermo del Toro wins Golden Lion for The Shape of Water at the 74th Venice Film Festival

Lee Joon & Jung So Min for Marie Claire, July 2017 © BLAQ_JH

♩ 星野源 (Gen Hoshino) - Family Song

From Overprotected Kahoko OST

The Shape of Water (2017) dir. Guillermo del Toro

“im getting old” starter pack

I feel attacked.

hye young + glasses

I hate it when you’ve been really on edge for a while and then you have a breakdown over a little thing and everyone thinks that you’re getting super upset about not washing your hair

Lupita Nyong’o photographed by Alexi Lubomirski for Mujerhoy Magazine

The gorgeous poster for Guillermo Del Toro’s upcoming movie The Shape of Water

Father Is Strange, final verdict

I know what you’re thinking: 52 episodes is a lot of Korean drama. But sometimes good things come in enormous packages, as is the case with this charming family weekender. Father Is Strange has something for everyone–its brisk narrative includes storylines for four emerging adult siblings and their assorted significant others, three sets of retirement-age parents, and one game-show loving halmoni. Also, there’s a cute dog.

Korean family dramas are known for being low-key, easy viewing that’s full of feel-good cheer, and this show is no exception. During its three-month run, Father Is Strange kept me constantly invested, smiling (and occasionally crying) along with the working-class Byun family as they struggled to find their places in the world. The slow’s interest in the real details of everyday life reminded me of the old-school Korean dramas I first fell in love with. Unlike so many of today’s miniseries, Father Is Strange is driven by the loving relationships between its characters, not gimmicky crimes, medical emergencies, or time-travel devices.

Standout storylines were devoted to the kind-hearted Byun patriarch, who (of course) had a terrible secret; sassy, self-confident lawyer Hye Young and her marriage internship; and former fat girl Mi Young, whose years-long quest for a job ended with her sharing a workplace with the high school bully who had made her life hell. But best of all was the story of goofball Joong Hee, an emerging drama actor who thought his skills would be improved by finding his long-lost father (guess who?). Joong Hee and his not-quite-dad provided some of the show’s sweetest moments. Like this screenwriter’s Ojakgyo Brothers, some of the best relationships here are ones between parents and their surrogate children.

While there were a few sections of this show I could have lived without (primarily revolving around the shrewish, social-climbing mother-in-law of the oldest Byun daughter), the speedy pacing meant the story had moved on to another character before I had time to be too annoyed.

Overall, this big, beautiful family drama was such a delight that I would have kept watching for at least another fifty episodes, if only I could. A