Phone number published by Feminoteka - a polish feminist org.
It's a crisis phone number organized from Polish Migrant Forum, which offers psychological support.
They speak Ukrainian and Russian.
finally, I have them all
The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit.
Last night I had a dream of an AU where Picard and Tomalak visit the Qowat Milat convent shortly after the resettlement of Romulans, and Tomalak sees bby Elnor (like literally a baby in this AU) picks him up and goes "He's our son now" to Picard.
And that was so beautiful.
Bringing this back since I learned that my precious son was not included in Picard S3 (no spoilers tho - I still plan to watch it)...
At least I can give him a better fate in my dream AU...
Yeah, totally unaligned propaganda for Russian puppet states that were used as an excuse to invade Ukraine.🙄
(I mean I knew what to expect when I saw "Soviet" in the blog name but really? )
Totally unbiased neutral posts, nothing to see here folks.
(new blog btw- oldest post dates from 23 hours ago, and they're all like this)
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don't you just love... seeing shit like this? you see, people write such tweets but you, a ukrainian, read it and... we're not alive for you guys, right? we're just a ephemeral thing, a concept, that gives an opportunity to write a passage like this. shocking - a scoop. wow! what an interview. "a hero at home, and a war criminal...". deporting. children.
deporting. children.
deporting. children.
read once again. read it.
"challenging interview" you dumb fuck, you traveled to a country that is waging a genocidal war on its neighbour and interviewed a person that is officially recognised as a war criminal for deporting children
Not-so-friendly reminder that forcibly removing children from one group to live with another is one of the elements of Lemkin's definition of genocide.
So.... 😬😬😬
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Crimean Tatars being unfairly targeted. Russia's racism exposed.
I’d appreciate if you read and remember this:
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Every once in a while, I think about how Raphael Lemkin, a Polish (and JEWISH, this is important) man who coined the term ‘genocide’ never kept quiet about “yes, USSR, I DO mean the Holodomor counts, too!” How the USSR blocked every attempt to make the official definition include what happened to Ukrainians in the early 1930s. That the only way it got approved for the use in legal trials and such like Nuremberg was because everyone bowed to USSR’s pressure to hide their evil doing.
The man went to his grave fighting to call Holodomor a genocide. Just like the Holocaust. Just like the Armenian Genocide.
This isn’t some bullshit ‘death of the author’ or what the fuck ever. This is telling a man who had very clear rules in mind for what counts that he’s WRONG about a thing HE CAME UP WITH.
In essence:
A Polish Jew creates the term ‘genocide’. Everyone tells him he’s wrong about the definition of a term he created. He knew exactly what he was doing when he created the term and gave the examples of what he knew to be considered the term he created.
Raphael Lemkin lost 49 PEOPLE IN THE HOLOCAUST and you DARE to say you KNOW BETTER THAN HIM what counts as a GENOCIDE? (Yea, 49. Only like 3 relatives survived. May all their memories be a blessing.)
The Nuremberg Trials would never have happened the way they did without Raphael Lemkin but he doesn’t fucking have the right to call something a genocide SOMEHOW.
In 1953 he published a whole speech/article that literally said “Soviet Genocide in Ukraine” aka Holodomor.
But sure, because that one little time Holodomor wasn’t included means it was never meant to be considered one.
Raphael Lemkin, in his own words on his original definition of genocide:
“Genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups. Genocide is directed against the national group as an entity, and the actions involved are directed against individuals, not in their individual capacity, but as members of the national group.”
Raphael Lemkin, of blessed memory, knew exactly what he was saying. Poland and Ukraine have always been neighbors and have both been bullied by Russia. To say nothing of having their borders shifted around that a Pole could find themselves a Ukrainian and vice versa one year then go back to the start the next year. Raphael Lemkin, coiner of the term genocide, saw the destruction of the Holodomor and the Shoah and knew they both fit his definition.
Pray tell how a nation such as Russia can overrule the man who coined the term of their crime?
Raphael Lemkin would call the war the exact thing it is: genocide. We all know it. And I for one will continue his fight to making sure everybody knows exactly what Russia represents and what they have done and will continue to do until we are believed more readily than people want to believe an ex-KGB fuckhead.
O'Brien actually kissed Tosk after they told each other to die with honor, you must've blinked at that part
If this turns out to be true, it still won’t undermine the liturgies of the tankie left, which believes that there can be no greater evil than NATO and American imperialism. However, it turns out that you can both mount criticisms of US/NATO/capitalist oppression and at the same time observe that in the context of this war the Russians are by far the worse offender.
One socialist tankie told me when I inquired as to why Russian imperialism wasn’t also a problem, that (close paraphrase) Russians will solve their own problems. How does he account for the fact that Russian problems are now Ukrainian problems? I don’t think he thought that far ahead.
Westerners waving peace signs won’t end this war, and even when it ends and peace reigns, it will be because the only route available right now to bring about peace is the elimination of the Russian military in Ukraine.
Westerners waving peace signs won’t end this war, and even when it ends and peace reigns, it will be because the only route available right now to bring about peace is the elimination of the Russian military in Ukraine.
Fighter jets ^^
Haven't watched Picard season 3 yet (have to find the strength to watch season 2), but...
AU where Bochra's co-parenting with Geordi and helping him raise Alandra and Sidney. 👀👀👀
One major perk of trying to befriend all the crows, is that you can befriend other birds in the process.
Most of the time it's unintentional.
Like my crows like to hang out around this one dumpster, that's also a gathering place of other birds, mostly pigeons and jackdaws and sometimes rooks (the last two also the members of the corvid family).
As I was feeding my crows, I got the attention of the flock of pigeons. Who now form a "crowd" around me every time I come near their place.
Pigeon feasting has attracted jackdaws who, considering how incredibly social they are, will let their buddies from the flock know that there's a human who is a source of food.
And jackdaws will often attract rooks (especially around winter time) and magpies who have a tendency to hang around them when roosting and looking for food.
And don't even get me started on the gulls who will see any gathering of birds as an opportunity to nab themselves some free food (mostly meat - peanuts and seeds confuse them).
In summation: I now have a considerable number of non-crow bird friends and I have no idea what to make of it.
My two crow friends (male and female - have difficulty telling them apart still in photos).
I have first encountered one of them (prolly the male, since he's always the braver one) last year as I arrived home at a tram stop. Apparently these two have a territory that is close to not only the nearby tram and bus stops but also the place where I live, as I sometimes encounter them at a nearby parking space and local dumpsters.
I started befriending them by feeding them some walnuts, then moved to peanuts, with occasional bacon pieces and hot dog sausages (finely chopped).
They were hesitant at first but in a matter of months they learned to recognize me and every time they spot me they would swoop down low and/or land in front of/close to me so that they're in my line of vision.
Usually it's the male who does this, as he's more braver than his female partner - she likes to keep her distance and only lands once her mate ensures her it's okay to get some food.
But nevertheless, they like to follow me around, in hopes of getting something yummy out of me.
My only gripe is that it's almost impossible to feed them anything meat-related and not have the seagulls coming down to grab the goodies (around winter, the seagulls migrate from the nearby lakes and river to spend their time in the suburbs, typically living off the stuff people throw into dumpsters).
While the male is capable of chasing the gulls away, his partner is too scared to engage the mob, so she gives up altogether. 😭
