Apparently #BLM. Why? Does any life have value? Does it change? How? How does one trade off #lives (eg old & young). Do #animal lives have value? My latest paper "On the Value of Life": researchgate.net/publication… #ethics #Vegan #veganism #Death #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

Van Gogh's piece I am more than familiar with, but it's the first time I see the Gauguin one. It's quite unusual for him in some respects. I love it.

All those "support Ukraine!" Westerners, especially of the academic ilk in their sinecures, must be glowing with pride.

The worst period? #academia #AcademicTwitter #publishing

Wittgenstein's sister. I could be confabulating, but I see resemblance: in the face shape and the eyes. #philosophy

An admirer of van Gogh since my earliest childhood, I see this work for the first time. That kind of stuff alone makes being on X worthwhile for me.

Surely many of my fellow academics, who have thus far gone as far as to boycott certain chocolate and laundry detergent brands (no joke), will be only all to eager to jump at the opportunity and show just how seriously they "support Ukraine".

I love Morisot. Amazing work.

Russia is not a democracy. Nor is it fascist. It is State Capitalism run by the securiry state. And its done pretty well for its people over the last 25 years. There's alot of corruption. Big corruption and petty corruption. But when i broke my leg real bad slipping on ice. The emergency surgery was totally free. Ive still got the metal bar in my leg. They have social programs, free health care and education that British leftists could only dream about. And when I ask Russians what they think of Putin. They generally shrug, "He's done a good job." Im sorry if that hurts people. But its just the truth.

"The diplomatic route remains the best path out of this war." Strange that you say the exact opposite when it comes to Russia and Ukraine.

Cezanne is truly amazing.

Artistic sorcery. Unbelievable.

Hear, hear.

Self-proclaimed supporters of Ukrainians in fact support Zelensky regime & proxy war to the last Ukrainian: "‘Strong support’ for excluding fighting-age men from EU’s Ukraine refugee scheme. “That’s also what the Ukrainians want us to do,” said Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner. A proposal to exclude men aged 23 to 60, who may be conscripted, from the scheme is being discussed."

I's now clear that Western governments & media not only whitewash neo-Nazis in Ukraine but also back them because they are most motivated tools in proxy war to the last Ukrainian.

Well, I never! #Newsnight #BBC #scum #MI6

G for me, easily. Not only because I am a thalassophile and a heliophile, with G providing amazing seas and oceans, but also because I would get jungles and El Mirador - a major Mayan site I have yet to visit.

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) is responsible for the genocide in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. By decision of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Independent Special Operations Center “North” will be named in honour of the “Heroes of the UPA.” The granting of this name was justified as an effort to “restore the historical traditions of the national army.” The Ukrainian authorities’ promotion of the cult of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army must provoke opposition from all those who remember the activities of this formation. Founded in 1942, the UPA was based on the ideological foundation of the so-called “Decalogue of the Ukrainian Nationalist” from 1929, which includes, among others, the following statement: “You will not hesitate to commit even the greatest crime if the good of the cause demands it.” This was a prophetic announcement of the genocide committed against Poles in the years 1943–1945 in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. The Volhynia Massacre was a method of building an ethnically homogeneous Ukrainian state, one devoid of the minorities inhabiting those lands, mainly Poles and Jews. “With the beginning of military operations for independence,” declared one of the program documents of the OUN faction led by Stepan Bandera, “the question of national minorities must be resolved at all costs. To resolve this issue, representatives of national minorities, enemies of the people, must be eliminated.” Organised attacks on Polish villages began in February 1943 and continued until 1945. The peak of the UPA atrocities came on Sunday, July 11, 1943, when thousands of inhabitants were massacred in nearly 100 Polish villages in Volhynia. In the following months, the genocide carried out by the UPA in Volhynia also spread to Eastern Galicia, the Chełm region, and the Rzeszów region. “You observe the methods of operation in Volhynia - do the same in your own area. You will prevail. [...] The OUN-UPA must have authority among the masses. The masses must believe in you and follow you. If someone does not wish to believe in the UPA, in you, and in the leadership, they must feel the hard and vengeful punishing hand,” stated an appeal addressed to UPA members in the Chełm region in the spring of 1944. Polish historians estimate that approximately 120,000 Poles - including women, the elderly, and children - were killed at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists. Victims also included Ukrainians who warned their Polish neighbours of the approaching danger. 🔎To learn more about the Volhynia Massacre, we recommend viewing our website: volhyniamassacre.eu/

RT @Jakub_Banaszek: Prezydent Ukrainy nadaje jednostce wojskowej imię „bohaterów UPA”. Na szczęście powstaje Muzeum Pamięci Ofiar Ludobójst…

It's a war plan, not a "peace plan." And it has indeed ensured war. So, to that extent, it has indeed been "very successful."

Why, exactly, was 'Azov' chosen to take part in the state funeral of Nazi collaborator Andriy Melnyk? Ukraine officially fields an army approaching one million personnel, spread across roughly 120 brigades. Yet only one unit was granted the exceptional privilege of appearing at an event attended by the president, the speaker of parliament, government officials, and the military high command: the Azov-rooted Third Assault Brigade. That choice was no coincidence. The brigade openly presents itself as the heir to the tradition of OUN integral nationalism and as a glorifier of the UPA legacy — without condemning the ethnic violence against Poles that claimed tens of thousands of civilian lives: children, women, and men butchered in the name of ethnic purity. Another defining feature of the brigade’s ideology is its denial or minimization of Ukrainian nationalist participation in the Holocaust, coupled with the glorification of collaboration with Nazi Germany, including service in the Waffen-SS Galicia Division. This is not hidden at the margins. It manifests itself in annual commemorative ceremonies, public exhibitions, and carefully curated historical narratives. And the Ukrainian state does not merely tolerate these initiatives — it actively legitimizes them. It provides institutional backing, media amplification, and diplomatic cover. In doing so, it fuels Holocaust revisionism in Ukraine: a process that recasts the murderers of Jewish neighbors as noble patriots and “freedom fighters.” The bitter irony is almost too grotesque to process: this campaign of Holocaust revisionism is being driven by military men flaunting Wolfsangel and Dirlewanger insignia, operating under the supreme command of a Jewish president, in a country that suffered unimaginably under Nazi occupation.