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12 Apr 2024
I will read this tweet every day until the war is won.
I see a lot in the media, especially concerning certain weirdly emotional attempts to analyze the current situation, and there's one thing circulating in my head—with such a self-defeating, all-is-gone, and nothing-can-be-done attitude, we Ukrainians would have been having a 'provisional capital in exile' in Rzeszow right now. There would have been no Russian setback at Hostomel, no strategic defeat at Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, or Chernihiv, no Ukrainian breakthrough at Izium and Kupyansk, no Black Sea Flee debacle, no liberation of Kherson, no 3,000 Russian tanks destroyed, no dozen Russian generals killed, no oil refineries burning across Russia, no Ukraine still independent in 2024 and fighting to survive and liberate 20% of its land. There would have been nothing of all those things that happened over the last two years not one of all those 'Western weapons won't make any difference' pseudo-experts could even imagine on the eve of the 2022 invasion. And yeah, how many of all those things were 'impossible'? As impossible as Ukraine getting Western artillery? Tanks? IFVs? PATRIOTs? IRIS-Ts? HIMARS? Missiles? Radars? Jet fighters? How many dozen times have we broken through all those endless 'nevers' to make another step forward against all odds? Did ANYONE expect Russia (one of the world's largest military powers, in case this fact slipped out of someone's memory) to be still beating its head against the wall for months to seize small ruined towns in Donbas in 2024? Sure thing, saying 'all is gone' and jumping into a Russian pit with hands tied behind the back and with a bullet in one's head seems much easier. But sorry—there's always a way to go, and this war has taught us one thing: There's always something that can be done if you really want to find a way out.
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Hey man can you keep your culture war trash back home in Sweden instead of bringing it here. Islam has been in Ukraine since medieval times. The Crimean Tatars are Muslims. Muslims fight in the army while you're just a tourist.
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Zhluktenko on the burden carried by those who fight: "So many people in Ukraine and the West are benefiting from the sacrifice Ukrainians have made for their collective security. If you are active and young, you must contribute." He wants to open a bicycle shop after the war. 7X
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Wird Ramstein halt ne ukrainische Airbase. Рамстеун
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I still can’t stop thinking about this -- what kind of demonic insanity so hostile to basic common sense and human moral principles must be demanded and enforced as “policy” for a SECOND (!!) U.S. ambassador to Ukraine in a single year (!!) to choose to resign and effectively end their diplomatic career rather than be associated with what Donald Trump is doing toward Ukraine.
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„Wer keine Korruptionsbekämpfung macht, hat keine Korruptionsskandale.“ Wenn Menschen keine Angst haben, ihrer Regierung auf die Finger zu schauen, ihre Meinung frei zu äußern und notfalls auf die Straße zu gehen, zeigt das, wie weit die Ukraine im Kampf gegen Korruption ist./5
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Today I had a huge quarrel and blocked the second-to-last friend from my childhood still in Russia. She got upset about my post on parenting in Russia and accused me of being “inhumane” and inciting hatred. I wanted to part on at least a somewhat civil note, but then I started hearing the usual arguments: “we’re suffering here too, and you’re speaking from your comfortable Europe.” And “there are people here who fled the war in Ukraine, and they’re doing well, building their lives.” That last point is where I completely lost it. I called her something not very nice and blocked her. So Ukrainians are “doing well” in Russia, huh. Sure, I guess some people are. Meanwhile, we’ve helped volunteers evacuate some others nobody knows how, just so their children wouldn’t be taken away, or so the FSB wouldn’t torture them. But yeah – life is just great for Ukrainians in Russia, they’re “building lives.” Building death too, probably – kids from occupied territories are likely already being sent to assemble drones. God spare you from this mindset of “everyone is suffering, we should feel sorry for everyone at once, all sides suffer and all wars are bad, so we’ll just sit here and morally condemn those awful people who dared to actually try to do something about these wars – or worse, try to win them.” These are completely non-overlapping realities. I see people who are “apolitical, for everything good and against everything bad.” Over these four years, they were mildly horrified, and then carried on – building careers, having children, visiting their parents’ country houses, going to gatherings. And occasionally being appropriately horrified, just for form’s sake. And then I see people who have lost absolutely everything – either because they went to fight and defend their country, or because Russia destroyed their world completely. Their home, their family, their career. And of course, we’re all egocentric, so I think about myself too. This war has practically destroyed me – even just from the cognitive overload. For four years I’ve been living in a constant stream of messages: bring this, take that, call someone, find someone, save someone, find money, find equipment, find a person; here there’s a search, there there’s shelling, here someone lost a leg, there we need to arrange to get a dog out from the front line. And most of this you’re handling remotely, not even on the ground. This is my choice – but really, it isn’t, given the values I was raised with. Not doing this would have meant losing myself. And while people from that first category are having children and building careers, I can’t afford to have another child, or to focus on my work 100% so I’m not just drifting along as average but actually achieving something again. I can’t go visit my parents at the country house. I can’t visit friends. And when people come to lecture me that I wrote something “wrong” and hurt someone’s delicate feelings, and that “this might push away those who are still undecided” – undecided people in 2026 need to not just be pushed away – you would better draw a circle of salt around them. We’re supposed to “build dialogue,” apparently – after four years of pure hell. Make polite curtsies. And the thing is, I’m still being relatively mild compared to how I actually feel.
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Thank you NAFO🤝🇺🇦
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Menschen, die sagten "Unerhört, dass ukrainische Männer sich vor dem Wehrdienst drücken und zu uns flüchten, sofort zurückschicken diese Feiglinge!" sagten auch "Also wenn die Russen kommen bin ich ja sowas von weg hier. Skandalös diese Meldepflicht für Auslandsreisen."
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Madness. Allies are asking Ukraine to curb its attacks on Russian refineries, — Budanov. According to him, the requests are coming from several countries, but he didn't name any specific ones. He also didn't specify whether Ukraine will change its attack tactics. I don't want to be European anymore.
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Anthropic just halved world-wide developer productivity today.
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claude code just shipped a hidden companion mode called "buddy" that goes live tomorrow (april 1) here's everything we know from the leaked source code: when you type /buddy in claude code, a virtual pet hatches in your terminal. it's a permanent ASCII art companion that sits next to your input box, watches your conversations, and reacts with speech bubbles. the wild part: your companion is deterministically rolled from your account ID. you don't pick it - you get what you get. it's basically on-chain gacha but for your terminal. THE ROLL: your account hash determines everything: - species (18 total) - rarity (5 tiers) - eyes (6 styles) - hat (7 types, uncommon only) - stats (5 categories) - 1% chance for shiny variant SPECIES (18): duck, goose, blob, cat, dragon, octopus, owl, penguin, turtle, snail, ghost, axolotl, capybara, cactus, robot, rabbit, mushroom, chonk RARITY: common - 60% (no hat) uncommon - 25% (gets a hat) rare - 10% epic - 4% legendary - 1% higher rarity = higher stat floor. legendaries start at 50/100 minimum on all stats. STATS: every buddy has 5 stats - DEBUGGING, PATIENCE, CHAOS, WISDOM, SNARK. one peak stat, one dump stat, rest scattered. these are just for vibes, no gameplay impact (yet?) HATS: crown, tophat, propeller, halo, wizard, beanie, and... tinyduck (a tiny duck sitting on your pet's head) HOW IT WORKS IN TERMINAL: - your buddy has 3-frame idle animations - it watches your conversation and generates reactions in speech bubbles - /buddy pet makes hearts float above it - /buddy mute hides it - the model is told to stay out of the way when you talk to your buddy directly the companion's "soul" (name personality) is generated by the model on first hatch and stored in your config. the physical traits regenerate from your account hash every time so you can't fake a rarity by editing config. this is anthropic's april 1 feature but it's permanent - it stays after the teaser window. they literally built a full tamagotchi into a coding tool. $BUDDY
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все так
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Drohnen von LEGO spielenden Hausfrauen? Diese Vorwürfe lassen sich nur durch umfangreiche Kundenbefragungen aus der Welt räumen. Die Ukraine macht vor wie das geht. Kudos an Herrn Brovdi und seine Marketing Abteilung Madyar's Birds.
That Russian mechanized column on the southern front also noted, for the record, the complete absence of genuine innovation in those Ukrainian drones made by LEGO-playing housewives. It was not available for further comment for some reason.
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Erstaunlich ist nur, dass er es offen sagt. Es ist der gleiche antislawische Rassismus, den man seit Jahrzehnten hört. Hier vermischt er sich auch noch mit Sexismus. In der ukrainischen Verteidigungsindustrie und in den zuständigen Ministerien gibt es sehr viele Frauen. Was dort produziert wird, ist tausendmal effektiver als der ganze Produktportfolio von Rheinmetall. Wo sind denn die tollen Rüstungsgüter von Rheinmetall auf der arabischen Halbinsel? Wann gab es den letzten Panzer in einem Video aus Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine, der darin nicht explodiert ist? Gefährlich, dass Männer wie Papperger Einfluss auf unsere Bundeswehr und die Politik haben. Da sieht man, warum sich dort wenig tut.
🤨 Rheinmetall’s CEO mocked Ukrainian drone innovation, calling the developers "Ukrainian housewives." Armin Papperger dismissed it as “playing with Legos,” claiming there are no breakthroughs, in an interview with The Atlantic.
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🤦‍♀️ "It's Ukrainian housewives. They have 3-D printers in the kitchen, and they produce parts for drones. This is not innovation." -Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger I was today years old when I found out I was a 🇺🇦 Ukrainian housewife 😉
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one of the finest movies i have ever watched ❤️‍🔥
I remember telling you at the end of last year about the Ukrainian film U Are The Universe, which became a national sensation in cinemas here. Well, it has literally just been released on Netflix today: lnk.ua/EvnHNwn8b And if you’re interested in Ukraine (or just in genuinely good, lyrical, intimate cinema), I definitely recommend it. It’s a tragicomedy about a Ukrainian space trucker alone in deep space. At once very funny and very sad, the film is carried by a single actor, comedian and war veteran Volodymyr Kravchuk, who has an incredible amount of charisma and perfectly embodies that “simple guy from the Ukrainian countryside,” with all the distinctive accent and flavor. The visuals of space are surprisingly good (especially considering the very modest budget), the music is fantastic, and there’s a lot of Ukrainian color throughout, along with plenty of hilarious nods to famous space films. In the theater, I caught references to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Interstellar, Moon, The Martian, and possibly even Gravity. I’m telling you: I had never seen a packed theater for a Ukrainian film like that. Here in Ukraine, the theatrical run was even extended multiple times because of the unprecedented demand. And now, after Project Hail Mary, another intimate and deeply touching space story, especially a Ukrainian one, feels just right. Especially if you’re from France! On Netflix, it’s available in Ukrainian with subtitles. I hope it’s accessible in your country as well. If not, here’s a Letterboxd link: boxd.it/ChSa
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Aber der Donbass! Es wird behauptet: "Die Ukraine hat ab 2014 den Donbass, ein Gebiet mit russlandfreundlichen Menschen in der Ostukraine, beschossen. Es gab dort Tausende Opfer unter Zivilisten." Diese Behauptung ist falsch. Richtig ist: Diese Behauptung wird von russischer Seite gezielt als Vorwand für den Angriffskrieg gestreut. Es gab vor der russischen Invasion keine Bombardierung des Donbass durch die Ukraine. Immer wieder wird behauptet, die Ukraine sei verantwortlich für „15 000 Tote im Donbass“ seit 2014 und habe „die eigenen Leute“ bombardiert, sodass Russland „schützend eingreifen musste“. Das ist ein durch Wladimir Putin und Russland gezielt konstruierter Vorwand für den Krieg. Russland verbreitet diese Falschinformationen im Rahmen der hybriden Kriegsführung besonders in Deutschland. Die Zahl „15 000“ stammt aus Aufrundungen der Schätzungen der Vereinten Nationen. Allerdings handelt es sich dabei nicht um Opfer angeblicher ukrainischer Angriffe. Die Zahlen der Vereinten Nationen gehen von etwa 3500 getöteten Zivilisten aus, etwa 4000 ukrainischen Soldaten, etwa 5500 Toten bei den von Russland angeleiteten bewaffneten Separatisten. Es lässt sich bei den etwa 3500 zivilen Opfern im Donbass der Jahre 2014 und 2015 nicht genau sagen, ob sie sich auf einer Seite der Auseinandersetzung verorteten und ob diese Menschen „pro-ukrainisch“ oder „pro-russisch” waren. Enthalten sind in der Zahl auch die 298 Passagiere des abgeschossenen Flugs MH17. Es ist besonders zynisch, die getöteten Menschen ausgerechnet der Ukraine anrechnen zu wollen angesichts der Tatsache, dass das Passagierflugzeug durch von Russland gesteuerte Separatisten mit russischen Flugabwehrraketen abgeschossen wurde. Nach den Jahren 2014 und 2015 sank die Zahl der Opfer im Donbass. Laut dem letzten Bericht der Organisation für Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa (OSZE) kamen 161 Zivilisten im Zeitraum von Januar 2017 bis Mitte September 2020 ums Leben – etwa gleich viele auf beiden Seiten. Etwa die Hälfte dieser Opfer starb durch Unfälle mit Minen und Blindgängern. Es gab vor dem Beginn des russischen Großangriffs auf die Ukraine am 24. Februar 2022 keine „Bombardierungen“ der Zivilbevölkerung im Donbass durch die Ukraine und es gab auch keinerlei Pläne der Ukraine, den Donbass militärisch angreifen zu wollen. Weder die OSZE-Beobachtermission, die mit dem Einverständnis Russlands seit 2014 die Lage beobachtete, noch der Bericht der Vereinten Nationen vom September 2021 sehen Anzeichen für einen Genozid oder gezieltes Vorgehen der Ukraine gegen die „pro-russische Zivilbevölkerung“. Ein Bericht des UNHCR (Hochkommissariat der Vereinten Nationen für Flüchtlinge) vom Juli 2016 fasst zusammen: „Der bewaffnete Konflikt, der durch den Zustrom ausländischer Kämpfer und Waffen aus der Russischen Föderation angeheizt wird, ist für die meisten Verletzungen des Rechts auf Leben in der Ukraine in den letzten zwei Jahren verantwortlich.“ Die russische Propaganda hat die offizielle Gesamtzahl nach den Angaben der Vereinten Nationen auf „15 000“ aufgerundet und daraus entgegen der Sachlage propagandistisch „Opfer der ukrainischen Angriffe auf den Donbass“ gemacht. Bis heute wird diese Propaganda in Diskussionen um den russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine und die ukrainische Selbstverteidigung ständig wiederholt. Durch Fakten ist sie nicht gedeckt.
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2/ Even if we really only emerged in 1991 & were “artificially created” by Lenin as a Soviet republic together with the language and traditions, so what? Were our country and it borders officially recognised in 1991 and on? Yes? That’s alone is enough. We owe you no explanation.
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If German Taurus missiles are painted pink, do they become flamingos?
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Ich glaube ich fahre zum nächsten Oktoberfest, einfach nur um neben Markus Söder zu stehen, wenn er einem Grünen zuschaut, wie er das Fest eröffnet.
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People sometimes ask me why I never promote donations to the Red Cross for Ukraine. The answer is simple. Because after years of working directly with Ukrainian soldiers, medics and volunteers on the ground, I have seen with my own eyes who is actually keeping people alive in this war and it is not big international organizations but it is volunteers. It is ordinary people who donate 10€, 50€, 100€ so we can buy a car, a drone, a generator, night vision or medical gear and send it directly to the guys who are risking their lives every single day. In this war speed matters and bureaucracy does not save lives. When a car breaks at the front, volunteers fix it.When a drone is needed tomorrow, volunteers buy it.When a medic needs supplies, volunteers deliver them. I have seen volunteers move faster in 24 hours than big organizations move in months. Meanwhile Ukrainian prisoners of war are still waiting for real protection. Families of missing soldiers are still waiting for answers and many frontline units will tell you they have never seen any real help from the large international organizations people donate millions to. So if you ask me where donations actually make a difference then I will always say the same thing. Support the people who are on the ground. Support Ukrainian units. Support medics. Support trusted volunteers. Because in this war the people who move fast are the people who save lives and that is the reality I have seen with my own eyes.
Just to be clear the @RedCross are the biggest fucking scammers and scumbags on this planet, never donate a cent to these assholes who literally stole MILLIONS meant for Ukraine. They also helped abduct Ukrainian children and give them to russia. Worthless POS organisation.
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