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Information security consultant in UK and EU, entrepreneur. Education in chemical engineering, supporter of #nuclear and #renewables. Born in #Poland, interest in #Russia #Ukraine (spent 20+ years in both). Actively supporting Ukraine's sovereignty. I almost always follow back. I prefer to discuss any views as long as they are supported by arguments and evidence, I do ban for insults and hate speech. Started #networking on #Fidonet in 1990s.

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2026-07-07 20:28:12 GMT

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@nprofile…kwpm
Polish truckers and farmers were not representing the Polish state. Their actions were harmful and widely criticised. What Polish state did was to declare the border crossings as “critical infrastructure” and kicked them out.
You write “just a few years ago that Poland joined the EU” and this is 100% true, but since Poland was in EU, they were operating at the same requirements as any other EU truckers.
On the other hand 2022-2023 Ukraine was granted access to EU market without EU compliance based on Solidarity Directive, which was intended to enable transport of humanitarian loads from EU to Ukraine.
What Ukrainian truckers instead did, was to start delivers inside EU, which was totally illegal but since nobody expected that, there were no means to detect it (e.g. road inspection couldn’t work on weekends or at night, for example). Eventually when EU countries hardened road inspection forces , the practice stopped.
With grain it was similar situation, although in this case it was mostly Polish importers who were to blame because they bought the grain which was officially intended “for export from EU” and sold it locally, dumping prices on the whole market. That was a perfect case of Polish politicians from the farming lobby filling up their pockets at the cost of other farmers and blaming Ukraine.
In any case, the Polish truckers and farmers were not representing the Polish state. And to anyone who complained about “competition from Ukrainian farming if they join EU” I always explain that this would be actually great, because then Ukrainian farming will be required to comply with EU Common Agricultural Policy which, as I wrote earlier, for example forces producers to throttle their production if it would cause disbalance on the EU market. And to be honest, that’s the very point where I believe Ukrainian agroholdings will have a huge problem with EU membership, they will just invent some kind of other wording.

2026-07-07 19:36:59 GMT

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@nprofile…85zk @nprofile…kwpm
By the way, here’s a collage of videos that YouTube is showing me today from Ukrainian media I follow. Because many of them I’ve followed for a long time, I cannot but notice a rapid change in their attitude that happened over the last 1-2 weeks, when the same media published a lot of videos on that topic but with more balanced and conciliatory titles. Which makes me suspect that there were some grants from Presidential Administration to escalate the situation even further, because these vicious clickbaits are entirely different in tone from what I saw weeks ago. Here’s a sample for those who can’t read Ukrainian:
“Ukraine is playing in higher league, Poland is nowhere near”
“Fear of competition, the roots of Polish shauvinism”
“Polish Ukrainophobia as 1930’s antisemitism”
“The final solution to the Ukrainian question”
“Shock!? Hunt for Ukrainians starts in Poland”
“Poland raised a new ultimatum to Ukraine!”
I’m sorry to say, but it’s 1:1 mirror of Russian media headlines about Ukraine in 2014…
P.S. ironically, the one in Polish that got in the middle is quite emphatic “Kharkiv - chronicle of survival” documentary from Poland’s OSW, describing genocidal attacks by Russia on Kharkiv
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2026-07-07 15:14:27 GMT

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@nprofile…kwpm
I agree, but if you scroll up to the beginning to the thread you will see to whose public statements I was responding.

2026-07-07 15:06:08 GMT

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@nprofile…kwpm
And no, I’m not making any “soft suggestion” - I’m saying straight away that Zelensky is quite decisively playing the anti-Polish card for the sake of internal politics (electoral campaign?), while Ukrainian state (Sybiha, Sviridenko) are doing normal foreign relations in addition to trying to damage control.

2026-07-07 14:26:21 GMT

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@nprofile…kwpm
I’m very much aware of the reasons why Euromaidan happened, but we’re speaking of the whole Ukrainian society, not only the decisively pro-European fraction of it. But Euromaidan was when? In 2013, and Poland joined EU when? In 2004, starting preparations at least decade before. Poland joined NATO in 1997, while the support for joining NATO in Ukraine was low even after 2014, only in 2014 it was officially written into the Constitution.
Also, quite curiously, you skipped four full paragraphs of what I wrote only to focus on on one sentence in the last paragraph, about EU.
Does that mean you generally agree with the remaining part of my comment?
P.S. you’re certainly aware of what happened today - finding the body of the woman who was suspected in attack on Yermolaev, where active HUR officer was now arrested? You think nobody in SBU or President’s Office had no clue about this before? Or that Zelensky doesn’t know about what’s going on in Dnipro?
@nprofile…85zk

2026-07-07 14:04:48 GMT

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@nprofile…kwpm
The primary problem with Poles and Ukrainians is that in their majority they have emotional control of a 5 years old and zero ability to verify anything.
The amount of Russian fakes about Ukraine shared by Poles on social media is stunning, only two days ago I was going around on Twitter and explaining to Ukrainians that the video they furiously shared about “Poles want Lviv back” was produced by a Russian journalist (!) living in Tiraspol (!) but they did not give a shit because they liked how it hits Poles.
In socio-cultural evolutionary terms I’m more and more convinced that the Western Slavic nations simply never developed sufficient statehood instinct to be able to be able to defend their statehood in long term. We simply prefer short-term excitation, childish emotions and silly utopias over long-term pragmatic political work.
As result, we’re doomed to repeat what our equally moronic ancestors did in XVII and XX century and continue fighting with ourselves to the joy of Moscow. Poles are even more ridiculous here, because there’s now 50/50 split and one half is fighting the other, plus some are fighting Ukraine, plus some are fighting EU.
In the long term however, past Polish governments had enough brains to get us into NATO and EU, while Ukrainians for decades preferred to suspended between EU and Russia, until they finally lost Crimea and kind of saw what’s going on - for a moment, because shortly after all the well-known shit was back - like corruption, “Dnipro call centers”, bribes to avoid mobilisation while politicians send children abroad. And NATO nor EU were never priority, because that would mean getting rid of the above.
@nprofile…85zk

2026-07-07 12:57:57 GMT

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@nprofile…kwpm
I’ve also heard the argument raised countless times before the war - “we’re at economic crisis” past 2000, “we’re at hybrid war” past 2014 etc. There was never a good time, and never will be, because now it will be “we’re rebuilding after war now”.
I don’t buy that argument, because plenty of Ukrainian politicians are not fighting but doing politics (Vyatrovych now does daily rounds on Ukrainian TV stations), or just making money, sometimes using rather dirty schemes (“Dnipro call centers”) and nobody says “don’t do this, it’s war”.
By the way, Myrotvorets doesn’t give a shit about the war either:
One of the Polish president’s closest aides, Zbigniew Bogucki, has been put on a list of enemies of Ukraine. The list is put together by Myrotvorets – a controversial Ukrainian NGO, who named Bogucki as a, quote, “threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.”

2026-07-07 12:23:55 GMT

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@nprofile…kwpm
I don’t think there’s some kind of “mutual escalation” here. Zelensky made a decision to name a military unit after UPA - it was his decision, made in public. Polish side - in a quite unusual unity - said it’s honoring a military organisation known for mass war crimes on Poles, but I’m not aware of any “ultimatums” it has raised towards Ukraine.
Quite the opposite, Tusk (PM) statements highlighted the strategic alliance between Poland and Ukraine and the need for continued military support, while also criticizing the UPA decision in a very diplomatic language. At the Ukraine’s diplomacy level, there were numerous attempts to deescalate - minister Sybiha, prime minister Svyrydenko all made very reasonable statements.
However, Zelensky seems to run a separate foreign policy in this aspect - and it’s possible he’s even entitled to do so, because Ukraine is a presidential-parliamentary republic unlike Poland, where president’s role is very limited. Or more precisely, it’s limited legally but not in PR terms, unfortunately. He can’t do much legally, but he can cause a lot of harm my mere making statements.
The publication of the PAC-3 donation to Ukraine in my opinion was 100% Russian disintegration operation - they leaked it to right-wing politicians in Poland and the government was forced to respond to that.
Why is Ukrainian president escalating in such a situation is well beyond me, but the fact that his ratings have benefited from this scandal - just as Nawrocki’s, who also runs a separate foreign policy, although mostly on words - suggests that both are simply in electoral campaign mode already and don’t give a shit about foreign relations with “weak” neighbours like Poland. It also suggests there will be even more escalation between the presidents, while our governments will scratch their heads on how to do any damage control in such an absurd situation.

2026-07-07 12:00:48 GMT

#Ukraine Budanov[^1] about relations with #Poland
Budanov had warned publicly that the standoff’s worst moment might still be ahead — a forecast he repeated without softening. With the July 11 anniversary of the Volyn tragedy now less than a week away, he said his information points to a “whole series of, as I see it, immature escalatory steps” still being prepared in Warsaw, and expects the friction to continue accordingly. (…) No offense to Poland, but it’s somewhat more powerful than Poland — and we didn’t accept its ultimatum either. Yes, it was hard, it was bad, there was a lot of blood. But we didn’t accept even their ultimatum. So why would anyone think we’d accept something else from another side? You don’t negotiate with us through ultimatums.
Meanwhile[^2]
The Polish government carried out a discreet transfer of surface-to-air missiles from the MIM-104 Patriot long range air defence system to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with this reported by multiple regional sources to have occurred in the spring of 2026.
I don’t think you need to be extremely insightful to see where this is going.
[^1]: https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/interview/you-don-t-talk-to-us-with-ultimatums-kyrylo-1783404039.html
[^2]: https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/poland-patriot-missiles-ukraine-refusing-us

2026-07-06 11:24:59 GMT

Once again, there’s lots of “rational” arguments being raised on “why #Putin would attack Europe”, especially that he’s stuck in #Ukraine hopelessly.
They key misunderstanding is that Putin does not think in terms of the rational interests of the Russian state – if that were the case, he would not have annexed Crimea, let alone started a full-scale war, but would simply have been quietly counting the money from the sale of hydrocarbons.
Putin thinks solely within the framework of a world of paranoia, phobias, cognitive distortions and megalomania (“we are like Peter the Great”) that he has constructed for himself, in which an attack on NATO is entirely justified.
Let me remind you of his words, I believe from around 2024 – “we will go to heaven as martyrs, whilst they will simply croak”. This is the logic of ISIS – it may seem absurd or incomprehensible to us… but it is a fact. It drove ISIS do terrible things and ultimately lose, but this rather easy to predict perspective did not prevent them from doing them in the first place.
At the same time, #Russia, as an authoritarian state, lacks the mechanisms typical of democracies to curb a leader’s cognitive issues, because all its institutions – from the National Security Council to the Duma – are mere rubber-stamp machines for Putin’s decisions, as was perfectly evident on 21 February 2022.

2026-07-06 10:50:33 GMT

If you’re a #Linux admin just entering holiday mode, you’ll be excited to find out there’s a new local privilege escalation Linux kernel exploit, no workarounds ☺️
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-46242

2026-07-05 15:35:26 GMT

Fanatics on both sides - Musk, Le Pen and the anti-AC movement - forget that a air conditioner and heat pump are one and the same device. The only difference is in the direction of pumping. Logically, the former should ban AC with heating function, the latter - heat pumps with cooling function 😆
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/05/europe-air-conditioning-culture-wars-heat-up

2026-07-03 18:17:13 GMT

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@nprofile…5ae7 It’s tracking my share, I don’t mind that

2026-07-03 18:06:03 GMT

35 years ago, Anthrax – a band half my class listened to at secondary school – recorded this fantastic track mocking America’s bipolar ‘freedom of speech’, which syncretically combines infantile puritanism with the protection of certain extremist ideologies under the guise of ‘freedom of expression’. I say “certain” because National Socialism falls under this umbrella but Islamic extremism does not, even though they differ little in their aims and methods. Watching all those videos on YouTube today with amusement, where the creators paranoidly censor all politically incorrect words such as ‘war’ or ‘suicide’, I get the impression that little has changed since then…
https://youtu.be/BGP1LLxsalE?si=Iyl36AQNgHux-GMw

2026-07-02 17:30:13 GMT

#Russia attacked International Red Cross warehouse in #Kyiv last night
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2026-06-29 21:50:13 GMT

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@nprofile…wlck
Dla większości z nich OUN czy UPA to są organizacje walczące z rosyjską okupacją
Ja to rozumiem, ale jest to obraz obiektywnie nieprawdziwy i starannie od lat konstruowany przez ludzi pokroju Wiatrowycza.
I ta moja ocena nie ma żadnego związku ani nie usprawiedliwia decyzji Nawrockiego, którego przeszłe decyzje oceniam jako szkodliwe i głupie. Po prostu dwie skonfliktowane strony mogą prezentować błędne poglądy w tym samym czasie.
Nie zgadzam się też z tym, że “przeszkadzało to tylko naszym nacjonalistom” bo decyzja Zełeńskiego wywołała niezwykle rzadkie w Polsce zjednoczenie głosów od lewicy do prawicy, także tej proukraińskiej.

2026-06-29 16:07:47 GMT

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@nprofile…wlck
Co do “nie ma szans” to jeszcze w grudniu miałem nadzieje bo Nawrocki spotykał się z Zełeńskim, potem była fala zgód na ekshumacje po obu stronach granicy, w maju była ta konferencja historyków, więc wszystko wyglądało naprawdę dobrze.
Komuś w Kijowie się to ewidentnie nie spodobało i nie wierzę, że Zełeński nie miał świadomości co robi. Odpowiedź Nawrockiego wyglądała tak, jakby jego otoczenie tylko czekało na taki pretekst żeby odpalić akcję z orderami.
Co niestety stanowi kolejną istotną wskazówkę, że być może nasze dwa bratnie zachodniosłowiańskie narody po prostu nie dorosły do kultury państwowości, w związku z czym są skazane na bycie czyimiś satelitami.

2026-06-29 05:43:14 GMT

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@nprofile…wlck Oczywiście, polski IPN jest również upolityczniony i nie mam zamiaru bronić decyzji podejmowanych głównie pod rządami PiS czy właśnie Nawrockiego jako dyrektora. Mój niesmak wywołuje fakt, że we wszystkich śledztwach w sprawie zbrodni polskich oddziałów takich jak Sahryń wniosek końcowy jest zawsze rozmywany na zasadzie “może i popełnili zbrodnię wojenną, ale…”.
Faktem jest jednak, że polski IPN te śledztwa przeprowadził dobre 10-20 lat temu i ich wyniki wiszą publicznie, dzięki czemu szczegółowe informacje o tych zbrodniach można łatwo znaleźć w oficjalnych źródłach.
O idiotach wydzierających mordę
No tak, tylko tu mowa o Wiatrowyczu, który był kolejno:
szefem “organizacji społecznej” będącej kontynuacją OUN/UPA w XXI wieku - co zabawne, właśnie “organizacji” a nie partii, bo oni wprost odrzucali ideę partii politycznych i demokracji jako takiej
dyrektorem archiwum SBU (!)
dyrektorem ukraińskiego IPN
obecnie posłem do Rady i głównym specjalistą od polityki historycznej Ukrainy
Wszystkie w/w punkty zebrane do kupy dość jasno pokazują, że obecną politykę historyczną państwa ukraińskiego realizuje facet będący wprost następcą najbardziej radykalnych, antydemokratycznych ruchów nacjonalistycznych w Ukrainie w XX wieku. To wszystko co napisałeś o Brygadach Świętokrzystkich to prawda, więc teraz wyobraź sobie, że w Polsce wszystkie w/w role zajmuje facet, będący apologetą Brygad Świętokrzystkich, które i tak prezentowały może 10% tego radykalizmu co OUN/UPA.

2026-06-28 21:34:01 GMT

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@nprofile…wlck
No nie, podobne zapisy jak art 6 można było znaleźć chyba tylko w niesławnej nowelizacji ustawy o IPN forsowanej przez PiS w 2018 roku, po czym po paru miesiącach wycofanej pod naciskiem USA i Izraeal.
Kluczowe w tej ustawie z 2015 jest 1) wymienienie OUN i UPA jako tych “organizacji walczących o niepodległość Ukrainy”, 2) zrównanie ich krytyki z “poniżeniem godności narodu ukraińskiego” (całego!), 3) penalizacja “lekceważenia”.
Wiatrowycz, który wtedy forsował tę ustawę, obecnie niedwuznacznie daje do zrozumienia jaka jest jej rola w debacie publicznej w Ukrainie. Ostatnio w wywiadzie u Własty Lazur przez dobre 3 minuty wrzeszczał (dosłownie), że “status OUN i UPA jako bohaterów został przegłosowany przez Radę i koniec dyskusji”.
Zwracam uwagę - OUN i UPA jako całości, bo np. do Tarasa Bulby-Borowcia trudno się przyczepić, ale w tym zbiorze są też Szuchewycz i Kłaczkiwski.

2026-06-28 21:19:30 GMT

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@nprofile…ly5c @nprofile…tpfm
Gwarantuję Ci, że ludzie na froncie i w zniszczonych miastach, którzy dostają finansowane m.in. przeze mnie wsparcie doskonale o wszystkim pamiętają. Tylko, że oni nie siedzą na kanapie w Kijowie czy Warszawie i nie decydują o losach świata zza klawiatury telefonu czy kompa.
Głównym problemem po stronie ukraińskiej dzisiaj jest ignorancja historyczne, oni dopiero odkrywają własną historię - ale ja jestem na tyle stary, że pamiętam doskonale gównoburze w Polsce jak były podnoszone sprawy Jedwabnego, Rajsa czy Szendzialarza. Ignorancja w tym zakresie była u nas dokładnie taka sama, co skutkowało na początku tępym wyparciem - “to się nie zdarzyło”, “to Niemcy”, “sami byli sobie winni” itd itp.
Surrealistyczne jest gdy czytam dzisiaj te same argumenty ze strony niektórych Ukraińców w kwestii Wołynia, ale poniekąd właśnie fakt, że są one dokładnie takie same pokazuje w jakim miejscu tego procesu jest ukraińskie społeczeństwo.
Przymilanie się w tym zakresie przez Zełeńskiego populistom w rodzaju Wiatrowycza jest tym bardziej odrażające, ale nie jest to nic innego niż robili i robią nasi politycy, z Nawrockim na czele. Ludzie, którzy doskonale rozumieli jak szkodliwy jest jego populizm przy wecie SAFE, DSA i regulację kryptowalut nagle się obudzili z “ale im powiedział!” jak odebrał ten order Zełeńskiemu.
Przede wszystkim należy mieć świadomość, że po obu stronach są ludzie, którzy znają historię i chcą rozwiązania tych sporów w duchu wzajemnego szacunku, i są również tacy, którzy pobudowali polityczne kariery na ich jątrzeniu i dla nich zakończenie negatywnych emocji wobec Wołynia to jak odcięcie tlenu.
Nikt nie pamięta, że w ciągu ostatnich dwóch lat odbyło się kilkanaście poszukiwań i ekshumacji (w Polsce i Ukrainie) a zaledwie w maju odbył się wielki kongres polskich i ukraińskich historyków. Którego celem było właśnie uzgodnienie spójnej wersji tego co się działo między II RP i Ukrainą w XX wieku.
A najgorsze jest to, że i polskie i ukraińskie społeczeństwa są w swojej masie totalnie infantylne i uwielbiają chwilowe uniesienia emocjonalne,
Stąd debilne pomysły w rodzaju “to my im odetniemy Starlinki i Jasionkę” z jednej strony, oraz “no i chuj, niech odcinają” z drugiej. Ci ludzie nie są w stanie kompletnie ogarnąć długoterminowych konsekwencji tego co proponują i jeszcze się cieszą, że są tak bardzo radykalni. “Ale im powiedział” to główne kryterium oceny skuteczności polityków po obu stronach.
Ja w ogóle mam często wrażenie deja vu patrząc na to co się obecnie dzieje. Jak tak dalej pójdzie to za 10-20 i jedni i drudzy będą siedzieć w tanim barze dla emigrantów w jakimś Paryżu i za szklanką sikacza pierniczyć o “niedoli Chrystusa narodów” (oczywiście, każdy swojego) oraz “jak Rosjanie mogli znowu wygrać” oraz “no ale następnym razem” itd.

2026-06-28 19:40:29 GMT

Previously I avoided the topic of #Poland #Ukraine row over UPA, but today general Kyrylo Budanov announced the following[^1]
No one will ever again dictate to Ukrainians which heroes to honor, which holidays to celebrate, or which history to study. Our ancestors fought for centuries for this right to freedom of choice and national independence, and it is for this very right that our warriors are shedding their blood today. Their memory must live on forever.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has submitted to the Verkhovna Rada the draft law “On the Ukrainian National Pantheon.” This is a decisive and much-needed step toward restoring historical justice, consolidating our society, and laying the foundation of memory for future generations. This document is a testament to our maturity as a state.
Also today President Zelensky said in an interview to Polish media[^2]
No one and never will anyone dictate to us how to live, how to speak, whom to love, whom to be grateful to, and which heroes to respect.
I will start from a reminder, that the “dictate” is already in place since 2015 when Ukraine’s Rada enacted a controversial law which makes it a criminal offence to “deny the legitimacy of the struggle for the independence of Ukraine in the 20th century” by organisations such as OUN and UPA. Essentially, if someone in Ukraine wants to dispute the goals and methods of OUN and UPA - which included killing political opponents inside Ukraine because they were “too conciliatory” or wanted Ukraine to be democratic, they are breaking the law.[^3][^4]
If you are surprised that OUN and UPA considered democratic movements in Ukraine to be enemies, that’s not a mistake. OUN and UPA had a very clear vision of Ukraine as a non-democratic, ethnically clean state with single state-supported religion, limited press freedom, state-controlled corporationist economy led by a single authoritarian Leader. I’m intentionally avoiding any labels attributed to this program by political scientists.[^5]
Only a few days ago Ukraine celebrated the Day of Constitution, which was first introduced in 1918 by ZUNR (Western Ukraine People’s Republic) and UNR (Ukraine People’s Republic).[^6] But both OUN and UPA considered ZUNR and UNR to be failures specifically due to what they perceived as “endless haggling” in democracy, solution to which was expected to be the autocratic rule of a the Leader of the nation. The OUN/UPA state would likely have no constitution at all.
It’s also ironic that this “endless haggling” did not spare OUN, which went through numerous fraction splits (OUN-B, OUN-M) and then even more absurdly with UPA, which was originally crated by moderate Taras Bulba-Borovets[^4] who was then chased by OUN-B radicals who forced him into exile, killed his wife and took over the name of UPA.[^7]
At the end of the day and as result of this infighting, only the most extreme fraction of UPA led by Dmytro Klyachkivsky and Roman Shukhevych was left fighting to the “ethnically pure” independent Ukraine. And they happen to be part of the “pantheon of heroes” while most Ukrainians seem to be totally unaware what their actual goals and methods were.
I will skip the whole incendiary topic of UPA and Polish population, but I will just reiterate that Ukraine politically is a very diverse society and unlike many populists on both sides I’m not going to aggregate it into “all Ukrainians love UPA” or “all Ukrainians support Zelensky”. I’m continuing the people and army of Ukraine regardless of what century-old symbols they choose, even if I don’t like them, but I’m also not going to sit silent about the history of the people politically nominated to be “unquestioned heroes”. If you need a legal act to make them “unquestioned” then it usually means there’s something questionable about them.
Sources:
[^1]: https://xcancel.com/Kyrylo_Budanov/status/2071238310123483253?s=20
[^2]: https://www.rp.pl/polityka/art44715681-zelenski-nikt-nie-bedzie-nam-mowil-jakich-bohaterow-szanowac
[^3]: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/letter-experts-worry-that-decommunization-laws-curtail-free-speech/#:~:text=Concerning%20the%20inclusion,denial%20of%20the
[^4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taras_Bulba-Borovets#Ukrainian_People’s_Revolutionary_Army
[^5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists#Ideology
[^6]: https://dn.gov.ua/en/news/richnytsia-vid-ukhvalennia-maloi-konstytutsii-zunr
[^7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army#1943

2026-06-20 11:11:35 GMT

Jeff Bezos, keynote panel on June 17th at VivaTech 2026 in Paris;
Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence that could solve all of our resource problems in the first place. Sometimes you have to prioritize the intelligence that will save us over the biology that slows us down.
I have a déjà vu of reading about US eugenics program from 1930’s - I think it was Edwin Black’s “War Against the Weak” (2003), a book much recommended.
Bezos is not wrong when he says AI can solve “human resource problems”, but having a physical ability to do something and actually doing it are two different things. If AI was advising Putin it would certainly advise him against starting the war in 2014, same for Trump in Iran. At the same time, AI would certainly advise IGRC against nuclear weapons program whose only purpose is destruction of Israel at any cost, hanging people publicly on cranes or punishing “promiscuous women” (read: exposing their hair) by pouring acid in their faces. AI would also advise Hamas against stealing humanitarian support and using it to produce weapons, warn warring parties in Sudan of aggravating the famine etc etc.
The whole point of AI by politicians however is that they will naturally not give up the ability to project their biases, fallacies and phobias onto their politics, but instead they will use AI to project them more effectively.

2026-06-19 14:04:35 GMT

Local authorities of #Vorkuta #Russia have demolished a monument to the memory of victims of #GULag buried in a mass grave underneath. The authorities explained that this happened on the request by a “veteran of a special military operation who returned home” who was offended by the fact the memorial plaque listed 33 names of #Ukraine nationals who died there in 1950’s. They also claimed they were “Nazis from UPA” but the problem is that the birth dates indicate than when UPA operated they were at most 14-15 years old.
This incident is part of a broader trend of removing monuments and memorial plaques dedicated to the victims of Soviet mass executions and repressions all across Russia.
Source: https://www.svoboda.org/a/v-vorkute-demontirovali-pamyatnyy-znak-zaklyuchyonnym-gulaga/33782984.html
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2026-06-18 11:02:44 GMT

#Russia Dmitry Peskov:
Putin has not been briefed on the situation in Moscow. He is currently in Kazan, where a plenary session is being held on the protection of rare plants in the context of climate change.
😂

2026-06-18 09:35:09 GMT

This #Moscow tank cover has a huge memic potential - this one was published by “Wagner Group” (!) channel “Alex Parker returns” who had been mercilessly ridiculing Putin for months now.
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2026-06-18 07:11:19 GMT

Reservoir tank cap flying over the Moscow refinery this morning
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2026-06-15 15:51:56 GMT

Minor front line movements in #Ukraine
ZSU pushed Russians back from Nikiforivka https://t.me/StorMap365/21127 - this is very good news, as it’s a direction of very intense Russian assaults on Slovyansk
#Russia continues its advances in Konstantinivka https://t.me/StorMap365/21128 Ukraine’s zone of control gets smaller and smaller
Russians intensified attacks on Kupyansk from the east but with no significant success (for now) https://t.me/StorMap365/21130
ZSU reassured its control over Kalynivske and Verbove https://t.me/StorMap365/21125 location https://deepstatemap.live/#dl!coords!47.85778321517973,36.46022979998281
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2026-06-13 21:31:20 GMT

The billionaires of our time clearly grew up on some “dog eat dog” social & economic pseudo-science but it would be sufficient if they read… Adam Smith, the very same who is today rather ignorantly praised as father of “totally unrestricted market”. Smith, writing in the 18th century, had some very explicit warnings to them:
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality. For one very rich man, there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions. (“Inquiry…”, Chapter VIII)
There’s many thoughts in Smith’s “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” (1776) and “Theory of Moral Sentiments” (TMS, 1777), similar in this spirit, which perfectly explain what we’re now seeing in Europe and USA. As crazy as it may sounds to today’s libertarians, both Smith’s books are largely founded on the idea that it’s… morality and justice that are foundations of any society and economy, not the other way around.
Society may subsist, though not in the most comfortable state, without beneficence; but the prevalence of injustice must utterly destroy it. (…) Justice, on the contrary, is the main pillar that upholds the whole edifice. If it is removed, the great, the immense fabric of human society … must in a moment crumble into atoms (“Theory…”, Chapter III)
In the “Inquiry…” Smith postulated, no more, o less, but public education for the poor, public works and infrastructure for both public benefit and employment, certain forms of taxation that fall more heavily on luxury consumption or rents, regulation where markets alone produced harmful outcomes (so much of your “totally free market”, libertarians) and criticism of some English-specific laws that trapped poor workers in particular regions.
Smith clearly opposed violence (which Marx and Engels made central part of their dystopia as a “purging force”), but warned that violence is the undesired yet unavoidable outcome of prolonged injustice. Re-reading parts of Smith today, and it’s not easy due to his archaic language, I would say he was pretty supporter of social-democratic organisation of society with free market as the primary economic instrument, whose actual freedom (from monopolies and rentiers) is ensured by regulation. It’s very sad today Smith was reduced to “abandon all regulation” by people who clearly had never read him…

2026-06-13 20:11:12 GMT

Cable management…
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2026-06-12 08:06:12 GMT

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@nprofile…g39c
This is the narrative voiced by Snowden and Assange, and I’m skeptical of what they say. This “through Moscow” versus “to Moscow” is just semantics, physically the effect was identical. Remember, Assange traveled to Russia a lot before, he couldn’t have known how the “legal system” operates there. Personally, I believe once he landed in Moscow, any talk of asylum elsewhere was pointless because Russia wouldn’t let him go under one pretext or another.
You can compare Snowden’s choice against e.g. Chelsea Manning who was also sentenced for release of secret US documents. She was sentenced in the US and since 2017 she’s a free person, traveling and giving lectures as she likes.
Snowden on the other hand is imprisoned for life, I doubt Russia would release him under any conditions.
@nprofile…zlca

2026-06-11 16:08:00 GMT

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@nprofile…zlca
I think he acted in good will prior to meeting Assange, who sent him to Moscow perfectly knowing how it will end. After Snowden landed in Moscow, that was game over.

2026-06-11 11:25:48 GMT

Wow #Russia pulled #Snowden out of the freezer to say things on Russian state TV 😍 They must be really desperate, or someone questioned the ROI of even keeping him on payroll.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/60aa9d058a265d74aef41ed4adc535d57d2cbc3dccb95d6d5e46ad6fc5f0b1f6.png?name=UW4RSO8NlZPTNA.png

2026-06-10 19:15:40 GMT

An excellent long read describing the internal workings of #Russia system of governance since 1999 until now. The author focuses a lot on depoliticisation, a mechanism through which Russian elites (not to mention the whole society) gradually lost any agency and became cogs in the wheel, ready to comply with any Kremlin demands, regardless how absurd they are or how often they change. I recommend the whole article, even through an auto-translator, here’s just a few conclusions about today’s state of Russian administration:
This administrative ‘efficiency’ comes at a high institutional cost. Firstly, the scope for deviating from standard procedures is expanding. Decisions are taken at the top, often in an arbitrary manner, and are then simply formalised in accordance with procedure. This is what happens, for example, with the scheme to send ‘volunteers’ to the front line.
Secondly, state policy is being replaced by a series of improvisations aimed at immediate results. This includes, for example, the government’s fight against rising egg prices, which led to overproduction and losses for producers.
Thirdly, the distortion of information has reached such depths that even the highest levels of the bureaucracy are working with an incomplete or biased picture of reality. Since the start of the war, a significant portion of economic and judicial statistics in Russia has been withheld. But whilst inaccessible to external observers, this information is also withheld from the bureaucracy and the business sector themselves.
As a result of the combination of these three factors, members of the elite, who are supposed to act as a counterweight to the autocrat, lose their agency and become mere executors of the president’s will — sycophants and lackeys, sensitive to the autocrat’s mood and prioritising his comfort above all else.
Full article: https://carnegieendowment.org/ru/russia-eurasia/research/2026/06/russia-elites-political-overview (in Russian)

2026-06-10 08:45:40 GMT

What largely unites Western left and right-wing supporters today is this fascination with #China decisiveness. Here’s a random sample comment from Bsky:
China is way ahead of us! The best part of this is when you mention it to conservatives they just melt. China’s advance is crushing the capitalist narrative. It’s wild and hopeful.
This phenomenon largely mirrors the 20th century’s left-wing fascination with huge projects done by Soviet Union.
I’m in turn fascinated by people’s blindness to the fact that what makes authoritarian countries so decisive is precisely what causes large infrastructure projects to fail in EU, UK or US.
Any large project in EU goes through endless consultations with experts, local communities and environmental activist groups from all EU. Then there’s trade unions, who demand pay and working hours (can you imagine!). Then there’s expensive environmental safeguards like fish protection in Hinkley Point C or wildlife bridges across highways or railways. A rare species nesting place can delay the whole multi-billion project by years. Because biodiversity is more expensive than just bulldozing the whole place.
Guess who does none of that? Soviets didn’t give a shit about some rare frogs, or even rare indigenous people as it came to large infrastructure projects. Or environmental consequences, for that matter.
When Western socialists in 20th century were fascinated by large Soviet terraforming projects (e.g. Northern river reversal, check out how it ended) they didn’t think about GULag forced labour, zero concern about environment or local protest. There was simply no such thing as “local protests” in USSR, so why bother? Today you’d also add very low CO2 emission price in China.
It’s quite an interesting sociological phenomenon - being fascinated by an authoritarian country doing none of what you consider top social achievements in your country, like unions, environmental standards, consultations… because that indeed delays things and costs money.
So at the end of the day we have an absurd situation where we have all these high standards which nobody really needs. EU or UK could demonstrate to the world how to produce steel in an environment friendly and low emission way… but nobody needs that steel - its manufacturing moved to China because it’s cheaper there. And CO2? Who cares, as long as it’s emitted somewhere else (in reality, climate only cares about global net emissions).
Personally, I believe if EU indeed wants to pioneer the sustainable industry, it’s doable but it needs protection with tariffs, just like it does with its farming industry, or like Switzerland does with almost every its sector. There’s now some progress with CBAM, that’s only 20 years after we introduced ETS.
But in the first place we need to explain to its citizens that yes, if you want PV you first need to mine stuff somewhere and if you want to protect the global climate, it needs to be done in EU. And yes, it will be more expensive than Chinese. And yes, that means building a mine in a place where there was a nice forest or something.
If you can’t mine something in EU, you will need to require your supplier to comply with the same environmental standards as you do. Otherwise it’s just pure hypocrisy.

2026-06-08 11:50:38 GMT

Zakup rocznej subskrypcji na “Nową Fantastykę” to była moja najlepsza decyzja czytelnicza ostatniego czasu 👌

2026-06-07 20:42:31 GMT

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@nprofile…ndxd Here’s the promised German Greens, Greenpeace & WWF collection of misinformation combined with their justifications for keeping fossil fuels
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2026-06-07 14:54:21 GMT

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@nprofile…tg2e
That’s my very point :) The whole paraphrase in quotes is one chain of falsehoods and half-truths, unfortunately I’ve seen them used by various anti-nuclear greens all the time. This includes the “20k at Fukushima” one.

2026-06-07 11:49:41 GMT

#Germany Greens “any amount of ionizing radiation is harmful, the Linear no-threshold model is the religion that cannot be disputed, a failed bulb in a kitchen of a nuclear power plant is INS7 nuclear accident, Chernobyl killed 500’000, Fukushima killed 20’000, everybody dies, nuclear power kills, dead bodies everywhere!!!” 😱☢️😱☢️😱☢️
Also Germany ☺️☢️☺️☢️☺️☢️
A special feature of the Bad Brambach mineral springs is the naturally occurring combination of radon, a high proportion of free carbonic acid and many valuable minerals.
☺️☢️☺️☢️☺️☢️
The naturally contained carbonic acid expands the blood vessels and increases blood circulation, which leads to improved absorption of valuable radon. The minerals contained in the healing water support the utilization of radon in the body.
☺️☢️☺️☢️☺️☢️
A treatment with radon can often reduce the use of conventional painkillers with all their harmful side effects in the long term. Sustained pain relief for up to 9 months is not uncommon.
https://www.saechsische-staatsbaeder.de/en/bad-brambach/radon#wirkung-von-radon

2026-06-07 11:39:55 GMT

Why there must be always a #Russia Z-Nazi fan behind any Western communist parties and Palestine supporters? Infiltration of these communities - who I suspect act in good will - by Russian agents and propaganda is quite shocking.
At the same time I’m really struggling to understand how, from purely logical point of view, you can combine Russian imperialism with communism (?!) and support for free Palestine into one cause? 🤔
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2026-06-06 07:57:21 GMT

Author of the popular “Wagner Group” channel Alex Parker Returns (300k+ subscribers) commented yesterday’s #Putin “extremely important speech” in real time until his patience ran out and, after another monotonous phrase about “European elites choosing war”, he wrote “my God, when this will end?” All of his remaining short reports of what Putin said then ended with “Pypa summary?”
To be honest I have not seen such a outburst of openly demonstrated disrespect (“Pypa” is a childish nickname for Putin) among Russian bloggers, their patience with Putin, who repeatedly demonstrates how delusional he is, runs out.
Sample: https://t.me/apwagner/61848 (in Russian)
Not that this will lead to any concrete actions, because it’s still Russia, but support for the war is clearly waning. The fascists lost confidence in their Führer.

2026-06-05 21:16:56 GMT

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@nprofile…plp2 Who gave that response? A member of the ‘general public’? That would be indeed disappointing, as I wouldn’t be typing these words then :)

2026-06-05 12:59:53 GMT

Petrenko writes that ZSU continues to hold positions in Kursk oblast of Russia, near Tetkino. These are very convenient as they are separated from the “mainland” by the Seim river.
https://t.me/petrenko_iHS/12433
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2026-06-05 09:56:15 GMT

Another piece of wisdom from #Putin
Recently—I won’t give an exact figure for the number of settlements, as I’m afraid of getting it wrong—but the Russian army has brought approximately 2’440’000 square kilometres under its control.
The whole territory of #Ukraine in its internationally recognised borders is 603’600 km².
Source: https://ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/06/05/putin-zayavil-chto-zahvatil-dve-tisyachi-chetiresta-sorok-tisyach-kvadratnih-kilometrov-ukraini-eto-v4-raza-bolshe-vsei-eeterritorii-a197388 (in Russian)

2026-06-04 22:55:55 GMT

4 June 1989 #Poland first free elections after the collapse of #communism
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2026-06-04 19:46:19 GMT

Interesting - Zelensky published an “Open Letter to the President of the Russian Federation from the President of Ukraine”
https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vidkritij-list-prezidentu-rosijskoyi-federaciyi-vid-preziden-104769

2026-06-04 14:20:47 GMT

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@nprofile…yskd @nprofile…asuf
Again, a simple questions - were these atrocities committed in Iran or Europe?
All of these photos were widely published by human rights organisations, but you clearly somehow completely missed them.

2026-06-04 13:18:48 GMT

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@nprofile…yskd @nprofile…asuf
Was this woman’s face disfigured wiht acid over absence of hijab happen in Iran or Europe? 🤔 Simple question… Her names is Soheila Jorkesh and she’s one of many.
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2026-06-04 10:58:35 GMT

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@nprofile…asuf
IGRC isn’t quite “very much the same” as US or European governments. The latter don’t publicly hang people from cranes or arrest women for listening to music or not covering their hair.

2026-06-03 06:47:20 GMT

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@nprofile…nwx0 Truly, the best opening ceremony for the Economic Forum 👍 I’m pretty sure Moscow will bomb a hospital or residential block in Kyiv tomorrow in retaliation, because this show is personally embarrassing for Putin, who was expected to expose his testicles to the “international” audience again in full confidence and control of the situation.
P.S. I’m not being rude, it’s literally how Putin loves to speak on conferences - half-lying on an armchair, with his legs demonstratively wiiiide open

2026-06-02 10:10:52 GMT

#Russia military Danil Tulenkov rather grim long read today, excerpts only:
As far as I can judge from my understanding of the situation on the ground in the SVO, we have already missed the opportunity for a freeze along the Line of Contact.
Therefore, the next stage of genuine negotiations will be based on the 1991 borders.
Russian society today is not psychologically ready for such an option; consequently, the authorities cannot even discuss such conditions in theory.
The chance to extricate ourselves from the war will not arise until society has matured enough to understand the inevitability of a complete withdrawal from Ukrainian territory and has come to terms with this reality.
Naturally, all of this could have been avoided a year ago had we taken a sober view of the situation. However, the top political leadership preferred its own reality, one in which it is half a step away from victory.
Full: https://t.me/thulenkov2026/1865 (in Russian, there’s a few parts on his channel)

2026-06-01 12:41:45 GMT

It’s an interesting situation with Ilya Remeslo. He spent a month supposedly in a “psych ward”, then returned to his Telegram channel and, as if nothing had happened, is still going at it… with Putin.
Today’s post ends with the phrase “Putin’s incompetence and failure”, followed by mockery of “79-year-old Ushakov”. The rest is in a similar vein, with no shame or self-censorship whatsoever.
Remeslo has 120k readers, so this is already the calibre above which the major from “Centre E” (on extremism) would turn up and explain the situation even to distinguished war correspondents, and they would politely agree. Those who didn’t agree ended up like the author of “Moscow Calling” or Girkin, i.e. in the slammer – not the worst one, where real extremists end up, i.e. people who “like” “no to war”, but still.
An interesting phenomenon, as it doesn’t fit with the FSB’s previous practices 🤔
Context and similar doubts from ~3w ago:
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/in-russia-a-new-dissident-rises-but-whats-his-game-ilya-remeslo-sus?utm_source=threads&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=subs

2026-06-01 07:30:52 GMT

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@nprofile…wq3m
Putin promised them “end of war soon” while Russian diplomats tempt them with perks and contracts. They will collect bakshish and screw the Germans - a perfectly normal cycle in German-Russian relations for decades.

2026-05-27 07:55:20 GMT

Listening to old #BadReligion albums and quite shocked how these 1990’s songs captured the trends that were certainly observable back then, but could have simply faded away or morphed, like many others.
But instead they not only became mainstream, and an overwhelmingly global one… Take these for example:
“American Jesus” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12kcpP-8jfM
“Flat Earth Society” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHjYLz9eF7w
“21st Century Digital Boy” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYApdmp6je8
P.S. I’d love to link these from some Funkwhale instance but these seem to be quite limited in numbers…

2026-05-21 20:01:09 GMT

How does it look like? Well, it does look like two years of non-stop offensive leads to… attrition.
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2026-05-17 18:06:05 GMT

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@nprofile…wq3m
And not understanding that is unfortunately the most consequential cognitive failure on our side that continues in decades :( I always explain to my family who’s just “honestly asking” if “can’t we just be friendly to Russia” that it’s entirely different civilisation, different mindset shaped by entirely different experiences and perception of the world. The simplest example that makes them almost understand it is “try making friends with a crocodile”, although the inter-species gap here makes it less relevant because Putin looks like an average European.

2026-05-15 21:32:53 GMT

There’s much talking about #Russia possibly escalating into either #Ukraine, returning to Kyiv direction, or into #NATO, as absurd it sounds.
However, we thought the same in 2021-2022. The problem with Putin is in the the cage of axioms he has built for himself, by literal decades of multi-layered cognitive biases reinforced by positive feedback loops he created by kicking experts he did not like, and replacing them with yes-men.
In his own framework, Putin simply has no other choice:
the phrase “Putin is Russia, Russia is Putin” is the first axiom; objectively, war is of course a huge threat to the Russian state, but at the same time the crowning achievement of Putin’s personal career
“Putin’s power is sacred” is the second axiom, according to which Putin cannot lose… because he simply cannot
a ceasefire in any form without the lifting of sanctions would mean Russia’s slow economic death – regardless of how Putin “sells” it in the media, everyone in Russia understands this
a ceasefire involving a withdrawal from parts of the territory, which could result in a weakening of sanctions, would personally spell the end of Putin’s image
Putin cannot withdraw from territories he himself declared annexed in 2022, with tales of ‘referendums’ and ‘constitutional enshrinement’, because it was his personal decision
A major Russian offensive leading to some territorial success (e.g. the complete capture of the Donbas) – but it has been going on for a year and has only served to weaken the potential of Russian offensive forces; currently, the official promises are “the Donbas by the end of the year”, which is hardly realistic
the Russian general staff have come to terms with the fact that Putin lives in a different world and his political goals are plucked out of thin air, but they suffer no harm as they earn millions, so they maintain the fiction
the dominant narrative among the ‘siloviki’ is ‘we may have made mistakes, but we must see it through to the end’, because in the system of ‘sacred power’ built by Putin there is no room for anything else; the fact that ‘to the end’ might mean the end of Russia and/or Putin is simply not mentioned
It is mainly the military personnel close to the front line who speak of the need to withdraw from the war before a catastrophe occurs, but no one listens to them because they are there to carry out orders, not to question them
Leaving aside the physical world, if we accept for a moment the framework Putin has imposed on himself, escalation is the only way out of this situation available to him – and perhaps the only one he knows.
The only question is whether this will be an escalation towards Ukraine or towards NATO (hybrid). The former will end like Volchansk; the latter involves more unknowns due to the as yet unknown reaction of NATO and the EU, and is therefore potentially more attractive to Putin.
I do not see this as an actual threat for EU or NATO, because with the right response, that Europe is 100% able to execute, this will bring the much desired “to the end” to Putin very fast.
What I see as a much bigger threat is large countries fearing “destabilisation of Russia” more than EU losing part of its territory to another Russia-controlled blackhole, however small.

2026-05-14 17:51:21 GMT

#Russia statements regarding attacks on Kyiv on a single day:
“Since Ukraine did not attack Moscow, there are no attacks on Kyiv in accordance with the agreement” - Yuri Ushakov, an adviser to the President of the Russian Federation
“Russian forces carried out retaliatory strikes on Kyiv” - Russian Ministry of Defense
“The Ukrainians blew up this apartment building themselves” - military channel “Zapiski Veterana”
Meanwhile #Ukraine requested an emergency UN meeting in response to these attacks:
Sybiha stated that between 6:00 PM on May 13 and 8:00 AM on May 14, Russia launched 675 drones and 56 missiles, including ballistic missiles. These strikes damaged 11 residential buildings in Kyiv and more than 50 across Ukraine.
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-requests-emergency-un-meeting-after-massive-russian-strike-18825
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2026-05-13 15:32:50 GMT

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@nprofile…xep3 Sorry, that was my question - why they are not used. But you answered that already :) I see many UPS manufacturers in Poland offer a choice of lead batteries, so it’s probably matter of going to the market asking for “UPS battery” rather than “PV storage”.

2026-05-13 14:14:40 GMT

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@nprofile…xep3 But why are the lead-sulphur batteries used for storage then?

2026-05-13 13:19:49 GMT

#Poland fire bridge published a very detailed analysis of a recent fire of a large stationary battery storage (18 tons, 2 MWh) after it caught fire shortly after delivery to the customer. I recommend reading it in whole even using automatic translation as it’s technically interesting.
https://wysokienapiecie.pl/119023-pozary-domowych-i-kontenerowych-baterii-oczami-uzytkownikow-i-strazakow/ (in Polish)
A few takeaways from this very detailed and interesting publication:
It’s very encouraging to see Polish businesses creatively planning to use renewable energy and batteries to solve local power supply issues: not ‘because of subsidies’, but simply because it makes financial sense
every new technology scaled up for mass production encounters some problems – including wind, PV and batteries; conclusion: karma always comes back to renewable energy enthusiasts who drive around #nuclear and SMR spouting rubbish arguments
technical problems can almost always be solved, but problems with the supply chain or the economics of the entire system on a large scale – not always; sometimes the economics of a given solution require not just a simple financial calculation of A-B=C but also the inclusion of external costs and benefits; this applies equally to renewables, nuclear power and SMR; manipulation usually occurs when the very same people who shout that ‘nuclear power is uneconomical’ immediately go on to shout ‘of course the state must expand the grid so that renewables are profitable’
Firefighters are explicitly talking about design recommendations intended to prevent such fires in the future – these changes entail additional costs; Conclusion: renewables are ‘dirt cheap’ only until, as a result of scaling up, rare but costly safety issues begin to emerge (e.g. in the UK since 2015 there have been around 100 fires in PV installations, mainly due to the incompetence of installers – but this is precisely one of the consequences of scaling up nationwide)
the most bizarre case I know of such incidents being exploited for negative PR was the British media coverage (The Telegraph, 2020) against PV farms in Kent, where a hypothetical battery fire was claimed to have led “to an explosion on the scale of a small atomic bomb”; Conclusion: any anti-nuclear nonsense put into circulation yesterday by Greenpeace’s ‘PR managers’ can be used today by the tabloids against renewable energy, because for both sides what counts is a catchy headline, not the facts

2026-05-09 12:30:03 GMT

New Media Zona & BBC update on #Russia KIA in #Ukraine - 217’808 killed identified by name up until 9 May 2026, and 352’000 based on probate registry up until December 2025.
In this update, we are presenting a new overall estimate of Russian losses in the war: 352,000 killed soldiers. The previous one was published in the end of August 2025. The new estimate is based on the Probate Registry and reflects the number of male Russian citizens aged 18 to 59 who died since the start of the full-scale invastion to the end of 2025.
https://en.zona.media/article/2026/05/09/casualties_eng-trl
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2026-05-06 23:12:18 GMT

WSJ unironically runs an article titled “What Happens When Europeans Find Out How Poor They Are?” where their main argument seems to be… the GDP difference
I wonder what happens when American neoliberals understand that how GDP and GDP per capita is calculated and what causal link it has to the welfare of the general population 🤔 BTW 6 out of 9 of the countries with GDP per capita higher than US are in… Europe.
Source: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-happens-when-europeans-find-out-how-poor-they-are-270cff5d?mod=e2tw

2026-05-06 20:13:26 GMT

For the first time in my life I got a #spam that is actually interesting! 😂
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2026-05-05 10:59:41 GMT

🇨🇿 chlebíčky😍
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2026-05-04 20:25:22 GMT

#Ukraine Zelensky declaration in response to #Putin ceasefire declaration:
As of today, there has been no official appeal to Ukraine regarding the modality of a cessation of hostilities that is being claimed on Russian social media. We believe that human life is far more valuable than any anniversary “celebration”. In this regard, we are announcing a ceasefire regime starting at 00:00 on the night of May 5–6. In the time left until that moment, it is realistic to ensure that silence takes effect. We will act reciprocally starting from that moment. It is time for Russian leaders to take real steps to end their war, especially since Russia’s Defense Ministry believes it cannot hold a parade in Moscow without Ukraine’s goodwill.
Clever. The word “reciprocity” is what will piss off Russians the most here, because the whole point of Putin’s unilateral declaration was to demonstrate he’s giving an order to a serf from the height of his throne, not doing diplomacy.

2026-05-04 11:53:54 GMT

In #Poland there was one interesting figure Iwo Czerniawski that was active on the left-wing scene back in 2000’s but since then largely became disillusioned, cynical and retracted himself from political life. Nonetheless, I’ve recently stumbled upon one of his few public statements made in 2022[^1] and wanted to highlight it, as it’s a textbook example of the mess that long-term exposure to #Marxism historical materialism makes of people’s brains.
There are a number of reasons why this had to happen. Russian intervention in Ukraine was inevitable. This is not a conflict between Russia and Ukraine. It is an attempt to establish a new geopolitical order, according to the experts responsible for shaping Russia’s current policy – a measures deemed essential to safeguard Russian statehood.
Let’s hold here - “measures deemed essential to safeguard Russian statehood” – which statehood exactly and “deemed essential” by whom?
“Deemed essential” by Putin in order to protect Putin’s self-perpetuating kleptocracy? That’s the only context where this statement makes sense semantically.
But what exactly laws of physics compel Russian society to live under such a system? Did anyone actually ask Russian society if they want to live under such “statehood” and “protect it”?
Well, obviously there’s no objective reasons for any of the above. This thinking where “Russia is compelled” it is solely the result of the internalisation of historical determinism, which is extremely contagious among former Marxists. In other words, they believe “Russia must” do things because that is what the “iron laws of history” dictate. And this is, of course, pseudoscientific nonsense, a kind of quasi-religious belief with no factual evidence.
In the quoted paragraph, we find plenty of these “musts”. Let me highlight the sheer absurdity of this narrative – on the one hand, Russia is the largest country in the world and Putin the most powerful ruler, and all it takes is for Putin to “raise an eyebrow for Kyiv to fall” (a direct quote from Solovyov).
And at the same time, this omnipotent Putin and this mighty Russia are constantly “having to” do something. First, he “had to” take over all state and public media; then he “had to” kill journalists; then he “had to” violate the constitution by running for a third term; then he “had to” annex Crimea, and so on. Now he has reached the stage where he “has to” put 1.5 million Russians through the meat grinder… for what exactly? To capture Pleshchiyivka in the Donetsk Oblast?
The double think of people who subscribe to this strange brand of historicism lies precisely in the fact that, on the one hand, with a certain masochistic zeal, they admire Putin’s omnipotent, extremely authoritarian system, which is not constrained by all this “democratic drivel”; and on the other hand, in the very same breath, they deny Putin any agency whatsoever, reducing him to the role of a passive pawn of some mysterious laws of history. And they switch between these entirely opposing narratives as they wish.
Well, but when it comes to double think, fans of Marxism and materialist dialectics have never had a problem. 😉
[^1]: https://efir7.pl/artykuly/co-robic-konflikt-na-ukrainie-2022-potrzebna-nowa-cywilizacja-moje-stanowisko-iwo

2026-05-03 21:59:49 GMT

#Russia mercenary wounded during a failed attempt to occupy #Ukraine moans that Ukrainians are “worse than Germans” because when he tried to invade them, the defenders tried to kill him using all available means.
https://video.echelon.pl/w/9mpHHJRa4QzZSQuh56VgcG
Next in the genre: #Russophobia, “because they defend from our invasion!”

2026-05-01 13:27:01 GMT

1 May 2004 a whole new group of countries joined #EuropeanUnion - #Cyprus, #Czechia, #Estonia, #Hungary, #Latvia, #Lithuania, #Malta, #Poland, #Slovakia, and #Slovenia
Congratulations to all of the above, everyone who joined later and everyone who should join soon! 🤗
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2026-05-01 11:53:57 GMT

If you wonder how #USSR celebrated 1 May 1941, here’s video from Red Square parade of that day:
https://video.echelon.pl/w/eEbSWTpfyUzWSQqbpAk4g6

2026-04-30 21:20:59 GMT

After seeing trojanised #npm packages use #Ethereum API public endpoints to pull command & control IP/hostnames to avoid detection, I’ve built a list of such endpoint domains, maybe someone will find it useful:
https://git.sr.ht/~kravietz/crypto-domains
I’m using it for Squid blocklist on OPNsense but it can be easily used to build Suricata/Snort rules. For Squid you probably want to convert the list into this ACL format:
acl aclname dstdomain [-n] .foo.com ...
https://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/acl/

2026-04-28 12:35:25 GMT

Manipulation of this “infographic” beats all records - described as “percentage of Jewish population murdered by country during #Holoacaus” but:
There was no such countries as #Poland and #Czechoslovakia (100% occupied by #Germany and #USSR since 1939) or #Ukraine (did not exist as separate entity before and after WW2) etc
Ukraine was 100% part of #USSR yet there’s separate entries (!) for both #Ukraine and Soviet Union
Nazi #Germany (!) humbly ranks in the middle with 69% whereas it was 100% responsible for Holocaust in all other countries
Including #France which ranks at 25% even though its collaboration Vichy government actively cooperated with deportation of Jewish population to death camps, as did #Hungary
The purpose of this weird - in all aspects - chart is unclear, except for smear campaign against the Central-Eastern European countries that hosted the most Jews on the eve of WW2 simply because before that they were kicked out from Western Europe, while whitewashing others, such as Germany, France and Soviet Union 🤷
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2026-04-27 15:41:45 GMT

As part of sustaining the traditional #radiophobia in #Germany the Umweltministerium is periodically posting[^1] this scary map. Its purpose is to demonstrate that the negative effects of #Chornobyl disaster last even 40 years after it happened. The color coding for Cesium-137 content is the essence of this manipulation, because red suggests its something dramatically exceeding the norm but the scale next to it shows the highest content is ~48 kBq/m2.
Let’s now convert it into actual radiation dose ingested by a potential consumer. The calculation is conveniently provided by Germany’s own Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz[^2]
The ingestion of 80,000 becquerel caesium-137 corresponds to an exposure of about 1 millisievert for adults.
For reference, a single CT full-body scan delivers 10–30 mSv. So if you somehow consumed all mushroom completely covering 1 m2 of the “polluted” land you’d receive 0.05-0.15 of a CT scan (because the max is 58 kBq/m2 and in the example above they use 80 kBq). But the BfS example actually also conveniently refers to the actual mushroom consumption too:
The consumption of 200 grams of mushrooms with 1,000 becquerel caesium-137 per kilogram results in an exposure of 0.0025 millisievert. This is considerably less than the radiation exposure during a flight from Frankfurt to Gran Canaria. However, if adults eat such a mushroom meal each week, they will receive an additional annual radiation exposure corresponding to about nine flights from Frankfurt to Gran Canaria. Expressed in numbers it is 0.13 millisievert.
P.S. human body naturally emits ~5 kBq from potassium-40 (K-40) all the time
[^1]: https://xcancel.com/UmweltBW/status/2048133845828956468?s=20
[^2]: https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/environment/foodstuffs/mushrooms-game/_functions/cs137-nahrung.html
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2026-04-25 06:58:20 GMT

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@nprofile…7sj9
Apparently he does since he’s too afraid to announce full scale mobilisation since 2022 in spite of generals telling him there’s no other way to deliver his wet dreams about control over Ukraine. You fucking retard.

2026-04-24 13:04:27 GMT

Putin’s “approval rating” has plummeted in WCIOM polls, reports The Moscow Times, falling to 65.5% – the same level as at the start of the war in 2022. Sociologist Grashchenkov comments to TMT that “society can tolerate restrictions if it sees some purpose, a timeframe and a reward; but when restrictions are compounded by a sense that one’s personal economic situation is deteriorating, alienation sets in instead of mobilisation”.
Source: https://t.me/moscowtimes_ru/44889 (in Russian)
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2026-04-23 13:29:15 GMT

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@nprofile…dyrn
Unfortunately, the latter is buried deep in Russian culture. Compromise is a failure even larger than an actual failure, which can be presented as “heroic martydom”. A compromise can’t be perceived as a victory, and a true victory involves not actually conquering the opponent but their full humiliation.
@nprofile…thlq

2026-04-22 13:23:34 GMT

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@nprofile…0fqn
Most Central & Eastern European people get furious when they still, 30 years after fall of USSR, read Western journalists using the phrase “post-Soviet” used to describe Baltic states or Poland. Of course, the same journalists would be extremely offended if someone mentioned “post-Nazi Germany”, “post-fascist Italy” (or Spain) or “post-English USA”.

2026-04-22 13:16:31 GMT

#Russia bloggers describe the reality of #Tuapse, a seaside town on the coast of Black Sea, which also happens to host a large oil depot that is now burning for the fourth day in row.[^1]
The aftermath of the bombing of Tuapse is simply horrific. This is no exaggeration, nor is it ‘dramatic language’ – it is simply a statement of fact. It is not really that emotional, when you think about it. In essence, what is happening there now is like Hiroshima, only without the radiation. Due to the massive fire at the oil terminals, ‘oil rain’ has been falling on the city and surrounding areas since yesterday, killing flora and fauna. The land is poisoned.
In another post he writes[^2]
The town of Tuapse no longer exists. It has been destroyed. That is a fact. The soil there is poisoned, the water is poisoned, the air is poisoned. Right now, black rain is falling there, just like in Hiroshima – water mixed with oil soot. It is killing the vegetation, the insects and the birds. As for the people, the consequences are equally predictable.
Russia could have easily stopped this mutual exchange of long-range aerial attacks. Of course, the easiest way was not to start the invasion on Ukraine in 2022. But even since then Ukraine several times proposed, including US mediation, a limited ceasefire specifically on long-range attacks against energy infrastructure. Russia always rejected this - initially because Ukraine “had no cards”, meaning it had no technical means to respond, but for at least at year it has. So Ukraine responds, and Russians are clearly experiencing it. In military doctrine it’s called “moving the military activities to the attacker’s territory” to impose the cost of invasion on them, rather than the attacked.
But you would be mistaken if you expected that - after five years of merciless pounding of Ukraine towns, hospitals and power stations with rockets and bombs accompanied with explicit statements that their purpose is to make the towns “unlivable” - the Russian bloggers would be calling to stop this madness. Quite the opposite, the same “Shakespeare”[^1] ends his apocalyptic description with the following appeal:
Who will be held accountable, and how, for the fact that since 2022 they’ve been stringing Ukraine along, telling us we’re ‘’good boys’, only to end up turning Tuapse into a second Hiroshima?
What he refers to is a popular Russian TV narrative that “we haven’t started yet” and that “Russia is moving so slow because it spares civilians”.
What he calls for is to increase the intensity of attacks on Ukrainian population, but there’s just one problem - there’s no more terror they can impose, Russians are already at their peak performance, and possibly passed the peak last winter, which they very much hoped would “break Ukraine’s back” - but it didn’t.

2026-04-22 11:39:05 GMT

In a recent discussion with some Western “socialists” the usual incendiary topic of “who owns Eastern Europe” arose. The “socialist” crowd is unfortunately plagued by Soviet and now Russian narratives, which are outright distortion of history on a scale you can’t imagine. It’s literally as if someone seriously argued “England owns USA because people there speak English” in 2026 and that was repeated by respected authors on World Socialist Website and the likes.
The territory of today’s #Ukraine was originally called Rus’ (Ruthenia), with the same language, religion and culture as today’s Ukraine. It was a powerful player already in 10-11th century, when Moscow did not even exist as a place. As a matter of fact, Rus’ was one of the largest states in Europe back then. The name “Ukraine” appears in written sources in 12th century for the first time, but when Ruthenian ambassadors visited Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth parliament in 16th century they were still described as “Rus’ ambassadors”, so Rus/Ruthenia was the still mainstream name and it still referred to what we today know as Ukraine.
In 13th century the north-eastern part of Rus’ was invaded by Mongols and was occupied by them until 15th. The vassal state of Mongols on Slavic lands was called “Muscovia” and heavily influenced by Mongol culture and language. That’s when written sources started using the term “Russia” to describe Muscovia. To distinguish between these two, modern historians started referring to the original Rus’ as “Kievan Rus”.
And here’s the trick: Moscow simply declared itself the sole successor of ‘Rus’, and claimed that the original Rus, aka Ukraine, never existed. Simple!
Nowadays, Russian historians no longer use the term ‘Kievan Rus’’ at all, instead simply referring to the ‘pre-Mongol period’, as any references to Rus’ are inconvenient for them. Yet ironically, old Orthodox Church books are written in an archaic language that is very similar to modern Ukrainian, but not modern Russian. There are many such details that betray the true origins; for example, consider how the letters G and H are written and pronounced.
As for cultural differences, Muscovia, aka Russia, is dominated by a collective society in which the concept of individual rights or freedoms does not exist. This is why it adopted totalitarian Bolshevism, and today, Putinism, with such enthusiasm. For the Western Slavs, including the original Ruthenians, Ukrainians and Poles, personal freedoms and rights are a fundamental part of the social structure.
Russians deeply despise this “anarchy”, which also rejects the concept of sacred authority of the leader, as seen by the cult of personality that overtook every single implementation of the Russian state. And this is the primary point of conflict between Moscow and Ukraine today, not the language spoken, Nuland or whatever other nonsense you read on “socialist” forums.
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2026-04-21 07:31:00 GMT

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@nprofile…8ssu
Once again, you have no clue about history of Eastern Europe, you don’t even know how “kings” are called there (not “kings”).
The territory of today’s Ukraine called Rus’ - with the same language, religion and culture as today’s Ukraine - was a powerful player already in 10-11th century, when Moscow was basically a swamp. Back then it was called primarily Rus’ (Ruthenia in English) but the name “Ukraine” appears already in 12th century. As a matter of fact, it was one of the largest states in Europe back then.
Eastern part of Rus’ was invaded by Mongols in 13th century and was occupied by them until 15th. The vassal state of Mongols on Slavic lands was called “Muscovia” and heavily influenced by Mongol culture and language. That’s when written sources started using the term “Russia” to describe Muscovia and historians started referring to the original Rus’ as “Kievan Rus’”. Much later Moscow simply declared itself the only continuation of “Rus’” and claimed the original Rus’ aka Ukraine never existed. This is of course bullshit, contradicted by many historic sources.
Today Russian historians stopped using the term Rus’ or even “Kievan Rus’” whatsoever and instead simply speak of “pre-Mongol period”, because any references to Rus’ are quite inconvenient for them.
As for the cultural differences, Muscovia aka Russia is dominated by collective society where the concept of individual rights or freedoms does not exist, which is why it adopted totalitarian Bolshevism and today Putinism with such an enthusiasm. For the Western Slavs, including the original Russians, Poles and today’s Ukrainians personal freedoms and rights are fundamental part of the social structure.
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2026-04-21 06:53:20 GMT

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@nprofile…8ssu
I’m not saying PRC is occupied, I’m saying it did not exist before 1949. Also, USSR did not exist before 1922 and Russian Federation did not exist before 1991. I’m pointing that out because you seem to have a very selective taste as it comes to what a “state” means, which interestingly aligns with interpretations forced by totalitarian regimes worldwide 😄Tibet declared independence in 1913, by the way.
@nprofile…duaj

2026-04-21 06:44:15 GMT

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@nprofile…8ssu
As for Tibet, People’s Republic of China also never existed before 1949. Show me any historic references to PRC, say in 10th century?

2026-04-21 06:40:55 GMT

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@nprofile…8ssu
As a matter of fact, Ukraine was a state long before Moscow even existed. You seem to have serious gaps in Eastern European history!

2026-04-21 06:30:32 GMT

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@nprofile…8ssu
So, using your logic, Palestine is not occupied.

2026-04-21 04:18:28 GMT

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@nprofile…8ssu
Was Palestine an independent state?

2026-04-20 22:07:29 GMT

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@nprofile…8ssu
So occupation of Tibet is ok, but occupation of Palestine is not? Honestly, I have no idea what you wanted to say. You can re-read your comments and try to synthesise a single, consistent message you want to relay to the humanity.

2026-04-20 20:07:46 GMT

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@nprofile…8ssu
So you agree Cyprus is part of Turkey? ✊

2026-04-20 11:35:01 GMT

On ongoing drama in #Russia where a Russian Instagram celebrity Victoria Boni living in #Monaco published a tearjerker appeal to #Putin saying “people are afraid of you, we shouldn’t be afraid of our president”. This triggered series of compassionate responses from other celebrities who poured tears over “poor little cows being shot in front of their owners’ children in Siberia” by the merciless veterinary inspectors, flood in Dagestan, and of course Telegram blocks.
What is the most disgusting is that none of these silicon & botox bags who were so compassionate about “poor little cows” ever muttered a word about children and adult humans being killed by Russian armed forces in Ukraine on daily basis. Or, for that matter, Russian men dying in Ukraine in tens of thousands per month, trying to capture yet another godforsaken village.
There seems to be no bounds to the brown-nosing and moral nihilism among Russian elites… 🤮

2026-04-19 10:12:23 GMT

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Or, an alternative hypothesis would be that the whole “left vs right” ideology labeling is fundamentally flawed and doesn’t explain anything 😉
We’re back to square one - guys calling themselves “British socialists” defend Putin’s oligarchic regime which has as much to do with the actual socialist ideas as Elon Musk…

2026-04-18 13:07:27 GMT

Why do the communists always support the most vile totalitarian regimes? 🤔 Here’s what Workers Party of Britain has just posted[^1]
Ukrainian fascists burned alive dozens of trade unionists and socialists in Odessa’s Trade Union House.
Every single word here is a lie:
There were zero “trade unionists and socialists” in Odesa on that day, the building was occupied by Russian nationalists, many with openly neo-Nazi views, such as Anton Rayevsky, portrayed below (he survived)
The conflict started with #Russia nationalists shooting three Euromaidan (pro-Ukrainian) activists to death in the morning[^2]
Euromaidan rushed to the Trade Unions House where Russians barricaded themselves and started throwing Molotov’s cocktails from the roof[^3]
According to participants interviewed by Russia’s own TV, the fire inside the building started… inside[^4]
And, if you’re wondering what Russians citizens were doing in #Ukraine town of #Odesa on that day, throwing Molotov’s cocktails… well, they were coordinated and funded directly from Moscow.[^5]
[^1]: https://xcancel.com/WorkersPartyGB/status/2045118519751139696?s=20
[^2]: https://video.echelon.pl/w/n1eFfHEheWLsnQtMTBB9Sm
[^3]: https://video.echelon.pl/w/3ovbn2enG8hQr65zV2YgNH
[^4]: https://video.echelon.pl/w/88oYyXmtSwrBQG9q8CbnRn
[^5]: https://video.echelon.pl/w/vtNvdabFS3f4KY8vV3xdMd
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/9b52ba122c15326f5719cf496ba77eed83fce65c07b7fe0b460160813fe50c60.png?name=0Nq5pYHTKCwUiQ.png
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/24cb551742a5fffb5a077b297fbad0774156ae886d99ca7b9a2eba511a18e464.png?name=SsejVeHj98HHtw.png

2026-04-18 07:00:14 GMT

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@nprofile…xkhm
Please note Orwell wrote in a very specific historic context - people who called for disarmament in the face of German invasion, and called that “pacifism”. It’s them who he called “pro-fascist”, because they effectively supported German Nazi war effort. As you describe it, I can only agree 100% 🤝

2026-04-17 21:59:59 GMT

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@nprofile…xkhm
The “not in favor of having enemies” attitude assumes you retain 100% control who is your enemy and who doesn’t.
But others may choose to attack you simply because they perceive you as weaker and see an opportunity in that.
Then what?

2026-04-17 17:54:05 GMT

George Orwell, 1942, writing on #pacifism
Pacifism. Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, ‘he that is not with me is against me’. The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle, while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security.
And a strong resemblance to today’s twisted logic where #Russia is kind of morally allowed to do things that would be unimaginable elsewhere, just because “so they are”
Mr Savage remarks that ‘according to this type of reasoning, a German or Japanese pacifist would be “objectively pro-British”.’ But of course he would be! That is why pacifist activities are not permitted in those countries (in both of them the penalty is, or can be, beheading) while both the Germans and the Japanese do all they can to encourage the spread of pacifism in British and American territories.
And here’s the ancestors of our tankies - “realists”, Chomskys and Mearscheimers…
The Germans even run a spurious ‘freedom’ station which serves out pacifist propaganda indistinguishable from that of the P.P.U. They would stimulate pacifism in Russia as well if they could, but in that case they have tougher babies to deal with. In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.
https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/pacifism/english/e_patw
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/37ac70dca313fa8afab78caeacda4dc589f2bb4acada12c2f05dd0082a5a6d4f.png?name=b2WnWtQYJvWYcA.png

2026-04-17 06:40:11 GMT

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@nprofile…nwze
Uranium mining has the same environmental impact as rare earths mining for magnets and other electronics and allloys used in wind and PV - as a matter of fact they are often mined together because they are present in the same ores :)
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2026-04-17 05:33:50 GMT

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Moje obserwacje opierają się doświadczeniu z licznych podróży po Azji i Afryce. Wystarczy wyjąc głowę europejskiej strefy komfortu i pojeździć po świecie by zobaczyć, że europejski system wartości jest na tym świecie wyjątkiem a nie regułą. I między innymi dlatego należy go chronić.
To co nazywasz “prawacką propagandą” w Europie, czyli ksenofobia, rasizm czy mizoginia to zaledwie nędzne niedobitki tego, co w wielu krajach poza Europą stanowi podstawę systemów etycznych rządzących całymi społeczeństwami. W Polsce masz Brauna czy Ziemkiewicza, którzy uchodzą za skrajnych ksenofobów - w wielu krajach całe rządy czy rady religijne (np. IGRC, rosyjska cerkiew prawosławna) składają się wyłącznie z takich Braunów i Ziemkiewiczów, którzy nie hamują się w ogóle jak ci nasi w głoszeniu poglądów otwarcie ludobójczych.
W świecie w sensie statystycznym nadal dominuje moralność plemienna, a koncepcje równości ludzi czy prawa powszechnego nie są uznawane. Wiele systemów etycznych religijnych i plemiennych jest skrajnie mizoginiczna i ksenofobiczna, wobec przedstawicieli innych ras, plemion czy narodów.
Dokładnie na tej podstawie dochodzi do regularnych egzekucji w krajach takich jak Iran, Gaza i inne niektóre kraje arabskie za “zbrodnie” takie jak noszenie “nieskromnej odzieży” przez kobiety, podejrzenie związków pozamałżeńskich (ale tylko wobec kobiet) czy homoseksualizm. Inne zbrodnie karane śmiercią to apostazja czyli porzucenie dominującej na danym terenie religii, w podobny sposób muzułmanie odłamu szyickiego uznają za innowierców i na odwrót. Egzekucje te są dokonywane publicznie, więc teza, że to “prawacka propaganda” to zwyczajne wyparcie.
W niektórych krajach afrykańskich rozpowszechnione jest tzw obrzezanie kobiet czyli okaleczanie ich narządów rodnych. Mieszkam w UK i na szczeblu rządowym jest to dyskutowane jako realny problem społeczny bo chociaż okaleczanie takie jest zabronione, to rodziny wywodzące się z tych kultur zabierają córki do swoich krajów pochodzenia i dokonują tych okaleczeń tam na miejscu. To też jest nielegalne, ale panuje wokół tej praktyki zmowa milczenia… bo kultura plemienna jest silniejsza od prawa. Rodziny z Afryki tak długo nękają krewnych w UK za pomocą presji psychologicznej, aż te w końcu zgodzą się “uratować” ich córki przed “niemoralnością”.
A obrona tego typu archaicznych systemów etycznych pod pozorem “tolerancji” lub “wielokulturowości” to absurd i całkowite zaprzeczenie wartości lewicowych. Nie można równocześnie potępiać neonazisty europejskiego - i słusznie, skoro ma poglądy nazistowskie - r równocześnie usprawiedliwiać neonazisty np. arabskiego - “bo jest z innej kultury”, “bo jest biedny”, “bo tak go wychowali” itd. Jednym z fundamentów europejskiej kultury jest uniwersalizm prawny to znaczy stosowanie tych samych kryteriów etycznych wobec wszystkich, niezależnie od pochodzenia - a część lewicy wykazuje tutaj jakąś absurdalną aberrację, wprowadzając kryterium plemienne - jedni mogą, inni nie.
Wracając zatem do polityki migracyjnej - tak, państwa europejskie mają pełne prawo wpuszczać na swoje terytorium wyłącznie osoby, które w jasny sposób zadeklarują, że znają i będą przestrzegać co najmniej fundamentalnych zasad, wyrażonych w Europejskiej Karcie Praw Człowieka, oraz przepisów krajowych. A taką możliwość z automatu wyłącza migracja nielegalna.
Nie ma miejsca w Europie dla ludzi, którzy w sposób otwarty negują fundamenty Unii Europejskiej takie jak prawa człowieka czy równość ludzi wobec prawa. Wystarczy nam już naszych własnych ksenofobów z “Konfederacji” i “KKP”, których deportować nigdzie nie można. W kontekście UK jednak istnieje poważny problem radykalnych islamskich kleryków, którzy dosłownie wzywali do mordowania innowierców, za co byli skazywani na więzienie lub deportowani, jeśli była taka możliwość prawna. Do tej kategorii należą również legalni i nielegalni imigranci z Gruzji, Rosji, Białorusi czy Ukrainy, którzy po 2022 roku są deportowani z Polski za przestępstwa pospolite - handel narkotykami, napady, kradzieże, oszustwa internetowe itd, ale to akurat nie budzi szczególnych kontrowersji nawet na lewicy, i słusznie.
Podsumowując, wykazywana przez część europejskiej skrajnej lewicy obłuda przejawiająca się w absurdalnej pobłażliwości wobec ksenofobicznych poglądów jest zwyczajnie samobójcza i jest moim zdaniem główną przyczyną, dla której lewica europejska - ku mojemu wielkiemu ubolewaniu - utraciła związek ze swoją podstawową bazą wyborczą.
Głoszenie haseł lewicowych, które mają być wiążące dla wszystkich… za wyjątkiem osób, głoszących poglądy skrajnie ksenofobiczne tylko dlatego, że “przybyły z zewnątrz” to ten poziom obłudy i absurdu, który powoduje, że wyborca zaczyna się zastanawiać co właściwie te partie chcą osiągnąć. Wróćcie do korzeni lewicowości, to ten kontakt z wyborcami odzyskacie.

2026-04-16 20:32:24 GMT

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@nprofile…66k4
Masz jakieś argumenty poza waleniem “prawacką propagandą” jak młotkiem? Jeżeli jedynym twoim narzędziem jest młotek, to wszystkie problemy będą ci się wydawać gwoździami.

2026-04-16 14:30:40 GMT

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@nprofile…xep3
Publish it somewhere so I can troll the people in the British thread that they’re arguing with a standard that was proposed in 1999 :)
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2026-04-16 14:12:48 GMT

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@nprofile…xep3
I see no mentions of Age Data Custodian in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2459
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2026-04-16 13:55:08 GMT

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@nprofile…xep3
Can you elaborate?
@nprofile…fu0r

2026-04-16 13:46:37 GMT

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@nprofile…xep3
As far as I understand these are merely means to cache the 18+ attribute but it’s not expected to be generated on the local system - it’s expected to come from some national API. Otherwise that would be not legally binding in any way.
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2026-04-16 13:42:03 GMT

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@nprofile…xep3
Where does that “adult” flag come from?
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