My grandma, who lives in a small town in Donetsk oblast of Ukraine, says she'd go to the war herself if she were twenty years younger, "to fight those russian fascists." She refuses to evacuate, she strongly believes that the Ukrainian army will be able to protect her from the invaders, and if not, she's ready to die on her own land. A couple of days ago, a nearby town was heavily shelled by russian cluster munitions, so I am very afraid for her.
Meanwhile, my other grandma, who lives in the Moscow region of Russia, still doesn't fully believe in what is happening. She says that Putin would never start a war against Ukraine. "What does Russia have to do with this?", she asks and "kindly" invites me to move in with her, in safe Russia. She voted for Putin in 2018.
Most Russians have either relatives or friends (or both) in Ukraine. This is probably one of the most horrifying aspects of this war. They don't hear us, they don't believe us because they watch russian tv or read russian fake news.
Post canon Touya talking to the Todorokis be like:
"Hello, Touya here. But I guess you probably already know me, sort of. Uh so, the thing is I have a lot of experience with firepower and quirk technique and I'm considered to be pretty good at it. Well you've seen me... you know when I was trying to kill Shouto? Uh yeah, I guess I should apologize for that, but anyway I'm good now. I mean, I thought I was good before but now I realize I was bad, but anyway... I think it's time I went back home and taught Shouto how to better control his fire side."
(camera zooms out to show he's talking to a stray cat that's sniffing his hand for food. The cat hisses)
Are fedoras really that bad?
YES YES THEY ARE
Piotr Makowiecki
πΊπ¦ I wanted to share for anyone wondering what all the fuss is about.
πΊπ¦ This invasion is a HUGE deal and will have worldwide repercussions.
πΊπ¦ For those who ask: βWhy does Ukraine matter?β
πΊπ¦ This is why Ukraine matters: It is the second-largest country Europe by area and has a population of over 40 million, more than my homeland, Poland.
πΊπ¦ Ukraine ranks:
π 1st in Europe in proven recoverable reserves of uranium ores;
π 2nd place in Europe and 10th place in the world in terms of titanium ore reserves;
π 2nd place in the world in terms of explored reserves of manganese ores (2.3 billion tons, or 12% of the world's reserves);
π 2nd largest iron ore reserves in the world (30 billion tons);
π 2nd place in Europe in terms of mercury ore reserves;
π 3rd place in Europe (13th place in the world) in shale gas reserves (22 trillion cubic meters)
π 4th in the world by the total value of natural resources;
π 7th place in the world in coal reserves (33.9 billion tons)
πΊπ¦ Ukraine is an important agricultural country:
π 1st in Europe in terms of arable land area;
π 3rd place in the world by the area of black soil (25% of world's volume);
π 1st place in the world in exports of sunflower and sunflower oil;
π 2nd place in the world in barley production and 4th place in barley exports;
π 3rd largest producer and 4th largest exporter of corn in the world;
π 4th largest producer of potatoes in the world;
π 5th largest rye producer in the world;
π 5th place in the world in bee production (75,000 tons);
π 8th place in the world in wheat exports;
π 9th place in the world in the production of chicken eggs;
π 16th place in the world in cheese exports.
πΊπ¦ Ukraine can meet the food needs of 600 million people.
πΊπ¦Ukraine is an important industrialized country:
π 1st in Europe in ammonia production;
π Europe's 2ndβs and the worldβs 4th largest natural gas pipeline system;
π 3rd largest in Europe and 8th largest in the world in terms of installed capacity of nuclear power plants;
π 3rd place in Europe and 11th in the world in terms of rail network length (21,700 km);
π 3rd place in the world (after the U.S. and France) in production of locators and locating equipment;
π 3rd largest iron exporter in the world;
π 4th largest exporter of turbines for nuclear power plants in the world;
π 4th world's largest manufacturer of rocket launchers;
π 4th place in the world in clay exports;
π 4th place in the world in titanium exports;
π 8th place in the world in exports of ores and concentrates;
π 9th place in the world in exports of defense industry products;
π 10th largest steel producer in the world (32.4 million tons).
πΊπ¦ Ukraine matters! That is why its independence is important to the rest of the world!
πΊπ¦ Praying for the people of Ukraine and itβs land.
ππΊπ¦ #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
Russians moving to Mariupol are ordinary Russians. Those ordinary Russians are taking pics with destroyed homes in the background, they wear propagandist shirts. They climb up them ruins and make videoblogs.
Ordinary Russians are adopting deported children. They don't care those children have been stolen from homes. They lie that their parents gave them up. They are horrified those stolen children speak Ukrainian as an act of rebellion.
Ordinary Russians are supporting Putin. They believe they are the better than others, that God is helping them.
Ordinary Russians are working on the ammo factories and produce shells and bullets and bombs. Those are all ordinary Russians.
Ordinary Russians leave thousands of comments cheering to our deaths and tragedies. Deaths and tragedies done by their fucking country and by their fathers brothers and sons. Who also are, you know, ordinary Russians.
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The bots are evolving!!
Now Iβve seen bots with firstname-lastname combo with numbers in the middle, but even more odd are the ones without numbers at allβ¦ Some jumbled up almost-words that at first glance could be actual tumblrs. But when you click through to see their blogs, they look just like the old bots.
Apparently at some point the bots starts to leave comments with malware links on your posts if left to their own devices. I saw that in the wild today on someone elseβs post.
Remember to report as spam and block!
hot take: ATLA goingΒ βactually killing this guy would be bad :\β was slightly rude.Β
if Toph gets to shove her kidnappers in a metal box in the wilderness and leave them for dead, Katara can have a little vengeance, as a treat
(iβm fine with her deciding to spare him in the end, i just think itβs dumb that aang was allowed to soapbox at her with zero pushback from sokka or toph.)Β
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What do you mean "You'll be in my heart" was not written with Lilia and Silver in mind?? It is literally a song about them!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN-?!!!