A man is on a street corner in Moscow yelling “The president is an idiot “

Police surround him and handcuff him. They say, “It is illegal to insult President Putin.”

He says, “You don’t understand I mean the Ukrainian president, Zelensky, he is the one I was insulting. “

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After centuries of cruel chattel slavery, African slaves rise up to massacre their oppressors. A protracted & bitter war ensues, the rebels taking refuge in the marshes & rivers that surround the now-charred plantations.

This is Iraq.

KNM-ER 406 in its new box 🤩🤩🤩 #FossilFriday National Museums of Kenya

#BanTaliban

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I'm from Germany and I hope that one day I will be able to visit a free Afghanistan again.

An Afghan girl sprays graffiti on a wall in Afghanistan under the Taliban. #BanTaliban

Tempo 100 nur für Verbrenner aber keine Beschränkung für Elektro. Dann braucht es auch keine Kaufprämie mehr.

#100AufDerAutobahn

Astronomer here! With all the black hole news lately, it's worth a reminder that black holes are NOT like giant vacuum cleaners that 'suck everything in' or similar. This is a common misconception and not at all how black holes work! 🧵

We lost all the students in yesterday’s attack and left with empty class. Please don’t write about Afghan’s pride & resilience anymore. We are tired, exhausted, shattered & devastated. Afghans need a break. Afghans need peace. Afghans need a normal, equal & poor but hopeful life.

Yesterday a man was arrested for throwing a donner kebab at a security guard in Berlin Neukölln.

This photo was taken by the police for evidence.

War of memes: why Z-war won't end with peace

Some Western analysts unfamiliar with Eastern European cultural context perceive Z-war as an accident. They presume that Russian invasion results from some sort of 'misunderstanding' or mistake which can be resolved via negotiations🧵

It is interesting to see folks try to apply game logic (particularly board game logic) to try to understand the failure of Russian forces to achieve their objectives so far - assuming clever, complex ruses and sacrifice plays.

But war isn't a board game. 1/

TikTok troops

Many admired bravery of Kadyrov who personally went to Ukraine and posted a lot of cool photos from the frontline. Consider this: Kadyrov is praying having put his gun lays nearby. It's a shame we see a Pulsar gas station nearby. So it's not Ukraine. It's Russia🧵

I see three plausible scenarios for the Russian future:

1. North Korea
2. Imperial Reboot
3. Jubilee

Since Ukraine is resolved to fight, the choice of a Russian historical track ultimately depends upon the resolve of the West. Today I'll outline the North Korea scenario 🧵

This is the software equivalent of a message smeared on the walls in blood

Olexander Kislyuk, a famous translator from ancient Greek and other languages, the author of translations of the books of Aristotle, Tacitus, Thomas Aquinas, etc., was killed by Russian soldiers near his house in Bucha near Kiev.

I think it's time to do a series of threads on Russian sleeping institutions. I'll start with political parties and parliamentarism. Let's take a glance on how did Russians living abroad vote during parliamentary elections of 2021. Blue - United Russia (Putin), Red - Communists🧵

Isn't Ukraine just a separatist Russian province? Many foreigners ask themselves this question. The same way many Eastern Slavs think that all British Isles are just England. And yet, dynamics of Russian-Ukrainian relations are different from the dynamics of Anglo-Celtic ones🧵

Now let's cover the Ukrainian geography. First, as we can see, Ukraine is a very flat country. It has mountains only in the very west, in Carpathians, and in the very south, on the southern cost of Crimea. The rest of the country is flat as a pancake. What does it mean? 🧵

Let's talk about Russian demography. As you see vast spaces in Siberia & European Russia are depopulating. There are two factors behind. First, low fertility. The only places with natural growth are Muslim areas of Caucasus, Idel-Ural and clusters of indigenous Siberians (thread)

'Laika - the first traveler in space' Soviet postcard, 1958