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@sumlenny: Russia shells residential areas in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. Civilians are got killed or wounded. Russia wipes out Ukraine, terrorises Ukrainian civilians and eliminates their identity. Ukraine must be able to attack Russian territory: airbases, military units, warehouses.
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@sumlenny: You can see in this earlier thread how Russia copy-pastes Nazi propaganda posters: https://t.co/mF6WhQcoch
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@ClassicalMyths: Terracotta aryballos (oil or perfume flask) in the shape of the Minotaur, who here wears a painted tunic and collar. 11x5x4 cm; East Greek, 580-560 BCE. Getty Villa (#83.AE.213). https://t.co/Y0wsVbnCOM
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@muyixiao: From iris scans to voice prints, phone tracking to DNA data, the Chinese authorities’ appetite for personal data is growing.
Our latest visual investigation — drawing from over 100k documents — reveals new details of the data-hungry surveillance state.
https://t.co/qu2p59hN4C
Our latest visual investigation — drawing from over 100k documents — reveals new details of the data-hungry surveillance state.
https://t.co/qu2p59hN4C
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@RusHeritageUK: Russian press foreseeing inevitable collapse of the West in 1854: “The Sevastopol campaign forced England to seriously look back at itself, to forget about its outdated, obsolete belief in its own superiority” https://t.co/MIgyiylaTH
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@kamilkazani: It's not gonna be open, idealistic and collective action that gonna destroy the Russian Federation. To the contrary, it gonna be the silent, pragmatic and individual actions by elites. Such as the growing economic protectionism of regions, breaking the national economic cohesion https://t.co/NQBG5YktiI
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@archaeologyart: Fresco of a ship procession - Room 5 of the West House, c. 17th c. BC (National Archaeology Museum of Athens). Discovery Place - Greek Pompeii: Akrotiri on Thera. https://t.co/j9SUiu9r0p
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@kajakallas: To hold perpetrators accountable, Ukraine must win back its territories and Russia must fail.
We must do all we can to help push back the Russian invasion and end massive war crimes on our doorstep.
Otherwise, worse will follow. This is what Estonian history teaches us. 3/7
We must do all we can to help push back the Russian invasion and end massive war crimes on our doorstep.
Otherwise, worse will follow. This is what Estonian history teaches us. 3/7
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@kamilkazani: What information can we draw from the Russian freight market data? First of all, we are seeing as the enormous country is gradually losing its cohesion. Consider that all three means of transport: airways, automobiles and even the railways are heavily import dependent https://t.co/KL9gMDS1oj
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@archaeologyart: The Papyrus Fresco from the Room of the Ladies from the house of the same name, Akrotiri, Thera. Papyrus is not indigineous to Thera and therefore suggests that the Cycladic artists were borrowing iconography from elsewhere, perhaps Egypt or Minoan Crete. https://t.co/Pc0G2N0Cxb
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@Nrg8000: https://t.co/NW10Is27Tx
In theory, pausing conflict is good.
In practice, especially in Myanmar, it's often co-opted by violent oppressors to further their military goals. Conflict in Rakhine would effectively 'fix' Tatmadaw units currently murdering civilians & burning villages.
In theory, pausing conflict is good.
In practice, especially in Myanmar, it's often co-opted by violent oppressors to further their military goals. Conflict in Rakhine would effectively 'fix' Tatmadaw units currently murdering civilians & burning villages.
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@kamlesm: "Seated Lady Smoking a Hookah," c. 1780
Cleveland Museum of Art @ClevelandArt https://t.co/S43rsKIMA5
Cleveland Museum of Art @ClevelandArt https://t.co/S43rsKIMA5
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@fermatslibrary: The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
-- Georg Cantor https://t.co/TGhcdCColF
-- Georg Cantor https://t.co/TGhcdCColF
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@fermatslibrary: Rating mathematicians on a scale of 1 to 100 for pure talent, British mathematician GH Hardy gave himself a score of 25, his colleague Littlewood a score of 30, Hilbert a score of 80, and Ramanujan a perfect score of 100 https://t.co/JN1c5Pale3
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@archaeologyart: Detail, Roman Fresco with a boat decorated for a festival and marine life from the second quarter of the first century AD. ( National Roman Museum), Rome. https://t.co/VyWdhXkpy3
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@archaeologyart: Minoan early Kamares ware jug with dolphin, made around 2,100 BC. Kamares ware is a distinctive type of Minoan pottery produced in Crete during the Minoan period, dating to MM IA (ca. 2100 BCE). https://t.co/qza56VONks
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@kamilkazani: All the proposals to reform Russia without radically decentralising it are futile, even if well-intentioned. The political and economic structure of Russia should be scaled down radically so that its population can be enfranchised and liberated from the hunter gatherers
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@jasonhickel: BREAKING: New research published in Nature Food shows that a transformative degrowth policy approach is needed to make the global food system emissions neutral, and that this would *improve* nutritional outcomes.
Check it out here: https://t.co/yT1eL9EEcn
Check it out here: https://t.co/yT1eL9EEcn
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@Arthistorian18: This tall standing bodhisattva (Gandhāra), 72 cm or 28 ⅜ in high, dressed and bejeweled in the Indian style, evoking at the same time the nobility of ancient Greco-Roman statues. It is dated from the 2nd-4th centuries and traditionally made of schist.
©galerie_hioco_asian_art https://t.co/DLkPIVfwDl
©galerie_hioco_asian_art https://t.co/DLkPIVfwDl
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@archaeologyart: Hellenistic head of the goddess Aphrodite. Period: End of Hellenistic period or beginning of Roman period. Private Collection. https://t.co/LLA4fKxgwf
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@AnonOpsSE: #Patron is on the logo of the newly established International Coordination Center for Humanitarian Demining created by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
#SlavaUkraini https://t.co/mS4GW6nGXj
#SlavaUkraini https://t.co/mS4GW6nGXj
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@deankirby_: The results are shocking and show the first evidence of a major operation to spread Ukrainians across Russia – at sites stretching across the Ural Mountains as far east as the remote Kamchatka Peninsula. 3/ https://t.co/ffcQTWfmTi
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@j00skk__: @O_Ostapchuk The Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits the forcible transfer or deportation of civilian populations and classifies this action as a grave breach of the laws of war. https://t.co/mD3XlOp13j
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@kamilkazani: Those conscripted bumpkins may have little interest in complex logical constructs. But they absolutely do have agency and self-interest. Also they have guns. Also there is almost half a million of them. Ergo, their position means everything and that of intellectuals - nothing
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@TrentTelenko: This is a long and very useful thread by @kamilkazani on the realities of Putin trying a mass mobilization, Western inability to see Russia as it really is, plus the culturally trained lack of individual agency in the Russian people.
This is a must read👇 https://t.co/QwY5TqkRpz
This is a must read👇 https://t.co/QwY5TqkRpz
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@kamilkazani: Right now I estimate the probability of a *successful* mass revolt in Russia as close to zero. In case of the mass mobilisation however, it gonna skyrocket. You'll have tons of armed people with an immediate self-interest in overthrowing the regime. That's the scenario of 1917
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@kamilkazani: Apart from defeating Putin and establishing a weak peace to be broken by the next Tsar, we must work on re-enfranchising the Russian population. The first thing to do is to give voice to the unheard, especially from the regionalist movements, in the Far East, in Siberia, in Urals