Galactic Goal
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Passionate Rationalist, Transparent
Joined May 2018
(the cracks are starting to appear)
Municipal deputies from Moscow and St. Petersburg call for Putin’s resignation
Last night I was at my desk stretching my arms over my head.
My chair was jostled and I swore I saw some animal pushing my chair from behind.
I jumped up, heart pounding, swung around ready for a fight!
I just learned this morning that we had had an earthquake.
From a YouTube video "This is how the Russian people feel about the Ukraine war"
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Russia announces troop pullback from Ukraine’s Kharkiv area
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-world-news-kharkiv-e06b2aa723e826ed4105b5f32827f577
There is a train bridge on the Ru/Uk boarder that is within HiMAR range as far back as Shevchenkove: https://www.google.com/maps/search/Troits'ke,+Luhansk+Oblast,+Ukraine,+92101/@50.0051093,38.2009435,550m/data=!3m1!1e3
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Prediction: They move some HiMARS to Kupiansk quickly and target the railroad supplying the eastern front.
There is probably a bridge at the Russian boarder that would be within range. I assume that targeting a bridge is wiser because of the extra time it takes to rebuild it.
That cloud in the distance is a huge Pyro cumulus cloud rising up over a town 200 miles away from San Francisco. Family members of a friend next door are arriving from the evacuation zone.
Long lived the queen.
Welcome to your future living with Climate Change. Two hurricanes approaching the US at the same time.
https://www.windy.com/pois?850h,35.818,-95.229,5
Sitting with my mother in law now.
We don't think she will last much longer.
What a mess of a country:
Head of Russian oil giant Lukoil dies after falling from hospital window, reports state media
This is the unrolled version:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1563528440761835523.html
This is a fantastic thread about a concept I hadn't heard before: White Innocence.
"This “argument” - basically: it can’t be fascism if it’s supported by more than just a few irrelevant fringe figures - is not only historically illiterate, but also indicative of how pervasive the dogma of white innocence is, how severely it distorts the discourse."
https://twitter.com/tzimmer_history/status/1563528440761835523
HUGE counter-offensive underway!
"Ukrainian troops have taken four villages back from Russian occupation in the south near the city of Kherson"
"...village names are Nova Dmytrivka, Arkhanhel’s’ke, Tomyna Balka and Pravdyne."
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-08-29-22#h_52d9a059a8e55bb86fdb120a2c2b068b
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Concentrate every minute like a Roman— like a man— on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can— if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.
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Marcus Aurelius
#quotes #qotd
What an incredible story about the Battle of Kyiv. This will be a movie someday. It is full of heroes:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/interactive/2022/kyiv-battle-ukraine-survival/
Yikes!
These are heat signatures around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine. They could be shelling. Or it could be even worse.
I just published an essay on the missing word in the English language that is at the root of our misunderstandings.
The Edge of Our Language
https://medium.com/@jurban1997/the-edge-of-our-language-cbebb986422d
Galactic Goal
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Passionate Rationalist, Transparent
Joined May 2018