“If I could just take you through Ukraine to Kyiv. To Odesa. To Kharkiv. You meet these people. The people. They’re us.” Sean Penn

Rescuers pulled a couple from the rubble of their home in Zaporizhzhia. Their daughter was killed. Russia struck the city with guided aerial bombs on the morning of Oct 10. At least 20 people have been killed, including three children, and 18 injured.

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 2w ago

The death toll in Zaporizhzhia after the morning’s Russian strike has risen to 15. Best time ever to ease the sanctions on #Russia, isn’t it?

💔🇺🇦This is how we live every day. A missile struck just meters away from people in the Kharkiv region. A young woman was recording a video when it happened. This is the reality of life in Ukraine.

“Pipsqueak” TT: @checkpointxox

"Grandfather knot clock” by Australian woodworker George Andrew, who handcrafted this piece using Radiata pine and plywood, shaping the dramatic curves using a bandsaw, an angle grinder, and lots of hand sanding. www.woodreview.com.au/photocompent...

Apparently, we, in Europe, are undergoing "civilisational erasure", I suppose that means we will end up live streaming executions like ISIS or the Taliban.

Hey traitors that purchase the diesel from Russian sources - fuck you

Ya, so people did that last time and they kind of fucking slow-walked his charges. Don't promise Democrats your vote, make your demands and make them fucking meet them to earn it. Don't let them burry shit again because some of their own are implicated and it makes them all look bad.

❗️“Putin and his Duma are illegitimate.” British MP @aliciakearns.bsky.social speaking about Russia’s newly “elected” parliament. Thank you for saying this out loud, clearly, publicly and without being afraid to call things what they are.

🚨Public anger at Putin is at a boiling point: at a Communist Party rally in Moscow, protesters chanted "Down with the Tsar", causing a crackdown and mass arrests. 2 weeks ago, the Communist Party leader was warning Putin he was going to lose the war. Interesting times ahead.🍿

Russia's Foreign Ministry declared that they are going to be randomly attacking and killing so many civilians in Ukraine that is is not safe for any foreign diplomats or workers to remain in the country.

This is pretty freaking amazing, just six years or so from the start of #Covid to this breakthrough. Not a vaccine but a decoy that delivers up to 99% protection against Covid infection! May this make it to US shores unscathed by our “helpful health secretary.” www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office...

Lab-made sugar-coated particle blocks Covid-19 infection — Possible new treatment on the horizon

Groundbreaking research led by a Swansea University academic has revealed a synthetic glycosystem — a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle — that can block Covid-19 from infecting human cells, reducing i...

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🇷🇺 EPIC ⏩ “Today, we see all of this and understand that this is evil, this is fascism, and we cannot tolerate it.” 🚨 MUST-WATCH!🔽 An older woman in Moscow lets loose and speaks her mind about what she thinks of her government and the police arresting many young people at today’s demonstrations.

A photographer in Australia captured a poignant moment: a male koala embracing and squeezing his deceased companion. This heartbreaking scene demonstrates that animals experience and suffer emotions in a way similar to humans. 🐨💔 National Geographic