Day 303
c/o abdymok Elaborately hung over from slapstick self-anaesthesia, and reveling somehow in the sheer size of my ear pain, I walked without galoshes in a pair...
Join my chat
Today I’m announcing a brand new addition to my Substack publication: the ukraine@war subscriber chat. This is a conversation space in the Substack app that...
Day 300ish
c/o abdymok One passage of the 15,000-word interactive whatever published by The New York Times last week jumped out at me1: Burns and non-permissive...
Day 298
c/o abdymok We bought a xmas tree from Kolomyya and lugged it to the apartment. c/o abdymok The tree is heavier than it looks. The salesmen said it’s...
Day 297
Illustration by Mikhail Aleksandrov Headlines of reports in foreign media about residents of Ukraine’s capital freezing to death after yesterday’s Russia’s...
Day 296
Illustration by Mikhail Aleksandrov The Economist dug the black hole of Ukraine-related bullshit a little deeper this week. Officials close to Mr Zelensky...
Day 295
Photo by Herbert Villarraga (Reuters) Wash trading is a strategy in which the buyer and the seller are effectively on both sides of the deal, and a person...
Regulated Shamanic Reforms
Time change rationale (c/o abdymok) Not much to report. Deoccupation proceeds, albeit at a slower pace because of the mud. Meanwhile, attacks on Russia’s...
Z & Elon
Andy chats up Z on NYT’s Dealbook on November 30, 2022 Z invites Elon to Kyiv. Ugh. Maybe The Operator can arrange the visit. Sean Penn can accompany. With...
Our Assets of Their Destruction
Photo c/o Embassy of Ukraine to Poland The number of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus experts is growing each day. Russian exiles, expat jornos, many formerly...
Practical Homicide Investigation
Cold smoked Black Sea Mackerel (Photo c/o zakaz.ua) Dialogical hooey — nodal points of history and contrastive explanations — is an annoying feature of...
Barrel-chested Freedom Fighters
Maybe this is a display of agency1. Zelenskyy vows Ukraine will withstand Russian attacks on power networks. FT (November 25, 2022) In other news, I ate...
Zelomania
So, Penguin Random House over the summer proposed itself as the only publisher of the condensed (or large-print) version of the ur-text of approved pep...
The Captive Mind
Marta, Lviv, August 2022.(Photo by Chien-Chi Chang) When someone is honestly 55% right, that's very good and there's no wrangling. And if someone is 60%...
History of Modern Ukraine
Vydubichi. November 19, 2022 The title of lesson 19 of Timothy Snyder’s on-line course, “Oligarchies in Ukraine and Russia,” sounded interesting, so I...
265 - 11 = 254
Photo c/o Mil.in.ua Recall what we concluded on Day 11 of fascistic Russia’s genocidal campaign against Ukraine1. Since then, for at least 254 days, policy...
z1 Slow Movement
Hitler was hesitant to order the execution of Ernst Röhm, perhaps because of loyalty or embarrassment about executing his WWI buddy, but he relented1. On...
Melodrama
c/o abdymok And to all those new Ukraine experts, still blathering on about Putin, you’re doing it wrong. But you knew that. The New York Times: “[…] With...
Autumn ends
Forecast c/o Gismeteo.ua Bicycle season ends when the temperatures dip below zero. I’ve made the 10K commute to/from work in the city for the last five...
Pause Operationnelle
c/o abdymok I wrote and deleted a thousand paragraphs the other day: love letters to impotent rage and monumental sadness. I wanted to get it down, the wet...