Day 150ish
Cognitive science professor Steven Pinker has brought our attention to what he calls a bold idea for ending fascistic Russia’s genocidal campaign in Ukraine:...
Axial Inanity
Source: zeit.de War-adjacent content millers are weary of uncertainty. They continue to ask stupid questions. When will the war end? Where will the new...
Take Me to the Fire
Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) called the Russian invasion of Ukraine a "genocide" and called on President Biden to do more. (Photo c/o The Washington Post)...
Thug Life (cont'd)
Ivan Bakanov (center) was dismissed as head of Ukraine’s State Security Service on July 17, 2022 No one knows what Ivan Bakanov actually did as head of...
Noblesville, Ukraine
Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov and Congresswoman Victoria Spartz The day before yesterday, we proposed a meeting between lawmakers Mariana Bezuhla and Victoria...
Ongoing Dialogue
Victoria Spartz and her horse (c/o Facebook) I listened to Victoria, so you don’t have to. She’s running for re-election. Maybe Mariana Bezuhla and Victoria...
Ukraine's Guardian Angels
Victoria Spartz’s Trump endorsement and Mykhailo holding bags of weed The earliest surviving mention of Michael is in a 3rd century BCE Jewish apocalypse,...
God's (Dragon) Plan
Yu. Shinse’s Golden Pyramid. The Energy of Life Ritual visits to the Dragon are no longer an obligatory attribute of political etiquette. Self-respecting...
Crime, Coffee & Cocktails
Photo c/o abdymok The beano in Lugano demonstrated that Ukraine’s top politicians are still unwilling to turn on their thinking caps. Economically speaking,...
Spontaneous Mass Confusion
Illustration: Nathalie Lees/The Guardian The beano in Lugano and shithow over mandatory registration with military offices has shed some light on the...
The Third A
Jurgens R, Becker W, Kornhuber HH. 1981. Natural and drug-induced variations of velocity and duration of human saccadic eye movements: evidence for a control...
Getting the Roast Ready
Olaf mumbled in an exclusive CBS interview on June 30 that Putin prepared for a long war in Ukraine and that it won’t end soon. This is not a war of...
How Fast Can You Run?
Typical 10k run in Kyiv (Map c/o Google) Minimum standards for the Navy SEAL PST 1.5 mile run is 10’30” — Det-A slobs have to run 2 miles in under 15’12” —...
Proximity-based Cheese Grinding
Photo c/o President’s Office (June 28, 2022) Almost as depressing as it is distressing. Sean Penn is producing an untitled documentary for VICE Studios, a...
The Seedler
Ostap Bender and ‘The Seedler’ London-based practicing philosopher Vladimir Pastukhov on Telegram recalls a big brainstorming team-building whatever hosted...
Горе от ума
Not much has changed since Day 111, with the possible exception of Tootsie Club’s grand re-opening a couple of weeks ago2. The New York Times, which almost...
Eat, Sleep, Fight
Z chatting up Canadian undergrads (June 22, 2022) I watched and listened to Z talking to Canadian students on YouTube yesterday morning. At around 30’, he...
Top-level TikTok
Unknown lady (left) sitting next to Andriy Yermak (Photo c/o President’s Office) Located in the deep rear, Ukraine’s top politicians and members of...
Ignore Analysts
With scant options in Ukraine, U.S. and allies prepare for long war (WAPO, June 17, 2022) Reading about what analysts say about the war you are in is...
Blur Building
Blur Building —Let’s review. —Okay.—You walk around in a building made of fog, wearing a ‘braincoat’ that colors the fog red when you pass by a person with...
Welcome to our Farm!
Photo c/o abdymok Ukraine is rolling out the welcome mat today for a beano with the leaders of The Big Three — Italy, France and Germany, Europe’s richest...
Mixing Entanglement Between Spins
Ouch. Z ducks the question in his interview with ZDF about why Ukraine failed to heed repeated warnings from Tiger Team about the imminent and inevitable...
The Big Three
Photo by Pavel Volkov Mario, Emmanuel and Olaf have scheduled a beano with Z this week. It’s the first time they will visit Ukraine since fascist Russia...
Scared Shitless
There’s no theory of epistemology that prioritizes “truth over facts” when your fascist genocidal neighbors roll into town on armored personnel carriers and...
Callibrated Coercion
Photo c/o Maxar The We-Are-The-Prodigy stage (Phases 1 and 2) ended weeks ago, leaving U.S. officials confused about Ukraine, which itself is confused....
Behind the Binoculars
If you want to get close to understanding fascist Russia’s genocidal war in Ukraine without actually being here, you should stop reading The New York Times,...
Absorbing Assistance
The Rolls Royce of thermal image range finders that Ukrainian soldiers can’t figure out how to use, as per NYT On the one hand, Ukrainian officials claim...
Kolya
My favorite member of parliament Mykola Tyshchenko was on display over the weekend standing next to Serhiy Leshchenko. Both were surveying damage by cruise...
Day Whatever
One of the problems with focusing on enemy cruise missiles flying over your head is the tendency to zoom in too closely on minute details of a specific...
Day 26, Phase 3
Tens and tens of thousands more people have died preventable gruesome deaths during the first 100 days in the ninth year of fascistic Russia’s genocidal war...
Day 25, Phase 3
The Guardian has already published its 100 day chronicle of the war, breaking the bloody mess down into four phases: invasion,bogged down retreat and...
Day 24, Phase 3
Photo c/o Finbarr O'Reilly Uncle Joe in an op-ed appearing in The New York Times on May 31 used the word not six (6) times in one paragraph explaining Team...
Day 23, Phase 3
Nathan’s map It’s the 97th day of fascist Russia’s genocidal war and Uncle Joe has said orcs vaporized by American rockets can only fertilize Ukrainian...
Day 22 Phase 3
Home on the range Friday, June 3, 2022, Day 26, Phase 3 marks the 100th day of fascist Russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine. It will also the last day of...
Day 21, Phase 3
Running 2022 It took until Day 94 (Day 20, Phase 3) of fascist Russia’s genocidal campaign against Ukraine before David spilled the beans. Unfortunately for...
Day 20, Phase 3
Photo c/o Z... Upon recovery from a bit of cred squidginess following the gush1 a day before yesterday about fascist Russia’s genocidal campaign in Ukraine,...
Day 19, Phase 3
c/o Professor Ken Kazunori Nosaka On March 24, Day 30, we wrote about Russia forcibly displacing — that is, deporting — hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians...
Day 18, Phase 3
Unlike Stefan, Senior Defense Correspondent at the Kyiv Post, I have no tactical military experience or expertise whatsoever. None. Zero. That’s why I rely...
Day 17, Phase 3
Emil’s map Day 100 of fascist Russia’s genocidal war in Ukraine is next Friday on June 3. Mark it in your calendar. John’s map John’s map above with Bakhmut...
Day 16, Phase 3
Map c/o Nathan It’s Day 90. TikToking war correspondents wearing helmets and armor plates are wasting precious gasoline zipping around Donbas between already...
Day 15, Phase 3
Map c/o Nathan There won’t be much left of Severodonetsk (Sievierodonetsk) when the war ends. There’s not much left now. Check out sd.ua for the latest news...
Day 14, Phase 3
Map c/o Deepstate UA Maps of the battlefield today look almost static, reminiscent of World War I. Map c/o Liveuamap Yuriy was in Sievierodonetsk...
Day 13, Phase 3
Eliot Cohen has a nice thread mentioning the editorial in The New York Times, titled “The War in Ukraine Is Getting Complicated, and America Isn’t Ready,”...
Day 12, Phase 3
Map c/o Nathan Fred cites an intercept published by Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence agency suggesting some of the 400 orcs transferred to western Donetsk...
Day 11, Phase 3
10-year old Emma raising money for her mobilized father in Uzhhorod. Photo c/o Serhiy Hudak The headlines are depressing. According to my historiography,...
Day 10, Phase 3
Map c/o @War_Mapper More than half of Kherson region’s one million residents fled after Russia took full control Ukraine’s “fruit basket” in late February....
Day 9, Phase 3
South Korean Navy Seal with is squad somewhere in Ukraine. Photo courtesy of Visegrad 24 The Russian invasion part of this bloody mess is rapidly coming to a...
Day 8, Phase 3
Ukraine’s wartime foreign minister w/ Tony in Berlin. Photo c/o MFA Dmytro thinks Ukraine has finally won the trust of the United States. Maybe he’s wrong....
Day 7, Phase 3
Map c/o War_Mapper Where's Harry? (called Где Гари? in Ukrainian) is an archive of video monologues, chit chats and guest appearances uploaded to YouTube...
Day 6, Phase 3
Excerpted from US Intelligence Launches Review CNN (May 13, 2022) Those in the U.S. intelligence community who thought Russia would steamroll Ukraine into...