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Please consider supporting Protect a Volunteer. I do, & i promise you it helps with feeling less useless in the face if such great evil from half a world away❤️🇦🇺❤️🇺🇦

Rachel Jamison from Protect a Volunteer brings up a Taiwanese military veteran who fought in Ukraine. He was injured and had to return to Taiwan. After recovering, he was able to return to Ukraine with the help of donated miles from a donor through Jamison's organization.

"The Taiwan situation is very like Ukraine.  I wanted to use my experience and skills to come to Ukraine to help this country against Russia.  I’m afraid if Russia wins, China will attack Taiwan too so I am willing to sacrifice my life and freedom for the safety of the people here." -- Taiwanese military veteran

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“Reverse time travel” is when a historical figure illegally travels to the present. The worst are the ones who feel they need to constantly correct our records of the past. Especially Socrates. He’s a jerk.

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i know ukrainian dumas are supposed to be serious epics but some of them are so funny i'm sorry. in one a hetman is captured while camping with his cossacks in the steppe and since he's a noble they send him to constantinople. he writes to his mother that she should sell their estates to ransom him to which she replies "i've already done it three times, and you're still a useless idiot, i'm not gonna do it again". at the same time, ottoman sultan tries to glaze him, offering him to convert to islam and marry his daughter, to which he replies what he'd rather kill sultan. sultan's son gets really mad and orders his janissaries to hang him on a hook to look out for a lark over the sea. after a few days, the janissaries taunt him about this, and he says that he actually sees two doves and asks for a bow to kill them for the sultan. he kills them, but the "doves" in question are actually sultan's son and daughter. the duma doesn't even end with him dying despite being called "the death of koretsky", sultan just says to him "oh you killed my children, i guess only death will outwit you" implying he will soon die

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Glass Frogs

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Renée Stout - Erzulie's Mirror (The Crying Mirror), 2013

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@/pepel_klaasa: It's way too often that I hear: "I'll gladly donate to the Ukrainian civilians, but not to the military". So, here's the contemporary Ukrainian military explained in one picture.

Source: 58th Brigade

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Comic by Mariam Naiem

I like to spend time with friends one-on-one. But lately there are three of us. [The silhouettes of the speaker and friend in each scene, except for the first, are always accompanied by a large humanoid shadow looming over them and listening in.] --- "In case something happens, finish my book, okay?" [my friend asked of me as we sat together] "Ok," [I said while the shadowy specter sat next to my friend.] --- "I don't have any plans for afterwards," [my friend in the military said as the specter stood behind them and we looked to the horizon.] --- "How are you?" [I asked as we knelt on either side of the flowers.] "Good! I went to the cemetery and laid an equal amount of flowers to all three of them." [The specter knelt behind my friend.] --- "I don't see my life after the war," [my friend in the military told me from across the table. The specter loomed over them and reached to touch them.] --- "I am sick of this! WHO ARE YOU? We didn't invite you," [I said, confronting the specter. It towered over me.] --- "Yes, you did not," [it acknowledged, revealing a scythe in its grasp and presenting a slip of paper to me.] --- 24.02.2022 INVITATION from Russia.

Text in brackets were added by me for accessibility purposes to help transcribe and describe the comic.

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This is the reality of “ruzzian world” - destruction, death, terror, millions of ruined lives.

Innocent people are being killed by russia daily, we still need your help and support, please don’t forget about us.

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