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“Remi and Minnie” 2006-2008

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“Le Ninfe”, Ettore Tito, 1911, Galleria d'Arte Moderna Ricci Oddi, Piacenza

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Today is the remembrance day for all the killed Ukrainian children. Take a few moments to read the story of little Sofia, killed by a russian missile, and her grieving family.

On August 19, 2023, Olha Holynska and her 6-year-old daughter Sofia came to Chernihiv to visit Olha's brother. Sofia had just climbed up on the stage and was playing when they heard a whistle of a russian missile and an explosion. In a moment, Sofia fell on her mother, and blood was pouring out of the child’s stomach. Olha's leg was crushed by the stone. People stopped the car and asked to take the child to the hospital immediately. Sofia was still breathing, lying with her eyes open, her hands were warm. Unfortunately, Sofia died later in the hospital.

Now Olha comes from Kyiv to Chernihiv every Saturday, visits place where her daughter died with coffee for herself and whipped milk for her daughter.

"On the very day when everything happened, we did not have time to drink coffee with her, and she did not have time to drink milk. I come here because I want Sofiyka to remember that her mother loves her very much. Now I do everything for her. She lives always in my memory, in my heart, in my soul", says Olha.

Olha sits next to the flowers and toys at that place and speaks to her daughter: "I think about you every day. Not a day has passed that I haven't thought about you. I wake up and think about you. I go to bed thinking about you, my Sofiyka. You are my life and my soul. You are my meaning. I have impressions that I live one big day. Nine months have passed, but the pain does not subside. It is such a terrible pain that burns in the soul, in the heart".

Olha did a tattoo of her daughter's portrait. "She was left-handed, and I am also left-handed. It is with this hand closer to my heart that I can hug her, I can kiss her, and wish good night to my Sofia. When I got this tattoo, I felt lightness. Because I forever connected Sofiyechka with myself".

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btw i found out that there are actually two major types of bleeding heart doves, and that while one of them looks like it bears a wound on its chest, the other looks like the one who made it

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Sumikichi and Ue wear Baby’s rose gobelin print jsk in red.

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thinking about how my mom spent like 2 years getting downright vicious about the houseless folks who were camping in the woods past her house (to the point of getting a BB rifle that looked like a real fucking gun to threaten them with when they crossed in front of her house??) and justifying it with White Lady Fear a la "what if one of them does something to me! I am but a helpless white woman living all alone!!" and like...

y'all, she terrorized those people. every single time she saw someone outside, she was riling her dog up to bark, waving a gun in their faces (that for all intents & purposes they certainly thought was real), yelling at them, calling the cops (thank god the 2 rural-ass cops didn't actually give a shit), etc.

and she justified it with fears of womanly fragility & inability to defend herself, and I believe how afraid she was! she talked about fearing they would break into her house at night and sexually assault her, and I believe she was legitimately afraid of that. she's been victimized in many of the ways she was afraid of being victimized by them.

the thing is that it doesn't matter how real the fear is.

nothing ever happened, nobody ever tried to threaten her, nobody tried to break in, nobody even approached her. she initiated every single interaction. when she told them not to go through her yard, they did the best they could to respect that without giving up their camping spot; which was on someone else's property, who didn't mind them being there (not to mention one of them is actually indigenous to this specific land!)

she was a thousand times more threatening to those people than they ever were to her, but her fear of them was still real. and that's exactly what made her so dangerous.

I need cis women to internalize this ASAP. your fear is real, and it can and will hurt others. your fear is real, and it is harmful. your fear is real, and your hurt is not deserved, and you still need to grow & heal & prevent it from causing harm.

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I’m sorry, but aren’t we collectively tired of all our clothes being made of polyester?

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happy pride!

what is better than vampire x werewolf lesbians? only ukrainian opyrica x vovkulaka lesbians

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It is not just cede some territories and live in peace. It is not just "swapping passport". It is not just changing the president.

People think us delusional, but we know that ceding is dooming people living there to repressions, to suffocating all their cultural identity, to burning books that are deemed nationalistic propaganda (like a Ukrainian alphabet, for example), to torture chambers, to reeducation.

Russia doesn't just want the territory. It wants to destroy us to the last human. Putin said so himself. Multiple times. I do not get why these people wilfully ignore it.

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4th June 2022: Photograph taken during US Ambassador Brink's visit to ruined Borodianka, Ukraine. russian occupying troops withdrew on the 30th of March.

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I'm always seeing this sentiment of "I have got to make my art weirder" or people begging for weirder art but here's the thing, Weird is not a brand. You cannot rack your brains trying to figure out the "Weird" formula. You don't get weird art by artificially forcing whatever you think is "weird." You get weird art (and I think "weird" is sometimes people groping for a way of saying non-corporatized) by figuring out what you like, deep down, even (especially) if you think it's embarrassing and wallowing in it like a pig

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insane way to start out a paragraph in a biology text. thanks aelian

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This.

Back in November 18-year-old Mykyta Zasiadko died on the frontline. At the age of 15, he was awarded the title of Master of Sports of Ukraine in swimming, and at 17 — a candidate for Master of Sports in freestyle wrestling. As soon as he turned 18 he voluntarily joined the army. He was born in 2005.

Read this again. Someone who was born in 2005 was killed for defending their country from the occupiers. 18 years old.

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Hi. I wanted to ask how you have those among Ukrainians who believe in russian propaganda. I just met one refugee from Kharkov, and he told me that Putin is fighting for the Russian world, and it was the United States that started the war. He reasons that since he speaks Russian, he should support Russia's actions. And this despite the fact that his city was bombed, and he and his family were on the verge of life and death.

Hi. I can't really answer this. I mean, I can try, but I'm not good at answering vague questions. I'm not well-spoken enough.

How come so many USAmericans worship Trump and see him as a savior of the poor when he's the exact opposite? How come far-right parties all across Europe gain more and more popularity, with people believing that fascists in power will resolve all their problems? Hell, we can take it a step further and ask how come people become anti-vaxxers and flat Earth believers? The answer is only one - propaganda. People fall under the harmful influence.

Russian propaganda has been extremely active in the southeast of Ukraine basically since we gained independence. Russia has been spending millions upon millions on brainwashing Ukrainians. The propaganda became more and more aggressive since the Orange Revolution. It was everywhere in the Donbas, you couldn't even wear a piece of orange clothing without risking being beaten up.

I was only a middle-schooler, but I remember it in detail. Propaganda materials such as leaflets were distributed everywhere. I remember one with Viktor Yushchenko (pro-European presidential candidate) against the background of the US flag and Uncle Sam who's saying, "Yushchenko is our pResident." I remember asking my mother what it meant, and she said it means that Yushchenko is a very bad person. This stuff was wild. And it only got wilder.

Russian propaganda claims over the years varied from the statement that "Donbas feeds the entire Ukraine" to "pro-European politicians and the US will make concentration camps in the Donbas for the Russian-speakers and will populate the territory with people from the West instead." I don't know how, but people believed in this purely artificial conflict. Not only were there never any persecutions against the Russian-speakers, but you would actually feel more comfortable speaking Russian in Ukraine. In most regions, the Ukrainian language was considered a "redneck" language and would get you nowhere. Of course, the Ukrainian government is also to blame for letting Russia control the narrative. But for most of these independent years, Ukraine was basically externally managed by Russia. During Yanukovych's presidency, we were like Belarus is now - a false "president" taking instructions straight from the Kremlin. So the brainwashing was getting worse and worse.

I told this story several times, and I'll tell it again. Before the "referendum" in Donetsk, most people laughed at the idea of the "republic." It was supported by some local lunatics, but mostly the whole thing was done by russian mercenaries and russian military. During this time, my aunt told me that those who support this are crazy and they're calling war into our homes. She was a reasonable person. She had a job, a nice apartment of her own, a happy family, and a bright future ahead. In 2015 they fled from Donetsk to russia, along with my grandmother. Why to russia? Propaganda. Then they got russian citizenship and used it to vote for putin. I asked how they could vote for him after what he did to them, after they lost it all. "We're thankful he gave us a home, gave us citizenship," was the answer. At first, he took everything from you, ruined your life, then let you restore a tiny bit of it - and you're grateful. I don't know how this works. It's not like they were welcomed in russia, they faced a lot of prejudice and oppression for being from Donetsk. To the point that my niece was bullied at school for being from the Donbas, not only by kids but by teachers, despite being an excellent student and graduating with honors. Russians are outraged that their state "rescues" and "helps" those Donbas khokhols instead of helping "true" russians.

In the second month of the full-scale invasion, my grandmother proposed that I move to them, to the moscow region of russia. "This is the country that is trying to kill us all, how can you ask me to move there?" "What difference does it make which country to live in? It's safe here." So along with pro-putin brainrot comes also apoliticalness, passivity.

I'm rambling at this point. I don't want to go on about this forever, like I know I can. Let's leave it at this.

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Happy pride month y’all 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Volunteers risking their lives to save animals from Vovchansk, Ukraine that is being heavy shelled.