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Your Forma Episode 5 Review - Divorce Arc Already???

I can’t believe there’s already a divorce arc between our two leads. Those usually happen after the halfway point or towards the double digit episode count. It feels weird seeing it so early. And to be honest, I get why this is a plot point but I don’t like how it’s handled.

Echika has been shown to want to get to know Harold and is opening up to him, yet all that progress she made just dissolves. It feels like she regressed all of a sudden, like Ash’s Pikachu in every new Pokemon season. She even refuses to talk to him and it’s getting frustrating. I get that she’s only 20 years old, but she should know better. Apparently, she still has PTSD over her abduction and it has decreased her data analysis capabilities to the point that she had to be demoted and transferred to another department and Harold has to get a new cyber-inspector partner.

The episode goes by so fast that Harold and Echika’s feelings on the matter gets glossed over as it favors more of how the two are doing in their new situation. Echika is partnered up with Ivan and Sedov while Harold’s new partner is Raissa Robin, a French cyber-inspector. They’ve been trying to track down this thing called E where it’s a secret system that is trying to overtake Your Forma and their followers are like cultists in a way.

Bigga also feels as if she’ll play a huge role later on. I do wish that the animation studio started at volume 1 because I don’t know how she met Echika and I really want to know. Apparently, she’s a Bio Hacker and she does have the ability to be able to do something about Eshika’s declining abilities.

If I had a nickel for every time Nobuhiko Okamoto voiced a Russian boy named Ivan, I’d have two, which isn’t much, but it’s funny how it happened twice now… Yes, Okamoto voices Ivan and Ryota Takeuchi voices Sedov. They seem like fun characters but hopefully they’ll be able to do something instead of be the two people that Echika works with. Raissa is voiced by Hisako Tojo.

By the way, I get this weird feeling with Raissa. Maybe it’s because I’ve watched enough anime to know that whenever a new character is introduced, they’re immediately suspicious… Heck, every new character in this episode is suspicious. I just hope my hunch is wrong… Let me know your thoughts on this episode.

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Lake Baikal

Postcard from Russia. Lake Baikal is an ancient, massive lake in the mountainous Russian region of Siberia, north of the Mongolian border. Considered the deepest lake in the world, it’s circled by a network of hiking paths called the Great Baikal Trail. The stamps: Russia – 2013 Silum (–>a village of Liechtenstein) by Ivan Myasoedov (–> A Ukrainian artist, master of painting and graphics,…

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Great 3D rock/rope simulation from Subframe for Vollebak. You can see the moving version here, among (impressive) other things.

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With the beginning of the working week.

#Sunrise #Morning #Boat #Ship #Sail #Yachting #Yacht #Sea #Ocean #Travel #Cruise #Regatta #Adventure #Look Sharp #Elegant notes #Gallery Inspiration #Deep Navy #Color day #Riviera #boat ride #boat trip #navigator #Bark #Sedov

[bestseatatthebar]

Lilo Lais by Slava Sedov

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Tsar Alexis choosing his bride by Grigory Sedov.

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[worldoftheromanovs]

Bablovo. April 15th 1916

Vilkitsky April 15. Friday. In the morning I went to the infirmary. I bandaged: Shilov, Vartanov, Sergeiev, Khiriakov, Polyakov, Stanishevsky, Maslov, V.N. Pavlov. I sat with Sedov and Iedigarov for a while. I went on my rounds to see everyone. We had luncheon with Papa, Mama and Vilkitsky. In the afternoon we all went for a walk in Bablovo, Mama in the carriage. We had tea at A[unt] Olga's at Pavlovsk. Aunt Marie, Elena, Christo, Ioanchik, and Igor [were there]. Then we walked in the garden. After that I went for a drive with Maria, Anastasia and Iza. Dinner with Papa and Mama. Afterwards Papa read, we worked.

(Tatiana’s 1916 Diary)

Translation copyright: George Hawkins 2025

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The struggle against the Opposition was for the ruling clique a question of life and death. The program, principles, ties with the masses, everything was rooted out and cast aside because of the anxiety of the new ruling clique for its self-preservation. These people stop at nothing on order to guard their privileges and power. Recently an announcement was released to the whole world, to the effect that my youngest son, Sergei Sedov, was under indictment for plotting mass poisoning of the workers. Every normal person will conclude: people capable of preferring such a charge have reached the last degree of moral degradation. Is it possible in that case to doubt even for a moment that these same accusers are capable of fostering the anti-Semitic prejudices of the masses? Precisely in the case of my son, both these depravities are united. It is worthwhile to consider this case. From the day of their birth, my sons bore the name of their mother (Sedov). They never used any other name – neither at elementary school, nor at the university, nor in their later life. As for me, during the past thirty-four years I have borne the name of Trotsky. During the Soviet period no one ever called me by the name of my father (Bronstein), just as no one ever called Stalin Dzhugashvili. In order not to oblige my sons to change their name, I, for “citizenship” requirements, took on the name of my wife (which, according to Soviet law, is fully permissible). However, after my son, Sergei Sedov, was charged with the utterly incredible accusation of plotting to poison workers, the GPU announced in the Soviet and foreign press the “real” (!) name of my son is not Sedov but Bronstein. If these falsifiers wished to emphasize the connection of the accused with me, they would have called him Trotsky since politically the name Bronstein means nothing at all to anyone. But they were out for another game; that is, they wished to emphasize my Jewish origin and the semi-Jewish origin of my son. I paused at this episode because it has a vital and yet not at all exceptional character. The whole struggle against the Opposition is full of such episodes. [...]

After Zinoviev and Kamanev joined the Opposition the situation changed radically for the worse. At this point there opened wide a perfect chance to say to the workers that at the head of the Opposition stand three “dissatisfied Jewish intellectuals.” Under the direction of Stalin, Uglanov in Moscow and Kirov in Leningrad carried through this line systematically and almost fully in the open. In order the more sharply to demonstrate to the workers the differences between the “old” course and the “new,” the Jews, even when unreservedly devoted to the general line, were removed from responsible party and Soviet posts. Not only in the country but even in the Moscow factories the baiting of the Opposition back in 1926 often assumed a thoroughly obvious anti-Semitic character. Many agitators spoke brazenly: “The Jews are rioting.” I received hundreds of letters deploring the anti-Semitic methods in the struggle with the Opposition. [...] In the months of preparations for the expulsions of the Opposition from the party, the arrests, the exiles (in the second half of 1927), the anti-Semitic agitation assumed a thoroughly unbridled character. The slogan, “Beat the Opposition,” often took on the complexion of the old slogan “Beat the Jews and save Russia.” The matter went so far that Stalin was constrained to come out with a printed statement which declared: “We fight against Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev not because they are Jews but because they are Oppositionists,” etc. To every politically thinking person it was completely clear that this consciously equivocal declaration, directed against “excesses” of anti-Semitism, did at the same time with complete premeditation nourish it. “Do not forget that the leaders of the Opposition are – Jews.” That was the meaning of the statement of Stalin, published in all Soviet journals.

When the Opposition, to meet the repressions, proceeded with a more decisive and open struggle, Stalin, in the form of a very significant “jest”, told Piatakov and Preobrazhensky: “You at the least are fighting against the C.E., openly brandishing your axes. That proves your ’orthodox’ action. Trotsky works slyly and not with a hatchet.” Preobrazhensky and Piatakov related this conversation to me with strong revulsion. Dozens of times Stalin attempted to counterpose the “orthodox” core of the Opposition to me.

The well known German radical journalist, the former editor of Aktion, Franz Pfemfert, at present in exile, wrote me in August 1936: “Perhaps you remember that several years ago in Aktion I declared that many actions of Stalin can be explained by his anti-Semitic tendencies. The fact that in this monstrous trial he, through Tass, managed to ‘correct’ the names of Zinoviev and Kamenev represents, by itself, a gesture in typical Streicher style. In this manner Stalin gave the ‘Go’ sign to all anti-Semitic, unscrupulous elements.” In fact the names, Zinoviev and Kamenev, it would seem, are more famous than the names of Radomislyski and Rozenfeld. What other motives could Stalin have had to make known the “real” names of his victims, except to play with anti-Semitic moods? Such an act, and without the slightest legal justification, was, as we have seen, likewise committed over the name of my son. But, undoubtedly, the most astonishing thing is the fact that all four “terrorists” allegedly sent by me from abroad turned out to be Jews and – at the same time – agents of the anti-Semitic Gestapo! [...]

Again, if such methods are practiced at the very top where the personal responsibility of Stalin is absolutely unquestionable, then it is not hard to imagine what transpires at the factories, and especially at the kolkhozes. And how can it be otherwise? The physical extermination of the older generation of the Bolsheviks is, for every person who can think, an incontrovertible expression of the Thermidorian reaction, and in its most advanced stage at that. History has never yet seen an example when the reaction following the revolutionary upsurge was not accompanied by the most unbridled chauvinistic passions, anti-Semitism among them. In the opinion of some “Friends of the USSR,” my reference to the exploitation of anti-Semitic tendencies by a considerable part of the present bureaucracy represents a malicious invention for the purpose of a struggle against Stalin. It is difficult to argue with professional “friends” of the bureaucracy. These people deny the existence of a Thermidorian reaction. They accept even the Moscow trials at face value. There are not “friends” who visit the USSR with special intention of seeing spots on the sun. Not a few of these receive special pay for their readiness to see only what is pointed out to them by the finger of the bureaucracy. But woe to those workers, revolutionists, socialists, democrats who, in the words of Pushkin, prefer “a delusion which exalts us” to the bitter truth. One must face life as it is. It is necessary to find in reality itself the force to overcome its reactionary and barbaric features. That is what Marxism teaches us.

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The legendary and terribly photogenic barque "Sedov

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Sunday Stamps: Boats, Ships

USA – 2023 Sailboat China – 2013 Offshore Oil Production China – 2003 Sailing Ship Russia – 2021 STS Sedov, 100 years old; formerly Magdalene Vinnen II and Kommodore Johnsen, is a four-masted steel barque that for almost 80 years was the largest traditional sailing ship in operation. Canada – 1962 Inuit and Kayak Italy – 1975 Italian Emigration Malaysia -2022 Traditional Boats -Sabah Bajau…

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The car garage of S.I. Sokolov and Z.I. Ivanov is a historical building in Saratov, famous for its bas-relief of a car in the upper part of the house. The building was built in 1887. It belonged until 1913 to the owners of the mirror factory N. I. Sedov and P. P. Borisov-Morozov. But the owners went bankrupt and were forced to sell the factory building to the owners of the automobile business S.I. Sokolov and. Z.I. Ivanov, who set up a car garage here. Zakhary Ivanov became the prototype of the driver Adam Kozlevich and ended up on the pages of the novel “The Golden Calf” by I. Ilf and E. Petrov

Автогараж С. И. Соколова и З. И. Иванова — историческое здание Саратова, прославилос�� благодаря барельефу автомобиля в верхней части дома.Построено здание был�� в 1887 году. Принадлежало до 1913 года владельцам зеркальной фабрики Н. И. Седову и П. П. Борисову-Морозову. Но владельцы разорились и вынуждены были продать здание фабрики владельцам автомобильного дела С. И. Соколову и. З. И. Иванову, которые устроили здесь автомобильный гараж. Захарий Иванов стал прообразом шофера Адама Козлевича и оказался на страницах романа И. Ильфа и Е. Петрова «Золотой телёнок»

[thepostcardskolektiv]

Schöne Grüße aus Norddeutschland

1. Kruzenshtern 2. Gorch Fock 3. Alexander von Humboldt II 4. Esmeralda 5. Statsraad Lehmkuhl 6. Amerigo Vespucci 7. Sedov 8. Thor Heyerdahl 9. Mir

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Bark “SEDOV”. #Bark #Sedov #ship #Sail #Yachting #ocean #sea #yacht #Antarctica #Spirit of wandering # Journey #Discovery #Expedition #Impressions #Gallery In #Skipper #Helm #Navigation #spirations #elegant notes #look sharp #old school #map #compass #course #navigator #Arctic

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Lilo by Slava Sedov

[workersolidarity]

🇷🇺🇺🇦 🚨 💥FOOTAGE OF THE MASSIVE EXPLOSION IN SEDOVE, EAST OF MARIUPOL💥

Initially, reports claimed the explosion was the result of a Ukrainian Storm-shadow strike on a Russian ammunition depot.

However, subsequent reporting has revealed the explosion was the result of an electrical fire where up to 20 missiles were being stored, resulting in a massive explosion and secondary explosions that, although causing immense distress among local residents in the area, no casualties have been recorded as of this time.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

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Alexander Sedov. "Wading" . USSR. 1990.