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"When you're trying to have a hot girl summer, but the governments decide to start WWIII😭😭"

Location: Bumfuck, Oklahoma

"Dying in WWIII wasn't on my 2025 bucketlist 💀🫣"

Location: Sydney, Australia

"Look at the strawberry varenyky I made"

Location: Kyiv, Ukraine

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While struggling alongside artists of the whole world under the threat of generative AI, we, ukrainian artists, also have to deal with russians threatening our lives with their attacks, destroying our cultural heritage, art schools and now the warehouse of ukrainian office of the largest manufacturer of drawing tablets in the world, Wacom.

Wacom as a company is not ideal and even though I currently don't use their products, I started my digital drawing journey with their Intuos tablet, the tiny pretty blue one that I still have stored in a closet. And a lot of new artists to this day start with their products, and I have friends who wish to buy a Cintiq one day. We still don't know the amount of damage that's been done by this attack, but by the way the whole building was burning probably everything in it was destroyed.

This place has no military significance, it's used to store all the products that artists, designers, photographers and many more people buy and use for creating art, filling this word with beaty.

Art is never apolitical.

The original post in ukrainian with the video of Wacom Ukraine's warehouse burning.

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Dedicated to Ukrainians who in over three years of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine grew so accustomed to everyday missile and drone attacks they stopped reacting to safety measures, and just attempt to live their lives.

It’s terrifying how the madness that should spark outrage, reaction, and cause consequences to the attacker is instead treated as normal by the world and force the people of Ukraine to “just bear with it”. Every day (c) @ yuliyaosyka

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i'm in kyiv for the week for the first time in 4 years.

russia launched 300+ drones at ukraine last night over the course of 5 hours; one of the biggest attacks of the war so far. the explosions were constant, some of them so close that our building was shaking from the impact. i could hear the buzzing of the shaheds overhead; normally, russia sends around 5-7 of these drones to kyiv every night, but last night, it was around 40. by the time the sun came up, the cloud of smoke that hung over kyiv was so dark that you couldn't see the sky.

but being pulled out of bed at 2 am under threat of ballistics and drone attacks has been an average experience for ukrainians for over 3 years now. they're used to it, they say "I'm from sumy/zaporozhzhia/kramatorsk, this is nothing". it doesn't matter if they're tired or they've been bombed out of their homes, they still have to get up and go to work or school or run errands and do all the things that make their country function while russia tries to grind it down by turning their peaceful skies into fire.

don't forget about them. don't forget about what's happening here in ukraine.

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two years ago on june 6th russia blew up the Kahovka dam, causing a flood that killed and displaced a lot of ukrainians, and destroyed the environment, causing an ecological catastrophe.

i still remember how i felt when i saw these news that day. i tried to find places where i could donate to help, but the very pressing fact was the silence from the western countries on this event. either silence or outright doubt of how it happened. i remember it scaring me and sending me into shock; would they not care if something worse than this happened?

please be the voice for ukrainian people when the media goes silent like this. it is important.

today remember those who were lost someone or died in this act of terrorism.

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Maria Prymachenko with her son Fedir, surrounded by her art, 1980s.

“Once, as a young girl, I was tending a gaggle of geese. When I got with them to a sandy beach, on the bank of the river, after crossing a field dotted with wild flowers, I began to draw real and imaginary flowers with a stick on the sand… Later, I decided to paint the walls of my house using natural pigments. After that I’ve never stopped drawing and painting.” - Maria Prymachenko

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https://sometiktoksarevalid.tumblr.com/785629114871742464

so russia has also been dismantling cultures and peoples within it’s borders?

That is so deeply upsetting to me that this could be news to anyone... Russia is an empire, a colonizer. You don't have to have a specialised deep knowledge in history or politics to recognize this simple fact. Empire does what empire does. You can literally just look at the map and see how much of russia is in Asia.

Invasion of Ukraine has been a great opportunity for putin to wipe out significant amounts of non-white russian population. This video is a great example. It's no rarity to find people of ethnicities like Nanai (estimated 12,003 left of them as of 2010), Yukaghir (1,802), and other smaller ethnicities in the trenches. Their languages and heritage die with them in this invasion. Yakuts are more of a rule than an exception on the frontlines at this point.

To play the devil's advocate - these nations are the majority in the war while being minorities at home, not only because they're not white or not "russian" enough, but because their regions are the poorest in russia. Now, why is that exactly, and why most of the money flows to the other regions instead of to, say, Yakuts or Kalmyks - this you can guess for yourself. But the fact is - these regions of russia are unbelievable shitholes even compared to the shithole that russia is in general. People there are uneducated, live in barely standing houses with no plumbing, some villages literally have no functioning bridges to connect them to civilization.

So, people of these ethnicities are eager to sign the contract and enroll into the russian terrorist army, because they see it as their lucky ticket in life. They are dying for russian interests, they are the backbone of the russian army, while the rest of the world imagines blond blue-eyed people as a standard in russia. It's really not.

I am not here to cry for them. Yes, they could behave differently under different circumstances. But they still have their free will, and to deny them their choices would diminish the dignity of those who were brought up under the same or worse circumstances, but didn't choose to go kill people in a foreign country to enrich themselves.

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It needs to be more taboo for people to use traditional marxist symbolism, especially the kinds of symbols associated with the USSR.

The kinds of human rights abuses that mainstream Marxism engaged in are horrific, and not worthy of glorification.

The outright denial of Marxist atrocities common on the far left is shocking and astounding.

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yay I can finally show y'all a poster that I did for /odezhyna_zine — project about Ukrainian national clothing 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼

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it's a common punchline to say that you are a bad representation of your country for whatever political reason but honestly fuck it. i am a GOOD ukrainian representation

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a rescuer arrived to eliminate the consequences of a russian drone hitting his house, where his family died. his wife, daughter and 1-year-old grandson were killed in the russian attack.

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Mosaics in Kyiv subway

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Тополя (Poplar Tree) | 1996 | Valentina Kostyleva | Ukraine

Based on the poem by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. A young girl falls in love with a Cossack who goes off to war. She waits faithfully for his return, but as time passes, he does not come back. Heartbroken and despairing, she fears he has died or forgotten her. The villagers pressure her to marry someone else, but she refuses.

In her sorrow, she seeks help from a traditional Ukrainian village witch/folk healer, begging for a way to preserve her love and avoid an unwanted marriage. The witch casts a spell that turns the girl into a poplar — tall, slender, and always reaching toward the distance, as if still looking for her beloved.

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маленька наті :)

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happy pride month🤲💝

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literally cannot stand anyone who sympathises with russians while they're doing THIS to us and have been doing it for centuries to multiple nations