#michal sikorski

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JAKUB ADAMCZEWSKI in 1670 (2023-)

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“Woman in black at the market, Bayt al Faqih, Yemen.”

Photographed by Michal Sikorski, 2004.

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Come with me.

Welcome to the manor in Adamczycha.

Here you can see our ancestors.

This is my dad - Jan Paweł Adamczewski. - What's behind me? - This is one of the least interesting places; the room of my sister, Aniela. [The two papers pinned to the wall show: a wheeler for a legless cat and a note saying "freedom equality compassion", further down there's a decalogue-like elaboration of the concepts.] Very girly stuff all around. But I think everything here's black magic and heresy.

A camera. Very expensive.

And in this place I'm praying they won't cut me out.

Over there, we eat, and in the kitchen, the director makes us dinner.

Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha.

I invite you to my father's room.

Umm… Excuse me.

This the prototype of a shoe-cleaning machine.

Unfortunately,

it is out of service.

- And behind us? - Ah, that is Andrzej's manor, in the inn. - Who's Andrzej? - Andrzej is the owner of half of Adamczycha. The bigger half.

Come, visit us!

[charlie-rulerofhell]

this new photoshoot of Michał by Nina Kupis really is a gift that keeps on giving

[michiruze]

Met @timesnewnoir and immediately clicked with the same Jakub brainrot.....

Twink Jakub by @timesnewnoir

Slut Jakub by me based on this Olivine art from Nu:carnival

[admiral-mason]

You Reap What You Sow - Chapter 3

Genshin Impact SAGAU x Iron Harvest 1920+

Safe At Last

You managed to survive another nation’s encounters. First Mondstadt, and then Liyue. Hopefully Inazuma won’t be bad.

You can’t exactly make a raft, so your best bet is to steal a rowboat from Liyue Harbor. Before that though, you’d have to wait for night. You hid in a forest near Liyue, but you got caught by a hilichurl patrolling.

To your surprise, the hilichurl didn’t attack. If beckoned you to follow it, and you did, because screw your life at this point. While accompanying it, you noticed that it also gathered other hilichurls, slimes, a select few rifthounds, and even a Geo Hypostasis, which you simply stared in awe at.

Eventually, you and the group returned to the Hilichurl camp, where you noticed two other notable figures. An Abyss Mage...

...And a very familiar blond-haired woman wearing a red-trimmed jacket, a Siberian Tiger accompanying her.

“Hello there, создатель.“

All you could do was open your mouth in shock, unsure of what to say.

“Y-You- er- uh... you’re Olga Romanova, c-correct?“

“Correct, your grace.“ She responded.

“But- but- ...how...?“ You just said, flabbergasted as Olga went on to get you some clean clothing.

“I’ll explain.“

According to the ancient scrolls you’ve read in the past one-and-a-half hours or so, apparently you were the divine creator of Teyvat. However, you were also the creator of Europe as well. You assumed that this was because you had downloaded the two games, technically making you their creator. You also found out this takes place after the events of the campaigns.

When you were chased out of Teyvat, it responded to your fear. Certain individuals from Europe were thrown into the continent with a portal being established between the two worlds.

Olga read a list of notable people who were sent in, and you noticed some very recognizable names.

Anna Kos, Lech Kos, Michal Sikorsky, Olga Romanova/Morozova, Victor Popov (which you know as Janek Kos), Lev Alekseevich Zubov, Gunter von Duisburg, Frida Ruete, Kaiser Wilhelm III, Prince Wilhelm, Sita al-Hadid, William Mason, Admiral Mason, Tsar Nicholas II, and Randolph Wells.

Seems like some people had gotten revived to Teyvat.

You also found out you had several divine powers. Firstly, you could channel abilities into weapons. You then mentioned that you shot your anti-mech cannon at Zhongli’s boulder, breaking it into pieces.

“That is the gunner power of yours. You can channel your powers into the anti-mech cannon, allowing for a burst of twelve power shots against your adversaries.“

Secondly, you could apparently use divine communication to sense those loyal to you, no matter how far. However, you can only maintain this communication for a limited amount of time, and it would grow stronger the more you resonate with Teyvat and Europe.

After figuring everything else, Olga presented you with a gift from Saxony.

The two of you walked slightly away from the camp to walk to a large object covered by a tarp. The group of monsters followed you as well.

“Go ahead and unveil it.“ Olga said to you, a warm smile on her face. “Saxony’s greatest engineers made it just for you.“

You removed the tarp, and inside was a PKP 17 Eisenhans exoskeleton.

It bore everything from its mortar backpack to its battering ram. However, its mortar tubes, helmet, and pauldrons were gold. The body frame was a powerfully dark gray. The boots were jet black, and the lenses were a crystal blue.

“Do you want to try it on?“ Olga asked you.

“...Sure.“ You hesitantly responded back.

“Alright. Let me help you.“

Olga helped you as she opened up the chest cavity of the exoskeleton (I think that’s how you enter the suit, I don’t know) as you entered the bulky suit, moving around its arms which are assisted by pistons and joints. You closed the suit shut and moved around with it.

“How do you feel, your grace?“

“...I feel... new. Powerful. Like I can take on all of Teyvat and survive.“

Translations:

создатель - Russian for ‘creator‘

Genshin Impact is owned by miHoYo. Iron Harvest 1920+ is owned by Jakub Różalski and KING Art Games.

[saturdaynightmatinee]

CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 5 / 10

Título Original: Wszyscy moi przyjaciele nie zyja AKA All my friends are dead

Año: 2020

Duración: 96 min

País: Polonia

Director: Jan Belcl

Guion: Jan Belcl

Música: Lukasz Targosz

Fotografía: Cezary Stolecki

Reparto: Michal Meyer, Adam Woronowicz, Julia Wieniawa-Narkiewicz, Adam Turczyk, Nikodem Rozbicki, Monika Krzywkowska, Szymon Roszak, Michal Sikorski, Adam Bobik, Mateusz Wieclawek, Yassine Fadel, Bartlomiej Firlet, Wojciech Lozowski, Aleksandra Pisula, Paulina Galazka, Magdalena Perlinska, Katarzyna Chojnacka, Barbara Garstka, Rafal Rosiak, Kacper Lech

Productora: Aurum Film. Distribuidora: Netflix

Género: Comedy, Crime, Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13723064/

TRAILER:

[houseofgeekery]

Movie Review: 'All My Friends Are Dead'

Movie Review: ‘All My Friends Are Dead’

Director: Jan Belcl Cast: Michal Meyer, Adam Woronowicz, Julia Wieniawa-Narkiewicz, Adam Turczyk, Nikodem Rozbicki, Monika Krzywkowska, Szymon Roszak, Michal Sikorski, Adam Bobik Plot: A pair of detectives arrive at the aftermath of a huge house that resulted in the deaths of all but one participant. We jump back in time to learn what lead to this bloodbath. Review: I’m partly disappointed…

[maceikblog]

Co się dzisiaj działo? #66 7.3.2022

Krykiet, mecz testowy, dzień 4

Pakistan(476/4d, Azhar Ali 185, Nauman Ali 4/107)- Australia(449/7, Usman Khawaja 97, Marnus Labuschagne 1/53)

ICC Puchar Świata Kobiet: Nowa Zelandia (144/1, Suzie Bates 79*, Amy Satterthwaite 3/25) pokonała Bangladesz (140/8, Fargana Hoque 52, Salma Khatun 1/34) 9 wicketami

Paryż-Nicea, 2 etap:

85. Łukasz Wiśniowski (105 w generalce)

Mistrzostwa Świata w hokeju, dywizja IV:

Malezja-Iran 7:3

Kirgistan-Singapur 15:0 (Kirgistan awansuje do wyższej dywizji)

Tirreno-Adriatico, 1 etap:

23. Maciej Bodnar

106. Rafał Majka

Ektraklasa: Legia-Śląsk 1:0

Alpe Adria Cup, ćwierćfinał: Zepter Vienna-MKS Dąbrowa Górnicza 83:76

Turniej WTA w Indian Wells: Magdalena Fręch-Alycia Parks 6:2 6:3

Igrzyska Paraolimpijskie w Pekinie, dzień 2

paranarciarstwo klasyczne, biegi długie

mężczyzn stojąc

1. Taiki Kawayoke (JPN)

2. Cai Jiayun (CHN)

3. Qui Mingyang (CHN)

5. Witold Skupień

mężczyzn z przewodnikiem

1. Brian McKeever/(p)R Kennedy (CAN)

2. Jake Adicoff/(p)S Wood (USA)

3. Zebastian Modin/(p)E Joensson Haag (SWE)

10. Piotr Garbowski/(p)Jakub Twardowski

paranarciarstwo alpejskie, superkombinacja

mężczyzn siedząc

1. Jesper Pedersen (NOR)

2. Jeroen Kampschreur (NL)

3. Niels de Langen (NL)

Igor Sikorski nie ukończył supergigantu

curling na wózkach:

Łotwa-Estonia 5:6

Szwajcaria-Wielka Brytania 1:15

USA-Kanada 4:7

Korea Południowa-Chiny 4:9

Łotwa-Szwecja 9:7

Norwegia-Estonia 3:8

Chiny-Szwajcaria 7:4

Wielka Brytania-Słowacja 3:7

Szwecja-Kanada 6:3

USA-Norwegia 6:5

Pozostałe konkurencje medalowe

paranarciarstwo alpejskie, superkombinacja

kobiet z przewodnikiem

1. Henrieta Farkasova/(p)Michal Cerven (SVK)

2. Zhu Daqing/(p)Hanhan Yan (CHN)

3. Menna Fitzpatrick/(p)Gary Smith (GBR)

kobiet stojąc

1. Ebba Arsjo (SWE)

2. Zhang Mengqiu (CHN)

3. Alana Ramsay (CAN)

kobiet siedząc

1. Anna-Lena Forster (GER)

2. Momoka Muraoka (JPN)

3. Liu Sitong (CHN)

mężczyzn z przewodnikiem

1. Giacomo Bertagnoli/(p)Andrea Ravelli (ITA)

2. Johannes Aigner/(p)Matteo Fleischmann (AUT)

3. Neil Simpson/(p)Andrew Simpson (GBR)

mężczyzn stojąc

1. Arthur Bauchet (FRA)

2. Santeri Kiiveri (FIN)

3. Adam Hall (NZL)

paranarciarstwo klasyczne, biegi długie

kobiet stojąc

1. Natalie Wilkie (CAN)

2. Sydney Peterson (USA)

3. Brittany Hudak (CAN)

kobiet z przewodnikiem

1. Oksana Shyshkova/(p)Andriy Marchenko (UKR)

2. Linn Kazmaier/(p)Florian Baumann (GER)

3. Leonie Maria Walter/(p)Pirmin Strecker (GER)

para snowboard, snowcross

kobiet SB-LL2

1. Cecile Hernandez (FRA)

2. Lisa DeJong (CAN)

3. Brenna Huckaby (USA)

mężczyzn SB-UL

1. Ji Lijia (CHN)

2. Wang Pengyao (CHN)

3. Zhu Yongyang (CHN)

mężczyzn SB-LL1

1. Tyler Turner (CAN)

2. Mike Schultz (USA)

3. Wu Zhongwei (CHN)

mężczyzn SB-LL2

1. Matti Suur-Hamari (FIN)

2. Garrett Geros (USA)

3. Ben Tudhope (AUS)

[designdailynet]

TARAS Skatepark

https://projects.designdaily.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/TARAS-Skatepark-1-1024x731-1.jpg

The project TARAS Skatepark is designed by Marcin Kwietowicz + Michal Sikorski and located in Varsovia, Poland. Since the collapse of communism thirty years ago, Warsaw’s hyper-centre has become a testing ground……

from Design Daily Projects Archive https://www.designdaily.net/project/taras-skatepark/

[goalhofer]

2019 FIBA World Cup Poland Roster

Forwards

#5 Andrzej Sikorski (Twarde Pierniki Torun/Orleans, France)

#7 Damian Kulig (Istanbul B.B./Piotrkow Trybunalski)

#21 Adam Waczynski (Baloncesto Malaga S.A.D./Torun)

#24 Michal Sokolowski (Kosz Zielona Gora/Warsaw)

Guards

#1 Lukasz Koszarek (Kosz Zielona Gora/Wrzesnia)

#6 A.D. Slaughter (Real Betis Baloncesto S.A.D./Shelbyville, Kentucky)

#9 Mateusz Ponitka (P.B.C. Lokomotiv Kuban/Ostrow Wielkopolski)

#15 Kamil Laczynski (K.K. Wloclawek/Warsaw)

#33 Karol Gruszecki (Twarde Pierniki Torun/Lodz)

Centers

#2 Aleksander Balcerowski (C.B. Gran Canaria-Claret S.A.D./Swidnica)

#13 Dominik Olejniczak (University of Mississippi Rebels/Torun)

#14 Adam Hrycaniuk (Arka Gdynia/Barlinek)

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[theconservativebrief]

WARSAW, Poland — As the US and Western Europe reeled from President Donald Trump’s rhetoric in Helsinki and Brussels, Eastern European leaders who have long feared an emboldened Russia refrained from criticizing his performance.

Over the course of six days in Brussels and Helsinki, Trump called on America’s NATO allies to increase their defense spending “immediately,” questioned the usefulness of the alliance itself, and sided with Putin over his own intelligence services on Russian interference in the 2016 US election.

For some countries in Western Europe that belong to NATO, which was created during the Cold War to counter Russian expansion, Trump’s erratic behavior was a step too far. But on the other side of the continent, Eastern Europeans who have historically felt the most threatened by Russia were singing an entirely different tune. From Estonia to Romania, current and former leaders said they saw nothing to fear from Trump’s tough talk on NATO.

“Trump said things plainly, as is normal between friends and allies,” said President Klaus Iohannis of Romania, which has tense relations with Moscow. Leaders in Poland, Hungary, and elsewhere in the region echoed his sentiments, and approved of Trump’s calls for increased military funding.

More spending on NATO’s defenses has been a goal for many Eastern Europeans since Russia’s invasion of the Republic of Georgia in 2008 and the beginning of Russia’s “shadow war” in Ukraine in 2014, so their support of Trump’s demands in Brussels is nothing new. But more surprising were leaders’ reactions to Trump’s summit with Putin in Helsinki, where Trump failed to challenge Putin on a litany of international offenses, such as his annexation of Crimea in 2014.

“It’s good for Poland that two big countries talk with each other and that they even present publicly their understanding and friendship,” Polish Ambassador to the US Piotr Wilczek told Boston’s WBUR. Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister, made similar comments at a meeting he had with Putin the day before Trump’s summit in Helsinki.

For countries that were under Moscow’s sway for decades after World War II and continue to face pressure from their huge eastern neighbor, putting a rubber stamp on Trump’s coziness to Putin might seem paradoxical, and even shocking.

What’s going on here?

Since the end of the Cold War in Europe in 1989, most countries in Eastern Europe have joined NATO, and in 2008 the alliance promised two others, Ukraine and Georgia, that they would also be able to join one day.

As a result of their membership, Eastern European countries began to rely more and more on American forces to guarantee their security, and soon after their ascension, the US proposed plans for a missile defense system to be implemented in Poland and Romania.

Although NATO has argued that the defense system will be a deterrent against Iran, Russia has always bristled at the possibility of western missiles along its eastern frontier and considers any eastward NATO expansions as acts of aggression.

Eastern European countries’ worst fears about Russia were finally realized when Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, bringing its prospects of NATO ascension to a grinding halt. But the Russians weren’t finished yet — in 2014, following the Ukrainian revolution in which pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown, Putin invaded and annexed Crimea, and began to foment a proxy war in Eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian rebels and government forces.

Today, thousands of US soldiers are stationed in Eastern European NATO countries, and the American presence there may only increase. With Russian rockets now deployed to Kaliningrad, a tiny piece of land belonging to Russia that borders Poland and Lithuania, Eastern Europe is prepared to do anything to avoid Ukraine and Georgia’s fate.

Eastern Europe and especially Poland, Latvia, and Estonia see America as “the ultimate guarantor of their security,” John Herbst, the former US ambassador to Ukraine and current director of the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council, told me.

“They are reluctant to criticize the United States even if they are not happy with what President Trump said,” Herbst said. “They want to stay on Washington’s good side.”

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told reporters after the Helsinki summit that despite lots of media hype before the meeting, he saw none of the worst-case scenarios that would have emboldened Russia further actually materialize, like concessions on Crimea or the conflict in Ukraine.

Poland especially has reasons for keeping Trump happy. It recently signed the largest military deal in its history with the US in March, and has hoped for years to convince the US to open a permanent military base there — it has even offered to pay $2 billion for it.

But many political figures in Eastern Europe recognize that appeasing Trump can only go so far, and say they aren’t happy with this fragile status quo.

Herbst claimed that behind the scenes, leaders in the region certainly were not pleased with Trump’s summit with Putin.

After Trump’s comments to Tucker Carlson on Fox News in which he questioned why the US should step up to defend new NATO member Montenegro, former Polish foreign affairs minister Radosław Sikorski penned an op-ed in the Washington Post questioning whether Poland’s long-time friendship with the US would guarantee that Trump would come to Poland’s aid if the hour of need truly came.

He expanded on his critiques in an interview on Polish TV the next day:

“Judging by the fact that he does not see the need for the defense of Montenegro, then I think that our authorities have to very seriously ask themselves the question: How does Poland really differ from Montenegro in the perception of the president of the United States?”

Sikorski is not alone in his fears. In an official statement released on Thursday, the government of Montenegro stated that its friendship with the US was “strong and permanent,” but the document also made clear that Montenegro is ready to defend itself, by itself, when faced with very real security threats.

In 2016, it had to do just that when a pro-Russian coup attempt threatened to overthrow the pro-NATO government of the country. The coup was ultimately stopped, and Montenegro successfully joined the NATO alliance last year.

The same cannot be said for Ukraine, where Russian aggression continues to paralyze the country. Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko seemed to take Trump’s behavior in Helsinki as a sign that although the US signed a deal to sell missiles to Ukraine late last year, his country might have to maintain diplomatic pressure on Putin without America’s backing.

“We are ready and will protect our land even if we stay ourselves, without international support,” he tweeted.

What this all means is that despite the lack of a strong reaction to the meetings in Brussels and Helsinki, Eastern Europe may waver in its support for Trump.

And if he loses these key allies, the US would lose the part of Europe that is most open to advancing America’s goals on the continent — Poland, Lithuania, and other nations have been some of the strongest cheerleaders for increased defense spending in the European Union; more importantly, they have embraced the influx of American soldiers that have arrived since their countries joined NATO.

Without a strong US and NATO presence here, parts of Eastern Europe would likely again slide into Russia’s orbit; countries in southeastern Europe like Bosnia, Serbia, and Hungary have increasingly started turning to Moscow in recent years, and eastern Ukraine serves as a daunting worst-case scenario for countries along Russia’s frontier.

Trump has personally questioned the need to counter Russia’s expanding regional reach. But his pro-Putin stance remains at odds with the State Department, the US military, and the US intelligence community, all of which continue to maintain that Russia is a US rival that needs to be checked.

For the vast majority of the US government, Eastern Europe is still a region with irreplaceable strategic importance to American interests, and is America’s main bulwark against westward Russian expansion.

If he hopes to keep his allies in this region, Trump will have to make sure his administration remains tough on Russia. Although his rhetoric has already unnerved governments in Eastern Europe, Ambassador Herbst told me Trump’s “crazy” ideas about Russia are unlikely to make it past his advisers, and the US won’t recognize Crimea as part of Russia or hand Putin eastern Ukraine anytime soon.

For the most part, when all is said and done, it seems America’s strong ties to Eastern Europe will survive — for now.

Michal Kranz is a freelance journalist who has covered US national security, the Robert Mueller investigation, and geopolitics in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. He was formerly based in New York City, where he wrote for Business Insider, and is currently reporting on politics and society in Warsaw and Beirut.

Original Source -> Why Eastern European countries aren’t attacking Trump over NATO

via The Conservative Brief