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well, i tried. prompt: draw a cartoon (in the style of a 1990s newspaper cartoon) where a little man celebrates his victory over small troll dolls (show a caption reading, “Russian APTs”) …
Former Ukrainian lawmaker Iryna Farion was shot in the head today outside her home in Lviv. The controversial public figure is now hospitalized and reportedly fighting for her life. The shooter (reportedly a man in his early 20s) is on the run.
Popular Russian Telegram channel with half a million subscribers is really showing off its grasp of U.S. politics by pairing an AOC-Biden photo with this post about Kamala Harris saying Biden needs to stay in the race.
A good reminder that Trump and his millions of voters don’t give a shit about the “Putin’s puppet” epithets and actually think having their own strong-man leader is cool.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has been outlawed in Russia as an "undesirable organization," joining the list at the 178th spot, just after The Moscow Times.
I've got no love for Trumpers, and I get the anger this tweet here provokes, but a 50-year-old father and retired fire chief was killed while throwing his body over his wife and daughter to protect them from gunfire. Dunking on him here is not doing Ukraine's cause any favors.
I searched on Wikipedia for "furries" today to verify for my older daughter that there's a big sexual aspect to the subculture, and then I looked up the Schutzstaffel to explain a joke about the SS and Trump, and this amazing glitch happened.
An SSJ-100 crashed outside Moscow during a ferry flight today after getting a major overhaul apparently involving import-substituted engine parts to cope with France ending support for PowerJet SaM146 turbofan engines after the Ukraine invasion. https://t.me/mash/55749
Rusian federal lawmakers have asked Sberbank to discontinue this children’s debit card, claiming that concerned parents have complained that the rainbow imagery flirts too closely with gay pride. (This is a real news story.) https://tass.ru/obschestvo/21337933
A Russian court has sentenced 21-year-old artist Tatyana Laletina to nine years in prison reportedly for donating $30 to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. She was convicted of treason. (Her lawyer and mother aren’t talking to journalists.) https://zona.media/news/2024/07/11/teatya
lol, I just went to doublecheck that Fedica would indeed force me to buy their "research" tier billed at $950 annually, and I got this, apparently the result of telling their CEO, Samir Al-Battran, last year that Fedica's pricing is too expensive for non-enterprise microblogging
For a brief while yesterday, 𝕏 warned its users against reading Bellingcat’s new investigation, which presents evidence that a Russian missile hit the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv. Elon Musk (you remember him) has previously trashed Bellingcat, an investigative news outlet, as a “psyop.”
Russian civil-military analyst Kirill Shamiev writes that three of his friends/acquaintances have attempted or carried out suicides in the last six months after struggling to find themselves in emigration.
