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Spring.

@trinsec As a bait?

@trinsec I read about that one, but seeing it is still surreal. Although I don't get why they don;t pack the guy with the camera.

Whether true or not, I don't know, but if it happened, brave lady there.

This is brave stuff: a clip from Russian Channel 1 tonight

https://nitter.net/christogrozev/status/1503446891014537222#m

Check the video in the link!

@piggo BTW, here some smarts on this topic from a true expert: https://nitter.net/vtchakarova

@piggo

re putin: agreed
re china not agreeing to this: I wouldn't be so sure. 1) opportunity to get some advantage = bring Russia closer to chest now rather than wait another year when they go bankrupt for real; 2) low risk - they'd end up in the same position as the West supplying Ukraine; 3) I don't know much about Chinese, but their foreign policy does not seem to be driven by moral qualms, just plain cost/benefit analysis. Now if you expect us cutting trade ties with China like we did with Russian, I am afraid that would be a proper economic harakiri for ourselves actually.

@piggo @wolf480pl ... and nitter gives you RSS feeds, so you can bridge that into a real aggregator. I sink all of it into an Element/Matrix room with RSSBot integration.

@piggo @wolf480pl
- maps: https://nitter.net/JominiW - also watch for his mentions in daily updates, those accounts are also useful
- the guy of the convoy logistics fame but works as an "aggregator"/"filter" too: https://nitter.net/TrentTelenko
- a little bit more strategic angle: https://nitter.net/WarintheFuture
- and then the slow foreign policy news in mainstream media

Either way, too much white propaganda, too thick fog of war, anxiety everywhere...

@adamasnemesis Excuses...

@z428 A little piece of beauty in these dark days. Thanks.

@piggo At least those grayish ones are probably infrared.

@piggo Haha, city lights. I am not sure about this exact one, but those pics are not necessarily visible spectrum (some yes, but most not). People think it's a normal camera there, it's not 🙂.

Check the instrument spec. Depending on the satellite, here's the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Operational_Environmental_Satellites

@academicalnerd I wish to be able to cheer you up. I think it won't work today. My apologies young d'Artagnan.

The whole day I am struggling with my own emotions regarding the concept of collective guilt. People say: it's not me, but my government. I know very well. There were times when I said that about my own country. But the thing is, nobody from outside can change a government of a sovereign country (barring violence we see exactly now), only people from within can do it. In that sense the government and the people cannot be completely separated. So it's a responsibility of the people of the country to fix their government, nobody will do it for them. That's how we do it in representative democracies, you see. It's messy, it's slow, it's not heroic, but that's what it takes to be free and upright. Because if people do not act, they become implicitly complicit in their government's actions.

At the same time I feel deeply sorry for the brave people who were arrested today and over time in Moscow and St. Petersburg for saying what they feel about all this. I also feel sorry for all those who will unwillingly have to bear the consequences of what we on the other side now have to do: and that is to clearly name and shame what is going on, isolate, economically harm and engage in a strategy of attrition and at least wait it out - unless we are ready to escalate beyond even our imagination. Which from today morning is not an inconceivable possibility either.

> Re: hope to make sure it won’t be “mine” anymore.

I am afraid, that won't help either. Because one cannot run away from him/herself. Many emigres tried and did not succeed in that.

Best of luck there. Today is a sad day.

@academicalnerd 😐 I feel odd to click on whatever might resemble a "like" today.

@z428 I often wish to switch to that kind of schedule... I just try to go to bed before 0:30 and wake up at 7:00 - which is sustainable, but probably not very healthy...

Thanks for inspiration there.