Here is one of the Putler's minions, arguably a warlord with the lowest IQ in history, trying to overcompensate for having the tiniest penis in all of Caucasus. When asked about the state of his health, Kadyrov issued a "proof" of his good medical condition by doing the shittiest display of push ups I've seen im my life. The hysterical crowd is exctatic since this is how deep Chechens are into personality cult. They cheer their war criminal leader while he amuses them with a sad attempt of demonstrating his masculinity. As they say im Russian: "I thought we already reached the bottom, but suddenly, I heard someone knocking below me".
I noticed a huge influx of new users which I immediately linked to the Musk/Twitter deal. After all, the second "wave" of newcomers was when Musk just announced his interest in the deal (the first one was after Trump got banned from Twitter). However I also noticed that the majority of the newcomers are scientists/academics and wondered why... Then I found out why... Science Mag wrote a fucking article about Mastodon! 🤣🤣
Not sure how I feel about it though. On one side, I welcome more meaningful content and interesting profiles that are actually "alive". On another hand, Twitter always was an algorithm-centered, biased, privately-owned company so leaving it only NOW is just hypocrisy imho. I feel like most of these newcomers don't really hate biases and censorship, they just hate when right-wingers do it (or even just people they personally perceive as right-wingers). Not to mention, they will quickly realize that the freedom of speech here is arguably more extreme than Twitter will ever have.
In any case, welcome. I am a scientist myself although I'm trying to distance myself from the "academic" dimension of it. Just try not to be insufferable.
Science Magazine reports on the stampede: "As Musk reshapes Twitter, academics ponder taking flight. Many researchers are setting up profiles on social media site Mastodon."
https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/yn38bt/science_magazine_reports_on_the_stampede_as_musk/
Ironically (?) the journalists identifies the researchers by their Twitter handle and their Twitter follower count. Revolutions are confusing. 😎
This video is from Russian State TV. Friendly reminder that state media is the main information source for 90% of Russians.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1571712271063072773?s=20&t=6vcytIIa7duH9IhRLdgEqw
Ruzzians invented a whole new genre of terrorism. A truly magnificent nation 🤮
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-fires-eac13f4bb47663c9769696029ecc257d
Many people remember pre WW2-period as Hitler unilaterally annexing territories left and right. As you can see, it wasn't quite the case. These were international agreement carving Europe in favour of nazis and their allies as an attempt to appease an unhinged genocidal war criminal and his friends.
Carving out of Czechoslovakia was greenlighted by the Western powers. Austria "voluntarily" anschlussed itself to Germany. Splitting Poland in half was a deal between nazis and people who only a couple of years later would lose millions of people fighting for it's liberation from the nazis.
Remember this everytime your politician suggest we have to "save face" of a a certain Ruzzian strongman. History repeats itself but it doesn't have to.
Portuguese by nationality. Genetically I'm aprox 50% Ukrainian, 25% Russian and 25% Greek. Living in Spain (Catalonia).
I don't identify myself with any "-ism", but the closest thing would be libertarianism.
I work in the field of Life Sciences. My activity usually revolves around genetics and bioinformatics. I also like programming and data science / machine learning.
I started migrating to more ethical digital spaces and services after I had first-hand experience working for one of the most abominable enterprises. There is so much I want to say about it but can't due to legal reasons.