Ed Casabar @edcasabar@qoto.org
- Bluesky
- @edcasabar.bsky.social
Joined Nov 2022
Yes, please, let's enjoy the holidays. However, let's also not forget what Russia is doing to #ukraine
Ukrainian prosecutors and #HumanRightsWatch uncover 54 Russian #torture chambers and investigate over 5,000 cases of alleged torture in the Kharkiv Oblast. 855 criminal investigations into war crimes against children, including 10 cases of #sexualviolence.
Map source and article:
#Росія – терористична держава
#Россия - террористическое государство
#Russia is a terrorist state
#RussianWarCrimes
#PutinsWar
#Україна #Украина #Ukraine
May this video bring you some holiday cheer. The 2nd grader wearing the hat has got some moves and is showing us how to live our best life.
Video source, Instagram: @goodnewscorrespondent
December 21, 2022. Day 300 of Putin’s “special military operation” in #Ukraine. Part of my #RussianLanguage studies. New vocabulary that I’ve learned since the 24th of February. How sad.
21 декабря́, 2022-го го́да. 300-й день «специа́льной вое́нной опера́ции» Пу́тина в Украи́не. Часть своего́ изуче́ния ру́сского языка́. Но́вая ле́ксика, кото́рую я узна́л с 24-го Фебраля́. Как гру́стно.
#Z and #ZПатрио́т – Zed, derived from the phrase “за побе́ду” (za pobédu, “for victory”). Zed patriót: a person who unequivocally supports Russia’s military and the war in Ukraine. The letter Z doesn’t exist in the Russian alphabet. It is often colored in the orange and black stripes of the Ribbon of St. George, which had previously been used to honor Russian WW2 veterans but has since been adopted as part of Russia’s current propaganda.
o Painted white onto military vehicles to distinguish Russian military equipment from Ukrainian, since both armies still use Soviet era equipment
o Painted onto doors of Russians opposed to the war as a sign of intimidation
o #Zзаче́м? (Z zachyém)- Z why?, an anti-war symbol during protests
#Бахму́тскаяМясору́бка (Bakhmútskaya myasorúbka)– Bakhmut meat grinder, see also пу́шечное мя́со
#Беспило́тник (bespilótnik)– unmanned aerial vehicle, another word for дрон (drone), also дрон камика́дзе (drón kamidádze; kamikaze drone)
#Бе́женец (bézhenets)- refugee
#Бомбоубе́жище (bomboubyézhishche)– air raid (bomb) shelter
#Ва́тник (vátnik)– a standard issue padded winter jacket originally used by the Soviet military that was also distributed to prisoners of the gulags. The jacket became a black-eyed, disheveled, Sponge Bob-like internet meme as a pejorative for a steadfast, jingoistic follower of Russian propaganda.
#Госуда́рствоСпо́нсорТеррори́зма (gosudárstvo spónsor terrorísma)– state sponsor of terrorism
#Крыла́таяРаке́та (krilátaya rakyéta)– cruise missile
#Мобилизова́нный (человек) (mobilizávannii chelovyék) - a mobilized one (person)
#Мо́бик (móbik) - slang word for a mobilized person
#НетМогилиза́ции (nyet mogilizátsii)- No to grave-ization. A play on the words мобилиза́ция (mobilization) and моги́ла (grave). In Russia, used as an internet meme calling for protests against mobilization
#Присоедине́ние (Донба́сса к Росси́и) (prisoedinyénie Donbássa k Rossíi)– annexation (of Donbass to [by] Russia)
#Пу́шечноеМя́со (púshechnoe myáso)— cannon-fodder, literally cannon meat
#Радиоакти́вныеОса́дки (radioactívnie osádki) - nuclear fallout, literally radioactive precipitation
#Спецопера́зия (spezoperázia)– contraction of the two words специа́льная (special) опера́ция (operation). Long form: специа́льная вое́нная опера́ция (spetziálnaya voénnaya operátsia), special military operation. Russian abbreviation: СВО.
#я́дернаяВойна́ (yádernaya voiná) - nuclear war
#я́дерноеОру́жие (yádernoye orúzhie)- nuclear weapon
#Russia, #Russian
#РусскийЯзык
#LanguageLearning
#LangToot
#Україна, #Украина
Maps from the New York Times and the Institute For The Study of War.
#Zelenskyy expected to present a flag from #Bakhmut #Ukraine to #Congress tomorrow.
Talk about symbolic. I hope ihis speech and the flag motivates Congress to continue providing Ukraine weapons and support against the terrorist state of Russia.
#Zelenskyy will go down in history, not only as an incredible leader, but as a motivating orator.
Translated video of a longer speech he gave today to members of his army in the front line city of #Bakhmut, #Ukraine
#Бакмут, #Україна, #Зеленський
Video source: WarTranslated.com
One European's visual interpretation of #Zelenskyy 's courage to visit Ukrainian troops in #Bakhmut today. 😂
#Zelenskyy visits #Bakhmut. #Зеленський відвідує #Бахмут.
Wow. Just wow. Bakhmut has been the main focus of Russian attacks at the frontlines of the Donetsk Oblast for weeks now.
#Courage! #Сміливість!
#Ukraine #Україна
#LanguageLearning
#Langtoot
Video source: @UATV_en
Have a listen and share "Glory to Hong Kong".
Beijing is angry and pressuring Google to bury the song in search results. "Like" it on YouTube too.
Video of Glory to Hong Kong in Cantonese with 7.5m views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUIDL4SB60g
English lyrics:
Why is this land flowing with tears again?
With rage, fears are crushed, in arms we stand
Keep your head high, refuse to stay silent, shout, scream
As we hope for freedom to return!
Why can’t this dread wither?
Why is it that our faith has never withered as well?
Our flesh sacrificed, our blood shall write this song
Free this land, stand with Hong Kong!
Stars may fall, and darkness may fill the air
But in the fog, a distant sound will heard
Defend liberty, gather all protesters
With courage and wisdom we are unbreakable
May a new dawn liberate Hong Kong
Band together brothers and sisters, for the revolution of our time!
May democracy and freedom reign eternally
Glory to Hong Kong!
My Goroka Sing Sing Series
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#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people
See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.
If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
My Goroka Sing Sing Series
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#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people
See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.
If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
My Goroka Sing Sing Series
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#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people
See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.
If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
My Goroka Sing Sing Series
Photo 3 of 6
#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people
See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.
If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
My Goroka Sing Sing Series
Photo 2 of 6
#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people
See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.
If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
My Goroka Sing Sing Series
Photo 1 of 6
#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people
See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.
Every year, about 100 of PNG’s tribes gather to compete in dancing, singing, and drumming. I photographed this event a few years ago, and it remains one of the most mind-blowing displays of humanity I’ve ever seen and in the top three of the most remote places I've traveled. Each tribe dances into the festival grounds wearing an incredible variety of costumes made from feathers, fur, shells, their faces often painted in elaborate make up. Each tribe having its own amazing costume
Although the festival has become well-known, I would guess that less than100 tourists were present to witness this incredible event. It’s hard to describe the intensity of the singing and visual impact it has when you first see each tribe enter.
Prior to the start of the festival, I was in a handful of tourists that was taken to view the make-up and costume preparation of the Hagan Tribe, which had some of the most elaborate feathers and even bird wings in their head dresses (see photos 2, 3)
If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Our planet desperately cleaner energy.
Per Washington Post, a "major scientific breakthrough" in fusion energy is being announced this Tuesday from the US Department of Energy. I can't wait.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/12/11/fusion-nuclear-energy-breakthrough/
The #Japanese custom of having special birthday celebrations for kids at the ages of 7-5-3 (shichi-go-san, #七五三) is based on East Asian numerology. The numbers are considered lucky. Kids are dressed in elaborate kimonos and brought to shrines for special blessings.
I took these two photos at Nikko, #Japan ’s famous Toshogu Shrine, a #UNESCO world heritage site.
Two, 3-year old girls and their families happened to be there while I was walking around as a tourist. I particularly like the one in which the little girl’s father has to carry her down a set of stairs as we left the temple, because her father thought she might fall while wearing her tall, red, wooden clogs.
Before you decide that #PaulWhelan should have been freed before #BrittneyGriner because he was a Marine - at last look at the Navy's court record in this link below
Whelan was *courtmartialed* for attempted larceny, dereliction of duty, among other things.
To be clear, I am all for getting any American, including Whelan, unjustly jailed out of the ПИЗДЕЦ (Google it) terrorist/Fascist state that# Russia has become. We should be celebrating a small victory in getting at least Griner home.
Now let the Biden Administration continue working to get Whelan and others home, because the Trump Administration did nothing when Whelan was jailed in Russia.
https://www.jag.navy.mil/courts/documents/archive/2008/WHELAN,%20P.N.%20200800152%20PCE.pdf
Вітаю Президента Володимира Зеленського! Congratulations President Volodomyr Zelenskyy. Time's Person Of The Year, 2022.
Ukrainians, please feel free to correct my Ukrainian. I'm a beginner at your language.
https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2022-volodymyr-zelensky/
For all us #dog lovers, #60minutes ' recent look at the evolution of dogs and how it intertwined with humans. #Genetics studies suggest that both Homo sapiens and Canis familiaris mutually evolved with friendliness genes that improved each other's survival. Other #gene studies of both species are helping to find new anti-cancer treatments.
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- @edcasabar.bsky.social
Joined Nov 2022
