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Armand tucked away on a pier, lingering after boats leave the harbor

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does not mention Israel anywhere.

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loumand hooking up every time they find themselves in the same place, which is often because they frequented the same kind of places and events for 77 years, they swear to themselves is not gonna happen again (it will)

they think living together again after akasha will be weird even if there's more people with them because they lived together for so long but now basically don't know each other anymore just to find out that no, they still know each other well and better than most people and that's somehow even worse

May everyone be happy and no actor get asked about shit that they should in no way be obligated to know about as part of their professional public-facing press duties.

Ukrainian steppe and Crimea in works of Arkhip Kuindzhi.

It's literally as if they're saying: "We genocided you in the past, banned your language more than a hundred times, ethnically cleansed your land... and now that somehow gives us the right to kill you today!"

One of russian insults towards Ukrainians is using the Ukrainian word for "independent" as a descriptor, but like an insult.

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Occasionally, I notice that some westerners think THEY know russians BETTER than Ukrainians who have been forced to neighbour russians for BASICALLY FOREVER. A lot of the more subtle things can be untranslatable or hold many small intercultural references, political memes even, or hints at previous events.

People outside of the bubble, who never had to tolerate russian internet spaces, can easily underestimate just how essential this survival for Ukrainians is.

Ukrainians also have russian relatives, used to have russian friends, and other long-lasting bonds that have been tested repeatedly throughout YEARS.

It's not like russians decided to invade Ukraine out of nowhere. People overlook the fact that Ukrainians have been resisting russian influences and fighting for just. basically living.

TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016)

There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.

And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.

People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.

Slavery pervades the ancient and pre-modern world. Slaves were so ubiquitous and available in medieval Cairo we have records of a baker and a cobbler going halfsies to buy a girl together. Slaves from Russia were available in Spain. Millions of enslaved Black Africans were moved across the Sahara. Slaves made the sails that powered Viking ships; they did the worst parts of Norse farming as well. Slave trading made Italian city-states wealthy.