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I have seen, conservatively, at least 20 posts about people teaching themselves math and science in order to write project hail mary fanfiction. Folks i think everything's gonna be ok actually
Some time ago, I received a question about how people in the russian-occupied territories of Ukraine live. My mother called today (she lives in Donetsk). It's a miracle she's still able to call me with a VPN. She shared news of my hometown. She had to close the window to say all this, despite not actually saying anything criminal. Because that's what life is like there. Everyone is scared.
Everything we knew in that town all our lives has pretty much ceased to exist - and, mind you, the town is not on the frontline. Nothing there has been destroyed, it's just been under occupation since 2014. Now our industrial bakery, meat processing plant, and coking plant - they all have stopped production under the glorious russian governance. Our steel mill - the main town employer (it's a monotown, everything is dependent on that mill) - has been put on "hot conservation," which basically means it's kept operational but produces nothing.
She says at all the border checkpoints (and there still is a border between the "DPR" and russia, despite them proclaiming it a part of russia in 2022), they check everyone's phones. Every phone has spyware on it, and every conversation is being listened to. She says sometimes she'll be talking to my father on the phone and then hear other voices commenting on what she has said, or just chatting in the background. I can't tell you if it's true or not, but I believe her.
So there you have it: personal accounts of what life there looks like.
If Christina Koch went to the moon, I can do this assigment, I can make that phone call, I can try snowboarding for the first time, I can finish this reaserch paper, I can study for that exam, I can get out of bed with a little more wonder. If she could go to the moon, I can do anything.

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~English Translation and additional context after this next paragraph, since this account is for practicing Ukrainian, but I also feel this is something that needs to be said in English, since more people should know about Ukrainian (literary) history. It’s just been something that’s been on my mind a lot lately.~
Я іноземка, але чим більше читаю про Василя Симоненка, тим більше хочу писати. Творити та розповідати з серцем. Його було вбито у 28 років радянськими агентами за розкриття масових поховань НКВС у 1963. 28 років!! Він був молодий, та багато писав. Зробив так багато в 28 років. Потім, раптово, рання смерть та без більш голосу. Так страшно!! Перший вірш, який прочитала українською - «Ти знаєш, що ти — людина?» Всі люди: Нам треба не лише спішити жити та кохати, а творити та будувати гарні світи. Висловити себе! Життя коротке.
I’m a foreigner, but the more I read about Vasyl Symonenko, the stronger urge I get to write. To create and speak from the heart. He was assassinated at 28 years old by Soviet agents for uncovering mass graves of NKVD victims in 1963. 28!! He was young and accomplished a lot in just 28 years. Then, suddenly, an early death and an end to his voice (which is just what the regime wanted.) It’s scary to think about!! The first poem I read in Ukrainian was his most recited poem, “Do you know that you are human?” In the poem, he says, in translation:
Today, everything’s for you —
The lakes, the groves, the steppes.
You must hurry to live,
You must hurry to love —
Make sure you don’t oversleep!
To all people: we need not only to hurry to live and to love, but also create and build good worlds. To express ourselves and make our voices heard. Life is short.
You know the meme where you go "the name of [noun with a diminutive] implies the existence of [a hypothetical HUGE form of same thing, but without the diminutive]" like "existence of dorito implies the existence of THE DORO" and it's a huge-ass corn chip the size of a wheel of cheese?
Well, in finnish, the word for moth is "yökkönen", from "yö" (night), the suffix "-kko/kkö" which has many purposes but one of them is to change any word into "person involved with doing something with the root word", and the dininutive "-nen". So the name of moth is "little night creature".
But coming back to the diminutive meme, the existence of yökkönen would imply the existence of yökkö, the big (or at least medium-sized, or non-small) night creature. Through a happenstance completely unrelated to moths or other insects, "yökkö" is the finnish vernacular word for a night shift nurse.
The Artemis II images are making me emotional for a lot of reasons but one of them is:
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I never thought I would be siding with the pope’s involvement in politics and cheering him on. I will say that.

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It's official! The Artemis II crew of Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen (speaking) and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman have broken the Apollo 13 distance record and flown further from the Earth than any human in history.
In 1966 two young men raised Ukrainian flag on top of university in Kyiv as a protest against soviet totalitarian regime. Writing on the flag says: "Ukraine has not yet perished, it has not been killed yet", first half of the sentence is a reference to Ukrainian anthem. Due to supply shortage in USSR flag was made from two scarfs. KGB confiscated the flag, conducted secret mass inspections searching for protesters, detained both of them and later they were sent to the labor camps.
As someone who has very limited experience with kids:
Are kids who refuse to eat actually as much of a problem as people with kids make it out to be? I have never heard of someone's kid starving to death with a plate full of food in front of them just because The Food Was Yucky. Nor seen an adult with stunted growth from childhood starvation for the same reason. And yet people with kids talk about their struggles with their kids' eating like that's a very real thing that can happen.
Like is this a real issue, and how have I never heard of it before? My parents didn't exactly shelter us from witnessing anything traumatic, so I don't understand why I've never even heard of anyone losing a kid or a sibling this way.
I don't have a kid myself, but I had some experience with 4-11 year-olds, and, while it's for sure exaggerated by parental worry (or fear or desire to controll or whatever), the problem is kind of real.
I also don't know of anyone who starved themselves to death due to wanting chicken nuggies instead of whatever their parents cooked that day. But I did see kids with health problems due to poor diet, and kids who grew up having unhealthy relationship with food because parents never modeled food diversity and, essentially, just let their offspring figure out the consequences of not eating by themselves. Think about how you feel after not eating for 8 hours straight: parents (good ones, at least) don't want their children feeling like that. And, in my experience, little humans' body sensations are a hundred times higher, and the chances of them having upset stomachs or skin conditions or (impressively) low immune systems due to bad nutrition is a lot.
I know that if I'm in a horrid mood and my head hurts in the evening, I'm probably hungry. A toddler who just had their first bit of body-consciousness doesn't know that, and has not yet learnt the link between "disgusting green stuff" and "not being cranky and tired all the time", so it's on parents to make sure they eat well and enough.
It's easy to forget sometimes, but (some) (most, hopefully) parents really want their kid to be happy, not just live long enough to adulthood. So, they stress over the (real) possibility of their kid being moderately unhealthy, and if the kid is adamant about not adhering to the diet, they will stress and feel like bad parents. Especially so, if, when they do a yearly check-up, the doctor points out that the kid has a Vitamin-XYZ deficiency and anemia.
Anyway, I'm not talking about parents who just refuse to see their kids as human beings and instead insist on feeding them an adult-sized portion of whatever is most convenient that day. Seen that too and had to communicate to a grown-ass 42 year-old woman that her plan of feeding her 6-year-old two full-sized meals a day is not going to "teach him to just take what's given." A quote, btw.
Also, not talking about ARFID because I have never cared for a kid with ARFID.
young man. what is that you have found.
I said young man. you picked it up off the ground.
I said young man. you should put that thing down.
I don't think! that! you! should! eat that!
You're hot as hell. Can i dm you? I'm not a fascist.
The young woman's micro-blog loads on your screen.
PERCEPTION [Trivial: Success] - This *is* an attractive one.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Easy: Success] - It's been too long. Your flesh craves hers.
SUGGESTION [Trivial: Success] - Slide into her DMs right now.
YOU - They're closed.
SUGGESTION [Medium: Success] - Has that ever been a problem for us?
VOLITION [Challenging: Success] - Get in her ask-box instead.
YOU - What would I even say?
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] - This one's a *Communard*.
RHETORIC [Godly: Failure]
- "You're hot as hell."
- "Can I DM you?"
- "I'm not a fascist."

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I read an interview that a Ukrainian journalist did with an Austrian director who made a film about “good Russians.” He more or less admitted, between the lines, that even though he had been in Kyiv, Ukrainians didn’t really inspire him and he couldn’t connect with them the way he could with Russians — even after they told him about their problems, not only regarding the military invasion but also the colonial and cultural ones.
You could feel a slight irritation in him at the journalist’s questions. At one point he said that maybe someday the film could be shown in Ukraine. But as it stands, the film “is not for Ukrainians.”
A film about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — not for Ukrainians.
And that is exactly the biggest problem in how many foreigners connect with us.
They simply don’t see Ukrainians as interesting as Russians. Ukrainians become a kind of collective group — like the victims of any war, interchangeable faces. They die in groups as well. Russians, meanwhile, are treated as symbolic individuals. Each of them dies as a person, as a character.
So it becomes clear who ends up feeling closer to whom.
Situation with electricity is so bad, our teachers in university weren't mad about us missing deadlines on a 2 week task even though we had no other lessons and no other homework.
Mine was to translate Japanese texts, so I chose Japanese news about Ukraine (my thesis topic) and I was surprised to see that there were almost none talking about our electricity situation! I mean, my mutuals and me are talking non stop online about it, neighboring countries are collecting donations to help us with it, so I thought it was a more popular topic.
To be clear, I was looking specifically for news mentioning Ukraine, to understand which topics around Ukraine were popular. And those were topics of peace talks and topics mentioning the USA. There was one article mentioning "energetic ceasefire" (when russia promised not to target Kyiv for a week so that our people wouldn't freeze to death) but no mentions of said "ceasefire" lasting 2 days max. There were no reports about conditions in which people live either.
There were little reports about people being killed in air raids in cities other than Kyiv, and the most recent article I found was "2 people killed in an air raid a day before the peace talks" so it also falls more into the peace talks category. The only time I found other city was mentioned was after russian attack on a passenger train near Kharkiv, when at least 4 people were killed.
It's just so strange to see so little when all you see everyday are reports about people being killed in war. Literally right now, as I'm writing this, I got a notification that 3 kids and one man were killed in Kharkiv region after a russian attack on a civilians' house. Now I get why people say they don't know much about Ukraine. That's why we gotta share more information ourselves, and why I post in English and translate stuff, so that more people can get to know the truth