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@vagrantjourno.bsky.social

Ukrainian news editor, podcaster, and journalist

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Oh well in that case carry on

05.08.2025 14:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Like rocks all you want, but how can a rock have right?? Unless you're /really/ into animism

05.08.2025 13:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why are we giving an inanimate object "rights"? Thats not even a coherent concept when applied to rocks!

05.08.2025 13:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I guess it's time to rewatch Hard Boiled again

05.08.2025 13:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I didn't bother reading anything but 'elf wife' so lemme know when to wishlist

05.08.2025 13:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fellas, since yesterday we raised only โ‚ฌ110, so time for matching๐ŸŒš

Our dear @gohansupersyai2 proposed us a matching up to $500. Can we do it?๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿ‘ˆ

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05.08.2025 13:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 57    ๐Ÿ” 38    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Because as @mtsw.bsky.social says...

05.08.2025 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Vladimir Putin has never had "faith" in anything except his own bastardness his entire life. Sigh.

05.08.2025 07:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I could never be an influencer because being one would require having positive things to say about things, and for the past several years (3 years, 5 months, 1 week, and 5 days, but who's counting?), I have been categorically incapable of discerning anything positive that is also worth mentioning.

04.08.2025 17:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Tomorrow's headlines, today!

05.08.2025 07:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yet - that's the only way you can reclaim your humanity. People say touch grass - I say that's the same dopamine trigger as posting or a burrito chauffeur or anything else. Instead, figure out how you want things to look in 10, 20, 30, 50 years - and then work towards it. It'll take time.

05.08.2025 06:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is a hard sell, of course. The immediacy offered by the modern neoliberal capitalism is difficult to ignore, as a human working on human biological impulses. The feeling of permacrisis is not only a psychological reaction to anomie, but a deliberate design of profit-maxmizing entities.

05.08.2025 06:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's because long-term planning requires sacrifice and duty, and those are not things that people give a shit about anyone (see burrito taxis). Instant gratification, more than any social media, has completely fucked humanity. Only way to fix it is to stop valuing your own convience over anything.

05.08.2025 06:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For an international example, we can look at Ukraine. Not a single person in the world, aside from Vladimir Putin, has a long-term outlook for the war and its resolution. European leaders seem entirely content to watch thousands of people die every year with no one end in sight.

05.08.2025 06:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The reason it petered out is because the politicos assumed that, due to the lack of a response, no one cares about the fascist takeover. That may be true to an extent. But what those politicos are failing to understand is that time+repetition=success.

05.08.2025 06:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What we find is that after a few fitful starts of resistance (Booker's filibuster) for example, it petered out entirely when there was no immediate response. Dems aren't even talking about boycotting Congress, much less doing another filibuster.

05.08.2025 06:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fascists, despite this being slightly counter-inuitive, clearly are willing to work on plans for years and generations. And it seems like almost no one else is. Let's look at a variety of political crisis', both domestic and international. On the domestic front, we can examine the fascist takeover.

05.08.2025 06:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Now, on the one hand, it's obvious why - neoliberalism exacerbates the presentism of capitalism to such a degree that the past is a content mine, the future doesn't exist, and the now is all that we ever have.

This makes it difficult to resist fascism.

05.08.2025 06:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One of the biggest problems in modern politics isn't the fact that we all live in entirely delusional takes-bubbles (I'll be honest, that has been the case for most of human existence), but the fact that most people have completely lost the ability to plan things out long-term.

05.08.2025 06:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is why Crimes Against Humanity Trials and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission are required minimums in the next Presidency or whatever government the US has after Trump. We tortured some people doesnโ€™t cut it anymore and never did.

04.08.2025 21:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You can pull my air fryer out of my cold dead hands you bastards

05.08.2025 06:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yuck, I have to accept a compliment? No thanks, call me an uninformed shitgobbling cockmangler before offering even the hint of praise.

05.08.2025 06:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Israel doesn't get a pass on committing genocide. Holodomor is one of the most terrifying fates to subject a human to - us Ukrainians know that well. Quite frankly, you disgust me and I hope you are kept far away from any sort of human society.

05.08.2025 06:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Beyond the Classism of Defeat A Left asleep at the wheel of a long-gone industrial proletarian dream.

"Rather than signifying class and prioritizing economy, anti-woke politics remains within a cultural register. It distracts from the very attack on the conditions of life and work it purports to prioritize, in effect...a message force multiplier for the right."

communispress.com/beyond-the-c...

04.08.2025 13:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 214    ๐Ÿ” 49    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

The only upside to LLMs is that they serve the same status signal as crypto - anyone who talk about it is probably a giant piece of shit.

05.08.2025 06:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

04.08.2025 04:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4237    ๐Ÿ” 1026    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 55    ๐Ÿ“Œ 38

I will never ever let this go, because Netflix fucked me, personally, by cancelling a show that truly spoke to me, in my dark and shriveled heart, and what it said was dick 9/11 jokes (laudatory)

03.08.2025 23:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Netflix fucked up cancelling Inside Job, it's a fucking travesty

03.08.2025 23:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Support your local creamery instead of the pro-Russian ice cream guys who are also owned by a multinational company continuing to do business in Russia

03.08.2025 13:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 286    ๐Ÿ” 44    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

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