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Ilya אש Ash

@ashcomco.bsky.social

Poet and journalist based in and around Jerusalem. A Moscow transplant, worked in two media outlets later banned/closed in Russia. Shooting daily JLM life. Please, call me Ash. Mostly on Mastodon: https://zirk.us/@ash Moar: http://ash.com.co

127 Followers  |  533 Following  |  119 Posts  |  Joined: 19.11.2024  |  2.7123

Latest posts by ashcomco.bsky.social on Bluesky

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Terror Returns to Darfur Only American pressure can stop the killing in Sudan.

"However terrible the war and its consequent famine in Sudan is today, it can still get much worse"

From Alex de Waal, who knows Sudan better than anyone

www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

07.11.2025 23:17 — 👍 724    🔁 267    💬 21    📌 5
A vintage advertisement featuring cartoon drawings of seven men rushing to drink Guinness after a long work day. The tagline emphasizes that Guinness is 'good for you'.

GUINNESS
IS GOOD FOR YOU

If seven men
... at seven jobs
Stopped when the whistle blew,
What would they hurry off to, but
The drink that's Good for You?
And that's why after working, ours
Is always Guinness too.

A vintage advertisement featuring cartoon drawings of seven men rushing to drink Guinness after a long work day. The tagline emphasizes that Guinness is 'good for you'. GUINNESS IS GOOD FOR YOU If seven men ... at seven jobs Stopped when the whistle blew, What would they hurry off to, but The drink that's Good for You? And that's why after working, ours Is always Guinness too.

Nov 1951: Guinness ad

«GUINNESS
IS GOOD FOR YOU»

07.11.2025 22:55 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

He doesn’t have a club, he is going to a club

#HotPantsHercules

02.11.2025 13:22 — 👍 28    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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#israelmuseum #jerusalem #israel #people #photography

29.08.2025 10:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
How Did The World Get So Ugly?
YouTube video by The Cultural Tutor | Sheehan Quirke How Did The World Get So Ugly?

Sheehan Quirke (“The Cultural Tutor”) with a paean to the Victorian design ethos, which combined modern utility & often exuberant ornamentation, thereby imbuing even highly functional buildings and quite ordinary objects w/ a sense of timeless beauty. Alas, no more.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWYx...

09.10.2025 17:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Robot Soft Exorcism | YCFC David Dark joins Evan Rosa to talk about his idea of

I think about the concept robot soft exorcism a lot which he has returned to a lot over the last half decade. Perhaps i will check out his books and return to your post at some point and have a better answer as to why the association sprung to my mind
faith.yale.edu/media/robot-...

25.10.2025 21:19 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Your date is better in your pie

25.10.2025 18:53 — 👍 172    🔁 15    💬 8    📌 5
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Civil Disobedience of Copyright Keeps Science Going Creating and sharing knowledge are defining traits of humankind, yet copyright law has grown so restrictive that it can require acts of civil disobedience to ensure that students and scholars have

Publishers need to learn that when they don't work with researchers to do the right thing, scholars find their own solutions—legal or otherwise. #OAWeek www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

25.10.2025 14:58 — 👍 76    🔁 31    💬 1    📌 1
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from Prosthesis Factory - Asymptote 76A sudden lurch—forward, back,once, twice,and they’re offa booth on wheels,a puddle,garden,clay,clay,sandy loam,loamy clay,and now—            nothing ...

Five poems by a prominent soviet underground poet Yan Satunovsky (1913—1982) from the upcoming book Prosthesis Factory.

I'm so delighted that his poetry is finally available in English for you to know and love! < 3

www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/prost...

#booksky #poetry #samizdat

24.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so,
Lest child, child’s children, cry against you woe!

24.10.2025 23:33 — 👍 325    🔁 59    💬 1    📌 2

"The name's Eels. Live Eels."

24.10.2025 19:58 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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"No emotions, please, we're British." A review of Marianne Hauser's The Living Shall Praise Thee from the Liverpool Daily Post, 3 April 1957.

24.10.2025 20:00 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Golden Bird (1987)

#animationtidbits #sakuga #animation #2danimation

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The Chevalier d'Eon, the Man-Woman, from the frontispiece to The Mysteries of Sex : Women Who posed as Men and Men Who Impersonated Women by C. J. S. Thompson (1938). Available on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/...

22.10.2025 20:00 — 👍 44    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 1
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from Prosthesis Factory - Asymptote 76A sudden lurch&#8212;forward, back,once, twice,and they&#8217;re offa booth on wheels,a puddle,garden,clay,clay,sandy loam,loamy clay,and now&#8212;&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; nothing ...

Five poems by a prominent soviet underground poet Yan Satunovsky (1913—1982) from the upcoming book Prosthesis Factory.

I'm so delighted that his poetry is finally available in English for you to know and love! < 3

www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/prost...

#booksky #poetry #samizdat

24.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

four dicks

19.10.2025 03:28 — 👍 1721    🔁 317    💬 63    📌 17
The Number
YouTube video by Neoangin - Topic The Number

Recently, I can’t stop thinking how that little song by Psoy Korolenko [1] has turned out to catch up with us — to be about us too directly and too precisely, much more than I could’ve ever anticipated.

music.youtube.com/watch?v=4-WO...

#ישראל #Israel #Russia #JewishLife #JewishMusic

19.09.2025 18:01 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Rooting for the black hole

14.10.2025 21:08 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thou sayest the King grows mad, I’ll tell thee, friend,
I am almost mad myself.

14.10.2025 20:22 — 👍 554    🔁 131    💬 11    📌 4
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From “Historical Chronicles” to “The Age of the USSR”: How Russian television justifies war and repression through “historical” films On Sept. 11, 2024, Russian journalist and television host Nikolai Svanidze passed away. His most significant legacy lies in his educational documentaries, which conveyed Russian history — including it...

From “Historical Chronicles” to “The Age of the USSR”: How Russian television justifies war and repression through “historical” films

Since 2014, Russian television has been glorifying Soviet leaders, justifying totalitarianism, and demonizing the West.

13.10.2025 19:02 — 👍 20    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Hearing rumours that Reform are going to promise to pardon Guy Fawkes.

13.10.2025 21:41 — 👍 33    🔁 5    💬 6    📌 0

David Litwa is THE authority on Gnostic writings. Justin Sledge + David Litwa discussions are seriously not to be missed if you’re into the topic.

19.08.2025 04:27 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Low Quality Facts Low Quality Facts written in arguably lower quality handwriting.

I now have a place where you can buy me a coffee. But please keep in mind that I really like coffee. I like it a lot. And I drink it fast. If you guys give me $80,000 to buy coffee, I will do exactly that and I will drink it all in one day. My body will explode.
buymeacoffee.com/lowqualityfa...

11.10.2025 13:46 — 👍 60    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0
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Counting bodies, casting doubts Independent Russian analysts dispute the reliability of alleged Russian casualties leaked by Ukraine’s military intelligence — Meduza This week, researchers at the independent news website Mediazona and the OSINT project Conflict Intelligence Team disputed the reliability of alleged Russian military records leaked by Ukraine’s milit...

Mediazona and CIT recently sparked some controversy by disputing a report from Ukraine's military intelligence project "I Want to Live" that supposedly contains leaked Russian KIA records. I read through the reservations and wrote up this summary.

meduza.io/en/feature/2...

11.10.2025 00:20 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Scientific Humanisms (Chapter 5) - Science and Humanism Science and Humanism - October 2025

If you’d like to read a paper about World War One, history and philosophy of science—especially Sarton’s New Humanism and Reichenbach’s logical empiricism—, and scientific humanism, I wrote one!: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... #philsky

10.10.2025 23:35 — 👍 39    🔁 14    💬 4    📌 1
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The Art of Nicolas Dehghani → bit.ly/2V9qYZF

#artist #portfolio #illustration #art

10.10.2025 23:02 — 👍 74    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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Address on the Day of Reunification of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Lugansk People’s Republic and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions with Russia

@timothysnyder.bsky.social @popovaprof.bsky.social for the convenience of your followers, here is the English version of the address: en.kremlin.ru/events/presi...

10.10.2025 22:37 — 👍 47    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1
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Why the Latest Nobel Prize Winner Makes Perfect Sense László Krasznahorkai is unusually experimental for a Nobel Prize winner, but in an unstable world, his selection feels perfectly timely.

László Krasznahorkai is unusually experimental for a Nobel Prize in Literature winner, but in an unstable world, his selection feels perfectly timely. Walt Hunter on the political power of his timeless art:

10.10.2025 18:15 — 👍 54    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

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