Michael Vokabre

I do like ipod socks so iphone pocket i don’t find in any way negative

Illichivsk because it was renamed to Chornomorsk (and rightfully so)

«What is "ongoing charity" (sadaqah jariyah)?»
(ما هي الصدقة الجارية ؟)
leaflet on a car's front window in Acre

YouTube video by VWestlife What's a Casseiver? 1985 Realistic SCR-2500

This was unexpected (link to 7 minutes 28 second mark)
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I got confused

EA?

Took me a few seconds to process "why have you put two clipart arrows on the photo"

Widow of Chornobyl's first victim killed by Russian attack on Kyiv 39 years later Natalia Khodymchuk, the widow of Valerii Khodymchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, died in Kyiv overnight on Nov. 14–15 after suffering severe injuries in a mass Russian attack on t...

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Deer

UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls who previously appeared to act as a special rapporteur on promoting transphobia decided to do another oof.

Such a weird story.
Folks not allowed to SA because “no exit stamps” (Israel does not use entry and exit stamps).
“border authorities <…> said none of the Palestinians had applied for asylum, leading to their initial denial”
“some had visas for Canada, Australia, Malaysia”

You

By any law

If I wanted to fake being very important in WWII era Britain I'd fake working at Bletchley Park, you can always say "it was secret" when challenged

With cossacks it's a bit special because there is a subethnicity of cossacks, but Russian government decided to go beyond and allow everyone to create "cossack" paramilitary organizations, those became a nationalistic guard of sorts.

It's funny that only during my last visit to France (French Catalonia) where there's a lot of small towns with city halls i realized that mairie is "a city hall" despite Russian language having the same exact word for the city hall, just it never came to my mind to pronounce it like in Russian.

Alicia Esteve Head - Wikipedia

There was a woman in the US who pretended to be a 9/11 attack survivor and got pretty famous in 9/11 survivors circles at that. She managed to keep the act for up until 2007.
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And on top of this there's the whole can of worms that people might be declared WWII veterans in USSR/ex-USSR for doing stuff like police operations against anti-Soviet partisans up until 1951.

And on top of this there's the whole can of worms that people might be declared WWII veterans in USSR/ex-USSR for doing stuff like police operations against anti-Soviet partisans up until 1951.

Extremely common thing in Russia where "The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" is the Main National Idea Thing. There's even a term for these kind of folks, also used to refer to "stolen valour" cossacks, "dressed up", «ряженые». The fake Great Patriotic War veterans even got to the Red Square parade.

Extremely common thing in Russia where "The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" is the Main National Idea Thing. There's even a term for these kind of folks, also used to refer to "stolen valour" cossacks, "dressed up", «ряженые». The fake Great Patriotic War veterans even got to the Red Square parade.

Well... lenta.ru/news/2025/10...

Communism ruining wine is a region like Bulgaria is like the joke about communism bringing shortage of sand in Sahara

Something glitched and the photo on img. 1 taken by me earlier today, was displaying on a preview as img. 2

On the problem of unstable immigration/refuge:
"Oh, I have an acquaintance who spent a year intensely studying Georgian, up to A2 (a fucking huge achievement for Georgian), and then after a visarun they didn't let him into Georgia
Now he's studying Armenian)"
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It's like a Soviet joke that goes like this
"an American visits USSR and says: "in US we have free speech, you can go to the White House and exclaim «Reagan is as ass»
the Soviet guide replies "well, we in USSR also have free speech, you too can go to the Red Square, and exclaim «Reagan is an ass»"

Russian court finds Andrei Kotov guilty of “LGBT extremism”—posthumously. He committed suicide soon after arrest A Moscow court has issued an outrageous posthumous verdict in the “LGBT extremism” case against Andrei Kotov, the 48-year-old director of a travel agency who died in pre-trial dete...

Guilty even in death according to the regime of Russia en.zona.media/article/2025...

YouTube video by Irysik3076 Олень Борис, як кіт який прибився до мого будинку.#Irysik3076 #deer #animals #олень #оленьборис

Ukrainians: "We have Nara at home"
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Россию передают по наследству 76% высших российских госслужащих имеют родню, которая также занята в госуправлении или бизнесе, связанном с властью — исследование «Проекта»

Proekt media released a huge investigation into family corrupt ties of people in power in Russia, titled "Fathers and grandfathers". www.proekt.media/guide/otsy-i...

It is absolutely not allowed by any means to push people with the hood of your car, this is attempted murder.