If you're referring to Sign My Rocket, it's legit. I've been in the guy's Telegram channel, Combat Footage; the pinned messages have more information, including when the actual website was launched (iirc, it all used to be done via Telegram messages). I believe the older pins explain how he's working with a charity helping the army in Cherkasy. A friend of mine recently bought a signed shell as a birthday gift to himself. Most people will go for the shells since they're smaller and cheaper.

Obvious content warning for the channel itself - as the name says, there's tons of footage from the battlefield that is posted.

Yep, I had the same thought. I run Win10 on my desktop and PopOS on my laptop; I plan to keep running Win10 for as long as possible, but if this cloud-based nonsense is the future, I'm not hesitating to also switch my desktop to Linux. This stuff is so ridiculous.

Heartwarming: the worst people you know are all fighting!

I hope they shred each other.

Yep, just wonderful stuff. And, just like the dam, everyone is going to sit back and let it happen because "there's nothing we can do, I don't want to be nuked!" Then it happens, and it's suddenly, "well, we're not REALLY sure who caused this. I mean, we just CAN'T know!"

So many self-proclaimed environmentalists who won't say a word about how this is going to be a far worse disaster than Chornobyl (same as how they said nothing about the ecocide caused by the Kakhova dam being blown up), or the numerous "concerned citizens" who were so deathly afraid of nuclear war (really, they just hate Ukraine and Ukrainians; they don't actually care beyond that) that will now say nothing about a major nuclear blackmail threat.

Many will just cry that Ukrainians are being hysterical about this as they were the dam, even after it happens; people don't realize that this isn't alarmism for the sake of alarmism - Russia means business and they will eventually unleash a new wave of terror. I don't know about others, but I'm terrified of living in a world where nuclear blackmail is a tactic that works.

This is a very insightful thread, thank you for sharing!

This part alone is a fantastic summary of it all:

Eastern Europe has long been cast as a form of malleable buffer zone and space of competition between the West and Russia. Eastern European interests have been defined only or primarily in reference to Western and Russian interests, and Eastern European lived experience has been seen as no more than a form of peripheral discourse that is either serving or reacting against the two centres that are pulling it in opposite directions.

Ahoj, seadogs!

I hope they have the new Spiderverse :p

Yeah, I wish :/ Unfortunately, our international institutions (and even some world leaders) are still refusing to hold Russia accountable for mining and destroying the Kakhovka dam. Russian mining in Ukraine is extremely bad; I honestly fear it's going to be as bad as what the Khmer Rouge did to Cambodia.

Something neat that I've been reading about, though, is that Cambodians are helping Ukrainians with the de-mining by training more mine-sniffing rats. It's been pretty successful in Cambodia because the rats are small enough that they can detect the mines without setting them off.

Yeah, I feel the same; I also really dislike their special relationship with Russia. It doesn't seem to be faltering much even with Russia's war. They actually just strengthened their trade ties a few months ago. Though, while not the most ideal situation, Russia continuing to crawl to China for support could help push India away from them.

Lol, rip bozo. Hope he gets convicted

Thank you for the fix!

It's like a fire that just keeps burning

I don't remember hearing anything about the Brits training Ukrainian pilots (would be really cool if they are, though!), but I've heard multiple times that the French are training them on the Mirage 2000.

In a bid, perhaps, to quell some concerns Andrzej Duda, the president, has submitted amendments to the law, removing or diluting some of its more contentious points such as the commission's power to exclude people from public office.

Perhaps they've realized that completely going through with the anti-Tusk campaign would actually sink them (I still have my doubts that PiS are capable of realizing this entirely, but eh). Though if the law were remotely serious about "combating Russian influence," you would see them go after Konfederacja goons...which will probably only happen when pigs fly.

Greetings my fellow libs