Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

300 animals died today in the Nova Kakhovka zoo due to russia’s destruction of the Kakhovka HPP dam. This is ecocide. The russians want to destroy anything that is alive.

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1666186127500275714

Reposted from Twitter by @nafobot

#ukraine

We are coordinating with the Member States to deliver rapidly:

→ dirt water pumps
→ fire hoses
→ mobile water purification stations
→ boats

We stand by Ukraine as long as it takes.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/vonderleyen/status/1666121604785487874

Russia will have to pay for the war crimes committed in Ukraine.

The destruction of the dam, an outrageous attack on civilian infrastructure, puts at risk thousands of people in the Kherson region.

Europe is mobilising support through our civil protection mechanism.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/vonderleyen/status/1666115669149077504

@jonn Dropped the bits in the comments in the link at
https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/30602.html

Of course friend, who's kinda conspiracy-theory/right-wing-media adjacent already, is using this as a "well, the CIA popularized the term to discredit activists" talking point now, even when presented with historical facts...

@jonn also, earlier from Bard, screenshot:
https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/30578.html

and related to my digging deeper on that, the problem with using Google front page generally for sourcing:
https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/30579.html

Happy Monday! #joke

@jonn Supporting the current stance is not questioned. The risk of internal divisions is massive, though - this is visible both from large scale events, and personal anecdotal interactions.
Supposedly "patriotic" Americans are spouting russian lines all the time. And they vote, and they participate in insurrections...

@jonn

Oh look!

Just today, a report on how pigs can fake evidence, charge you for something that never happened, and get you sent to prison for nothing.

https://statesman-tx.newsmemory.com/?publink=0dd062601_134abf0

@jonn

Social science as well.

They tend to hire only lower IQs, sometimes refusing you if you've had an IQ test.

Low IQs means very susceptible to the internal culture.
Less intelligence tends to mean bigoted.

They're hiring a lot of ex vets, who for the last 20 years were trained in urban warfare. We're "the enemy."

Oh, and 27 years ago we discovered that white supremacists were actively infiltrating the police and did nothing about it.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement

And that is DONE ! ✅ A year long project coming to an end I am so happy !

I've never posted any of my husband's telephoto #moon shots on Mastodon before. They're very popular in our shop and on our Facebook page. On Twitter I have to brace myself for the shouts of Photoshop from people who know zero about photography.

This is #StCatherinesOratory on the #IsleofWight a medieval lighthouse. This shot is achieved by working out when the moon will rise here (rarely) and standing a couple of miles away with a #telephotolens. The weather has to be kind. #photography