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Aliide

@aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
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Journalist, author, cat butler. I write about #Russia, the #Baltic states, and #Ukraine. I don't write about diatoms, I just think they're cool. Views own. Hi! :sp_bi: 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mstdn.social/@aliide, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
they have also since been enjoying sleeping in a drainage channel, and against an unframed seascape #caturday #cats #catsofmastodon #blackcats #voids
Cat in drainCat sleeping upside down against unframed  seascape
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026
Death toll in overnight Russian strikes on Kyiv has risen to 21, according to emergency services #Kyiv #Ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #ukraineWar #russiainvadedukraine #news #worldnews
Emergency service workers dressed in blue sift through building rubble after a Russian attack on the Ukrainian capitalEmergency service workers dressed in blue carrying an orange stretcher with a person on top from the rubble of a building destroyed by Russian overnight strikes on Kyiv
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026
Russia kills at least 4, wounds further 28 in attack on Ukraine's Dnipro, according to Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration head Oleksandr Hanzha #Ukraine #Dnipro #russia #russiainvadedUkraine #russiaUkrainewar #war #imperialism #news #worldnews
Emergency services of Ukraine attending to the scene of the Dnipro attack, courtesy of national police
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
these guyyyyssss ❤️❤️❤️ #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #blackcats #voidcats #sisters #voids
two almost identical black cats lying on a laminate floor, colourful kilim rug in background
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026
Lithuania's cold pink soup (šaltibarščiai) cult is getting out of hand. This is lube. (photocredit: u/Grazhke) #lithuania #vilnius #šaltibarščiai #pinksoup #food #borsch #borshch #sex #Šaltibarščiųfestivalis
A pink bottle with the word "šaltibarščiai" in red, with background illustrations of pickles
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026
what is this #blackcats #caturday #catsofmastodon #cats #voidcats #voids #cat #pets
A black cat lying on her back with legs splashed outwards and front paws in the air, looking goofily at the camera
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026
Clodgy Point, South West Coast Path #MeerMittwoch #Sea #Cornwall
a dark, rocky coastline, vivid blue sea breaking against it, line of clear blue sky at horizon, algae-filled tide pool in the foreground
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026
the other one has started sleeping like this too! #cats #blackcats #catsofmastodon #voidcats #void
A jet black cat sprawled, legs up, on a deep green linen duvet cover
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026
Inside my laptop power cable, wires form the Estonian flag 🇪🇪 #eesti #estonia #baltic #baltics #tech #plannedobsolescence
Black partially degraded cable with internal wires exposed on slightly dusty black desk. Coaster in background with partially drunk glass of kombucha
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026
Yes, this is how I also feel when someone knocks at the door #cat #catsofmastodon #cats #voidcats #void #blackcats
Void cat with airplane ears looking down from atop a beige staircase
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026
These cats have dozens of cosy places to sleep but instead they're taking turns on the pile of random garbage from our final moving boxes. #caturday #catsofmastodon #cats #cat #blackcats #voidcats #void #blackcat #pets
Black cat sprawled on a pile of plastic bags and booksSecond black cat, lying upside down on same trash pile
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026
Stop referring to Steve Sweeney as a "journalist". He works for Russian state television. He's a propagandist. Even the current DOS website notes that it moved beyond being a media entity and is "engaged in information operations, covert influence, and military […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Screenshot of tweet from Shaun Pinner, a former British soldier who fought in Ukraine
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026
This is a really fantastic article that explains why Ukrainians may not be fawning over the Oscar-winning "Mr Nobody against Putin", the way that the rest of the world is. thechrissampson.substack.com/p/the-… And this […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Screenshot of substack article saying "the most direct version ends with the Western commentator declaring that Ukrainian skepticism of Russian dissidents is itself bigotry".
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026
Apparently this is ... just how she sleeps now #cats #cat #blackcats #catsofmastodon #voidcats #caturday
A black cat with a white happy trail, legs splayed, snoozing on her back on wood-effect laminate flooring
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026
This IWD, don't be a self-proclaimed leftist speaking over Ukrainian women from the comfort of Europe 💐 #internationalWomensDay #iwd #iwd2026 #Ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #UkraineWar #feminism
Tweets from Ukrainian and Georgian women asking that Ukrainian women be listened to and stating that equal rights only exist in a democracy Tweet explaining how few women return from Russian captivity after being detained under false premisesTweet explaining that letting women and girls be raped and tortured unchallenged, is not feminist Tweet explaining that many people are alive because of the sacrifices armed Ukrainian women make on the front lines
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026
Remembering this reassuring poster that was put up at a Moscow bus stop in 2016 ("that one has died, this one will die too") #russia #stalin #history #ussr #moscow #aliKhamenei #putin
Picture of death mask of Stalin at snowy bus stop with words "that one has died, this one will die too" in Russian
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026
A couple of important points from :birdsite: #iran #Khamenei #AliKhamenei #tehran #israel #uspol #trump #war #news #wwiii
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Please remember you are likely to see even anti-war
and anti-intervention Iranians celebrate Khamenei’s
death (if confirmed) as he has been a source of death,
tyranny, destruction, and has held Iran back.
8:04 pm: 28 Feb 2026 - 90.3K Views
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026
Oh my god, this so hard. And I think it especially applies to women (who are handed repeated messages that their value lies in their youth and beauty). You get better at boundaries, you don't tolerate pathetic men trying to guilt trip you into giving them your […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Four panel cartoon showing a girl being told to enjoy her youth because your life is over after 30. Then the door after 30 shows a land filled with rainbows and flowers
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026
#ukraine #genocide
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026
Trafalgar square this evening #ukraine #russiainvadedukraine #russia #russiaukraineWar #london #ukpol #uk #trafalgarSquare
A crowd of people wrapped in blue and yellow flags outside the national gallery
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026
this kitty just ... loves sun #cats #cat #catsofmastodon #belated #caturday #voids #voidcats #blackcats
A jet black cat with a white happy trail lying with her front paws in the air in a ray of sunlight, apparently smiling
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026
Screenshot of tweet rejecting privileged western "feminism" that styles itself as "pro-peace"
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026
#cat #cats #caturday #catsofmastodon #blackcats #voidcats
A jet black cat on a beige carpet, sitting slouched over with one of her front paws covering her butt
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026
#russia #epstein #thiel #mandelson #putin #ukpol #epsteinfiles #uspol #jeffreyepstein #news #espionage #moscow
Copy of Epstein russian visa application
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026
Enjoying some rare February sun! #catsofMastodon #blackcats #voidcats #cat #cats
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026
Via Maria Pevchikh on :birdsite: "David Stern arranges a meeting between Epstein and Mariinsky Theatre director and close Putin associate Valery Gergiev, describing the latter as the “owner” of St. Petersburg and a 'GREAT SOURCE OF P'. What P stands for is […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
From: David Stern | -
To: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Subject:

Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2017 19:19:15 +0000

on a different note: Gergiev is a great source of P and he “owns” St Petersburg.
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To: "Jeffrey Epstein" <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:22:12 +0000
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Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 2:34 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein
Subject: Re:
i thought maybe for apollo or simialr.
he will =o breakfast for $5 - mother russia 111!
On 6 Feb 2017, at 13:00, =effrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com> > wrote:
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Valery Gergiev private =oncert in NYC on April 4.
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026
This thread is fun, former VP Pence's then-chief of staff didn't think Trump would make it through 2019. Then we have an email declaring "the Belgium govt fell 5 hours after my speech" and another with a celebratory tone stating "the right has the working class […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Nick has massive disclosure issue-- also told me after last week thinks zero chance trump
makes it thru '19
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Nick has massive disclosure issue-- also told me after last week thinks zero chance trump
makes it thru "19
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They have called a friend asking if he d consider taking it. Not a lot of sign ups to be a
kamikaze
Email declaring "the Belgium govt fell 5 hours after my speech"Conspiratorial email
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026
Though it does cite this doc. Which I've been avoiding (re)posting because I haven't actually found the original. Anyone know if it was removed (or is it fabricated)? #bannon #epstein #epsteinfiles #jeffreyepstein #news
Message ostensibly from Bannon discussing how he plans to coopt EU politics
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026
I hope their new editor encourages them to start using "Russia's ifull-scale invasion of Ukraine" or "Russia's war on Ukraine" instead of "conflict in Ukraine". (I appreciate the irony of saying this while using a "UkraineWar" hashtag but unfortunately it gets […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
About the job

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In the role, you will oversee more than 25 bureaus stretching from Moscow to Dublin and a
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journalists covering conflict in Ukraine and working in other dangerous environments,
experience dealing with staff security will be crucial.
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026
Epstein email with Masha Drokova (formerly of pro-Putin youth org Nashi) #crypto #cryptocurrency #blockchain #epstein #epsteinfiles #news #finance #ethereum #bitcoin
From: Masha Drokova | EEE
To: jeevacation@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 22:13:37 +0000
I've found super smart and young blockchain enthusiast in Russia. He can be better than Vitalik Buterin if he
focuses on technology (money are very distracting in this space). He studied maths and physics science on very
serious level and then turned in blockchain. If you decide to do anything in this space I'd be happy to connect
you
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026
Russia killed at least 15 people — energy sector workers — in an attack on Dnipropetrovsk region today. Earlier the same day, they also targeted a *maternity hospital* in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia. #ukraine #news #russia #russiaukrainewar #genocide #war #drones #breaking
People heading towards the site of a burned-out bus as firefighters spray the area. Rhin layer of snow on ground, sunset in background
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026
More Thiel-Epstein-Russia links. One email reads: Brexit, just the beginning. #Brexit #Thiel #peterthiel #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #trump #news #JeffreyEpstein #russia #putin #europe #nationalism #fascism #EU #maga
Email between Epstein, ThielEpstein-Thiel email discussing Sergey Belyakov (former head of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum Foundation)Email from Sergey Belyakov to Peter Thiel
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026
Relevant tweets :birdsite: #news #epstein #us #security #russia #trump #kompromat #breaking
Tatarigami UA & (Follow A
@Tatarigami_ UA
For years, an online meme phrase spread in the
Ukrainian segment of internet, saying that a pedophile
lobby was working against Ukraine. Seeing how many
anti-Ukrainian figures show up in the Epstein files,
from US elites to officials in Slovakia, it no longer feels
like a joke
10:38 am - 1 Feb 2026 - 91.3K Views
JE] Chad Scott & (Follow A

@cpscott16
The fact that Vladimir Putin appears in the Epstein
files roughly 1,000 times, without being accused as a
predator himself, strongly suggests intelligence
collection for blackmail purposes. If that is the case,
then the Epstein matter is not just a criminal scandal
but an immediate and emerging national security
crisis. Congress should be investigating this starting
tomorrow. We have no clear understanding of what
leverage Putin may have gained over senior levels of
the U.S. government, whether to extract state secrets
or to shape decision-making itself. And given how
Russian intelligence operates, it is naive to think that
any such information would not ultimately be shared
with Xi Jinping and used for leverage on the global
stage.
2:30 am - 1 Feb 2026 - 963K Views
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026
Former Norway PM Jagland coming out of these looking really, really bad. (Churkin was Russia's representative at the UN until 2017) #jagland #norway #noreg #scandinavia #thiel #peterthiel #epstein #trump #putin #lavrov #news #epsteinfiles
Emails between Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein stating that Jagland will be "on the island" for a full weekEmails between Jagland and Epstein explaining how Trump works.
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026
Radokuu in the Estonian folk calendar, with "rado" meaning "storm" in the southern Estonian Võro language. "Kuu" is "moon" — though the month has other names depending on dialect. According to my calendar, tomorrow, the 2nd, is Pudding Day. "The sun on this day […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
A runic-lookinf calendar on a geometric black and white background
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026
"A new form of money, on a world wide basis" is especially interesting: Russia was pushing cryptocurrency hard in the 2010s, and there are Russian figures behind some key crypto projects in the west. And of course crypto is an extremely useful tool for Russia […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Exchange of emails between Jeffrey Epstein and Thorbjøn Jagland
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026
People have become far too used to Ukrainians dying. #Ukraine #russia #russiaUkrainewar #Ukrainewar #genocide #invasion #imperialism #news #war
(3) Olga Tokariuk A

@olgatokariuk
It is shocking how little coverage there is of an
unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine due to
Russia's destruction of its energy grid. It's -20C
outside and half of the country experienced a total
blackout today. Metro trains stopped operating in Kyiv
and Kharkiv today. Rolling blackouts have been
ongoing for weeks, often with no heating and running
water inside people's houses. People get sick and die
because of this. In the meantime, Russians laugh and
call for more strikes to punish Ukraine for its
unwillingness to surrender. These are strikes affecting
millions of civilians amid the harshest winter in
decades. These are crimes against humanity that
Russia is confident it will get away with. We cannot let
that happen
1:36 pm - 31 Jan 2026 - 28K Views
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026
Very interested in the Ocarina of Time! #cat #catsofmastodon #blackcats #voidcats #oot #ocarinaoftime #zelda #caturday
Black cat between scratching post and bookcase, in front of green wall, stares upwards towards a hanging blue ceramic Ocarina of Time.
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026
This is also a major issue on Wikipedia at the moment: Russian trolls have been trying to change the birthplaces of Baltic figures to Estonian/Latvian/Lithuanian SSR — which, if successful, means that Wikipedia is recognising an occupation as legitimate (which […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026
Progress! #korg #synth #synthesizer #electronicmusic #toys #music #diy
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026
Work break, time to build something! #KORG #diy #diy_electronics #synthesizer #synth #music #electronicmusic #electropop #toys #sounds #synthpop
A yet-to-be-assembled flat-pack DIY synthesizer atop a sheet of instructions
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026
Lithuania looking Lowry-esque (photo: Andrius Aleksandravičius) #Lithuania #Kaunas #Baltic #Baltics #Lowry #art #drone #dronephotography #photography
dark figures pacing along the snow-covered main promenade in Kaunas
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026
Latvian drag king Vincent Hemingway staging the executions of Putin and Netanyahu (photos: Baltic Drag King Collective) #netanyahu #putin #bibi #russia #israel #swords #Ukraine #Gaza #genocide #war #drag #dragshow #Latvia #Riga #baltics #baltic #dragking
Drag King with black and white cape styled from keffiyeh and fake moustache raises sword in the air behind a stuffed shirt topped with Netanyahu's face on a chairDrag King with black and white cape styled from keffiyeh and fake moustache raises head covering and Putin's face with fake blood cascading downDrag King with black and white cape styled from keffiyeh and fake moustache raises Putin's head next to his fake white torso, fake blood cascading downDrag King with black and white cape styled from keffiyeh and fake moustache takes bow in front of audience
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026
Also notable that Denmark has been one of the most generous supporters of Ukraine, both in terms of volume and as a proportion of GDP. #Ukraine #Denmark #Greenland #Nuuk #russia #russiaUkraineWar #Ukrainewar
Chart showing Denmark and Baltics as biggest donor's of bilateral aid to Ukraine as a proportion of780 GDP (Denmark at 2.89%)Chart showing Denmark as 7th highest allocator of aid to Ukraine (in billions of US$)
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026
News from the time. Source: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18781771… #history #historymatters #histodons
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026
Good morning! #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #blackcats #scrungycats
Jet black cat on a tartan wool blanket, mid yawn, slightly scrungy face
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026
As I invariably post every few months: I'm so tired of people going to the Baltics to write articles about the "persecuted" Russians there. You're not being persecuted if you refuse to learn the language of the country you live in. The language bar is so low […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Dumb economist headline being dumb
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026
There is more than one way to kill civilians. (CW: :birdsite:) #Ukraine #russia #war #genocide #russiaUkraineWar #UkraineWar #news #ukrainenews
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| don't know who needs to hear this, but destroying an
entire country's power grid over four years of constant
bombings, with the purpose of freezing 40 million
people as temperatures drop to as low as -23 degrees
Celsius in the middle of winter, shouldn't be tolerated.
1:13 am - 9 Jan 2026 - 87.3K Views
Millions of Ukrainians were left without heating, electricity, and water right in the middle of an extremely harsh winter. While everybody knew it was coming and did nothing to prevent it. 5 Olga Patlyuk ™ & (Follow A
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Right now Ukraine is facing severe frost, snow, rain,
and ice — all at once. The worst part is that russia was
waiting for this weather.
At this moment, russia is launching massive attacks on
our energy system to leave people without electricity,
heat, and water.
The situation in Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia is extremely
critical. Today, two russian missiles struck Kryvyi Rih
again.
We are being warned that in the coming days there
may be new massive russian attacks.
| don’t know what else to say. | just want us to be
heard.
8:14 pm - 8 Jan 2026 - 55K Views
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026
Intriguing and worth keeping in mind: Fiona Hill noting in 2019 that Moscow was "signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap agreement between Venezuela and Ukraine" […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
And I was also told by Amos and other colleagues thatthey had some linkages, so I also want to, you know, get you to step back at this period. This is, you know, March,

10 April, into May, where we were having a standoff over

11 Venezuela. And the Russians at this particular juncture were
12 signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some
13 very strange swap arrangement between Venezuela and Ukraine.
14 In other words, if we were going to exert some semblance
15 of the Monroe Doctrine of, you know, Russia keeping out of

16 our backyard, because this is after the Russians had sent in
ir these hundred operatives essentially to, you know, basically
18 secure the Venezuelan Government and, you know, to preempt

19 what they were obviously taking to be some kind of U.S.

20 military action, they were basically signaling: You know,

21 you have your Monroe doctrine. You want us out of your

22 backyard. Well, you know, we have our own version of this.
23 You're in our backyard in Ukraine. And we were getting that
24 sent to us, you know, kind of informally through channels.

25 It was in the Russian press, various commentators.
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