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Happy writing fun ball. Born and raised on Treaty One territory. Now living in Ukraine.
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I did have to smile at these dogs lounging amidst debris, happily chewing on bits of a tree that was blasted to shreds by the missile. No idea anything is wrong, already forgot about the scary noises last night, just delighted there are now extra sticks.
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When they laid this body on the ground, they brought a family over. A man started wailing. I believe it is the father who has been waiting for his son since dawn. I am listening to him sob over the growl of heavy equipment clearing rubble.
Someone stop this madness. Please.
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spare some gratitude for those who do the work to bring victims out to those who love them. I can’t watch this anymore. they did not deserve this.
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Search and rescue crews appear to be digging out another body now. The death toll from this strike keeps growing.
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Two bodies, actually. The police are working on identifying them and documenting them now.
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Just watched them carry another body from the wreckage. There are parents here who have been waiting for their son to be found since dawn. Maybe it is him.
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I can’t take this shit anymore. I can’t. I can’t go to another one of these scenes. It is evil to fire these weapons into cities in a war of choice and aggression. Here in Ukraine, and everywhere.
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This is a quiet neighbourhood. Nothing fancy. Cookie-cutter Soviet apartment blocks lining playground squares, threaded by tree-lined paths. Lots of elderly residents. They were doing what I was doing last night — huddling, listening to the attack. Why did it have to come to them? What did they do?
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thank you 💜
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Finally got a few hours sleep around 7 am. Heading to the worst strike site soon.
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I don’t know exactly where all the hits were, just woke up. I don’t think anything too close to me but that cruise missile low flyby was… new
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This audio is bad quality, and quite muted since I was in the basement. But this was them shooting at a drone over the city centre about 10 minutes ago; gives a sense of what Kyiv has sounded like for the last six hours, along with many far, far larger explosions and rocket engine sounds
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Yes! On the Estonia. For some reason it won’t let me post the link but googling that brings it right up, incredible story.
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Five hours and counting now, and still a bunch of Shahed drones over Kyiv (can hear them shooting at them now) and reportedly more missiles incoming, though may have been stopped en route. Images of awful damage to residential buildings in the city.
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I’m alright. Only a few drones left buzzing around now, hopefully it stays that way. Awful night though.
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Doing my best. Didn’t make it to metro tonight but I’m catsitting for a friend and his apartment has a basement level that, while not exactly a proper shelter, would basically require it land directly on us at a very odd angle to reach so I was reasonably safe
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I envy those happy little birds so much I can hardly stand it, I bet they even slept
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Between end of July and end of August, pending a couple things to sort out
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Lately, just attempting to sleep when I can as I’ve had horrendous anxiety for over a month and it’s destroyed my sleep and overall productivity. Otherwise, trying to finish a couple projects I need to do before I come home.
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I’m honestly not and honestly just a stubborn idiot who doesn’t want to leave her friends
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The birds outside are chirping and things are exploding at the same time.
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Special shout-out to Pride volunteer Nika Khmarska (left). At just 14 and displaced from her hometown of Donetsk, in our brief chat she radiated hope, life, spirit — and so very brave, in many ways. Ukraine is blessed to have bright lights like her looking to the future.
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The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE
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I’m also getting my bingo card out for “something something Russian speakers in Donbas,” typically from people who have never been to Donbas, or have any clue how outright laughable the claim is to anyone who has.
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I do very well, yes — and from the implied reasoning of you asking that question, I suspect you very much do not.
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Russia invaded Ukraine, and remains determined to kill and displace Ukrainians to occupy their homes. If Russia left today, the war would be over; since it refuses to do so, how do you suggest Ukraine respond to existential threat against its independence + people, if not by martial defence?
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One quirk recently has been they’re not turning the “up” escalator on at Maidan Nezalezhnosti until the siren is clear, so if you go down but want to leave early you have to walk up all that way :/
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I also wish to add that the Kyiv metro is freakishly clean at most / all times. I brought a yoga mat today but zero problem sleeping on that floor without one. Small army of brusque but friendly middle-aged ladies who sweep and mop it all the time.
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I’m ok, I’ve just been really struggling with bad anxiety about the whole thing and not sleeping for weeks, which just… makes things difficult
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They do!
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The Kyiv metro is awesome, and doubly so when being slammed with ballistic missiles. So chill down here, not even a little anxious, literally nothing can get you, we are a billion feet underground and have a dang nuclear blast door.
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Why, it's almost ALMOST like chatbots have no ability to read or reason, it's almost like its impossible for them to not generate an elephant when told not to think of an elephant because of how it is, structurally, at its core
www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/...
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Really undercuts the propagandists’ usual claim that Ukrainian is just a dialect of Russian when they admit they can’t understand it