emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
I honestly expected that.
Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24
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spitfire
Walty McWaltface
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Kind of shit for the staff of the hotel and any other guests. Its proper back to the Dashing 90s shit
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
An ex colleague of mine has run a number of war crimes investigations for trial at the Hague, She is still keen to get into Ukraine and start digging both metaphorically and physically. I imagine it will depend on how this ends if she gets her wish.
petee
no gods, no malarkey
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
After what was found in places like Bucha, this is kind of what I expected would be discovered - but hoped that I would be proved wrong.
not-bono-ever
meh
The ole soviet red armywere known for their massed brutality as a weapon rather than skills or tech. Looks like nothing has changed. There will be a lot of fucked up people on both sides that will survive this.
Ming
I shot a man in Reno...
I made a bong out of one of those when i was a teenager.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Never heard of exchanging human captives for fertilizer before
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Horrific. Russia has so much form for this.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
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Yossarian
⏭️
Putin's probably changed most of the prisoners of war into fertilizer already.
teqniq
DisMembered
Unroll of a very long thread on why Russia is losing territory and generally fucking up:
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Thread by @ChrisO_wiki on Thread Reader App
@ChrisO_wiki: 1/ @ian_matveev, who's one of the smartest Russian-language commentators on the Ukraine war, has posted a very interesting and detailed thread discussing the reasons for Russia's defeat east of Kharkiv...…
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magneze
🎧
Why does anyone post all that to twatter? Weird, do a blog ffs.Unroll of a very long thread on why Russia is losing territory and generally fucking up:
Thread by @ChrisO_wiki on Thread Reader App
@ChrisO_wiki: 1/ @ian_matveev, who's one of the smartest Russian-language commentators on the Ukraine war, has posted a very interesting and detailed thread discussing the reasons for Russia's defeat east of Kharkiv...…
teqniq
DisMembered
I guess because they think it will reach a wider audience, though I could of course be wrong. It does though seem quite painstaking to do it all in tweets; a complete faff tbh.Why does anyone post all that to twatter? Weird, do a blog ffs.
Cid
Proper break this time
Well yeah, blogs aren't so popular these days... Not that there isn't space for some kind of resurgence; that's what companies like Medium and Substack are trying to do, but even then it's probably more of a case of publishing stuff for an existing audience. Like it or not twitter has a lot of actively engaged little communities, and obviously having everything happening on one platform helps communication. It's also pretty easy to post threads (there's just an 'add post' button).
Not that I think this is good as such. It's just how things seem to have spun out over the last decade or so.
Not that I think this is good as such. It's just how things seem to have spun out over the last decade or so.
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
Why not do a blog the post a link to it? Generally don't get why people don't do that? Because no one clicks on links?
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Cid
Proper break this time
I mean one obvious factor is that you actually have to maintain a blog to link to it. And you're going to have to work more on getting your formatting right, thinking through images (and probably image rights come to think of it) etc. Twitter you just... post it up and there it is. And more tweets presumably means more engagement, social media algorithms often seem to favour more active users. And yes, people often don't click through on stuff.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
The popularity of thread reader shows that people do click on links and do like reading things normally without acres of random comments in between paragraphs.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
The popularity of thread reader suggests people like clicking on tweets and reading the entire thing later not being redirected to mythoughts.blogspot
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
It's much disliked on urban but I think Quora can be great for this kind of stuff. Yes there are idiots asking stupid questions, but there is also some great content. And no character limit.
Cid
Proper break this time
Yeah... read first few tweets of thread, decide whether it's interesting, thread read if it's too long.
Cid
Proper break this time
Hmm... as far as I can tell it's at least 95% total garbage. Which I suppose is probably true of twitter, but at least it's easy to filter. And twitter just has a lot of active and well-informed users that probably don't bother with quora.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
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