Aaron

Polit. Scientist/ 🌻🇺🇦🚜

/ One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is, that you end up being governed by your inferiors./ Gay not queer

[Frankie_KPSS @frankie_fatal]

I am 62 years old. I came out in 1977 when I was 16. I fought for gay rights with my gay brothers and lesbian sisters. Some of my friends were put in institutions and given ECT because they were gay. One of my friends was beaten and left for dead in a local park 1/

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron stated today that the ongoing Riots have resulted in Worse Violence than the 2005 French Riots in which over 3,000 Civilians and Police were Injured and over 8,000 Cars were Destroyed; he further stated that Decisions will have to be made during his meeting with the Crisis Unit later today.

[Гюндуз Мамедов/Gyunduz Mamedov @MamedovGyunduz]

More than 60 bodies of people killed by flooding found in the occupied right bank of Kherson region, @GeneralStaffUA reports. The bodies are being buried in mass graves without any markings. Not marking the graves so that the buried can be found and retrieved in future is a violation of #IHL

[herm1t @vx_herm1t]

PMC Wagner has announced that they have taken down the satellite provider Dozor-Teleport and damaged user terminals. Their rivalry with the RU MoD is manifesting in an unusual way. This is the second major satellite provider breach after Viasat https://t.co/ScBiGdO5DP

[Faytuks News @Faytuks]

The Biden administration is strongly considering approving the transfer of cluster munition warheads to Ukraine, multiple people familiar with the matter told CNN

https://t.co/OHLJmhnyFN

[Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 @d_foubert]

Our first Abrams tanks 🇺🇸 just arrived.
350 ordered
(+1000 South Korean tanks.)

Don't ask what they will be used for.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

This photo shows the Statue of Liberty seen from the torch. The torch has been closed to the public since 1916 when it was damaged in an explosion caused by German spies.

The event is known as the Black Tom explosion, which happened on July 30, 1916. At that time, the United States had not yet joined World War 1, but they were selling weapons to the Allied powers. Germany sent saboteurs to destroy production lines and supplies.

Around 100,000 pounds (45,000 kg) of TNT were stored on a barge on the night of the explosion. Guards noticed small fires and left, fearing an explosion. At 2:08 am, the first and biggest explosion occurred. It was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, equivalent to 5.0 and 5.5 on the Richter scale. The blast was felt in Philadelphia and shattered windows in Times Square. The explosion caused $20,000,000 in damages and claimed four lives.

This incident turned public opinion against Germany and eventually led the United States to join World War 1 on April 16th, 1917.

[Calum E. Douglas FRAeS @CalumDouglas1]

If you think WW2 was bad for the Allies in terms of losses in 1944, consider the following sobering facts and breathe a sigh of relief.

1) Due to the attacks on the German synthetic oil plants (totally unbeknownst to us) German production of Nitrogen and Ammonia was almost stopped. This had such a catastrophic impact on the production of explosives and propellants, that by late 1944, German shell casings were packed with nearly 70% rock salt (i.e. filler).

2) In July 1944, Germany was fighting on three fronts, (four if you include the airspace above Germany as a "front"). Only 20% of the production of fighters was allocated to Luftflotte Reich in mid 1944. This is ONE explanation for the failure to obliterate the Allied bomber offensive.

3) Germany, had by 1943 almost totally lost the scientific arms race in the field of electronics & radar (having enjoyed superiority early on), as a result their AAA shells (unlike Allied products) had no proximity fuse, but were set to a predetermined altitude before firing (by hand).

4) USAAF auditors concluded after extensive investigation of Albert Speer`s production records, that around 8000 new fighter aircraft did not exist, and had likely never done so. They concluded that to keep favour with the High Command, Speer had secretly ordered that repaired aircraft and even those undergoing minor refits at the factory, be allocated to the "new aircraft" data lists shown to Hitler. Since Hitler was of course never going to request to read thousands of airframe numbers, the deception was effective.

[Erika  @ExploreCosmos_]

Imagine a massive celestial bubble made of ice and dust surrounding our Solar System. That’s the Oort cloud.⁠
⁠
The Oort Cloud lies at the very edges of the Solar system. It’s so far away that it can’t be seen directly and remains unexplored by spacecraft.⁠ 1/

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

The news is out! The @NANOGrav pulsar timing array collaboration has detected a background of cosmic gravitational waves rippling through our Universe! Let’s talk about it!
(Full press conference tomorrow, https://t.co/7hsBd7IWdO)
1/n

[Rony Vernet 🇧🇷 @RonyVernet]

Brazilian Air Force just released new official docs covering UFO sightings from 2022, mainly reported by commercial airline pilots. All documents are available for download: https://t.co/BZB5SFMmrw

Brazilians can also access National Archives website https://t.co/njoYWBsBVh

[CTV News @CTVNews]

Smoke from Canada wildfires is increasing health risks in Black and poorer U.S. communities https://t.co/VKHeaP1hvH

[Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 @Lyla_lilas]

Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and Kherson regions have started drills in case of an accident at ZNPP. The exercises are close to real-life events, practicing all possible scenarios, for example, that a radioactive cloud could reach any region of the country.

Evacuation teams are working in each locality to move people to safe zones. Almost 200 additional police patrols are also working on the highways to ensure that there are no traffic jams and that evacuation vehicles can move freely.
Src: liveukraine_media

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

France has Halted all Public Transport across the Nation beginning later tonight as 40,000 Federal and Local Police have been Deployed across the Country in hopes to Quell the Nationwide Protests and Riots that have been ongoing for almost 2 Days now, due to the Shooting Death of a 17-Year Old Teen who was attempting to Flee from Police in a Car; the Rioters last night began to Target a number of Government Buildings including Town Halls, Schools, and Police Stations with at least 170 Rioters so far having been Arrested, while at least 180 Police Officers were Injured just last night.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

This was inevitable.

U.S. Close to Approving Long-Range ATACMS Missiles to Bolster Ukraine’s Fight https://t.co/RsV7zJfRTK via @WSJ

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

On March 18, 1944, 27-year-old Aimo Koivunen and his Finnish ski unit were in Lapland, Finland's northernmost region, when they were attacked by superior Soviet forces. Forced to retreat through deep snow, Koivunen found himself exhausted.

He remembered he had a supply of Pervitin, an early form of crystal meth used in World War 2. Unable to open just one pill while skiing away, he swallowed all 30 pills. This gave him an immediate burst of energy, allowing him to outpace the Soviets and his unit, before passing out.

When he woke up, he'd covered 100 kilometers (62 miles) alone and high, without food or ammunition. He kept skiing, encountering Soviets multiple times but always escaping, even after an injury from a landmine.

He travelled 400 kilometers (250 miles) to reach Finnish territory. Upon arrival, he weighed only 94 pounds and his heart raced at 200 beats per minute. He survived until age 71, dying in 1989.

[Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 @Lyla_lilas]

1/ He was pulled out of the rubble of the house in very serious conditions. There was a wound in the skull - 8 cm. Doctors not only saved the life of 13-year-old Stas, who was injured during the shelling of Hrushovakha in Kharkiv region, but also helped to remove the scars on his face.

The tragedy happened at the end of June. Stas was at home when the ceiling collapsed on him. His father pulled the child out from under the rubble of the house with the help of rescuers. The head was the most affected. There was an 8 cm hole in the boy's skull

Nine days in a coma and several weeks in the intensive care unit of Kharkiv. Then Lviv. The child was brought to the National Rehabilitation Center "Nezlamni" in an extremely serious condition.

After he was stabilized, pediatric neurosurgeons performed a complex operation to close a large skull defect.

At the same time, burn surgeons took care of Stas. The task: to remove massive scars on the child's face: nose, bridge of the nose and near the upper lip. If you delay, the scars could finally form and the muscles on the face would partially lose their functionality. That is, Stas could not move them, especially with his upper lip. Therefore, doctors injected the boy with hormonal injections at the wound sites every month.
Currently, no public hospital in the country has the equipment to help children who have suffered burns during the war.

But we would like to fix it, because we have to live here! Help buy equipment that will save thousands of children from suffering. Collection via the link in the profile

[Died Suddenly @DiedSuddenly_]

BREAKING: Madonna has been rushed to a New York City hospital after being found unresponsive.

The pop icon, 64, was discovered at a residence on Saturday before being admitted to the ICU where she was intubated overnight.

Madonna donated $1.1 Million dollars to Covid Vaccine research, and made claims that the vaccine should be “mandatory like gun control” because it “saves lives”

#DiedSuddenly

[Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 @Lyla_lilas]

The presence of the "Wagner" PMC and its leader Prigozhin in Belarus is a severe problem that requires a harsh response from NATO, Polish President Andrzej Duda said.

According to him, this is one of the main issues which he hopes NATO leaders will discuss at the Vilnius summit in July.