Janina 🌻🇪🇪

Dizis made me fall in love with the Turkish language and I wish I could learn it faster. But I am still trying

[✰. @swagoszn_]

I wish younger people could’ve experienced the old internet. It was messy, creative, personal, and genuinely fun before a handful of tech giants turned it into a shopping mall.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Fun fact: instead of using generative Al, you could just drink a glass of water and use your fvckıng imagination

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

‘But Pushkin! But Dostoevsky! Surely we must separate the great culture from the war.’

I once believed this. Then Russia’s occupiers entered Kherson — and put up billboards of Pushkin.

Not tanks on the posters. The poet. ‘Russia is here forever,’ delivered by a sonnet.

Understand what culture is to an empire: not its soul. Its visa.

For two centuries, Europe forgave Russia everything an hour after reading it — partitions, pogroms, gulags — because a nation of such novels surely could not mean it. The books bought indulgence for the boots.

Nobody bombs a maternity ward because of Dostoevsky. But generations of Western statesmen excused the bombers because of him.

I will separate the culture from the war on the day the empire does — when Pushkin stops riding into occupied cities on armored vehicles.

Until then, remember what the billboards taught: for Moscow, culture was never the alternative to conquest.

It was the packaging.

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

The West humiliated Russia in the 1990s. This war is the consequence.’

I’ve heard this in every language, from every podium. It is history rewritten backwards.

Recall what actually happened to defeated Russia: no occupation. No reparations. No tribunal. It kept its nuclear arsenal and its UN veto. Its debts were forgiven and refinanced. It was handed IMF billions and a seat at the G8 — a club of democracies admitting a wounded autocracy out of hope.

Now recall an actually humiliated nation: Germany, 1945. Occupied. Partitioned. Cities in ash, leaders hanged, guilt taught to its children by law.

Germany became the most peaceful democracy in Europe. Russia became this.

So spare me the humiliation theory. Russia was not humiliated after the Cold War. It was indulged — and it read every kindness as weakness, every gift as tribute.

The grievance was never mistreatment. The grievance was lost dominion.

Empires do not mourn their wounds. They mourn their slaves.

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

Unless I'm working in an ER, working as a paramedic, or working as a firefighter, there's no reason I should be expected to "thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment." Just fix the terrible management and stop running your office like a circus.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

The "Supergirl" movie's message is that it doesn't matter if you're unprepared and narcissistic; you win in the end because you are strong and the stars align for you. This is an American way of seeing things. Our disastrous war in Iran has been fought on these principles.
https://t.co/l7do4Fbc9j

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw someone say, “No spoilers for The Odyssey.” Brother, you’ve had 3,000 years to read the book.

[living in style✨️ @livinginstyle26]

hollyhocks💞

[gregorio catarino @gregcatarino1]

Takashi Murakami (1962)
Flowers

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

They invaded us. They were “the magnificent empire”. We were the lowly “pig breeders”.

When we didn’t greet them with flowers and fought back, they called us “American proxies”.

When America said “it’s not our war”, they called us “war mongers”. As if we attacked them.

In the fifth year of bombarding our cities, they started calling their strikes “retaliation” and our strikes “provocation”.

Which doesn’t change the truth: their war is a geopolitical murder in plain view. It’s fascism pure.

“Never again” is now, again.

[David Wilson @davidwilsonbird]

Delicate petals, unique shapes, and vibrant colors—Columbines make every garden feel a little more enchanting.
#Columbine #Aquilegia #FlowerGarden #GardenLife #BackyardGarden #BloomSeason #NatureLovers #Gardening

[Frau Hoppenstedt ⚡️ @loriotfehlt]

Mein Mann Walter ist ein sehr gutaussehender Mann. Ich möchte daher nicht, dass ihn andere Frauen sehen, auch nicht unsere Nachbarinnen vom Balkon aus.
So schützt er sich nun ganz in schwarz vor den lüsternen Blicken der anderen Frauen.
Es ist nur zu seinem und unserem Besten!

[Paulus DeMascou @PaMaask]

Happy midsommer 😀

[Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @woofknight]

Just a thought…
Buy 2 bags of pet food for a shelter instead of fireworks. Make a difference, not a noise

[Janina 🌻🇪🇪 @EstJanina]

@PeeterKo Kindlasti. Aga läbi twitteri, kus ta pushib oma algoritmiga radikaalseid kaabaksid, on ta ka oluliselt rohkem kurja teinud kui Greta.

[Janina 🌻🇪🇪 @EstJanina]

@jenatlionra Tbh, anything created by humans has gender bias. In Google Translate the bias was present years ago. Translating from languages without grammatical gender, eg Estonian it gave: "he is a doctor" and "she is a nurse". Only when it was pointed out, GT started giving both versions

[Brahmbeere 🇺🇦 @Brahmbeere]

"Do you trust the Russians?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because they broke every agreement they ever made with me."

— Harry Truman

[Janina 🌻🇪🇪 @EstJanina]

@thijsvhazend @RedWhiteRedLV @Thorn_90_ @sashameetsrus @JohannaNyman5 You were saying what exactly

[Estonian MFA 🇪🇪 | 🌻 #StandWithUkraine @MFAestonia]

In the early hours of this day 85 years ago, thousands of families across Estonia were woken by a knock on the door, only to be torn from their homes and deported to Siberia by the Soviet regime.

During the June 1941 deportations, around 10,000 Estonians, together with tens of thousands of Latvians and Lithuanians, fell victim to Soviet terror.

As we honour the victims of these crimes, we must also remember that Russia is using many of the same methods in Ukraine today — deporting children, terrorising civilians, and attempting to erase Ukrainian identity.

History teaches us that crimes left unpunished lead to further aggression. It is time to hold Russia accountable.