🌊🌱🌏 Graham Klerks 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦

BlueSky: Owner & Renewable Energy advocate.

[🌊🌱🌏 Graham Klerks 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @GrahamKlerks]

I get into debates with people on both sides of politics. You can call me a socialist and a capitalist, I'm actually somewhere in-between.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Today, Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow’s largest oil refinery.

To understand the scale of the strike, a few key facts about Moscow Oil Refinery:

- Located just 15 kilometers from the Kremlin.
- Supplies up to 40% of Moscow’s gasoline and about 50% of its diesel fuel.
- Overall, it meets around 70% of gasoline needs for Russian capital and surrounding region.
- One in every three cars in Moscow is fueled by products from this refinery.
- Bitumen from the plant is used to build or repair every second street in Moscow.

Drones struck and damaged a key refining unit at Moscow oil refinery, likely causing the facility to halt operations for an extended period of time!

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Russians have struck the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and are burning down one of Ukraine's oldest Orthodox churches‼️

The roof of the Dormition Cathedral is ablaze. The cathedral itself is a significant part of our history, it is older than Moscow. It was already there when russian neanderthals were building shacks made of sticks and shit.

Fucking barbarians!

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

VON DER LEYEN: Yesterday, we delivered almost €3 billion from Ukraine Facility. Later this month, we'll issue first disbursement under our €90 billion loan to Ukraine.

We'll provide Ukraine with €6 billion for drones and €3 billion worth of macro-financial assistance.

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

Actions speak louder than words.

Yesterday, Putin said he was willing to compromise if Ukraine did the same. Zelenskyy immediately responded with an open invitation for a one-on-one meeting.

Russia’s next step?

An overnight strike on the Yagotynske for Children plant in the Kyiv region, which produces food for children. 7 people were injured, and 4 were killed.

The same night, Russia also struck food warehouses and a postal facility in the Dnipro region, an ambulance in the Kherson region, a school in the Sumy region, port infrastructure in the Odesa region, residential buildings, and an outpatient clinic in the Kharkiv region.

Russia itself remains the only obstacle to peace.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Unfortunately, the Russian side once again chooses war – everyone heard the response today. Weak response. He simply does not want to end the war.

I think many around the world were disappointed by that response. He does not want to change anything, and he does not want to admit that this war appeals only to him – and to those who are making money off him. They were all smiling very broadly today.

That means Russia must have less money, and there must be more pressure on Russia.

I thank everyone who is helping us. I thank everyone who stands with Ukraine and wants a real peace.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Regardless of how this will work out, I want to thank all American people who are still by our side after all these years ❤️‍🩹

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Our long-range sanctions carried out by the warriors of the Security Service of Ukraine, the Unmanned Systems Forces, the Special Operations Forces, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, and the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine have yielded good results. Important facilities on Russian territory were hit last night.

Among them was the Petersburg Oil Terminal. The distance from Ukraine’s state border to this facility of Russia’s oil industry, which serves the war, is about 1,100 kilometers. Purely military targets at the Kronstadt base were also hit.

Another target was an enterprise in the Tambov region involved in the production of Russian weapons. The distance from the frontline is almost 600 kilometers.

I thank our warriors for their precision. Ukraine’s plan for long-range sanctions is being implemented exactly as needed to bring peace closer. Glory to Ukraine!

[Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦 @Oct7NeverForget]

🕯💔 During the missile attack on Kyiv on the night of June 2, a 29-year-old woman named Veronika was killed. She was running to a shelter with her two young sons.

The older boy is almost 5 years old, and the younger one is nearly 3.

A missile struck behind them.

One of the boys was saved by a stranger and suffered only a bruise. The other underwent surgery.

The children still do not know that their mother is gone.

Relatives say that Veronika was a wonderful mother, a kind person, and worked as a stylist and nail technician.

🕯 May her memory be eternal.

[Cloooud |🇺🇦 @GloOouD]

The Russians offered to “exchange” children for soldiers. But how can you exchange children? That’s impossible,” Zelenskyy said.

“First of all, it violates the law: civilians cannot be exchanged - they must be returned. Therefore, the very concept of such an ‘exchange’ is unacceptable,” the president noted.

The very fact of such a proposal from the Russia only confirms that the abducted children were indeed taken away.

[Regina Bauer 🇪🇪🇺🇦 @petite_michelle]

Hey, western commie!
Nothing makes me laugh harder than a guy or a girl tweeting about "great communism" from a $1,400 phone, in a 3-bedroom suburban house, with a fridge full of food.
Comrade.
You would not survive week one.
And here is why.
In the USSR you couldn't just quit your job to "find yourself." Not working was a crime. Literally. They called it "social parasitism." They put the future Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky on trial for it. Your podcast about late-stage capitalism would've gotten you five years.
You picture yourself as a commissar. You'd be in a queue. Three hours. For maybe bread. The commissars were a tiny elite with their own shops, their own hospitals, their own everything. You weren't invited. You'd be the guy informing on his neighbor for an extra ration.
That brave political take you posted today? In 1949 USSR deported 20,000+ people to Siberia in three days for a lot less - for just being LOCALS. Whole families. Children. Cattle cars. You'd have lasted until your first "actually Stalin was misunderstood" reply landed in front of the wrong person.
The gulag wasn't an edgy metaphor. Roughly 18 million people passed through it. Unpaid labor, -40°C, digging canals nobody needed. But please, tell me more about how you'd "organize the workers" from the group chat.
Things get bad and you want to leave? You can't. There's a wall. There are dogs. There are guards who shoot. The whole design was that you couldn't go.
The people romanticizing it from a comfortable suburb can always book a flight home. People in the USSR couldn't even move to the neighbouring city without permission.
So wear the Che shirt. Read rge Red Book by Mao. Enjoy the iPhone he'd have confiscated, the internet he'd have banned, and the free speech that lets you praise the exact system that would have shot you for using it.
Some of us actually remember how it went.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Russia is now threatening other nearby countries far more openly than before. Every neighbor of Russia heard what was said about Armenia, whose people are the only ones who have the right to decide and will choose the future of their country. What Russia says about Armenia is, in truth, not about Armenia alone.

No one can be left without support – Europe has no right to lose any of its peoples, to leave any country behind. Armenia must be supported. Moldova must be supported. The Baltic states. Azerbaijan must be supported. We must find ways to support the people of Georgia as well – and this is a shared European task. No one can be lost.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Our new long-range sanctions – and this is 500 kilometers from our state border. We are rightfully bringing the war back to where it came from. Russia could have ended its aggression long ago, but instead chose to prolong and continue it. So another facility of Russia’s oil industry has been reached – Armavir, Krasnodar Krai.

I thank our Security Service warriors for this result. What matters is that, step by step, we are carrying out our plan of long-range sanctions – in response to everything Russia is doing against our country and our people. All forms of our sanctions – legal and entirely practical long-range ones – are working to bring peace closer. Thank you for your precision!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Mexico paid $20 million for eight minutes in this movie. Then those eight minutes forced them to invent an entire cultural tradition.

Before Spectre, Mexico City had no Day of the Dead parade. The holiday was celebrated at home, at cemeteries, with family altars. Quiet, intimate, centuries old. Sam Mendes fabricated a massive street parade for the opening sequence, shot it with 1,500 extras in skeleton costumes across the Zócalo, and audiences worldwide assumed they were watching a real annual event.

Mexico's government had negotiated hard for the placement. Leaked Sony hack emails showed officials offered up to $20 million in tax incentives for four minutes of positive portrayal. Sony was drowning in a $300 million budget. The deal included script changes: the Bond girl had to be a Mexican actress, the villain could not be Mexican, and the city's modern skyline had to appear on screen.

Then the movie opened in 182 countries and tourists started booking flights to Mexico City for the parade.

The parade that did not exist.

Tourism authorities panicked. Visitors were arriving expecting the spectacle they saw in the film and finding nothing. So in October 2016, the government spent $500,000, hired 650 volunteers, built dozens of floats and giant skeleton marionettes, and staged the first real Día de los Muertos parade in Mexico City's history. 250,000 people showed up. They openly called it a "Spectre-style parade" in press materials.

Ten years later, the parade draws millions. Anthropologists call it the "pizza effect," where a cultural element gets exported, transformed abroad, and reimported as authentic. Mexico's most famous public celebration of its most sacred holiday was invented by a British director shooting a $300 million spy movie.

That tracking shot is doing more for Mexico City's economy every November than the $20 million they paid for it.

[🌊🌱🌏 Graham Klerks 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @GrahamKlerks]

@BohuslavskaKate Isn't this after Poland was attacked (by accident) several weeks back?

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Romania, member of NATO and EU, has just been attacked by Russia.

Waiting for reaction from both organizations more serious than "grave concerns."

[восхищённый болгарин™ @dedzaebal]

Убитой и запытанной в плену журналистке Виктории Рощиной россияне сломали затылочную кость, когда ее удерживали в СИЗО в Таганроге.
Я напомню что при передаче тела у девушки оказалось что отсутствовали внутренние органы, головной мозг, глазные яблоки, часть трахеи.

Очередное напоминание всему миру с кем воюет Украина. Это не люди.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Shocking footage from Kherson, where a Russian terrorist strike on a playground injured two little girls, aged 3 and 6, and their mother. The same strike reportedly killed their father‼️

[🌊🌱🌏 Graham Klerks 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @GrahamKlerks]

These monsters are reprehensible.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

[Pepel Klaasa @pepel_klaasa]

We do not kidnap children, but if necessary we’ll exchange the kidnapped children for our murderers and rapists

[🌊🌱🌏 Graham Klerks 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @GrahamKlerks]

@davidpattersonx Read the room buddy.

Under your scenario, I'd be taking home $70k. My neighbour would be taking home $700k. It might be the same principle, but it isn't equal or fair.

Republicans used to believe in taxing the wealthy appropriately.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

To everyone at CSIRO: thank you for the incredible work you do on the huge challenges we face.

Ongoing job losses at our national science agency are the result of chronic underfunding.

The Government must halt and reverse the real terms decline in CSIRO's appropriation in the budget next week.
https://t.co/d77vBq6xTI