Harald

Forestry, aquaculture

[Harald @Haraldfromwoods]

@atihomirovs Šķiet, ka par 1 latu sanāca 4 pilzenes plus paciņa Bond. Bet varbūt tomēr 3 pilzenites plus Bonds

[SenčestMuh 🍃🐌 @Sen4estDomovik]

Change in non-European citizens
residing in Latvia 🇱🇻

by country of citizenship

01/2015 → 07/2026

🇮🇳: 324 → 6,122 (+1790%)
🇺🇿: 1,341 → 5,120
🇱🇰: 44 → 850 (+1832%)
🇦🇿: 404 → 881
🇻🇳: 19 → 758 (+3889%)
🇵🇰: 46 → 460 (+900%)
🇰🇬: 70 → 469
🇵🇭: 115 → 443
🇰🇷: 58 → 101
🇦🇫: 34 → 106
🇧🇩: 14 → 99 (+607%)
🇳🇬: 50 → 88

[Kadi🇪🇪🌻 @TheFl0orIsLaVa]

It’s not okay to launch missiles at a European country and then expect a visa for holidays here.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

If peace is the best strategy then stop attacking us, you bunch of imbeciles!

[Harald @Haraldfromwoods]

@RoljaPrima Kas tas ir par modeli?

[captive dreamer @captive_dreamer]

Russia lost more soldiers KIA this month to drones (nearly 3000) than we did in 20 years in Afghanistan. That's in one month.

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

The United States will not stand by any ally or keep any agreement. It is as trustworthy as its sponsor, the russian terrorist state.

Now, only the Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding the West together. Other democracies are paralyzed by institutional cowardice.

[Alex Kirsch 🇪🇪⚜️ @AugustKirschner]

Тем временем Балтийский регион читать умел в то время когда руснявые губерни были абсолютно неграмотными.

[IllimarLepikvonWirén @iLepikVonWiren]

The same happened in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania during russian occupation.

After nearly 1 million Baltic people were deported, murdered, imprisoned, or forced to flee, Moscow, as part of its russification campaign, brought in nearly 1.5 million russians to the Baltic states to alter the demographic balance and erase what remained of the local nations, languages, and cultures.

Fortunately russia failed, and the Baltics prevailed 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

First he abandoned Ukraine and now he is abandoning Taiwan. Sucks to be a democratic friend of the USA these days.

[восхищённый болгарин™ @dedzaebal]

Вы сожгли город, убили десятки тысяч мирных людей. Уничтожили все, что было у людей. Трупы на улицах, холера, люди умирали в подвалах, хоронили родственников во дворах у подъездов. Вы били из танков по жилым домам, сбрасывали авиабомбы на убежища.
Теперь вы мрази радуетесь нескольким ублюдским клоповникам на костях убитых, нескольким уродливым кускам говна на фоне города в руинах?
То что вы сделали с Мариуполем вам ещё вернётся, не сомневайся.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

A glaringly obvious double-standard

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Could you imagine the international uproar if Ukraine spent 15 hours sending 1500 missiles and drones into population centers all over Russia, mainly into apartment buildings, killing 15 people, including children?

Russia just did this, and no one cares, especially the White House.

[NMPdienests @NMPdienests]

Viena diennakts. Trīs motociklisti. Trīs smagi negadījumi. 🏍️

Pēdējo 24 stundu laikā mūsu mediķu brigādes steigušās palīgā trim motociklu vadītājiem. Rezultāts visos gadījumos ir skarbs – smagas traumas un neprognozējami ilgs atveseļošanās posms.

[Harald @Haraldfromwoods]

@krizdabz Kāds tur bērnudārzs? Šis ir pareizs un aprēķināts solis no viņas puses. Pirms gada tā nedarītu, bet vienalga, dažreiz arī negribot var sanākt pareizi

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

The horrific images we are witnessing in Ukraine today are a direct consequence of Trump’s actions.

Since Donald Trump returned to power, the number of russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians — and the resulting death toll — has increased sharply.

Why?

First, Trump has emboldened Putin.
Trump has repeatedly expressed admiration for Putin and emphasized improving relations. He even invited this war criminal to the United States. And now, Putin’s photo is hanging in the White House – a symbolic gesture that does not go unnoticed.

In geopolitics, signals matter. They shape expectations about future support, consequences, and resolve.

Second, credibility and trust have eroded.
Trump has surrounded himself with russian-linked figures to such an extent that foreign intelligence agencies “fear sharing secrets with the U.S.,” viewing his administration as highly untrustworthy.

Just a few examples: the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has expressed pro-russian views, spread conspiracies about alleged American biolabs in Ukraine, and blamed NATO for russia’s invasion. The FBI Director, Kash Patel, received a $25,000 fee from a russian film company that promoted pro-russian and anti-Western narratives.

Third, support for Ukraine has effectively stopped.
Instead of “ending the war in 24 hours,” he ended all of the assistance Ukraine was receiving from the United States. Just yesterday, JD Vance said that stopping funding for Ukraine was one of the proudest actions of the administration. So the devastation we are witnessing today is a direct consequence of these actions. History will remember this — and it will also remember those who supported it.

All of these actions have changed incentives for russia: if the cost of aggression decreases, escalation becomes more likely. So what we are witnessing today is not random. It is the result of these choices.

History will remember this — and it will also remember those who supported it.

Link: https://t.co/AU0kCaqqd7

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I told our American partners they could understand whether Putin wanted peace by finding answers to the issues as follows:

First, try to organize a meeting at the level of leaders to discuss territories. Putin has refused.

Second, if he doesn't want to continue the aggression after a ceasefire, propose deploying American and European soldiers along the contact line. Putin’s response was, “No, no foreign soldiers of any kind”. Why? This can only mean he wants to go forward.

Third, he has around 17 million square kilometers of land. Yet, he tells Americans, “Look, what’s the problem? It's only about 6,000 square kilometers”. Can you imagine that someone who has millions of square kilometers, 70% of which is underdeveloped and doesn’t have proper infrastructure, is asking for more? Do we really believe that all he needs is an additional 5,800 square kilometers?

This is not his goal. Donbas is a strategic place in Ukraine. Once he has our industrial cities and fortifications in the region, there are only open fields and direct roads to our regional capitals. What I mean is that we understand why he wants Donbas.

From an interview on The Rest Is Politics podcast (4/5).

[Kurt Mahlburg @k_mahlburg]

Finland tracked every gender-referred adolescent in the country for up to 25 years.

Their psychiatric needs didn't improve after 'gender reassignment'. They surged.

A landmark peer-reviewed study just dropped. Here's what it found. 🧵

[Harald @Haraldfromwoods]

@thearmi @vilnisliepins Kādas ir jūtamas atškiribas ar Tiguan?