@MSilliness@ZelenskyyUa@JustinTrudeau Yea tru that ....wars are for soldiers their families tolerance and loss.... civilians sacrifice and endurance to bear with leaders who are supposed to shape their world for better.....
@mrkocnnll@calflyn Oh, forgot to mention, huge thanks to @sophieibbotson_. Without her help and advice, this story would never have got off the ground!!
@henrywismayer@mrkocnnll I happened to be witness (interpreter) to a high level delegation from CA which was known as Save th Aral Sea Basin Foundation....this was 24 years bck atleast and few years ago wen i heard the story of dried up Aral i was shocked....we are ruled by those who will drown us
Today, an increasing number of visitors come to see what's left of the lake, and the land left behind.
It is a form of disaster tourism that @mrkocnnll, writing about Chernobyl, described as "seeing the end of the world from the vantage point of its aftermath.”
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Modern places of abandonment or catastrophe, it occurred to me during my time at the lake, are affecting primarily for their immediacy.
The chaotic climate, the shrivelling lake, and the junk of human settlements, feel like the ultimate rebuke to our myopia.
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During the Soviet era, when foreigners were prohibited from entering Karakalpakstan, the Aral's vanishing became apparent via satellite.
For most of us, this was how the crisis was viewed — from the abstraction of space, a mutation of the map.
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Today is exactly 4M since night when peaceful rally in Karakalpakstan was brutally suppressed & dozens (hundreds?) unarmed people were shot by army of 🇺🇿. To this day, there is no info about those arrested, including journalist Lolagul Kallykhanova.#EndImpunity#ProtectJounalists
At #SRLF we heard from @asianwomenwrite about their super mentoring programme for unpublished writers of Asian heritage. Watch the video here: https://t.co/ogIa3pWKPx
Sharing this: I just got some GOOD NEWS from my editor in Chicago. Both of my books @UChicagoPress (Map Men, 2018; Mapping Europe's Borderlands, 2012) will be coming out in reprint runs. These will have cloth jackets & color inserts. Chicago designs beautiful books. I'm excited.
Украинский народ платит слишком дорогу цену за коррупцию в государстве. Каждая украденная из бюджета гривна - это удар по нашей обороноспособности. Коррупционер - тот же враг, только внутренний. Нулевая толерантность к коррупции. Никакого оправдания. Либо тюрьма, либо суд Линча