Michael Andrec

Professional multiple hat wearer: archivist, data wrangler, coder. Former chemist. Views are not those of any of my employers (unless they repost them).

[Dauntless 🇩🇪🇺🇦🇬🇪🦈🎖️ @Der_Daunt]

Reminder 7/7 for this week 👇

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

@lydiatomkiw @Slate I'm sorry, as a Ukrainian American with everything going on, the more I hear Leontovych's "Shchedryk" on commercials, etc., it sounds more and more like obnoxious cultural appropriation. How dare you use/sing a Ukrainian song and not support Ukraine?!?

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

@JohnVsetecka I saw it as part of a tour thanks to https://t.co/hdmCyCjgWn: https://t.co/rAV1dLBM4a

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

@JohnVsetecka Oh, duh. It's in the caption. See what happens when you don't read...

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

Oh, yes. It's about NATO. Sure. Oh, and maybe if Ukraine just gave some slivers of its territory to Russia, then Russia will be satisfied and will leave Ukraine alone. Right...

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

10 Minutes of Hate: Russian lawmakers and leading propagandists explain what Russia wants to do to Ukraine and Ukrainians.
https://t.co/xtEytrWANp

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

You have said the actual truth.

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

@steven_seegel @razomforukraine @lydiatomkiw @AndreaChalupa @JulianHayda @LeahBatstone

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

For this Ukrainian American, the incessant playing of Leontovych's arrangement of "Shchedryk" (aka "Carol of the Bells") sounds like obnoxious cultural appropriation given everything going on. How dare you use a Ukrainian song and not support Ukraine?!?

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

The story: https://t.co/Nq7w49hwlT
. This was recorded before the Russian full scale invasion. Both my and Tina's perspective have considerably sharpened since then...

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

@steven_seegel @razomforukraine

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

The story: https://t.co/Nq7w49hwlT. This was recorded before the Russian full scale invasion. Both my and Tina's perspective have considerably sharpened since then...

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

Congratulations to the superstar of the Ukrainian 𝕏-verse (Kha-verse?)!

[Steven Seegel 🇺🇦 @stevenseegel.bsky.social @steven_seegel]

I've been awarded the Vega Medal of 2024 by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG) for my scientific contributions to Human Geography. The award is given every 3 years. Will receive the medal from King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden in April. https://t.co/SdTcsLj37u

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

Yes. This ⬇️

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

I scroll through the news of today, and this leaves me wondering what could have been happening right now - if, two years ago Ukraine just 'accepted its fate' and settled on this 'there's nothing we can do' mindset.

- If we had listened to 'analysts & experts' who were shamelessly propagating 'West's weapons won't make any difference' headlines and taking everyone around for idiots

- If Ukraine's political & military leadership had not made a fundamental decision to take the fight against a full-scale invasion by one of the world's leading militaries -- and to fight all alone, with most of the West paralyzed with fear and deliberations. A lot of things went wrong, and a lot of mistakes had been made, but we are where we are today.

- If Zelensky, yesterday's comedian, had accepted the offer to flee Kyiv under attack and essentially turn into a nothingburger, 'the president in exile' whose only job is to make useless speeches from abroad and listen to pompous words from those deeply concerned.

Again, we all have a million questions about the Zelensky administration's preparations for war. But a fact is always a fact. The guy stayed in Kyiv, which was on the brink of downfall -- and he became a celebrated war leader in a situation where 95% of today's leaders obsessed with 'crisis management' would be gone with the wind before the enemy even came forward.

- If thousands of men and women had not joined the Territorial Defense Force, formed new regular military units, worked and donated to support the national defense effort, or fought, killed, and died in the woods of Kyiv or in the blood fields of Bakhmut, or in the ruins of Mariupol and Mariinka.

Where would we be if it weren't for all that?

If Vladimir Putin was standing at the gates of Central Europe, with the resources of the entire Ukraine behind his back and without over 120,000 troops and 2,500 tanks lost in combat?

Would anyone be happy right now to be discussing THAT instead of observing Russia's ongoing three-month effort to seize the remains of a mid-sized city of Avdiivka somewhere in Donbas 650 days into the biggest European war since WWII?

How many 'independent thinkers' would have been tweeting "Tallinn is not my problem"?

How many slithery presidential bidders would have been making up a million reasons why Poland or Finland don't really deserve any help and why Putin is entitled to slaughter them because WHAT ABOUT THAT SLEEVE PATCH?

How many bureaucrats would now already be saying things like 'Well, Article 5 doesn't necessarily oblige us into sending military aid to allies under attack, so...?"

What would have been happening now if Ukraine, to the buzz of jeers from its paid haters, hadn't ground down a very large part of Russia's gargantuan military power, at a terrible price?

I wanna know.

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[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

That's about right...

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Directed by
ROBERT B. WEIDE

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

@GicAriana I'd really like to know what the diehard Republican Trumpite Ukrainian Americans are doing. There's a good number of them...

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

It was a pleasure meeting @OlenkaPevny of @CamSlavicDept on the last day of #ASEEES23. A scholar in her own right, she also happens to be daughter of artist Bohdan Pevny, creator of the famous "Zemlia" #Holodomor painting.

https://t.co/fhQXZ1rV7L

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

@JohnVsetecka @SSmithPeter1

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

In the context of an #ASEEES23 session titled "Decolonizing Special Collections", it's esp. jarring to see the @DukeLibraries libguide "US Historical Newspapers of the Russian and East European Diaspora". Really? There's just one?!?

https://t.co/0Jd05TR8ig

[Michael Andrec @NumerousHats]

@motinka @RyanMarino Where's the -OH?!? I don't see an -OH!!