IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱

Scientist. Mostly boring, hardly harmless, academic orphan & traveler. Won't apologize for the inconvenience.
Communism kills.
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[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

A small collection of my poems in English and in Russian is available on Amazon Kindle again.
Небольшая подборка моих стихов на двух языках вернулась на Amazon Kindle.
https://t.co/LKPY3AHqNz

[i24NEWS English @i24NEWS_EN]

Ukraine strikes Russian oil refinery and missile factory

👇Read more here:
https://t.co/b6H6YDLNb0

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

More videos from the burning refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Krasnodar region, in Russia.

The critical fuel situation in Russia just got even worse. The oil facility processes approximately 5.2 million tonnes of crude oil per year.

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

"Don't grow up to be a woman."
Nice one... the dude must have really loved his daughter...

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Physics laureate Maria Goeppert Mayer was born on this day 120 years ago. As the only child of a sixth-generation academic, she was expected to go to university. “My father said, ‘Don’t grow up to be a woman,’ and what he meant by that was, a housewife.”

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Our warriors began Ukraine’s Constitution Day with great accuracy. Last night, our long-range sanctions reached two oil refineries in Russia. The Slavyansk oil refinery in the Krasnodar region was hit – about 300 kilometers from the frontline. We also reached a refinery in the Yaroslavl region, approximately 700 kilometers from our border.

We continue our operations that weaken Russia’s ability to wage this war. Each of our long-range sanctions means fewer resources serving Russia’s war machine, and another step toward peace. We will continue to respond to Russian terror. I thank our warriors for these results! I am grateful to everyone who helps us. Everyone who defends Ukraine also upholds the power of the Constitution.

[StandWithUs @StandWithUs]

🚨BREAKING: The IDF has eliminated Abd al-Karim Ziyada, a Hamas Nukhba terrorist. The terrorist infiltrated Israeli territory during the October 7th, 2023 massacre and looted an IDF vehicle into the Gaza Strip.

In a separate strike the same day in the Khan Younis area, the IDF eliminated Kamal Muhammad Hamdan Nagar, head of the Manhar unit in Hamas's military wing in Khan Younis. Throughout the war, and particularly in recent weeks, these terrorists worked to advance terror plots against IDF forces operating in Gaza.

via: IDF

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

"Horrifying acts" is what Russians are doing in Ukraine on a daily basis and what the Palestinians have done on October 7th and during the intifadas: bombing busses, killing, r*ping, kidnapping, torturing civilians - men, women, children, the elderly and the disabled - and so on.

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

@AlexMLeo N. may be corrupt, but he is not an evil man, nor has Israel committed "horrifying acts" in Palestine.
Wars are ugly.
The rest is correct.

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

@AlexMLeo N. may be corrupt, but he is not an evil man, nor has Israel committed "horrifying acts" in Palestine.
Wars are ugly.
The rest is correct.

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

@DrNeilStone Or both.

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

@EdKrassen @CathyYoung63 Yes, but they didn't demand that the rest of the country adopt their views, values, languages... Therein lies the difference.
Also, there was quite a bit of a struggle to implement Western laws in "little Chinas" across the US, it just wasn't being called -ist or -phobic.

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

I have a better one: call it organized terrorism. Closer to the truth.

[Marco Rosaire Rossi🌹⚛️ @MarcoRosaire]

@ocampo_IPS @MattPolProf “One might call socialism ‘organized liberalism.’” - Eduard Bernstein, from “Evolutionary Socialism.”

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

15k terrorist supporters. Yay.

[NYC-DSA 🌹 @nycDSA]

If you join NYC-DSA this weekend, there’s a good chance you’ll be our 15,000th member 👀

https://t.co/tMb4UU51Li

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

@DrugGovoruna I don't know about that. Communists have been making alliances with Islam since forever, there are numerous examples, of which Palesine is just one.
Of course, they've been making alliances with the Nazis, too.

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

@BernieSanders https://t.co/a6XLfqW7co

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

All normal people get nervous when socialists and terrorist supporters come to power. Guess what, we want to live.

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

All normal people get nervous when socialists and terrorist supporters come to power. Guess what, we want to live.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

THE POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT IS GETTING NERVOUS 

The political establishment — Democratic and Republican — is getting nervous. So are the Oligarchs and the corporate media they own.  

The world they dominate is beginning to shake beneath them. Change is coming.  And they don’t like it.

What we saw on Tuesday in New York, what we are seeing all across the country, is that ordinary people are getting involved in the political process, are taking on establishment candidates, and are winning. What is particularly frightening to the establishment is that many of the candidates, and their supporters, are young. The future belongs to them and they want that future to look very different from what it is today.

It’s not complicated. Progressives and democratic socialists are winning elections because the vast majority of the American people understand that status quo politics and policies are not working.  You don’t have to be a PhD in economics to know that in America today the very rich are getting much richer while the vast majority of our people are struggling to pay for the basic necessities — healthcare, housing, food, education and utilities. You don’t have to be a sociologist to realize that the younger generation will likely have a lower standard of living than their parents.  You don’t need to be a political scientist to understand that we have a corrupt campaign finance system that allows billionaires and their super PACS to buy elections, undermine democracy, and protect their privileged positions. 

The American people, across the political spectrum, are rejecting the establishment’s  uber-capitalist ideology, value system and priorities.  They want an economy and a government that works for all, not just wealthy campaign contributors. 

More and more Americans refuse to accept the current reality that:

One man, Mr. Musk, owns more than three times as much wealth as the bottom half of our society.  That billionaires and large profitable corporations often pay an effective tax rate lower than truck drivers or nurses. They are demanding that the billionaire class starts paying their fair share of taxes.

We are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all as a human right. They want Medicare for All.  

Tens of millions of workers are earning starvation wages. They want to raise the minimum wage to a living wage and make it easier for workers to join unions.

Big Tech and the wealthiest people on earth are aggressively pushing AI and robotics, the most transformative technologies in history, without public input. They want these technologies to benefit all, not just the handful of billionaires who own the industry.  

Nearly 800,000 Americans are homeless, and more than 20 million households are spending 50% or more of their limited incomes on housing. They want a freeze on rent and the construction of millions of units of low income and affordable housing.

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

@CathyYoung63 "baking to death"? "Temp" is a "possible factor" in heatstroke, sunstroke, and dehydration. The Twitter version of the AC debate is a bit stupid, but the prohibition on the installation of the aircon in some of the European orgs is... also not smart.

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

Dear Dept Chair - Your new assistant professor’s mom just called me. She wants to talk to you about their schedule.

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

https://t.co/6lH5zdihKD

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

Letter of rejection received by Berson and Yalow from the Journal of Clinical Investigation for their paper demonstrating "the ubiquitous presence of insulin-binding antibodies in insulin-treated subjects". The paper had previously been also rejected by Science.

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

Great. Now all the misandrists will be like, "see, we told you, bears are far easier to deal with than men, who would've made inappropriate comments and offered to walk her home in case there are bears!"

[Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63]

Speaking of the "man or bear" narratives

[IlyaR 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @SocialImpurity]

OMG

[Tony Lane 🇺🇸 @TonyLaneNV]

A woman hiking in Canada nearly became a grizzly’s next meal and the video circulating right now is genuinely one of the most intense wildlife encounters you will ever watch - her dog is with her, a massive grizzly is right there, and somehow she kept her head together long enough for both of them to walk away breathing.

That is not a small thing. Most people talk tough until nature is standing ten feet in front of them and every instinct in your body is screaming to run, and running is exactly the worst thing you can do.

Grizzlies are built to chase, they top out over 700 pounds and can cover ground faster than any human alive. The people who survive these moments are the ones who override pure fear with pure discipline and this woman did exactly that.

If you hike, camp, or spend any real time in the wilderness - bear spray is not optional, it is the difference between a story you tell and one somebody else tells about you.

Could you have kept your cool?

Hats off to her.