kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Ulyanovsk in Russia has a monument dedicated to the letter ё (yo) which is often replaced by е (ye) due to awkward placement on keyboard (I suspect?).

On translit keyboard layout which I'm using it's no bother, so I can write ёёёё as much as I like 😀

Latest Levada open question poll about people who inspire Russians - and in two age groups (25-39, 40-54) Navalny is mentioned just as often as Putin. Mark of times...

This also says a lot about the ineffectiveness of state propaganda, as since 1999 trust in state media has fallen dramatically and people switched to social media... and Navalny can into YouTube :)

🇵🇱 😂

Daily share of UK electricity generated from coal

Sounds like a really... great joke for a birthday 😂

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/06/08/tales-from-the-trans-siberian-vasily-the-putin-impersonator-a70516

How dumb one can be? Rosatom is one of few exportable, modern and competitive branches of Russian economy.

So in 2016 Russian government decided to threaten Ukraine with literally second Chernobyl if they only dare to diversify their fuel supplies (and even staged a protest in Kyiv).

Apparently to make sure no one ever buys a nuclear power plant from Rosatom...

(Obviously Ukraine did it)

Full article in Swedish, Google Translate does a good job:

https://www.fokus.se/2015/02/karnfragan/

Congratulations, anti-Indian Point activists! Your efforts were successful and the load lost in nuclear was promptly replaced by fossil gas 🤷‍♂️ Climate is now all warmer and happier than ever!

At the same time in the alternative reality 😂 I just saw the latter mentioned almost verbatim on Twitter in Poland and UK, which indicates they're also pushing this message in other languages.

Russia 1: "American police have been abandoned and betrayed by politicians."

This is an internal message to the Russian audience. English-language media are pushing message about US police brutality.

"We estimate that across these six countries, interventions prevented or delayed on the order of 62 million confirmed cases, corresponding to averting roughly 530 million total infections."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2404-8

"Photos from Atlanta. Black protesters ride armored vehicles ... stolen from police" (Russia Today)

😂

Top Russia 1 source on situation in USA is... Tucker Carlson from Fox News 😂 I've seen many crazy reporting in Russia 1 but this beats any records so far 🤦‍♂️

Divide and conquer 😂

Lessons from the past: what Eastern Bloc and #ussr media wrote about Lysenkoism at its peak and how they used communist media in the West to reflect that message back as confirmation that the whole world accepted it.

Stay skeptical...

The Computer Society
Time magazine April 2,1964
Cover art by Boris Artzybasheff

The beauty of news headers:

"A decision was published allowing residents of Kuban to live until 21 June"

Enthusiastic reactions from Kuban residents in the comments
😂

A desert island recession

2020 bingo

Make note to buy in September...

https://briandeer.com/doctor-who-fooled-world.htm

Front page of Brazil's Folha
de São Paulo newspaper this morning: "In Brazil, one dead per minute."