One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain't worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.
Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
https://archive.is/sDWq8
Even if an event continues afterwards the only takeaway anyone's going to have and the only media impact is gonna be about the bugs.
Could do this to literally anything and it would consistently ruin events.
Yeah sure, normalize that and B is next on the chopping block and then L & G won't be far behind. These losers are probably funded by the Koch brothers or something.
Holy based, look at all those lil insects.... ruining that fuckin "lgb" event.......
while I mostly like this kind of stuff I'm not even vegan and this seems pretty cruel to the crickets
I agree, no animal, vegetable or mineral should have to be in the same room as British TERFs
(I get your point fr though lmao)
It is unnecessarily cruel, but if they got them from a pet store they were likely to be hunted and then eaten by someone's pet tarantula or lizard, which is also a pretty gruesome fate.
I know this because I had a pet tarantula for a few years, unfortunately it was a male, and once male tarantulas reach sexual maturity they can't really moult anymore due to their "equipment" that's used for mating, which means they usually die within a year or so. Mine just stopped eating or drinking, and died about a year after their final moult.
let the crickets go and crack some stinkbombs wherever you were gonna release the crickets, two victories in one action
Yeah I'm not a fan of releasing insects to disturb events either, though releasing the crickets to the wild could mess up the local ecosystem if they're not native to it.
When I had my pet tarantula (I updated my initial comment to include that information) I had to keep the crickets alive before feeding him. The crickets were smarter than you would think in terms of socialisation, but they were also really foolish and unhygienic at times, definitely not clean insects, at least in captivity. They'd eat anything though, from fruit and vegetable waste, to sometimes eating the egg carton structures in their enclosure even when food was available (see what I mean about them being foolish lol). They liked moist foods like apple cores and pieces of uncooked carrot. The crickets looked a bit freaky after moulting though, their exoskeletons were completely transparent at first. They also only usually stay alive for a month or two before dying, even with adequate food and water.
Oh yeah I get you, I'm not trying to accuse you of any animal abuse. I just wish the people doing these actions would be a little more creative and sympathetic to their insect comrades.
Same.
maybe the little stink bomb things instead? carefully seeded throughout the event space, so unwary feet could easily crush them?
Yeah I agree, stink bombs are a very good alternative that has a longer impact
"vile" I think you meant based...
For a fascist, every accusation is a projection
The cricket revolution sounds pretty badass to me