When I first saw posts about this movie on social media I kind of ignored them and scrolled on by because I thought they were talking about some kind of Conan the Barbarian movie LMAO but no it is nothing to do with that and it was pretty good. If you haven't seen it yet it's on Hulu #barbarian#horrormovies#horroronhulu@horror
It seems like Mastodon is losing its mindshare to #Bluesky among many academics.
I can't help but think this has to do with the self-imposed limitations of Mastdon — lack of quotes, ordered timeline, etc. Makes it less interesting to use, for no real advantage.
Sad, because the underlying decentralization is much more robust.
@LukasBrausch@tiago@academicchatter Last I checked quote tweets were something that #Mastodon was planning to implement so I'm not sure it is relevant to go through why it was objected to once upon a time. Probably more interesting to ask what the current timeline for actually getting it in could be.
What kind of pull are you seeing towards #bluesky in the academic sphere?
The country where a pro-Russian party won the elections was Slovakia, not Slovenia. It hasn't been "one of the biggest supporters of Ukraine" and is a fairly small country.
That said, there's certainly some reason to worry about the trends with support for Ukraine. US politics has been worrying at least since 2016 . Also,seems like the threat is very real that with Biden's term we might only have gotten a breather.
I don't think the point here is that the US 5% contribution has single handedly led to Russia losing 50%. The point is that the coalition as a whole are each spending relatively little compared to what the total cost to the Russians is. Ukraine is of course also paying a much heavier price than any of its western supporters who help it keep fighting.
That quote is wrong though. There absolutely was coverage for Crimea at one point. Elon took it away when he decided Ukrainians should not be able to use Starlink too far in Russian occupied Ukraine.
That "conflict area" thing is a joke also. The front lines elsewhere in Ukraine are not a conflict area?
@ours I constantly see it said that these are actually unlikely to be white phosphorus as a reply to the videos being labeled as such...
Anyone have a longer explanation or a link to one about the range of things these kinds of attacks can be and why they might or might not be white phosphorus when it is Russia doing it in Ukraine?
@Ulara@cheese_greater Not really sure it is true that it is more gentle on its own population as a blanket statement. That would depend on the era we are talking about. Stalin certainly was worse but Gorbachev wasn't.
@Wilshire@ukraine These are horrible. Personally I make myself look because I feel it is important not to get a censored view of what is happening in war so I can stay more aware of the real costs instead of just looking at tanks blowing up from aerial footage (while conveniently forgetting there were people inside)...
@kevinrothrock Looks like that is something that has been a fairly popular request but hasn't been implemented yet because the different use cases for ActivityPub make implementation tricky. Here's the github issue: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8565
Recommended follow list for Ukraine war on Mastodon
Here are my recommendations for coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Only accounts active recently and you can easily import them from a file. They are split into two different lists by type.
Ukraine: OSINT & war updates
This list mostly has accounts posting quickly about daily events of the war and doing open source intelligence.
The import file relies on the List import feature recently added to Mastodon. I have noticed the list import results in a few accounts sometimes ending up in their separate list by the same name so you may have to fix that manually afterwards if this happens on your instance. If many people are on an older Mastodon version and want it I can also post a follows file that will work for those.
Import instructions:
Sign into your instance on the web
go to settings (Gear icon)
Choose Import and Export -> Import
For import type choose "Lists" (could also be "Translation missing: en.imports.types.lists" if there is an issue with the localization).
Select "merge" to only add to your current follows/lists so nothing you have gets deleted
@ijatz_La_Hojita@ukraine I don't think anyone in these supports Russia but I've at least tried to find ones that strive to be accurate and reasonably objective.
@DuncanMSussexPol@ukraine Another thing you can do besides nitter is use a bridge such as bird.makeup to get the posts to fedi from there. It might not have recovered from the recent breakage that also affected nitter though and there is always the worry that Musk will eventually completely block these solutions...
@dan80@ukraine Some good additional suggestions there and thanks for linking your list as well! There's lots more accounts to follow besides the ones I mentioned for sure if anyone is left wishing they had a larger list.
The better known ones that I may have left out I probably just put in a slightly different category due to other stuff they post about or think are inactive on Mastodon currently.
BTW, seems like lemmy did not show your message either as part of the thread before I tagged @ukraine in this reply even though you posted on #lemmy. Weird.
@annanic@ukraine If you have other quality suggestions, feel free to offer them like others have done. I've gone through hundreds of accounts from various lists but most lists are either very small or have tons of dormant accounts. Personally I think most on this one are reasonably good quality but obviously that's a matter of taste.
If you narrow the scope by whatever specific criteria you will probably end up with a pretty small list as things stand on Mastodon right now. Even this one is not a particularly long list.
The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.2022 to 09.12.2023 (lemmy.world)
mil.gov.ua/…/the-total-combat-losses-of-the-enemy…
Photos of the damage caused by the GMLRS missile strike on a Mi-8 helicopter. (files.catbox.moe)
https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/ed68e0e6-18f8-46c0-a095-e1455aa2e219.jpeghttps://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/c2136fad-d8f9-4d4d-b2a2-48877043c821.jpeghttps://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/16f3186c-9170-443e-b8b9-e8dca24ff144.jpeghttps://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/ea9aec80-6a8f-41cc-8fae-8d323f4109c6.jpeg...
Total Russian Combat Losses - 02.10.23 (www.mil.gov.ua)
Another big artillery day!
Mass murder on the Zhytomyr highway: map, chronology and investigation of the Russian crime (streamable.com)
t.me/UkraineArmyForce/342165...
"We've used 5% of our defense budget to arm Ukraine. And with it, they've destroyed 50% of Putin's army." - Ad targeted to Republicans to support Ukraine (streamable.com)
Bloomberg: US Senator calls for investigation following allegations Elon Musk disrupted Ukraine's strike on Russian fleet (kyivindependent.com)
Paywalled article: bloomberg.com/…/elizabeth-warren-demands-probes-o…
Russian incendiaries burning the Kreminna Forest (streamable.com)
t.me/c/1534945236/16958
Russia says there's a problem with billions of rupees it has in India that need to be converted (markets.businessinsider.com)
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18+ [NSFL] Photos from the scene of the Russian attack on the central market in Kostyantynivka, where Russia took the lives of 17 people. (imgur.com)