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ash

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poet and journalist based in and around jerusalem

• worked in two media outlets currently banned/closed in russia
• used to do a book news segment on the radio
• my book of poetry is due to be published in late 2023
• on a somehow tough road of repatriation since january

call me ash, btw

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ash, to russia
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Creepy as fuck.

Telegram-channel appropriately named "Soldiers' widows of Russia" encourages readers to enlist ASAP.

Translation is in the description.

@russia

https://t.me/vdovasoldata/450

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This poem by Grigory Pozhenyan (1922–2005) later became a great song by Mikael Tariverdiev:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNfo3rZN7Rk

@bookstodon @poetry @music

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From "Sketches of Russian Women's History" (1871):

In Cossack stanitsas (villages) one can see naked men dancing in the street, surrounded by a crowd of women, girls and children. One Cossack woman drank herself to the skin: wishing to collect money for vodka, she burnt her membrum and went naked through the village to collect donations for the burnt place; everyone was delighted by this joke and the Cossack woman was not left without vodka.

@russia @bookstodon @histodon @histodons

ash,
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@themodestokid @russia @bookstodon @histodon @histodons usually it is, yeah. Here, most likely her public hair

ash, to russia
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Murderer of three people killed a murderer of four in Vladivostok pre-trial detention centre, Lenta.ru reports.

@russia

Highlander: the beginning!

ash, to comics
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Alex Gregory

@comics #comics #cartoon

https://www.cartoonstock.com/cartoon?searchID=CC67724

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James Tate
(1943–2015)

@bookstodon @poetry @poet

https://books.google.co.il/books?id=aLzYEAAAQBAJ

mation on it as yet.” I noticed that he was about to cry. “Well, thanks,” I said. My stomach was sinking. I was certain to be late to work. I didn’t know what to do. Part of me wanted to drive on, to see what was out there, and part of me wanted to turn back, though I wasn’t certain of what I would find there. So I drove on for miles and miles, the sand dunes shifting and stirring, and the occasional hawk or buzzard circling overhead. Then the road disappeared, and I was forced to stop, and looked behind me, but that road, too, was gone, blown over by sand in a few seconds. I got out of the car, glad that I had some water with me. I looked around, and it was all the same. Nothing made any sense. I tried to call Harvey at the office on my cell phone. I couldn’t believe when he answered. “Harvey, it’s Carl. 'm out here in this new place. It’s all sand, and there are no roads,” I said. “We’ll come get you,” he said. “But I don’t know where I am, I mean, I don’t even know if it exists,” I said. “Don’t be ridiculous, Carl, of course it exists. Just look around and give me something to go by,” he said. “There’s nothing here. Oh, there was a tunnel some miles back, and a policeman leaning up against his motorcycle. That’s the last thing I saw,” I said.
“Was it the old Larchmont tunnel?” he said. “I don’t know, it could have been. I was lost already,” I said. “Okay, I'm going to come get you. Just stay put,” he said. I waited and waited. And then I just started walking. I know I wasn’t supposed to, but I was restless and hoped I might find a way out. I had lost sight of my car and had no idea where I was. The sun was blinding me and I couldn’t think straight. I barely knew who I was. And, then, as if by miracle, I heard Harvey’s voice call my name. I looked around and couldn’t see him. “Carl, Carl, I'm here,” he said. And I still couldn’t see him. “We’ve fallen off. We're in the fallen off zone,” he said. “What? What does that mean?” I said. “We’ve separated. It may be temporary. It’s too soon to tell,” he said. “But where are we. We must be in some relation to something,” I said. “I think we’re parallel,” he said. “Parallel to what?” I said. “Parallel to everything that matters,” he said. “Then that’s good,” I said. I still couldn’t see him, and night was coming on. It was a parallel night, much like the other, and that was some comfort, cold comfort, as they like to say.

ash, to academicchatter
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Stumbled upon an old FB comment by philologist Kirill Ospovat. He wrote:

"Grandfather of mine was invited to Lubyanka [the KGB HQ] once to give lectures on Latin American literature. He did not dare to refuse, so he came and began lecturing. He started with biographies: "co-operated with the local communist party" and so on. A senior officer in the audience politely interrupted: "Lev Samoilovich, you can leave that out, this we already know".

@histodons @academicchatter

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An old favourite of mine for @academicchatter

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ijcm7t/studentsteachers_of_reddit_whats_the_best_forgot/g3e5cni/

ash, to russia
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Animals have started "screaming" in all Russian forests. Fortunately, it won't last long, — sibdepo.ru reports.

@russia

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@mediazona: In Voronezh, a blogger named Christolyub Bozhiy Vegan [transl. Christlover God's Vegan] was prosecuted for insulting the feelings of religious believers and rehabilitating Nazism.

@russia

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@neural_meduza: In Voronezh, a blogger named Christolyub Bozhiy Vegan [transl. Christlover God's Vegan] was prosecuted for insulting the feelings of religious believers and rehabilitating Nazism.

@russia

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@bookstodon #literature #poetry #poem #verse #israel

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A diary entry with some

As for my Aliyah, it is two weeks till the court ruling that'll allow me and my father to do a paternity test, I hope.

As for my upcoming poetry collection (which consists of two books of texts from 2004-2016), it is on the final layout steps.

Also, I collected first drafts for two more books in Russian, and a draft of my English poetry book (but for this one, I need to write some extra texts to conclude it).

@poet @writer @bookstodon

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For the next issue of the "Dvoetochie" ("The Colon") Russian Israeli literary magazine, I was asked to reflect on the topic of "Apocalypse". What it is, how it relates to our present, what role literature could play in the times of the end, and how our relations with literature and reading changes for after certain tragic and seminal points in time.

(01/12)

@bookstodon @poet @writer @writing @literature @israel @mazeldon

ash, to russia
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Unexpectedly for myself, I have just put an annual reminder on my calendar for 7 October. And after a brief moment of thought - for 1 and 3 September (2004 Beslan school hostage crisis) and 23 and 26 December (2002 Nord-Ost hostage crisis in Moscow).

Not that I'm ever forgetting

@israel @russia @mazeldon

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The Federal Protective Service (FSO), a federal government agency concerned with the tasks related to the protection of several high-ranking state officials including the president of Russia, will conduct three-day exercises on the presidential administration's premises, Lenta.ru reports.

@russia

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Yevgeny Varshaver, associate professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, head of the Migration and Ethnicity Research Group, senior researcher at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, wrote a quick sociological commentary on yesterday's unrest in Makhachkala (in Russian).

My English summary with addendums here and there — in the toots below

https://polit.ru/articles/avtorskie-kolonki/chto-proizoshlo-v-dagestane-obyasnyaet-evgeniy-varshaver/

@russia @sociology

(01/06)

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Sociological analysis of the unrest in Makhachkala (in Russian).

What happened in Dagestan? Yevgeny Varshaver explains "Yevgeny Varshaver is a candidate of sociological sciences, associate professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, head of the Migration and Ethnicity Research Group, senior researcher at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)."

https://polit.ru/articles/avtorskie-kolonki/chto-proizoshlo-v-dagestane-obyasnyaet-evgeniy-varshaver/

@russia @sociology

ash, to russia
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@dailymirror: Putin back from the dead and two hours late for meeting before launching mad rant

@russia

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Svetlana Nagaeva. HAMAS in Moscow

Captions: "Are you getting off at the next stop?", "This train terminates here".

@russia @isreal.gup.pe #russia #russianzeitgeist #moscow #subway #israel #israelizeitgeist #israelhamaswar #hamas

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10211099340354665&set=a.10202252239262667
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy5Zu-2LU5C/

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Prof. Yair Bar Haim, professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and director, the National Center for Traumatic Stress and Resilience, discusses the current situation in Israel. Specifically, what work psychologists perform on the ground while we are at war with Hamas.

He also provides guidance for those in the diaspora about dealing with the associated trauma of what is occurring in Israel.

https://youtu.be/5yjD9A80ivw

@psychology @mazeldon @israel

ash, to russia
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@mediazona: A local Tula Telegram channel published a video of an apology by a resident of Yasnaya Polyana who was earlier detained for writing a book about Leo Tolstoy's anti-war stances

@russia @philology @bookstodon #russianzeitgeist

ash, to academicchatter
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WTF is the world we are living in

> An associate professor at the University of California Santa Barbara claimed during a recent speech that the Israeli Defense Forces fighting Hamas terrorists is akin to police officers "murdering" George Floyd. He called Israel a "white supremacist Zionist project" and issued a chilling call to action; American progressives must kill the Jewish nation.

https://thepostmillennial.com/uc-prof-equates-hamas-to-george-floyd-says-progressives-must-stab-israel-in-the-heart

@israel @mazeldon @academicchatter

ash, to histodon
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An awesome lecture by @rorystewartuk on the zeitgeist, how politics changed from 1990s to 2020s, and what antidote Aristotle provides us against what was bad about the smug consensus of the 1990s and to what is deeply disturbing, immoral and in some ways horrifying in the current age of populism:

"Populism, Aristotle and Hope" (recorded on 8 June 2023 at The Old Library, Guildhall, London):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCSlNrI4nhY

@histodons @histodon

ash, to histodon
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A very interesting lecture by @rorystewartuk on the zeitgeist, how politics changed from 1990s to 2020s, and what antidote Aristotle provides us against what was bad about the smug consensus of the 1990s and to what is deeply disturbing, immoral and in some ways horrifying in the current age of populism:

"Populism, Aristotle and Hope" (recorded on 8 June 2023 at The Old Library, Guildhall, London):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCSlNrI4nhY

@histodons @histodon

ash, to histodon
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A very interesting lecture by @rorystewartuk on the zeitgeist and how politics changed from 1990s to 2020s, and what antidote Aristotle provides us against what was bad about smug consensus of 1990s and to what is deeply disturbing, immoral and in some ways horrifying in the current age of populism:

"Populism, Aristotle and Hope" (recorded on 8 June 2023 at The Old Library, Guildhall, London):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCSlNrI4nhY

@histodons @histodon

ash, to bookstodon
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> To celebrate 60 years on stage, take your seats for Othello, from National Theatre at Home, made possible by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Available for a limited time only (22nd December)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkKYT-WwyMQ

@bookstodon @theatrefolk

ash, to russia
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Russia's Combat Losses in Ukraine Deduced From Rosstat's 'Unassigned Deaths' Category:

https://jamestown.org/program/russias-combat-losses-in-ukraine-deduced-from-rosstats-unassigned-deaths-category/

Paul Goble is a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia. He was director of research and publications at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, served as vice dean for the social sciences and humanities at Audentes University in Tallinn and a senior research associate at the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu in Estonia.

@russia

ash, to art
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Nataly Kulikova. "מה נשתנה הלילה הזה מכל הלילות?"

@mazeldon @israel @art

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10230732454073239&set=a.10203258983733651

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I used to see this sketch(s) by @stephenfry & @hughlaurie purely as a parody of a particular genre of TV programmes, but now I suddenly realized it was a (self-)ironic thing about an awkward autistic courtship.

It only just took me this amount of years!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWpHQQ-wQg

@bookstodon

ash, to histodon
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The Guardian: Research by Glyn Thompson, a former lecturer in art history at Leeds University, asserts that Fountain could not have been the idea of Duchamp and that he had instead stolen it from a German Dada artist, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. (01/02)

@arthistory @histodons @histodon

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Lenta.ru: The USSR's nuclear weapons appeared by God's Providence in the cloister of Seraphim of Sarov. This was stated by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'.

@russia

ash,
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@kallekn @russia I know, right? The blessed colony

:))

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@kallekn @russia

BTW, I once edited a transcript of the lecture on exactly this branch of Russian orthodoxy:

https://discours.io/articles/social/korni-rossiyskogo-atomnogo-pravoslaviya-geopolitika-katehon-i-novyy-irratsionalizm

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near nowhere
but quiet quiet
regency of the soot and dust
something tingling
fingers touching
the crust

@poetry @poet @bookstodon

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A Wagner group mercenaries received an offer to fight for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, one of them told EANews.ru [it's a local news agency from the Ural region of Russia] on the terms of anonymity. According to them, wagners were offered a salary of 650,000 rub (roughly 6,700 usd) per month.

https://eanews.ru/news/chitano-650-tysyach-v-mesyats-vagneram-predlozhili-voyevat-za-palestinu_13-10-2023

@russia @israel

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@russia @israel it would be really nice if it turns out to be a hoax, but most of the previous leaks from the Wagner's mercenaries were later confirmed, as far as I can tell, so... we'll see

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When the expert has the greatest family name.

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His essay for @aeonmag is currently in my reading list:

Praying in shoes "The Sunni movement of Salafism was born at the beginning of the 20th century, with the goal of modelling life on the 7th" (by Aaron Rock-Singer):

https://aeon.co/essays/a-history-of-the-modern-islamic-movement-that-is-salafism

@histodons @histodon

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Several prominent Duma MPs have asked the Kremlin to allocate funds for the PR of the Russian parliament, Breakingmad.me reports citing NewsVL.ru

The parliamentarians propose to provide additional budget funding to "Duma TV" to form the "correct" opinion about the State Duma and its representatives.

@russia

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"We didn't prepare for this war, we don't need it," the Yugra governor said at a meeting with residents of Nizhnevartovsk. She has already been reported to the police, @meduza_en reports

@russia

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A Court in Makhachkala gave a 7-year suspended sentence to a man who bought a pistol & fired it ~30 times in the forest, @mediazona reports. The court considered his "direct participation" in the war in Ukraine, where he was wounded, as a mitigating circumstance.

@russia

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You can't make this shit up! Actual news from Kirovsk, a town in about 50 kilometres from Saint Petersburg:

Headline: The weekend was active!

On the 7th of October at the Kirovsk Sports and Entertainment Complex there were held a laser tag competition dedicated to the Teacher's Day.

Results of the competition:
1st place - Soviet Union
2nd place - Third Reich
...


@russia @news

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TWIMC. "The autumn webinar series "The Four Languages of Jewish Poetry" kicks off on 22 October. On Sundays at 7:00 pm Jerusalem time, we will meet at the buzzer with experts on poetic heritage in different languages".

The caveat is, these webinars will most likely be entirely in Russian.

All the details and the link to the registration form — in the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/718582883645624/718582896978956

@mazeldon @yiddish @poetry

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@israel @mazeldon @photography

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5 October 2023. Bell Challenge — Jerusalem skateboard championship

@israel @mazeldon @photography

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5 October 2023. Bell Challenge — Jerusalem skateboard championship

@israel @mazeldon @photography

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