Rose Mason
@rosemmason
Autodidact historian, mostly central and eastern Europe. historical musicology Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Слава фламінго!🦩 "Why, said Montag slowly, 'we've stopped in front of my house.'"
It appears that Syrskyi has the same mindset that a lot of Western civilian and military leaders have: the failure to adapt to the very real paradigm shift in the way wars are now being fought. There is no turning back. There is no wishing it away. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
"Rally in support of Mykhailo Fedorov. Tomorrow, 16.07, Thursday, 09:00, Franko Square."
I wonder, Evan, if you even noticed that at 12-13s in, he boops your shoo with his snoot, which pushes it forward slightly. This is a still that shows the move preparatory to the boop-push.
Unfortunately, as is so often the case with newspapers, just when this article started to get more interesting, it ended.🤷♀️ united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
I have about 18 pages left in a book I'm now reading, and have been wondering which book I should read next. Several titles on my shelves have been rolling around in my head, but I've not been able to decide. I want to thank you for settling the matter for me, at long last.
Luka, you dragged yourself into this war nearly 4.5y ago by allowing the army of the RF to march through Belarus' on its way to Kyiv during its 3-day SVO, & now you're telling Zelens'kyy not to play games with you? Luka, he's not playing games; he's deadly serious. united24media.com/world/lukash...
Today marks the 85th anniversary of the Wehrmacht's invasion of the Soviet Union. This is the photo of Stalin right after he was told about the invasion he refused to believe was going to happen.
Good grief, to think that for all these years we've been led to believe it was the CIA that 'meddled' in Ukraine in 2014. And now we're told it was a breach of the Warsaw Pact? Yikes!
Except that's not what Article V says. Yesterday Iran publicly stated that it might still levy 'fees' in conjunction with Oman. I get the impression that it's far worse than what you're describing. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-up...
Highly recommend listening to this. I'd like to add something interesting that Phillips O'Brien wrote in his Substack post today. bsky.app/profile/phil...
At 7s in Argo is winding himseff up for a bork. He opens his mouf and pulls his lips back just prior to issuing his bork. At moments like this one could even compare his borks to an Ukaz, an official pronouncement.
Even under the influence of strong drugs provided by Argo's doctor, he's still able to cross L o'er R paws. 🧐
I'm going to give 'platter paws' a trademark, just as I did with 'HoverPaws™' — which is what Argo does when he's lying on the couch — because both are so clever. SO: PlatterPaws™, which for some odd reason made me think of 'platypus.'
Argo is saying HENLO while standing on 3 feets! On a different subject, I've long been impressed by the plumpness of his plump front paws.
Yeah, you can see the other dog's sharp teefies playing gently with Argo's ear.
He doesn't usually move this fast in the house unless he's coming to take your shoo. Which has made me wonder if he ever gets the zoomies inside. Because we're told that AI is very smart I assumed it should know who your Argo is, so I googled this, and it doesn't! See note at the bottom, though.
"as a creature of his time" stuck out for me, too. Thanks for the reminder; HoD is on my mental 2026 reread list, and Césaire's "Discourse on Colonialism" and Donald Bloxham's "History & Morality" (OUP 2020) are on my 2026 reading list. Bloxham is a historian of genocide. Bloxham, p.289: