Ukraine has handed over to Russia as part of an exchange a 21-year-old student who had plans to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), investigative media outlet Verstka reported on Friday, citing his friends and Ukrainian military sources.

According to Verstka, Alexey Gerasimov was a former student of journalism at the Chuvash State University, who, friends said, openly supported Chuvashia’s secession from Russia. Chuvashia is a republic in Russia’s Volga region where local Chuvash, a Turkic ethnic group, form a two-thirds majority of the population.

“He would debate teachers, saying it was time for Chuvashia to secede from Russia. The teachers reported him and he was mobilised into the army,” Mishshi Oreshnikov, a Chuvash activist who fights for the AFU, told Verstka, though Verstka was unable to confirm this.

Fucking hell. Both Russia and China’s erasure of indigenous Turkic peoples is really bleak.

It’s a shame the mongabay website doesn’t let you properly see the high quality versions or zoom in.

I use bookwyrm. Out of principle I won’t use storygraph because it’s closed source.

I agree with you the duplication on BookWyrm is annoying.

I’ve been looking into [email protected] it looks quite promising but I haven’t had the energy to really engage with it and test it.

In fact, it appears we live in a giant cosmic void with roughly 20% lower than the average density of matter.

Okay that’s a little less dramatic than I envisioned given the use of the word “void”

I ran

Similar one in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Not very high priority to remove though. Nothing identfiable in the gran scheme I guess.

Do you have a link to any of these :)

Happy cake day

“on the brink of passing” (the article text) is a bit of an exaggeration. The latest swiss news I can find is that the government is currently doing a consultation.

https://www.news.admin.ch/fr/nsb?id=103968

Anycase, hope this doesn’t pass seems pretty awful. But even if it does I think we’re likely to see a referendum and all that, so could take a while.

than 25% of women, approximately 2 billion.

I think you mean 1 billion there aren’t 8 billion women on earth.

Are… Mosquitoes… edible?

Based. I actually shared that exact link on another post a couple days ago! How random 😂
https://quokk.au/post/131674

Well I think most of his life is a bit much. I think specifically it’s his experience when he fought in Catalonia for the anti-authoritarian Marxists (POUM) having the Stalin backed communists betray POUM and kill and imprison his comrades.

This is like Orwell who devoted his life as a (anarchist leaning) democratic socialist to fight authoritarianism.

And now authoritarian things are called “Orwellian”.

Sometimes, actions speak louder than words.

Or in the case of car bombs, blow louder than words.

Only legitimate reason is to help the people who are sending this (mostly human trafficking victims kept in camps in southeast asia).

Did not know the World Court was the name for the UN’s highest court…

Anyways… International law is pretty much fiction given enforcement so…

Liquor Liscence is common. Policing where people are allowed to drink what they bought is pretty uncommon.

Happy cake day!