I promise this is temporary, I have been posting the most important bits about Ukraine I find to world@quokk.au and to ukraine@lemmy.world for now and I have tentively made worldfossilfuelwar@lemmy.dbzer0.com and I was going to start posting to it within the next couple of days, I intend it to encompass the scope of how I want to share news and information about current world conflicts as a series of actions taken by fossil fuel powers to lock in a dwindling fossil fuel market as renewables begin to ernestly compete with fossil fuels at their core competencies and efficiencies.

I mostly stopped posting on ukraine@sopuli.xyz because there is a weird blindspot about Israel going on, and I had a similar issue with lemmy world admins and articles about the palestinian genocide so… I am wary to go over to ukraine@lemmy.world because of experience with site admins (not ukraine@lemmy.world mods) on these topics but also the community seems chill there lately so I am trying to post there more.

Also the Bab-El-Mandeb has been drawing my primary focus of late just because of how much worse escalation there can make everything including the war in Ukraine… and I guess too I feel like I have made my major points about Ukraine and we will see if many of them are wrong or right as the details of Vivaldi start to come out and it evolves… right now the tires are hitting the pavement but because of opsec we won’t know or be able to start talking about it analytically right now and once the Ukraine government starts publicizing their counteroffensives more broadly I think is when that conversation takes off like a cambrian explosion (and then will there be an amphibious landing on the Kinburn Spit?). This is just the antecedent moment before that and I guess that is another way of saying that except for lack of ballistic missile interceptors Ukraine is kicking russia’s ass and I am pretty hopeful for Ukraine right now, way more than a year ago.

For now the main strategic message I have for Ukraine is Israel is not your friend and that being happy Iran is getting fucked up because they were instrumental in supplying russia’s flying bomb production especially in the beginning is not the same thing as it being good to get drawn into this illegal war of choice that has crucially for Ukraine denied it what it needs most in the short and medium term… i.e. ballistic missile interceptors.

We cannot see these conflicts as divided into clean categories the way the lemmy world news admins seem hyperfixated on and I don’t trust the ukraine@sopuli.xyz lead mods to not censor conversation on Israel (though I agree with zero tolerance for nazis and antisemites) when it is uncomfortable nor do I trust the lead admins of sopuli.xyz to really engage with that nuance, though I would love to be proven wrong on that it isn’t a feeling set in stone.

Thank you for the kind words! The truth is I am painfully, comically and maddeningly adhd to the point that when people take a close look at my mind they almost always get stressed out, I post articles because otherwise I would just be reading the articles and trying to keep track of them with some bookmark system and honestly not only would I probably lose it/stop using it, I figure why not share my bookmarks with the world and maybe others will find some use in it? Besides if I share the articles on the fediverse than its like my bookmarks are bouncy balls in an infinite stairwell and that is fun and helps them not disappear like when I throw bouncy balls down my own internal stairwells (I mean I love emacs/org mode tho, don’t get me wrong).

I read at least most of every article I post and usually I return to ones I read less closely as they bounce around in my head (I jump back and forth a lot between articles as I read), and I post almost everything I like reading that I read, I have no use for AI (if anything AI has use for my training data because I don’t use AI) my brain wants to consume words not sit next to a robot doing it. I consider the work of posting and quoting an article a part of the mental exercise of critically reading the article, so what looks like a large amount of posting work for me is really just me just slightly re-contextualizing the wild goose chase I am always on with my brain whether I like it or not.

I am often too much, I tend to firehose, but here I feel like I fit in because 1.) if people get annoyed that I am firehosing, as long as I try to keep the quality of my posts high, then it just serves as a taunt to other people to step up and drown my voice out by adding their own in… and 2.) I can go suppppppppperrrr broad in my reading and posting so that I can read and share as much as my brain wants to without it being a complete overload in any one particular community or subject. 3.) The fediverse is decentralized so nobody has to ever be stuck in my firehose if they don’t want to lol.

Also when I say I am at war with corporate social media, most especially reddit and discord, I fucking mean it.

note I have been posting on supersquirrel@lemmy.ca more lately

Thank you so much for the kind words!

I feel very passionately about Ukraine and will return to posting regularly about it, but probably not on the sopuli.xyz Ukraine instance.

Nobody really bothered to address my concerns, @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz reached out to me personally and the second I pushed back on their framing they cut off communication.

I received no response from @Burstar@sopuli.xyz for their moderation actions.

I have received lots of little messages saying that people at sopuli.xyz like me but the lack of meaningful reaction to a mod silencing criticism of Israel quite blatantly and repeatedly from myself and others is alarming at this juncture in world history.

I don’t know how to feel other than kind of disconnected, it is important to me to keep posting updates about the Ukraine War, it doesn’t stop for my feelings but I just think it is so damn frustrating and indicative how the sopuli.xyz moderation team treated me with oven mitts from 1000 miles away while likely coddling the Zionist? mod who can’t handle anyone questioning whether Israel has actually behaved as an ally to Ukraine.

Are their personal issues are too tied up in the politics of this for them to see this lucidly? What makes me upset is that the rest of sopuli.xyz just kind of fell silent about it and made me feel like I was the problem.

Ukraine has no missile interceptors, and there is no end to the shortage of them in sight now. THE ONLY REASON FOR THIS are the choices Netanyahu/Israel and Trump/US made to launch the Iran War when they did and they were told repeatedly by advisors that this would be the inevitable result. I cannot emphasize this enough.

I was banned for responding to someone’s comments about Israel too, it wasn’t even like I brought Israel into the conversation, I just challenged the axiomatic assumption the person was making about Israel being Ukraine’s ally and that was enough to have my comments removed and be banned.

I did I got no response.

@QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz I was just banned from the Ukraine community, something is very wrong here.

https://sopuli.xyz/modlog/23366

The post I made was removed

Neoliberals love fanning the flames of fascism, they always believe catastrophically that they can win a popularity contest with it if they have to and yet they rarely ever do in reality.

Whoops!

The key intended audience of these sites is not concerned Americans, it’s not even humans—most of the sites average a few hundred unique visitors each month. Instead, Parscale and his firm, Clock Tower X, created them as part of a $46.5 million contract with the Israeli government to try and influence artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, tools like Claude or ChatGPT.

Netanyahu is a mass murderer pretending to be in control of a bus of fascism and violence that has hurtled off a cliff.

He has a slightly different soulless look in his eyes than Starmer. Burnham’s eyes just look dead whereas Starmer’s look like the eyes of a terrified little boy stuck in the body of an adult murderer’s body.

Otherwise the differences between Burnham and Starmer seem largely trivial and superficial.

edit they have different colored glasses right? my bad I forgot

edit 2 Also while their first and last names have the same number of letters (4 and 7 respectively, the algorithm is fairly basic) this batch of neoliberal ghouls does technically have different names for each individual Leadership Product so I think we can safely say Keir and Andy are meaningfully different.

Next up Putin’s two crown jewels.

Bullshit if you stand with jews you should be HORRIFIED judaism has been warped and twisted into rationalizing Genocide.

Anyone who loves jews or is a devout jew should be screaming at the top of their lungs that this is not judaism, judaism does not endorse, demand or encourage Genocide.

It is an affront to God in Judaism to commit Genocide as it is in every other major world religion.

I think I missed an implied /s here, my bad.

edit…or are you being serious? I can’t tell with your moderation history.

How much of a pathetic snowflake do you have to be to be exhausted from simply being in the vicinity of muslims?

I mean yeah it is dumb and bigoted… but it is also just weak.

The US needs to be dismantled far more than the ICC does.

What losers

What a clueless, lying idiot

Quote: “I’m certain, by the way, that sooner or later Ukraine will lose these western lands. And what used to belong to Poland, Hungary, Romania will sooner or later – maybe not tomorrow, not the day after, in a year or two, 10 years, or 15 – but everything will historically fall back into place.”

Details: Putin did not explain why Ukraine should lose its western territories.

Just like I intentionally get answers wrong on tests!

Can we please stop using the word “ceasefire”?

It is a dead meaningless word now.

Because it is the only decisive way to get neoliberals to shut up who are foaming at the mouth to make the same catastrophic mistakes they always do.