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Valley of the Ghosts
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In 1895, in the remote West Kootenays of British Columbia, a narrow gauge railway was built to reach the richest silver mines in the world. By 1910 rampant development destroyed almost everything, a story still very relevant today. Click pics, read ALTs.
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The little dog indeed.
Photo image of smiling customer service representative wearing headset. In white text on a black background: "HI, THIS IS NATASHA FROM PAYROLLAT THE KREMLIN PROPAGANDA UNIT. WE KNOW YOU HAVEN'T BEEN PAID RECENTLY, THIS IS DUE TO FINANCIAL SERVICE DIFFICULTIES, BUT PLEASE DON'T WORRY AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. PUTIN IS PROUD OF EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU."
December 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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An illustrated wartime poster in the Soviet style shows a smiling officer wearing a cap and holding his hand aloft. In red lettering on a white background at bottom" That's some serious Kremlin Bullshit!".
December 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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“Here russia killed my family. I will take revenge!”

Putin's only purpose in this invasion is to destroy the Ukrainian nation and absorb it into his russia.

Putin is the antithesis of everything the Free World stands for. Everything the world did to create new international law after WW2.
Photo of abandoned Ukrainian housing blocks. Most of the windows have been blown out. On a near wall, a bit of graffitti: “Here russia killed my family. I will take revenge!”
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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"“For Russians, performative cruelty is a tool of war,” British historian Antony Beevor told The Telegraph."

Roman Sheremeta posted this on the other place, and I hope he posts it here. @rshereme.bsky.social

Meanwhile:
“For Russians, performative cruelty is a tool of war,” British historian Antony Beevor told The Telegraph. Russia’s actions in Ukraine are not an anomaly. They are the continuation of several centuries of an especially brutal military culture that the West has long ignored. The mass rapes, torture, and killings in Bucha were systematic. The more than 19,500 kidnapped Ukrainian children reveal the true meaning of “Russian liberation.” The Russian soldier is shaped inside a system of violence. In the 1990s, five thousand conscripts took their own lives every year. The generals laughed about it. Recently one commander ordered new recruits to dig their own graves because “they’ll need them soon.” This is how the “chain-of-abuse effect” works: those brutalized by the system go on to brutalize others. In 1945, the victims were Polish, Hungarian, and German women. Today — Ukrainian women. In Berlin, they even raped exhausted concentration camp prisoners. The Russian logic is simple: “the victor is never judged.” The very concept of legitimacy in war simply does not exist there. The cruelty in Bucha began when Russia’s blitzkrieg failed. Beevor draws a historical parallel: the Nazis turned to gas chambers in 1942 when they realized they would not defeat the USSR. A frustrated occupier always becomes more brutal. After the war, hundreds of thousands of broken, traumatized, and criminalized Russian soldiers — including former convicts from “penal battalions” — will return home. Even now, new crimes are being documented, committed by the “heroes of the special military operation” who received amnesty for their service. Russia’s losses are about 1 million: around 250,000 killed and 750,000 wounded. The Kremlin deployed mobile crematoria to hide the bodies. Beevor says Putin will break any ceasefire and blame Ukraine and Europe — and Trump will support him. Real peace is highly unlikely. Just as after World War I, when Britain and France could not believe anyone woul…
December 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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New murals of Lviv.
source: @ioponomarenko.bsky.social (on the other place).
Photo of a mural on a very old building in Lviv, Ukraine. A small boy wearing a green coat holds a black umbrella up to three diving Shahed drones. Next to him sits a black cat looking up at him. A small red hashtag reads SaveUkrainianChildren.
December 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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A version of the iconic postal stamp of a Ukrainian soldier on Snake Island giving the finger to the russian navy's flagship Moskva missile cruiser. The Moskva has been replaced with images of Putin and Trump.
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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The Telegraph has published the EU 24-point proposal for ending russia's invasion of Ukraine.
24-point European counter-proposal in full 1. End of the war and arrangements to ensure no repetition, to establish a permanent basis for lasting peace and security. 2. Both parties to the conflict commit to a full unconditional ceasefire in the sky, on the land and at sea. 3. Both sides immediately enter into negotiations on technical implementation of ceasefire monitoring with the participation of the US and European countries. 4. US-led international ceasefire monitoring by partners of Ukraine is introduced. Monitoring will be predominantly remote using satellites, drones, and other technological tools with a flexible on-land component to investigate alleged violations. 5. A mechanism will be created through which parties can submit reports of ceasefire violations, and to investigate ceasefire violations and discuss corrective measures. 6. Russia unconditionally returns all deported and illegally displaced Ukrainian children. The process will be supported by international partners. 7. The parties to the conflict exchange all prisoners of war (the principle of "all for all"). Russia releases all civilian detainees. 8. Upon ensuring sustainability of the ceasefire, the parties to the conflict take measures for humanitarian relief including family visits across the line of contact. 9. Ukraine's sovereignty is respected and reconfirmed. Ukraine is not forced to be neutral. 10. Ukraine receives robust legally binding security guarantees, including from the US, (Article 5-like agreement) to prevent future aggression. 11. No restriction imposed on the Ukraine Defence Forces and defence industry, including international cooperation. 12. The guarantor states will be an ad hoc grouping of European countries and willing non-European countries. Ukraine is free to decide on the presence, weapons and operations of friendly forces invited by the government of Ukraine on its territory. 13. Ukraine's membership in NATO depends on consensus within the Alliance. 14. Ukraine becomes…
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Sometimes AI captures the moment quite well.
An almost-painted AI image shows Putin, Trump, and Musk seated at a table. On the table is a stack of VHS (!) tapes labelled "Trump in Moscow" for various years. Three candles burn under Trump's image.
November 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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A Google Translate screensnap that should be. Kremlin talking point: "Just give ups the occupied territories." Regular English: "Just let the occupiers steal your home, kill your wife, and rape your daughter. You'll lose your family, your culture, your language, and your future. You'll be forced to assimilate into a cycle of endless violence. Democracy, independence, and freedom will become nothing but a memory. Thousands of Ukrainians will have paid with their lives for nothing. Just give up. Your identity doesn't matter. Your hopes don't matter. Your life doesn't matter. You don't matter." 100% accurate translation. Thank you Google Translate.
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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May this help the world understand the barbarity of russia's daily attacks on Ukraine. In Ternopil, inwestern Ukraine far from the frontlines, a russian missile targeted a residential apartment tower and killed dozens. A war crime.

There will be no peace agreement without Ukraine at the table.
A appalling photo from a neighbouring apartment tower showing the destruction from a russian missile attack on a residential area of Ternopil, in western Ukraine. Several upper floors have collapsed. Nov 19, 2025. In the distance a large fire burns at a fuel source.
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Day 353 of daily Georgian pro-democracy protests.
Fuck Putin and his "Georgian Dream" insurgency.
November 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Sepia photo of Native American warrior looking a bit angry. Text box says: "DEAR WHITE PEOPLE IT TAKES A LOT OF WHITE PRIVILEGE BALLS TO STAND ON THIS STOLEN AND OCCUPIED CONTINENT AND COMPLAIN ABOUT IMMIGRATION."
November 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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The USA was built by immigration.
Sepia-toned image of a Native American warrior, looking serious, with a text box: "Dear white people. It takes a lot of white privilege balls to stand on this stolen and occupied continent and complain about immigration."
November 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Al Capone, the notorious Chicago gangster of the Prohibition era, was eventually taken down by federal tax indictments. Whatever worked.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone

Donald Trump, who also started in NYC and made residence in Florida, will eventually be taken down by his Epstein connections.
Photo of Al Capone in a three piece suit and tie, with dishevelled hankie and a gold chain across his vest for probably a watch. Any resemblance to Donald Trump is entirely coincidental.
November 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Photo of a washroom hand dryer features a hand-written message: "Push button for short speech by Pierre Poilievre". An arrow points to the botton.
November 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Ukraine hit an anti-aircraft battery tonight in Novorossiysk tonight. source: Tim White on the other place.
November 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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The Epstein emails are out.
Photo of Donald J (for Genius) Trump on a private jet, surrounded by five very young girls with long blonde hair. All the girls smile with teeth. Trump smirks with one eyebrow raised. Superimposed on the photo is a screen snap of a post by @realDonaldTrump that says: "STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN!!!!!"
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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"Mad Max" Scherzer chats with the first base umpire in Game 7. One of my favourite images from this World Series.
(source: Toronto Star blogsters)
Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer points with his right hand and shouts from the mound, with a packed blurred crowd in the background over third base.
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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6th game 1993 - Go Jays !

@bobbyrae48.bsky.social
source: Bob Rae on the other place.
Signed baseball scorecard, in the collection of former Ontario Premier Bob Rae.
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Image of angry Blue Jay looking straight at viewer, wearing a witch's hat. source: Birding Port St. Joe on FB.
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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1995 was prophetic...
Promotional piece for the 1995 Terry Gilliam film "Twelve Monkeys", featuring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt. Red background with black lettering, showing a monkey image in a circle of twelve monkeys. In the film, a time traveller appears to determine the cause of an apocalyptic global pandemic.
October 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Image of a mother scolding a petulant daughter. Finger pointing, daughter's arms crossed. Yellow text on black background: "If you don't stop hating people, you'll grow up to be an evangelical christian."
October 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Ukraine will win. There is no defeating this Ukrainian spirit.
October 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Russian monster turtle tank.
The fear is palpable.
I'm. not sure how to even begin describing this image. A clear sunny day. Blue sky. A pyramid of metal covered with metal rods and branches. A fever dream from Mad Max. Apparently there's a russian tank under there somewhere. source: SpecialKhersonCat on the other place.
October 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Go Jays Go!
Game 2 in Toronto 8pm EST.
October 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM