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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Started watching the show Silo on AppleTV a couple weeks ago, maybe 3/4ths of the way through season one now. On the whole a really well-made show, maybe a few pacing issues or the occasionally poorly constructed/lit/shot set that keeps it from being at the same level as the best prestige TV of the last 25 years. But for a sci-fi production that must require a fair bit of CGI or The Volume or just expensive sets it's one of the best I've seen. But then there's Common, who plays the main antagonist in the episodes I've watched, and who's operating at a level far below the rest of his castmates. Every scene he's in just drags down the quality of the show around him.
It's like Common was cast in the CW or old SfyFy channel schlock version of this production that would've existed twenty years ago, but everyone else is in Apple's post-GOT post-Westworld "we have to compete with The Boys and Rings of Power and Dune and The Last of Us" show.
This is the wrong mega lol... but since we're here...
I just watched Severance on AppleTV, and it's FANTASTIC. Good anti-work/capitalist themes, and really interesting philosophical basis in its themes and concepts. Basic premise is that there's a controversial procedure that allows people to have an entirely split phenomenological experience inside and outside the workplace. Their work self knows nothing about their outside self, and vice versa. Lots of interesting questions about identity, personhood, surveillance and control, self-ownership, relationships, and so on and so forth. Highly recommend.
Every fucking time. I swear I always double check to make sure I get the right mega and I still fuck it up like 30% of time. Oh well.
I'm definitely interested in Severance, it's on my vague and worryingly long and growing list of shows I need to watch.
Yeah, Silo is pretty good. I highly recommend reading the book, though. I think some of the changes they made to the characters were cool (making the Supply person a kick-ass lesbian was pretty awesome, whereas in the book it's just some mostly flavorless old cishet white guy), but as usual they fucked up the plot royally and left tons and tons of shit out. Like, the very feel of the thing from the very first scene was WILDLY different. They did a Sixth-Sense-esque "reveal at the end" for the series, which in the books is a "secret" you learn right away. Also, everything being from the POV of a fucking cop is completely different between the two. Screenwriters are assholes. (If you're watching the series already, you should probably finish it before reading the book so as to avoid the major spoiler.)