Thank you @SeventyTwoTrillion for all your effort. :sankara-salute:

Old Map for reference

If you have any useful resource links please tag me in a comment with the link:

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Add to the above list if you can, thank you.

Links

Time/Map: https://time.is/Ukraine

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ukraine/@49.1162725,31.7993839,7z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x40d1d9c154700e8f:0x1068488f64010!8m2!3d48.379433!4d31.1655799?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1B1PLMhbHmG1aJ2-QNxHY1TksI6HlNhqF&ll=48.60777942568106%2C36.4496511633501&z=7

Leftist discussion threads:

https://hexbear.net/post/177324

https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/t03foy/genzedong_russiaukraine_master_discussion_thread/ :kitty-cri-texas:

https://lemmygrad.ml/

Others:

http://thesaker.is/. (Right wing pro Russian , little unhinged about covid , but interesting war analysis, gets quoted by naked capitalism )

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-conflict-updates

( the institute for understanding war link being a neocon American exceptionalism plaything from the kagan family)

Resource for unedited RusFed/Ukraine press conferences/speeches

https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCo-P9gyWGjOkdquRBt0zowQ/videos

Twitter military updaters:

https://nitter.42l.fr/RWApodcast

https://nitter.net/ASBMilitary :kitty-cri:

https://nitter.42l.fr/ArmchairW

https://nitter.net/Militarylandnet

https://nitter.net/MihajlovicMike

https://nitter.net/KofmanMichael

https://nitter.net/TadeuszGiczan/status/1498673348183744518

https://www.youtube.com/c/DefensePoliticsAsia/videos

Global South Perspective: https://nitter.net/kiranopal_/status/1498723206496145413

https://www.understandingwar.org

https://www.moonofalabama.org/

News updates:

https://www.cgtn.com/special/UkraineCrisis.html

Live: https://www.cgtn.com/special/Live-update-Ukraine-Russia-border-crisis.html

YT/Video in Ukraine:

https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickLancasterNewsToday/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/RussellBentleyTe

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    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]M
      ·
      3 years ago

      Thanks, comrade. And same to @cravingdonairs's comment.

      I've always thought that some kind of archive, which filtered out all the noise and repeats, would be something valuable for us as a resource. Partially out of curiosity and keeping informed on issues beyond those in the domestic US (not that they aren't important, but they are already covered here quite well), partially to prevent memoryholing, and partially to have a wide variety of contemporary sources of information to have at our disposal.

      I guess I became the person who did that, at least for this website. I don't wanna make myself into a brand like 7DeadlyFetishes (SeventyTwoTrillionDeadlyFetishes?) or anything like that, as I recently said, I just wanna help people out in the ways that I can.

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        You could very easily parlay this into a small news site with no change to your daily bulletins. You might even be able to make a living off it, or at the very least supplement your income. Worth considering, hmu if you have hosting questions.

        edit: be the leftist version of zerohedge

        • swampfox [none/use name]
          ·
          3 years ago

          I second this.

          Aggregation of information with a methodological emphasis for material accuracy is a godsend.

          I'm really starting to think that construction of anticapitalist wikipedia / anticapitalist twitter / anticapitalist reddit (hexbear!) / etc, all hosted safely (replicate thepiratebay's approach perhaps) is the best near-term goal for leftists who refuse to go outside.

          • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
            ·
            3 years ago

            It would be neat to organize some kind of media front with contributions filtered through hexbear, could run ad revenue back into operating costs.

            edit: leftu.org is available, could be a play on left unity and left university or something

        • Cunigulus [they/them]
          ·
          3 years ago

          I used zerohedge as a source for fringe news for years before I looked into its background. Some Bulgarian communist propagandist's fail son built a media empire as a magnet for the US right and right-libertarian fringe (probably as a channel for Kremlin propaganda, honestly). It's useful as an aggregator for fringe economic and geopolitical news as well as a way to keep a bead on right-wing :brainworms:

            • Cunigulus [they/them]
              ·
              3 years ago

              Yeah, if he's putting in the effort he might as well go for it. If he attracts a couple other contributors it could be a less liberal Nakedcapitalism

        • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]M
          ·
          3 years ago

          I'd be down for this. I'd want it to be attached to the Hexbear "brand" in some way if possible, if the admins are okay with that. Hexnews or something, idk, or maybe leftu as you suggested. My main issue with making my own site or blog or whatever is maintaining anonymity, both for me and the people using it.

          • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
            ·
            3 years ago

            With ID protection on the domain registration, registrant identity is hidden from the public record. Throw in free Cloudflare DNS management and it's pretty safe from prying eyes trying to figure out who's running it. It could be as simple as a quick WordPress installation. I'm no web dev but I could toss one together pretty quickly if there's interest, although I have no experience running ads or anything like that.

              • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
                ·
                3 years ago

                :lets-fucking-go: Thoughts on domains? If the mods are interested it could even be a subdomain under hexbear.net, news.hexbear.net or whatever.

                • KiraNerys [she/her]A
                  ·
                  3 years ago

                  @nat_turner_overdrive and @SeventyTwoTrillion - Hi there! Love the idea of this project and definitely interested. If you want, we could utilize the wiki features in our existing gitea instance. It is a bit more limited than other wiki tools, but its ready to go.

                  Example: https://git.chapo.chat/hexbear-collective/lemmy-hexbear/wiki/_pages

                  If that sounds good, I can create a new repo specifically for this as a text project and get both of you gitea accounts. Alternatively, if you're more technical, then dm me and we can hash out other details.

                  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
                    ·
                    3 years ago

                    That sounds doable. I'm a fucking moron, though. If we do it via gitea it's gonna take me some time to get less grillbrained on it. A DNS record for the subdomain with a wordpress installation somewhere else would be easier for my limited mammalbrain, but I get that it divides control so I understand if that's not the way forward.

                    • KiraNerys [she/her]A
                      ·
                      3 years ago

                      no worries. let me run this by folks on our end on the technical side. will get back to you tomorrow at latest.

                • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
                  ·
                  3 years ago

                  @CARCOSA hate to bother you because i think this probably should be directed elsewhere but what's the way to ask the mods about using a hexbear subdomain? Should only require pointing an A record for the subdomain to whatever hosting situation, assuming it's okay to do.

                • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]M
                  ·
                  3 years ago

                  Sounds good! I'm in the GMT timezone right now so if you get any further info from the admins, I'll be awake in ~8 hours or so. I have all my update posts in a Google Sheets document for now that I could transfer for the sake of having that information.

                  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
                    ·
                    3 years ago

                    Nice, I'll do the thing once we hear back from the mods - if they don't want to do a subdomain, do you want to go forward with like, leftu.org or something else? It can all be moved around wherever when we decide but I'll buy a domain if that's the best route.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        I appreciate the work you're doing. It's been very helpful in making sense of what's happening.

      • voice_of_hermes [he/him,any]
        ·
        3 years ago

        I’ve always thought that some kind of archive, which filtered out all the noise and repeats, would be something valuable for us as a resource.

        People have used Git archives pretty effectively for stuff like this, I guess. Online hosting like Github and Bitbucket will render markdown in their web interfaces, and the great thing about Git as a platform (distributed, non-hierarchical version control) is that people can mirror it with ease by cloning or forking, and could even send you requests to merge in new content back at the original repository.

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
      ·
      3 years ago

      It really is though. I've found myself enjoying this site as a superior source to leftist content and discussions than what I can find on Reddit nowadays. Genzedong was pretty good, but a little too contrarian at times for my liking. Shitliberalssay is okay too but again there's not a whole lot of discussion as much as there is dunking on posts.

      I also find the site easier on the eyes and better than Lemmygrad. No offense to them.

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        i wonder how many are legit on shitliberalssay because at 170k could you imagine if like half that number migrated over here?

      • StuporTrooper [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Which is why I'm on the train of "we don't need to try to grow this site." I think expanding userbase by absorbing a bunch of Genzedongs or Twitterers will change the character of the site.

      • W_Hexa_W
        ·
        1 year ago

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    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      :reddit-logo:

      Craven liberalism. There's a thread high up on /r/WorldPolitics or something where the libs are hemming and hawing over whether 2 billion a month is too much money to stop the rise of Slavic Communist Nazi Putin. They lost interest so quickly.

      • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
        ·
        3 years ago

        we need 7 billion a month for the rest of time to sustain your… errr our war

        Pay up burgers

    • voice_of_hermes [he/him,any]
      ·
      3 years ago

      even the libs at :reddit-logo: have already given up

      You have so little faith in the well-propagandized: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ucs6il/russia_threatens_to_attack_kyiv_should_ukraine/