October 3rd's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
October 4th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Just a heads up - I'm doing more prep on Wednesday as I'll be moving in the near-to-mid future, so it'll be a four-update week.
October 7th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
October 8th's update is here! TLDR? [Here's the summary.
Next thread here!
Links and Stuff
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists, for the “buh Zeleski is a jew?!?!” people.
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.
https://t.me/asbmil ~ ASB Military News, banned from Twitter.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster - crowd-funded U.S journalist, mostly pro-Russian, works on the ground near warzones to report news and talk to locals.
https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it's a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.
https://t.me/rybar ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
With the entire western media sphere being overwhelming pro-Ukraine already, you shouldn't really need more, but:
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.
Last week's discussion post.
Europeans are joining South African internet groups and forums to ask for advice on how to prepare for rolling electricity blackouts/load shedding lmao.
It's really going full circle
The imperial boomerang is circling back
I mean it is, but at the same time I'm :cope:ING hard because South Africas electricity blackouts are just getting worse and worse.
Load shedding out my doo doo ass
Lmao.
It's more like 6 hours a day of no electricity at this point.
That's rookie numbers for Guatemala
I mean it was at 12 hours plus a week ago, but Eskom managed to buy some diesel or something.
I think the power has been out for 68 days in total so far this year.
But I can definitely believe it's worse in other countries. I know Zimbabwe is really bad for instance with the rolling blackouts, I think they only have like 2000 megawatts of electricity generation capacity.
gas stove and battery powered lamps. Plus becoming used to sitting in the dark doing literally nothing. Then you're good to go. Picking up smoking can help with the last one
Also a power bank/battery for the WiFi router and internet modem, you can pick one up for like R600/40USD in SA.
My work building is planning to perform a blackout test for unspecified reasons.
Authorities here has gone from never talking about "load shedding" ever to assuring people that it is very unlikely and just in case it happens they have very good plans for how to do it.
It's when they feel they have to tell you not to worry you know you should start to worry.
:thonk: