Very slight change of plans: I'll begin the updates next Monday instead of this Friday. So this week will have no updates. Dang. So y'all better post hard enough to make up for it. But not so hard that we get past 1000 comments by the end of the week.
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.
That was an interesting story until the ghost waifu drek showed up.
I've read a fair few Creepypastas that are initially quite interesting and then go full anime bullshit in the later acts for no reason.
It takes a lot of restraint to just leave a story at "wow this fucked up thing happened" apparently.
Like the sleep experiment, its not just that oh if you dont sleep for a month or whatever you get fucked up, its actually a primordial evil that monologues at you about how its hidden within all of humanity and its super spooky.
Or Ben Drowned is actually about a conspiracy to preserve peoples consciousness within their favourite games, and not only is Ben a real person but every NPC in that cartridge of Majoras Mask is a real preserved person being tortured in the digital realm.
People clown on Lovecraft for this(Among other things) when some of his stories are like, "Romani fiddle music is satanic", "What if a hispanic figured out how to live forever then melted?" or "There's a secret society of flesh eating subhumans living beneath our streets and homes(And this one guy makes scary paintings of them)" but these are in fact, fucked up things that happened.
It's so fucking funny that all of those are real stories he really wrote
None of it will beat the time he wrote literally just racist fanfiction about his real life apartment and neighborhood having too many foreigners living there and imagining them all as doing live human sacrifices in the service of satan.
Anime had had some creative, interesting, and even scary concepts and themes before, but yeah for the most part the post-2000s waifu flood that coincided with the "waifu" slang being coined in Azumaga Daioh broke some brains good.