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@eish4shards
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Soviet Music, Socialist Realism, Linux, Hacking

#socialistrealism, #sovietmusic

@martin

Every time I learn a new skill I have this fantasy where I save the day thanks to that.

Without tiling wm / with tiling wm.

I spent more time creating this than I care to admit. What is worse: my friend pointed out that I could have done it in a tiling wm and just take a screenshot.

@EngNet
I think I learned how to write good and actionable post mortem reports for my job because of Causality. Always a pleasure to listen.
@chidgey
West Fertilizer Company

In the early hours of the evening on the 17th of April, 2013 in the small city of West, Texas...smoke was seen emanating from the West Fertilizer Company building. In 20 minutes there was a massive explosion that levelled the facility and its surroundings, killing 15 people and injuring hundreds more. How this came to be, represented a failure of regulations, planning and grandfathering on every level.

I feel like the unknot should be called a "not".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknot

Unknot - Wikipedia

@wimpy
Here is a sentence you don't read every day
Morrison provides no documented proof that Prokofiev’s travel restrictions were part of a grand deception. Like many other "scholarly" works, The People's Artist is anti-communist propaganda with footnotes — not serious historical analysis. #Prokofiev #SovietMusic #History

In summary:

✓ Prokofiev was allowed to travel for over a decade.
✓ He chose to become a Soviet citizen, subjecting himself to its laws.
✓ His passport exchange was not unusual.
✓ His travel status change was not unexpected, given the political situation of 1938

No evidence supports claims that he was "trapped" by a long-term Soviet plan.

More context: 1938 was the height of the Yezhovshchina—the mass purges led by Yezhov’s NKVD. If Prokofiev’s travel status changed, it may have been due to shifting security policies rather than a long-term plot to "trap" him. Morrison provides no evidence to the contrary. By 1940, Prokofiev’s planned U.S. tour was canceled because he couldn’t obtain a travel permit. By 1941, Prokofiev was evacuated to the Caucasus, like many other artists.
Morrison claims Soviet authorities "invented excuses" to explain his status change from allowed to travel to disallowed, but he provides no evidence, except for an anecdote of Lina sarcastically complaining about waiting in line for bureaucratic matters in Moscow. But so what?