Today’s dilemmas of women in #Russia - article titled “Can a war hero beat his wife?” Anna Dolgareva writes:

Does one previous noble deed outweigh subsequent, less noble ones? Or is it more correct to consider the sum of all deeds? To simplify, we can rephrase the question as follows: does participation in the SVO grant absolution for any subsequent actions?

In a typical Russian 2025 journalism style for most of the text she is beating around the bush (I love this phrase) only to conclude that no, in general participation in the “SVO” doesn’t automatically grant you the right to kill and rape civilians in Russian towns after his return.

Her article is a polemic against some other Russian “patriotic” publicists who literally said that she should be “kissing his feet” because he participated in “SVO” at some point, implying that she should also suffer beatings and abuse:

https://video.echelon.pl/w/n67KEUdafxiaiZfk7qX6MJ

But here’s that typically Russian twist: Dolgareva believes this moral stance only applies to Russian women in Russia. It does specifically not apply to Ukrainian women in Ukraine because only 4 months ago she publicly explained that explains that the process of “denazification” of #Ukraine can be only conducted with purely physical means, by exterminating everyone resisting Russia and “reeducating their children in Russian spirit”:

https://video.echelon.pl/w/q2aEBUg6Cz8xccdWtHxkgf

And in today’s article she said kind of the same thing:

I would also like to add one more thing. As I already mentioned, part of the tragedy of the Afghan generation was caused by the apparent senselessness of the war in which these soldiers were fighting. The chances of a tragedy for the SVO generation will probably be lower if this war ends in victory rather than a temporary truce.

As always, the Russian official articles are most interesting at the end. Dolgareva essentially said that the veterans must believe that the war was “won”, but at the same time she herself admits it’s a hopeless task:

I am not talking about the need to storm Kyiv – we must set ourselves realistic goals. But the end result must be such that every soldier who survived the meat grinders of Bakhmut or Volchansk understands that this is the victory they fought for. And this is undoubtedly an extremely difficult task, which requires not only military skill but also the art of negotiation.

How do you explain to millions of Russians that the way #Putin started was practically lost a month after it started with retreat from Kyiv, and then for several years he was sending ~800k Russian men to be killed and mutilated for… what exactly, ruins of Bakhmut? So yes, Anna - you need not “art of negotiation” but fucking magic 🤦

Full article: https://vz.ru/opinions/2025/5/7/1330262.html (in Russian

Did you know that David Zinn's little creatures even make waffles using the things they find on the pavement? I feel like I'd enjoy one this Sunday morning 🧇

#StreetArt #DavidZinn

El Museo Municipal de #fuengirola acoge estos días la exposición sobre la vida y obra de Mark Ryder, principal representante del lowbrow, un arte nacido en los años 70 del pasado siglo que surge como subcultura de estilos como el hippy o el punk. El lowbrow mezcla corrientes como el dadaísmo, el surrealismo o el pop, e influencias de todo tipo como el cómic, el arte religioso, los juguetes, el arte urbano o la ciencia ficción (una de las portadas musicales más famosas de género lowbrow es la de “Dangerous” de Michael Jackson). Además de ejemplos del arte de Ryder, podemos encontrar ilustraciones de dibujantes e ilustradores como R.K. Sloane y Robert Williams, entre otros.

#lowbrow
#articulos

“Linux ‘just works’ – if you can see.
…
This isn’t a bug.
This is neglect.”

– @fireborn

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-1-built-for-control-but-not-for-people/

(And its ableist culture will sooner make you the villain for criticising it rather than acknowledging the failing and fixing the status quo. https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-broken-screen-reader-for-nine-years-but-the-real-problem-is-me/ There’s a reason I’m back on Mac after six years on Linux. As a developer, it was impacting my ability to make what I’m building accessible. And I reject the unspoken premise that the source being open is somehow more important than the human right to universal access. Ethical technology requires more than just the “four freedoms” https://web.archive.org/web/20250418090901/https://ind.ie/ethical-design/ This is why inclusivity is a core Small Technology principle. https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology)

#accessibility #inclusivity #universalAccess #a11y #linux #FOSS #openSource #freeSoftware #freedom

I've watched this several times and laughed harder each time.

Have no idea what either is saying but it's hilarious!

I was shocked that there was not a single book by Emma Goldman in my local public library.

So I looked her up, and came across this 1919 work I hadn't seen before.

DEPORTATION - Its Meaning and Menace

It seems deportation without due process to gulags overseas is as American as apple pie.

#EmmaGoldman #Books #Anarchy #USHistory