Cometh the hour, cometh the man

[elisi]

This will end up in the history books, and rightly so. Truly incredible speech.

Watch on YouTube

(with thanks to Owls)

And:

Here’s a great lesson in leadership! pic.twitter.com/WYeigeNikj

— Tim Aynes (@timaynes) February 26, 2022

ETA: Prominent Russians join protests against Ukraine war amid 1,800 arrests

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Ukrainian woman confronts Russian soldiers in Henychesk, Kherson region. Asks them why they came to our land and urges to put sunflower seeds in their pockets [so that flowers would grow when they die on the Ukrainian land] pic.twitter.com/ztTx2qK7kB

— UkraineWorld (@ukraine_world) February 24, 2022

Full transcript: https://twitter.com/FutureBoy/status/1496999905839050757

Why sunflowers: https://twitter.com/otdderamin/status/1497137066810871810

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Really good thread:

Watching Putin's attack on Ukraine play out, I am struck by the thought that Putin learned the lesson from the wrong Afghanistan war. And he has also vastly misunderstood post-Zelenskiy Ukraine. 1/?

— Zoya Sheftalovich (@zoyashef) February 26, 2022

Direct link: https://twitter.com/zoyashef/status/1497378894529589250

(Probably more later... it's all surreal.)

Comments

[lynnenne]

Thanks for sharing all of that. Amazing to see.

[elisi]

You're welcome. I just feel I have consumed for what seems like days and need to somehow share/process. The fact that the President was a comedy actor until 4 years ago is... something I still can't quite wrap my head around.

[yourlibrarian]

Fascinating about the sunflowers. I wonder why they are so effective against radiation damage?

[elisi]

Yeah, I'd love to find out more.

[owlboy]

they grow very fast and practically anywhere, like weeds, and they soak up specific isotopes. because their internal anatomy is so complex [think of how your nervous system is 30 miles of stuff compressed into a few feet] they can store fuck tons it

they then store it mostly in the leaves and flowers- so you can harvest these without digging out the roots, and the plant keeps growing, soaking up more radiation

the harvested parts of the plants are burned to ash and stored in underground bunkers

[yourlibrarian]

Huh! I wonder how their usefulness was ever discovered of all the possible plants. I guess maybe because they already grew in the area.

[owlboy]

not sure about sunflowers specifically- but bioremediation has been around a long long time, at least as far back as the Romans, possibly for as long as we've been domesticating plants

so i guess a bunch of scientists took a crack on ''we know the flowers can eat lead... but what about cesium?''

bioremediation was my favourite subject in enviro science so yeah ^_^

[elisi]

bioremediation was my favourite subject in enviro science so yeah ^_^
I can understand why! This is fascinating, thank you for sharing. <3

[yourlibrarian]

Science \o/

Testing

[(Anonymous)]

Oh boy, a comment!

Re: Testing

[elisi]

IT WORKED! \o/

[a_phoenixdragon]

I am in awe of Zalensky and the Ukrainian people. They are truly amazing...

*HUGS*

[elisi]

Being under Soviet rule is still very much within living memory (30 years), so they know how precious freedom is.