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Feb 27 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Hearing horrifying reports of Middle Eastern & African civilians living in Ukraine being treated atrociously as they reach the borders of the EU. This is a crime that must be condemned in the strongest possible terms, all of them need our help fleeing this violence immediately.
I can’t corroborate or report on these things because I am very far away from those borders, but I trust the journalists and human rights activists reporting on these issues. Now is a time to show unequivocal solidarity with all people fleeing war, regardless of colour or creed.
Solidarity isn’t thoughts and prayers - it’s sending material aid. Get to border crossings and assist them.
All of them.

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Feb 28
Kind of both annoyed and proud I've been memed by shitheads. On a long enough timeline for someone who posts as much as me, it was inevitable. But I guess you've got to be able to laugh at yourself sometimes to use this website.
Maybe I posted cringe, but it's still what really happened. The caretaker of this building is a genuinely wonderful guy. It's part of the reason I'm not currently spending the night in a bunker. I will have to take the memes on the chin, so this round goes to you shitposters.
It did, genuinely, make me cry a little in the shop. I hadn't eaten or drank anything in 18 hours, and people were being really kind to me when they had their own shit to deal with. I just wanted to share that on here with you all, I'm just kind of posting my way through it all.
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Feb 28
I’ve been queuing inside this grocery store for more than an hour. When the locals found out I was a journalist, they started shouting at other people in the queue to let me go in front, alongside the soldiers and militants here. A deeply humbling moment, but I declined.
Their lives matter more than mine, they must come first.
Honestly I’m still in the store and I’m holding back tears at what happened. These people are incredible.
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Feb 28
It took me 10 years of hard work, interning, working shit jobs at shit hours for shit pay before I was finally able to stand on my own. There is no short-cut to getting here, it’s difficult and unpleasant. Most people quit years before they make it.
My advice is don’t do this if you weren’t born for it. Don’t do this if you haven’t wanted to do this, and only this, for your entire life. Don’t do this if you aren’t prepared to pick yourself up after being knocked down repeatedly. This isn’t my job, it’s my entire life.
In my late twenties I was on the dole. I was working in bars and waiting tables to sustain my writing. There were long periods of time where I was basically living hand to mouth. I’m not trying to put people off, I’m trying to prepare them for what this career really is.
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Feb 27
One of the more disgusting developments I've seen are people who argued that we should not arm Syrians to defend from Assad because they were 'all Jihadis' claim that the people who want to arm Ukrainians to defend from Putin are racist for not feeling the same about Muslims.
Let's be clear they're also the same people who spent weeks claiming that sending Ukraine defensive weaponry to defend from an imminent invasion was inciting Putin. They're almost always the same people that claimed all Ukrainians were Nazis too.
They are desperate to find a narrative to throw at this because the simple fact that Russia is unquestionably the aggressor in this situation is too difficult for them to come to terms with. These people treat these wars like a game.
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Feb 27
Driving through the city, I can’t take pictures, but the main roads are all blockaded. A mixture of volunteers and regular troops man these barricades, no cars can move through the streets here without being stopped. These barricades are everywhere.
I can’t risk publishing photos of these defensive positions for obvious reasons, but Russian tanks are going to meet fierce resistance on these streets. I am told even some of the smaller ones have hidden anti-tank weaponry. They’re planning on defending every single inch here.
We’re being stopped at every single point, the atmosphere is very tense, but as soon as we establish our identities the men smile and wave us on. Some of them are even sharing jokes with our driver, morale here is high.
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Feb 27
There are people on here who spent weeks leading up to this carrying water for Putin, I won’t give them the pleasure of naming them, who are very angry that I am here, and very angry that the world is watching what is happening here instead of listening to them. Good.
There is no greater honour I could ever receive than the hatred I endure from cowards like these. I hope they continue to tweet my name in fury, I hope my name burns like acid in their mouths until I finally shuffle loose this mortal coil.
I hope, when it finally happens, they celebrate my demise, there could be no more fitting a tribute to my life’s work than the joy of my enemies that they are finally free of me.

As I said. We are here. We will remain here.
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