my grandma is about to celebrate her 92th birthday in her apartment hearing russian bombs falling closer and closer. she is too frail to leave. she survived hitler and his invaders setting her house on fire and shooting her point blank as 12yo teenager. she is not scared
i talk to her every day. every time she ends up comforting me, despite that i am not the one in mortal danger. it breaks my heart over and over again. “don’t worry. i outlived hitler. i’ll live to the day when they hang putin, too” — that’s how we end every conversation
my grandma taught me how to read and write. during dark poverty days of 1990s she would shelter me when my parents were struggling to provide enough food even for themselves. being head nurse at kids hospital, she always had energy reserved for me even after most grueling shifts
growing up i absorbed this tenacity of a survivor from my grandma. from her stories, from the way she carried on despite the horror endured. even decades later this resilience is so strong that she keeps comforting others despite that we all know she is the one most vulnerable
i think of her these days when i am at the lowest desperation point (happens multiple times a day). i simply cannot betray or disappoint her. i can’t give up. skies over ukraine must be closed so she, and millions like her, have a chance to live another day
#NoFlyZoneOverUkraine

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Mar 6
friends,
kharkiv is under russian siege. it's a massive city w/ the 2nd largest queer community in ukraine. proud homecity of @KharkivPride. many can't leave because of non-stop bombing. many don't want to leave because that's their home. my queer family there needs your support
as russian bombing of kharkiv gets worse, my queer family already financially struggles to buy food, secure stockpiles for bomb shelters. help them now while the city has connection, bank cards work & they can cash them out. in day or two they might be cut off
#StandWithUkriane
i can vouch personally that your money will reach queer ukrainians on the frontline. these people are my family and i trust them with my life. if we can't protect skies over their heads for now, then this is the least we can do

maximize amplifying please
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there’s a fire at zaporizhia nuclear plant following russian attack, znp’s spokesperson says

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‘I repeat, there’s a fire at the nuclear plant following the shooting by russian troops’
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live stream: fire, explosions seen at the site of zaporizhia nuclear power plant. fuck.

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there are TEN non-military #StandWithUkraine️ ways to stop genocide in ukraine.

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1) no high tech for russia Image
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our families in ukraine are in war zones in various parts of the country, so i log off time to time

follow these key voices on the ground:
@olgatokariuk
@ngumenyuk
@ronzheimer
@olex_scherba
@IAPonomarenko
@ChristopherJM
@KSergatskova
@lapatina_
@NikaMelkozerova
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moscow is awfully uncreative. in the last one hundred years #RussianColonialism has been using the same invasion and occupation tactic over and over and over again. thread.
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A big cleanup is coming.
I moved mountains to become who I am today, to have a chance to do what I love, to be in a position to make a difference. I started from zero, being a poor and queer kid. Often not seen, assigned no value.

Yet I've been struggling to accept that I deserve what I've built
I recollect one watershed moment when @EllenPage called me 'brave', insisted I stop denying it. At that moment I felt embarrassed, ashamed. I honestly thought she just doesn't know what a big fraud I really am. Took me years to see what a tragic self-depreciation trap I lived in
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