Recently, @DefMon3 said something very important about #Kherson operation. Ukraine lost a LOT of troops attacking strong Russian defensive lines in #Kherson for the greater good of the mission. The attacks forced the Russians to expend supplies that led to the need to retreat.
Nov 14, 2022 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
Was replying to devil's advocacy from @jwz regarding #Mastodon.
"How can you possibly think that this is how it is going to go?"
Reasonable, based on the track record of social media.
Except it's not "think". It's hope.
Which changes things, in ways most devs don't grok.🧵
@jwz, like myself, leans heavily towards the idea of a Federated Feed Reader... kind of the holy grail of what webloggers wanted with RSS over twenty years ago now. A non-kludgy way of sharing content AND comments transparently, between different servers.
Sep 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Russia is so incompetent, they can't even commit war crimes and do collective punishment in a well-planned, efficient, highly effective manner.
It's just a child's tantrum, with negligible long-term impact.
Still, out of everything the Russian military does, they do appear to be most effective at war crimes. That reflects more on their lack of training, oversight, & discipline, though.
Poor soldiers make great criminals, good at looting, raping, killing civilians... and routing.
Apr 24, 2022 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
Despite telling readers pre-invasion to steel themselves to likely mass graves & torture, I've tried not to dwell on the horror unleashed on Ukraine, focusing on the war and the necessity to help kill the enemy.
It a more personal thing to me than is visible. Here's a 🧵 on why.
I was a last-born kid from a WW2-era family, w/ my mother meeting my father in England soon after the war. My father was in training in '45, and kept the peace in Europe at the onset of the Cold War. This led him to studying Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey.
Apr 14, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The Russian Defense Ministry confirms that the cruiser Moskva, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, sank after being hit by two Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missiles.
Some rather interesting details in the 🧵!
Here's the translation of the Telegram post mentioned at
