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One day tourists will visit Ukraine. Not to see war. But to see the country that refused to disappear. And they’ll understand why we fought so hard for every inch of it.

@FSucculent So Argentina will win then?

jai un lien avec tous les pays qualifies pour la demi-finale: - France: je suis francais - Angleterre: je vis en Angleterre et ma femme est anglaise - Espagne: mon meilleur ami vit a Madrid - Argentine: je suis instable financierement

@England okay

Some mornings just feel different. This is one of them 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Her name is Gina Martin. She was at a music festival in London when a man pushed his phone between her legs and took a photo under her skirt. She reported it to the police immediately. They told her it wasn't a criminal offence. There was nothing they could do. She went home and decided that was unacceptable. With no legal background, no political connections and no funding she launched a campaign to make upskirting a criminal offence in England and Wales. She petitioned. She lobbied MPs. She spoke publicly about what had happened to her. The government initially blocked the bill. She kept going. The Voyeurism Act passed in January 2019. Upskirting now carries up to two years in prison. Scotland followed. Other countries are following. A woman at a festival with no lawyer, no funding and no political connections rewrote the law for an entire nation in eighteen months.

@A88159and8964 然之后有一日你发现佢地都系台山猫

朋：1、2號英文有冇進步？ Me：冇，為咗小朋友唔好唔記得佢係香港貓，我日日同佢講廣東話

@A88159and8964 冇皮雞胸可以煮冇皮雞胸咯

冇皮雞胸可以煮咩？ 除咗咖哩

Heroes never die 🫡🙏 Vitalii Skakun was only 25 years old when he made the ultimate sacrifice. On the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian combat engineer volunteered to mine the bridge near Henichesk. Realizing there was no time to retreat, he detonated the explosives while still on the bridge, destroying the crossing and slowing the advance of Russians. His sacrifice gave Ukrainian defenders precious time to organize their defense. For his extraordinary courage, he was posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine.🫡 🇨🇿The Czech Republic named the bridge near the Russian embassy in Prague in his honor Rest in peace,hero🫡🙏💔

@linyujing 隐约记得做过省长

马兴瑞，我总觉得像个说相声的名字。

The fact that the Bible is the book people "swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" on is hilarious.

@yotakeoldtales @ayaka_hizuki 识玩。首先广告钱入袋为安，然之后比赛嘅节奏更加稀碎，更加多嘅休息时间令到有票房价值嘅过气巨星得到舒缓，更多嘅加时赛会出现。基本上，球赛组织者对球赛嘅控制加强。（就唔提VAR了

@ayaka_hizuki 咁應該話美國人識玩定唔識玩＝w＝

八強才開始看世界盃的人想問，到底是誰發明了水Break？？？ 廿幾分鐘就Break一Break，節奏超莫名其妙

💔 This is one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever read from a Ukrainian soldier. Please read every word. We owe them that. "Please remember us. We won't be the ones shouting about ourselves when we come home, because we have no strength left. And we probably never will. Most of us won't do anything. We'll come back quietly and try not to be noticed. We'll be dirty, sad, reeking, and we'll only talk to each other. We're so exhausted that we no longer feel like human beings. We're just labels of our former selves. A part of us will stay there forever, and we'll never truly exist in the same world as you again. We understand that. So please, remember this: we stayed there not because someone sent us, and not because we wanted to. It was simply the price that had to be paid. That's what that choice cost—the whole of you. Please remember that we don't wish you any harm. We don't want anything from you. And, to be honest, we're fucked up ourselves."

Japanese saxophonist Chika Asamoto playing the soprano saxophone in the now-demolished Kowloon Walled City slum in Hong Kong, August 21, 1988.

"If I support Trump, I will go to hell, and I will deserve it. Yep, I was right." --Lindsey Graham, July 12, 2026.

In October 1942, a terrified nineteen-year-old Jewish girl knocked on the door of Céleste Varon, a 63-year-old seamstress who lived alone with her elderly cat. The girl was the Mandel daughter from the second floor. The girl’s parents had already been taken by the authorities, and she had absolutely nowhere left to go. Céleste did not make a grand speech, and she did not hesitate. She simply stepped aside, let the frightened teenager inside her two-room apartment on the Rue Sainte-Catherine, and quietly decided to change history from her sewing machine. For forty years, Céleste had a reputation in her Bordeaux neighborhood as the woman who could make something from nothing. She spent her days doing close work by her window, watching the world change through the glass. When the German occupation brought terror and yellow stars to her streets, she did not see a political crisis. Instead, she saw a practical problem that required a practical solution. To survive, her new guest needed to become completely invisible to the soldiers patrolling the city. Céleste knew exactly how to do that because she understood that how a person is seen depends entirely on what they wear. She immediately set to work transforming the young girl into her niece. She did not just alter clothing. She coached the girl on how to walk, how to carry her shoulders, and how to blend into a crowd with the same patient specificity she used during dress fittings. Later, she used her sharp eyesight and steady hands to alter identity papers, mixing her own inks under a work lamp until the changes were flawless. "A person is noticed when they look out of place," Céleste whispered to her guests as she worked. "Our job is to make sure you look exactly like what the world expects to see." Soon, her quiet resistance grew. Over two years, Céleste hid a total of seven people in her tiny back room. When her savings ran out in 1943, she took a massive risk to feed them. She started accepting alteration commissions from the wives of German officers. She sat calmly in apartments decorated with swastika flags, pinning hems and maintaining a perfectly blank expression, using the money from the occupiers to buy food for the Jewish citizens hidden right under their noses. Twice, the French police searched her building, but they only ever saw an old woman sewing quietly at her machine and moved on. Of the seven people she sheltered, five survived the war. After the liberation, the Mandel daughter emigrated to Canada and eventually named her own first daughter Céleste. In 1947, she sent a letter back to the little apartment on Rue Sainte-Catherine, thanking the woman who taught her how to walk down a dangerous street like she belonged there. They wrote to each other for eleven years until Céleste passed away in 1958, right at her sewing machine, with a piece of fabric still under the needle. Céleste never asked for fame, medals, or recognition. She simply went back to her normal life after the war, believing she had just done her job. Today, her story lives on through that single, treasured letter preserved in the Bordeaux municipal archives. It reminds us that ordinary kindness, mixed with a little courage and practical skill, has the power to light up the darkest times and sew a broken world back together.

Він міг би бути її дідом, а вона його онукою, але війна зробила їх побратимами. Це історія про тих, хто не здається. Їх звуть Шахтар і Фурія. Йому - 58, їй - 19. Він - найстарший у своїй роті, вона - наймолодша у своїй. Коли він демобілізувався з АТО та вийшов на пенсію, вона ще ходила до школи. Сьогодні обоє служать на Харківському напрямку в бригаді "Хартія": він - старший навідник із "дідівського розрахунку", вона - пілотеса FPV-дронів. Шахтар - корінний криворіжець. Пів життя, 26 років, відпрацював під землею. У 2015-му пішов воювати добровольцем у 93-тю бригаду. З початком повномаштабного пройшов Серебрянський ліс, Липці, а тепер разом із побратимами 1969 року народження тримає позиції. Про себе жартує так: "Нас називають "дідівським розрахунком". Бойове злагодження у нас вже міцне - ніхто не панікує і не хниче". Фурія - родом із Запоріжжя. 24 лютого вона прокинулася ще школяркою. Закінчивши школу, вирішила кардинально змінити своє життя. Спочатку не склалося з прикордонним інститутом, а потім вона зателефонувала на гарячу лінію "Хартії". На позиціях була єдиною дівчиною в роті, але хлопці прийняли її одразу. Тепер керує FPV і зізнається, що найбільше їй запам’яталося, коли "танчики фігачили". Взимку на позиціях найважче. Шахтар тягне на собі 30 кілограмів амуніції, долаючи кілометри під відкритим небом, а Фурія носить 10 кг і каже, що це найкращі роки її молодості. Вони різні: він мріє видати доньку заміж і дочекатися онуків, а вона хоче швидку гарну машину й відкрити бізнес. Але зараз вони роблять одну справу. Шахтар каже: "Поки можу допомагати - буду у війську. Найголовніше - щоб ті, хто поруч, були живі". А Фурія просто живе моментом, бо загадувати наперед у цій військовій реальності - розкіш. Їм 58 та 19. Різні долі, один фронт. Честь і шана.

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @TheAtlantic cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Every weekend, my parents stand in Times Square for Ukraine. Sometimes the crowd is small. But as long as they are there, Ukraine is not forgotten.

@holdon_asec @Gundamwhitefox 本来法国同挪威争嘅，俾你灯左。不过，阿根廷应该会输俾英格兰。（今次轮到我灯啦。（球王用到变药渣了。

He was on his way to Polynesia when his boat broke down near a tiny island off the coast of Sardinia. What was supposed to be a short stop changed the rest of his life. When Mauro Morandi learned the island's caretaker was retiring, he made a decision few people could imagine. He stayed. For the next 32 years, Budelli Island became his home. He lived alone in a small stone shelter, powered his life with solar panels, collected rainwater, protected wildlife, and cared for the island's famous Pink Beach. People often said he spent decades alone because he hated talking to others. The truth was different. Mauro wasn't running away from people. He was running toward peace. Visitors came from time to time, but most days it was just him, the sea, the wind, and the silence he had grown to love. In 2021, authorities required him to leave the island after more than three decades as its unofficial guardian. He moved back to nearby La Maddalena, bringing an extraordinary chapter of his life to an end. Sometimes, the richest life isn't measured by the number of people around you. Sometimes, it's measured by finding the one place where your soul finally feels at home

Putin is waging war against mothers and their children. The Russian army cannot win on the battlefield. The Russians are not strong, they are cruel. That is why they launch daily attacks on the civilian population, trying to break Ukrainians' resistance. You can see a woman shielding a small child with her own body, trying to save the child's life. An aerial bomb struck near a public transit stop in Sumy. Yesterday, at least five people were killed, including a child, and another 30 were injured. Hospitals and schools, residential buildings and supermarkets, train stations, and other crowded places have long been targets for the Russians. It is important to understand: the Russians continue manufacturing missiles and shells, and recruiting contract soldiers, because they still have the money to do so. By official figures alone, 40 percent of the Russian budget goes toward the war. What needs to be done? Stop doing business with Russia and paying taxes into its budget. Refuse to buy Russian goods. Seize Russian ships transporting oil and gas in circumvention of sanctions. Hold foreign companies accountable for helping Russia evade sanctions. Strike at the Russian economy's ability to finance this bloody war.