An op-ed for state news agency RIA Novosti titled "What Russia should do with Ukraine" by pundit Timofei Sergeitsev has created quite a stir today The rhetoric is truly horrific, even by the standards of what I'm used to seeing from pro-Kremlin media Below are a few quotes:

Yesterday, RIA Novosti published a lengthy piece titled "What Russia should do with Ukraine", which explains in detail what Russia understands by denazification. It's truly horrific: 1/6

As a genocide scholar I am an empiricist, I usually dismiss rhetoric. I also take genocide claims with a truckload of salt because activists apply it almost everywhere now. Not now. There are actions, there is intent. It's as genocide as it gets. Pure, simple and for all to see

Got questions about why I think it is genocide. Until this morning I resisted applying the term. War crimes? Sure. Heinous rhetoric? You bet. What changed is the combination of more and more evidence, from different places, and even more importantly, explicit official rhetoric /1

Zelensky tells the UN Security Council to expel Russia or dissolve itself. The kind of blunt language that the UNSC should hear more often.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says the EU has given €35bn to Vladimir Putin in energy payments since the start of the war, compared to €1bn given to Ukraine in arms and weapons.

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Les amis ! Le 24 mai, venez parler avec nous all things Open Collective dans la conférence sur les communs numériques à Paris. On présentera la nouvelle stratégie d’ @OC_Europe. It is🔥 Merci vir et JF Dh 🇺🇦✌️ de rendre cela possible! 🙏🏽

🇺🇦 The @1kproject has delivered 5,000+ USD$1k direct cash grants to Ukrainian families. Immediate help, no strings, in a time of wrenching crisis. 100,000+ families waiting. For the next 48 hours, Jen Rubio & I will match all personal donations. 1kproject.org

Pour pratiquer cette ligne, plus que l'heure en moins, la fin de la correspondance obligatoire à Mannheim/Francfort qui foire la moitié du temps sera le bienvenue.🤞

Few things make me as proud as having somewhat catalyzed this group to come together to solve access to money for communities world-wide. OC is a beautiful thing. ⚡️OC2022 Global Retreat⚡️+ team members who are not in the picture!

venture-backed CEOs after laying off half the company

Mastodon is the #webWeLove. The one that we were hacking 20 years ago with RSS, Trackbacks, etc ... The one that gave us the original Twitter 16 years ago. Feel good to see this live.

Over 1 million people have joined Mastodon since October 27. Between that and those who returned to their old accounts, the number of active users has risen to over 1.6 million today, which, for context, is over 3 times what it was just about two weeks ago!

After completely disconnecting earlier this week, I'm login in to share this. I've been using this Twitter thing for 16 years. I tell you, it starts to be a shame to be there. It's time to leave. Disconnect. Go elsewhere.

After a year of work, Ecosyste.ms now indexes more packages than Libraries.io It's been a long journey for Andrew Nesbitt and I since our work on Libraries but Ecosystems is already powering the next generation of researchers, policymakers and application developers in open source ✌️

Short apparition here. Humbled to serve in this transition and build that new home for the Open Collective platform. Thank you for everything Pia! 🙏