I'm getting a lot of questions about these photos, so here's what I've found; The photos show Евгений Степанович Кобытев (Evgeny Stepanovich Kobytev) and yes, it's the same man in both photos and yes, before and after his experiences during WW2. But there's more. Thread;

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵

Banning the teaching of Mandarin is abhorrent. By this definition, no language should be taught as they all can constitute as “soft power.”

“Musk admitted to his biographer… that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it.” The gov’t subsidized billionaire doesn’t care about our future but rather his own proliferation.

There is a curious phenomenon that results from the relatively brief window of time a single human lifetime provides: we perceive the current state of the natural world as “normal”. This is known as the Shifting Baseline Syndrome. 🧵

Leading up to Fall it becomes very apparent how fake the internet is, Starting mid August people put out videos & photos dressed like it's fall & having "cozy fall days" but you can look at the weather in their location and it's 80 degrees. A full on product soft launch

This whole list is fast fashion. I’m all for shopping sustainably if you can and thrifting but telling people to go from one fast fashion store to other more expensive fast fashion stores is ridiculous

Why would vegans do this to indigenous people

Rail workers want 15 sick days a year. The deal they turned down gives them 1. One sick day per year. That’s inhumane.

BREAKING: Morroco victory over Portugal completes Al-Andalus reclamation

MOROCCO ARE THE FIRST AFRICAN NATION TO REACH A WORLD CUP SEMI-FINAL 👏

Why 'nature-based solutions' are so controversial at #cop15. Congolese farmers barred from own land for tree planting project by French oil giant Total Energies news.sky.com/story/congoles…

I empathize with Elon Musk's concerns about flight tracking, which is why I am calling on Congress to ban private jets. The best way for us to keep billionaires safe is if they simply travel on a commercial flight surrounded by security and air marshals.

If you do one thing today, read this powerful piece about Tortuguita, the protester murdered in Atlanta as part of a coordinated campaign of state terror against the movement against the construction of Cop City. bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023/l…

People on twitter often react to the superficial instead of the substance, good example of that here. Because of the bad wording of the tweet (suggesting it's for *replacing* trees) and the thing's possibly absurd appearance, few look further into this tech's benefits -

The teacher saying “don’t cry sweetheart don’t cry you’ll be back next year, this isn’t the last class in your life. I won’t leave you all, I’ll see you again” Then at the end he says “I’m sorry sweetheart, it seems this was the last class for this life.”

Hey guys, the time has come to stop demanding a ceasefire. What we should be demanding is the following: 1. A full & complete arms embargo on Israel 2. Sanctions of Israel & its politicians 3. Countries to comply with the UNGA resolutions and ICJ judgements on apartheid