Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is still Palestine, though we will switch next week to a new country.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly (biweekly?) update is here.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Last week's discussion post.
I must be depressed again or maybe just tired, I hate myself and my lack of music ability.. but like two weeks ago I was feeling like I made it. I'm frustrated by the lack of gigs and my last jam session performance wasn't as good as I was hoping. I was also a little eepy tired guy than too.
It's just painful to get washed out by white kid 19 year olds, i dont know what to do. Its either persevere and get good or i start putting all my time and energy into something else.
Music is fucking hard and to come from where I came from and to pull it off I think in hindsight is amazing. It actually is objectively impressive to do what I've done so far. It's still not enough but fuck
If I stop being a musician look out the rest of the world.
Do not hold yourself up against the 19 year olds that have played for 15 years.
Yea fuck those kids.
They haven't even hit rock bottom yet lmao
they might be being facetious but i wholeheartedly agree lol fuck dem kids
Maybe you could introduce them to Rock.... bottom. (this is a joke. Do not, I repeat, do not get 19yo kids hooked on crack so you can play more gigs)
that's fair but like, i also want to play x.x
I don't know what you like to play but most music is actually really simple
I know it feels shitty to not be a virtuoso (fuckin' tell me about it) but it's not actually necessary? maybe focus on writing and producing? There are lots of ways to make music that don't require young wizard fingers
I feel like once you experience the best parts of jazz music it's hard to go back and not want to constantly improve and have deeper moments. However reality is people want to make moeny and there's a line of rich white kids who edge you out of the experience.
Seriously I taught myself guitar and bass in my teens and used to fart around in bands through my 30s definitely played with some Berkeley school of music nerds who had the benefit of lifetime patronage and it showed although they were better trained and technical in most cases it didn't matter so long as you're good enough. Just focus on having fun. it's worth more when you die than being objectively better or worse at something than someone else.
but i put a lot of time and money into this i want to make some of the money back and also play with people who are serious about it. it's not about being better or worse just for the vanity of it