@ashcomco
Poet and journalist based in and around Jerusalem. A Moscow transplant, worked in two media outlets later banned/closed in Russia. Shooting daily JLM life. Please, call me Ash. Mostly on Mastodon: https://zirk.us/@ash Moar: http://ash.com.co
Latest Russia Contingency is out. I join @oajonsson.bsky.social and Maria Engqvist to talk about how the Russian military see the future of war, their lessons learned, gaps between theory and practice, and what to make of Russian military thought. @WarOnTheRocks warontherocks.com/episode/ther...
#jerusalem #israel #photography
#jerusalem #israel #photography
#jerusalem #israel #photography
#jerusalem #israel #photography
What is the future of Putin's "deathonomics" that has allowed Kremlin to keep the number of volunteers high, avoid mobilization and desensitize Russian society towards the war in Ukraine?
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In Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan, the Alabuga Special Economic Zone and its Alabuga Polytechnic vocational school have launched an ad campaign featuring teenagers who describe how they earn money assembling Shahed kamikaze drones.
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Purim sameach!
#jerusalem #israel #photography
#jerusalem #israel #photography
If wandering is quicker than death What is there to fear? You have two hands and two feet You are not lonely. Beautiful bodies are folded around their love With the folding skill and wisdom of nursery schools. A man passes through the wall And the wall remains whole and he remains whole. Such a man you are Or you will become one.
YEHUDA AMICHAI
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Amichai, Yehuda. 1977. Amen : Poems. Translated by Ted Hughes. 2nd ed. Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions.
#booksky #poetry #poems #yehudaamichai
Being a punk in Hawaiʻi is a hard-knock life.
Just ask Shawn “Speedy” Lopes.
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/the-conversa...
#Booksky #Books via Hawaii Public Radio
We're coming up on the 14th anniversary of that time, three days after he was elected to a third presidential term, when Putin "joked" about "tightening the screws" upon returning to the Kremlin. "Don't get comfortable," he told a reporter. No fucking kidding.
If wandering is quicker than death What is there to fear? You have two hands and two feet You are not lonely. Beautiful bodies are folded around their love With the folding skill and wisdom of nursery schools. A man passes through the wall And the wall remains whole and he remains whole. Such a man you are Or you will become one.
YEHUDA AMICHAI
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Amichai, Yehuda. 1977. Amen : Poems. Translated by Ted Hughes. 2nd ed. Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions.
#booksky #poetry #poems #yehudaamichai
Good and brave piece on Tourette's by the Guardian's Canada correspondent whom I have enjoyed for years and had wondered why he never does videos or interviews.
#mahaneyehudamarket #jerusalem #israel #photography
Student today referred to the Patronymic War and I feel ya
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#mahaneyehudamarket #jerusalem #israel #photography
#mahaneyehudamarket #jerusalem #israel #photography
••• the tissue of this scarred question is not an issue these odd glitches of meteorological plane of reality lemons are almost ripe beside the porch of my building; scared numbness and sour taste of what to do next and how to proceed to pass the oblivion and all the syrupy stickiness of inevitable mundane
#booksky #poetry #poems
Last week in Moscow - Indian restaurants, the Turkish and Russian languages and their approach to ethnicity, Cubans clearing snow in Krasnogorsk kotelnaya.substack.com/p/kotelnaya-...
Big opportunity here: the NYT is hiring a new Russia correspondent (an in-office position based in Berlin). www.nytco.com/careers/job-...
Someone putting pen to paper GRU regionality, something I've been researching for the past few years. Based on imagery they include, we use similar methodologies to break down the VIO by regions and links to monoliths, and reach similar conclusions.
a reminder that Tim Allan, who quit Starmer's Downing St today, previously spun for....not only Kazakhstan and Qatar but also Vladimir Putin’s government
www.ft.com/content/a0a8...
🚨 New episode out on YouTube! 🚨
Jon, @adamtooze.bsky.social & Ivan Krastev discuss ⬇️:
>> Greenland, EU & NATO
>> Trump’s Legacy?
>> Border btwn Democracy & Authoritarianism
>> Are We F**ked?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=haPt...
••• the tissue of this scarred question is not an issue these odd glitches of meteorological plane of reality lemons are almost ripe beside the porch of my building; scared numbness and sour taste of what to do next and how to proceed to pass the oblivion and all the syrupy stickiness of inevitable mundane
#booksky #poetry #poems
Book extract showing excerpt from a letter: “I am still just as frightened of bombs, & guns going off, as I was at the beginning. I turn bright red and my heart hammers, in fact I’m a beastly coward but I do believe that a lot of people are, so I don’t mind! Well darling I must stop, and I do feel sure that all your present work is useful, and if you can put in a little refresher in nursing – well all the better. Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis always your loving Peter
That splendid sign-off of the Queen Mother’s – “Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis” – celebrates its 85th anniversary today
Droids - (Do You Have) The Force (1977 French space disco/early synth pop and horrific choreography)
https://redd.it/5nx9nu
https://youtu.be/WJkdVB3Assw
As a poet, I have published book and couple of pending books, on of these in English. I urgently need 1200–1500 shekels right now to cover rent.
If you can help or point me toward resources, I would be deeply grateful.
Bit: 0587305468
Paypal: @ashcomco
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ashcomco
(03/03)
I’m waiting for a medical evaluation for depression that may qualify me for a pension at the end of March. At the same time, I’ve had severe lower back pain for four months and can’t work — mentally or physically. As a journalist, I work in two outlets currently banned/closed in Russia. (02/03)