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This is Odesa after a Russian attack today‼️ ​Russia struck an 11-story building, and when firefighters arrived and started their work, Russia struck it again. ​10 people were injured, including 2 firefighters. ​At the time of the first attack, people were in a shelter, which saved their lives. ​Again, this is a big city on Friday, in broad daylight. This is terrorism.

Russia is Starving the Occupied Town of Oleshky🚨🚨🚨 Ukrainians trapped in the occupied Kherson region are desperately begging for help online. Russian drones have remotely mined all access roads around several coastal villages and towns. These areas house Russian artillery, troop positions, and drone launch sites used to bombard the city of Kherson. The occupiers are intentionally holding Ukrainian civilians hostage to use as human shields. They know that Ukrainian soldiers across the river will not strike areas where their own mothers, brothers, wives, and children are trapped. Because Russian forces refuse to let civilians evacuate, starvation has set in. Since December, the supply of food, humanitarian aid, and medicine has been severely restricted. Local hospitals are closed, and there has been no electricity for four years. The region already suffered colossal destruction after the Kakhovka dam explosion in the summer of 2023. During the resulting floods, many residents lost their identification documents, making any attempt to leave even more difficult. But the primary barrier remains the Russian military simply wont let people go. People are now dying of hunger. The last outside food delivery arrived in May 2026. Over the summer, residents barely survived on what they could grow in their own gardens. As winter approaches, this crisis is turning into a complete catastrophe. Locals who miraculously find an internet connection are pleading for global awareness on social media. They say that the harvest season is ending and they have already been forced to slaughter what little farm animals they had. Please visit Zarina Zabrisky (@ZarinaZabrisky) on Twitter for more information. Share this story and her posts to help spread the word!

These are people trying to escape the fire by jumping out of windows after Russia struck a business and shopping center in Lozova, Kharkiv region, today‼️

Hey Edmonton, Winter is expected to arrive this week! Leave plenty of distance between vehicles. Give yourself extra time for your commute. Clear the snow from your windshields. Be safe and look out for one another. Drive Safe!

I’m in the public library and we are nonstop “upskilling” poor exhausted patrons on new places to click on their old devices. All of our cognitive energy now is spent looking for on off toggles and new drop down boxes, and how to turn off obnoxious new features you don’t want.

Here’s Pierre Poilievre trying to appeal to Millennial women by talking about how their ‘biological clock is running out’.

I'm often the target of people who loudly want everyone to know they're against fashion. I secretly think they do so because they want everyone to pat them on the back for being morally superior and more intelligent than us "sheep." Fashion is not limited to runways and red carpets. It surrounds us. Fashion includes how subcultural groups such as punks, skaters, and hip-hop fans dress. It's about cultural expression. People self-fashion even in non-capitalist societies. They even self-fashion in prison! Prisoners customize their dress as a way to regain some sense of humanity and individuality. It's central to human expression. The Met Gala theme this year is “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," which is based on Monica Miller's brilliant book "Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity." It tracks three centuries of Black dandyism, from when dandyism was imposed on Black men to when these clothes were a way for Black men to create new political and social possibilities. It's a great look at how clothing can be central to identity and self-empowerment. I've always believed that fashion is uniquely disrespected because it has historically been considered a "feminine" subject. Areas of culture or the arts that have been historically coded as "masculine" are not routinely treated with such disrespect and disregard. It has been a struggle even to get academic institutions to recognize the importance of fashion as a field of study. Since fashion is coded as "feminine," it's thus also seen as "frivolous" and not "high minded." IMO, you can take any area of study and link it to fashion: globalization, economics, politics, sociology, history, etc. If a story involves humans, it will likely include fashion because humans wear clothes. Every time I see someone loudly and performatively declare how much they hate fashion, I notice that they, too, are very particular about their dress. These people, often men, will have specific preferences about clothes. If given a choice between a free pair of pink jeans and $50 blue jeans, they will choose one based on what they think the colors represent. Counter-cultural types will also dress in precise ways to signal their cultural identity. They are not, in fact, indifferent to clothes. I try very hard to communicate that you should never judge a person's more profound, more important qualities based on their clothes. I've also spent the last 15 years writing about how to build a wardrobe on a budget (including doing three eBay roundups per week). I cover a breadth of styles, including workwear and Americana. The things many people project onto me are more about their narrow-mindedness regarding the importance of dress in society. Fine to hate me, but at least please accurately represent my arguments. I'm not telling you to buy Gucci and Louis Vuitton. I'm simply saying that dress is important to culture and a form of cultural language.

I can. In fact, the Canadian version is so great, I can't think of an American equivalent. 🧵

How the Dutch build a tunnel under a highway in one weekend.

i don't think he has to hide the gut, but if he wanted to, he could get a bespoke suit jacket or sport coat made with something called the donlon wedge. this allows the jacket to be fastened while smoothly laying over the belly, rather kicking out

I sad that, despite belabouring the point over and over again, it still does not come through. So I will make another attempt at explaining why I think respectability in dress is stupid. 🧵

Let's talk about how to use an iron. 🧵

for a small pittance of their annual salary, i would love to outfit NHL players in what I think would be cooler clothes

Some misinformation in today's US presidential debate about who bears the cost of tariffs. So let's talk about how tariffs affect what you pay for a suit. 🧵

This is Europe. The year is 2024.

I can see it. Especially in the midst of this 90s/Y2K revival happening now. I mean…