A is for Apparently . . . .

 . . . it's national thesaurus day, somewhere!

 

"I successfully predict that upon which you cogitate; did I empty the ammunition storage chambers, or only partially expend their contents? And - should you wish to be appraised of the facts - in all the preceding, heated kerfuffle, I appear to have purely failed to register that data? Therefore, the quandary with which you have to present yourself, is thusly - Do you feel blessed with good fortune, juvenile delinquent? Verily, comment upon that?"

"The pinnacle of the planetary sphere, mother, the pinnacle of the planetary sphere!"

 "The advancing object is in no way a Luna body!" . . . "It's a moment of captive deceit!"

"It's a form of existence, Jim, but in a manner we would not comprehend it as, in the normal course of events."  

"May the measure of nonequilibrium accompany you, adolescent Skywalker!" 

A is for Ashes-to-Ashes, Dust-to-Dust . . . errr . . . Books to Compost

As some of the more loyal readers, or even just regular readers - my 'eemies' are here most days! - may have gathered, a few years ago now, I got the storage stuff out of storage and put it in the garage, it was rather at my Mother's insistence, for valid financial reasons (it was my money not hers), but it wasn't a brilliant idea.

 

It rained just after we'd unloaded the last van, but I'd managed to get a handful of tarpaulin's from the magic, wonderful, now, covid-gone Baker's in town, just before the heavens opened, so everything was saved that first night, but it became obvious that the Jenga pile on the drive was never going to fit, and over the next few weeks a lot of the metal furniture and filing cabinets went to a passing scrap-merchant, and over that winter most of the wooden stuff was burnt . . . heay, it kept us warm!

But a bunch of 94-litre Really Useful Boxes ended-up under tarp's for a few years, with some cardboard boxes on top, two of which suffered water ingress, resulting in the loss of most of my bedding and most of my coat-hangers! But, on the bottom, one of the Really Useful Boxes had a crack in the base!

Here on the left is the offending box, the two contained the bulk of my Sci-Fi papaerbacks, and luckily the one on the left also had a large, old-fashined sweet-jar, filled with marbles, and a glass flagon type thing filled with glass-beads (which I think they use on the roads, for reflective paint), and can just be seen behind the two obviously shot Bradbury's, the two jars reflected light nicely, and were heavy enough to act as bookends. I should add, for context, that I let the hardbacks go years ago.

 

The box on the right is fine, and now cleaned-up, resides back in - even more expensive - storage, waiting for this minor nightmare, which I certainly didn't think would last three years and see the passing of not just my Mother, but both cats, to end. And the box seems to include or go from F-Z?

But . . . that leaves Aldiss, Anderson, Asimov, Ballard, Bliss, Bova, and the penmanship of Aurther C Clerke, as well as Deleny, among others, now (or. 'then', this was the summer of '22), as a solid mass of damp pulp, half of which had already been converted to a fine mahogany slime, by snails, worms and woodlice!

 

It was, in its entirety, spread along the hedge-line at the bottom of the garden, where its remnants have now had two years-worth of leaves and garden-clippings, dumped on top, and I doubt you can read a word of the tens of millions in that box now. Even the wipeable foil-coatings on a lot of modern books are only cellulose, so apart from a slight rainbow-shimmer when first dug-over, you will never know the greatest works of Sci-Fi were left there to die, along with some space-opera trash!

 

The jar of marbles is under what was once the boxed-set of Herbert's Dune trilogy, he missed the saviour box, despite his surname, by having a bulky outer . . . a lesson there for all of us - eat less, exercise more!

However, I can report that the Library has started clearing out it's old novels, and they appear to be doing so alphabetically, consequently I have started to replace the missing chunk of my library, under the confidence that even if I've read them, anything authored by a before-F is 'new' to shelf . . . when/if they finally have a shelf again!

 

Do not mourn my misfortune, or, if one of my 'eemies'; do not celebrate it. Firstly I had half an idea things were not good in that box, and probably could have saved the top layer if I'd acted earlier, and second, nothing lasts forever, everything dies, whole galaxies with a billion stars each, crash-into each other, ripping their very atoms apart, and starting again with a big cloud of coalescing gas.

 

You are only remembered while people still alive, remember you, once the last of them has gone, you have gone too. Whole civilisations disappear with little to remember them, the city's of Mohenjo Daro and the 'Indus Valley' culture - millions of people over hundreds of years - all gone, leaving so few clues as to their coming, or going, we are at a loss to explain them, or their end!

 

Ohhhh, you may survive as a statistic for another century or two, on a list, as someone who served, someone who received benefits, someone who held a licence of some sort, someone who paid bills, or, if you get your fizzog in the local paper, you may live-on for another century or two as a microfiche thumbnail a few millimetres square, but ultimately everything dies, including your favourite books!

 

I had, after all, already read them, some more than once, or I wouldn't be the fusty, anti-establishment cynic I am, so they had done their job, while I was still a teenager.

M is for Microsoft are Wankers!

Hotmail-call-me-outlook have blocked my account claiming I've overdrawn my data limit (there is nothing about data-limits in my most recent T&C's upgrade - last autumn), clearly pissed off that I deleted all their cloud stuff on the new laptop they have been trying to get me to sign-up to 'upgrade my account' and 'get the latest premium features', neither of which I have any intention of doing!

Anyway, until I sort it out after the bank-holiday, with a rude letter, I will have to use my mirror account, as they have blocked receiving as well as sending? Something some of you will have to look forward to when you upgrade to Windows11!

So, maverickatlarge[at]Gmail[dot]com - which has a 15GB limit against the 5G Hotmail are blubbing about!

 And check your spam if you were expecting an eMail from me!

H is for Heeeeerererereerssss Hughy!

I'm back, typing letters about three points fucking tall! You get the biggest screen you can and they reduce the graphics by 50%. I fucking hate Hewlett Packard and I fucking hate Microsoft and I fucking hate technology! Three fucking codes to my 'phone in the last half hour, just to get to stuff which has been mine for years!

Couldn't comment on anyone's Blog because the despicable duo wouldn't let me open the Excel spreadsheet I put all my passwords in, as the Lenovo was dying (China be fucked - I wish I'd bought another Lenovo! The price of principle is some Western piece of shit - which was probably made in China anyway - no spyware but no usefulware either!), or at least; not without paying for Windows365 and some other shit I don't need because A) I don't want my life 'on the cloud' and B) I have a perfectly good Office disc somewhere, which I've already paid for - Bastard Microsoft bastards!

And everything's still on the Backup hard-drive, so I won't post much beyond rants about fucking Hewlett Packard and fucking Microsoft for a while longer, but I'm about to try loading the later version of Picasa (3.9) than I've been using for the last fourteen years, so we'll see how that goes!

Hoping to go to the Spring gift fair at NEC Birmingham tomorrow, still got all the Kensington Olympia stuff from Toy Fair on an SD card, along with a bunch of other stuff so I'll have 'some' output in a day or so, and there are three press releases from Barny and a new PW out there!

Most bookmarks restored and I managed to make a payment with Paypal (which hasn't been working for a year or two), so some benefits to a new machine . . . new anonymity!

Had a chat with matey in Rymans and he had the same thing, the first thing you have to do with these new laptops is delete and/or uninstall three-quarters of the shit that comes with it (MacAfee is shit, get Avira free and bin MacAfee!), and then you find there's nothing useful there, I can't even open zip-files with the software I DO need until I've downloaded WinZip or similar, if I had a machinegun there would have been a bloodbath somewhere in the last two weeks, not Macky-D's, somewhere full of authority figures is where!

A is for Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

I'm not posting anything complicated until at least Tuesday or Wednesday of next week as my Hard Disk Drive is slowly dying! It's been doing so for a couple of days and I don't know how long I can steal extra time from it, but it just took over an hour and a half to get online,  half of that was the CHKDSK running, which it did automatically, it hasn't cleared the problem, which Windows first flagged it up two days ago, but it means that when it does die, it'll die all clean and well-ordered!

Fortunately I ran a full back-up over Christmas so I only have to save the stuff I've downloaded in the last few weeks and late December/January's photo's, most of which are still on the camera! But I'll be sad to see the thing go, it's done stirling service for over 12-years, and it was all image heavy . . . Wise Disk Cleaner has deleted nearly 600GB's of crap, there's about 3TB's on the dongles and external hard drives, all of which went through this little Lenovo Z570 Ideapad, it's probably a miracle it's lasted this long!

I bought it with some of the the money my late Godmother left me (along with paying for the 3DSMax course and getting the Volvo roadworthy after the Berkshire mess), however I've ordered an HP 17 for Monday (no more Chinese stuff, they are as safe and trustworthy as the Russians!), and an external disc-drive (laptops don't have disc-drives anymore!), so I can regard that as payed for with my late Mother's bequest.

It's like there's a great spiral of time, we get thrown on it at birth, spun-round, sometime too fast, sometimes not fast enough, and then - at some point - thrown off it again; a few of our memories remaining, but only so long as others we knew stay on the spiral themselves, holding those fragments of the past.

A is for And so to London - Pleasant Walk Across the River

No, no a toy soldier in sight, but I did purchase a few bits along the way which will be in the final post! After the disappointment of Forbidden Planet, I moseyed-down to - and over - the river at the Golden Jubilee bridge, across Trafalgar Square, skirting Whitehall and shooting a few shots of things which caught my eye.

Something going on inn the Vietnamese quarter?

 

Nigerian (above) and South Korean Embassies (here) flying at half-mast for the late Queen Elizabeth II, the whole of that part of the North bank; Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, Victoria Embankment and Northumberland Av' was sealed-off and pedestrianised, which made for a quite and pleasant walk in an area of London usually teeming with angry traffic!

London Eye

Golden Jubilee Bridge, there's actually two, one each side of the old Hungerford

Bridge, which has always been rail-only, I believe?

Houses of Parliament and Big Ben

'The Queue', I avoided it like the plague, and I just don't get it, in the 16-somthing's maybe, but now? After over a hundred years of compulsory education and two World Wars . . . ♫ Britons always-always-always will be slaves! ♫

A vista which has changed greatly in my lifetime!

The London 'I'!

 Trying to shoot aircraft at Clapham Junction!

 And then on to Clapham Junction and home, what I found is in the next and last of this sequence!

F is for Fatabet - the Slimfont of Self-indulgence!

Yeah, there'll be a few of these going forwards too; it's my Blog! We’re back to early ideas of mine which were fleshed-out when I got stuck into CAD, but this one goes back to my childhood, or - at least - teenage flirtations with design, and my attempt at an alphabet or font I originally called 'Fatabet', pronounced fat-a-bet, for obvious reasons!

The pages of my old sketch-book from collage, back in 1981-3, and my attempts to design an alphabet in which all the letters were contained within a circle; I think there were a couple in the 1970's; Lettraset did one with smiley-faced suns I think, but despite having both Lettraset and Mechaorama catalogues, I didn't crib from them (if they come out of storage I'll compare the closest, but they may have been lost in a flood back in 2007?), and sort of gave-up when I couldn't solve a couple of letters, the 'B' was one and the 'D' which still niggles!

However, CAD was an obvious opportunity to have another stab at the old idea, and I quickly got some geometric rules established and started playing around with the harder letters and some punctuation. You can see that 'B' (and 'D') along with 'Q' are coming out of the circle and I'm still not 100% happy with the first 2, the 'Q' however works, as it's already an odd-one!

I quickly used it for my signature block on all my drawing files/print-outs, and started thinking about other treatments; most fonts have a bold and italic version, so in playing-around I've ended up with several potentials!

And yes, the Fatabet got renamed Slimfont, although I know I could never use Fatboyslim, or Slimshady commercially, or not without passing many pieces of silver to two guys who probably have enough already!

Slimshady actually gave me the ultimate version (see below), while I don't think I named the one bottom-left, which ought to be Slim Outline but I already used Slimout for the standard font, so maybe Slim Jazzy?

Here we see CAD'ed versions of Slimwall (greenish) and Fatboyslim (multicoloured), which - latter - gave me the idea for a Christmas card I think I posted here at the time - 2012? With a construction stage at bottom left, before I'd positioned the light-source for the shadows, and at bottom right, my prepared design doubled for printing on A3 card-stock.

Which is here again! Well, it's only about six weeks away now! You use a single 'light' so the lines from the shadows, followed-back through the letters, all go to a single vanishing-point to enhance the 3D effect of the letters floating over the 'card' on the card!

And no matter how bad the year's been I hope over the next few weeks, your Christmas this year shapes up to be better than the last two - it can't just keep getting worse . . . can it?

Some other stuff, even in the digital age, it seems a lot of paper still finds its way into the project folder, not all of it explainable, but clearly I've started tackling the numbers and looking at font-size or kerning (ratios of gaps between certain pairs of adjacent letters) or something!??

I don't think I ever progressed beyond the numerals you can see here (left) or have even got to choosing a final from some of those where there are alternatives shown, but I was doing it in college-time and had other stuff to get on with.

Once I had a near finished alphabet (right) I moved on to other things and haven't got much further, I tweak something from time to time, but time's short these days, although I hope one day to put a finished version on a free-site like DAFonts.

One change you may have noticed is that the parallel line 'rule' established by the original 'A' and 'B' from my teenage version, which was carried on with the 'C', 'E' and 'F' (still not happy with 'D'!) and then taken through the whole alphabet, has now been dropped for 'W' following the enforced  'angle rule' for 'X' and 'Y', which I think makes it much better, the 'W' isn't just an upside down 'M', but a new letter in its own right!

Indeed you wonder if the reason all those angled letters are all at the back-end of the alphabet ('Z' is another) might be because when they were codifying it (monks? a Caesar?), they'd run out of strait and curved shapes/combinations which were suitably different from each other!

But back to Slimshady . . . once I was 3D CAD'ing more complicated solids than the pulled-out 2D of Fatboyslim, the obvious final progression was a fully 3D Fatabet (top right), which replaced my signature panel on the 'paper space' drawing files - main/left-hand image, taking the original circular disc concept to a full sphere.

New 'W' mind! The constriction of boolean geometries meant some simplification to get the curved ogee 'edges' to go-in properly! In simple terms, boolean means "Right, OR wrong, there is NO grey", and if your invisible mesh, underlying everything, has a single fault, the whole thing is 100% wrong!

I'm actually tackling a letter 'R' in the bottom-right shot and you can see how you pull-up the 2D 'R' (white lines), leaving you with an extruded, R-shaped rod (red lines), which you then subtract from a solid sphere (pink Lines) leaving you with a stable ball-letter, that then needs some sharp-edges rounding-off, which is where it can all go very wrong; if the continuous ogee (which runs right around the edges of each 'trench' or hole) won't go-in when told to!

For instance, the ogee running round the larger trenches in the 'H', have to have a greater radius than the smaller trenches in the 'W', which can affect the visual uniformity of the different letters in the alphabet, a uniformity which is precisely what I've been trying to achieve sine 1981! 'D' notwithstanding - the bastard, so; you have to compromise at each stage, but these two look OK together  . . . I think?

And . . . it's all good fun, that's the thing, it's another skill, it's another life-experience, you know? Another box ticked in an otherwise miserably short life. Parachuting is still on the list!

W is for Well . . . I'll be Fucked!

A thought for the day, we haven't had one for a while!

Currently, experts know very little about where swearing gets its power, but power it carries!

What we do know about swearing:

• It can trigger the “fight or flight” function
• It helps with catharsis
• It might be located in/come from different parts of the brain from other speech/language-use regions.

https://theconversation.com/the-power-of-swearing-how-obscene-words-influence-your-mind-body-and-relationships-192104

 

I'm a hell of a fucking swearer, as some of you know, I inherited the habit from my father, who was terrible compared to me - when the mood, an over-officious nabob or some plain-old arsehole - took him, and it strikes me that those who dislike ALL swearing (or 'cussing' as they often call it?), tend toward fear of emotion in all it's forms.

It's not that they necessarily tend to religious faith (although a lot do) or tend toward conservatism per se, although many do, but rather that they are slightly afraid of life, and rich-life in particular. And, if the above article is to be believed; they are under-using one or two areas of their brains?

Non-scientific observation - by me! - seems to suggest non-swearers often have frightfully ordered lives, and that's actually sad - life is to be lived, not ordered into little grey tick-boxes, and when; in living life, it throws a curve-ball at you, a good expletive will help dull the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"!

Thought for the day - swear more! It's healthy!

H is for Hedge Pig

Mentioned earlier, those hedgehogs in full . . . first shot was taken in April, of a quite ginger one, although the camera flash rather hides it, and I think it's in the trio a week or two later, they liked the uneaten cat-food, but then, round here that's sliced ham!

R is for Russian Russians from Russia.

I don't know if I have any Russian readers left, nor do I know how many Russian readers I had before Putin locked them out, but against the possibility that some are using VPN's to get a fix of their Western filth (toy soldier and model figure 'filth'!!), or that Blogger has escaped the more Draconian lock-bots currently blocking the parent Google, this is for you, if your President's allowed you to be here.

Most of these pictures were taken by Alex / Oleks known to some of you for his toy soldier site, he's in or around Kyiv, which your army is bombing back to the stone-age, (along with Serhiy of ElastoWit toy soldiers) and sends me what he can when he has a moment.

Luckily, the Russian Army is so fucking useless, they've left the mobile communications network up, so they could use it (which seems to have resulted in five of your Generals' being zeroed and dispatched to meet their maker), and by the time they might have been minded to shut it down, Ukrainian forces had knocked-out or captured most of your Electronic Warfare vehicles.

Understand this is NOT a "Special Military Operation", it is a murderous aggressive war of INVASION against an innocent country which did nothing to harm you, and it is a WAR you are losing. 

Я не знаю, остались ли у меня русские читатели, и не знаю, сколько русских читателей у меня было до того, как Путин заблокировал их, но против возможности того, что некоторые используют VPN, чтобы исправить свою западную грязь (игрушечный солдатик и примерная фигура «грязь»!!), или что Blogger избежал более драконовских блокирующих ботов, которые в настоящее время блокируют родительский Google, это для вас, если вы, президент, позволили вам быть здесь.

Большинство этих фотографий были сделаны Алексом / Олексом, известным некоторым из вас своим сайтом о солдатиках, он находится в Киеве или его окрестностях, который ваша армия бомбит обратно в каменный век (вместе с Сергеем из оловянных солдатиков ElastoWit) и отправляет мне то, что он может, когда у него есть момент.

К счастью, русская армия настолько чертовски бесполезна, что они оставили сеть мобильной связи включенной, чтобы иметь возможность ее использовать (что, похоже, привело к тому, что пятеро ваших генералов были обнулены и отправлены на встречу с их создателем), и, судя по всему, когда они, возможно, собирались отключить его, украинские силы подбили или захватили большую часть ваших средств радиоэлектронной борьбы.

Поймите, это НЕ «Специальная военная операция», это кровопролитная агрессивная ВТОРЖЕНИЕ против невинной страны, которая не причинила вам никакого вреда, и это ВОЙНА, которую вы проигрываете.

Putin lied to you, and he's still lying to you. You have lost thousands of vehicles, tens of thousands of troops, hundreds of tanks and more than 70 aircraft, including three of your new 'indestructible' Kamov Ka-52 gunships.

Путин лгал вам, и он продолжает вам лгать. Вы потеряли тысячи единиц техники, десятки тысяч солдат, сотни танков и более 70 самолетов, в том числе три новых «неубиваемых» боевых корабля Камов Ка-52.

This is what is waiting for you in Kyiv and Kharkiv,
everyone who can is working to make your soldiers die.

Это то, что ждет вас в Киеве и Харькове,
каждый, кто может, работает над тем, чтобы ваши солдаты погибли.

This is what you are doing to dozens of cities in Ukraine, carpet bombing and unregulated shelling, you are making 44-million enemies, in Kharkiv the Russian-speakers stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Ukrainian speakers, ready to kill your invaders.

Это то, что вы делаете с десятками городов Украины, ковровые бомбардировки и нерегулируемые обстрелы, вы наживаете 44 миллиона врагов, в Харькове русскоязычные стоят плечом к плечу с украиноязычными, готовые убить ваших оккупантов.

You have wiped whole villages off the map, for no strategic or tactical reason, the hate generated will last for at least three generations.

Вы стерли с лица земли целые деревни без какой-либо стратегической или тактической причины, вызванной ненавистью хватит как минимум на три поколения.

This is what you mean by not targeting civilians, in Mariupol you have destroyed 90% of the housing and targeted two community shelters (in the Theater and a junior school) because they were built in the Soviet era and you know where they are, they are two war-crimes to add to all the others.

Вот что вы имеете в виду под нецелью мирных жителей, в Мариуполе вы уничтожили 90% жилья и нанесли удар по двум общественным приютам (в Театре и младшей школе), потому что они были построены в советское время, и вы знаете, где они находятся, они два военных преступления вдобавок ко всем остальным.

Your vehicles are not only being destroyed in large numbers, they are also being captured and used against your useless army.

Ваши машины не только массово уничтожаются, но и захватываются и используются против вашей бесполезной армии.

Still burning! Because your officers took all the paperwork, mobile 'phones and watches from the conscripts in the initial wave, they are being buried in mass graves with no hope of identifying half of them. It will take international forensic teams (of the sort still working in the former Yugoslavia) years of peace to sort your mess out.

Еще горит! Поскольку ваши офицеры забрали все документы, мобильные телефоны и часы у призывников в первой волне, их хоронят в братских могилах без надежды опознать половину из них. Международным группам судебно-медицинских экспертов (такие, которые до сих пор работают в бывшей Югославии) потребуются годы мира, чтобы разобраться в вашей неразберихе.

One of yours, the initial phase of the Northern Army Group (Group Z) was so appallingly badly handled, a lot of your dead were found days later frozen to the snow or mud, and the Ukrainians call them 'dog-food', because all the abandoned dogs in the villages you raised to the ground for no reason, have been eating them.

Один из ваших, начальный этап Северной группы армий (группа Z) был так ужасающе плохо организован, многие ваши мертвые были найдены через несколько дней замороженными до снега или грязи, и украинцы называют их «кормом для собак», потому что все брошенные собаки в деревнях, которых вы без причины свели на землю, съели их.

Abandoned, it is reported that retreating troops from that initial debacle were summarily executed by FSB firing squads, I don't know the truth of that, but as you are fighting in a medieval fashion, it's almost certainly true and with mobile crematoria in your rear echelons, you'll never know, as the evidence has already been burned, taking your casualty figures over 15 or 20,000 dead, god only knows how many injured? But we only care about the Ukrainians who didn't want this on their soil, they aren't bombing your cities, your towns - but they have every right to.

Сообщается, что отступающие войска после того первоначального разгрома были без промедления расстреляны ФСБ, я не знаю, правда ли это, но поскольку вы воюете в средневековой манере, это почти наверняка правда, и с мобильными крематориями в ваших руках. тыловые эшелоны, никогда не узнаешь, так как улики уже сожжены, принимая твои цифры потерь более 15 или 20000 убитых, бог знает сколько может раненых? А нас волнуют только украинцы, которые не хотели этого на своей земле, они не бомбят ваши города, ваши поселки - но имеют на это полное право.

One of yours.

 

You have lost so many troops now, the Duma has passed a law allowing you to recruit thousands of mercenaries, but how are you going to pay them, your economy is on the floor and crawling out of the door? And who will those mercenaries be? Fascist lunatics and ego-tripping body-builders from the beer cellars of St. Petersburg, Islamist extremists from Syria and Tunisia? Chechen animals? You're going to love billeting them when the war is over.

Один из ваших.

Вы потеряли сейчас столько войск, Дума приняла закон, разрешающий вам вербовать тысячи наемников, но как вы собираетесь им платить, ваше хозяйство стоит на полу и выползает из дверей? И кто будут эти наемники? Фашистские сумасшедшие и тщеславные бодибилдеры из пивных подвалов Санкт-Петербурга, исламистские экстремисты из Сирии и Туниса? Чеченские животные? Вам понравится расквартировывать их, когда война закончится.

One of theirs - I have no words.

Один из них - у меня нет слов.

What you are doing to Ukraine.

Что вы делаете с Украиной.

Why you've lost so many aircraft!

Почему вы потеряли так много самолетов!

Does this look like a 'limited military operation' to you? Do you seriously think the Ukrainians would do this to themselves while you stand around doing nothing? Stop believing the Soviet-era style propaganda, and start to understand it will take you decades to pay for this.

 

Which you will have to before all sanctions are lifted - you have done trillions of dollars worth of damage and are continuing to do so as I write, despite the fact that in the North your armies have all but stopped and in the South-East Army Group V and the Donbas fascists are struggling.

По-вашему, это "ограниченная военная операция"? Вы серьезно думаете, что украинцы будут делать это с собой, пока вы стоите без дела? Перестаньте верить советской пропаганде и начните понимать, что расплачиваться за это вам потребуются десятилетия.

Что вам придется сделать до того, как все санкции будут сняты - вы нанесли ущерб на триллионы долларов и продолжаете наносить, пока я пишу, несмотря на то, что на Севере ваши армии почти остановились, а в Юго-Восточной армии Группа V и фашисты Донбасса борются.

This is what you're doing.

Это то, что вы делаете.

Blindly bombing residential suburbs.

Вслепую бомбят жилые пригороды.

This is not 'limited', this is total war, with war-crimes.

 

Это не «ограничено»,
это тотальная война с военными преступлениями.

No military targets here, no limited "Nazi" elements,

just housing and shops.

 

Здесь нет военных целей,
нет ограниченных «фашистских» элементов, только жилье и магазины.
 

Your army has thrown so much at the two northern cities, they are reported to be running out of ammunition, then what? Putin wants a deal, but the cards are falling from his hands, and you will have to pick up the pieces.

Ваша армия так много бросила на два северных города, что, говорят, у них закончились боеприпасы, и что дальше? Путин хочет сделки, но карты падают у него из рук, и вам придется собирать осколки.

150+ civilians homeless - if they escaped the bombardment?

 

150+ мирных жителей без крова - если они избежали обстрела?
 

More housing, more shops.

 

Больше жилья, больше магазинов.

Is this one of yours, or one of theirs? Maybe one of yours which became one of theirs for a few days? It doesn't matter, it's what it shows, total war against an innocent neighbor in the 21st century. You can't win, because we don't want this as the 'new normal'. The sanctions against Russia are the most punitive ever, you are now more isolated that Iran or North Korea. the whole world (except China - and they are staying on the fence) are against this WAR.

Это один из ваших или один из их? может быть, один из ваших, который стал одним из них на несколько дней? Неважно, что он показывает, тотальная война против невинного соседа в 21 веке. Вы не можете победить, потому что мы не хотим, чтобы это было «новой нормой». Санкции против России являются самыми карательными за всю историю, вы сейчас более изолированы, чем Иран или Северная Корея. весь мир (кроме Китая - а они стоят на заборе) против этой ВОЙНЫ.

Army Group Z, as they are seen all over the Internet,

an Internet you're not allowed to look at.

 

Группа армий Z, как они видны по всему Интернету, 

Интернет, на который вам не разрешено смотреть.
 

The whole world except Russians and Belorussians are seeing these every day.

Army Group O? Resupply, second wave? Dead.

Весь мир, кроме россиян и белорусов, наблюдает это каждый день.

Группа армий О? Пополнение запасов, вторая волна? Мертв.

Putin calls the Ukrainians Nazi's,

but the only Nazi's in the room are your military.

Путин называет украинцев нацистами,
но единственные нацисты в комнате - твои военные. 

Direct hit on a residential block which has already been shot-up?

Not even war, just war-crimes.

 

Прямое попадание в уже расстрелянный жилой дом?

Даже не война, а военные преступления.

You have forcibly removed between 5 and 8,000 civilians to Russia when they were supposed to be using a humanitarian corridor to escape the bloodshed west, that is a war crime. You are refusing to allow humanitarian convoys into besieged cities, that is a war crime, you are threatening the entire population of Mariupol with military tribunals (when you have no jurisdiction in another country), you have shot on an old people's home killing +/-50 civilians, that is a war crime.

Вы насильно вывезли в Россию от 5 до 8 тысяч мирных жителей, когда они должны были использовать гуманитарный коридор, спасаясь от кровопролития на западе, что является военным преступлением. Вы отказываетесь пускать гуманитарные конвои в блокадные города, это военное преступление, вы угрожаете всему населению Мариуполя военными трибуналами (когда у вас нет юрисдикции в другой стране), вы стреляли по дому престарелых убивая +/ -50 мирных жителей, это военное преступление.

A school. March 1st. It's worse now.

Школа. 1 марта. Сейчас хуже.

A block of Flats.

 

Многоквартирный дом.

But across Ukraine they are ready for you, they are preparing to kill your soldiers as they have been killing them for three and a half weeks.

We are told the people of Russia aren't to blame, yet we are also told Mr Putin's ratings have gone up, we are told the Russians don't know what is going on, well this is going on; your army is destroying a happy, developing democracy for no reason, while the Ukrainians destroy your army.

I realise this is a drop in the ocean of stuff generated by this illegal invasion of a sovereign nation, but if I reach one Russian, and change their mind, it will have been worth it. My impotence in these matters is matched only by my anger.

 

If you are Russian and you don't agree with what's happening, and you can see this, share this.

Но по всей Украине к вам готовы, готовятся убивать ваших солдат, как убивают уже три с половиной недели.

Нам говорят, что народ России не виноват, но нам также говорят, что рейтинг Путина вырос, нам говорят, что русские не знают, что происходит, что ж, это происходит; ваша армия без причины уничтожает счастливую, развивающуюся демократию, а украинцы уничтожают вашу армию.

Я понимаю, что это капля в море вещей, порожденных этим незаконным вторжением в суверенную нацию, но если я доберусь до одного русского и передумаю, это того стоило. Мое бессилие в этих вопросах может сравниться только с моим гневом.

Если вы русский и не согласны с тем, что происходит, и вы это видите, поделитесь этим.

They are killing you at a rate of approximately 1000 personnel every two days, and you can include 5 generals and 1 Admiral in that total. The graph can't be fully trusted as it's come from Ukraine, during a war of attacking aggression and illegal invasion, but it's ten-time more accurate than anything coming out of the Kremlin or your puppet broadcasters.

Они убивают вас со скоростью примерно 1000 человек каждые два дня, и вы можете включить в это количество 5 генералов и 1 адмирала. Графику нельзя полностью доверять, так как он исходит из Украины, во время войны атакующей агрессии и незаконного вторжения, но он в десять раз более точен, чем все, что выходит из Кремля или ваших марионеточных вещателей.

Use Lantern to protest, learn and share

Используйте Lantern, чтобы протестовать, учиться и делиться

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3n5e9/russian-internet-lantern