Panini

I seem to remember a mention of something like “blacksky” being a small instance that’s technically on a different server or…however bluesky actually works. It was mentioned briefly in an article titled something to the effect of “The Myth of a Protocol” where they were going over all the ways the bluesky isn’t actually a federated social media form in practice, even if it could technically be described as one.

“I choose to believe the factually incorrect thing” I’m hoping this is a joke but it’s hard to tell on the internet

It’s socialism for ✨corporations✨

There’s also the occasional anti-Mafia operations to cheer for

The main draw is that Ecuador is currently in a full scale armed conflict with cartel gangs in its Western costal regions (which the gangs started very publicly), and unfortunately, it’s apparently losing. American money is already the only thing keeping the war effort funded at the moment, so some people are on board with direct military support to turn the tide as well. Obviously, we’ve seen more than enough reasons the US shouldn’t be trusted with this, but I can understand the appeal to at least some people.

Slavs

uhhh, these ones in particular seem to be, but that’s an exceedingly broad group to throw that label on. Even “Israelis” is extremely broad, though I get that that could just be a shorthand reference to their government and worst actors among their society associated.

While the US budget is financially in freefall, that could be remedied very easily (with a more competent administration) and won’t meaningfully impede its ability to aid Ukraine. Russia, on the other hand, can be screwed by extreme expenses.

This is a good question, and unfortunately there’s not a consistently good answer. Partly because we’re diverse humans all experiencing our transitions and differently, and partly because it can be a touchy subject for some of us and a lot of us have had a lot of bad experiences around being noticed, which combined with not so great political environments can make a lot of us varying degrees of paranoid.

Some people (like myself) have no idea what to do with compliments period, so I wouldn’t know what to do with that kind of supportive compliment either. Others might love compliments, but are terrified of being clocked (someone else recognizing we’re trans when we’re trying not to be noticed as such) in public, either due to personal insecurity, or due to legitimate personal safety concerns. Others know they don’t pass as cis, but still don’t want it acknowledged. Others would appreciate the gesture. There’s just no simple “correct” way to go about it, you just kinda have to sus it out individually.

Most of the time, not saying anything you wouldn’t say more or less the same to a cis person is the safest bet, at least until you have any queue from the person in question that they’re open to recognition of their trans identity.

I truly don’t know for sure, but if I had to guess it’s something like “this woman is a guinea pig sent forth by the Israeli government to see what happens when people complicit in genocide reveal the exact nature of the crimes, and to test whether their institutions will protect someone like a whistleblower from international law”

Can the UN even do anything

no

to the United States

gods no

if they have a unilateral security council veto?

the “don’t do that” button does, quite effectively, prevent the UN from doing anything, and for some godforsaken reason 5 countries all have one

successfully find a way to argue

they don’t need to do that, that’s what the “don’t do that” button is for

I’ll make sure to personally say thank you to Vance for every banana

There’s literally thousands upon thousands of different related cultural rituals, some of them are that, yes. Some are also shaming the clouds. Some are trying to make gods cry. Take your pick.