Joel Wasserman
@joelw762.bsky.social
In Ukraine since 2018. Please consider supporting my wife's humanitarian work here: https://gofund.me/ad24e4e0
When dipshits on Twitter post stuff like this, I like to point out that the Soviet Union's economy was so backward that it could not provide women with disposable menstrual products.
November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
When dipshits on Twitter post stuff like this, I like to point out that the Soviet Union's economy was so backward that it could not provide women with disposable menstrual products.
UA hockey is ridiculous. 1) The league declared its season will start in 5 days (and they haven't released a schedule) 2) Bc one of the better clubs in the league (Kyiv Capitals) bolted for Latvia, they replaced it w club for Odesa region, even though Odesa has a team.
Otoh, nice threads.
Otoh, nice threads.
October 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
UA hockey is ridiculous. 1) The league declared its season will start in 5 days (and they haven't released a schedule) 2) Bc one of the better clubs in the league (Kyiv Capitals) bolted for Latvia, they replaced it w club for Odesa region, even though Odesa has a team.
Otoh, nice threads.
Otoh, nice threads.
On my way to the market today, I stumbled upon this assembly of mourners. Turns out that one year ago today was the bombing which destroyed an apartment building here, killing 7 people, including almost an entire family w their 3 little girls. They were gathering to commemorate the tragedy.
September 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
On my way to the market today, I stumbled upon this assembly of mourners. Turns out that one year ago today was the bombing which destroyed an apartment building here, killing 7 people, including almost an entire family w their 3 little girls. They were gathering to commemorate the tragedy.
Вот это имели ввиду, когда сказали что секса нету в СССР
August 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Вот это имели ввиду, когда сказали что секса нету в СССР
Look at this freak.
It's going to be delicious.
It's going to be delicious.
August 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Look at this freak.
It's going to be delicious.
It's going to be delicious.
All the more embarrassing given that he helped the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps launder money through his real estate in one of those countries.
August 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
All the more embarrassing given that he helped the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps launder money through his real estate in one of those countries.
Donald Trump is claiming credit for forging peace between two countries he cannot correctly name.
August 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Donald Trump is claiming credit for forging peace between two countries he cannot correctly name.
But when we arrived this time, the grass was freshly cut, a fresh stone path to the synagogue’s gates had been laid, all the brush had been cleared from the interior, and gravel had been laid down to keep it from quickly coming back.
August 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
But when we arrived this time, the grass was freshly cut, a fresh stone path to the synagogue’s gates had been laid, all the brush had been cleared from the interior, and gravel had been laid down to keep it from quickly coming back.
The ruins of the house lie just around the corner from the remains of the old Stryi synagogue, where my great grandmother had her naming ceremony. The site is marked and protected from demolition, but each time we've been over the past 7 years, it has been completely overtaken by weeds & brush.
August 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The ruins of the house lie just around the corner from the remains of the old Stryi synagogue, where my great grandmother had her naming ceremony. The site is marked and protected from demolition, but each time we've been over the past 7 years, it has been completely overtaken by weeds & brush.
I had a truly remarkable experience a few days ago.
My mom in from the US for the week, & at my wife's insistence, we stopped by the house in the town of Stryi, Lviv Oblast, where my great grandmother Esther was born in 1896 and spent half her childhood before her family moved to settle in the US.
My mom in from the US for the week, & at my wife's insistence, we stopped by the house in the town of Stryi, Lviv Oblast, where my great grandmother Esther was born in 1896 and spent half her childhood before her family moved to settle in the US.
August 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I had a truly remarkable experience a few days ago.
My mom in from the US for the week, & at my wife's insistence, we stopped by the house in the town of Stryi, Lviv Oblast, where my great grandmother Esther was born in 1896 and spent half her childhood before her family moved to settle in the US.
My mom in from the US for the week, & at my wife's insistence, we stopped by the house in the town of Stryi, Lviv Oblast, where my great grandmother Esther was born in 1896 and spent half her childhood before her family moved to settle in the US.
President Zelensky promised legislation to ensure the independence of anti-corruption organs today, but what that means remains to be seen.
The Lviv streets are not assuaged tonight.
The Lviv streets are not assuaged tonight.
July 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
President Zelensky promised legislation to ensure the independence of anti-corruption organs today, but what that means remains to be seen.
The Lviv streets are not assuaged tonight.
The Lviv streets are not assuaged tonight.
Lviv tonight responding to today's passage of a law in the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada consolidating presidential control over anti-corruption bodies.
Lots of young people w folks of all sorts cheering them on with their car horns, incl city busses and garbage trucks.
No police presence that I saw.
Lots of young people w folks of all sorts cheering them on with their car horns, incl city busses and garbage trucks.
No police presence that I saw.
July 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Lviv tonight responding to today's passage of a law in the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada consolidating presidential control over anti-corruption bodies.
Lots of young people w folks of all sorts cheering them on with their car horns, incl city busses and garbage trucks.
No police presence that I saw.
Lots of young people w folks of all sorts cheering them on with their car horns, incl city busses and garbage trucks.
No police presence that I saw.
11 years ago today, Russian forces caused about 8% of the total civilian deaths of the entire Donbas War in a single moment when they shot down MH17.
July 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
11 years ago today, Russian forces caused about 8% of the total civilian deaths of the entire Donbas War in a single moment when they shot down MH17.
I fear for Ukraine when the British stag and hen parties really discover it, because you can get unlimited Aperol Spritz at this place in Kyiv for the price of a single one at a London Wetherspoons (about 10 quid)
July 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I fear for Ukraine when the British stag and hen parties really discover it, because you can get unlimited Aperol Spritz at this place in Kyiv for the price of a single one at a London Wetherspoons (about 10 quid)
I fear for Ukraine when the British stag and hen parties really discover it, because you can get unlimited Aperol Spritz at this place in Kyiv for the price of a single one at a London Wetherspoons (about 10 quid)
July 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I fear for Ukraine when the British stag and hen parties really discover it, because you can get unlimited Aperol Spritz at this place in Kyiv for the price of a single one at a London Wetherspoons (about 10 quid)
This person deserves to be reminded of this TikTok in 8 years while they're trying to fall asleep so that they lose hours of sleep cringing.
July 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This person deserves to be reminded of this TikTok in 8 years while they're trying to fall asleep so that they lose hours of sleep cringing.
Lmдо
(The joke is that this is the imagery of Opposition Platform -- For Life, the leading pro-Russian political party in Ukraine prior to 2022)
(The joke is that this is the imagery of Opposition Platform -- For Life, the leading pro-Russian political party in Ukraine prior to 2022)
July 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Lmдо
(The joke is that this is the imagery of Opposition Platform -- For Life, the leading pro-Russian political party in Ukraine prior to 2022)
(The joke is that this is the imagery of Opposition Platform -- For Life, the leading pro-Russian political party in Ukraine prior to 2022)
LUHANSK TRAM TRACKS LIBERATED FROM GROUND, METAL NOW FREE TO PURSUE HIGHER PURPOSES
(The mafia warlords who took over Luhansk literally plundered the rails from its tram system to sell for scrap.)
(The mafia warlords who took over Luhansk literally plundered the rails from its tram system to sell for scrap.)
July 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
LUHANSK TRAM TRACKS LIBERATED FROM GROUND, METAL NOW FREE TO PURSUE HIGHER PURPOSES
(The mafia warlords who took over Luhansk literally plundered the rails from its tram system to sell for scrap.)
(The mafia warlords who took over Luhansk literally plundered the rails from its tram system to sell for scrap.)
I think that the city-run grocery stores are going to be a corruption-riddled boondoggle, but the issue with gov-run grocery stores in the USSR is that the country was too backward to produce enough food to meet demand, not that the stores were themselves mismanaged.
June 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I think that the city-run grocery stores are going to be a corruption-riddled boondoggle, but the issue with gov-run grocery stores in the USSR is that the country was too backward to produce enough food to meet demand, not that the stores were themselves mismanaged.
The supposed story that Sergio Gor, the head of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, is a Russian national is not accurate. The person behind the story has recognized the error they made. You should stop sharing it.
June 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The supposed story that Sergio Gor, the head of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, is a Russian national is not accurate. The person behind the story has recognized the error they made. You should stop sharing it.