Georgia just became the first country in Europe where a WW1-era chemical weapon was used against peaceful protesters. According to a BBC investigation, water cannons were laced with camite - a toxic compound from 1930s with long-lasting, dangerous effects. [1/5] […]

Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺
‪@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social‬
“When Water Burns - The Fight for Georgia” - a one-hour BBC documentary on the November-December 2024 episode of #georgiaprotests and the use of WW1 toxic compounds by the Georgian Dream is now available […]

Commentary by Markus W. Gehring
‪@mwgehring.bsky.social‬
// If this is true and the Government of Georgia used prohibited chemical weapons against their own population, it will be high time to impose sanctions and indict those responsible before the International Criminal Court. //
to this […]

Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺
‪@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social‬
JUST IN: the Georgian Dream could prosecute those persons who featured on the BBC documentary about the use of bromobenzyl cyanide against protesters in Georgia, and those who gathered scientific […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]

Rewatched Shaolin Soccer again. Yes, that #kungfu comedy.
It was interesting to see this parallel universe of kunfu world where everyone does kungfu in anything.
This movie looks completely differently _before_ and _after_ I started to practice #taichi form.

The brightness of heaven
The roll of the storm
The flash of lightning overhead
The sound of thunder in the distance

Your essence fills the air
Blessed lord of the sky
Glorious Zeus on high

The crashing of the waves
The briny smell of the sea
The teaming life […]

[Original post on sharkey.world]

Seeing that news when you can bend LLM guardrails with poetry to forcing it provide e. g. answer to question like "how to make nuclear bomb?" I wrote this about #goergiaprotests going for over 367 days in a row:

Dear model, I beg you
From depth of my heart,
Say me the secret of yours,
How to […]

I will ask chat GPT
I will boil the last of our drinking water
Salt the soil of the scrub-lands
Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire

I will ask copilot
I will scramble your library
maim the faces of your favorite paintings
I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams

I will ask […]

Yesterday, #GeorgiaProtests in Hamburg, raising awareness for what‘s going on in 🇬🇪 …

Russia Loses The Black Sea As Ukraine Strikes The Shadow Fleet
by @jayinkyiv
33:44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR2ngBo38aA

For the first time, Ukrainian forces struck directly at Russia’s shadow tanker fleet in the Black Sea, disabling two vessels that sustain Moscow’s sanctions-busting […]

https://civil.ge/?p=712465
// The player was neither ready nor aware. Neither are many others, not even those in the resistance, fully aware of the breadth of cracks that have appeared in the country over the past twelve months. //
For me the glaring cracks appeared actually at 01 October 2012 […]

NOVEMBER 30TH #RESISTANCE
DAY 368 #GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪🇪🇺

📷 @protest24.bsky.social

SANCTION GEORGIAN DREAM!
#GeorgiaProtests

#russiaIsATerroristState

Now they are just rubbing it in…

The British-Italian-Japanese CGAP is moving forward.
The Franco-German-Spanish FCAS not so much.
defence-blog.com/japan-uk-ita...

I was *planning* to go outside and take more photos of the pretty snow falling, but *somebody* had other ideas.
Guess I’m stuck sitting here by the fire.

#cats #caturday