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Vlad Ned
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inka bureau cofounder | columnist featured in Wired and Forbes | film critic | space appreciator | 🇺🇦
I don't understand why these two haven't opened a speakeasy bar called "Mezcal and Pascal" yet, when it's so obvious
November 16, 2024 at 8:01 AM
The Onion buying Infowars on a bankruptcy auction is the best metaphor and the shortest explanation for 2024

www.forbes.com/sites/tylerr...
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’ Infowars Out Of Bankruptcy
The satirical publication said a nonprofit advocating against gun violence will relaunch a version of the site.
www.forbes.com
November 14, 2024 at 8:21 PM
I am glad to see that you are not giving up in here, although it will clearly not be ‘like then’ again
November 12, 2024 at 7:48 AM
Andromeda spotted from my balcony in Kyiv 🔭 Get used to this view, because in 4.5 billion years the Milky Way will collide with it, and the appearance of our sky will change forever (sorry for the drama)
September 3, 2024 at 11:08 AM
True cyberpunk is when you miss air raid alert from a Russian attack because you do fitness in a VR headset and notice that something is wrong only when your dog gets scared and breaks into the virtual safety zone
December 14, 2023 at 3:44 PM
Westerners won't even know about it, but it was enough to include a Ukrainian district in a damn game about Spider-Man for Ukrainian users to be touched, and for Russian users to writhe in anger.

It's amazing how little we need to feel represented.

Thanks, Insomniac!
October 20, 2023 at 3:30 PM
My first attempt to take a photo of the Orion Nebula above Kyiv, oneshot, exposure – 30 seconds.

In addition to being just a beautiful object located 1300+ light years away, there are also strange things happening there that are mysterious to science.
October 7, 2023 at 5:00 PM
For me, it was pretty hard to write this story since:
- everyone is afraid to talk about China openly
- there's little open info about external development studios, but meanwhile, you have no idea how many of your favorite games they are involved in ↓

https://t.ly/MGCeh
August 10, 2023 at 6:39 PM
Just made my first phone+telescope astrophotography of the Andromeda galaxy. It ain’t much, but it’s honest work

Kyiv, Ukraine, 22.07.23
August 1, 2023 at 3:05 PM
So called astrophotography, shot in Kyiv 18.07.23
July 19, 2023 at 2:34 PM
Well at least they are consistent not only with Russia-related headlines
Donald Trump: I am going to become a dictator

NY Times Headline Writer: In Trump's Second Term, a Unique View of Executive Power Emerges
July 18, 2023 at 4:08 PM
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
July 14, 2023 at 8:34 PM
I wrote this story for Wired more like a column, not a *true journalism*, but it still was a pretty surreal experience for a first month of a full-scale Russia’s war in Ukraine

https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-video-games-guilt/
July 8, 2023 at 1:32 PM
Working on a story about how tensions between China and Taiwan will affect game developers in the region. Wrote a post on Reddit about searching for people to comment. It is still hangin’ on a Taiwanese subreddit. On the Chinese one, it was banned in minutes.

You can take the boy out the hood…
July 4, 2023 at 9:00 AM
Навіть в такому кострубатому Bluesky поки що подобається майже все, окрім двох речей:
- що ми тут обговорюємо твіттер і Маска
- що у соцмережі 2023 року так і не придумали, як відмовитися від лайків, підписників, і цього порожнього відчуття urgency, яке тисне і нічого не дає у відповідь
July 4, 2023 at 6:57 AM
Bluesky is lagging because of high demand, Meta briefly teases their Twitter-like clone. It all means one thing: time for Google to return Google Plus
July 1, 2023 at 9:23 PM
I just wish the first post here contained the word "macaroni"
July 1, 2023 at 8:59 PM