[James Brancheau]

In my life, I've never seen so much bravery. I'm completely stunned.

[RCL]

Yes! To the insanely imperialist Puta, Yeb Vas!

[Sarah-Jane Crowson]

And don't forget that those humans are probably dead. Their families will mourn them. As will families from (equally human) Russian casualties of war. There is nothing to celebrate here.

Sarah-Jane

[James Brancheau]

They are dead. And they will be celebrated forever, I suspect, as they should be.

[Seree Zohar]

Song translation in the comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZME7HfdrKWQ


https://www.wnyc.org/story/an-old-uk...urrent-crisis/
Background to above song. No doubt it will be played a great deal these days.

Bandura goes back several centuries, it seems, and used to carry 15 strings, some now have up to 65. FWIW

[John Isbell]

Putin, blood-soaked thief that he is, claimed Ukraine is not a country and was invented by Russia. So the US embassy tweeted photos of four 10th-12th century Kiev churches and of the forest that was Moscow at the time.

John

[Matt Q]

Originally Posted by James Brancheau

They are dead.

Last I heard there were doubts.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...still-be-alive

[Joe Crocker]

Originally Posted by Seree Zohar

Song translation in the comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZME7HfdrKWQ


https://www.wnyc.org/.../an-old-ukrainian-folk-song.../
Background to above song. No doubt it will be played a great deal these days.

Bandura goes back several centuries, it seems, and used to carry 15 strings, some now have up to 65. FWIW

Thanks for that Seree (though I couldn't get the second link to work). On the theme of Ukranian folk song, back in 2014 at the UK WOMAD festival we were all blown away by DakhaBrakha. The festival tends to be dominated by African based sounds (which is fine by me) but this group of women in what looked like white wedding dresses wearing tall black hats took to the stage and gave out a captivating other-wordly sound that cut through everything. They have since made quite a reputation in the West. I hope they are OK.

WOMAD 2014

Tiny Desk Concert

[Seree Zohar]

yes, familiar with DakhaBrakha. So interesting.

I fixed the link to the background on that Ukrainian song. tnx for pointing it out!

[James Brancheau]

Thanks, Matt. I hope that's accurate. And thanks Seree for the links. Absolutely gorgeous.

And I'll probably react more viscerally to such reports of defiance as Taipei has been my home for going on twenty years now. We're really feeling it.