It’s nice to see that secret bio weapon labs have curators. I wonder whether they walk around with a scarf and a glass of wine deciding which viruses will be part of this year’s exhibition.
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Opstapchuk was arrested but later released for the sabotage. He is now in Ukraine fighting for his country.
I didn’t know that part. Well done, Spanish authorities
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Why do oil and blood always seem to go together?
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7. Putin doesn’t look well.
Many observers have noted that Putin looks puffy and unwell. On Wednesday there was an episode that also suggested that Putin is off his game — about 20 minutes into his speech, his language deteriorated into a ramble. He searched for words, repeating a term roughly similar to “you know.” It then became a diatribe, punctuated with uneasy pauses, even poor use of Russian, full of unnecessary conjunctions and jargon. The clip of Putin’s speech that was posted later on YouTube edited out this section of the broadcast.
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But the symbolism is far more alarming (which may be why it was included in a cable that got leaked).
As Al Jazeera notes, Russia is the world’s largest wheat exporter, accounting for 18% of the total, with Ukraine another big producer.
Unless Russia were to leave Ukraine today, most of those exports won’t be delivered this year.
On top of all the other things that Russia did by invading Ukraine, it has created the conditions for food insecurity around the globe — the kind of food insecurity that large countries like China can ill afford.
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INTERVIEW
Victor Shepelev, known as @zverok on Twitter and GitHub, is a Ruby developer and software architect who lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Since Russia invaded his country on February 24, 2022, he’s had more pressing concerns than writing code, such as keeping his family safe and helping his fellow citizens survive.
In a blog post on Tuesday, he wrote about his situation in the hope that public attention will encourage international political action to help Ukraine prevail.
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Is he going full Trump?
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Putin goes full Nuremberg (except the coward won’t actually come out of his bunker and be there).
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Nah - that’s a hologram. 
Or, yeah - FULL Nuremberg.
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“She is sympathetic but says that we are being lied to,” says Henova, a 35-year-old English language tutor. “She says it’s all America’s doing. I say OK, but why are Russians hitting us if it’s all about America? She says Ukrainians have been so cruel to people in the Donbas.
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Any clue what he was talking about?
Ah, RTFT. Got it now.
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