Still getting things set up. The following things are still needed to finish setting up this group/community. I welcome suggestions in the comments.
What is still needed:
Avatar for group. Roughly square/circle image to represent group.DoneGroup banner. Rectangular image, wide or landscape orientation, to improve look of group profile.DoneSuggestions for resources to support Ukraine, to be included in group description.DoneSuggestions for good pro-Ukraine media and podcasts, to be included in group description.DoneSuggestions for how to explore and promote Ukrainian culture (i.e. books and things to support), that could be included in the description, or maybe a detailed pinned post.Done- Create a pinned post
- Create petition for NATO to threaten nuclear response if nuclear power plant is destroyed.
At this point we are probably ready for a small influx of early adopter users, perhaps those that showed interest in the thread a week back. I still need to create a pinned post, but with the detailed group description it is perhaps not a necessity. I also think it would be good to start posting some actual content. I know @dana@blahaj.zone and I have discussed creating a petition for a strong NATO deterent to Russia blowing up the Zaporizhzhia (or any other) nuclear power plant, or the use of any nuclear weapons, including tactical.
I am struggling to find who at NATO would receive such petition. I wrote an email to Public Diplomacy Division asking for guidance. Hopefully, they respond and point me in the right direction.
@toni@lemmy.blahaj.zone Pro Ukraine media and podcasts:
Kyiv Independent: News, articles: https://kyivindependent.com/
Ukrainian Spaces podcast: https://linktr.ee/ukrainianspaces
Ukraine without hype podcast:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukraine-without-hype@toni@lemmy.blahaj.zone A must have link to VolyaHub Network About the Russian Colonialism https://linktr.ee/volyahub
@toni@lemmy.blahaj.zone Here are simple avatar and banner. I combined public domain images to make these.
The links to originals:
flag: https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=327616&picture=flag-of-ukraine-themes-idea-design@dana @toni@lemmy.blahaj.zone Okay, your attachments don’t show up in Lemmy, just the links to the original uncombined source images. And in Calckey they appear to have been converted into webm format, which is useless. I managed to take screenshots of them and upload those, so I can check this off as done for now. If I trimmed the screenshots incorrectly we can always fix that later by re-uploading.
@toni @toni@lemmy.blahaj.zone Ok, no problem.
@toni@lemmy.blahaj.zone Kyiv Pride donations: https://kyivpride.org/en/kp-donate-en/
@toni@lemmy.blahaj.zone donations to come back alive (Ukrainian Army) https://savelife.in.ua
Lots of great suggestions from @dana@blahaj.zone so far. Probably enough to tick off all the boxes above, which doesn’t mean we can’t add more later.
On another note, I noticed that the bug where you can’t reply in lemmy and it just spins only happens when you are replying to a comment left in Calckey(and maybe also Mastodon). Not sure why, but I will report it.
Hey @dana, this is the first post for the group. The url for the group is https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/stop_russia
I think we need to get this set up before sharing more widely.
@toni@blahaj.zone @dana @toni@lemmy.blahaj.zone Hello
I may have some suggestions for podcasts, media, resources - will try to put something useful together today. Started writing but realised I could go on for ages and not sure how much / what structure you’re after. Seems like there are a lot of good resources, not sure how many you want, or how much can fit in description box?
One other minor thing: there’s a small typo of aggression in the final paragraph of description.
@picard@mas.to @dana@blahaj.zone @toni@lemmy.blahaj.zone I think the description boxes I’ve seen in some other communities are quite long and detailed. We can keep the description to highlights and put the rest in a pinned post thread though, so fire away!
@toni@blahaj.zone @dana @toni@lemmy.blahaj.zone Hmm. I tried to reply with a list directly on the post Lemmy but it won’t post for some reason, just keeps spinning. Will try again later!
@picard@mas.to @dana@blahaj.zone @toni@lemmy.blahaj.zone I had that problem on the Lemmy site too. Is why I replied here instead. I should probably report it as a bug to @ada or @supakaity but I suspect they already know.
@toni@blahaj.zone @toni@lemmy.blahaj.zone OK I have a few will split into some separate posts.
@dana already covered some so will leave them off mine.
Anna from Ukraine (https://youtube.com/channel/UCiVefOT4TGW3pOqW6AxmlBQ) - daily vlog with war, culture, history - plus Soviet Myths Debunked.
How to be brave like Ukraine (https://howtobe.brave.ua/en-index.php) is a short course on Ukrainian history provided in partnership with the Ukrainian government covering a range of subjects - art, culture, technology; lessons are easy and only take about ten minutes each.
@toni@blahaj.zone @toni@lemmy.blahaj.zone @dana Substack: Ukrainians Margo Gontar (https://margogontar.substack.com), Iuliia Mendel (https://iuliiamendel.substack.com), Maksym Eristavi (https://maksymeristavi.substack.com) (of Ukrainian Spaces fame), plus Timothy Snyder (https://snyder.substack.com).
@toni@blahaj.zone @toni@lemmy.blahaj.zone @dana Directly supporting Ukrainians: https://shop.brave.ua is a marketplace operated in partnership with the Ukrainian government; Ukrainians provide products for sale internationally. I’ve used it many times and can vouch for it. Products range from clothes (got a fantastic winter coat from them), books, paintings, jigsaws, honey, etc. Delivery cost is per seller, not per order, so that’s worth bearing in mind - buying from multiple sellers will incur multiple delivery charges.
Test to see if I can reply with Lemmy account now…
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