“the chosen one” meme is not enough
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RT @kevinrothrock
Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/6/23673043/twitter-substack-embeds-bots-tools-api
https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1644375890892029963

“How they all began” is the top quote, and the joke is that Mikhail Khodorkovsky (pitched behind bars) was expropriated, with Yukos assets going to the oil giant Rosneft.

Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/6/23673043/twitter-substack-embeds-bots-tools-api

You can’t even comment on a quote tweet if the original tweet contains a Substack link!
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RT @kevinrothrock
oh brother. it’s impossible to like, retweet, or comment on any tweets with Substack links. https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1644375214866702337 https://t.co/QOpX98j3YR
https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1644375643264790528

oh brother. it’s impossible to like, retweet, or comment on any tweets with Substack links.
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RT @kevinrothrock
Testing Twitter’s reported new policy against Substack hyperlinks: https://faridaily.substack.com/p/anything-but-more-mobilization-russias?publication_id=774882&post_id=113028306&isFreemail=true
https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1644375214866702337

Testing Twitter’s reported new policy against Substack hyperlinks: https://faridaily.substack.com/p/anything-but-more-mobilization-russias?publication_id=774882&post_id=113028306&isFreemail=true

What happened to the older generals?
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RT @jakluge
Karaganov introducing Anastasia Likhacheva today at HSE: "She is the youngest dean of the country, and she is also a general now! Maybe the youngest general, although, thanks to the war we have so many young generals now!" (someone chuckles)
https://twitter.com/jakluge/status/1644363222382702599

RT @Mike_Eckel
In St Petersburg, Russians were seen lining up today at a currency exchange. The ruble has dropped drastically in the past 2 days. https://twitter.com/fontanka_news/status/1644329812574588931

@nivelep Interesting!

@paelse Threads are fascist.

Those of you who don’t read Russian, I’d be very curious to know if you can guess the joke here without googling around for a translation of the top phrase. The bottom-right says, “Rosneft.”
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RT @amenka
@maxseddon
https://twitter.com/amenka/status/1644333932941377537

RT @TimJHanrahan
Joint statement from Schumer and McConnell: “We strongly condemn the wrongful detention of U.S. citizen and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, and demand the immediate release of this internationally known and respected independent journalist.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/schumer-mcconnell-call-for-russia-to-release-evan-gershkovich-f4afc63b?st=uuwvzfp4vbp6e26

P.S. They didn’t clap last year, either, but the Kremlin’s video cut away before the awkward silence really set in. http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69379

Watching Putin get no applause from the ambassadors this year is a bookmarkable moment of zen.
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RT @adagamov
Про Путина и аплодисменты послов: как это было в 2021 году и как в этом, 2023-м.
https://twitter.com/adagamov/status/1644295044931674117

Looks like Russia’s FSB may have tagged a young, unfortunate couple to play a part in the coming show trial against Evan. (The connection between these cases isn’t yet verified, but something certainly smells rotten.)
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RT @meduza_en
Following the imprisonment of journalist @evangershkovich, Russian federal agents have opened a treason case against a couple living outside Yekaterinburg who worked at the same tank factory where Gershkov…
https://twitter.com/meduza_en/status/1644167151366832128

Read out of context, this sounds like somebody leaked proof of the very same Transatlantic plot that Putin alleges his invasion was designed to preempt. Do better!

NYT’s conclusion about the consequences of this leak, besides the public disinformation reverberations and data fed to Moscow: “[It’s] is bound to harm intelligence sharing between Ukraine and the United States.”

The NY Times calls this “the first Russian intelligence breakthrough that has been made public since the war began.”

Classified war docs detailing secret U.S./NATO plans for building up Ukraine’s military for a new counteroffensive leak online and then spread on social media with fake numbers edited in to exaggerate estimated Ukrainian losses and downplay presumed Russian casualties.

Still,… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1644149068380209155

RT @AricToler
There are two versions of this same leak (or "leak"): the original had estimated Ukrainian losses throughout the war lower than Russian losses, & the apparently edited one had Ukrainians at a dramatically higher loss count.

Censorship is pretty silly, as it's everywhere now https://twitter.com/kateconger/status/1644112083787845632