Illia Ponomarenko

There's always a good side in almost anything.

For instance, we're having cold blackouts again because of Russians. It's the 3rd winter that they have tried to strip us of electricity and heating.

But.

It's just the time to unwrap the telescope and fly across the universe all night long.

St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv

There's absolutely infernal mayhem on former Twitter right now, even by the "X" standards.

God, I can't describe how passionately I dream about working at an old-school rock music radio station and writing about whales and Antarctic exploration without having a single thought about war and global politics.

Ukrainian soldier Taras Stolyar recently won Metallica's endorsement for playing Nothing Else Matters on the bandura, a traditional Ukrainian folk instrument.

Now have a look at who sings to him as he plays Shape of My Heart.

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Good.

Really.

And no, it's not a "liberal echo chamber."

Many people just got tired of Elmo's never-ending delirium pushed down their throats on a daily basis. Enough is enough.

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#Xodus: Bluesky Hits 20M Users as People Continue to Flee X

Bluesky is currently adding nearly 1 million users per day.

Historians of the future will be laughing their asses out writing essays on how insanely braindead was the end of the West.

The main Christmas tree of Kyiv is about to kick-start the holiday season tomorrow.

The third Christmas of the full-scale war when we have rather humble trees and no celebrations in the historical part of Kyiv.

The full-scale invasion day 1,000th.

We owe everything we have to a Ukrainan soldier - who’s tired, unwilling, outnumbered, and outgunned, sensing grief and injustice - yet who keeps doing the terrible job every single day to save the world.

Merry Christmas, dear world.

Come to Kyiv for the winter holidays at some point; you will not regret it.

Don't you forget that we're having the biggest Christmas party of our lives in Kyiv when the war is over, and everyone's invited.

We drink, roam the streets of Kyiv, and have snowball fights until we just can't.

Kyiv is the kind of city where one can get megatons of fun, so that will be epic.

My warmest greetings go out to the wonderful people who built their careers sniffing out “Ukrainian Nazis” under every stone in Ukraine for tasty headlines that fueled Russian war propaganda on this-is-why-Ukraine-must-be-dealt-with, only to get Nazi salutes normalized in their own country.

I feel the greatest pride in my country and my people since the history-defining days of the Battle of Kyiv in 2022.
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This period of social media history should be called “The New Exodus,” and we are the ones roaming the Desert of Elmo for a brave new website promised to us.

It’s important to avoid the golden calf of Zuck’s Threads in this glorious way.

When the war is over, I will open a 1950s-style diner in Bucha and forget about the media.

Just finished writing and editing Part 1 of my new book - almost 30,000 words.

It feels so good to be writing at a reasonable working pace—not the way I had with the book on the Battle of Kyiv, which was written in 2.5 months (and I thought I'd go insane in the end).

Holding my fingers crossed.

The last day of the year… Thank you all for believing in what is honestly right in good faith.

In today’s world, it’s a huge deal.

Thank you, dear friends🇺🇦.

Love this - trolls on Elmo’s little toy call me a “Nazi” and call on cutting my head off with a blunt knife - reported out of pure interest and, of course, no violations detected by moderators.

Why would several million users want to leave “X” for blue sky, it’s such a mystery.

Yep, after all what they are saying is true: in the West and beyond, Putin has got only two very fundamental allies -- corruption and profound human stupidity.

Oh god,

I was just driving by our city cemetery in Bucha, and I saw this.

The loved ones of this fallen soldier installed a small Christmas tree with electric lights by his grave.

God I hate this war, it is just physically painful to see such sad things.

My stray buddy is back!

It seems a bit strange to me that Putin has once again disappeared from the public space and that yesterday, March 18, he didn’t even stage his usual propaganda spectacle around his “Crimea speech” and the official Anschluss of Crimea in 2014. It does feel a little unusual.

Never underestimate Ukraine.

Many did, especially Putin. Trump is making the same mistake - again.

Oh my god, Ukraine dipped the entire Russian Black Sea Fleet into the world of shit with $270,000 naval drones and sank its fucking flagship with two obsolete missiles -- and the largest naval power of all time that has 11 carrier strike groups says it's not prepared to face Russia at sea?