Newspaper created just before the invasion, no physical copy, only posting online. Only through English, consumed primarily through American Online platforms and now has a presence on the fediverse. Nah mate, I’m not an Orc, I’m just not blind.

Am I?

Neither, I am gay and I am the shit. What’s your point?

That’s actually hotly contested within musicology to this day. Poland is a very socially conservative place and they adore Chopin. He is very much a cultural icon there. Even though Chopin spent most of his life in France, studying at French Conservatories. Speaking in French, writing in French etc. His music, contextually is part of the French Romantic Tradition. He has streets and Buildings and Bridges named after him everywhere in Poland. The story of him and Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil is that they were lovers and yes, she wrote in a letter to a mutual acquaintance of theirs after meeting him, asking if Chopin was still engaged to Maria Wodzińska. Maria was his pupil and it lasted one year. They never so much as slept together. -Funnily enough, he was leaving Poland forever and then the last note he sent to his betrothed said “I shall never forget you” and then he immediately forgot her. But, the details of any physical romantic relationship between Chopin and women are very suspect. He did not write love letters to Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (George Sand) He wrote love letters to Multiple men. Amantine idiolised Chopin, because of his talent and she definitely loved him. She was 6 years older than him, had two kids and was fairly standardly Parisian for the time. Liberally promiscuous and wealthy as well. Also he was a very sick man. By the time they were living in Majorca he had been consumptive for 20 years or more. Being diagnosed with tuberculosis multiple times, whooping cough, Laryngitis. At his healthiest he was 170cm (5ft7") very tall for the time and 45kg (99lbs). He was poor, he needed someone to take care of him, so it is largely considered a one-sided relationship. Most researchers today agree that Chopin’s much-described relationship with George Sand was not a romantic relationship in the traditional sense. She was more like a mother, or caretaker.

What is clear is Chopin wrote dozens of letters proclaiming his love and affections for men. Particularly Tytus Woyciechowski. In one such unpublished letter Chopin wrote: “You don’t like being kissed. Please allow me to do so today.” and “You have to pay for the dirty dream I had about you last night.” Letters to Woyciechowski would finish with “Give me a kiss, dearest lover.” In a more famous letter to Tytus, Chopin wrote: “I confide in the piano the things that I sometimes want to say to you. In 1829 he wrote to him saying “I have my ideal, whom I faithfully serve, not having spoken for half a year now, about whom I dream, with thoughts of whom the Adagio from my Concerto came to be, who this morning inspired the little waltz that I am sending you." A translation was published by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw, Poland, described his “ideal” as a woman, despite the original letter using the masculine version of the Polish noun and it being written to Tytus. He would visit him a year later and write a letter afterwards recalling the time. “I tell you sincerely that it is pleasant to recall all of this. Your fields left in me some sort of longing; that birch under the windows just will not leave my memory. That crossbow! How romantic it all was! I remember that crossbow, with which you really wore me out - for all my sins.” This is a man Chopin openly kissed and held hands with in public and proclaimed his love for in writing. The only mention of female relationships in these letters to Tytus and his other male “friends” are in footnotes. To this day, the veracity of these footnotes has never been verified. It is very possible they were added to the letters at a later time, to obfuscate his sexuality. It’s also the case that bad-faith translations have be used outside of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute incident. There’s numerous translation errors, between Polish and French, as his original biographers, did not speak Polish and a lot of historical materials have been edited, translated, republished, re-translated and there is a lot of straight washing.

Personally, I believe he was a homosexual, born into conservative Polish society. He sought to become married, as his mother wanted him to. Proposed to Maria, knowing he was moving to Paris which is much more liberal and as a sick man, used Amantine Lucile. Poland, only recently outlawed “LGBTQ+ Free Zones.” The last minister for finance in Poland maligned that the country was overrun with a “Rainbow Plague.” In conclusion, Chopin was gay. He’s also an incredibly important symbol of nationalism is Poland. Which is inherently Right-wing and intolerant. So, they edit stuff and try to push the narrative of George Sands and say he was flamboyant that’s why he kissed his “friends” on the mouth. It’s better now, but, outside of big cities homophobia is an expected part of Polish culture.

Source: Did 4 years of Western Musical History as part of my BA in Music. Backpacked through Poland in the 2010s. Still Love Poland, especially Polish girls.

Wrong, that was Liszt, that’s where Lisztomania comes from. Liszt is also the one with the big hands, he’s the reason modern pianos have harps in the back of them, because he would play so hard they’s break under the strain of the cumulative resonance created by the speed at which Liszt would play. Chopin was gay.

It’s not out of fear, it’s a conscientious objection. To the normalisation of the erasure of privacy and personal agency in an online space that exists to control our behaviour brokered by algorithms incentivised to expand human suffering for profit.

Or, you know some other gay shit…

Well, if the state wasn’t bought by the fossil fuel industry this wouldn’t be happening on this scale, would it? How’s the lone star state feeling now? Punished by plague (Measles), Floods, and instead of locusts they have the massive proliferation of ticks and the spreading of them far outside the state. Life imitating Art.

Wow, what a fun way to give a data point about yourself to attach to a public profile already connected to your IP address and potentially your email as well. Cool!

kyivindependent is a disinformation platform

Bright Light!

Because ICE is going to be the paramilitary the feds control until they can seize control of the actual military.

I’m Canadian

K24 wooh. You gonna turbo that Opossum or build it?

You can make any question existential enough to void everything of meaning. Nobody cares about being effortlessly technically correct, they care about effort to correct something immediately material and consequential. “We’re all gonna die so who cares?” Is the doomerist get out of jail free card to excuse being a part of, or a tool of those creating the problem. May as well not voice any opinion at all, because it won’t be remembered forever. May as well just commit suicide because your relationships and your ultimate impact on the world and humanity through your existence is pointless because The Universe will end at some impossibly distant point in the future beyond what we can even pretend to understand as a scale of time. What a useful observation.

Alaska got an exemption from Medicaid Cuts. I imagine her rationale was that she was protecting her constituents. Fucked everyone else though.

So, someone within America has a negative view about the current American government and their supporters and you want to show them the error of their ways? So, this person you take issue with. Who is wishing ill of the supporters of the government attempting to bring about the end of social equity and expand the class divide of people based on financial income and the inalienable physical characteristics of people outside of white European descent, like the Jim Crow era, that’s rot? That’s what you’re saying. Fuck off, man.

No, it’s actually just geography.

Europe’s Telodzrum’s understanding of the geography outside its tiny landmass is utterly laughable.

Sorry, FTFY

They make an ungodly amount of money off of underage gambling with CS go skins. A bunch of gambling streamers credit Valve and the Skins economy they’ve created as being where the addiction started. Valve are not super-based good dudes. Gaben is a Billionaire, who exploits children for personal financial gain.

Woah Buddy Hoser! Go back to Reddit Eh?

You’re Canadian, why are you getting your panties in a bunch by inserting yourself into a back and forth of an American telling Magat to “Fuck off”? Canada Day was 3 days ago.