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  1. Russian soldiers captured after being found hiding in basement by Ukraine LGBT+ activists

    Viktor Pylypenko, an LGBT+ activist in Ukraine

    Viktor Pylypenko, an LGBT+ activist in Ukraine. (Facebook/ Valeriya Venceremos)

    Members of an LGBT+ organisation in Ukraine captured a group of Russian soldiers they found hiding in their offices.

    Viktor Pylypenko told Israeli newspaper The Israel Hayom that he and his group had the soldiers in their office basement in the city of Kharkiv.

     

    Pylypenko is an LGBT+ activist and veteran who, after fighting in the Maidan Revolution, formed an organisation to support queer veterans in Ukraine and fight for LGBT+ rights.

    Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last week, he has rejoined the army to fight for his country’s freedom.

    After finding the soldiers, Pylypenko said, he and his fellow activists beat them and took them captive.

     

    He added: “This is our war, the Ukrainians, but we have also been fighting as LGBTQ people… We are confronting a tyrannical, homophobic enemy.”

    Pylypenko and his colleagues are not alone – across Ukraine, LGBT+ people have been preparing for combat. 

     

    Veronika Limina, who works for an NGO promoting equal rights for LGBT+ people in the military, recently told The Daily Beast that she had been training up queer folk, teaching them basic combat and paramedic skills.

    “I am angry… We will kill Putin,” she said.

     

    Like Pylypenko, many in the queer community are not only fighting for their country, but also to preserve the few LGBT+ rights they have in Ukraine.

    Same-sex marriage is illegal in Ukraine, as is joint adoption by same-sex couples, and being trans is still classified as an illness.

    But recent years have seen gradual progress, with the county passing laws to make it easier for trans folk to transition, and to protect LGBT+ people from workplace discrimination. These rights could disappear at the hands of the viciously anti-LGBT+ Putin.

     

    Andrii Kravchuk, who works at LGBT+ human rights organisation Nash Svit Center, said that they were fighting against “total lawlessness and repressions”, adding: “Now we have only two options: either we defend our country, and it will become a part of the free world, or there will not be any freedom for us and will not be Ukraine at all.”

    https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/01/ukraine-lgbt-activists-russia-soldiers/

  2. 1 hour ago, reader said:

    The researchers behind the study, which was published in The Lancet's eClinicalMedicine, said one of the reasons the trial succeeded where others failed in the past was likely due to the provision of lubricant and inclusion of instructions on how to use the product.

    Lubricant reduces friction, which in turn causes condom failure from slippage and breakage.

    Are they saying don't use lubricant?

  3. Sort of strange timing when they have a record number of cases.

    https://vietnamnews.vn/society/1157712/viet-nam-registers-record-60355-coronavirus-cases-on-wednesday.html

    Việt Nam registers record 60,355 coronavirus cases on Wednesday

    Update: February, 23/2022 - 18:29

     

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    A medical worker takes a sample for COVID-19 testing in Thanh Hoá Province. VNA/VNS Photo

    HÀ NỘI — The record for daily transmissions was broken again on Wednesday as the country registered 60,355 new COVID-19 infections.

    The new cases bring the country's tally to 2,972,378.

    There were a further 15,641 recoveries, bringing the total number of people given the all-clear to 2,320,722.

    Of the new cases, 17 were imported and quarantined upon arrival. Out of the new daily transmissions, 42,145 were in the community.

    Currently, 3,263 patients have severe infections with 13 on life support.

    The capital city of Hà Nội again registered the highest daily number of infections with 7,419, also a record for the city.

    Other localities with four-digit case numbers were Bắc Giang (2,998), Hải Dương (2,944), Hòa Bình (2,595), Bắc Ninh (2,505), Phú Thọ (2,499), Nam Định (2,203), Vĩnh Phúc (2,013), Quảng Ninh (1,868), Hải Phòng (1,816), Ninh Bình (1,739), Hưng Yên (1,617), Yên Bái (1,556), Nghệ An (1,525), Thái Nguyên (1,499), HCM City (1,451), Lào Cai (1,406), Thái Bình (1,385), Lạng Sơn (1,322), Khánh Hòa (1,296), Tuyên Quang (1,277), Đắk Lắk (1,262), Quảng Nam (1,097), Bình Định (1,059) and Hà Giang (1,057).

    The remaining transmissions were found in Đà Nẵng (918), Cao Bằng (873), Quảng Bình (825), Thanh Hóa (803), Bình Phước (731), Hà Tĩnh (694), Lâm Đồng (636), Điện Biên (560), Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu (515), Hà Nam (448), Phú Yên (388), Cà Mau (378), Bình Dương (373), Lai Châu (371), Quảng Trị (327), Gia Lai (314), Đắk Nông (264), Thừa Thiên Huế (226), Bình Thuận (185), Kon Tum (155), Tây Ninh (142), Quảng Ngãi (108), Bắc Kạn (103), Bạc Liêu (98), Đồng Nai (92), Bến Tre (84), Vĩnh Long (69), Trà Vinh (50), Long An (49), Cần Thơ (41), Đồng Tháp (30), Ninh Thuận (19), Sóc Trăng (18), An Giang (14), Tiền Giang (12), Hậu Giang (9) and Kiên Giang (8).

    A further 91 COVID-related deaths were reported on Wednesday, taking the total number of fatalities to 39,719, accounting for 1.3 per cent of total infections.

  4. 10 hours ago, TMax said:

    Some of those Filipino cocks look terrible.

    It's called a Tuli  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuli_(rite)

    Tuli (rite)

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
     
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    Tulì is a Filipino rite of male circumcision. It has a long historical tradition and is considered an obligatory rite of passage for males;[1] boys who have not undergone the ritual are labelled supót and face ridicule from their peers.[2]

    Circumcision is not considered a religious rite as some four-fifths of Filipinos profess Roman Catholicism, which does not require it. Rather, circumcision is a social norm rooted in tradition that is followed by society at large. Most boys usually undergo the procedure not shortly after birth but prior to reaching puberty or before high school (around ages 10–14).

    There exists two common ways of undergoing tuli: either the traditional way by a local village circumciser (known in Tagalog as having it done "de-pukpok") or having it done by medical practitioners in a hospital or clinical setting.

    Background

    Circumcision in the Philippines, as practiced today, is not a religious rite. Circumcision is also not practiced by a majority of Christians worldwide. The practice appears to be traceable as being pre-Hispanic period in nature. A common theory posits that the prevalence of the practise is due to the influence of Islam, which was prevalent in parts of the archipelago at least 200 years before the arrival of Christianity in the 16th century. It was also noted in Vocabulario de la Lengua Tagala that other synonyms of tuli are catan (katan in modern Filipino orthography) and sonat which were from Arabic khitan and Malay sunat, respectively.[3]

    Antonio de Morga, a Spanish lawyer and high-ranking colonial official in the Philippines during the 17th century, noted in his 1609 book Sucesos de las islas Filipinas:

    A few years before the Spaniards subdued the island of Luzon, certain natives of the island of Borneo began to go thither to trade, especially to the settlement of Manila and Tondo; and the inhabitants of the one island intermarried with those of the other. These Borneans are Mahometans, and were already introducing their religion among the natives of Luzon, and were giving them instructions, ceremonies, and the form of observing their religion, by means of certain gazizes whom they brought with them. Already a considerable number, and those the chiefest men, were commencing, although by piecemeal, to become Moros, and were being circumcised and taking the names of Moros. Had the Spaniards' coming been delayed longer, that religion would have spread throughout the island, and even through the others, and it would have been difficult to extirpate it. [emphasis added][4]

    To which the prolific Filipino writer and nationalist Jose Rizal added in his 1890 annotated version of Moraga's work: "This custom [circumcision] has not fallen into disuse among the Filipinos, even among the Catholics."

    In a 1903 article "Circumcision and Flagellation among the Filipinos" published in the Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons, Lieutenant Charles Norton Barney, of the medical department of the U. S. Army, noted that circumcision was "a very ancient custom among the Philippine indios, and so generalized that at least seventy or eighty per cent of males in the Tagál country have undergone the operation." He also noted that those who were uncircumcised and reached the age of puberty were taunted as "supút" by children of both sexes.[5]

    Contemporary practice

    More affluent parents opt to have their children circumcised as neonates in hospital, but the majority prefer that their sons undergo the tradition at around 8–12 years of age. Boys of the same age group would either go to government-sponsored missions, hospitals, or to a local circumciser. Boys normally undergo the procedure during the summer break before the start of classes as to allow time for healing. The most commonly-done procedure is in actuality not a circumcision but a dorsal slit, where no foreskin is actually removed. When the foreskin is removed, it is commonly known locally as a "German cut" in reference to the introduction of the modern surgical technique by the founder of plastic and reconstructive surgery, Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach.[6]

    The Philippines Department of Health meanwhile sponsors an annual Operation Tuli project to circumcise boys; others assist and provide the service for free.

    The traditional circumcision makes use of a curved piece of wood which is anchored into the ground. The protruding part of this apparatus is pointed at its end: the foreskin of the boy being circumcised is drawn over this protruding part. The circumciser rests his knife lengthwise across the boy's foreskin and then a quick blow is made with a stick, slicing the upper foreskin into two and exposing the glans. Prior to and while the procedure is being performed, the boy is told to chew guava leaves. The masticated guava leaves are applied onto the wound as a poultice and is bandaged. The boy is then to wash off in the cold waters of a nearby river. While this procedure is commonly known as a circumcision, it is more accurately described as a superincision as no foreskin is removed during the procedure.[7]

    Newly circumcised boys usually wear housedresses or loose skirts to help in the healing. The swelling that might occur during this period is termed pangángamatis (literally, "becoming like a tomato", kamatis) owing to the reddish appearance of the penis.

    According to the United Nations World Health Organisation: "In the Philippines, where circumcision is almost universal and typically occurs at age 10–14 years, a survey of boys found strong evidence of social determinants, with two thirds of boys choosing to be circumcised simply “to avoid being uncircumcised”, and 41% stating that it was “part of the tradition”[8]

    The rite has been the subject of the award-winning 2005 film Tuli by Auraeus Solito.

  5. The NYTimes has a paywall...I'm enjoying not watching the Olympics.

    This from Yahoo...

    NBC Sports Says Leslie Jones Free To Continue Olympic Tweeting After “Third-Party Error” Resolved

     

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    Updated Throughout, Tuesday Apparently Leslie Jones may now Olympic-tweet to her heart’s content. In a statement to press Monday night, NBC Sports said the video-blocking Jones complained of yesterday was nothing but “a third-party error.”

    “This was the result of a third-party error, and the situation has been resolved,” an NBC Sports spokesperson said in the statement. “She is free to do her social media posts as she has done in the past. She is a super fan of the Olympics, and we are super fans of her.”

    Earlier on Monday, former Saturday Night Live cast member and enthusiastic Olympics tweeter Jones wrote on social media that the 2022 Beijing Winter games might be the last in which she’ll provide her now-unofficial but popular commentary. “Leslie Jones does [not] stay anywhere I’m not welcomed,” she posted.

    Jones, who has been tweeting her comic reactions to Olympic games since the 2016 Rio competitions, wrote on Instagram and Twitter Monday that she is “tired of fighting the folks who don’t want me to do it.”

    In response to various comments on her Twitter page, Jones explained that trolls aren’t the problem. “It’s NBC,” she responded, repeatedly.

    Specifically, Jones writes on the Instagram post, “They block my videos and they get folks who think they can do it like me. And I’m tired of fighting them. I love the athletes and they love me doing it. And I know y’all love it. But now it’s just gotten too hard. And no one is fighting for or with me. Soooo I guess I’ll leave it to the professionals. But thank you for all the love.”

    When Jones was a cast member on NBC’s SNL in 2016, the network made her an NBC Olympics correspondent.

     

    Leslie Jones does it stay anywhere I’m not welcomed. #uptoyallnow pic.twitter.com/jark0Joc0N

    — Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) February 7, 2022

  6. 38 minutes ago, RockHardNYC said:

    SO STUPID on national television

    Are you saying because the Nazis referred to the the Jews as a race...that make does them a race?

    I've always thought of Jews as belonging to the Semite ethnic group like many Arabs and others of that part of the world and they are not a race.

    Am I wrong?

    Ms. Goldberg may have been wrong in her explanation but certainly understandable when in all probability she has only seen or dealt white Jews.

  7. Not Such A "Happy Ending"

    British man, 70, dies inside 'happy ending' massage parlour in Thai 'Sin City' Pattaya

    Police arrived at the 'Lovely Massage' shop in the Bang Lamung district of Pattaya City to find Robert John Swain, 70, had died at the scene

    Swain was pronounced dead before his body was moved to the hospital
     
     

    Swain was pronounced dead before his body was moved to the hospital (

    Image: ViralPress)

     

     

    A British man has reportedly died inside a “happy ending” massage parlour in a Thai city, after falling asleep and then choking during the procedure.

    Police say they arrived at the 'Lovely Massage' shop in the Bang Lamung district of Pattaya City to find Robert John Swain, 70, had died at the scene.

     

    The pensioner was pronounced dead before his body was moved to the hospital.

    According to Newsflare reports , Mr Swain had taken off his clothes and was lying naked on the massage table while being rubbed with oil by the masseuse 'Miss Oraya', 39, shortly after 3pm.

     
     
    Mr Swain died while being rubbed with oil by the masseuse 'Miss Oraya'

    Mr Swain died while being rubbed with oil by the masseuse 'Miss Oraya' (

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    ViralPress)

    Oraya said it was the first time Mr Swain, who arrived on a rented Honda motorcycle, had visited the parlour for a massage.

    “Everything was going normally then I noticed he was sleeping,” she said.

    “Suddenly he started struggling to breathe. He was gasping and choking.”

    'I called the other girls for help and we started pumping his heart.'

     

    Oraya called for help and staff began performing CPR but by that point, Mr Swain had already stopped breathing.

     
     
    Mr Swain was said to have had no identity documents on him

    Mr Swain was said to have had no identity documents on him (

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    ViralPress)

    After coming to the conclusion they were unable to revive him, staff covered his body with a towel.

    Police reportedly arrived at the 'Lovely Massage' shop in the Bang Lamung district at 4pm and cordoned off the scene.

    Officers said they looked through the building for signs of foul play or a struggle, but found nothing.

    The elderly man was said to have had no identity documents on him.

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