I'm an American Army veteran, anthropologist, and volunteer living in Lviv, Ukraine. I cover Ukrainian history, Russian aggression, disinformation, geopolitics, and the political bullshit that comes with it. I'm blunt, sarcastic, politically independent, and I don't give a damn about offending MAGA, Kremlin apologists, or anyone else who confuses propaganda with facts. I believe in evidence, critical thinking, and calling bullshit wherever I see it. Expect history, analysis, dark humor, strong language, and opinions that won't always make you comfortable. I don't care which political tribe you belong to. If your argument is bullshit, I'll tell you. Welcome to AnthroVet50. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

I remember when @ZelenskyyUa said, "I can't wait for this war to be over so I can sit on the beach and have a beer" One of the greatest men to ever live.

Did you know that before coming to Ukraine I had aspirations to be a Peer Support Specialist with the Department of Veterans Affairs?

What it's like living in Ukraine....new missile and drone warnings every few minutes....

I’m really excited about what I’m building: Hearth, a 3D anthropological simulation exploring how civilizations emerge, grow, and fall through the needs and choices of their people. It starts with everyday life. People need food, water, shelter, security, and connection. They form families, raise children, divide labor, share knowledge, and move in search of resources or partners. Shared beliefs and cultural traditions influence how they cooperate, what they contribute, and which places they call home. Machine learning lets people learn from their experiences. The outcomes of their work and movement choices influence future decisions. Those experiences interact with knowledge passed through families and communities, allowing behavior to change across generations. From those small interactions, larger patterns can emerge. Farming and storage help sustain permanent settlements. Skilled work, housing, water infrastructure, and cooperation can support towns and eventually cities. Communities can also struggle, fragment, lose population, or disappear when their arrangements stop meeting people’s needs. A major goal is for religions and different forms of government to emerge from people’s shared beliefs, needs, and choices. Communities might develop egalitarian councils, centralized rulers, or institutions organized around religious authority. Those arrangements should evolve as people’s circumstances, beliefs, and relationships change. Technology is connected to the physical world, too. The current simulation explores early farming through bronze working: discoveries require knowledge, experimentation, labor, and access to materials. Making bronze requires actual access to both copper and tin. Today’s big step was bringing that living model into 3D. What excites me most is watching generations of individual choices accumulate into a society’s history—and seeing whether the civilization they build can endure.

To have some of the best former Pentagon and US Government officials following me is a huge honor. I hope I don't disappoint you all.

Fall and a few churches here in Lviv. You know because MAGA and their Russian friends like to say Christianity is outlawed in Ukraine.

The three easiest things to do on this platform is trigger MAGA, the little Musk Femboy clan, and Russia cheese dick's. Musk can burn in hell MAGA can burn in hell Putin can burn in hell

DDHQ Projects that the Democrats will win the House with a probability of 79% They project the Democrats will also win the Senate with a probability of 57% Numbers? Democrats win 238 seats in the house and 51 seats in the senate. This would give Democrats a vast majority in the House

6,000 Years of Human History Beneath Our Feet. Archaeologists working at Gródek in southeastern Poland, near the Ukrainian border, have uncovered evidence of human activity spanning roughly 6,000 years. Among the discoveries are a Neolithic cache of flint tools, an Iron Age cremation burial, artifacts associated with the Goths, and early medieval Slavic burials. Researchers have also identified ancient defensive earthworks whose origins remain uncertain. From an anthropological perspective, what makes this discovery remarkable isn't simply the age of the artifacts. It's what they reveal about the changing relationship between human communities and the landscape. The same geographic location attracted different populations across millennia, each bringing distinct technologies, burial customs, social structures, and cultural traditions. The shift from cremation to inhumation, for example, provides evidence of changing funerary practices. Flint tools reveal technological knowledge and resource use, while defensive structures raise questions about territorial organization, cooperation, and conflict. But there's another important lesson here. Archaeological cultures are not modern nationalities. The presence of Gothic or Slavic artifacts does not establish an unbroken ethnic identity or a modern territorial claim. Human history is a story of migration, interaction, adaptation, and cultural transformation. Borders change. Languages evolve. Communities disappear, merge, and emerge. The landscape remains, preserving fragments of their lives. And sometimes, a meter beneath the soil, 6,000 years of human experience are waiting to be rediscovered. Source: lublin112.pl/krzemienny-skar…

All these idiots swinging from @elonmusk's nuts are just as pathetic as Musk himself. The Pentagon has paid SpaceX to provide Starlink services to Ukraine since at least June 2023. Reuters also reported that Musk personally ordered Starlink coverage disabled during Ukraine's 2022 counteroffensive, disrupting Ukrainian military operations. SpaceX disputes that reporting. Musk separately admitted refusing to activate Starlink to support a Ukrainian strike against Russia's Black Sea Fleet. So spare me the bullshit about Musk single-handedly saving Ukraine. He's a government contractor getting paid for services, not some benevolent savior.

MAGA is a cult, and American exceptionalism is its religion. Trump is its prophet, nostalgia is its scripture, and anyone who questions the mythology is branded a heretic.

Here we go, spoken like a true uneducated bigot. Half of 4.1 per 100,000 is still 2.05 per 100,000 which is 11 times higher than the EU. That includes the Muslims here. Why do we use the EU? Because it's population is closest in comparison.

Putin has already sabotaged any future peace talks by demanding NATO pull back to 1997 borders. This includes these countries 1999: Czech Republic (Czechia), Hungary, Poland 2004: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia 2009: Albania, Croatia 2017: Montenegro 2020: North Macedonia 2023: Finland 2024: Sweden

Musk admits SpaceX restricted Starlink access in Ukraine. The Pentagon had contracted for Starlink services and expanded military Starshield access to 3,000 terminals. Ukraine’s military use was no surprise. Reuters reports that Ukraine’s Starshield service does not operate over Russian territory. Claims about “hacked terminals” do not establish that this geographic restriction was bypassed. Musk attributes Starshield restrictions to the U.S. government. His admission about Starlink therefore doesn’t settle responsibility for both services. What contractual authority permitted the restrictions, and who authorized the disruption of Pentagon-funded military capabilities?