#Semenko

[unhingedlesbianvampire]

Today has been surprisingly productive for me.

[spidefox]

Kharkiv, "Word" House, 193*

[retrohockeyhell]

Edmonton Oilers fooling around at the showers.

[forcedfemme-me]

Zlata Semenko for ELLE Kazakhstan March 2017 - Louis Vuitton leather dress

[lucesolare]

varya shutova, bibi sharipova and zlata semenko by louis christopher for harper's bazaar kazakhstan june 2016

[soleeryx]

yeah 🚬 (я умру, умру в Патагонії дикій, бо належу огню й землі. рідні мої, я не чутиму ваших криків. я - нічий)

[cokehead-zeroed]

i mean an important thing to remember is that the reason he didn't get "fucking eaten alive and torn limb from limb and left out for the vultures to peck apart" is becuase Dave Semenko described the purpose of his NHL career as Gretzky's personal bodyguard

“He was in a class of his own; he didn’t beat guys up, he’d destroyed them. He employed a combination of sheer strength, sheer power, and sheer quickness, but mostly power. He wasted players with just two or three punches. And all this, although he never really had a mean streak in his body." – Lowe

he was famously dubbed the "toughest guy in the NHL" and signed up for an exhibition boxing match for fun...against Muhammad Ali.

truly the most deranged thing about gretzky is he did All That while looking like This

if a guy walked into the nhl today looking like this he'd get fucking eaten alive and torn limb from limb and left out for the vultures to peck apart

[winnipegwinterpeg]

The University of Manitoba is working with Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN) to grow vegetables with enhanced nutritional value as a way to address diet-related diseases in the community.

This is being done through the optimization of a vertical smart farm, which began as a pilot project on OCN in 2016

“We’re trying to improve the nutritional content and the quality of the produce being grown by modifying growing conditions and conditions post-harvest to hopefully enhance nutrients or medicinal compounds in the vegetables to make them better at fighting disease, specifically diabetes,” said Breanne Semenko, a registered dietician and PhD student involved in the project.

Semenko explained researchers are using environmental manipulation, not genetic modification, to enhance the nutrients. This includes lighting, water, nutrients, and post-harvest processing and handling.

She noted that OCN is dealing with high rates of diet-related disease, and the project hopes to bring more fresh food sources to the community.

“The soil isn’t as fertile up north, unfortunately, so it isn’t as easy to grow some of the leafy greens and whatnot that we’re growing in the farm currently,” she said.

“It’s also just a lot more expensive for communities to be able to afford the produce that’s getting shipped up.”

Cabbage, broccoli, lettuce, kale and Brussels sprouts are currently being grown on the farm.

Semenko noted that the smart farm produce is even slightly sweeter than traditional veggies.

“The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive,” she said.

[alcestas-sloboda]

Why Ukrainians didn’t produce a Tolstoy?

there are a lot of things that can piss me off, today it was this tweet:

and all i wanted to do was to ask this person, why the fuck do we need a racist misogynistic piece of shit as a standout author if we have Shevchenko as our prophet?

but you don’t know who he is? of course, you don’t. that is the thing with imperialism: you destroy other cultures while promoting yours as the only way to legitimise your rule. even if those territories are of higher cultural development. but there is always a way out of it: kill them all. kill anyone who poses an existential threat to your hegemony. throw them into jail. forbid them to write and paint. send them to gulag. kill them. torture them. execute them.

if you don’t know Ukrainian literature, it doesn’t mean that it‘s nonexistent. if you don’t know "a Ukrainian Tolstoy", it means there is a Ukrainian Bahrianyi, who was sent to the gulag but ran away and was the first person in the world to openly criticise USSR in his pamphlet Why I am not going back to the Soviet Union. "I don't want to go back to the USSR because a person there is worth less than an insect"

there is a Ukrainian Symonenko and a Ukrainian Stus. there is a Ukrainian Lesya Ukrainka and Olha Kobylyanska. a Ukrainian Kotsiubynskyi, Ukrainian Drach, Ukrainian Olena Pchilka and Ukrainian Lina Kostenko. and so many more of the bravest people who despite all wrote in the Ukrainian language about Ukrainian people and for Ukrainian people.

there are thousands of beautiful texts that weren’t translated because this would’ve harmed the empire. that is why you are reading Dostoevsky and not Khvyliovyi.

but there are also thousands of texts that were never written. just how many more poems would’ve Stus written if he wasn’t killed by the Soviet regime? how many more texts would have Pidmohylnyi, Semenko, Yalovyi, Yohansen, Zerov written if they weren’t shot at Sandarmokh?

just how many texts have the world missed out on because Khvyliovyi committed suicide as he couldn’t live in the world with Stalin’s repressions. "today is a beautiful sunny day. I love life - you can't even imagine how much", - he will write in his death note as he shot himself with his friends waiting for him in the next room.

or maybe there was a Ukrainian Nobel Prize in Literature waiting for Tychyna? maybe, but he submitted to Soviet authorities and started writing hails for the regime, suddenly forgetting his own literary style and living his entire life in fear. fear of what? fear of getting caught. of getting destroyed just as all of the previous Ukrainian intelligentsia.

I’m tired of my people being silenced. I’m tired of my poets being undermined by "great” russian literature. it’s not worth a single Symonenko’s poem. it’s not worth a single paragraph of Bahrianyi‘s prose.

the greatness of russian literature lies on the bones of Ukrainian writers. to be this high, they killed hundreds and they are still doing it today.

the body of Ukrainian children’s writer Volodymyr Vakulenko was found in the mass grave in Izium in September 2022.

there will be a Ukrainian Nobel Prize in Literature, and there will be more Ukrainian books. there will be Ukrainian Zhadan and Zabuzhko, Liubka and Izdryk, Deresh and Kidruk. there will be Ukrainian literature.

another funny thing is that this person is Indian and let me tell you: the fact that you stand up for one empire even when your own country has suffered from the doings of another is evidence of deep colonial trauma and I hope you will cure yourself soon

[folklorespring]

"Patagonia" by Mykhaylo Semenko

Translated by Boris Dralyuk

[justacynicalromantic]

(the author of the poem - futurist Mykhaylo Semenko (1892-1937), one of the hundreds of Ukrainian voices silenced forever by Stalin and his killers in the late 1930s. The poet envisions his death 20 years before his execution.)

[sweetd3lights]

All rights reserved  by Alexander Semenko

[retrohockeyhell]

Wayne Gretzky giving Dave Semenko a head pat.

[forcedfemme-me]

Zlata Semenko for ELLE Kazakhstan March 2017 - Dior leather dress

[lucesolare]

varya shutova, bibi sharipova and zlata semenko by louis christopher for harper's bazaar kazakhstan june 2016

[dinosaurwithablog]

I never realized how many people from the show, Cheers, were on the show Taxi. Above, you have Rhea Perlman, who played Carla on Cheers, and she married Danny DeVito in real life.

Carol Kane played Latka Gravas' wife on Taxi and Diane's friend from the mental hospital on Cheers.

Ted Danson played a hairdresser on Taxi and Sam on Cheers. George Wendt played an exterminator on Taxi and Norm on Cheers.

I saved the best for last... Christopher Lloyd played Jim Ignatowski on Taxi and an artist, Philip Semenko, on Cheers.

That's a lot of parallels between the two shows. Taxi launched some very big careers. Two of the biggest were Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd. And they united a couple in marriage in real life. Very cool. A, truly, remarkable TV show.