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Die-In For Life-In Gaza, 18th May 2024, Old Town in Warsaw, Poland

Organized by the collectives Wschód and Kefija, it was a die-in protest commemorating 76th anniversary of Nakba - the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians during the war in Palestine in 1948. Particularly significant in the context of the on-going genocide in Gaza.

I'm not Rafał Milach and I'll cut my usual irrelevant yadda-yadda to say this: if you know enough of history, either of your own country or theirs, it's very hard not to feel sympathy to those folks. Listening to their stories was incredibly heart-wrenching.

More photos on my website if anyone's curious: https://lukemgraphy.eu/warsaw/die-in-for-life-in-gaza-18-05-2024/

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lukemgraphy, (edited ) to photography
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Nowa Huta Meadows

The third face of Nowa Huta in Kraków, perhaps the most surprising to me, is the "natural" one.

It takes about 50 metres of detour from the usual urban area to discover a huge grassy meadow, often frequented by locals to sunbathe and relax. It was so calm and silent my jaw dropped and I couldn't pick it up. The only thing that reminded me I was in one of most populous parts of Kraków was that thermal power plant in the horizon.

My peanut Warsaw brain keeps yapping: how come a housing estate hasn't been built here yet?

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This weekend of May 17th-19th, what's going on, ? What's the can't-miss event(s) you hope to enjoy?

(The Thread 1/?)

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uqlel, to twitter Polish
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Szczerze? Mam wrażenie, że konto UODO na Fediversie jest zrobione na siłę, tylko po to żeby było. Tylko informowanie o nowych artykułach, brak jakiejkolwiek aktywności w komentarzach od prowadzącego, wybór konkretnej instancji zamiast postawienia własnej, powinno być prowadzone tak jak na Twitterze. Chociaż jest to forma RSSa dla strony, to w sumie taki sam efekt dalby jakis scraper i do tego bot na Fediverse. Mimo wszystko jest to jakiś krok do odciągnięcia tego i innych urzędów od Twittera. Jeśli stało by się coś takiego jak z W3C (całkowita rezygnacja z Twittera) to pewnie ludzie by tego nie popierali, ale jakaś część przeniosła by się tutaj.

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Nowa Huta in Kraków (that industrial-ish one I guess)

The other face of Nowa Huta begins as soon as socrealism is abandoned and modernism gets to be all the rage (which is somewhere between late 1950s and 1970s I guess?). I'll be honest though: I know very little about architecture and I may have made factual errors in the previous sentence. All I know is that I'm attracted like a moth to lines, patterns and geometry.

Also, in a weird way that style evokes specific images in my head. I have some kind of synthwave-like nostalgic feelings about Poland as seen by my parents in 1970s and 1980s. All of which is of course fake because I'm not forgetting who ruled the country at that time.

lukaso666, to Hockey Polish
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🏒 🏒 🏒

🇸🇰 4 : 0 🇵🇱

nie ma się co pastwić nad chłopakami Kalábera... 😶 wygrana Słowaków była do przewidzenia.
bohaterem spotkania ze strony PL był Fučík, kontuzjowany w 3. tercji... szacun, Tomáš! ✊

natomiast solidny strzał gumą po jajach należy się "komentatorom" polskich meczy w Polsacie! 🤬 poziom bełkotu, głupiego pierdolenia i debilizmów wysrywanych do mikrofonów, poraża! następne mecze oglądam po czesku!

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Nowa Huta in Kraków.

Built from the ground-up as a separate city to settle workers employed in the newly built steelworks (it's even in the name, which literally means 'the new steelworks'). Designed as a poster city for Soviet propagandists. Huge, industrial, pompous. These days it's one of the most populous parts of Kraków, even though it completely didn't feel that way during my long weekend visit.

I barely scratched the surface, as severe planning mistakes were made on my end. Plus I don't like taking cliche postcard photos in harsh light. But I managed to see three different faces of this place and that counts I guess.

We start with the socrealistic face. The one that dates back to 1950s and truly feels different than whatever my peanut Warsaw brain assumed Kraków to be.

An apartment block next to a fancy lantern with two sources of light on separate legs.
Very old street name boards on a building wall.
A plan of Nowa Huta on the wall of Hotel Centrum.

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