Iryna Liakh (irynaliakh.eth)

The words war, occupation, and genocide are often thrown around as abstract concepts, but they always mean people - human suffering, not just statistics or numbers, but humans with names, stories, and loved ones. This is why we do what we do to help 🫂⛑️🇺🇦 As always, a huge thank you to @vitalik.eth and @endaoment donors for supporting @crystalhearts and helping us make things happen. Because of your donations, we can continue supporting and supplying our medics (who do everything in their power to keep people alive), our defenders (who keep fighting back and resisting despite being extremely outnumbered and outpowered), assist local NGOs with evacuating civilians and helping them during the most vulnerable time, when they make the hard decision to leave their homes and everything behind just to have a chance to survive, and support independent journalists on the ground who aren’t afraid to report from places where no major media is willing to send people anymore 🙏

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finally got the complete manuscript of the anthology book I’m part of from the publisher, and it’s really exciting! 🥹📚 when I was working on my chapter, I had no idea what the rest of the book would look like (there are 14 authors in total), and now getting to read the whole thing has been amazing. It will be my first time being published. An absolute dream come true! 🥹🤍 Little me, who worked so hard to learn English, would never believe this. And I know it’s only the beginning. ✨

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for some reason, on the main app, I can’t see where people are casting from anymore, and it makes me wonder if this is just a glitch or if they’re removing the feature because it shows that people are flocking to alt clients and refusing to use the main app for obvious reasons lol I personally check where people are casting from to see if the people I follow are staying or have moved away.

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The words war, occupation, and genocide are often thrown around as abstract concepts, but they always mean people - human suffering, not just statistics or numbers, but humans with names, stories, and loved ones. This is why we do what we do to help 🫂⛑️🇺🇦 As always, a huge thank you to @vitalik.eth and @endaoment donors for supporting @crystalhearts and helping us make things happen. Because of your donations, we can continue supporting and supplying our medics (who do everything in their power to keep people alive), our defenders (who keep fighting back and resisting despite being extremely outnumbered and outpowered), assist local NGOs with evacuating civilians and helping them during the most vulnerable time, when they make the hard decision to leave their homes and everything behind just to have a chance to survive, and support independent journalists on the ground who aren’t afraid to report from places where no major media is willing to send people anymore 🙏

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So, I did a thing 💁🏻‍♀️ Slowly moving back to the dark side haha and still adjusting after being blonde for like a decade. therefore I have a billion selfies in my camera roll taken in attempts to get used to it, and now you all have to see them lol

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There’s a lot I want to share about our aid deliveries, but while I’m still gathering my thoughts, I just want to say thank you to @vitalik.eth, the /degen community, and @endaoment donors ⛑️ Because of your support for @crystalhearts, we are able to work on the ground in both Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, delivering much-needed supplies 🇺🇦 The conditions in the pre-frontline areas were as bad as I expected, maybe even worse. The reality of unjammable fiber-optic FPV drones sets in once you’re there, and it becomes painfully clear why so many aid workers and medics are wounded or killed every week, and why getting into certain towns these days is so hard without being hit. At this point, the only way we can get supplies in is with the army’s help. This war has changed so much, even in just the past few months… and now I have even more clarity on what’s actually necessary and what can really help both medics and defenders 🫂

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question: is there anyone left here at all who is still interested in reading my updates about Ukraine and our work on the ground? 👀 as you all know, @crystalhearts has always been the only nonprofit using @farcaster as its main social platform, and the support we’ve received here over the years has been incredible. but times have changed, and so has the direction this platform is heading. so I’m debating whether it’s time to fully move elsewhere or continue sharing here as I always have. so if you’ve been reading what I share and you’re still here, please engage with this post. I’d really love to get a better sense of who’s still around and whether there’s still an audience for what we do here ❤️⛑️🌻

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