#90s lithuania

[randomroomsphotos]

#149

#lithuania #eastern european aesthetics #eastern europe #interior #post soviet #90s aesthetic #interiors #soviet aesthetic #post soviet aesthetics #lithuanian #soviet era #90s #90s nostalgia #90s lithuania

[unhonestlymirror]

Medieval Lithuania core

#you can basically take any outfit from tolkien and that would be 90% close to how medieval Baltics dressed like #hetalia #hws lithuania #aph lithuania

[ievaowl]

goth queen of 90s lithuania "Ieva Pelėda" vibing and having fun in this concert of a weird 90s punk artist, who cares tho he a fkn punk rock star she's zooted on something her friends gave her (probably) but she doesn't seem to care, music slaps too hard and besides, the cops are prolly not going anywhere near this fkn place so who, tf, CARES?!

i have to say, this is one of the best pieces i've done in terms of like, expression, like this is me asf despite the INCREDIBLE dosage of cringe this gives, like i'm not a very avid listener of nerius pečiūra (his song is in the bg), i am far from doing drugs or even alcohol lol and hell naw did i not live in the 90s but i will have idealised and fun art about the fun parts of that decade in this silly, stupid post-soviet nation that our lord jan pawel II protects alongside his home nation. ALSO CHARACTER CHANGES. i needed at least one sfw piece of the all new Barn Owl-Dragon hybrid ieva so this one will serve as that, up until a ref arrives anyway :33 k bye I will proceed to combust into flames of creative pain and anguish (writing lore for this oc (I'm inspired))

#digital art #art #furry #furry art #barn owl #90s lithuania was totally a beautiful utopia trust #nerius pečiūra sometimes does slap though #another project i am being careful about announcing is a big video/film project #from what i have it can be as long as 30 minutes and it will be weird but it might take a fuck ton of time because i'm alone in it #last thought: “jei turi tu dviratį tai mink nx” would be something ieva would say at this time tbh

[nonenglishsongs]

Top 40 Tuesday - #12 Most Streamed on Spotify in Lithuania | Jovani, Karališka Erdvė, Remis Retro - Iš Lėto Leidžiasi Saulė (Lithuanian)

#90s eurobeat revival #top 40 tuesday #jovani #karališka erdvė #remis retro #iš lėto leidžiasi saulė #lithuanian #lietuvių #lit #baltic #indoeuropean #europe #lithuania #2023 #2020s #dance

[warcrimesimulator]

>I see a bad WW2 take >It is someone from the Baltics

every time

#you see some dumb Holocaust revisionist comment on Twitter and 90% of the time it's someone from Latvia or Lithuania

[farlydatau]

Domantas Sabonis Retro 90s Vintage Style Inspired Basketball Graphic T-Shirt

#Domantas Sabonis Tee #domantas sabonis #90s fashion #90s style #90s kid #90s #arvydas sabonis #basketball toddler #game day basketball #College Basketball #basketball #bootleg #gift ideas #giftingideas #giftideas #gifts #gift #lithuania #nba basketball #vintage nba shirt #NBA Toddler Tee #nba legend #nba #indiana pacers #pacers #retro #sac town #sacramento kings fan #sacramento kings #tshirts

[reasonsforhope]

YES, PLASTIC BAG BANS HELP PREVENT POLLUTION REALLY WELL

"Plastic bags are everywhere - littering our streets, clogging up our rivers, and choking wildlife in the ocean.

But after years of campaigning from environmental groups, many places have banned them entirely.

Over 100 countries now have a full or partial ban on single-use plastic bags. Between 2010 and 2019, the number of public policies intended to phase out plastic carryout bags tripled.

The results of such tough rules are starting to show.

What is a plastic bag ban?

A plastic bag ban is a law that restricts the use of lightweight plastic bags in shops. Sometimes they are totally banned, and sometimes consumers have to pay a fee to buy them.

The bans often only apply to thin plastic bags, with thicker, reusable ones still available for purchase.

Bangladesh became the first country to introduce a ban on plastic bags back in 2002.

Such total bans are common throughout Africa and Asia. These areas import much of the Global North’s ‘recyclable’ rubbish and so face the consequences of plastic mismanagement more acutely.

In addition to plastic bags, many countries ban other types of single-use plastic like in the EU which has got rid of single use cutlery, straws, balloon sticks, and coffee buds.

Which European countries use the most plastic bags?

In Europe, 18 countries have imposed bans on thin plastic bags - including France, Germany, Italy, Iceland, and Albania.

A further 23 countries require consumers to pay a fee. Two more - Switzerland and Norway - allow the plastic industry to impose a ‘voluntary charge’ on the use of the bags.

Plastic bag consumption is highest in the Baltic and Nordic countries, Eurostat data from 2019 reveals. Latvia (284 bags per person, per year) and Lithuania (332) consumed far more plastic bags than any other European country. This could change, however as from 2025, Latvian shops will no longer be permitted to give away free plastic bags. A similar prohibition will come into force in Lithuania this year.

The lowest plastic bag usage can be found in Portugal (8), Belgium (17) and Poland (23).  Portugal banned the bags in 2021, two years after Poland. [Note: To be clear, that is 8 plastic bags per person per year! Way lower than I thought was currently possible!]

Do plastic bag bans work?

Plastic bag bans have so far been highly successful. A ban on thin plastic bags in California reduced consumption by 71.5 per cent.

Research shows that taxes work too. According to a 2019 review of existing studies, levies and taxes led to a 66 per cent reduction in usage in Denmark, more than 90 per cent in Ireland, between 74 and 90 per cent in South Africa, Belgium, Hong Kong, Washington D.C., Santa Barbara, the UK and Portugal, and around 50 per cent in Botswana and China.

And the impact is visible on the ground too.

At a 2022 annual beach clean in New Jersey, US - where a ban was recently introduced - the number of plastic bags collected dropped 37 per cent on the previous year. Straws and takeaway containers dropped by a similar amount.

“It’s really, really encouraging to see those numbers trending down for the bags, straws, and foam containers,” said Clean Ocean Action Executive Director Cindy Zipf. Clean Ocean Action is a charity that is instrumental in organising the beach clean."

-via EuroNews.Green, 4/5/23

#sustainability #plastic pollution #plastic #single use plastic #plastic ban #pollution #water pollution #taxes #european union #california #denmark #iceland #ireland #new jersey #ocean #oceanography #good news #hope

[rotzaprachim]

whenever people vaguely talk about Ashkenazi Jews going back to Eastern Europe statistics like this one sure do flash by my eyes. This is the proportion of people who would not be willing to accept Jews as CITIZENS in their countries we’re not even talking liking them as people. It’s the bare minimum. What the fuck

For reference about 23% of Lithuanians saying they wouldn’t accept Jews as fellow citizens. There used to be a very significant Jewish population in Lithuania - it’s where yivo started - and 90%-95% were murdered in less than five years during the Shoah

[hetalia-club]

A sitcom like Full House but instead it's America and the Immigrant nations living together in a big house working through cultural differences and their fun and often wacky times in NYC. Que the canned laughter.

America- Is the dad like figure in the house. Whenever anyone has a problem he can sit them down on their bed and give them a nice talk and everything will be better. Real end of the episode type shit.

Ireland- The 'bad boy' brings home a new lover every night. Always hung over but he is the cool loving uncle you can lean on when a problem might be too serious to bring to America. His ‘talks’ often lead to more issues and eventually they do have to bring america into it somehow to smooth things over.

Lithuania-The older brother figure working through his trauma one day at a time. Often is the voice of reason when things get too out of hand. Makes big heartfelt speeches. Well behaved and never causes any issues but often get's pulled into everyone else's schemes because he is a people pleaser and wants to be sure things don’t get too crazy.

Romano- The spoiled 'baby' of the group, def a fan favorite. He’s got a catch phrase and all that 90s sitcom jazz. He's not actually a baby he's just normal adult Romano but he does demand to be babied. He somehow always pulls a ‘Tom Sawyer’ and convinces someone else to do his chores/work for him. Causes most of the hijinks in the house but never takes the fall for it. Always coming up with a get rich quick scheme that the others have to bail him out of when it never works out. If he gets sleepy or is cranky they do switch him out with North Italy between takes. They put a wig on him and viewers have never noticed.

#hetalia #hws america #hws ireland #hws lithuania #hws romano #aph america #aph ireland #aph lithuana #aph romano #alfred f. jones #toris laurinaitis #lovino vargas #original #i would have made an OP instead but we have no anime parts with Ireland unfortunatly #I had way too much fun doing this though

[sovietpostcards]

hello! idk if the q and a is still going on but i had a question. my parents lived in moscow for years in the 80s and 90s and theres pictures of my older sister as a toddler at the hermitage. what was your favorite place to visit as a child? I love your blog it reminds me of the stories my parents tell about living in Russia and Lithuania :)

Hello! So happy to learn a bit about my readers' backstory. And no worries, I'm happy to take questions whenever!

When I was a kid, we had three usual destinations for the holidays which we visited every summer: Kabanovo (a village in Moscow oblast, for dad's relatives), Tver (for more dad's relatives) and Kanevskaya, a stanitsa [village] in Krasnodar krai (for mom's side relatives). The villages especially were a different world for me as a kid (I've always lived in a city). They provided endless opportunities for games and discoveries. Kanevskaya was my favourite because there were other kids to play with and because it's in the South and quite different in many ways. They had a huge walnut tree in the yard and a table under the canopy of it where we often took dinners. They had wild apricot trees everywhere and you could eat as many as you liked. They kept chickens and pigs and feeding them was a whole experience! Old grandmas and grandpas there spoke surzhik—a mix of Russian and Ukrainian—and 90% of the time I couldn't make sense of what they were saying. When we returned home, I would have adopted the Southern accent until the end of summer! It made me quite popular with local kids.

[homosexualasstransbian]

wow i did not expect an austria game in eu4 to actually go well for me, however, somehow i managed to unite the HRE into one country, conquered spain and thanks to that took over their colonial nations, portugal fell under a PU with me at some point, the spanish declared a succession war when that happened, it was an easy win though, just took time.

I started out the game basically by just speedrunning getting a bohemian and austrian PU, then went for poland, while also doing diplomatic fuckery to spread the habsburgs. This led to a Swedish, Saxonian, Portugese and British PU eventually, saxony and the brits were a claim on throne war. did some conquering in poland to finish the mission that gets you a restoration of union CB on poland, it wasn't that helpful unfortunately, russia also took a lot of their lands. then after taking i think it was venice and Milan, i got the restoration of union CB on naples and did that as well :3

so there i was with 7 personal unions at once + some subjects from the HRE, the religious league war was pretty fast, catholicism won, i revoked some free cities to enforce the religion, and i was left with a HRE free from heresy, this in addition to the historical center of Prague and austrian national ideas made getting imperial authority easy, and soon enough i disallowed internal wars, making centralization of the empire even easier, yippee ;3

once i revoked the privilegia i declared a couple wars, the vassal swarm was amazing, first i took some provinces from the ottomans to finish an austrian mission that wanted me to get some serbian provinces, then spain, thanks to the way they choose how to declare wars (iirc they don't consider subjects of an overlord when declaring war on a subject of of said overlord, which gave them the amazing idea to start a colonialism war against Holland, which was my vassal, this called the entire HRE and my PUs into the war) It was fucking horrible. fighting countries that have colonial subjects is SO fucking exhausting, I've had your entire mainland occupied for >15 years and we're still only at ~40% war score because their fucking colonial subjects are untouched. horrible.

Anyways, I now own all of the HRE, most of france, all of the nordic countries, the british isles, iberia, hungary, bohemia, poland, half of Lithuania, all of Italy, morocco, 90% of the americas, australia and half of south africa.

monthly balance is at 4.5k, my manpower pool was into 3 or 4 million, I don't remember exactly, army limit was at 3 million, and navy limit at around 3k iirc, as of rn i only have 1k ships, and around 2.5m bitches in the army, and i have 155 absolutism

#EU4 #HRE #holy roman empire #europa universalis iv

[randomroomsphotos]

#227

#interior #lithuania #post soviet #90s aesthetic #interiors #soviet aesthetic #post soviet aesthetics #lithuanian #eastern european aesthetics #eastern europe #90s lithuania #90s interior #90s nostalgia #90s

[unhonestlymirror]

You will never hear a russian admitting they are responsible for occupation of Ukraine and destruction of our culture and language... but for some reason, you can hear a Lithuanian joking that GDL was a soft occupation of Ruthenia (Ukraine), although it was probably the time of biggest prosperity and development. GDL was a very progressive and unique state for its times at least because of their famous principle "Старого не руйнуємо а нового не впроваджуємо" - "We don't destroy the old and we don't introduce the new". For Ukrainians, who were suffering from the Horde a lot and even left their homes for a while, it was shocking a bit. Yeah, we had a coup d'etat, change of power... and that's all. in fact, Lithuanian (and Belaruthian too) Dukes on our lands were the only power who learned our language and did not impose theirs on us. They managed the farm well and paid very generously.

There are practically no complaints left by Ukrainians against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which is a sensation because Ukrainians can't live without scolding our government. And if there were any left, the Rzeczpospolita and later the moscow dutchy would certainly have used them.

I think the next time I hear about the soft occupation (which is cute imo, instilling a sense of guilt for what happened ~700 years ago?), I need to tell about the soft occupation of Southern Baltics by South Slavic tribes BEFORE KYIVAN RUS TIMES!!! (which resulted in Balto-Slavic families arise and the first signs of future Belarus appear)

#Taking into consideration the current state of affairs in Lithuania the current perception of the government by Ukrainians #I... don't think Ukrainians would mind the same thing happening again. #Belaruthians would be 90% for this because they are tired of russification and Lukashenko. #but that's just my 2 cents #Lithuania #Ukraine #Belarus #history #historical stuff

[womenofnoise]

do you have any recs for more folk-influenced women's noise projects? i really like svitlana nianio and aine o'dwyer and i'm wondering if there's more similar stuff out there

Hello there, it's a very interesting question! There's plenty of artists who mix folk with experimental/noise/contemporary. Here's a list of few I can think of right now:

There's Księżyc [x], a 90s experimental classic from Poland - it's a whole band, but fronted by two women.

Adela Mede [x] is a Czech artist creating contemporary sound collages with some folk vocals

Maryana Klochko [x] - an Ukrainian artist, her style ranges from more electroacoustic to more trip-hopy/electronic, worth checking out few of her tracks to get a range (I like the song Kvity, which kind of changes from one to another)

Tomoko Sauvage [x] - Japanese artist hugely inspired by various music folklore traditions, such as Carnatic water-bowls instrument

Julia Ulehla / dalava [x] - Czech vocalist, composer, ethnomusicologist "With her husband guitarist Aram Bajakian, she initiated a new line of performance research based on the ancestral song tradition of her father’s lineage, sourcing folk songs collected and transcribed by her great-grandfather, biologist Vladimír Úlehla".

Daina Dieva [x] - from Lithuania. Her works aren't maybe the most folklorish, but their closeness to the world of nature makes me put her in the mix

Audrey Chen [x] - Chinese-American artist mixing cello, voice and analogue synthesizers to create hauting compositions

Sainkho Namtchylak [x] - is a Tuvan experimental singer, known for using Tuvian throat singing and overtone singing named Khöömei. She mixes elements of east asian culture with genres such as avant jazz or electronica.

For more Slavic avant-folk check out this this compilation by In Crudo: [x] it's not all-women but features some inspiring women artists (Svitlana Nino and Księżyc included)

One can mix folk traditions with pretty much any genres I tried to stick to your artists of reference, but it's hard to find something *just like that* and nothing else - there are many more artists than these I've mentioned!

#ask #freak folk #avant folk #darkfolk

[mapsontheweb]

In 2021, 72% of EU internet users aged 16-74 read online news sites, newspapers or news magazines.

Highest in: 🇫🇮Finland (93%) 🇱🇹Lithuania & 🇨🇿Czechia (both 92%) 🇭🇷Croatia & 🇬🇷Greece (both 90%)

Lowest: 🇷🇴Romania (59%) 🇩🇪Germany (62%) 🇫🇷France (63%)

by @EU_Eurostat

#maps #twittersourced #EU_Eurostat #internet users #2021

[moyokeansimblr]

Again already, huh? Thanks @lucilla-sims for the tag this time!

Last Song: BESS - Riivattu, Not to be the x country should send y artist to eurovision person but if she was to do UMK again...

Favorite Color: 💛💛💛

Currently Watching: The 7 Lives Of Léa, that being the most recent thing Netflix thought I'd wanna watch. I have two episodes left I think. I like it.

Last Movie: It's still whatever I said it was on the last one.

Currently Reading: Still nothing

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Always 🌶️🌶️

Last Thing I Googled: "sims 2 lot database"

Current Obsession: Still pretty much just strangetown, it's all I want to do with my free time so much so that I'm falling behind on doing my eurovision rankings for the first time in 5 years. Although I did watch Lithuania's show with my mom yesterday, and the primary artist I wanted to qualify from Norway's show qualified. And I have an actual list pinned on the fridge of national final dates and times converted into US central time zone so my mom and I can watch as many as possible like every year. So I guess that counts.

Currently Working On: Have 3 patreon requests (2 the same ones from the last of these and then a new one) that I'm still working on. Then I still need to finish default replacing TF, AU & EU clothes at some point. I want to rename all my default hairs to all include the cc hair so that I stop re-downloading the cc ones. I never merged the 600+ poppet v2 hairs I downloaded when I made that switch. And in general my NEED TO MERGE_CLOTHES, NEED TO MERGE_OBJECTS & NEED TO MERGE_OTHER folders in my downloads are getting very large but I've just not felt like it. Like the objects one has over 90 folders in it itself atm. Also, I'm slowly plugging along on some more poppet v2 retextures to release a huge dump of them but I've only been working on those when I'm too worn out for patreon stuff but still feel like I need to be being productive, so idk when I'll finish all those.

Hmm, I'll just say tag anybody that wants to do it again go for it.

#moyokean #tag game