Sure our holiday plans got cancelled, but I've still got TIME OFF and I can feel my whole body slowly decompressing. Whatever shall I do with all this time??? We haven't made any plans yet, and going anywhere will be expensive (ETA: Sitting on the sofa for 2 weeks & watching the Olympics is of course an option), but I'm thinking I might try to actually sort out my novel. I have a draft but it needs work...
Anyway. Since this is the last post I figure I could throw LOTS the links at you, since I've been collecting them for a good while. (Well some of them.)
ETA: A really good thread:
THREAD:
As news stories drop about COVID+ pandemic deniers & anti-vaxxers ranting defiantly from ICU beds, let's review what fraud research suggests abt the responsibility we should attribute to them for their condition & the ms they send.
Are they victims we should pity? 1/x
pic.twitter.com/jrmo6zQ7BL- Brooke Harrington (@EBHarrington)
July 22, 2021 In Plague News
So, I glanced at Twitter and saw this:
Trending in United Kingdom
New Covid
116K Tweets
Read all about it:
The Independent: New Covid variant under investigation in the UK, PHE saysMoney quote: "The development comes as official figures showed coronavirus rates among people in private households in England were at their highest level since January, with one in 75 people infected. This is a rise from one in 95 people in the previous week."
Also:
BBC:
More than 600,000 people told to isolate by NHS Covid-19 app(We are all shocked! SHOCKED I TELLS YA!)
Which has lead to:
BBC:
Supermarkets have warned the rising number of retail workers being forced to self-isolate is beginning to affect the availability of some products. All this pingdemic talk reminds me of that scene in Chernobyl when they turned down their Geiger counters because they were clicking too much.
- Gray Williams (@gray_books)
July 22, 2021 In short, this is pretty accurate:
"Do not be deceived that 'I got this far and I’m OK.' This is a very different variant. It will find you. This virus will find everybody who is not immune," warns Mayo Clinic vaccine expert Gregory Poland.
https://t.co/9ZqzAGcMoZ- Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery)
July 23, 2021 I have zero interest in the NFL, but found this interesting:
The NFL just informed clubs that if a game cannot be rescheduled during the 18-week season in 2021 due to a COVID outbreak among unvaccinated players, the team with the outbreak will FORFEIT and be credited with a loss for playoff seeding, per sources.
Massive implications.
- Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero)
July 22, 2021 And this made me laugh:
Given how very, very easy it is to wear a mask - I mean, so stunningly not-a-difficult-thing - I can only assume that the people protesting it have never tried to do anything like raising teenagers, holding a job, working out where the butter is in a supermarket, or standing up.
- Michael Marshall Smith (@ememess)
July 22, 2021 Greetings from TERF island
Seriously, look at this:
I mean
pic.twitter.com/GqIt1JO8cx- Calamity Jane (@InscrutableJane)
July 23, 2021 QED
And just assorted tweets, not all UK based, some historical! :)
Only in the UK...
A book called Trans is published, written by a cis woman, who admits the book does not address any aspect of trans lives or gender dysphoria. It is then reviewed solely by cis journalists, for publications that employ not a single trans person.
- Pandora Senora 🏳️⚧️ (@PandoraSylvana)
July 19, 2021 Although then this happened:
great how this has gone from "how dare you call my book antisemitic, you'll be hearing from my solicitor" to an outspoken antisemite accusing her of plagiarising those bits of the book
https://t.co/CzTjQEGLcC- Games Done Thick (@fffwankie)
July 22, 2021 Given Private Eye has adopted the same grim position on trans people as much of the rest of the British media, it's instructive to see how they covered gay rights in the past.
Spoiler: It isn't pretty.
https://t.co/RJVM2NianA pic.twitter.com/JpHSbk3obp- Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84)
July 22, 2021 The first gender affirmation surgeries took place in the 1920s, at a Berlin clinic that employed transgender technicians and nurses and was headed by a gay Jewish man. The Nazis destroyed it in their first book burning.
https://t.co/Gs6BEb3iLQ- Scientific American (@sciam)
May 10, 2021 27 October 1980
SELF FUCKING ID
pic.twitter.com/JivjMNIhK6- Mx. D. E. Anderson (@diannaeanderson)
July 23, 2021 JK Rowling's transphobic bigotry makes her a darling of dangerous far-right politics.
pic.twitter.com/03uaXmVcPH- Wizarding News™ (@HPANA)
July 20, 2021 An article from 12 June 2020:
Vogue:
J.K. Rowling’s Transphobic Tweets and the Erosion of the Harry Potter FranchiseMoney quote: "It’s grim to watch the noble core of the Potterverse melt like a Strepsil, to see the wave of inclusivity she built seeping into the sand. All we can do now is stand back and watch the slow evaporation of her legacy of hope."
If you need a laugh:
The magical world of JK Rowling
pic.twitter.com/UiJwPCqrw7- Eleanor Morton (@EleanorMorton)
July 20, 2021 Also Neil Gaiman said Trans Rights (again) <3
And finally:
Are Transphobes The Baddies? Trans Guy Reacts
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ETA:
'13 Reasons Why' Star Comes Out As Trans Woman With Powerful Photoshoot On Instagram Miscellaneous
This is wonderful:
I wrote a thing for
@VerySmartBros #Blackmainstream Project.
It’s about a song.
And us.
https://t.co/UJqHogbrTC- Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot)
July 23, 2021 If you've never read the Vindolanda tablets, you need to.
They're a rare insight into everyday life on the Roman frontier in Britain.
Turns out it's mostly arguments about bar bills, and begging letters to mum back in Italy to PLEASE send some warm socks.
They're fascinating.
https://t.co/qU64Bt3f9P- John Bull (@garius)
July 22, 2021 adventures of a dissatisfied Victorian time traveller:
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Árstíðir - Heyr himna smiður (Icelandic hymn) in train station
The hymn "Heyr, himna smiður" was written by the Icelandic viking Kolbeinn Tumason in 1208. The music was composed in the 1970s by Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson (1938-2013), one of Iceland's foremost contemporary composers.
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And from the sublime to the ridiculous - this is HYSTERICAL:
The Real Reason You Can't Buy Dasani Water In The UK LotR stuff
Been meaning to post all this ever since we re-watched LotR a month or two ago (and introduced the 15 y.o.). Better late than never y/y?
Of course once she had seen it I then had to show her this classic. It has 33,788,913 views.
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If you want Lord of the Rings memes, this is THE thread! I laughed so much:
https://twitter.com/SamSykesSwears/status/1393601613009326084 A couple not in that thread:
pic.twitter.com/mynENmhRQ4- Charlie Moore (@socalledcharlie)
June 4, 2021 pic.twitter.com/ipqcEgk9Wh- Middle Earth Memes (@earthmemea)
June 8, 2021 AND THIS OMG :D
Although this is probably my favourite meme of all:
OLYMPICS
Yay Olympics! Nothing will ever be as good as 2012 (sigh) (yes I'm biased, we got tickets for the Paralympics and it was MAGICAL and the UK wasn't the absolute dystopian nightmare it is now, my GOD it's so depressing to remember how wonderful things were?), but since I was at work today I couldn't watch the opening ceremony live (will catch up tonight). Darcy & the girls however watched the whole thing, and the girls apparently brought out the globe and had a lot of fun trying to find all the different nations as they paraded in. How's that for edutainment? ;)
ETA: OK watched all the 'good bits' (i.e. skipped the athletes walking in & the speeches). I had seen comments about THE DRONES, and they were not wrong. The drones were utterly amazing. The girls' favourite part was the pictograms (which were also completely brilliant, although in a very different way), and then I got all choked up when it got to the torch & the lighting of the cauldron. It's good to remember hope and optimism. (Then we went back & watched the lighting of 'our' cauldron in 2012 and wallowed in nostaliga.)
Anyway, here is Mary Carillo's Brilliant Badminton Rant from 2004. Enjoy.
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ETA2: Sure there is a feeling of fiddling while Rome the planet burns, but on the other hand THE PLANET IS BURNING and and flooding and there is a plague and honestly watching Simone Biles being out-of-this-world talented is... nice.
Daily Dimash: Olimpico
I've been keeping this song in reserve because it's one of THE songs, and then I realised that the Olympics were actually happening and everything converged perfectly. THIS SONG. Just the power and the beauty of it, I canNOT. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Olimpico (also known as Ogni Pietra) is the first work that Igor Krutoy (music) and Liliya Vinogradova (lyrics) created specifically for Dimash. It's an opera-style piece (the lyrics are in Italian) and was written for the Opening ceremony of the 2nd European Games in Minsk in 2019. It's one of those 'only Dimash could sing this' songs, since it's written for baritone and soprano. Lyrics
here, they're very inspirational.
Dimash Kudaibergen & Igor Krutoy - Olimpico (Arnau concert)
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Dimash - Olympico ~ WorldSkills Kazan 2019 (the staging of this is incredible)
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This is the same performance as above (the Arnau concert) but it combines the concert footage with fancam (so you get lots of Dimash's face being INTENSE) and also has subtitles in several different languages.
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From the Igor Krutoy celebration event, this one has ice dancers!
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From New Wave (Sochi 2019). Where all the other stagings are very dark this one's all white & very Olympian:
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Fancam from his New York concert (December 10, 2019). Honestly, seeing him live is top of my wishlist. I get goosebumps listening to this, just the sheer raw power and beauty.
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Finally, included for completion, the actual premiere of the piece (2nd European Games in Minsk). I feel I must make a note of the gorgeous outfit (the Kazakh flag is beautiful), but alas the sound quality of the video is shockingly bad. :(
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Dimash Masterpost Well, this has taken me 2 1/2 hours to put together (although I was interrupted) so I reckon I should probably post it. 494 days in a row, I think that's pretty neat. Thank you all. I'll be back, don't worry. <3
*curtsies & exits stage left*
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