Lockdown Update Day 121

[elisi]

This is the best thing I have seen in a long time (apparently it's from a few years ago and not related to masks, but it goes for any issue):

That time when two 10 year olds just decided to destroy Andrew Neil on national TV pic.twitter.com/RltdRZ8iv9

— Cameron (@TheStirlingWolf) July 15, 2020

(Also remember that some people are unable to wear masks, which makes it even more important for the rest of us!)

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I have no idea about this one, but it's a thing for sure.

Turkmenistan's president goes fishing, with mask (because of "dust," not coronavirus), catches many fish, gives fish to orphans, who look at fish, then clap, then eat fish, then clap again pic.twitter.com/pNsfdzjK85

— Eurasianet (@EurasiaNet) July 15, 2020

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A few articles:

In historic move, North Carolina city approves reparations for Black residents

London demands justice for Breonna Taylor in seventh week of BLM protests

The right are in power everywhere – but they can't stop playing the victim

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And finally, today's art. Njideka Akunyili (Nigerian b.1983), "The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born" Might Not Hold True..., 2013 (x)

Comments

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

I love the first clip!

The artwork is just stunning :D

[elisi]

Wish those girls were in charge of the country...

And I love the art. <3

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

“Perhaps you were not educated in health and well-being” - I love it!!

[elisi]

SO GOOD. More of that please.

[sea_thoughts]

"I would have wanted to the exact opposite"

Well put, that's why your generation has put us in this mess.

[elisi]

Burn. But accurate.

[sea_thoughts]

Currently rewatching the London 2012 opening ceremony on IPlayer and weeping.

[elisi]

I still have an icon. :( I don't know if I could bear to watch it.

[sea_thoughts]

I honestly thought I'd be okay. Two minutes in and the tears were already welling up. I've had to pause it and watch something else to compose myself.

[elisi]

It was just... magical.

And we had tickets for the Paralympics and were in THAT STADIUM and it was the most beautiful day of the whole summer.

I guess our trajectory is much like America's - from the heights of Obama to the dark depths of Trump.

[sea_thoughts]

I managed to get through the whole thing but I cried again when the seven future athletes got their hugs and then lit the cauldron. I remember at the end, when they took the Olympic flame away, I wanted to say "no, don't go!" Maybe it was a premonition.

[elisi]

I managed to get through the whole thing but I cried again when the seven future athletes got their hugs and then lit the cauldron.
:(

I remember at the end, when they took the Olympic flame away, I wanted to say "no, don't go!" Maybe it was a premonition.
Uh-huh. You reminded me of Quo Vadis (the book) - which I shan't spoil if you don't know it, but there is a moment at the end when people feel like everything good and beautiful is dying in front of their eyes.