Lockdown Update Day 230

[elisi]

For the Americans:

OH MY GOD! 😍
How did Martin Luther King manage to make every word of a 3-minute speech perfectly applicable to an election 56 years later!?#Election2020 pic.twitter.com/JaE9Opn2cZ

— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) November 2, 2020

ETA: omg this thread:

#BREAKING Polls are set to open in 48 hours across the US as the authoritarian regime of Donald Trump attempts to consolidate its hold over the troubled, oil-rich, nuclear-armed, north American nation. Analysts are sceptical the election will end months of political violence.

— gathara (@gathara) November 1, 2020

(Whole thread here. And unrolled here)

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For the Brits:

Once more unto the bleach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wards up with our English dead.
In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man
As armchair epidemiology:
But when data galore blow in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the ostrich;

1/6 pic.twitter.com/j0jgNpuuUp

— Michael Govern Ready (@mikegove12) November 2, 2020

(Thread: https://twitter.com/mikegove12/status/1323154977574002689)

Comments

[gillo]

The @gathara tweet is fabulous. Exactly how the Beeb would describe it if it were anywhere else! And I RT'd the St Crispin's Day speech. We are all a band of buggered now, I fear.

Stay safe, well and strong.

A day may come when I send an actual email, but it is not this day!

[(Anonymous)]

I feel obligated to break my silence to acknowledge the detail, dedication, and sincere commitment to ridiculousness of the two links above. This is my specific, very particular brand of humour, yes.

Damn, the first one is depressing and a bit scary.


Also, may I recommend: "How to avoid contagious diseases, an ec(h)o from the past" :)