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elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote2022-02-27 09:26 pm
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I have no words...



Read the whole thread.

Yesterday’s post was very focussed. This is going to be a ton of different things, so I’m putting it all under a cut. Just a sort of rambling snapshot of this moment in time… I have tried to do subheadings, mostly for my own sake.



Before anything else, a timely reminder:



And history is forever repeating itself. :(




(You can read more here.)


A collection of snapshots from Ukraine:

I don’t know if this particular video is what it says it is, but I’m pretty sure the rest is all verified, more or less. Treat with caution (I say, as I post a million tweets...)







Women making firebombs to defend their city

Civilians walk back Russian tank




(They might not be dead??)



Ways to help:

Unicef Ukraine Appeal



Please let me know others & I will add them.


The world is very very strange.








This is an encouraging thread:





This is not encouraging. :(





And a thread of reporters saying the quiet part out loud (not that it isn't understandable, but):



Our government being true to form (why is the future so depressing?):






Russians are not happy…

Not the people on the street:

Russians join Ukrainians in Trafalgar Square to condemn invasion





And neither are the celebrities happy (posting black squares is the symbol they are using).



Going to pull out this one from the thread. Alla Pugacheva is like… the Russian Pavarotti. You don’t GET bigger than her. :O



Wrt Dimash, then he is in Russia at the moment (and yes, posted a black square, which is not surprising, he is very anti-war), but what remains to be seen is what happens next. He has been recording a new song with Igor Krutoy (indeed, Krutoy’s last instagram post was a little video from a recording session), due to premiere on the 5th or 6th of March (I forget). However, Krutoy is Russian-Ukrainian, and I can’t imagine how he is feeling at the moment. As far as I'm aware he has not yet made any statement (I’m sure the Dears would know), but he might just be concentrating on keeping his family safe…

A year ago I had not heard of any of these people, I dearly wish my main interest was still merely hearing a new song, not worrying about a war.

Elsewhere

Just because all the news is full of Ukraine doesn’t mean that there aren’t other battles going on…







That said, it’s not like there isn’t a common enemy:

No, the war in Ukraine wasn’t because of pronouns
Punditry’s most embarrassing obsession comes to war time and it’s just as dumb as you’d expect it to be

Money quote:

‘The actual war in Ukraine now exposes the pettiness and fecklessness of the west’s culture warriors. In the face of actual bombs thrown by actual fascists, the fact that the New York Times has three writers devoted to cancel culture and zero devoted to the global rise of fascism pulls back the curtain on the ridiculous decision-making of American media makers.’

Finally, to end on something beautiful and Ukrainian, here is Dimash singing ‘Marigolds’ (Чорнобривці - Chornobryvtsi) at his Kyiv concert, almost exactly 2 years ago (11 March 2020). It’s a Ukrainian folksong and he literally learned it the night before. (The beautiful woman that the camera keeps cutting to is his mother.)

It’s so beautiful and it makes me so sad. Where are all the people now, who were sitting in that concert hall? (A Chinese Dear posted the song with her own message of love and support for Ukrainian Dears.)



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