Remember when we thought 2016 was as weird as it could get?

[elisi]

The trending twitter summary on Vladimir Putin giving a shout out to JK Rowling and cancel culture is the most alternate reality, proof we are living in a simulation thing I've ever read.

Like it looks the kind of thing an AI would generate. pic.twitter.com/MgMtvfG5kw

— Erin, Trail Mom (@ErinInTheMorn) March 25, 2022

Mind you, this then made me laugh way too much, and then I got sad because I knew what it meant - and also how is this the reality we live in??

#PutinWontWheesht

— Derek Dearest (he/him) (@ThatsSoDerek) March 25, 2022

This is ON TOP all the other wars and the (ongoing) pandemic and the floods in Australia (the video is from a town called Lismore, where the waters peaked at 14.11m - 2m higher than ever recorded).

ETA:

Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

The little girl that sang "Let it go" from Frozen in a #Kyiv bunker, sang at a charity event in Poland for Ukraine performing the national anthem 💙💛 Via @MSzuldrzynskipic.twitter.com/ucRErMzNl5

— Newsfeed Ukraine 🇺🇦 (@NewsfeedUkraine) March 21, 2022

The video from the bunker here, in case you missed it. ♥

Comments

[owlboy]

bbc artical doesnt mention that our government is so corrupt they only gave emergency funding to LNP electorates and not Labor ones :)

[elisi]

... fuuuuck

Mind you, I'm not surprised.

ETA: Our government has just announced the new budget and they have done literally nothing to help the poorest.

[owlboy]

ps did you see this https://twitter.com/goulcher/status/1507341223996149763

[lynnenne]

LOLOLOL

[elisi]

I did not! :O

Thank you, it's genius.

[masakochan]

I can't believe how hard I just snorted reading that. xD

[desdemonaspace]

Yes indeed, is this the reality we live in?

I love the Sam-Frodo quote.

[elisi]

Yes indeed, is this the reality we live in?
I feel like nothing can surprise me anymore?

I love the Sam-Frodo quote.
Me too. We need it at the moment, that's for sure.

[kazzy_cee]

And Putin keeps bombing the hospitals .....

I feel so sorry for the children.

[elisi]

It's unfathomable. I can only wish that it will all stop as soon as possible and the children might be able to return to a normal childhood.

[lynnenne]

That little girl singing in the bunker gets me EVERY TIME. Light in the darkness.

[elisi]

It really is. (And it's why Putin can never win.) Gets me too.

[a_phoenixdragon]

Yeah, VP mentioning JK Rowling and how it is relevant to his situation is...bizarre to say the least. O_o

*HUGS*

[elisi]

Alas, it has caused zero introspection... [on her or the GC crowd's part]