Kudos to the scriptwriter for our timeline

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Russian President Vladimir Putin gifted gold rings to leaders of other former Soviet states in St Petersburg this week
Commentators drew comparisons to the primary villain of ‘The Lord Of The Rings’, who gave rings to nine kings to bend them to his will

^I had to check that this was real and not a joke, but yep. It's true.

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You'll all know about this by now:

Greta Thunberg takes another swipe at Andrew Tate over pizza boxes after his arrest in Romania
Social media has been buzzing with the theory that the controversial influencer's Twitter spat with the Swedish climate activist inadvertently led to his arrest.
(ETA: The whole pizza box thing is apparently not real, they'd been planning for months, but I don't think that really matters.)

ALSO! GRETA is the acronym for 'the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings'.

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And here is just an awesome thing:

Miss Ukraine Showed Up To The Miss Universe Pageant Looking Like A Total Bada**—And We're Here For It
Miss Ukraine Universe 2022 Victoria Apanasenko is making a powerful statement with her national costume amid her country's conflict with Russia.