I've been doing a lot of housekeeping...

First of all, for those who want to keep their LJ, gillo recommended this, and it works very nicely:

https://blogbooker.com/

It's like the LJ book of old and will download your LJ (or LJs). So I have got elisi, and also 147days (where I posted my two NC-17 fics) and when_i_write ( Read more... )

Two years ago today...

Dimash: War and Peace (with English subtitles), Arnau concert, performed in Kyiv 11.03.2020. Dimash composed the melody as part of his Master's degree and collaborated with the Chinese poet Yao Qian to create the lyrics, to make sure they conveyed what he wanted to say.

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(Whole concert hereAnd it just absolutely breaks ( Read more... )

This #InternationalWomensDay is all about the @PayGapApp bot and all the tweets it’s causing companies to delete once they get called out 🔥 pic.twitter.com/taiPu78BeA
- Dr Kirstie Wright (@rocksandwiggles) March 8, 2022

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Evacuation at the railway station in Kharkiv.

Photo: Elena Fateeva pic.twitter.com/Aq5bBVKv76
- The New Voice of Ukraine (@ ( Read more... )

cant help but feel like the world as we know it has irreparably been changed. and here we were thinking the pandemic had changed us irreparably. i wistfully remember the good old days of just pandemic.
- Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) February 25, 2022

Read the whole threadYesterday’s post was very focussed. This is going to be a ton of different ( Read more... )

This will end up in the history books, and rightly so. Truly incredible speech.

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(with thanks to Owls)

And:

Here’s a great lesson in leadership! pic.twitter.com/WYeigeNikj
- Tim Aynes (@timaynes) February 26, 2022

ETA: Prominent Russians join protests against Ukraine war amid 1,800 arrests

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Not much of an update, but I saw this and it seemed apt...


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I'm fine, life is just whooshing past. And at the moment, so's the weather:

Storm Eunice: Three people killed as strong winds sweep across UK

Photos here, mostly from the coast: Storm Eunice reaches the UK. Some are just extraordinary ( Read more... )

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I do my best to read my flist and keep meaning to comment because you all write interesting things that I want to talk about, so I have a ton of tabs open... Whether I ever managed to actually get to them is another story. But my intentions are good. ;)

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Covid: Self-isolation law could be scrapped in England this monthToday's numbers ( Read more... )