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June 7th, 1942: Edward Hopper completes his best known painting, the seminal Nighthawks. When asked by a Chicago Tribute reporter about the philosophical meaning behind the diner having no clearly visible exits Hopper responded, “Shit. Fuck. I did it again. Goddamnit. Fuck. Not again. I did it again. Shit.” and slammed his hat on his leg.

Lorna what's happening in your country?? 👀👀

Peaceful protests in many cities across the country against the unlawful arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and against Putin’s corrupt regime in general. Navalny was poisoned by guess who, went into coma, was treated in Germany for months, published a detailed investigation of his poisoning, then came back to Russia a few days ago and was arrested at the airport and imprisoned. Soon after that his team published the results of their newest investigation: a long video revealing Putin’s secret palace built on stolen money. (the second link is to the youtube video with Eng subs). For the record, I personally don’t consider myself a Navalny supporter, but this is much bigger than him, his treatment is a demonstration of how bad things are over here when it comes to opposition or freedom in general, so this fight needs to be fought regardless of how one feels about him as one person specifically.   Police has been arresting people all day, hours before the protests even started, using the usual scare tactics, grabbing and arresting people at random, beating the protesters. Minors are being arrested (for just participating in a PEACEFUL PROTEST). There’s been a violent crackdown on activists, journalists, and basically anyone who was inviting people to join the protests today.  This time the major percentage of protesters are the youth (kids notably used TikTok to organise and prepare) who want to fight for their country’s freedom and their own future, the government has been scrambling to prevent young people from attending by all means. Kids were summoned to school and compulsory school events from home (covid is still a thing) and in some instances were literally locked up by teachers with lock and key. Students of universities were told that anyone attending the protest would be expelled immediately (which is unlawful, but scare tactics + never stopped them before, we were told the same thing back in 2012 when I was a student myself) etc.  That’s the gist of it but it’s the tip of the iceberg. You can find out more here: 1. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/01/23/as-its-happening-thousands-rally-for-navalnys-release-across-russia-a72705 2. https://meduza.io/en/live/2021/01/23/marching-for-navalny

asked my cat to model my crochet christmas tree

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