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Hermits as eurovision songs two (2), this time beyond the borders of Norway

i continue to be very behind but alas, eurovision, my beloved, it is her season

Keralis - Poland 2014

look me in the eyes and say keralis does not fit the infamous slutty Polish milkmaid song. mr my mama says I have a lovely face, with shake what your mama gave you, clap your hands to this music. keralis core. he's even got the braids

Iskall - Sweden 1984

This song is about wearing your nice gold boots. And what I love about iskall is he loves to sing silly little songs about things. diggiloo diggiley he's got good boots and this song won Eurovision :))

Bdubs - Iceland 2006

This troll song is iconic. Silvia Night is not real. She's an Icelandic comedian who went to Eurovision to see how many people she would wind up. This character is an icon. I love her. Bdubs could and would go to Eurovision as God's specialist little guy

Tango - Moldova 2011

this song is about playing your funky music, wearing your silly hat, riding your unicycle and having a good time. the music has the dark intensity of the decked out dungeon but the tone is as bright and funny as the dungeon master flying headfirst into a wall and making tango noises

Scar - Estonia 2011

Oh yea, that's right. This song is a Eurovision song. Always celebrate a good time. She's doing magic tricks on stage as she sings. It's so impressive and it's so fun. That city is hers to control. Scar is just so good at what he does, and he's such a showman.

Rendog - Latvia 2022

It's been said before, I'll say it again. This song is definitely about being eco friendly :)) eat your veggies, save the planet (been green is sexy as...)

Mumbo - France 2014

This came last, but I love it. It's a silly little song about having a moustache. He's a silly little guy with a moustache. They both make me happy.

Doc - Germany 2021

Sorry I'm losing my mind imaging doc with this. It's just so funny to me. I love this song (it got no televote points). People hated it so much. Get on the stage, easily angered German creeper, dance for me

Zedaph - Latvia 2014

the chilliest song about doing the most unhinged things. they've found Atlantis and reversed gravity, but now they have to bake a cake. how do you do that, again? for today's zedvancement we'll figure it out (tango irl could surely help)

Joe and Cleo - Romania 2017

Joe's on the yodelling, Cleo's on the rap (begrudging). It's got death note opening pillars. It's got meme vibes. This thing is iconic and I love it. Yodel rap is its own special genre of Eurovision and nobody else can dream of understanding it. Very beautiful. Very powerful. Joe and Cleo

[zerotosixty]

gif coloring blah

see previous renditions of me posting before & after gifs on my #coloring tag

will not really call this a showcase because i’m just rambling sometimes lol.

this edition includes more of my colorings of wrc gifs!!!

first: fernando x boss

added contrast and vibrancy to this one + deepened the blacks

a subtle but good difference; i really like how this turned out

second: logan tyre test

made it less yellow... that’s kinda it?

i also made another coloring for this set, but i thought it looked too yellow, so i scrapped it. it would have looked like this:

third: kalle at rally estonia

very satisfied with this one LOL

added contrast and vibrancy, but nothing crazy as to make it look drastically edited

fourth: kalle at rally estonia pt.2

i combined footage from three days of rallying, and the weather was overcast in some, so i had to make a coloring that combined them all despite the differing colors. this was the result. cooled the greens, washed them out a little, and brightened everything in general.

the peach/dirt color now pops tho! there was a lot of gray/green/blue in the original clips, and the coloring that i made got rid of that.

fifth: ep and kalle at rally estonia

general brightening

less details in the black (look at the back of kalle’s race suit) since i messed with the black levels

pleased with this one tho (mainly bc ep is a comedian)

and that’s it for this set of colorings! until next time. —s

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Rhys Nicholson mourns twink death in new passport photo

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Rhys Nicholson mourns twink death in new passport photo

Thoughts and prayers for Rhys Nicholson, who has bravely gone public to raise awareness about twink death, the condition that eventually comes for us all.

The Australian comedian, who used they/them pronouns, recently renewed their passport and on Instagram to share their two passport photos from years apart.

As well as bravely coming out as a US citizen in the post, Rhys also wrote, “Nothing like a new passport to officially announce to yourself you are not a Twink anymore, and haven’t been for quite some time.”

Drag queen Ivory Glaze replied, “Thoughts and prayers… you have now reached twas status.”

“Portrait of dorian GAY,” Etecetera Etcetera added.

“The lady on the right is actually wanted in Estonia for hacking,” another follower joked.

“Rachel Maddow looks different here,” another wrote.

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Rhys Nicholson films Drag Race Down Under in Auckland

In a few months, Rhys Nicholson is returning to season four of the newly-titled Drag Race Down Under, now hosted by Michelle Visage on Stan.

The Australian comedian flies to Auckland each year to judge the Australasian version of the series.

Last year, Rhys recalled that hilariously, they were let on a plane to Australia out of Auckland airport without a passport.

Rhys shared the story on ABC’s The Weekly with Charlie Pickering last April.

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“A couple of years ago, I was in Auckland airport to come home when I realised I’d lost my passport.

“I really needed to get on the flight, so I spoke to the guy at the desk, and he simply exclaimed, ‘No worries bro, let’s call Canberra’.

“He got on the phone, and he called Canberra, I guess? Chatted for a few minutes, and he hung up. God as my witness, he said, ‘Well, they said it’s up to us, so I reckon just go.’”

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Just look at his face in the last picture haha, so much confusion and regret. Also I feel kinda sorry for that dude against the wall.

link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soWZjrw0_oM

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Ukraine, 26th Feb, 2022

A friend of mine told me yesterday that he didn’t realise how much Ukraine meant to him until now. I posted yesterday about the time we spent there, and we’re all getting super pre-occupied about the invasion. As I said in that post, I can’t get our waitress out of my head. I can sort of remember what she looked like now. She had an undercut. I think maybe her hair might have been blue? But - I will never know if she lives through this, and it’s driving me very slightly mad.

So naturally, my husband spent all day yesterday obsessively researching everything he could about it with the help of his journalist friends, as a way to help me process it.

This post is me putting it all in order, as a way to try and process my own emotional response as much as anything else (I freely admit there is an element of self-indulgence here). Please don’t take me as the spokesperson for Ukraine right now, nor as a solid reliable news source. But, I haven’t seen this stuff except in bits and pieces on Tumblr, so here we go.

(This is also not about why the invasion has happened. This post is solely about what has happened, and how the invasion is going.)

So, Putin and the rest of the world believed that this invasion would take 1-4 days. The plan was to push through fast, take Kyiv, and force Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian President, to surrender. Given Russia’s military might, it really looked likely.

Here is the conclusion of all that’s happened so far:

Ukraine is absolutely nailing this??? Actually???

They managed to defend every single city overnight, including Kyiv. They started rolling out and using these WW2-style anti-tank thingies that look a bit like angry gabbions, look, here’s a picture of one being delivered:

A bunch of spare iron girders turned into a hefty octopus of Russian misery, basically.

But it’s not just tanks they’re taking down, oh no. Ukraine successfully shot down a transport plane 20km from Kyiv. That is, I shit you not, the single biggest hit to the Russian military since the Second Chechen War. Volunteers from Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Azerbaijan and Israel are all entering Ukraine to help fight and bolster the anti-Russian forces, which is probably illustrative of how Eurovision voting is going to run for the next decade. Most countries have banned Russian planes from their air space. To help stop the Russian advance, Ukraine has made and installed new road signs, like this one:

I can only say a handful of sentences in Ukrainian, Tumblrs, but as I understand it, from top to bottom, it says:

“Fuck off”

“Fuck off again”

“Fuck off Russia”

Meanwhile, it turns out the Russian military might we feared is... possibly not quite as advertised?

They’re underfunded and badly trained. Ukraine captured 200 soldiers in one go, and most of them were confused 19 year olds with no training. The equipment is shite. The tanks keep running out of fuel. Russian soldiers keep abandoning their tanks and handing them over to the Ukrainian army. Putin’s plan was to take Kyiv fast and move on, and he didn’t have a plan B - hence these kids, playing soldier. Here is an image of a Russian tank receiving roadside assistance from Russia’s finest, an old Lada.  

No one expected Zelenskyy to survive the night; but he did. America offered him asylum in the White House.

But he said no. 

Zelenskyy remains in Kyiv, with his people.

And Putin, in his desperation to be adored, has turned Zelenskyy into a global icon and hero.

Here is something you may not know about Volodymyr Zelenskyy - he used to be a standup comedian. Was he any good? No idea - but what he IS good at is producing funny short videos he can put on Twitter and that, which are absolutely fantastic for Ukrainian morale. And morale is vital in an invasion like this, and Ukraine are smashing it out of the park there.

They are utilising the internet to its fullest extent. In addition to Zelenskyy’s videos, they’ve made sure that the final words of the Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island are known and now echoed around the world: “Russian warship, go fuck yourselves.” A video has gone viral of Ukrainians mocking a group of Russian soldiers whose tank had broken down and who didn’t know the way to Kyiv anyway, presumably because of all the new road signs. They have created a website that lists every single Russian death they can identify, partly so Russian mothers can have closure (thus also painting themselves as the defenders of decency and humanity), and partly for the enormous morale boost of the world knowing, categorically, that they’ve already killed 3700 Russian soldiers (over 100 of which were from that transport plane.)  Not one word has leaked of Ukrainian casualties. I’m sure they’re devastating, but for morale purposes, they’re being kept quiet until the dust settles. Ukrainians have started setting up fake Tindr profiles to catfish Russian soldiers for intel, and they’re all 19 and lost, so it’s working. Plus, they’re using Grindr to actually track where the soldiers are, because it turns out Putin was not entirely correct about there being no gays in Russia.

So, Russia wants to cut their internet access. Can the Ukrainian Minister for Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, shame a billionaire into providing aid?

This is crucial, remember. Atrocities happen best in the dark, and the world is watching - because of the internet. Morale is vital to maintain. Can they convince Elon Musk to help?

Yep.

Ukraine now has the fastest internet service in the world. The fastest, most stable internet service in human history, in fact. Russia cannot now disable it. The world watches.

Which is just as well, because then Anonymous decided to get involved, and have leaked the website database of the Russian Ministry of Defence. Lol. Also this happens:

And then the Russian propaganda channels started broadcasting the truth of what is happening in Ukraine. Double lol.

So what is the political response?

Well, in addition to closing airspace to Russian planes, loads of countries are sending weapons to Ukraine. Those that can’t are offering asylum. They’re also offering asylum to any Russian soldiers who surrender or defect, which is startlingly good tactics, and there are rumours of around 5000 Russian soldiers who have done just that. Germany, of course, has long had a block on lethal weapons transfer; but Germany recognise this shit for what it is. They’ve lifted the block, thus allowing the Netherlands to send weapons. Efforts are now underway to fast-track Ukraine into the EU. I presume they will consider the lack of pint glasses with crowns on to be a worthwhile price to pay.

So what about Russia’s supporters?

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenka helped Russia with this invasion. Now, this has happened:

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was actually elected president, but some wild nonsense kept her out of power. She’s now running a government in exile. I have literally no idea what this means or will mean! But my god. She has a spine of steel, and this is not a good time to be happening for Putin. 

And it’s really, really not, because then intel on a meeting of Putin and assembled Oligarchs LEAKS (hello Anonymous, probably). The highlights:

This war is costing Russia $15bn a day

He expected it to take ONE TO FOUR DAYS TO WIN

It’s been two days and he is losing very badly, currently

They will run out of rockets by day 4, maybe sooner

After that they will be down to rifles and ammo

It will take 3-4 months to make more significant weapons, except they need raw materials, and the countries that can provide them... have cut supply lines

If the war lasts 10 days, Russia will have completely run out of money and weapons

It's only day 2, and Russian soldiers are knocking the doors of random Ukrainian homes begging for food and water because they've already run out

So, out of desperation, Putin turns to his greatest, closest and most trusted ally for help: Kazakhstan. 

And Kazakhstan

SAYS NO

And then Ukraine shoots down a second Russian plane.

Anyway, I’m going to finish off with a final point. Morale is vital in this situation, so here is the message from the Ukrainian government at the minute, to everyone watching around the world:

Be VERY SUSPICIOUS of any negative news about Ukraine. Russia uses misinformation and propaganda. They will want to damage Ukrainian morale.

Use your social media to spread news of Ukrainian victories. 

Don't give oxygen to negative stories. Especially since they might not be true.

That’s genuinely something we can do to help. Every victory of Ukraine, blast it far and wide. So on that note, I’ll leave you with this:

Congrats to Natalia Antonova’s cousin's son.

[hinerdsitscat]

Eurovision 2022 as Chris Fleming/Gayle Quotes

Last year I did various Eurovision acts as John Mulaney quotes so this year I thought I’d try a different Comedian Who Deals In Weird Metaphors.

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Austria (Lumix feat. Pia Maria, “Halo”)

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Bulgaria (Intelligent Music Project, “Intention”)

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Croatia (Mia Dimšić, “Guilty Pleasure”)

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Cyprus (Andromache, “Ela”)

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Czech Republic (We Are Domi, “Lights Off”)

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Estonia (Stefan, “Hope”)

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Finland (The Rasmus, “Jezebel”)

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France (Alvan & Ahez, “Fulenn”)

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Georgia (Circus Mircus, “Lock Me In”)

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Iceland (Systur, “Með hækkandi sól”)

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Ireland (Brooke, “That’s Rich”)

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Israel (Michael Ben David, “I.M.”)

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Latvia (Citi Zēni, “Eat Your Salad”)

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Lithuania (Monika Liu, “Sentimentai”)

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Malta (Emma Muscat, “I Am What I Am”)

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Moldova (Zdob și Zdub & Advahov Brothers, “Trenulețul”)

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Norway (Subwoolfer, “Give That Wolf a Banana”)

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Poland (Ochman, “River”)

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Romania (WRS, “Llámame”)

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San Marino (Achille Lauro, “Stripper”)

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Serbia (Konstrakta, “In Corpore Sano”)

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Slovenia (LPS, “Disko”)

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Spain (Chanel, “SloMo”)

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Switzerland (Marius Bear, “Boys Do Cry”)

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Ukraine (Kalush Orchestra, “Stefania”)

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There were more acts this year, but due to time I couldn’t get to them all.

Image Text/Sources:

First Image: “Where do you think we are, Italy?” (source: “Davis II”)

Austria: “And everyone’s looking at me like I’m at an Eyes Wide Shut party uninvited.” (source: “Baby Got Back Brings Out The Worst in People”)

Bulgaria: “They should invent something for guys with this kind of affliction, like a VR system where he can believe he’s in a perpetual state of giving you a tour of his house.” (source: “W.U.G”)

Croatia: “Too bad he was married.” (source: “Showpig”)

Cyprus: “NYU is just girls in fedoras trying to get addicted to cigarettes.” (source: “NYU”)

Czech Republic: “Terry if you haven’t made your bed, throw it away, it’s too late to make it now!” (source: “COMPANY IS COMING”)

Estonia: “Hi, I’d like to report a stolen horse? Actually, don’t worry about it.” (source: “Valentine’s Day”)

Finland: “It’s very apparent that they haven’t seen the light of day since ‘94.” (source: “Gayle - Episode 38: Lizard People”)

France: (description: person standing in the woods screaming) (source: “Meeting Boyfriends”)

Georgia: “Why do I feel like that guy washes his hands with strawberry milk?” (source: “Gigi the Christmas Snake”)

Iceland: “Enough turquoise to get into Stevie Nicks’ house (no questions asked).” (source: “Sick Jan”)

Ireland: “I’m like ‘preteen at her Bat Mitzvah disassociating doing “Greased Lightning” choreography.” (source: “Showpig”)

Israel: “I should have known how you kept going on about ‘how welcoming the burlesque community’s been.” (source: “Polyamorous”)

Latvia: “But I was off my face on Terra Juice, so I didn’t know right from wrong.” (source: “Gayle - Episode 3: The Movies”)

Lithuania: “And on ‘sexy chanteuse,’ she punched me so hard in the jaw that I flew against a piano.” (source: “Showpig”)

Malta: “Those aren’t freaks, those are attractive people with heavily-vetted idiosyncrasies.” (source: “St Vincent, Crazy Pete and Kevin Magee”)

Moldova: “He thinks his vibe is all ‘Don Draper’ when it’s really more ‘Hertz Rent-a-Car’.” (source: “W.U.G.”)

Norway: “It may look like a 2010 Corolla, but it’s not: that is in fact his spaceship.” (source: “My Day with the Alien”)

Poland: “Zero qualms about going full Streetcar Named Desire at 2PM at a Bertucci’s.” (source: “Am I a Man?”)

Romania: “I have never just had a twosome.” (source: “Gary Johnson Ad”)

San Marino: “And the boyfriend’s jazzing around, all proud of himself, like a seagull who just pulled off a Dorito heist at the beach.” (source: “What To Do If Your Boyfriend Proposes on Christmas Eve”)

Serbia: “For 51 years of my life, I walked around looking like the leader of a jazz band, until one day, by a freak accident, I messed up in the shower and I used dog shampoo. Sure, I was humiliated, but Terry: the results.” (source: “Gayle - Episode 22: Beef Hutchins”)

Slovenia: “How nice would it be to have the confidence of a teenage coffee drinker?” (source: “Teens Who Drink Coffee”)

Spain: “And he had this big ass, this big proud ass, this Christmas goose, this terrific bassoon player’s ass!” (source: “St Vincent, Crazy Pete and Kevin Magee”)

Switzerland: “You know a guy got into Radiohead too young if even his pocket rejects him.” (source: “Polyamorous”)

Ukraine: “I’m like the kid at the school dance wearing the bucket hat, grinding with the fire extinguisher.” (source: “Gary Johnson Ad”)

Closing Image: “You think that shit happens to John Mulaney?” (source: “Davis II”)

[tonya-the-chicken]

I swear, the audacity of the average moskal (is that the correct term?) is endless. Yesterday, not one, not two, but 1500 (!) Russians applied for political asylum in Romania. Bă, cretinilor, are you the ones whose lives and property are destroyed?!; no, the Ukrainians are the ones who suffer, not your imperialist asses! Not only that, but now you have the tupeu to ask for political asylum in another country whose people you have oppressed?! And why, because Romania is (surprisingly) actually trying its best to help its neighbor, and because of that, you assumed you'll be welcome here?! Is this some kind of a sick joke?! Hope that none of them will be granted asylum in here.

Sorry for the rant, Tonya, but seeing this kind of bullshit coming from those morons is making my blood boil. Hope I didn't bother you too much with this ask and I wish you a good evening.

The West imposes sanctions and all of a sudden every Russian is a political refugee 😒 I think all those people who now claim to be very anti-putin need to unite and maybe do something about their government instead of going to other countries and begging for asylum since it's seems there's an awful lot of them. But no, we will go to Estonia, Georgia, Romania and Central Asia and pretend we haven't been imperialist shitbags to all those countries 😒

But honestly, this is hilarious to see Russians run away from economic repercussions to the countries which they attacked and treated as inferior. Folks from Central Asia were coming to Moscow to earn some money and were treated like dirt all these years and look how tables have turned 😒 Maybe now we need to make comedy skits about stupid Russian builders and janitors? Gonna laugh at their accents? Look at that Russian can't speak Estonian properly! So funny. But I know this won't happen because god forbid Russians will do any effort of respecting the country they moved to and by extend learn their language

I kinda know how Russians treat people of other nations because before 2014 we shared a lot of TV shows and "the stupid Tadjik that gets violently abused by his Russian employer" was in every single one of them. God, looking back at that, it was so fucking disgusting. I bet there's more of that but luckily we don't watch Russian comedian TV shows anymore. Not like Ukrainian ones are perfect but at least I don't have to watch immigrants getting screamed at like it's a funny thing

[beardedmrbean]

One of Russia's most popular singers, Alla Pugacheva, has called on the Russian authorities to declare her a "foreign agent", in solidarity with her strongly anti-war husband Maxim Galkin.

A showbiz star too, he was labelled a "foreign agent" on Friday after condemning Russia's attack on Ukraine.

On social media Pugacheva called her husband "a true incorruptible Russian patriot, who wants... an end to our lads dying for illusory aims".

She has been a big star for decades.

She said the Kremlin's "illusory aims" in Ukraine "make our country a pariah and the lives of our citizens extremely difficult".

Galkin, a comedian, TV presenter and singer, wanted "prosperity for his motherland, peace, free speech", she added.

The label "foreign agent" has been applied by the Russian government to various media organisations, campaign groups and individuals openly critical of Kremlin policies.

Alla Pugacheva has been a musical megastar here for decades. First, in the Soviet Union, where she began her career in the 1960s; then, after the fall of the USSR, in Russia.

She is a hugely popular and well-respected artist, which makes her public comments about Russia's offensive in Ukraine big news.

Her assertion that "our lads are dying for illusory aims that make our country a pariah and the lives of our citizens extremely difficult" is likely to infuriate the Kremlin.

It remains to be seen whether it will have any effect on Russian public opinion over what the Kremlin still calls its "special military operation".

Pugacheva and Galkin went to Israel in late March, a month after the Russian invasion, and Pugacheva returned to Russia late last month with her children.

In early September President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said of Galkin: "Our paths have clearly diverged - he has made very bad statements."

Galkin condemned Russian troops' alleged atrocities and said there could be no justification for the Ukraine invasion.

Artemy Troitsky, a leading figure in Russian music who left the country in 2014 because of his opposition to Vladimir Putin and now lives in Estonia, told the BBC Pugacheva's intervention was significant.

"Alla Pugacheva is the biggest pop star in Russia in the past almost 50 years," he said.

"Her fame is monumental and she's a legendary figure. I think this is something that many people have expected her to do some time ago because her husband, Maxim Galkin, he's made his anti-war statements already many times and several months ago.

"I think this is her first ever strong political statement and this in itself, of course, is quite shocking for the people in Russia. I think she's not the only one who may turn the public opinion. The obvious wrongdoings of the Russian army and the offensive of the Ukrainian army and the worsening economic situation and so on, all those factors they work against Putin and against the war.

"But I think that morally and emotionally this statement of Alla Pugacheva is maybe one of the most strong efforts in these directions."

Russia says it is fighting neo-Nazis in Ukraine - a claim widely dismissed - and that it is threatened by the Nato alliance's strong relations with Ukraine.

Since the invasion on 24 February, the UN has recorded at least 5,718 civilian deaths, with 8,199 injured, and more than seven million Ukrainians have been recorded as refugees across Europe.

The actual civilian death toll is believed to be thousands higher. Tens of thousands of combatants have been killed or injured.

Russia, a global energy supplier, is locked in an economic struggle with the West which imposed sweeping sanctions in response to the invasion.

[as-the-stars-foretold]

Stormii and Caelum are Concerting Country Comedians™

oh boy- stormii what have we done (Thank you for compiling the list btw!)

ALL OF THIS WAS DONE IN JEST, WE DID NOT MEAN TO OFFEND ANYONE

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america is walmart canada

America is Dumpster New Zealand

wait america is dollar store australia

Canada is Target America

does that mean russia is walmart ussr- more like the USSR but on half-off sale

Belarus and ukraine would be costco ussr

And Turkmenistan is Target On Fire USSR

india is the mughal empire but on sale

bangladesh is carl's jr, no one knows about it (/j)

england is like high society target

italy is clearance roman empire at this point

Greece is like. The ancient grecian peninsula but on drugs

iceland is greenland but green

svalbard is norway in a freezer

finland is what everyone wants to be

sweden is finland but gay

norway is finland but happy

estonia is like your emo merch store but techno punk

bulgaria is like hungary and hungary is bulgaria

hungary is a soup store and that's all i can say

Lithuania is that one halloween store

romania is transylvania

And Latvia is is rip-off lithuania

Slovenia is rip off latvia?

The Czech Republic and Slovakia are the chain stores that had to split and rebrand because the judicial system said so

France is like Versace but with escargot

spain is like france but violent. no spain is that one store where they sell all those over-rated/dramatic/cheesy old movies that tries to bask in the glory of what's already gone

england is what wales wants to be

and Portugal is a fucking redbox (love your legacy hun <3 /lh)

WAIT THE USSR IS THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE BUT THEY ACTUALLY KNEW HOW TO ECONOMY

correction, the ussr is the re but it didn't kill its leader

Correction, the USSR is the Russian Empire, but instead of committing revolution, it committed crumble

ussr is the russian empire, but they knew how to economy until they didn't

The USSR was the Russian Empire but radioactive

Wait America is like Europe but on crack. And Europe was the drug dealer

Oh and Macedonia is like Pepsi to Greece's Coke

And modern day India is Ashoka's India but with an existential crisis

Wait China is the USSR but it knew how to Economy

And then Japan is microsoft but on a country-wide scale

South Korea is Apple but it's own music industry too

taiwan is dollar store china, and it likes it like that

singapore is what america wants to be

Thailand is siam but... also not? if you get it?

Ukraine and Belarus = USSR but sad and radioactive

Finland = Poster child of good

Serbia is like Toys-R-Us. By which I mean, it should've gotten shut down

[kythwena]

He couldn’t handle this. Benny and all the rest of them had every right to joke about something as current as this, in fact they were obliged to, but he didn’t have to listen. He walked quickly through the bar and out of the doors onto the street. A new round of applause fired off behind him and he walked away from the sound. The painful thing was not that they were joking about it. There had to be jokes, jokes were necessary if people were going to keep living. The painful thing was that it had happened so quickly. After the ferry Estonia sank, for example, it had taken six months before anyone tried to say anything funny about ferry salvage or bow doors, and then without much success. The World Trade Center had gone much faster. Only a couple of days after the attack ‘someone said something about the new cut-price alternative Taliban Airways, and people had laughed. It had been far enough away to feel like it wasn’t really happening. Apparently the reliving fell into the same category. They weren’t real, you didn’t have to have any respect. That’s why David’s presence had been hard for the other comedians to take; he made it real. But in the end that’s what the reliving were to them: a joke.

Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist

[der--untermensch]

Thanks for the tag @cheap-wynos 😊😊

Favourite snack: at the moment, dried mango slices. All time? Cheese popcorn.

Favourite place to go on vacation: So far, Estonia :)

What song makes you dance immediately?: KC Roberts and the Live Revolution-Awshitimfeelinit

Tea or coffee? What kind?: Depends on the time of day, but I generally love my coffee. Not stuck on any specific brand.

Do you play an instrument?: A couple 🙃 Piano, sax, some drums, bassoon, I sing...

What’s your favourite type of personality?: Someone real, who isn't afraid to have a different opinion that's completely their own.

Favourite comedian: Hmm. Rowan Atkinson or Robin Williams

Gummy candy or chocolate: Gummies!!

What did you want to be when you grew up as a kid?: A dentist, then a veterinarian

What’s your favourite physical feature on yourself?: Hmm. My eyes?

When was the last time you watched a movie or TV show?: Two weeks ago, I think? Been a lot going on with travelling.

Unpopular opinion: Not sure if this really qualifies, but I just can't get aboard the Greta Van Fleet train no matter how hard I try.

Are you scared of bugs?: Disgusted by some more than scared.

Cats or dogs?: Dogs. But I really do love all animals.

Does the description of your star sign match your personality?: Pretty closely, yup

Favourite accent?: Aussie or Italian

Name the first song that pops in to your head: Lil Nas X-Old Town Road (people here are fucking crazy for it and it's on everywhere)

Sexiest person to you: @myeyesweredarktillyouwokeme wins here.

Cake or pie: Oof. Pie slightly more than cake

Last time you read a whole book: Couple of weeks ago?

Favourite junk food: DQ is where it's at.

Do you like your height: I'm ok with it. Generally it's a pretty typical height.

Apples or oranges?: Apples! Mutsu is a current fave

What song has made you cry?: Ewert and the Two Dragons-Burning Bush always gets me

What person inspires you the most?: There are so many!

Favourite personality trait in someone: Honesty is right up there.

Do you like salad?: Depends on the type, I have nothing against it.

I tag @myeyesweredarktillyouwokeme 😘 @palewonder-darkeyes @spacebabepeach @rebbadger @superjellyninja for now :)

[theuniversitychallengereview]

UC 48.37 - Grand Final, Edinburgh vs Teddy Hall

Nine months. Eighteen hours of televised quizzing. More than two thousand two hundred increasingly complicated questions, like Russian dolls on a Mobius strip. Twenty-eight teams. Only two remain. Those are some statistics, but what of the people. These numbers tell part of the story, but they omit the crucial humanity that make this show unlike any other; the high fives and the fist-bumps, the hearts in the mouths and on the sleeves, the hopes and dreams that bloomed and ballooned, the lampooned and the festooned (a bit of a tacky end to the sentence, I know, but I was on a roll. You can count yourself lucky I didn’t try and get marooned in there, too). 

For the first time in thirty-five years, Scotland has an institution in the Grand Final. Edinburgh, having fallen to the Champions Elect at the semi final stage in each of the past two series, finally made it one step further by beating Durham, who had earlier bested them in the quarter finals. They had previously swept aside Sidney Sussex in their opening match, before beating UCL on the final starter of their second round match, with captain Max Fitz-James sealing the victory.

It was Fitz-James who was the key to Edinburgh’s chances going in, with his twenty-six starters twelve clear of their next best buzzer, local lad Robbie Campbell Hewson, although RCH came up with some huge answers at vital times in their semi final. Fitz-James however, also leads the team, and the tournament (and is possibly the all time leader) in Negs, with ten incorrect interruptions to his name. He was also the go-to-guy for guesses, with a further fifteen non-penalized buzzes in his fingers. If he could get the balance right between reckless abandon and the pulling of rabbits from hats then his side might well have a chance. And they would go in knowing that caution would not serve them well given the man in the opposite captain’s chair.

Freddy Leo, described by the Times this week as "having drawn comparisons to Cristiano Ronaldo” (which, while perhaps not unlike analogies I myself may have drawn, coming from a national media which only ever covers the final, smacks of the kind of laziness eschewed by someone describing the Marvel Cinematic Universe as being ‘somewhat of a cultural juggernaut’ only in the leadup to the release of Avengers: Endgame), has amassed forty-one starters in one fewer game than Fitz-James, so the Frenchman will have gone in one hundred percent ready to flex those buzzer fingers at even the merest whiff of a guess, being fully aware that if he hesitated just the slightest moment, his German counterpart would be there to steal the points. Leo had already seen off this series’ other Big Bee (because they buzz so much, get it?) in his own semi-final, with Teddy Hall beating Darwin College despite Jason Golfinos’ best efforts and eight starter questions. He’s also shown that he has steel and nerve, with a comeback from a hundred points down against Bristol University (Bristanbul, maybe, for football fans) perhaps the grittiest performance in recent years. 

But even he could not be a team by himself, with Agastya Pesharody and Marcelline Bresson popping up at important moments in their semi final victory. Completing their quartet was Lizzie Fry, and were they to win they would become only the second side in the Paxman Era (beginning in 1995) to do so having been less than 75% male.

Anyway, let’s not bother with the rules, here’s your first starter for ten.

As predicted, it was Fitz-James who was first out of the blocks, but not unsurprisingly, his speculative buzz of Maypole Dancing (not Maple dancing, as I’d originally thought he’d said) put Edinburgh in the not-unfamiliar territory of negative points. Fry, who would double her total for the series with three in the final (truly a player for the big occasion, rather like Cristiano Ronaldo in that sense) opened her account with Morris Dancing. One bonus on paperclips followed, with Leo dismissing the Netherlands as the country who had worn such items in their lapels because he knows that if they had, then the Dutch Bresson would have said so already. A sign of a team that trusts and is in sync with one another.

Leo claims his forty-second decimal of the series on the next starter, with his arm-cocked buzzer-stab technique deployed with trademark verve. Bonuses on the ever-relevant subject of ‘Persistent Courtship in the Nineteenth Century (specifically in novels)’ serve them better than paperclips, although Leo is perhaps fortunate to get the points on the first of these, forgetting to add the author of Far From the Madding Crowd to his answer (though to be honest requiring both seems pretty needless, given that the two pieces of information would never come uncoupled in the mind of a University Challenge finalist. They would know both or neither in this context). The third he pulls from the ether after a period of intense concentration, startling even his teammates with his sudden remembrance of David Copperfield’s Peggotty. Teddy Hall are forty-five points clear.

Neither side manages to guess what is essentially a ‘guess a number’ question, before Malusa bursts into life and fires Edinburgh back above zero. Paxman delights in delivering the bonus description in the manner of a stand-up comedian, ‘questions on the periodic table *pause for effect* in Chinese’. Cue laughter. This doesn’t trouble the Scottish quartet, who rattle through the hat-trick with little more than a ‘hmm, is it bromine or iodine? Its probably bromine’ (reader, it was bromine).

Wearing a burgundy jacket (and hailing from Burgundy, France, but not, presumably, having drunk any burgundy wine beforehand), Fitz-James gets his evening going at the third attempt (having also guessed on the ‘guess a number question’) with the Picture starter, a Shakespearean Venn diagram. He would also take the second Picture starter (little bit of foreshadowing for you there). With two of the bonuses, Edinburgh are level. Deuce.

A second starter of the night goes to Leo, and when Fry picks up another Fitz-James fumble it looks as if the game might be starting to get away from Edinburgh. But Pesharody is unlucky in forgetting that his answer on the next starter required two parts, and isn’t allowed the time to grasp for the second when he realises. Campbell Hewson, Edinburgh’s vulture, takes his correct morsel and completes it. Alpha and Omega. Romping through another hat-trick, this time on Iron Maiden, put the Scots firmly back on track. 

The music questions came in three parts, with four sets of three tunes relating to the colours of the horizontal bands on national flags (if you’re not with me we’re about halfway round the loop of that Russian Doll mobius I was on about earlier, and yes, I have no idea what I’m trying to infer by that phrase either). No one gets the starter, for which, as well as containing three difficult clues, the answer was Armenia (the kind of question that makes a Queen of she who makes it), but Edinburgh manage to decipher Estonia and take the lead for the first time in the contest. 

Now it is Teddy Hall who seem lost, and Edinburgh who have all the luck, Fitz-James throwing away the correct Aggripina with misplaced resignation and the assertion that he is wrong. Malusa, who had only five starters to his name before the final, then takes his second of the night, and a full set on Elizabeth Catlett completes a hat-trick of hat-tricks on the bonuses. All of these trebles meant that they had opened up a fifty point lead. 

At this stage of the game most teams would have been beaten by such a margin, but Teddy had come back from twice that already in this competition, and the next hat-trick is completed by Fry as she steals a third starter from under Fitz-James’ over-eager nose. 

Pesharody makes up for his earlier mistake (like Cristiano Ronaldo when he scored a hat-trick (oh look, another hat-trick) in the second leg of Juventus’ Round of 16 match in this year’s Champion’s League versus Atletico Madrid, having scored what looked suspiciously like an own goal (although it was credited to Diego Godin) in the 2-0 reverse of the first leg) with yet another pick-up from an ill-considered Fitz-James guess. It almost looks as though his (Fitz-James’) second picture starter of the night won’t matter, as first Leo, and then Bresson (with the speed and conviction of five-time ballon d’or winner Cristiano Ronaldo) buzz in decisively to swing the lead back down to Oxford with only seconds remaining by the slimmest of margins. 

There would only be time for one more starter. Nine months. Eighteen and a half hours of televised quizzing. More than two thousand two hundred increasingly complicated questions. Only time for one more...

Answer as soon as your name is called. What two digit number...

If Fitz-James had the gumption he could have gone for a one in ninety (note: ‘How many two digit numbers are there? would be a good starter question) wild guess, but he doesn’t. Wise.

...is equivalent to the Roman numerals that form the first three letters of the city that was the birthplace of...

This is such a classic University Challenge question that its almost like they planned for it to be the deciding question in the final. 

...William Gladstone...

No one has the faintest.

...Beryl Bainbridge...

Some cogs start to whirr.

...And Wayne Rooney...

By now everyone knows it, but they’re frantically trying to convert LIV into a two digit number. Leo launches downwards, but Campbell Hewson has beaten him to it. Elbow perpendicular to the desk, with his hand curled and a few inches from his face as if he wants to lapse into the classical philosopher pose but knows it would be too meme-able, he frowns, but does not hesitate.

Fifty-four. 

Fifty-four is correct.

They can be pretty sure they’ve won it now, but they add two more bonuses before the gong sounds to confirm them as University Challenge champions. 

Final Score: Edinburgh 155 - 140 St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Max Fitz-James, Marco Malusa, Matt Booth, Robbie Campbell Hewson. The first non-Oxbridge institution to claim the trophy since 2013. The first Scottish winners of University Challenge since 1983. Congratulations, gents. You sent Proud Edmund’s army homeward, to think again. 

What a match, and what a series it has been. Leo and Teddy Hall have to be immensely proud of their achievements, and were unfortunate that they came up against an Edinburgh side who had the quiz of their lives. 

Novelist Sebastian Faulks came on to present Edinburgh with the trophy, and he echoed the sentiments of many viewers when he said he found the questions staggeringly difficult. Comedian Ed Gamble recently said that he’s watched almost every episode of Only Connect and never got a question right. To some, that might seem nonsensical, being as an observer so far away from the level of the players, but people watch football knowing full well that they would be unable to tonk one in from thirty yards (yes, like Cristiano Ronaldo), and the joy of University Challenge, like all sport, comes from the thrill of the competition, and from watching people who are exemplary at something being exemplary at it. 

Until next time, goodbye.

[tvwriteups]

popblank replied to your post

“Trying hard to resist Eurovision.”

Hmm, good horrible or bad horrible?

This is the worst selection of songs I’ve ever heard put together on a Eurovision stage. (Granted I’ve missed other semifinals.)

Notes under the cut.

Cyprus - replay

Choreo not tight enough

Song sucks; like reverse-temp “Fuego” at 10% effort

Went all bucks fizz

Pointless pyro

Montenegro

What’s the point of focusing on the stairs but then going to the walkway...then....huh

This song is really bad

Starts out as bad easy listening

...then turns into culturally infused bad listening

This song feels a lot longer than 3 minutes

Finland

Another song that sucks

Song is literally telling me to look away

Wolverine haircut cross with Jake Gyllenhaal

Too much video screen

Video screen doesn’t make sense

Poland

This is weird

I’d vote for it

Sounds like a song I know, part of it anyway

Crowd feels dead

Crowd can’t even clap in sync

Who are the video screens supposed to be? The singers as flight attendants

I have a feeling it’s cultural but the song could have used an extra level of crack

Slovenia

Bad costuming

This camerawork only works if you have 2 people singing

Sounds pleasant enough but song went nowhere

Haven’t spotted a woman in the crowd yet!

Czech Republic

Ugh.

It’s like that time Coldplay dressed as the Wiggles

Feels longer than 3 minutes

Women!

Hungary

Top knot

This guy looks familiar

No idea what’s going on but I’d vote for this

Belarus

Well, they’re trying ...with something that looks like it would have come out if the US in 1997

Serbia

Gonna try to get through by belting

Belgium

This song is also bad

Even the song with the guy singing about his mother was more interesting than this

Terrible; Belgium is back to being mediocre again

Georgia

What’s with these men with topknots?

I’m dizzy

I think those backing singers should’ve come on with satanic outfits

Australia

...the country that should not be here

Australia is just another Sweden

I give her props for singing while swinging like a kebab

I hate it though

Iceland

...went in a whole new direction

At least it’s not Vikings

Can’t sit through that again

Estonia

Singing in English

Doing that thing the Netherlands usually does

I hate his pants

I expect better from Estonia

Even for Eurovision these songs suck

Portugal

So many weird songs this year

Another song that felt longer than 3 minutes

It’s like people thought Netta won for being weird instead of, oh, her beatboxing actually being impressive (even if I didn’t like the song)

Greece

They brought swords!

I thought they were gonna pierce the beach ball with the swords

San Marino

Oh gosh, all the previous songs were San Marino standard.

Is this guy a singer? He’s the “I Didn’t Know” guy, right?

He just comes off as a comedian who tries to be a singer

Valentina Monetta could have killed this year

Congrats, San Marino, you actually fit in with the rest of the songs for a change

Dana International sings Bruno Mars. Kind of wish she had some reworked version of “Diva.”

I hate it when people are manipulated to kiss.

I’m horrified that there’s a kid version of Eurovision. This Polish kid is very well spoken.

Spain brought a whole set! They’re trying?

[brookston]

Holidays 8.26

Holidays

Alice Doesn’t Day

Animal Farm Day

Congressional Startup Day

First Thnork of the Year (Fairy)

Herero Day (a.k.a. Red Flag Day; Namibia)

Horseshoe Day

Make Your Own Luck Day

Musical Yoga Day

Namibia Day (a.k.a. Heroes’ Day; UN)

National Dog Day

National Spark the World Day

National WebMistress Day

Our Lady of Czestochowa (Poland)

Paul Anka Day (Ottawa, Canada)

Repentance Day (Papua New Guinea)

StartUp Day

Toilet Paper Day

Tvimanuor (Double Month; Iceland)

Typewriter Day

Women's Equality Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Cherry Popsicle Day

4th & Last Friday in August

Burning of Zozobra (Old Man Gloom effigy) [Friday before 9.1]

College Colors Day [Friday nearest 9.1]

Daffodil Day (Australia, Southern Hemisphere) [4th Friday]

Forgive Your Foe Friday [Friday of Be Kind to Humankind Week]

Sheep Market Fair begins (Denmark) [Last Friday through Sunday]

Independence Days

Official Recognition Day (Abkhazia)

Feast Days

Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Adrian of Nicomedia (Greek Feast Day) [brewers]

Alexander of Bergamo (Roman Catholic Church)

Ceferino Namuncurá (Christian; Saint)

David Lewis (Christian; Blessed)

Gelasinus (Christian; Saint)

Genesius of Arles (Christian; Saint)

Genesius the Comedian (Christian; Saint)

Ilmater (Finnish Goddess of the Water Mother)

Jeanne-Elisabeth Bichier des Ages (Christian; Saint)

Kirby and Jeffy (Muppetism)

Lizzie Borden Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Mariam Baouardy (Melkite Greek Catholic Church)

Melchizedek (Christian; Saint)

Our Lady of Częstochowa (Christian; Saint)

Simplicius, Constantius and Victorinus (Christian; Saint)

Teresa Jornet Ibars (Christian; Saint)

Usuki Stone Buddhas Fire Festival (Japan)

Vancanson (Positivist; Saint)

Women’s Equality Day (Pastafarian)

Yoshida no Hi Matsuri (End of Mt. Fuji climbing season; Japan)

Zephyrinus (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [47 of 71]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

An American in Paris (Film; 1951)

Bodyguard (BBC TV Series; 2018)

Eragon, by Christopher Paolini (Novel; 2002)

Hey Jude, by The Beatles (Song; 1968)

Leisure, by Blur (Album; 1991)

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Film; 1983)

The New Mutants (Film; 2020)

Our Idiot Brother (Film; 2011)

Sunshine Superman, by Donovan (Album; 1966)

Those Were the Days, by Mary Hopkin (Song; 1968)

Your Name (Anime Film; 2016)

Today’s Name Days

Margareta (Austria)

Adrian, Adriana, Adriyan, Adriyana, Natali, Nataliya (Bulgaria)

Aleksandar, Branimir, Melkisedek (Croatia)

Luděk (Czech Republic)

Ienæus (Denmark)

Hilma, Ilma, Ilmatar, Ilme, Ilmi (Estonia)

Ilma, Ilmatar, Ilmi (Finland)

Natacha (France)

Margarita, Miriam, Patricia, Teresa (Germany)

Adrianos, Natalia (Greece)

Izsó (Hungary)

Alessandro, Oronzo (Italy)

Broņislava, Broņislavs, Glauda, Natālija, Nate (Latvia)

Aleksandras, Algintė, Gailius, Zefirinas (Lithuania)

Eivind, Even, Øyvind (Norway)

Dobroniega, Joanna, Konstanty, Maksym, Maria, Wiktorian, Zefir, Zefiryn, Zefiryna (Poland)

Samuel (Slovakia)

Teresa (Spain)

Östen (Sweden)

Andrian, Andriana, Natalia (Ukraine)

Percival, Percy, Travis, Trevis, Trevon, Trevor (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 238 of 2022; 127 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 34 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 21 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Lányuè), Day 29 (Xin-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 29 Av 5782

Islamic: 28 Muharram 1444

J Cal: 28 Hasa; Sixday [28 of 30]

Julian: 13 August 2022

Moon: 1% Waning Crescent

Positivist: 14 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Vaucanson]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 66 of 90)

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 3 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Rad (Motion) [Half-Month 17 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 9.9)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 8.26

Holidays

Alice Doesn’t Day

Animal Farm Day

Congressional Startup Day

First Thnork of the Year (Fairy)

Herero Day (a.k.a. Red Flag Day; Namibia)

Horseshoe Day

Make Your Own Luck Day

Musical Yoga Day

Namibia Day (a.k.a. Heroes’ Day; UN)

National Dog Day

National Spark the World Day

National WebMistress Day

Our Lady of Czestochowa (Poland)

Paul Anka Day (Ottawa, Canada)

Repentance Day (Papua New Guinea)

StartUp Day

Toilet Paper Day

Tvimanuor (Double Month; Iceland)

Typewriter Day

Women's Equality Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Cherry Popsicle Day

4th & Last Friday in August

Burning of Zozobra (Old Man Gloom effigy) [Friday before 9.1]

College Colors Day [Friday nearest 9.1]

Daffodil Day (Australia, Southern Hemisphere) [4th Friday]

Forgive Your Foe Friday [Friday of Be Kind to Humankind Week]

Sheep Market Fair begins (Denmark) [Last Friday through Sunday]

Independence Days

Official Recognition Day (Abkhazia)

Feast Days

Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Adrian of Nicomedia (Greek Feast Day) [brewers]

Alexander of Bergamo (Roman Catholic Church)

Ceferino Namuncurá (Christian; Saint)

David Lewis (Christian; Blessed)

Gelasinus (Christian; Saint)

Genesius of Arles (Christian; Saint)

Genesius the Comedian (Christian; Saint)

Ilmater (Finnish Goddess of the Water Mother)

Jeanne-Elisabeth Bichier des Ages (Christian; Saint)

Kirby and Jeffy (Muppetism)

Lizzie Borden Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Mariam Baouardy (Melkite Greek Catholic Church)

Melchizedek (Christian; Saint)

Our Lady of Częstochowa (Christian; Saint)

Simplicius, Constantius and Victorinus (Christian; Saint)

Teresa Jornet Ibars (Christian; Saint)

Usuki Stone Buddhas Fire Festival (Japan)

Vancanson (Positivist; Saint)

Women’s Equality Day (Pastafarian)

Yoshida no Hi Matsuri (End of Mt. Fuji climbing season; Japan)

Zephyrinus (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [47 of 71]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

An American in Paris (Film; 1951)

Bodyguard (BBC TV Series; 2018)

Eragon, by Christopher Paolini (Novel; 2002)

Hey Jude, by The Beatles (Song; 1968)

Leisure, by Blur (Album; 1991)

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Film; 1983)

The New Mutants (Film; 2020)

Our Idiot Brother (Film; 2011)

Sunshine Superman, by Donovan (Album; 1966)

Those Were the Days, by Mary Hopkin (Song; 1968)

Your Name (Anime Film; 2016)

Today’s Name Days

Margareta (Austria)

Adrian, Adriana, Adriyan, Adriyana, Natali, Nataliya (Bulgaria)

Aleksandar, Branimir, Melkisedek (Croatia)

Luděk (Czech Republic)

Ienæus (Denmark)

Hilma, Ilma, Ilmatar, Ilme, Ilmi (Estonia)

Ilma, Ilmatar, Ilmi (Finland)

Natacha (France)

Margarita, Miriam, Patricia, Teresa (Germany)

Adrianos, Natalia (Greece)

Izsó (Hungary)

Alessandro, Oronzo (Italy)

Broņislava, Broņislavs, Glauda, Natālija, Nate (Latvia)

Aleksandras, Algintė, Gailius, Zefirinas (Lithuania)

Eivind, Even, Øyvind (Norway)

Dobroniega, Joanna, Konstanty, Maksym, Maria, Wiktorian, Zefir, Zefiryn, Zefiryna (Poland)

Samuel (Slovakia)

Teresa (Spain)

Östen (Sweden)

Andrian, Andriana, Natalia (Ukraine)

Percival, Percy, Travis, Trevis, Trevon, Trevor (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 238 of 2022; 127 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 34 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 21 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Lányuè), Day 29 (Xin-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 29 Av 5782

Islamic: 28 Muharram 1444

J Cal: 28 Hasa; Sixday [28 of 30]

Julian: 13 August 2022

Moon: 1% Waning Crescent

Positivist: 14 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Vaucanson]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 66 of 90)

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 3 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Rad (Motion) [Half-Month 17 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 9.9)