At the writing accelerator, we all told the group what projects we are working on.

“Oh, it’s in Ukrainian!” the group leader said when I explained mine. “So we won’t be able to read your drafts!”

And thank goodness for that because people here would get coronaries if they could read my new book.

Marching and chanting in support of the war in St Petersburg:

The flag you see in the video is the Russian Imperial flag.

Look at how young they are. As the person who posted the videos says, this is St Petersburg, known as a cultured city. Imagine the significantly poorer and consequently much more rabid cities of the interior.

Not only have these young people spent their whole lives being prepared for war, they also don’t remember the USSR. And that’s a bad thing because they think that the USSR is this magical place where everything was amazing. That’s the USSR they’ve seen on TV and heard about at school. That USSR – you’d want to go there, too, even though it never existed anywhere except Russian propaganda and the minds of left-wing academics in the US.

There’s this old Soviet joke where a woman was really fed up with her alcoholic husband. She found a dead cat in the street, brought it home, and put it in her husband’s jar of moonshine, hoping that seeing the dead animal would put him off the brew.

But when she came home after work, she found her husband squeezing out the cat’s corpse over the jar, saying, “Come on, kitty! Give me just one more drop, shall you?”

I always remember this joke when I see “the January 6 insurrection” pop up on the news again.

Now I know where Zelensky gets it:

It’s one of those quirks of history that Joe Biden got a chance for a replay of that moment with today’s Menachem Begin.

The 17 Magazine list of “books every girl needs to read before she turns 17” includes a love story of two gay boys and a story of a boy coming out as queer nonbinary. Not only are all the books on the list painfully devoid of literary merit, they also teach the young readers the great feminist lesson that women of all ages must constantly preoccupy themselves with the problems of men.

It’s great to see all these feminist advances coming at us from every direction.

A local library is introducing a new children’s book at the park:

“People and bodies” is a slip but it reveals a lot. This is a mentality that sees people and bodies as two separate categories.

Diversity, in this worldview, means different-looking bodies that house identical people. Of course, that’s impossible because a person and that person’s body are the same thing. Diversity policies keep failing as a result of this unrealistic belief.

This way of thinking also produces the idea of mismatched bodies with people inside them who are suffering because of the mismatch.

It creates the idea of addiction and depression being the result of a glitch in the body that is unconnected to the actions of people.

The utterly misguided belief that people and bodies are different things drives a lot of the ills we experience.

This rule is true for any area of life:

If there’s an expression or a phrase that suddenly appears and everybody starts to repeat it, it’s probably propaganda.

15 days to slow the curve, life-saving care, black and brown bodies, until you fix the 2020 election, a threat to our democracy, slow-walking us into WW3.

All these rapidly propagating cliches aim to take away our own thinking process. They are comfortable and pleasing but they turn us into easily programmable robots. This willing self-robotization is far more dangerous than any AI.

The new talking point has dropped. Now let’s see what subservient Americans will repeat the “dragging the Ukraine conflict out” slogan like trained poodles.

It’s really funny how after “winning the Cold War” the very people who most celebrated this “win” are repeating the TASS directives like they are God’s word.

I can’t tell you, people, how much psychological and physical good the hobby of decorating my bullet journal brings me.

I say physical because it’s been hot like the dickens around here, and I’m keeping my blood pressure very normal by virtue of 1,5-2 hours of journal decorating a day.

For those who are wondering, the hobby consists in decorating a notebook with stickers, washi tape, colored markers, little drawings, and to-do lists. I bought a bunch of winter time stickers, and they are really helping to distract me from the weather.