A really good lunch was served at the International Day. I ate but then the Russian speaker started her talk about the Russian propaganda, putting up photos of the Russian propagandists on the screen. So now I’m on the verge of throwing up.

The International Day is extraordinarily non-woke. I’m on the fourth speaker so far, and not a single slogan has been unfurled. It’s a very strange experience to hear several talks in a row by completely normal people.

The director of our International Studies is Eastern European, which explains the normality of the invitees.

Also, I talked to the Russian dissident at our event, and she says she worked with the Russian chief propagandist Solovyov back in the 2000s. I asked her if my memory of him as quite anti-Putin and pro-West is correct, and she confirmed. The guy’s been so rabid that I started to doubt my own memory.

Never forget that famous propagandists don’t believe their own narratives. They are exploiting poor, deluded proles who trust them.

I met with a representative of the deaf community yesterday, and he was the most boisterous, loud person ever. He made no sounds, obviously, but it felt like he did because he had an enormous presence. An amazing, fascinating person.

Yes, but do these dummies actually identify as women? Has anybody bothered to ask or are we OK with blithely midge seeing them?

We have an International Day today (organized and the International Studies, not by me), and there’s a Russian person coming to speak about Ukraine. Yes, she’s a dissident, whatever, but still.

I hope she doesn’t start on how they are living in a dictatorship because I have things to say about that load of complete baloney.

I still miss reading Demon Copperhead. I spend time fondly remembering how I felt when I was reading it. N borrowed the book and took it to his room, and now I feel sad that it’s no longer as close as I want it to be.

This is utterly ludicrous. No child needs to spend more time stuck behind a desk. If you can’t teach them what you need in the preceding 6 hours, additional 30 minutes will simply add to the useless torture.

This is exactly what one would do if one wanted children to hate the very idea of reading.

This is the first Matt Walsh episode I have watched in my life, and I’m shocked by the nature of the children’s shows he describes:

I live in a different world, so I had no idea this existed.

As Walsh says, this kind of thing helps one lose the fear of death. But beyond Walsh’s comments and the incomprehension of people in the comments, the scenes from the actual shows – I can’t even believe this is real.

For those who don’t want to watch the show, it talks about a massively popular YouTube channel for toddlers (yes, I know) that features videos where adults behave in creepy and moronic ways. Not political, not sexual but gosh, I can imagine stuff that’s even woke that’s less soul-crushing that whatever this is.

The one in the middle is from Klara. She gathered them in a field by her school.