Author: Cathie from Canada

Here’s a few clips of funny stuff, and some animals that impress me greatly! Basel Zoo. Switzerland: You gotta be kidding me… pic.twitter.com/77tFEEsyzX — Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) April 19, 2022 Elephant prankster 🐘 😂 wait for it! pic.twitter.com/3twqZVMpPL — CCTV_IDIOTS (@cctv_idiots) April 23, 2022 Elephant says thank you after the

  Here is Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian band BoomBox singing in Kyiv. And here are other beautiful versions too: Around 300 Lithuanians came together to sing with Ukrainian refugee Eliza Izmalkova. Together, they performed a Ukrainian folk song popularised by Andriy Khlyvnyuk, leader of the Ukrainian band Boombox.#SlavaUkraini #SlavaUkrayini

What a great smile! Olena is an officer in Ukraine’s 128th Mountain Assault Brigade – the Transcarpathian Legion. Photo is from this tweet. There’s a tweeter in Kyiv, Yaroslava Antipina, who posts every morning as she sips her coffee, and she calls this #warcoffee. She is now joined by dozens

  Artwork found here.  Our daughter asked me today for a short re-cap of why Russia started this terrible war in the first place – did they really think their nation was in danger of attack by Nazis? Did they really think they were threatened by NATO?  So to begin

Picasso said  “What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.” So tonight

Well, the other day Pierre Poilievre changed his twitter bio to call himself “candidate for Prime Minister of Canada” — dumb, of course, because Canadians do not elect their Prime Minister directly and Poilievre should know this, he’s been a federal politician his entire adult life after all.  Of course Twitter rocked

I don’t know where it was taken or when, but this is one of the Ukraine photos Zelenskyy shared in a recent Ukrinform post. The news of the day is that the Battle of Donbast is beginning. Here’s the area where it will be fought: This map is from Markos, showing

My theme tonight is from a Maya Angelou quote: ““Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” First, the Ukraine refugee crisis had topped 5 million: UPDATED!!! (4/15/2022) MORE THAN FIVE MILLION HAVE LEFT UKRAINE!#Ukraine #UkraineUnderAttack Ukraine Refugees Dashboard 👇👇👇 Click on the linkhttps://t.co/eyE68wj2hB

So many of my posts are about wars and politics. Here’s some tweets I have assembled from the “lighter side” that everyone will enjoy, I hope: I love watching the younger generations grow up and come into their own. If you’re very patient you can catch the exact moment they

Does anyone remember the time Vice President Dan Quayle mangled the United Negro College Fund line “A mind is a terrible thing to waste” when he said ” What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that

DeAdder does such great cartoons, doesn’t he.  And yes, I also believe that the only reason Elon Musk is interested in Twitter is because Trump desperately wants to tweet again. Here’s another related comment: I remember when “free speech” was a progressive, forward-thinking movement that overcame puritan restrictions on things

(Image from Daily Kos) A few weeks ago, in response to someone’s tweet about Russia vehicle movements in Ukraine, I replied “Spring is coming”.  It seemed to confuse people – they didn’t understand what I meant.  First, it was a minor homage to the ominous “winter is coming” line from

Russian warship, go fuck yourself! In the last two days, we’re had news that Ukraine hit an important north-eastern railway line over a bridge outside of Belgorod, Russia. Earlier, we heard they hit a fuel depot also in this city.  Then today Ukraine scuttled the warship Moskva in the Black

I love this photo, from this tweet. Carefully and cautiously, the United States appears to be taking a larger and more direct role in the Russia Ukraine War.  I’m not sure whether this will end up being a good thing for Biden and the world — Jen Psaki has been

  Photo from this tweet. I wasn’t feeling very well today — I did my first rapid test, luckily negative (though then I read this, so we’ll see) — but for safety’s sake I decided not to go out and so I just got some extra rest, so I didn’t

A Paris painting by street artist Seth (photo by Chesnot). It struck me today just how many people around the world are doing whatever we can to help Ukraine.  For example, like the European street artists in the story linked above. And like myself — I’m a retired administrator half a

I just saw this great photo from Brandi Morin’s great piece last week in the Toronto Star, showing Dr. Wilton Littlechild celebrating in Rome after Pope Francis apologized for the residential schools. Morin writes: I ran outside to the square after the apology, and the weight was suddenly lifted from

Tonight’s photo: the children’s play area at Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art. The Museum has transformed itself to aid Ukrainian refugees Tonight I don’t have much that is “new” in the Russia Ukraine War — just a miscellaneous collection of odds and ends, tweets and stories.  Overall, Ukraine has been making

A fascinating “history” of the Russia Ukraine War: A day by day timelapse of the approximate situation of the war in Ukraine so far. The situation at 00:00 UTC each day. pic.twitter.com/8MxF1ndN4y — Ukraine War Map (@War_Mapper) April 7, 2022 Here’s some other interesting pieces today:  Mark Sumner “Looking behind

The Switchblade drones now on their way to the Ukraine Army will likely be gamechangers for the Ukrainian defense. And offense. U.S. Drones for #Ukraine Will Include Latest Tank Killers. The newest model versions can destroy Russian tanks & artillery. The Flying Shotgun is part of new $300M Pentagon order.