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It's catching on! 🚫👑
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15195147/Hundreds-call-Putin-overthrown-huge-gathering-St-Petersburg-rare-display-public-dissent-against-dictator-Ukraines-long-range-strikes-bring-war-home-Russians.html
A massive crowd was seen joining street musicians at Kazanskaya Square to sing banned anti-war lyrics on October 13.
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They chanted in Russian: 'Where have you been for eight years, you f***ing monsters? I want to watch ballet, let the swans dance. Let your grandpa tremble with excitement for Swan Lake.'
Lyrics also include: 'When the czar dies, we'll dance again. The old man still clings to his throne, afraid to let go. Old man in the bunker, still thinks it's nineteen eighty-five.'
The song became something of an anti-war anthem for Russia's youth, who have long detested Putin's regime and his invasion of Ukraine, which is now threatening to harm targets in Russia.
(1) Lyrics to "Swan Lake Cooperative" (with notes, thank goodness)
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/kooperativ-lebedinoye-ozero-swan-lake-cooperat.html

Skittles
(168,201 posts)although I very much understand the sheer courage it takes to protest there (exactly the environment the GOP wants here, too)
wcmagumba
(4,951 posts)Dictators don't want no backtalk...and neither do wannabe dictators like trump in the US...
tclambert
(11,182 posts)CrispyQ
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I'm making a frog sign for my front yard for Saturday. 🐸

wcmagumba
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lamp_shade
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raccoon
(32,089 posts)Passages
(3,764 posts)usonian
(21,738 posts)Last edited Wed Oct 15, 2025, 09:19 PM - Edit history (1)
Daily Double
He's toast -------------------He's Дерьмо.
Trifecta.
Superfecta
Image under reconstruction. Send cash to starving comouter artist.
a kennedy
(34,658 posts)iconic photos with a bunch of fawking assholes.
usonian
(21,738 posts)I can redo from scratch, but it will take time. :hi;
a kennedy
(34,658 posts)Lonestarblue
(13,001 posts)usonian
(21,738 posts)I try to get really appropriate pix off the internet from search.
Some really hit the spot.
Thanks to computer artists and photographers out there!
Others I need to tweak a little.
Great art takes time, and I've been speed-posting lately.
To hasten the demise
Of abominable guys.
Clouds Passing
(6,224 posts)
usonian
(21,738 posts)I tried but hated cleaning brushes.
So computers came along to help me (though I can sketch, sorta).
Enjoy. I can't stop loving it (graphics fun and games).
And yes, I grab stuff off the internet. I'm already late for my lunch thanks to all this posting.
live love laugh
(16,003 posts)slightlv
(6,843 posts)The first step. Three more outer planets to stabilize, and then maybe the healing can begin.... worldwide, one could hope.
fierywoman
(8,446 posts)I started reading astrology in 1990 and remember reading the mundane astrologers of the time talking about how the mid 2020's were going to be QUITE a ride, that the US would be in a crisis and even perhaps split. I still find myself muttering to myself: Wow -- this s--- works!
slightlv
(6,843 posts)My teacher got a kick out of it... and even told me he learned quite a bit from it! I've been into it ever since. I'm in no way an astrologer, but you do this long enough you can read the energies. My biggest disappointment... and it was just my total naivety on display... was I thought when we finally crossed over into the age of Aquarius the progressive, nurturing, caring people of the world would take over the governments and things would be better all the way around for everyone. Like I said... total naivety. I'm an Aquarian... we're the Great Humanitarians, you know. But even I know it's played out on a global scale, not a personal one... which is why in my younger days people often described me as aloof, altho I was really anything but that.
What I find really interesting is a few of the tarot readers I follow, as well as reading my own Thoth deck, tracks with what's happening in the skies almost to a "T". It's scary as hell. Right now, I'm hanging on 'til my birthday... Feb 4th. By then everybody should be settled into the elements they'll occupy for this current generation. And I love the fact that the Tower card keeps creeping closer and closer to trump's personal card. Add to that he's surrounded by the suit of Swords and the Death card, and it gives one pause to hope! I'm ready for at least some of this anxiety I feel to dissipate!
fierywoman
(8,446 posts)Do you know of a British astrologer named Nick Campion? (One of my favorite things that he said was, "Astrology is not a belief system, it's a phenomenon." ) He wrote a book (in the 90's I think, re when the Age of Aquarius starts -- let's just say he makes a compelling argument that one can't really, in good faith, give it a reliable start date.) (He's a wildly, madly crazy smart man.)
... So what I'm trying to say is: don't give up hope.
slightlv
(6,843 posts)I mean, I thought when Pluto hit Aquarius we were going to be there. Nope! Too much going on with the other outer planets. Now, I'm just hoping for a nice birthday present, because by then everything will be going direct... a radical change, in itself. I've heard of Campion, back in the 90's when I was really wanting info on Age of Aquarius. There are a lot of good books out there; but there are a lots of trash, too. That's why I try to back things up by studying it myself. I'm not always right, but when it connects it feels so good!
Bernardo de La Paz
(59,738 posts)slightlv
(6,843 posts)Different kind of energy we're talking about here, but you are absolutely correct in what you say. If the Xtianists (my name for their bastardization of the religion) could think and reason, they'd see that *they* are the evil New World Order they've been screaming about since the 1960's. It wasn't the hippies that did them in... they did it themselves by welcoming the false prophets and Evil right into the front door of their churches. I will say that those of us who feel the static of different energies around us are jumping out of our skins right now. Not only the Evil that pervades us, but the unsettledness of everything.
Bernardo de La Paz
(59,738 posts)slightlv
(6,843 posts)to try to understand... to explain... the manifestations around them. Evil is just one of the manifestations. How it manifests can be understood through where it's manifesting... at least, that's what we've been taught for decades. Do I believe it's all true? Nah... I'm too much of a skeptic for that. But there's enough correspondence out there to make one go "hmmm" too many times. Pluto doesn't do anything. But pluto as a representation of death, the underworld, shows that when the energies of these signs land there, the neutral energy gets shaped. And even you have to admit America is on a death spiral right now. I mean, come on... raining missiles down on his own country? On a state he hates? How much more deathy evil can it get.
Clouds Passing
(6,224 posts)April 2026, if I remember correctly, is the time when they all go direct to stay.
I have a stellium of planets in the 11th house, always been a a utopian.
slightlv
(6,843 posts)I really got into what she was talking about with the Kali-Yuga, and especially the interstellar comet. Thanks for posting!
Clouds Passing
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Joinfortmill
(19,256 posts)Kid Berwyn
(22,161 posts)They deserve it -- and so do we.
We all know what surveillance tech can do.
Blue Owl
(57,666 posts)Gum Logger
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