Vox populi, vox dei.

November in France: new warning signs of impending Noël every time you go out.

TFW your cat gets new meds that WORK and your cat is now 50% more cat.
Meaning it's 50% better at sleeping and more vocal on being woken up by an accidental cough. Or typing too loud.

"Its almost impossible to deprogram the incestually established male oppressor, especially the ones who've been weaned on it thru their family's generations line, die hard NRA freaks and inherited corporate power mongrels[...]. But there are thousands of green minds, young gullible 15 year old boys out there just starting to fall into the grain of what they've been told of what a man is supposed to be, and there are plenty of tools to use. The most effective tool is entertainment."
-Kurt Cobain

Propaganda: you don't have to be a dictatorship to play it!
Le Monde recently published a Russia issue of its Pas de côté series. Calling the war a war, but also: showing Crimea as part of Russia, "annexed" and not "occupied", while humanizing the country by providing a dictionary with words as necessary as babooshka, dacha, or zapoy.
Just before we started seeing the west put some pressure on Ukraine to possibly accept that loss. What a magical timing.

Ohai!

Pure genius, the apex manager.

Please tell me it's not beginning to shape as an argument to at least partially bail out the apartheid emerald mine guy by buying his conflict accelerator "for the sake of humanity".

Yup, I definitely like Lyon.