Aw, Ukraine! I have an old friend in Kyiv. ..Well, had? I don't know if she fled or survived.
We were at Miss Bimbo together,
in 2008. A game/forum where you'd dress your character and make a home and profile page, and people would stop by and befriend you.
Incoming members were encouraged to build a virtual life, and if successful in the community, you'd get a gold trophy! (lol, yea, some pixels!
So I did my first daily magazine on my profile page there. ..to be a publisher, observer & humorist, one who helps in a community. It's what I had in me to do, and MB provided means.
So I posted a daily update on community goings on, and some light amusment.
And I was discovering the internet! where people from all over (2 million of them) would make their home and hang out and trade stories, and use a translator if needed.
It was an amazing new thing to me! a community far flung yet all in one place, and all with such interesting differences to discover!
There was a forum too, along with the member profiles across the globe to explore.
And they had contests and games people together. A lot of fun was going on! It was tremendous.
But our Ukrainian friend's country was IP-blocked from posting outside the Russian sphere. I e-mailed her an Anonymizer so she could circumvent, but she disappeared!
Her name is Alla Ishchuck. We called her Grunya.
She had an interesting social life, attending Embassy parties, doing much traveling, buying a hundred bikinis, lol
And I had great experience learning of their holidays and traditions, to write for one of my many magazines I used to do.
Aw. She may not even have made it out!
MONSTER Putin!
NEEDS TO BE STOPPED!
I also have treasured friends in Finland, which is applying to NATO now, because Putin is threatening them.
This is upsetting. Isn't it bad enough we wrecked the climate, have the plague, and my country is careening into moronism & self-destruction?
Do we really need a fresh rash of despotic POS's threatening war, too?
Does the whole world's surface have to be infected with right wing disease!!!