Today, the Eurovision Song Contest 2024's semi-finals are held; three rounds to go until the finals on May 11th.

Eurovision as a whole goes on a lot longer than for three days, but it is during those three days that the majority of people tune in, turn on their television sets, laptops or smartphones to watch a bunch of people dressed up in various crimes against fashion sing and dance riotously.

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Okay, so I watched A24's Civil War last Wednesday. How much of what I predicted here came true? As it turns out, I was wrong on a couple of points, but right on many others, with one particular stand-out panning out worse than I expected.

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Ordinarily I label the titles of my journals with the present date. This time around, I'm projecting ahead by a year. Because today is not only the twelfth day of Christmas, but also the three-year anniversary of an attempted coup in the United States of America, and 2024 shall be an especially fraught election year for it.

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Over the last month, I have struggled to write a journal regarding the Hamas-led attack upon Southern Israel on October 07th 2023, and all that has followed. In these past few years, I've posted a number of journals pertaining to current events, typically headlined by a title including the place and year.

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I am two or three days late to this party, therefore I shall be brief.

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Apologies for the Scrolldroll watermark at the bottom-right of the image, but this is the best one I could find which included both the quote in a neat font and a headshot of Jared Harris, portraying Valery Legasov in HBO's Chernobyl.

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Unlike previous journals that I have written on the topic, the full extent of the suffering's potential has not yet come to pass here, but it may well soon. Possibly by next week.

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I thought long and hard as to whether I'd have anything to write today, the first-year anniversary of the Trumpian right-wing coup attempt in Washington D.C.

Sadly, nothing much comes to my mind. Nothing any smarter or more insightful than, of all things, a reference to Kazakhstan.

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