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Cheer corner: how to cope with the new world order (with kittens) Cheer corner: how to cope with the new world order (with kittens)
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13:01
At least one is topical. Look how tiny the dog’s hands are.
@StuHeritage "Pepper" mixes the drinks for guests pic.twitter.com/auB1fvGOnw
1.00pm GMT
13:00
This dog has stolen my heart, and all my immediate plans because what’s the point of anything any more.
@stuheritage I've looked through my phone and this is the cutest picture I have, of my dog in a blanket. Hope it helps. pic.twitter.com/acWwEeSG4Z
12.58pm GMT
12:58
It’s like they know, isn’t it? It’s like they understand, and they’re consoling themselves.
@stuheritage only otters can help on a day like this. pic.twitter.com/VOoqxfwGsZ
12.53pm GMT
12:53
Mary Hamilton
In response to the growing calls for pandas, here are pandas on a slide in 2012, when everything seemed very different.
12.51pm GMT
12:51
Sure, I spent some of yesterday contributing to a President Hillary supplement that’ll never see the light of day now, and today I’ve been reduced to posting animal photos online just to fruitlessly stave off the waves of crippling hopelessness that I find myself helpless against, but whatever. Here’s a funny pig. Pigs, LOL.
@stuheritage @guardian a tiny, smiling pig. If you don't smile you're officially dead inside pic.twitter.com/g37IYCoQg5
12.48pm GMT
12:48
Meanwhile, in potentially good news (for Europe at least) that’ll never happen because she never put a sausage in her bum like she promised after Brexit, low-grade UK-based irritant Katie Hopkins has to leave now:
If Donald Trump wins the race to the White House I'm moving to America. Daring to bare what some people really think. #DonaldTrump
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12.42pm GMT
12:42
Oh, now I feel bad for losing my temper. Here’s a different kitten video, even though it ultimately changes nothing.
12.41pm GMT
12:41
I’ve been inundated with requests for more kittens in this liveblog. Here you go, then. Here are your kittens. Happy now? Are you happy now?
12.37pm GMT
12:37
Right, don’t worry. Had a little slip there, but I’m fine. Everything’s fine. Everything’s fine. Here’s a video about how to achieve a picture-perfect smile. Remember smiling?
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Thanks for the suggestion, commenter hrafnkat! Quokkas are happy animals. Lovely happy animals. There there.Thanks for the suggestion, commenter hrafnkat! Quokkas are happy animals. Lovely happy animals. There there.
12.26pm GMT12.26pm GMT
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Maybe cake will help. I know, maybe cake shaped like cats and dogs will help. I know, maybe cake shaped like the world’s saddest cats and dogs will help. Oh god, look at their eyes. Their big sad eyes. They know, don’t they? They know what we’ve done. They know, even though they’re cake. They’re just cake. But THEY KNOW and THEY’RE SAD. WHAT HAVE WE DONE? Maybe cake will help. I know, maybe cake shaped like cats and dogs will help. I know, maybe cake shaped like the world’s saddest cats and dogs will help. Oh God, look at their eyes. Their big sad eyes. They know, don’t they? They know what we’ve done. They know, even though they’re cake. They’re just cake. But THEY KNOW and THEY’RE SAD. WHAT HAVE WE DONE?
12.22pm GMT Updated
12:22 at 12.37pm GMT
Mary Hamilton
A helpful primer from the NYT on how to combine pets and self-care.
12.20pm GMT
12:20
Mary Hamilton
Tiny huskies! In particular, their ears. Good work again, dogs.
@newsmary I have these on my phone to look at at any given time I need to believe good innocent things exist! Sharing the joy.. pic.twitter.com/WdXpk9N7cx
12.19pm GMT
12:19
Time for some happy news!
Kamala Harris has become California’s first black senator!
Ilhan Omar has become America’s first Somali-American Muslim woman legislator!
California has legalised marijuana!
Nobody can tell if this is a dog or a cat!
Scientists still believe that or world is likely to be a simulation created by a more sophisticated form of intelligence, which means that none of us are real, and nothing can hurt if we aren’t real, so that’s something I suppose, oh for god’s sake please let all of this just be a simulation!
12.04pm GMT
12:04
Loads of dogs. Look at them. Look at all the dogs. That’s something, isn’t it? Those dogs. I mean Jesus Christ.
Oh God. This is real, isn’t it? It’s happened. It’s happened and there’s nothing we can do about it. It really happened.
Dogs. That’s something, though, isn’t it? Woo for dogs.
11.59am GMT
11:59
Yep, this works. Mushroom Cat. Look at Mushroom Cat. Mushroom Cat can save us. Only Mushroom Cat. Lead us through the void, Mushroom Cat.
@stuheritage Mushroom cat alert for #cheercorner https://t.co/NSgicZkSKf
11.53am GMT
11:53
I mean, I’ve listened to it and it doesn’t, but it’s still probably slightly better than the howling vortex of unstoppable anguish that is the rest of the world right now.
@stuheritage Cow & Gate have created a song that makes babies happy. Maybe it works on grown ups too? https://t.co/XcRsxp4WhQ
11.50am GMT
11:50
Talking about the Dharma Initiative reminded me of Lost. Ah, remember Lost? Good times. Good times.
11.47am GMT
11:47
Mary Hamilton
An anon friend just sent me the Wikihow article on how to calm down. THE ILLUSTRATIONS.
11.46am GMT
11:46
I’ve been watching this show on Cbeebies a lot lately. I’ve convinced myself that if I play this particular song over and over again, it’ll have some sort of Dharma Initiative-style brainwashing effect on me, and I’ll forget that anything else in the world apart from this song exists, and finally I’ll be happy. Worth a shot, right?
11.41am GMT
11:41
Mary Hamilton
SteveGalley, in the comments, asks for baby pigs. So far the purest form of calm I’ve managed to find on this topic is this video of a baby pot-bellied pig playing with a pug. Stick with it, the pug gets into it.