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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2023 02:09:01 JST 
simsa04
You're not alone in this :-) My myopia gets better due to, well, "older" age. I wouldn't be suprised to find out that we are about the same age. Which makes us useful fossils in times of everchanging new hypes on the web that we may just remind people to pretty much sound the same like in the 1980s and 1990s... :-) Thank goodness nobody's listening.
And yes, the advice we didn't listen too. As I didn't listen to not staring directly into the sun. Which I loved to do from time to time when I was a teen. And now that. Sorry, mum. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2023 01:44:13 JST
simsa04
Yes, elbinario is on my mind but your efforts need mention too!
I hope your eyesight won't deteriorate any further. I can relate to it as mine suffered significantly in the past years due to a cataract in both eyes. It's still managable, and the ophthalmologist suggests not to do a surgery right now. But it makes daily life cumbersome, like I look around in a room filled with cigarette smoke. Sometimes during work I rather have to feel than see the dirt I'm rinsing off the dishes ;-)
Perhaps our parents have been right back then: Don't sit too close to the TV (or monitor) screen, it'll hurt your eyes, the admonition went. And obviously we didn't listen.
All the best to you! -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2023 01:30:56 JST
simsa04
@administrator
Long time no talk to each other :-)
I hope you are well. As always thank you for the efforts you put into gs.net. It's a very fond place of mine and I'm glad that you keep it running. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2023 20:54:22 JST
simsa04
It was down at about 1:30 AM, according to https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/, i.e., after the regular nightly backup of the database. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2023 18:50:30 JST
simsa04
And gnusocial.net is back. Thank you, @administrator for this night shift. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 26-Jan-2023 18:17:21 JST
simsa04
My landlord is going to sell my flat – and I guess I'll lose it like I lost the last one 8 1/2 years ago when the heirs of my late landlady sold the house in which I lived. Still shivering when remembering the traumatic experiences of being expelled back then. So, it's all over again. Welcome back existential angst. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 03:22:26 JST
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Thank you for pointing to it. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 03:19:24 JST
simsa04
Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has passed away.
(image: Nara Centennial Hall, in Nara, Japan) https://gnusocial.net/attachment/5c14df2b84af704734b12a3a950c0c9cfeb311d78ecd06cd509485d27026968d/view -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 00:17:56 JST
simsa04
This amount of words I can no longer remember... -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 00:16:19 JST
simsa04
@davebonta
I'm not a poetry person, so I don't relate to poems. That's why I even more like your miniatures catching sceneries around your porch and surrounding nature. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@davebonta/109603143780554981 is a nice example of this. Two sentences that speak more to me than any outworn haiku. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 21:24:03 JST
simsa04
Is Bradley M. Kuhn in the fediverse? Any handle of his? -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 09:11:11 JST
simsa04
Ben Lynfield, "Israel swears in Benjamin Netanyahu amid concerns of further slide to right" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/29/israel-swears-in-benjamin-netanyahu-amid-fears-of-further-slide-to-right
This new Israeli government is a catastrophe. Not just with regard to the relationship with the Palestinians and its settlement policy but for Israel as a democratic state.
For one, Netanyahu aligned himself with the supremacist, racist, theocratic Jewish right and brought them into power, a breach of taboo. And second, the Netanyahu government intends to change the democratic nature of the state of Israel itself, thereby revealing its authoritarian character and goals:
« The government also declared it a priority to pass legislation enabling the Knesset to override supreme court decisions, thereby removing a major check on its power. »
A major problem is that Netanyahu opened the door to people with a theocratic understandsing of land and state, making compromises with Arabs and Palestinians impossible. Now the land, the whole land, is sacred, and settleing on the whole land the way to redeem soil and land. Sharing it with others becomes outright impossible. And the IDF, responsible for protecting all Israeli, will have to protect the messianic Jews in the territories.
This is such an awful development for the whole Middle East. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 01:45:13 JST
simsa04
https://twitter.com/ahistoryinart/status/1608496683624562688
« 'Liverpool: America Dock.' (1955) Christopher Chamberlain painted what he knew, never veering from his individual style for the sake of fashion. This is an uncharacteristic work as it includes several figures - he preferred unpeopled landscapes. »
. https://gnusocial.net/attachment/aa75bb91249df079e126b2baeb906bb3c9e1dc19a4e5dbd3cab87a752eaadb3b/view -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 07:01:28 JST
simsa04
Betsy McKay, Thomas Grove, & Rob Barry, "The Russian Billionaire Selling Putin’s War to the Public" https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-billionaire-selling-putins-war-ukraine-11669994410
« Yuri Kovalchuk, for decades a close friend of the Russian leader, shares Mr. Putin’s vision of Russia as a powerful military and cultural counterpoint to the U.S., people who know him say. The billionaire and Mr. Putin have met frequently since the start of the war in February, and also talk by phone or video, according to a friend of the Kovalchuk family as well as to a former Russian intelligence official.
Mr. Putin has long relied on an inner circle of trusted allies to run businesses in the most critical sectors of the Russian economy. Mr. Kovalchuk stands out both for his personal relationship with the president and for his role in shaping public opinion, according to financial and court documents and interviews with former intelligence officials and friends and associates of the billionaire. » -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 06:15:32 JST
simsa04
Yaroslav Trofimov, "How Far Do Putin’s Imperial Ambitions Go?" (June 2022) https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-far-do-putins-imperial-ambitions-go-11656085978
« [R]ussia’s imperialism blurs the distinction between what constitutes a colony and the home country. Over the centuries, Russia absorbed many of its immediate neighbors, often resorting to physical extermination rising to the level of genocide, and imposed its language and culture.
[...]
Moscow began its colonial expansion after freeing itself in 1480 from the Mongol Golden Horde. Muscovy served as the Mongols’ principal tax collector and agent in Russian lands in previous centuries. Once it gained independence, it adopted many of the methods of war and elements of statecraft that once allowed the Mongols [...] to conquer much of the known (and exponentially wealthier and more technologically advanced) world. Turning cities that refused to submit into rubble, such as what happened this year in Ukraine’s Mariupol, was the Mongols’ trademark tactic.
A powerful current of Russia’s political thought, the so-called Eurasianists, holds that the Russian state is a natural heir of the Mongol empire that is finally ending a three-century-long flirtation with Europe that began when Peter the Great launched a wholesale westernization of the Russian state and society. “Peter the Great opened the window to Europe. Putin closed it. We’ve aired enough,” goes one meme currently making the rounds on Russian social media. » -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 01:25:31 JST
simsa04
There is some text after the word you mention. And its thrust is not only (or: not just) disagreement with the overall point the author makes but the assessment that the author's justification is troublesome. Perhaps you didn't get that aspect over my rather harsh wording? -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 23:46:31 JST
simsa04
Fanatics. Using an injustice to justify their own. That is what vigilantes and cult members like the Clan do. You're not better than those you fight against. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 07:22:24 JST
simsa04
Good to hear. And the same to you. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 06:03:45 JST
simsa04
@band Stay warm, stay safe! -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 10:13:15 JST
simsa04
https://twitter.com/maxfras/status/1605706594565718018
« The leader of the free world and Joe Biden »
. https://gnusocial.net/attachment/6c140018c8100bb0040c44c0feee877bb3d4da37448c60d0ee32554bf527cbf9/view
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