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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 10:48:49 JST simsa03

There is, I guess, a need for the graves and the horrors that are kept alive, almost dormant, in these lacunae, the pits of remembrance. In all their brutality, they serve a purpose. They seem to be needed, which is why every generation returns to them, digs deeper, digs anew. Without them, not.

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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 10:35:42 JST simsa03

Wrote this on February 28, 2022. https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/d27349d98eb9ddcbed99c8940afb6718b4b1966cdd7b698559cd6e5ef43b756d/view
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 10:27:40 JST simsa03

"My obsession had been that we should have [...] an anti-utopian revolution, because utopias lead to the guillotine and the gulag."

—Adam Michnik

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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 10:21:16 JST simsa03
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♪ Leonard Cohen, "Avalanche" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f0ADuVJhYQ

The first song I heard from Cohen. And I always return to it. All other songs: nice, interesting, effective, canny, but reutilisations of the template set by "Avalanche": The tension arising from guitar, strings and the voice bridging both.

!listening
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  Leonard Cohen - Avalanche (Official Audio)Listen on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/lc_spotify Listen on Apple Music: http://smarturl.it/lc_apple Amazon: http...
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 05:08:39 JST simsa03

"The overwhelming majority (approximately 80%) of reported cases of sexual abuse of minors [by Catholic priests] occurred in the United States." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sex_abuse_cases_in_the_United_States#Scope_and_nature_of_the_problem

The pope stems from Chicago. Still they selected him. Incredible.
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  Catholic Church sex abuse cases in the United States
  
  There have been many lawsuits, criminal prosecutions, and scandals over sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in the United States of America. The issue of child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests was first publicized in 1985 when a Louisiana priest pleaded guilty to 11 counts of molestation of boys. It was again brought to national attention in 2002 following a series of publications by The Boston Globe. As it became clear that there was truth to many of the allegations and that there was a pattern of cover-ups in several large dioceses across the United States, the issue became a nationwide scandal, creating a crisis for the Catholic Church in the United States. Though the sex abuse cases are not unique in comparison to other countries, the sex abuse crisis in the United States is more conspicuous due to the behavior and reaction (or lack thereof) from the clergy and the Vatican. Allegations in the United States also encouraged victims in other nations to come forward, rapidly creating a global crisis for the Church. Over many decades, priests and lay members of religious orders in the Roman Catholic Church had sexually abused children, principally boys...
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 04:51:04 JST simsa03

Have you ever seen the moon in neon light? That's how this world now appears to me after the cataract surgery. I'm so done with looking. I want my cataract back.

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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 15:17:57 JST simsa03

Without Germany and Chancellor Merz facing (instead of dismissing) demands by Poland of reparations for the damages done in WW II, there will be no unified and strong Europe as tensions will keep simmering between both nations. For a solidly united Europe with an identity no longer forged by the past but by common aspirations for the future, the topic of reparations and justice need to be openly spoken about and settled. Sad that Chancellor Merz already missed that opportunity.

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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 07-May-2025 12:20:03 JST simsa03

«The older I get, the more I hear people's thoughts and think "Sweetie, you're not experiencing abuse, you're experiencing life, and what you really need to get rid of is your main character syndrome", but at the same time it's getting easier to see the humour in it all»

—268daysofrain

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  The older I get, the more I hear people's thoughts and think "Sweetie, you're not experiencing abuse, you're experiencing life, and what you really need to get rid of is your main character syndrome", but at the same time it's getting easier to see the humour in it all
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 07-May-2025 12:13:17 JST simsa03
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@tinydoctor You need to watch Shin'ya Shokudō / Midnight Diner. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Diner_(Japanese_TV_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin%27ya_Shokud%C5%8D)

I'm watching season 1 and 2 right now and it reconciles me with my restaurant industry career...
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  Shin'ya Shokudō
  
  Shin'ya Shokudō (深夜食堂, lit. 'Midnight Diner'), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yarō Abe. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original Zōkan from October 2006 to August 2007, before being transferred to Big Comic Original in August 2007. Its chapters have been collected in 29 wide-ban volumes as of November 2024. It is about a late-night diner, open from midnight to dawn, and its eccentric patrons. It was adapted into a Japanese television drama, directed by Joji Matsuoka and starring Kaoru Kobayashi as the Master, and ran for three seasons from 2009 to 2014. A live-action film premiered in 2015. Netflix Japan produced a fourth season and a second live-action film in 2016, and a fifth season in 2019. The series was also adapted...
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 11:21:49 JST simsa03
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(stylish socks)

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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 11:21:02 JST simsa03
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Good to hear, but heed Mrs. Dr. Omed's orders :-) (And please pass on to her my regards.)

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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 09:16:01 JST simsa03

New blog post: "Losing Sight" https://simsa01.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/losing-sight/
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  I recently lost sight. No, I’m not blind. I didn’t lose my eyesight, although I lost my natural lenses due to cataract surgeries. Both, for each eye, went well. Nothing to complain about that…
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 04:02:11 JST simsa03
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Yay! Welcome back, esteemed cyborg. And what a great ornament you have on your ear. But tell me, prior to the surgery, why did they cover your bald head and not your beard? Clinics are strange places...

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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 20:27:29 JST simsa03
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@tinydoctor See you on the othe rside, cyborg.

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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 04:39:06 JST simsa03

Lois Beckett (text) & Thalia Juarez (photographs), "The landscape artist who makes her paint from pearls, crystals and volcanic dust" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2025/may/04/landscape-artist-su-yu-xin-handmade-pigments

An artist who is not covered because of the quality, topics, or techniques of her art but the fanciness of her materials. Sigh. That's what you expect from The Guardian.
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  The landscape artist who makes her paint from pearls, crystals and volcanic dust
  
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  Su Yu-Xin scours mines and federal lands for materials to carefully craft her own pigments in a Los Angeles workspace that’s part studio, part science lab
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 03:19:50 JST simsa03

Oh wow, I didn't know that Michel Ventura has a "new" book out: "Edendale" (2023)

book review: https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2024-03-01/book-review-edendale-by-michael-ventura/
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  Former “Letters at 3am” columnist celebrates the early days of Hollywood in new novel
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 03:11:01 JST simsa03
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It occurs to me that every protest rally you attend becomes a rainy one. Perhaps you should stage protest rallies in arid areas around the world, kind of "travelling rain man missionary tent show"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VarURT-pH8o
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 03:03:39 JST simsa03
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Yep. I only learnt about the better, blue spectre filtering lenses afterwards, in a conversation with somebody else. As I learnt from another, astonished person whom I met a few days after my first surgery that I should wear UV-filtering sun glasses. Neither doctor recommened this to me and only after I bought some did I feel some relief.

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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 02:49:36 JST simsa03
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"The grief is worse than the knee pain. How do we manage without turning away, closing eyes?"

I guess like in love. We learn to care without looking, otherwise we'd care because of some specific qualities or oddities. We learnt (I guess) that that's something one shouldn't do in love either: to "love" somebody for their qualities. You just do, because it's that person. Same with care: You do, simply because it's that world. We cannot but... The main thing is to dismantle in us what hinders us to let care do its own thing... Or so I think.

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