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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 11:24:36 JST 
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I don't believe in life before death. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 03:24:16 JST
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... when group morals replace individual, personal morals.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 08:22:36 JST
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♪ Gregor A. Mayrhofer, "Recycling Concerto" (perc.: Vivi Vassileva; conductor: Krzysztof Urbański; hr-Sinfonieorchester) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSJZl1cNU8c
Yay! Do you hear the borrowing of the Gershwin tune in the first minute? :-) Vivi Vassileva in full classical concert setting, astounding.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 25-Dec-2025 08:11:20 JST
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♪ Gregor A. Mayrhofer, "Reycling Concerto" (Percussion: Vivi Vassileva) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMTbX3UXJ_A
Vivi Vassileva becomes the third of my favourite experimental musicans, joining Fátima Miranda (singer) and Iva Bittová (violinist, singer). Their "voices" are surprisingly akin.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 08:10:14 JST
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I noticed that many people don't exactly think anti-Semitic stuff, that they often are quite reflective, and that never ever such stuff would cross their mind or leave their mouth. But different from that is their acting anti-Semitically – when they critique without knowledge, when they unknowingly and unwittingly apply double standards, when they stick to their "Progressive Racism" that treats the Palis like wards in need of advocacy while at the same time they put on Jews and Israelis obligations they wouldn't ask of anybody else. When they act like Hamas propagandists, like their bullhorns, when they repeat Hamas talking points, all in the name of their humanism. This difference – thinking anti-Semitically and acting anti-Semitically – and that one may occur without the other, baffles me. It is this discrepancy that makes them appear dishonest to me. Much talk, no walk. The ability to almost willfully miss the contradictions right in front of their eyes.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 21-Dec-2025 07:11:29 JST
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♪ Jacques Brel, "La chanson de Jacky" (1966) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpfPt6emOp0
What a presence in voice and person.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 21-Dec-2025 06:36:19 JST
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Oh. I only now learnt that Stella Chiweshe has passed away on January 20th, 2023. She was a masterful Mbira player, fusing classical Zimbabwean music and western style beats.
From her album "Ambuya?" (1987): "Njuzu" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_bXfZ7zuiA "Chapfudzapasi" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8F1ALrviw8
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 19-Dec-2025 22:18:48 JST
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Christmas? What Christmas? -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 18:59:26 JST
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Jonathan Watts, "Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/11/economic-growth-no-longer-linked-to-carbon-emissions-in-most-of-the-world-study-finds
That seems to refute 1) "No infinite growth on a finite planet" 2) the claim of Degrowth that only a reduction of production and consumption can cut CEs.
Interesting.
energy #infrastructure #postdoom #sources
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 22:25:46 JST
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Nathan Standley & Sam Francis, "UK will rejoin Erasmus student scheme in 2027" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4ng7ee9vwo
«Britons will be able to spend a year studying at European universities as part of their UK degree courses without paying extra fees, and vice versa for European students.»
YES! Wonderful! And I love how the UK and Continental Europe piece by piece return to a semi-membership of the UK in the EU without calling it that way. Let the klutzes have their "Brexit" and Farage and Johnson dance around the bonfire of their Pyrrhic victory, it doesn't matter. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 22:15:46 JST
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I figure that. And the changes won't be that good, I presume. One big pustule at a time. https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/9be412fa2b699a84594714e9f581529698ccdc91a4639383f3c7a8a0e7d47bda/view -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 21:17:02 JST
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You sure do know how to make your day lovely. :-) -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Dec-2025 09:27:02 JST
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John Kemp has published his 2025 reading list of books and articles on #energy, #infrastructure, and history https://jkempenergy.com/favourite-reads/
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Dec-2025 10:16:31 JST
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Someone asked me how to criticize Israel without being accused of anti-Semitism. Here are my four rules of thumb. Try them and you'll quickly see how little you actually know. And how much moralizing stepped in as substitute and turned your critique into emotinal scapegoating. https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/46be3e9ba2f54b10170901ac936b0009a41b1ffa6439ecef5d256cc9cff64087/view -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Dec-2025 06:50:15 JST
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The function of virulent anti-Semitism (left-wing, right-wing, Islamist) is to legitimize socially acceptable anti-Semitism. It is for that reason that virulent anti-Semitism is always declared to be criticism of Israel and freedom of expression. It masks accepted anti-Semitism. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 06:22:33 JST
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Well, thank you for the good wishes regarding frost and snow flurries. In fact, I love the frost, even snow flurries, but give me British rainy weather, cold, cats and mouses pouring, fog, mist, etc., and I blossom. Perhaps it's in part not by birthday but lineages of ancestry some of which stem from North Norway (Tromsø), others from Kalinigrad. Anyway, give me puddles and mud, and I live; hand me dry weather with temperatures above 25° C, and I get depressed and want to stay indoors until late autumn.
I can see how you combine being a night owl with lamenting about short days as their constraints run counter to your preferred lifestyle. (Me as a 3 AM-er as well, I don't have such quarrels as I can often start work late in the morning.) And with regard to the time of birthday, I have been noticing in freinds and relatives some seeming correlation of birthday and preferred time of the years as well as the weather. But perhaps I have just been lucky.
Cheers to you, and many cups of strong coffee to get you started at unbearable times. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 01:35:40 JST
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As the suits, and the fashion in general, are so much better than in "Matrix". As is the story that does not indulge in this schmaltzy celebration of crypto-fascist martial-arts-Jesus-saviour-of-the-world propaganda. "Matrix" merely overwhelmed with its show-off of visual effects; but "Dark City" really left me astounded for its creativity and profundity. A bit like "Brazil", as both carry seriousness in a strangely light manner. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 00:55:05 JST
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I can understand that you hate being aligned with natural cycles, esp. when at times workload makes you hurry and busy. But on the other hand I think it's very nice that you're so close to natural rhythms – even when it involves or makes use of electronic devices. Which reminds me of older debates we had in my youth and early adulthood on what constitutes the more authentical experience of nature, unfiltered and unmitigated, solely by the senses and the body, or by the use of technical means? (We indeed had such discussions in the early 1980s, and a bit later, when even thoughts of abandonment of technolgy for ecological reasons sounded viable and reasonable.) But your attunement also shows in your question. To me it's pretty obvious that the period from autumn to winter feels shorter than the one from winter to spring because of the shorter amount of daylight per day from autumn equinox to winter solistice and longer amount of daylight from winter solictice to spring equinox. And it also sounds like you're not a night owl who indulges in late night activities. So, yes, the days feel shorter because there are fewer hours of daylight, compared to days feeling longer because there are more hourse of daylight. To me, autumn and winter is the best time of the year, perhaps because I was born in November, and the "Raunächte" (the 12 nights between December 25 to January 6) being the most wonderful days of the year in which I live in a dream-like state between the old and the new year. And the time of the year I most dislike is early summer to late summer. Too much light, too many colours, to much heat... So that may be a further reason of your feeling uncomfortable: Perhaps it has something to do with your date of birth. If it is, e.g., around early summer, then it sems obvious, to me at least, that as a newborn you must have been delighted to bath in light and colours and warmth. But that is only a suggestion. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 12:36:56 JST
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♪ Billy Bragg, "Between the Wars" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQgkF_FsO4
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 12:36:42 JST
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♪ Billy Bragg, "Between the Wars" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQgkF_FsO4
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