Notices by simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp), page 3
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 23:42:17 JST 
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In Greek, καταρράκτης means "waterfall". The connection was already established long before Galen. The assumption was that in the development of a cataract substances run down behind the pupil – perhaps what we nowadays call floaters – and that the visual impression was like "seeing through a waterfall". -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 22:56:55 JST
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♪ Barry McGuire, "Eve of Destruction" (1965) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPIcwjFB1PY
Didn't listen to it for decades. I dimly remember that when I was a toddler the teenage nanny used to play it on the turntable, about the time of the first moon landing. It's even more up-to-date than I thought.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 11:42:30 JST
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You give me my right eye, not my left. :-) Perhaps I skip the second surgery? -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 11:32:03 JST
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♪ Chicho Sanchez Ferlosio, "Gallo Rojo, Gallo Negro" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-41zdnkm4GA
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 11:26:50 JST
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♪ "¡Ay Carmela!" (Rolando Alarcon) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xanlmhjf1jc
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 11:22:20 JST
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Yes. And I can't help that I feel strongly the atmospheric difference that like effects my mood. It's almost as intensive as some odour in the air, flashing up memories from past and future. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 11:15:44 JST
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Indeed I am :-) -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 11:14:20 JST
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA6SouZua3s -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 11:00:57 JST
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Ah, and BTW: All the problems with losing the one job, having no unemployment benefits, welfare benefits, housing benefits, and a pending cataract surgery to deal with have been sorted out in time. Took me a lot of bureaucratic surfing to align and sequence all necessary steps and obligations for the employment office, the social welfare office, the housing benefit authority, my health insurance, the medical examinations prior to the surgery in the hospital, but after a lot of criss-crossing the authorities' offices, the doctor's offices, and the scanning of pay slips, bank statements, rent certificates, medical examination results, etc. etc., I'm almost done. Financial support is secured, medical sick leave approved, and only two visits at two offices left to having completed all and everything. Thus the rent is secured and the living conditions are stabilzed. Never had so many different demands to coordinate at the same time. Quite an experience. And I hope that after I'm fully convalesced I can get a new job quickly. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 10:40:16 JST
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I'm glad you did. Waiting for the next move by the regime to close the northern border and prevent US-ians from getting necessary medical care in Canada. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 10:30:36 JST
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Had my first eye surgery last Friday, fixing the cataract in my left eye. The next surgery on my right eye will be in about three weeks. The operation went fine and the hospital stay was pleasant. The only unwonted thing I noticed has been that my "new" eye renders colours in a more bluish and brilliant way while the other, the "old" eye on the right gives me the world in a sort of dirty-yellowish tone. This is an oddly feeling difference. The old eyes bathed the world in a warm light whereas the new eyes seem to render the world in a cold blusih monitor-style light. I already begin to miss my cataract. Perhaps I shouldn't have agreed to the surgery. I wonder how the difference in light sensation will impact my thinking and my sensing of the world. Pity. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 01:30:21 JST
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ADL, "Editing for Hate: How Anti-Israel and Anti-Jewish Bias Undermines Wikipedia’s Neutrality" https://www.adl.org/resources/report/editing-hate-how-anti-israel-and-anti-jewish-bias-undermines-wikipedias-neutrality
« In addition to this multiyear campaign by bad-faith editors to revise Wikipedia’s content on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ADL found evidence of biased and extremist content in Arabic-language Wikipedia. Wikipedia’s rules are not applied consistently outside of some English-language pages, allowing biased pro-Hamas content in the Arabic-language edition.
Pages related to Hamas in Arabic glorify the Palestinian terrorist organization and perpetuate pro-Hamas propaganda, while failing to follow Wikipedia’s rules for neutrality. » -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 07:24:01 JST
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Unbearable: People who declare themselves a victim of the circumstances they themselves created.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 22:47:44 JST
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If you think that #Trump and #Putin act in alliance, then this interview with Yuri Felshtinsky may be of interest to you as it spells out some of the motifs, goals, interconnections, and consequences of such an alliance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFC6shogUw4 -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 19:47:59 JST
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In the Trump trade war, some Canadians suggest to block access to the Canadian website Pornhub from the US https://www.change.org/p/urge-canadian-authorities-to-block-pornhub-access-from-the-usa-during-tariff-dispute
Europeans should side and stop purchasing US weaponry, e.g., F-35 fighter jets, and cancel existing sales contracts. Buy the French Rafale or Swedish Gripen.
Of course, it's nonsense. But just have politicians threaten Trump in offical meetings in presence of the cameras in a stark and resolute manner. See Orange crumble in front of all. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 04:26:50 JST
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@Kristian_Kiehling Fuck her dearly! -
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Kristian Kiehling (kristian_kiehling@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 16:25:59 JST 
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Angela Merkel chose to give an interview to the Russian propaganda outlet Berliner Zeitung, whose owner Holger Friedrich is a former STASI-member who likes to visit the Russian embassy. She said: "President Zelenskyy alone cannot decide when it is time for diplomacy. Ukraine can only decide together with its supporters...a discourse about Russia's own interests must be allowed". Merkel also denied any responsibility for the Russian war in Ukraine.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 04:20:30 JST
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@TheBreadmonkey AI took their former jobs... -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 04:11:37 JST
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@klaatu I want this! -
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↯ Klaatu - Some Brave Apollo ↯ (klaatu@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 22:43:33 JST 
↯ Klaatu - Some Brave Apollo ↯
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