Notices by simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp), page 6
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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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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 12:04:15 JST
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Forget "Matrix", it's "Dark City" that asks the more interesting questions. Like: Would we be still different persons if we shared the same memories? Is what makes us individual that every one of us has unique memories without which there would be no boundary and no separation? -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 10:40:08 JST
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There are a few actors I admire: William Hurt, Sam Shepard... But even if alive today I doubt they would be casted for current movies. Still, both have a depth, dignity, and presence on screen that I don't find in any other male actor. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 05:42:02 JST
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Chancellor Merz enters the party convention of the Union's junior partner CSU. Provided that "futrue" has no mysterious and specific meaning, this apparent error in spelling is just embarrassing. Real German professionalism. https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/6ee37550d80c285c7e387146a9b5c2766594aa87e61e055f306206e5b4101b96/view -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 23:20:33 JST
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Ewen MacAskill, "I used to report from the West Bank. Twenty years after my last visit, I was shocked by how much worse it is today" https://theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/11/i-used-to-report-from-the-west-bank-twenty-years-after-my-last-visit-i-was-shocked-by-how-much-worse-it-is-today
One cannot write about all at the same time and so despite its factual distortions and its bias the piece is worth reading. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 09:37:51 JST
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Amnesty International, "Targeting Civilians: Murder, Hostage-Taking and Other Violations by Palestinian Armed Groups in Israel and Gaza" https://cdn.amnesty.at/media/jlgdoybg/amnesty-bericht_israel-7-oktober-angriffe_targeting-civilians.pdf
Executive Summary: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/0283/2025/en/
Too little, too late. But at least Amnesty International refutes the most blatant Pali lies. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Dec-2025 07:20:29 JST
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Sharon Wrobel, "Over quarter of families suffer from food insecurity, as living costs jump – study" https://www.timesofisrael.com/over-quarter-of-families-suffer-from-food-insecurity-as-living-costs-jump-study/
The repercussions of the latests war(s) for Israel are dramatic. https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2bcf48b54d801f4dbc4d795b9e14523159acfcbb1465f4c076246bf6f191d773/view -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 13:12:53 JST
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The U.S. question NATO? Ok. But then expect to vacate all your bases in Spain, Italy, and Germany in particular. No more ability to project power, logistics, personnel into the Middle East, Northern Africa, Caucasus, Afghanistan, etc. So, Trump, if you want to weaken the U.S., just go ahead! -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 10:37:38 JST
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This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knI30k2rRIY is the most convincing piece of speculation why Half-Life 3 is indeed going to be announced at The Game Awards on December 11. And it all comes down to a garden gnome! I'm sold. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 04:03:46 JST
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One could argue that that applies to me too, sort of. ;-) -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 15:10:56 JST
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Why should I not think that Angela Merkel has been a Russian puppet right from the start of her chancellorship (2005)? Everything she did benefited Russia and Putin. Everything. You think Trump is a Russian asset? Try Merkel instead.
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