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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 20-Nov-2025 11:00:31 JST
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♪ George Thorogood & The Destroyers, "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L4zro-2dZQ
From the debut album of 1977. This famous rendition is actually a blend of "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" by John Lee Hooker (1966) – who adapted it from the 1950s version by Rudy Toombs and Amos Milburn – and another John Lee Hooker song, "House Rent Boogie", from 1951.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 20-Nov-2025 10:47:44 JST
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♪ George Thorogood & The Destroyers, "Who Do You Love" (1978) (Bo Diddley cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJGIB9lBM8E
I love this orginal trio of George Thorogood (vocal, guitar), Billy Blough (bass guitar), and Jeff Simon (drums).
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 20-Nov-2025 09:37:28 JST
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I keep being skeptical about a near Half-Life 3 launch. The main reason is that I don't see other game companies already pushing their games as bargains on Steam in anticipation of such a launch that would surely devastate their revenues for a long time. In conversation from web permalink -
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 23:11:23 JST
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"Every revolutionary opinion draws part of its strength from a secret conviction that nothing can be changed." George #Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
The corollary: Every revolutionary impulse is weakened by a secret fear that #revolution will succeed and everything be changed.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 11:54:17 JST
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I feel a certain lightness again. Like a shadow has passed me by. In conversation from web permalink -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 10:09:02 JST
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Regaining the understanding that books in themselves are bare, naked, even banal, and that their place on the shelves, in the neighbourhood of others, lends them meaning and gravitas. There are no books for the island. There is only the floating form that is attached to and displayed by the shelves. In conversation from web permalink -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 15-Nov-2025 21:28:11 JST
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Reading a column in The Atlantic (Oct. 2025) on Black Sabbath and Spinal Tap II, I encounter the word "bathos". I had to grin because other than its usual meaning associations with "bad", "ethos", and "bardo" sprang to mind. We should keep "bathos" to signfy this particular confluence of circumstances. In conversation from web permalink -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Nov-2025 23:20:53 JST
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♪ Max Bruch, "Violin Concerto No.1 in g minor, Op.26" (violin: Ilva Eigus; conductor: Gabriel Venzago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-HjJgleDtI
Ilva Eigus' violin almost sounds like flute. In the Allegro energico she plays as forceful and precise as if she has been a pupil of Leonid Kogan. Wonderful!
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Nov-2025 22:24:03 JST
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Juliette McIntyre, "How does the International Court of Justice differ from the International Criminal Court?" https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how-does-the-international-court-of-justice-differ-from-the-international-criminal-court
«[T]he ICJ resolves disputes between States, while the ICC prosecutes individuals for crimes.»
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Nov-2025 05:52:10 JST
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This made my day: https://youtube.com/shorts/RrfkCslhUTM?si=gz9HmI01FoLGPsYp In conversation from web permalink Attachments
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Nov-2025 02:09:28 JST
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Sergei Chekanov, "Top 6 Wikipedia Alternatives You Should Know About in 2025" https://jwork.org/home/top-6-wikipedia-alternatives-you-should-know-about-in-2025
Helpful info on (more or less) general topics encyclopedias with free access.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Nov-2025 01:18:17 JST
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The first reading of a proposal to introduce the death penality for criminials who killed Jewish citizens has passed the Israeli Knesset. I find such introduction of capital punishment awful. Not just for the status of Israel as a civilized society but for the obvious intention why this bill has been introduced: For one, it appears primarily intended to target Palestinian prisoners. So, in a sense, it can be read as racist. But furthermore: If the state can kill those Palestinian perpetrators, this reduces the pool of highly dangerous prisoners to be considered in any hostage deal. Indeed, the Palestinian tool of hostage taking and extortion of the Jewish state needs to end. And there is apparently only the choice to either give up on future hostages from the start or to kill those perpetrators that are the most valuable assets for any hostage taker to get released. But killing Palestinian criminals just to take them off the negotiation table diminishes everything that I find Jewishness to stand for. I hope Israel finds a different path. In conversation from web permalink -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Nov-2025 13:59:04 JST
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Not much left to add.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Nov-2025 13:00:06 JST
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Don't remember the past. Remember possibilities.
(h/t "Invasion" S01E10)
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Nov-2025 12:22:23 JST
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The most difficult challenge: Confront your pain, honour your hurt, but not at the expense of others and theirs. Don't trade in pain (theirs for yours), don't be a snob with regard to pain either. And don't fool yourself with some vulgar Buddhist shit like encountering the one pain by embracing yours.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Nov-2025 06:48:49 JST
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Obviously the BBC is editorially biased. It can easily be seen not just in the doctored Trump remarks of January 6 or in the coverage of the Gaza war by BBC Arabic but in how the brodacaster always jumps to anti-Semitic conclusions first – only to retract them later. (With a grin it seems.)
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 10-Nov-2025 08:50:55 JST
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Beautiful. And a very well done photography. In conversation from web permalink -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 21:40:44 JST
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Nothing to disagree with. Quite the contrary.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 06-Nov-2025 04:38:58 JST
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It's interesting to see how the major German news outlets report on Mamdani as the new leftist superstar of the Democratic Party, and not one addresses this guy's vile and rabid anti-Semitism. Their longing for an end of the Trump regime makes them blind for even worse possibilities. In conversation from web permalink -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Nov-2025 11:39:16 JST
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Mamdani wins New York – what a catastrophe! In conversation from web permalink