simsa0
@simsa0.bsky.social
A dishwasher. The other times I sit by the fire and offer them passing ghosts some coffee.
Blog : https://simsa01.wordpress.com/
Blog : https://simsa01.wordpress.com/
Amirhadi Anvari, "36,500 deaths in context: How Iran’s toll compares with wars and crackdowns" www.iranintl.com/en/202601277...
Over 48 hours, about 40,000 were killed by the Iranian regime. That's roughly the number of civilians killed in Gaza during two years of fighting. Where is the Left now?
Over 48 hours, about 40,000 were killed by the Iranian regime. That's roughly the number of civilians killed in Gaza during two years of fighting. Where is the Left now?
36,500 deaths in context: How Iran’s toll compares with wars and crackdowns
The killing of 36,500 people in just two days represents a scale of violence without precedent in the history of repression under the Islamic Republic – and one that stands out even when compared with...
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February 15, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Amirhadi Anvari, "36,500 deaths in context: How Iran’s toll compares with wars and crackdowns" www.iranintl.com/en/202601277...
Over 48 hours, about 40,000 were killed by the Iranian regime. That's roughly the number of civilians killed in Gaza during two years of fighting. Where is the Left now?
Over 48 hours, about 40,000 were killed by the Iranian regime. That's roughly the number of civilians killed in Gaza during two years of fighting. Where is the Left now?
A year inside Putin's Russia with the BBC's Steve Rosenberg www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZzs...
S.R. is the last remaining reporter of the BBC Moscow bureau. Several times he emphasizes that what keeps him reporting is his fascination and love with Russia. Perhaps that makes him such a professional.
S.R. is the last remaining reporter of the BBC Moscow bureau. Several times he emphasizes that what keeps him reporting is his fascination and love with Russia. Perhaps that makes him such a professional.
Our Man in Moscow: Inside Putin's Russia | BBC Panorama
YouTube video by BBC News
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February 12, 2026 at 9:19 PM
A year inside Putin's Russia with the BBC's Steve Rosenberg www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZzs...
S.R. is the last remaining reporter of the BBC Moscow bureau. Several times he emphasizes that what keeps him reporting is his fascination and love with Russia. Perhaps that makes him such a professional.
S.R. is the last remaining reporter of the BBC Moscow bureau. Several times he emphasizes that what keeps him reporting is his fascination and love with Russia. Perhaps that makes him such a professional.
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Expel Francesca Albanese. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ex...
Expel Francesca Albanese
We urge you to support France's call for Francesca Albanese to be removed from her UN position. “She presents herself as a UN independent expert. She is neither an expert nor independent — she is a ...
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February 12, 2026 at 8:57 PM
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Expel Francesca Albanese. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ex...
Not just helpful but necessary to understand what "war economy" means for Russia, Europe, and the extension of the war beyond Ukraine into Europe. One important aspect: Several 100,000s of brutalized RU soldiers cannot be re-integrated into RU society. So they need to be deployed elsewhere.
February 12, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Not just helpful but necessary to understand what "war economy" means for Russia, Europe, and the extension of the war beyond Ukraine into Europe. One important aspect: Several 100,000s of brutalized RU soldiers cannot be re-integrated into RU society. So they need to be deployed elsewhere.
@tinydoctor.bsky.social Saw your doctoromed.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/m... Quite a variety: Leonora Carrington, Hannah Höch, Hilma af Klint. Didn't know either of those three before.
This Carrington picture with its warm background, the dark figures in front and the corpse on the floor touches me.
This Carrington picture with its warm background, the dark figures in front and the corpse on the floor touches me.
Museum of Joy: Carrington Saints
Leonora Carrington, The Saints of Hampstead Heath 1997 This image was posted on the leonoracarringtonestate Instagram account this morning. I can’t recall when or where I discovered Carringto…
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February 10, 2026 at 4:26 PM
@tinydoctor.bsky.social Saw your doctoromed.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/m... Quite a variety: Leonora Carrington, Hannah Höch, Hilma af Klint. Didn't know either of those three before.
This Carrington picture with its warm background, the dark figures in front and the corpse on the floor touches me.
This Carrington picture with its warm background, the dark figures in front and the corpse on the floor touches me.
What Russia does in Ukraine is #Kolodomor – the attempted extermination by cold.
(h/t to Brigadier-General Klaus Wittmann from whom I heard the word for the first time.)
(h/t to Brigadier-General Klaus Wittmann from whom I heard the word for the first time.)
February 10, 2026 at 12:34 PM
What Russia does in Ukraine is #Kolodomor – the attempted extermination by cold.
(h/t to Brigadier-General Klaus Wittmann from whom I heard the word for the first time.)
(h/t to Brigadier-General Klaus Wittmann from whom I heard the word for the first time.)
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February 9, 2026 at 3:27 AM
This is how war sounds like. This sound will be heard across Europe if Russia isn't stopped in its barbaric war.
Multiple explosions were heard in Russia's Belgorod this morning. A strike on the Luch thermal power plant reportedly knocked out power across the city and nearby villages.
February 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
This is how war sounds like. This sound will be heard across Europe if Russia isn't stopped in its barbaric war.
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Ingenious!
Okay wait. So we're staying at my mother's HS best friends house down here. She is also 70. She lives with a man that she HATES. She has liquor and snacks hidden all over the house. And things are hidden in places that you only find if you do chores. I am SCREAMING 😭
February 8, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Ingenious!
Family as Omertà.
When speaking put against Omertà, you know you could be wrong. But the others cannot fathom that they might be wrong.
When speaking put against Omertà, you know you could be wrong. But the others cannot fathom that they might be wrong.
February 8, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Family as Omertà.
When speaking put against Omertà, you know you could be wrong. But the others cannot fathom that they might be wrong.
When speaking put against Omertà, you know you could be wrong. But the others cannot fathom that they might be wrong.
Peter Schwarz, "Rechtsruck zerreißt das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht" www.wsws.org/de/articles/...
Liest man über das sozialistische Geschwurbel hinweg, findet man eine gar nicht mal so unzutreffende Charakterisierung von Sahra Wagenknecht und BSW.
Liest man über das sozialistische Geschwurbel hinweg, findet man eine gar nicht mal so unzutreffende Charakterisierung von Sahra Wagenknecht und BSW.
February 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Peter Schwarz, "Rechtsruck zerreißt das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht" www.wsws.org/de/articles/...
Liest man über das sozialistische Geschwurbel hinweg, findet man eine gar nicht mal so unzutreffende Charakterisierung von Sahra Wagenknecht und BSW.
Liest man über das sozialistische Geschwurbel hinweg, findet man eine gar nicht mal so unzutreffende Charakterisierung von Sahra Wagenknecht und BSW.
Without much evidence in support, I'd claim that everyone is part of an Omertà. Not merely the one *of* a group but the one that actually *is* this group, that makes this group. Omertà is not one "of" a family, society, culture, but actually *is* this family, society, culture.
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February 8, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Without much evidence in support, I'd claim that everyone is part of an Omertà. Not merely the one *of* a group but the one that actually *is* this group, that makes this group. Omertà is not one "of" a family, society, culture, but actually *is* this family, society, culture.
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Fresco of the Virgin Eleousa (“Virgin of Tenderness”) at Chora/Kariye Camii
February 8, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Fresco of the Virgin Eleousa (“Virgin of Tenderness”) at Chora/Kariye Camii
Familiy Omertà. Family as Omertà.
It is not just that people do much to stay inside the Omertà and thus: the family. It is not just that overtly displaying the Omertà is is avoided because of the risk of falling outside the family.
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It is not just that people do much to stay inside the Omertà and thus: the family. It is not just that overtly displaying the Omertà is is avoided because of the risk of falling outside the family.
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February 6, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Familiy Omertà. Family as Omertà.
It is not just that people do much to stay inside the Omertà and thus: the family. It is not just that overtly displaying the Omertà is is avoided because of the risk of falling outside the family.
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It is not just that people do much to stay inside the Omertà and thus: the family. It is not just that overtly displaying the Omertà is is avoided because of the risk of falling outside the family.
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The only thing that astonishes me about Epstein is that even Noam Chomsky met with him. What is Amy Goodman from
@democracynow.org going to do about it? Keep or disavow her favourite elder lefttist interview partner?
@democracynow.org going to do about it? Keep or disavow her favourite elder lefttist interview partner?
February 6, 2026 at 1:59 PM
The only thing that astonishes me about Epstein is that even Noam Chomsky met with him. What is Amy Goodman from
@democracynow.org going to do about it? Keep or disavow her favourite elder lefttist interview partner?
@democracynow.org going to do about it? Keep or disavow her favourite elder lefttist interview partner?
Reinterpreting Rakugo from a Woman's Perspective: Hayashiya Tsuruko / Rakugo Storyteller
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
I admire her expressive and at the same time nuanced story telling.
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
I admire her expressive and at the same time nuanced story telling.
Reinterpreting Rakugo from a Woman's Perspective: Hayashiya Tsuruko / Rakugo Storyteller - Direct Talk | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
Hayashiya Tsuruko is breaking new ground by reinterpreting the Japanese art of classic rakugo comic storytelling from a woman's perspective. She talks about her message for modern audiences.
www3.nhk.or.jp
February 5, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Reinterpreting Rakugo from a Woman's Perspective: Hayashiya Tsuruko / Rakugo Storyteller
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
I admire her expressive and at the same time nuanced story telling.
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
I admire her expressive and at the same time nuanced story telling.
Your fears of #AI stem from the 1966 book "Colossus" by Dennis Feltham Jones, made into the movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project" in 1972. That is: The framing of AI as doomsday devices stems from a time of analogue computers in a Cold War Setting. Keep that in mind when you're continuing to shiver.
February 5, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Your fears of #AI stem from the 1966 book "Colossus" by Dennis Feltham Jones, made into the movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project" in 1972. That is: The framing of AI as doomsday devices stems from a time of analogue computers in a Cold War Setting. Keep that in mind when you're continuing to shiver.
Mafia organisations are not "families" because they instill and live by Omertà, they have Omertà because they are family-like.
You break the Omertà, and you're banned from the family. It's a basic principle in the dynamics of every natural family.
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You break the Omertà, and you're banned from the family. It's a basic principle in the dynamics of every natural family.
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February 4, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Mafia organisations are not "families" because they instill and live by Omertà, they have Omertà because they are family-like.
You break the Omertà, and you're banned from the family. It's a basic principle in the dynamics of every natural family.
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You break the Omertà, and you're banned from the family. It's a basic principle in the dynamics of every natural family.
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February 3, 2026 at 7:13 PM
There is a baffling connection between moral integrity and sexual orgasm: Both produce a very similiar, if not identical, sense of being truly oneself.
February 3, 2026 at 4:46 PM
There is a baffling connection between moral integrity and sexual orgasm: Both produce a very similiar, if not identical, sense of being truly oneself.
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This still-life by Jacques-Émile Blanche from 1889 demonstrates the qualities of his early paintings, how controlled he was in applying paint, and the beautiful harmonious interplay of objects and light: the balanced knife a nod to the genius of Chardin.
February 3, 2026 at 12:59 PM
This still-life by Jacques-Émile Blanche from 1889 demonstrates the qualities of his early paintings, how controlled he was in applying paint, and the beautiful harmonious interplay of objects and light: the balanced knife a nod to the genius of Chardin.
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There is a lot of resistance to AI on the Fediverse. And where else would you expect it? But I still don't understand this whole discussion.
The only legitimate reasons to oppose AI are ethical ones. AI development is in the hands of a few companies because it requires vast sums of money […]
The only legitimate reasons to oppose AI are ethical ones. AI development is in the hands of a few companies because it requires vast sums of money […]
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February 3, 2026 at 1:51 PM
There is a lot of resistance to AI on the Fediverse. And where else would you expect it? But I still don't understand this whole discussion.
The only legitimate reasons to oppose AI are ethical ones. AI development is in the hands of a few companies because it requires vast sums of money […]
The only legitimate reasons to oppose AI are ethical ones. AI development is in the hands of a few companies because it requires vast sums of money […]
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Random Photo: ONE…ONE…ONE…ONE…
A photo a day keeps the angels at bay.
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February 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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Now that was an awful family gathering...
February 2, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Now that was an awful family gathering...