The quote is from a hadith, a saying that angel Gabriel said to Mohammed: “Live as you wish, for you will surely die. Love whomever you wish, for you will surely be separated”. ‎(عش ما شئت فإنك ميت وأحبب من شئت فإنك مفارقة)

One comment shows an issue with some radical activists in Israel — they go so anti-Israel that they manage to advocate in favour of nazi swastikas.

This office of Mercantile Bank (a subsidiary of Discount Bank) even has an Arabic logo

My first thought "kopi luwak" (it's a civet poop though, not gibbon, but they both live in Southeast Asia)

This is something on which democratic forces of Israel and Palestine agree, and this is why I'm most worried about hamas managing potentially to establish the framework in which they just go to status quo. x.com/omdimbeyacha...

Ultimately: democratic and peace forces of Israel are very goal oriented. This was shown during previous protests and "salami tactic" of the focus. This was repeated with the appeal of Trump.

My opinion about Sukkot

Replies of mine be like that all the time (both on twitter and bluesky)

This is why robotics long decided to have this everywhere x.com/malonehedges...

Presented without comment x.com/karmanekobot...

Meanwhile in Berlin: a Russian speaking contemporary artist exhibited this on photo. Another Russian speaking contemporary artist saw it as a participatory artwork and broke two window panes on top. Now the first contemporary artist demands 500EUR in compensation from the 2nd. x.com/letopisi_rus...

Protest Sukkot in Jerusalem: x.com/bringhomenow...

Japan can now do pew pew www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-R7...

Black cat by the sea (the building on the left is a mental asylum, which would be convenient when i eventually would end up forced to one).

Today was even more wimdy. The wire is the Jewish "eruv", a wire enclosing a neighbourhood, or an entire town symbolizing the border.

So, marching against a ceasefire? www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-...

It's actually lowkey symbolic because Sharm El Sheikh was largely built from a village to the city we known today during Israeli occupation of Sinai and became a prominent global tourism town after the return of Sinai to Egypt.

Just stumbled upon in Russian speaking circles an euphemism “launch vehicle” sarcastically used to describe a western citizen who is used to obtain foreign residency or citizenship for an emigre via marriage, and who is then dumped after the goal has been achieved.

I had a need to draw maps with Israel in the center, and of Japan together, and this proved challenging because Japan is positively giant in comparison to Israel, so the usual "Japan outline" won't work. I had to resort to drawing a part of Japan with prefectures labeled.

Yesterday I witnessed a serious case of eepy.

Tiles painted by kids installed near the entrance to the social services office of the municipality of Acre. Note the Palestinian flag present together with Israeli flags (drawn in a simplistic kid fashion of course).

Wimdy evening in Acre (bonus points to those who know what the wire is for).

All of Israel (and presumably Palestine too) right now: x.com/PeaceNowIL/s...

With Palestinian state there's always an issue on Gaza and West Bank being not connected, although both have external borders and Gaza has external sea access so it's not a case of an isolated enclave.

Noticed a couple of days ago that one can see the famed Baha'i gardens of Haifa from Acre (mobile photo).

Funny how the whole twitter&bluesky timeline of mine of people who are less familiar with Japan is like "yay progressive feminism first woman prime minister of Japan"

Finally, ceasefire. Which would follow would determine the fate of hostages, then Palestinians and Israelis. x.com/kareem_1087/...

When i asked Japan police to just call the woman who sent me death threats and stole my parents address from the govt database to send them something; even if i went officially to the police office to report it, the answer was むりです

And hamas swindled Trump x.com/ntarnopolsky...

But... even Damascus is as far to here as Ashdod

Not commenting x.com/moghaoui/sta...

Welp x.com/etansmallman...

Given the success of "Metronit" bus rapid transit system in around Haifa in the past ten years it's been going, it feels that by now it might be worthy to consider converting the lines to light rapid transit, after all, the dedicated lines are already there.

The apartment I'm currently renting has a solar water heater (it's actually unusual in Israel to >not< have one, but the previous apartment was a converted office building). It's pleasant to think that a hot shower comes by the POWER OF THE SUN.

Moscow opened a statue for “builders of the metro” using a graphic with a distinct US Washington DC station and rolling stock. x.com/valk0rn/stat...

Am I correct that a British citizen can not just pack their bags and move to live at the Sovereign Area Territories in Cyprus, even to civilian areas, as they would have to be immigrating to Republic of Cyprus to do so?

“On NHK channels, shows focusing on learning the Korean language feel the need to refer to Korean as “Hangul Language” (ハングル語)” It is actually a curious thing too because in the North it’s Chosongul while Hangul is the South term (as everything “Korea” is Choson in the North, and Han in the South”)

An advantage of living in a place where I hear mosque prayer calls — the call for evening Maghreb prayer is at the sunset time, so also signifies the time Shabbat begins and ends.

I'm a big tamago appreciator and the first thing i get for breakfast in Japan is Japanese omelette

From top to bottom: Ottoman Empire (Damascus then Sidon Eyalet, then Syria Vilayet then Beirut Vilayet) Britain (British Mandate for Palestine) Israel

Korea foundation day today! www.instagram.com/p/DPVhBdyD4of/

(Quote tweets are blocked, so posting a screenshot). It's of note that this policy backfired, by deporting people who might be leaning to e.g. communist ideology ended up turning fully anti-American and then joining in the efforts against the US, or just help the communist states.

I wonder if the students of Gnessin Music College now refer to themselves as Bene Gnessinit

In a pleasant turn of even this video of mine was reposted to their timeline by an organization who, quote "advocate for more & better transit <...> In Montgomery County, Maryland" @actfortransit.bsky.social even if I never was in the US and will never be allowed by the US to even visit.

I wonder if my dеаth might be attributed to "suiсidе by heavens" for i barely did any observation for Yom Kippur that would count.

By the way, the same bag also had some other stickers, including these ones from Hanover I got from watching a protest of Sudanese diaspora (the only one who stopped to do this) even if I don't understand German (they spoke in German). This was the first time I heard of Sudan war.

Just noticed that my Ukrainian made gamma/beta radiometer (that I brought with myself when fleeing Russia because I'm weird like that) "Terra MKS-05" despite being made for Russian market still has Ukrainian spelling of "discharged" when the batteries run out.

This is something I did not know x.com/rerumpostalt...

Taiwan is now the largest global importer of Russian naphta, an oil product. The products refined from Russian naphta then get exported to the US and EU. theins.ru/news/285403

Polina Guseva who was denied refuge by the US and spent 5 months in detention was finally released and not deported to Russia. The team collects funds to help other people in a similar predicament: x.com/dmitry_value...