A question for Estonians.

This person on Xiaohongshu is very brave. The comments are mostly decent, surprisingly, but there are some expected ones.

Кофе утром. Солнце в окне. Демократизация и падение Коммунистической Партии Китая. Маленькие радости жизни.

This makes me recall the famed Disco Ball of the Foundation Against Corruption which was at their Moscow HQ, had an own twitter account, and was present on all the police raids before the Foundation was outlawed, declared terrorist and people fled. The ball was removed by the police. Then sold.

日本語には「こんにちは」「こんばんは」はありますが、「こんよるは」はありません

How to lose all of your Hong Kong clients

Today's cat (who liked back pats)

I recently read Strugatsky Brothers' "Roadside Picnic", the classic I managed to miss like all their books somehow, despite me being a scifi kid in Russia. While I definitely get why it got so big, occasionally it feels like as if the authors are 12 y.o. boys trying to be adults

March is approaching, but there are still no news about Yaima Maru Taiwan-Japan ferry route yaimaline.com

GULAG Museum in Moscow is shut down permanently.

ISIS tried to build a caliphate uniting the ummah, they failed and Trump succeded </joke> (The imagery seems to be more fantasy than reality)

There’s a Russian saying “after us, who cares if there’s a flood”

And the guys who were in charge then moved to Russia to work for Russian police, I saw some IRL like infamous Serhiy Kusyuk ordering charges towards people like me

I had a reverse experience in which I liked CoCo Curry Ichibanya in Taipei more than the ones in Japan.

Watched WGBH Boston 2007 documentary "Six Days in June" by Zvi Dor Ner aired on PBS in the US. It's on the Six Day War, rather a good one, interviewing Israelis, Jordanians, Egyptians, Syrians, Americans on all sides, even up to an Egyptian foot soldier. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4n4...

Me on the last night train to the north last night.

Frederique Du Bois from Sochi who proclaimed his affiliation with a garbage larp "post Russia" movement was jailed by Russia for eleven years. x.com/mediazzzona/...

"So much good stuff in French still untranslated into English" Not just in French.

Here's something that even serious Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou enthusiasts haven't seen. What I now have on me — an official Russian translation of «Поездка за покупками в Иокогаму» which was published shortly before the current war of Russia against Ukraine. #ヨコハマ買い出し紀行

Contrary to popular beliefs, US "aid" to Israel is this — US gives a coupon for 10 usd to Israel, which Israel can only spend on US weaponry, eventually spending 100 usd more, and also giving access to Israeli military tech to the US.

“avoided if the number one priority wasn’t capitalism” The first things that I recall about USSR alone on the topic is how USSR. — destroyed Aral Sea — in the push for “tselina” caused destruction of week steppe ecosystem.

Before leaving to offline for a short while I missed posting cheers for the Lunar New Year (aka Chinese, aka Korean aka Vietnamese New Year) and the beginning of Ramadan, so here are these cheers everynyan.

Painting in ink and watercolour with a street scene near Damascus Gate at the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Painted on the back of a postcard with a 1959 photo Sent to Bahrain, returned with a stamp "PAS DE SERVICE VIA ISRAEL" due to there being no postal exchange after Oct 7.

Note: I will not be accessible online (including twitter) with an exception of e-mail for some days

Jerusalem, Old City, Muslim Quarter ירושלים, עיר העתיקה, הרובע המוסלמי القدس، البلدة القديمة، حارة المسلمين

People had to be escorted out by the police to not be assaulted by those who are against conscription, and it will be those assaulted who’d be dying for protecting those assaulting them. This is the policy of the Netanyahu government.

I met people of this neopagan persuasion in Russia, the colonizers to them were the Jews who had never ending conspiracy against Slavs, with creating Christianity, with creating communism and being behind the “actual, not their fake, Holocaust where they killed Slavs”, with destroying USSR

Stumbled upon a company in US Arizona that sells unapproved medications openly just slapping “research use only” on them. They also are called “Umbrella” and have the same logo as in Resident Evil. FDA of the US issued a warning letter to them in 2021 www.fda.gov/inspections-...

The next thread about Bahrain begins with Bahrain cats — Manama but mostly Muharraq cats.

Ivan Zhdanov from democratic forces of Russia highlights that with the love of Putin to "symbolic" gestures, the choice of a frog-originating toxin might be a nod to the famous saying of Alexey Navalny after his 2013 arrest, "a toad on an oil pipe will not overthrow itself". x.com/ioannzh/stat...

Cat on a motorbike

One day a western publisher did not put St. Basil's cathedral on the cover of a book about Russia и у него отвалилась жопа

Dust stormy sunset with and a bird doing some fishing

"RIP (Rest in Paint) Pink" graffiti in Haifa in memory of Inbar 'Pink' Haiman graffiti artist who was kidnapped by hamas and murdered in captivity.

Disused postbox at Haifa Center train station, stamped "W. T. Allen & Co. London"

As a frog appreciator this adds more reasons for me to be angry at the poisoning. theins.ru/en/news/289387

They just envy the popularity of Masikryong

A very logical line of thinking

With this commentary the original twitterer is trying to make it a bit palatable to western audiences the actuality of how UAE is "known in Muslim circles".

Chii is real!

Listen, I’m not suggesting anything but if anyone wants to buy Israeli goods to counteract vicious protesters one can subscribe to my patreon and get original art in their physical mailbox IRL directly from Israel.

I'm glad that some people got it www.instagram.com/p/DTwBC8tjyOO

PROCYO~1.F33 Ink and watercolour on paper; 30x40 cm.

Today there was sand in the clouds with a little bit of rain, which resulted in my hat looking the following.

Supposedly progressive parts of the internet are about to explode with vicious hatred x.com/ZelenskyyUa/...

Instagram suggestion to me — a video of an English speaker telling about paid elevators in Tbilisi. One of the first comments "what city in Israel in this" with multiple likes.

For me, who doesn't really play games, but watches them, this is gold.

Unexpected focus on the Russian regime by The Continent. On a "fun" side-note, the number of the issue, 228 is known in Russia as the "people's article", as it's the number of the article of criminal code dealing with drugs, often misused by the state against people.

Fun fact: for a while, not sure if it continues, Tokyo Science Museum sold algae juice and algae-reinforced cookies. I drunk it a couple of times, it was weird, not like greens juice I'd expected, but not too bad.

Meanwhile garbage generating "ai": Source: x.com/tagir_valeev/status/2021859807808934040