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poliphiloWe've cancelled our landline as from today. I don't think I've ever lived without a landline before (or perhaps I did for a while as a student in Cambridge) Anyway it feels like a significant waymark. The world is changing and here I am changing with it...
LJ sent me a virtual gift a few days back to remind me I'd been using the service for 18 years.
I have accounts at LJ and DW. I acquired the DW account during the panic over the servers moving to Russia. I did it not because I mistrust the Russians but because there were people I wanted to stay connected with. Now there's another panic, this time over the possibility that Russia is about to uncouple itself from the World Wide Web. Real news? Fake news? Who knows any longer? Anyway, I'm not dropping LJ unless it's forced to drop me. Russia retreating behind a digital iron curtain would be sad.
The western media, governments, corporations all want us to hate on Russia. I hate the war, I hate the war fever (which is being stoked to keep us angry and frightened now Covid 19 is no longer living up to potential) but I love Russia.
LJ sent me a virtual gift a few days back to remind me I'd been using the service for 18 years.
I have accounts at LJ and DW. I acquired the DW account during the panic over the servers moving to Russia. I did it not because I mistrust the Russians but because there were people I wanted to stay connected with. Now there's another panic, this time over the possibility that Russia is about to uncouple itself from the World Wide Web. Real news? Fake news? Who knows any longer? Anyway, I'm not dropping LJ unless it's forced to drop me. Russia retreating behind a digital iron curtain would be sad.
The western media, governments, corporations all want us to hate on Russia. I hate the war, I hate the war fever (which is being stoked to keep us angry and frightened now Covid 19 is no longer living up to potential) but I love Russia.
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Date: 2022-03-10 01:17 pm (UTC)And I must say, it's so fascinating to read the parallel conversations that evolve from the same words posted respectively on LJ and DW. 😀
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Date: 2022-03-10 01:45 pm (UTC)