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Today I again chose to wear my yellow/blue/pink striped socks which I got at the Pride Festival last year. Those are the colors of the pansexual flag. I am asexual, not pansexual, and got the socks mainly because the colors are pretty. Few people around here would know what the colors represent anyway.
Looking down at the socks on my legs, I belatedly realized that the blue and yellow colors are also like Ukraine's flag.
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I still have my old LiveJournal account. Several years back I imported all my old entries to Dreamwidth and deleted them from over there.
I've considered deleting the account, as I want nothing further to do with a Russian company, given the current government's abominable policies and actions.
But doing that seems like a wasted opportunity to post a message of some kind in an area where people from Russia might actually be able to see it. Perhaps I'd have to turn on Cyrillic services in the settings though, for my posts to be accessible from over there? Hmmm.
I hadn't noticed or remembered this from before, but on the LJ homepage there is a "Top LJ" dropdown which includes entries for: Cyrillic, non-Cyrillic, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus.
It is interesting to browse through those Cyrillic and Ukraine entries, using Google Translate to translate from Russian to English.
It is also wearisome, wondering who is behind each post and all the comments, trying to make sense of some of the translations, trying to figure out what side if any they are on in regards to the war in Ukraine, what nationality they are and in which country do they live, are they being paid to post misinformation, or are they writing what they truly believe based on what they've themselves experienced or based on the news they listen to?
Considering all that which is being posted, I doubt anything I could post would make the slightest impact on anyone, even if they did see it.
Looking down at the socks on my legs, I belatedly realized that the blue and yellow colors are also like Ukraine's flag.
.
I still have my old LiveJournal account. Several years back I imported all my old entries to Dreamwidth and deleted them from over there.
I've considered deleting the account, as I want nothing further to do with a Russian company, given the current government's abominable policies and actions.
But doing that seems like a wasted opportunity to post a message of some kind in an area where people from Russia might actually be able to see it. Perhaps I'd have to turn on Cyrillic services in the settings though, for my posts to be accessible from over there? Hmmm.
I hadn't noticed or remembered this from before, but on the LJ homepage there is a "Top LJ" dropdown which includes entries for: Cyrillic, non-Cyrillic, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus.
It is interesting to browse through those Cyrillic and Ukraine entries, using Google Translate to translate from Russian to English.
It is also wearisome, wondering who is behind each post and all the comments, trying to make sense of some of the translations, trying to figure out what side if any they are on in regards to the war in Ukraine, what nationality they are and in which country do they live, are they being paid to post misinformation, or are they writing what they truly believe based on what they've themselves experienced or based on the news they listen to?
Considering all that which is being posted, I doubt anything I could post would make the slightest impact on anyone, even if they did see it.
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Date: 2022-03-17 10:30 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2022-05-27 04:42 am (UTC)From:I personally wouldn't touch LJ with a 10 foot pole - not to read or write. If someone's only good web presence is on LJ and they come highly recommended (or in the case of Elon Musk's ex-wife Justine, who I've written about before, are just an interesting read for Reasons) I'll go look but then that's it, I'm out.