It’s quite scary how one person can affect people.

I have a concept of career and a concept of PhD.

Only having lunches/dinners or beers with politicians, mostly German.

Day by day I get a feeling that I understand Lu Xun’s Madman. But it doesn’t apply only to his view of his traditional world (in his case: Confucian), it applies to the western culture as well. Traditional, modern, progressive, conservative - we’re surrounded by many kinds of cannibals.

Bluesky used to be worse

Thank you for this. Actually I was thinking about this few days ago, whether there are any female dragons in the Chinese folklore or only male, and the female are represented as Fenghuang instead.

Yulanpen 盂兰盆 (or Ghost Festival 鬼节) - the 15th day of the 7th month, climax of the ghosts month, when the angry ghosts (egui 饿鬼 or preta) can return to our world and eat. 15th in month of Av (Tu B'Av), in the Hebrew calendar, the Holyday of Love. They don't always coresponde. #religion#festival

Israel and Lebanon border… 😕

Watching the Rhythmic Gymnastics teams. Trying to figure out what’s going on. Where the balls are now? What are they doing? Did you manage to see the gorilla?