Блоги: заметки с тегом me

Lucifer

Robert — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 18:32:45 +0500

Robert:

Lucifer came to me in a dream last night. He tried to scare me, but I — of course — was unharmed.

Typeface minimalism

Robert — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 20:02:22 +0500

Robert:

Familiar typefaces can help read quicker.

That’s why I’m trying to reduce the amount of typefaces around me to just a few:

JetBrains Mono for code and the command line,
Atkinson Hyperlegible for my Latin-alphabet projects,
Garamond for books,
my handwriting,
San Francisco for nearly everything else.

Alas, many items around me use other typefaces.

Not doing my best

Robert — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:45:40 +0500

Robert:

Am I doing my best? I hope not.

I want to have room to improve.

Reading fiction (not)

Robert — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 23:30:51 +0500

Robert:

I find it hard to read works of fiction as of late. My mind keeps telling me to toss the patently untrue.

Loving one’s enemies

Robert — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 17:34:13 +0500

Robert:

Loving one’s enemies does not mean tolerating their actions.

It means wishing them to overcome wrongdoïng rather than wanting them to burn in hell.

I love my enemies.

Humanity and me

Robert — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 02:13:43 +0500

Robert:

I’m not sure about the fate of humanity, but I am confident in myself.

Translations

Robert — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 01:47:30 +0500

Robert:

Translations are never perfect: they lack subtlety of hue, losing double meanings and speechly quirks.

That’s why I barely touch them: I like originals, not variations and opinions. My Russian blog is a thing of its own; one must know the tongue to fully appreciate it.

How I use the lift

Robert — Sun, 14 May 2023 01:06:59 +0500

Robert:

Most of my lift use goes like this:

Enter lift.
Look in the mirror.
Exit lift and take the stairs.

I live to be a human meme.

Work

Robert — Mon, 01 May 2023 18:31:04 +0500

Robert:

I work no matter what, because that’s what we, men, are supposed to do. In fact, we need to work more — so future generations aren’t faced with work that is even more threatening. Work should ideally be a favorite pastime; working time directives and many child labor restrictions should be axed.

Work ethic is essential; there is no excuse for bad work.

A lot of good work sadly goes unsung: few think about the unseen effort that it takes to keep society running smoothly. To all the invisible workers: thank you for your service.

Freedom spurs good work and creativity. Minimum wage legislation should be cancelled: it steals opportunities from beginners.

I seek work for what I will learn more than for what I will earn. I work selectively, in a flow state.

All of this said, the time people have to spend working should tend to zero: there should be no need for human work at all. Saying “TGIF” is a symptom of wage slavery.

How to fund me

Robert — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 21:06:05 +0500

Robert:

I’m not one to beg for money. But I do believe that informing you, my treasured reader, on how to fund me, will leave us both better off in the long run.

Work

I build websites, design transit maps, visual presentations, logos, & brand identities, offer privacy consultations, edit videos, write articles in English, Italian, & Russian, and translate between those languages.

You can also buy an ad in this blog or sponsor my travel posts.

Donation

Everything that I publish digitally — whether blog posts, music, or software — is freely available.

If you find value in what I do and want to support me, donate in XMR to 871Hun183Cc2yXRmP4cEeUG8uiCkXfZPFQt5WVK6tCgxedWTXrpFGNTi9aRgknjYsh3jCD6iY9eyxMpGdr4xNyDNT7ZrKsK. ~~You can buy some at LocalMonero thru my affiliate link.~~

You can also fund my Uberspace server costs @robert.

If you have something else to offer, reach out too.

To contact me, send a message on Telegram @RobertBlinov or on Session to 0590048bce6d85c93fbcdd660f5130ad6932c3e1613ccf68cd1673d1454f7b301c.

Sirian craft sighting

Robert — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:20:59 +0500

Robert:

On March 1, 2019, I was flying from Nice to Riga, and saw the following out of my window:

To me, this most resembled a crashing military plane. But when I checked the web that day, I found no mention of anything similar. “Militaries don’t like to publicise their failures”, I shrugged, and continued on with my day — but kept the pictures.

Boy am I glad that I did.

Late last year, I fell into a rabbit hole of a website called Family of Taygeta. It claims to disclose the truth about what is actually actually going on: explaining multiverses, god, souls, aliens, clones, and the Great Shift coming before 2030.

Oddly enough, everything I read on it completely made sense and did not contradict my views on free will, frequencies & vibrations, humans possibly originating elsewhere, religion (particularly deïsm and Christianity), spirituality, evil entities, and the coming convergence point of a cataclysm the US Navy warned about in the seventies, predictions about Agarthans revealing themselves, the Great Reset, & potential AI singularity. Quite a feat for something so “out there”.

The website describes the alien Galactic Federation, which has also been talked about by former Israeli and Canadian military officers. The Sirian race is one of its primary members, and some of its supposed crafts look just like what I saw out of the plane’s window:

I am open-minded — I do not blindly accept or reject ideas; only the madman is absolutely certain. Family of Taygeta might just be taking advantage of fallacies, reprinting well-written science fiction, or creating a cult. Please comment with any objections, contradictions, and disprovals of what they have to say.

In any case, it’s just a matter of time before we know the truth.

Happiness and other emotions

Robert — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 20:20:50 +0500

Robert:

Happiness is internal. I literally just decided one day that I was going to be happy for the rest of my life. Since then, happiness is a constant which disappears only for a few minutes at a time in unpleasant situations.

Overall, I think rationally and let the emotions kick in only when I feel they can help. This took lots of practice to achieve.

2021 → 2022

Robert — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 22:46:21 +0500

Robert:

It’s about to be 2022. Whatever. We should not change our actions just because of an arbitrary new beginning.

The changing of years is, however, a great time to look back and reflect.

I did not expect freedoms to erode so much in 2021.

In January 2021, Big Tech deplatformed the sitting President of the United States. In December 2021, it is deplatforming anyone who questions the mainstream narrative on the China Virus and injection safety, including an inventor of mRNA technology.

The Italian state of emergency has been extended three times just in 2021, with it now being prolonged until April 2022. This is madness since there is no emergency, while the disease is very much treatable. If a government gains extra powers during a state of emergency, it will extend the state of emergency indefinitely.

To enter Italy, a regular Italian citizen like me needs to take a Covid test, fill a form, call the local health service, spend ten days in quarantine and take another Covid test. To enter a museum, one needs to also wear a mask and have a Soylent Green pass. Wealthy non-citizens like Elon Musk are exempt from this tyrannical palaver.

Within just a year, the democratic Italian Republic became less free than the authoritarian state of Russia.

Analysing this nonsense led me to an awakening, the Great Awakening:

Many people who fell for the mainstream lies are subject to Stockholm syndrome and some even to schadenfreude — pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. It’s a hard to shred a narrative when lots of time, money, thoughts, and emotions have been invested into it. I’ll be honest — I fell for the lies myself and only really woke up in July 2021. It’s normal to make mistakes — don’t let them define you. Acknowledge the reality, think critically, and constantly question yourself.

Two years ago I would have migrated to a country which has solved most of the problems present in my current one, to save time. But changing jurisdictions is no longer viable, as all countries are more or less unfree. Those that are still considered somewhat free today will find it easy to become part of the ever-growing unfree club. Try to remain in your country and do everything to save it.

We must do whatever it takes to regain our freedoms. Not only those lost in the last two years, but those lost in the last hundred. The evil masterminds must be arrested in droves — hate them at least as much as they hate you. Until that happens, do not comply with doltish rules and do not finance the turncoats.

Prepare for the worst possible scenarios, whether it’s a market crash, cryptocurrency ban, the invasion of Taiwan, a nuclear or neutron explosion, autonomous drone insects, a fake alien invasion, or something completely unimaginable. It’s a fun activity.

The charming rays of our happy smiles will lead us to victory. Have a happy and successful new year!

I don’t regret

Robert — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 14:21:47 +0500

Robert:

I don’t regret past actions that I now deem wrong. They are all lessons that brought me to where I am today.

Bugs in own programs

Robert — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:23:12 +0500

Robert:

I feel great joy when finding and squashing bugs in my own programs.

Facebook blocked me. A picture story

Robert — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 20:58:43 +0500

Robert:

I have zero posts on Facebook and use it only for work-related purposes. Nevertheless, it believes I broke its сommunity standards:

Since Facebook knows that I need it for work, it starts using leverage to get my personal information:

The best part is saved for last. The coronavirus is somehow responsible for Facebook possibly being unable to unblock my account:

My Telegram posts on 2020’s week 25

Robert — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:19:43 +0500

Robert:

Week 24 ←→ Week 26

Thursday, June 18

What happened to your heads, people?

Friday, June 19

Netflix’s interface is excellent: when starting watching a new season, it gives me a recap of the previous one.

Oh, and best of all, Netflix lets me skip the useless intros of movies and series.

Saturday, June 20

One of my favorite things about the UK is the unique scent of bread coming from bakeries. It goes along fantastically with the industrial smell of London.

My favorite strategy game

Robert — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:04:10 +0500

Robert:

My favorite strategy game is one from real life: finding ways to get around restrictions.

My Telegram posts from April 16 till May 16, 2020

Robert — Sat, 23 May 2020 23:46:06 +0500

Robert:

→ Week 21

This is everything published to my Telegram channel in the last month.

April 16

Since January, Twitter has the rights to do whatever it wants to with published content. This is contrary to my world view in which I own and control everything that is a product of my mind.

The blog format doesn’t suit everything I’d like to say, so I started this Telegram channel.

April 20

Apple Notes on the Mac is absolutely unresponsive, especially to two-finger clicks. Keep in mind that this software is made in-house...

April 21

Elevator operators now have a job again.

April 26

FIGMA IS FANTASTIC

April 28

The Japanese know what pleasure is: they have Boneless Fish!

Mac bugs keep getting worse and worse. Apple should release another Snow Leopard this year.

May 2

Sometimes I want to do an image search with the picture I have in mind.

May 8

Just saying: I don’t care about trends. I always act out of my own will.

P. S. I hope these words won’t come back to haunt me.

May 14

It always surprises me how Disney makes ugly animals look cute.

Room 104 is the dumbest yet most brilliant show. It proves that any nonsensical artistic idea should be experimented with.

The voice actor impersonating Trump never sounds like Trump, but he does create a metaphor.

May 15

In the past few weeks I really fell in love with jasmine tea.

May 16

The slogan for the 2020 Eurovision would have been “Open Up”. Hahaha

Robert’s summer days in Italy, 2019

Robert — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 17:07:49 +0500

Robert:

I’m going to be in Genoa from June 27 to June 28, and perhaps a couple of other days in July.

The rest of the time I will be in-between Sanremo, France, Turin, and Bologna.

If you wanna meet, send me an email.

Блоги: заметки с тегом me

Lucifer

Typeface minimalism

Not doing my best

Reading fiction (not)

Loving one’s enemies

Humanity and me

Translations

How I use the lift

Work

How to fund me

Work

Advertisement

Donation

Sirian craft sighting

Happiness and other emotions

2021 → 2022

I don’t regret

Bugs in own programs

Facebook blocked me. A picture story

My Telegram posts on 2020’s week 25

Thursday, June 18

Friday, June 19

Saturday, June 20

My favorite strategy game

My Telegram posts from April 16 till May 16, 2020

April 16

April 20

April 21

April 26

April 28

May 2

May 8

May 14

May 15

May 16

Robert’s summer days in Italy, 2019