As a last one for today’s nostalgic journey, that’s me in the buggy, maybe in 1984 (data stamp missing).

My grandfathers (no longer alive)

Looking or peeking or browsing through old physical albums, in the celebration of my birth I found this rare photo of my grandfathers (there’s a warm embrace but they were not close, except in this photograph)

“Color-corrected grandpas,” someone has sent me. “They looked way too orange.”

Via Techrights

From our wedding (and beyond) album

VER a decade ago the mainstream (corporate) media brainwashed people into thinking they needed to hand over their personal photos to surveillance companies. In return, they would get “likes”. Is this a good exchange? No!

Less than a decade ago I set up this album for our wedding. It wasn’t the first as I had already set up a similar album in 2004 (last updated 2005 or more than 17 years ago!).

A few weeks ago our wedding (and beyond) album exceeded 5,000,000 views. We didn’t need anything like Facebook/Instagram or Flickr to share our photos. This site is not self-hosted in the sense that I host it from home (sending large images upstream from a residential copper connection would not work); but at least it’s controlled by us at the domain level. More people should quit social control media (I did completely, only months ago) and invest in their own presence online. Stop renting. Take control. There is no such thing as free hosting. The Net is not a charitable project.

VER the past two decades I’ve done a lot of activism, which intensified over time. This Web site was created in 2002, modeled at first or branched off some academic format. I actually copied one of my lecturers’ layout, which was a simple heading, mug, followed by a list of interests. It was hosted in another domain, not this one. Months after I had started my Ph.D. (and having been asked about that other domain) I decided to register my surname in the .com namespace. Since then I’ve posted a lot of stuff here, but a lot more in other sites, which aren’t personal. As I recall it (vaguely), this site started in October 2002 and by 2003 it looked like this already. Not much has changed in that page since. schestowitz.com is generally quite outdated, most of the pages here are from my early 20s, but at least it’s still working and I’m very pleased with my webhost.

ur reckless, corrupt regime (there’s a reason why Borisnaro gets canned) seems to have adopted the “herd immunity” mentality/pathology. Yes, “COVID coming soon! To you too!”

“COVID FOR EVERYONE!”

Is there any sincere effort to curb the spread and protect people?

No.

Are people here still keeping distance and wearing mask?

No. Few do. Usually older and more vulnerable people. But to be protected they need other people to wear maskS and not spread droplets etc. That’s not happening.

The government is one step away not from actively discouraging inter-personal distance and masks (which harms the spying agenda).

For those of us wishing to know how bad things really are there’s ONS, not NHS. It suggests that an average classroom now has one person infected. Not a recovered person but an actively-infected person. An infection vector. This is crazy. This is not acceptable.

Now watch this:

We were meant to have full data updates available “Wednesday at 4pm commencing on 6 July 2022″ (and every week after that). So why is the portal being neglected, as shown above (promise) and below (reality)? We’re intentionally left in the dark as COVID-19 spins out of control across the nation (all my siblings and my parents got infected already… despite trying to avoid it; my mom got infected more than once).

This is what the official portal looks like right now:

That’s 9 days ago already. Promise broken. The “new normal” is nihilism and mass death.