Michael Vokabre
@vokabre.bsky.social
Hi, I'm Russian Jewish Israeli raccoon with brushes. Expect slice of life traditional arts, trains, androids, love of decency
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Еarlier this year a memorial to Holodomor victims was erected in between the Knesset and the Supreme Court of Israel at the Wohl Rose Park. The garden is renovated, so officially it was unveiled today with the visit of Taras Kachka from Ukraine x.com/taraskachka/...
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December 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Еarlier this year a memorial to Holodomor victims was erected in between the Knesset and the Supreme Court of Israel at the Wohl Rose Park. The garden is renovated, so officially it was unveiled today with the visit of Taras Kachka from Ukraine x.com/taraskachka/...
www.facebook.com/ukraineworld...
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Imagine how easy things would've been if Ilya Yashin, then the head of Krasnoselsky District of Moscow went "ok, we now have KRASNOSELSKY DISTRICT WAR CRIMINAL LAW and are ARRESTING PUTIN" and Putin is like "oh no, I've been defeated by the municipality.
December 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Imagine how easy things would've been if Ilya Yashin, then the head of Krasnoselsky District of Moscow went "ok, we now have KRASNOSELSKY DISTRICT WAR CRIMINAL LAW and are ARRESTING PUTIN" and Putin is like "oh no, I've been defeated by the municipality.
The grownups voted while the “coalition” left.
The “coalition” couldn’t vote against it not to raise the wrath of Trump but couldn’t vote for it because of their ideologies, so they threw a tantrum.
The “coalition” couldn’t vote against it not to raise the wrath of Trump but couldn’t vote for it because of their ideologies, so they threw a tantrum.
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The grownups voted while the “coalition” left.
The “coalition” couldn’t vote against it not to raise the wrath of Trump but couldn’t vote for it because of their ideologies, so they threw a tantrum.
The “coalition” couldn’t vote against it not to raise the wrath of Trump but couldn’t vote for it because of their ideologies, so they threw a tantrum.
One reason I tend to be careful with speaking Russian when there are folks who don't understand Russian nearby.
Source: www.instagram.com/p/DPWFkmVCGrr/
Source: www.instagram.com/p/DPWFkmVCGrr/
December 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
One reason I tend to be careful with speaking Russian when there are folks who don't understand Russian nearby.
Source: www.instagram.com/p/DPWFkmVCGrr/
Source: www.instagram.com/p/DPWFkmVCGrr/
Tokyo Teleport Station is the best named station everywhere
December 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Tokyo Teleport Station is the best named station everywhere
I have no idea why there's a tapir statue in Odaiba but why not i guess
December 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I have no idea why there's a tapir statue in Odaiba but why not i guess
Yurikamome and Odaiba
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Yurikamome and Odaiba
Lots of such interactions
December 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Lots of such interactions
but then finally felt free when he moved to Dubai.
It's a peculiar how there's no reflection on racism, inequality of Dubai|UAE, how th ere's for some reason "no suffocation" in a country where one can not protest, no reflection on how racism affects Jews too.
It's a peculiar how there's no reflection on racism, inequality of Dubai|UAE, how th ere's for some reason "no suffocation" in a country where one can not protest, no reflection on how racism affects Jews too.
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
but then finally felt free when he moved to Dubai.
It's a peculiar how there's no reflection on racism, inequality of Dubai|UAE, how th ere's for some reason "no suffocation" in a country where one can not protest, no reflection on how racism affects Jews too.
It's a peculiar how there's no reflection on racism, inequality of Dubai|UAE, how th ere's for some reason "no suffocation" in a country where one can not protest, no reflection on how racism affects Jews too.
Just got suggested a large instagram account of a Palestinian from Nazareth (i.e. Israeli), who in his life story says that he felt like unwanted "2nd class", was sent by his family to study to Britain (not cheap) and worked at Apple (he mentions he experienced racism everywhere)
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Just got suggested a large instagram account of a Palestinian from Nazareth (i.e. Israeli), who in his life story says that he felt like unwanted "2nd class", was sent by his family to study to Britain (not cheap) and worked at Apple (he mentions he experienced racism everywhere)
This also ties to the delusion of utopian past lost because of Europeans, the notion, that people, both westerners and non-westerners of this persuasion invent and then promote. Here's one example from a conversation as an example that shows how detached from reality it can be.
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This also ties to the delusion of utopian past lost because of Europeans, the notion, that people, both westerners and non-westerners of this persuasion invent and then promote. Here's one example from a conversation as an example that shows how detached from reality it can be.
The supposedly progressive notion that Europeans or "westerners" or "white people" brought racism, homophobia, misogyny to peoples around the world in itself is racist for it denies agency of peoples who aren't like, the claimants, westerners.
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The supposedly progressive notion that Europeans or "westerners" or "white people" brought racism, homophobia, misogyny to peoples around the world in itself is racist for it denies agency of peoples who aren't like, the claimants, westerners.
Shahar and Suomi in Kamakura in Tokyo
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Shahar and Suomi in Kamakura in Tokyo
This ice cream sandwich looks like a sweet potato (and tastes nice too)
December 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This ice cream sandwich looks like a sweet potato (and tastes nice too)
Standing Together (@standing-together.bsky.social) sticker in Kamakura in Tokyo
December 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Standing Together (@standing-together.bsky.social) sticker in Kamakura in Tokyo
I'm honestly surprised someone from contemporary Japan managed to write this short fragment, considering this is the feelings of people from places like those around myself who'd be saying something like that to westerners who'd call for death while living in unprecedented safety
December 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I'm honestly surprised someone from contemporary Japan managed to write this short fragment, considering this is the feelings of people from places like those around myself who'd be saying something like that to westerners who'd call for death while living in unprecedented safety
This was unexpected
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This was unexpected
Followed by many other similar comments, from France, Iraq, Palestine, USA etc.
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Followed by many other similar comments, from France, Iraq, Palestine, USA etc.
Of course, the first comment is a "sorry but" by Brad from South Africa.
December 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Of course, the first comment is a "sorry but" by Brad from South Africa.
Societally, in Israel, this, and in part mental illnesses too, is something you have to "toughen up" and go through in silence. The shortage of access to mental health doesn't help. The situation is much better than in Russia or other places, but still not quite good.
x.com/Elizrael/sta...
x.com/Elizrael/sta...
December 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Societally, in Israel, this, and in part mental illnesses too, is something you have to "toughen up" and go through in silence. The shortage of access to mental health doesn't help. The situation is much better than in Russia or other places, but still not quite good.
x.com/Elizrael/sta...
x.com/Elizrael/sta...
I always carry a tenugui cloth with me, and in kagome pattern at that, from Kawamanu — it's one of the cheaper ones, and it also looks like the star of David.
Curiously Kawamanu also now has a special Georgia-themed design of a furoshiki cloth.
Curiously Kawamanu also now has a special Georgia-themed design of a furoshiki cloth.
December 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I always carry a tenugui cloth with me, and in kagome pattern at that, from Kawamanu — it's one of the cheaper ones, and it also looks like the star of David.
Curiously Kawamanu also now has a special Georgia-themed design of a furoshiki cloth.
Curiously Kawamanu also now has a special Georgia-themed design of a furoshiki cloth.
A big house built around a small house (Tokyo)
December 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A big house built around a small house (Tokyo)
I wonder what's the background of this sticker I saw in Tokyo in Asakusa (the flags are UAE and Philippines)
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I wonder what's the background of this sticker I saw in Tokyo in Asakusa (the flags are UAE and Philippines)