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Leur "idéologie" religieuse n'est qu'un prétexte. Ces gens-là, on les retrouve dans l'Histoire dans l'Espagne de Franco, l'Italie de Mussolini, l'Allemagne d'Hitler, la France de Pétain, l'URSS de Staline, le Cambodge de Pol Pot ou la Chine de la Révolution culturelle, bien d'autres encore, et je me limite au XXe siècle... Il y a toujours une idéologie qui leur sert d'alibi. Ce sont des minables qui voudraient devenir les Maîtres du Monde (ou d'une partie du Monde) alors qu'ils ne sont que la…

There is no shore to forsaken dreams rusty all along the transatlantic life intergalactic after death towards whatever the infinite is surely the sodium chloride other mineral salts and dust rot in the sand tides wash and carry them into deep waters abyss where life is reborn Não há margem para sonhos abandonados ferrugentos ao longo da viagem transatlântica da vida intergaláctica após a morte para onde quer que seja o infinito em concreto o cloreto de sódio outros sais m…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Meanwhile, SSL encryption has been extended to all ipernity login pages. Your registration and log-in processes are completely secure now. 2) Like other websites with login, ipernity offers the option "Stay connected". Under certain circumstances, however, this can be a safety gap. We therefore recommend that you always log out at the end of a session. This is especially necessary for a shared or public computer. 3) The previous logout pa…

The following old manuscript and illustrations were found from a cave at ancient Olympus. The origins and authors of these documents are unknown. For the use of further studies, we transcribed the manuscript to unicode letters, in order to make it easier to read and translate. " Bokehs are tiny creatures, which usually can’t be seen by the human eye. Only some short sighted or otherwise disabled are known to see what most likely could be manifestations of bokehs. However, the testimonies of…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Exactly one year ago, on 23rd of February, 2017, the prefecture of Val-de-Marne issued the founding deed (as of 20.02.2017) to the ASSOCIATION DES MEMBRES D'IPERNITY. Since then, twelve busy months have passed, in which ipernity successfully has been rescued and the essential restructuring has been started. Without your support, that would not have been possible. We thank you for that. 2) Shortly after the takeover in September 2017, we had…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) We apologize that ipernity was temporarily unavailable last Saturday. A recently requested renewal of the website security certificate had not been executed technically. Resolving this problem in the early hours of a Saturday was a big challenge for the team but we succeeded and downtime was minimized. With regard to another dysfunction (concerning the payment service Skrill) you'll get a separate information soon. 2) In January, ima will se…

[EN] Against all odds A year–end message from the ima–Team It was in December 2016 when the founder and CEO of Ipernity S.A., Christophe Ruelle, announced the closing of the platform ipernity.com by January 2017. (1) It’s now the end of 2017 and ipernity is still online. What happened? Of course, members were scared, disappointed and started looking for alternatives to Ipernity. But true alternatives were (and are) hard to find. Quite a bunch of users moved over to flickr – bu…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) We are glad to announce that we managed to implement the new Terms of Use before end of 2017. For details see here: www.ipernity.com/about/tos 2) Further we assigned responsibilities within the ima team to fulfill the tasks more efficiently. These are: Acting Executive Board: CEO (Chief Executive Officer) and President: Eric Desjours, France COO (Chief Operating Officer) William Sutherland, USA CFO (Chief Financial Officer) Eric De…

Garbage Hanukkah was created from discarded hand-crafted items I found in a large plastic bag on 18 June 2017 and saved, a tiny plastic menorah found among other personal effects in the drawer of a discarded piece of furniture and broken tiles and plaster, all found on 12 November 2017. It is intended to celebrate Hanukkah, honor the resilient Jewish spirit and take a strong stand against rising anti-Semitism in the world. Accordingly the selected colors and imagery are meant to provide po…

Dear friendly people of ipernity, What's going on right now ? the head of the team is negotiating with several potential buyers. One seems to be really serious. But nothing is done. What am I doing ? I'm actually reading all your comments (hundreds...) on the latest articles and collecting informations/data on your feelings, ideas, support etc.. thus, to use it to make a "at the moment" state of ipernity. (We may share a survey poll soon) Which means I have fewer time to reply to the su…

All of the uncertainty over the future of ipernity and the ongoing discussions about how to secure its finances got me thinking about what this great site has to offer and more importantly just how much we’d be willing, or need, to pay to keep it afloat. In the past I’ve said I’d happily pay twice the current subscription fees and I’ve seen lots of other members make similar statements, but recent developments seem to indicate that based on current membership numbers even that level of undert…

(EN) For few days, christophe Ruelle's false accounts are created. These are SPAM. If you receive a message telling that you won the ipernity lottery, ignore it and contact us immediately. We'll destroy this account. Everyday, we check all new users to avoid this situation but it's not always enough...:( We apologize for this inconvenience. The ipernity team ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (FR) AT…

[EN] Dear friends, Some problems occurred these last days (visit counter, upload, connexion with Yahoo/Google/Facebook IDs). We have solved many of them. Little by little, everything should work properly. Please, wait for 48h before you report bugs. We apologize for the lack of communication. We preferred to solve the technical difficulties first. We also have had to identify the causes to avoid this happens again. We do hope you'll understand our choices have only one aim: keep you sa…

TREES ARE THERE EVEN THOUGH SOME ARE TALLER OR BROADER THAN OTHERS WHEN FOG FALLS DOWN ALL BECOME DROWNED IN THE FOREST LIKE OUR DREAMS IN THE NIGHT AS ÁRVORES ESTÃO LÁ MESMO QUE ALGUMAS SEJAM MAIS ALTAS OU LARGAS DO QUE OUTRAS QUANDO O NEVOEIRO CAI TODAS SE AFOGAM NA FLORESTA COMO OS NOSSOS SONHOS NA NOITE Armando TABORDA, 2014 (1st edition, 2014; 2nd edition, 2018)

THE DREAMER DRESSED RED FREEDOM FORGETTING THAT THE SKY IS A PRISON O SONHADOR VESTIU-SE DE VERMELHO LIBERDADE ESQUECENDO QUE O CÉU É UMA PRISÃO Armando TABORDA, 2014

Hi everyone sorry...I am not visiting your pages much. I have a friend from Brazila staying and we are travelling, camping and sightseeing so I do not have time to access Ipernity very much ! I will be back to normal in around 3 weeks! best wishes to you... Diana

Doesn't stop raining and if it happens how could the clouds justify their obsession with covering up the sky and retaining heat from the sun we lack? /// Não para de chover e se parasse como é que as nuvens justificariam a sua obsessão por encobrirem o céu e reterem o calor do sol que nos falta? by Armando TABORDA, 2014

Despite daily repetition the sun surprises us even if obscured by clouds it accomplishes the universal travel and we too small in our subaltern planetary orbit so glad of heat and eager of light O sol apesar de repetido surpreende-nos todos os dias mesmo oculto pelas nuvens cumpre a viagem universal e nós pequeníssimos em nossa subalterna órbita planetária tão contentes de calor e sedentos de luz by Armando TABORDA, 2014 (post 1st edition, 2014; 2nd edition, 2022)

No land in sight I hear the rain falling on the roof but cause I didn't foresee the overflows plaguing the world my solitude is singing like a canary in a cage waiting for the Deluge /// Sem terra à vista ouço a chuva a cair no telhado mas porque não previ as inundações que assolam o mundo a minha solidão canta como um canário na gaiola à espera do Dilúvio by Armando TABORDA, 2014 (1st edition, 2014; 2nd edition 2018)

In the surrounding landscape there is an unusual mysticism either by nature or man as if it was the eternity embrace at the life threshold /// Na paisagem que me cerca há um inusitado misticismo da natureza e do homem como se fosse o amplexo da eternidade no limiar da vida by Armando TABORDA, 2014 (post 1st Edition, 2014; 2nd edition, 2023)