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Ovidiu S 🇷🇴 🇺🇦 🇪🇺

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Boycott Faroe Islands! It's the least you can do. Boycott Russia, and every company still having dealings with them. I also block rude people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Ovidiu S 🇷🇴 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @plount.bsky.social · Oct 8

The thing that I despise the most about the Abrahamic religions is that it puts humans above other beings. And we're using this as our guilt free power trip through history. We evolved during a period in which Earth was teeming with life. I'm afraid we will be the end of it.

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Ovidiu S 🇷🇴 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @plount.bsky.social · 1d

Or you can just use it for "shit". For example, I've just taken a trump.

It's been done before in my country, România, with Turkish words, and now some of them are common words for a disgusting thing. Well, at least two Turkish words off the top of my head.

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Ovidiu S 🇷🇴 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @plount.bsky.social · Sep 4

Don't worry, tRump won't invade Venezuela. He's not interested in toppling a foreign dictator. His war is with his country.

Ovidiu S 🇷🇴 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @plount.bsky.social · Sep 2

I remember how torturous it was reading "Lord of the Rings" as a child learning English as a second language in high school. I haven't skipped any of your books yet, so hopefully I won't skip this one for linguistic reasons 😜

Ovidiu S 🇷🇴 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @plount.bsky.social · Aug 29

I think people who never held a cup know what a cup is. I'm pretty sure this isn't the way we learn words. Or at least not the only way.

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Truth Social(ist) @twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social · Aug 24

To all the dumfuqs and centrists who are worried about Mamdani being a democratic socialist mayor of NYC, we have an actual fucking Nazi as president, who just happens to be a convicted felon and pedophile.

Use your outrage accordingly.

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Ovidiu S 🇷🇴 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @plount.bsky.social · Aug 25

As a Romanian who grew up in a big city (Bucharest), I learned that in my early childhood. I think it was for cultural reasons, since the aurochs is present on the Moldavian Coat of Arms.

Ovidiu S 🇷🇴 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @plount.bsky.social · Aug 24

One of my pet peeves are the fake Einstein quotes.

Ovidiu S 🇷🇴 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @plount.bsky.social · Aug 24

Roe vs Wade?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Aug 24

Nationalism is by default unimaginative and paradoxically every example of it is broadly similar to other examples everywhere else in the world.

It's always about flags and chants and xenophobic exceptionalism. The mantra of people who don't have the imagination to actually love where they live.

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Ovidiu S 🇷🇴 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @plount.bsky.social · Jul 20

That's kinda what I meant by it. They want to be gods among men. Well, gods among slaves.

Fortunately, they're not very bright. Unfortunately, you don't need to be very bright to rally the masses to their demise.

Ovidiu S 🇷🇴 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @plount.bsky.social · Jul 18

I don't think that these people who have acquired unfathomable fortunes want more money. I think they want to convert their money into unprecedented social status.

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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · Jul 14

The United States has a concentration camp in Florida. Let that sink in.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Jul 14

Measles cases are surging. This is what the anti-vax conspiracy theory has brought us www.theguardian.com/society/comm...

"It’s probably the most depressing conspiracy theory there is

...because vaccination is the most concrete proof of how much we rely on one another’s care & rationality."

Measles cases are surging in Europe and the US. This is what the anti-vax conspiracy theory has brought us

Nearly 30 years after Andrew Wakefield’s discredited study linking the MMR vaccine and autism, we badly need an injection of rationality

www.theguardian.com

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · Jul 15

To be clear, Pam Bondi took a $25K bribe from the orange felon to cover up his crimes with his fake university back when she was the trashy AG of Florida, so I don’t get why people are shocked that she fired an Ethics Chief at DOJ or that she’s hiding Epstein files, she’s a crook too.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · Jul 14

A classic hallmark of pseudoscience is when proponents reverse the burden of proof on skeptics to prove them wrong rather than having to provide evidence to support their own claims.

Hitchens’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 14

Mehmet Oz on Medicaid: "We'll be there for you, the American people, when you need help, but you gotta stay healthy yourself ... don't eat carrot cake. Eat real food."

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Jul 14

DoJ drops charges against doctor who destroyed Covid vaccines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

MD:
- distributed 1,937 fraudulent vaccination record cards for $$
- Gave minors saline shots instead of vaccine (ie, lied).

That has NOTHING to do with choice, care, or science. Exploitive BS.

DoJ drops charges against Utah doctor accused of destroying Covid vaccines

Michael Kirk Moore accused of distributing at least 1,937 false vaccination cards and administering saline to children

www.theguardian.com

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Ovidiu S 🇷🇴 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @plount.bsky.social · Jul 14

On the other hand, they're immoral idiots, so they'll still vote for him. If that's gonna be another democratic vote in the US.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · Jul 14

Now over 46,000 replies, virtually all critical. On his own website. By his own people.

truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114842356238631061

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · Jul 13

YES!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jul 13

This has always been the GOP's strategy:

1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.

2) Explode deficits

3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.

4) Repeat.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 12

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"

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ADHD Jesse @adhdjesse.com · Jul 11

The biggest ADHD motivation myth?

"If it's important enough, you'll do it."

It sounds like it should be true, but that's just not how my brain works—my brain is motivated by things that are interesting, novel, creative, challenging, urgent.

Importance barely even factors in.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jul 11

But it’s not a cult.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · Jul 11

Confessions of a former naturopath.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 11

Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."

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