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Raluca Terry-Enescu

@ralucahippie.bsky.social

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Health policy wonk, workers' rights advocate & employability mentor. Data cruncher, purveyor of pretty graphs. Relentlessly hopeful. Kitchen gadgets addict, poster of cat pics, wearer of too many florals. She/her. Views my own. #QISky

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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · Jun 5

In light of the Trump/Musk circus, let me remind you of your favourite Romanian language fact:

When someone throws stupid tantrums hurting their own interests just for the sake of being an ahole, we say they hit their own testicles with an adze (carpentry tool). The Romanian word for adze is Tesla.

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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 4h

I LOVE pistachio cream, like chocolate and like kataifi, but always kinda thought Dubai chocolate is a bit less than the sum of its parts.

Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 5h

Likewise 😊💙

Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 13h

"That doesn’t mean they’re miracle cures for degraded ecosystems. But it does hint at something quietly radical: renewable infrastructure might also offer unexpected environmental perks—if done thoughtfully."

This is pretty damn cool.

China confirms solar panel projects are irreversibly changing desert ecosystems

China’s giant solar parks aren’t just changing the power mix—they may be changing the ground beneath them. Fresh field data point to cooler soils, extra moisture,…

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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 1d

This is a huge problem that @workrights.bsky.social have documented in the past.

Crook opens company, treats workers like 💩, shafts contractors of pay - and then when sued declares insolvency, liquidates the company, starts it again under a new name - and good luck recovering your compensation.

Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 1d

"Glad you didn't get a penny from your claim as you don't deserve fck all...go fck yourself"

That's the message a director of Crussh sent to Raf just after it went into administration.Two months earlier a tribunal had ordered Crussh to pay Raf over £30k
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

‘Glad you didn’t get a penny’: cafe boss gloats over unpaid tribunal…

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 2d

Many such cases.

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

www.lse.ac.uk

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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 7d

Flans you can be grateful for.

Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah, sounds about right.

I remember this on Frasier:

-Manchester. That's where the Beatles are from, right?

-Oh, no. You're thinking Liverpool.

-Then who's from Manchester?

-No-one. That's why I live here now."

& I thought: Nope, no one from Manc would ever say that in 1 mill years.

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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 8d

I think a big element of this discourse is obscuring that the working class is in reality very ethnically diverse - reinforcing a very non-immigrant theme part vision of what "working class" means.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 9d

In fact: in more cases than not, immigration is actually at least part of the answer to address the real issue. So basically: anti-immigration policies constitute a *double negative* - they prevent addressing the real issues by providing the wrong focus and they likely make the real issue worse.

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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 9d

If anything, buying a nicer more middle class home made me more likely to use corner shops, because I'm now farther from the main road, and bollocks to walking 15 minutes to Tesco or to the nice Asian greengrocers if it's peeing it down.

Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 9d

Meanwhile in Victorian London the modern toilet was popularised by Thomas Crapper. Also known as the inventor of the ballcock. Hee hee ballcock.

Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 9d

I once visited it with a friend. At the time, she was chatting up a guy on Tinder.

I made the obvious joke that on Tinder everyone is Horniman.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 9d

Girlboss reign in Moldova continues

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 9d

A friend writes:

I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."

Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 11d

We worry about Very Online Kids much more than their Very Online Parents, and I'm not sure that's wise

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 9d

Fascinating.

Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow

The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social · 9d

Free speech is the wrong framework for thinking about hard conversations, political or otherwise. When everyone is a bit scared, hurt, and confused, we need collaborative dialogue, not antagonistic debate, and that is mostly a matter of listening, not speaking.

substack.com/home/post/p-...

Free speech is pointless if nobody is listening

No rights without duties

substack.com

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 10d

If you want to know who the runners and riders are in Moldova's election today, I've gone through them here.

Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 10d

PAS (Party of Action Solidarity - 'pas' also means 'step' in Romanian). Liberal pro-European party. Officially led by PM Igor Grosu, de facto led (and initially founded) by the President Maia Sandu. A Harvard economics grad who worked for the world bank, Sandu returned to Moldova...

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Katie Shoshiashvili @kshoshiashvili.bsky.social · 9d

With nearly 97% of votes counted, the pro-European PAS has secured a majority of 54 seats in Moldova’s parliament. Congratulations to the people of Moldova, your future belongs in the EU! 🇲🇩🇪🇺

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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 10d

In times of economic uncertainty people are drawn harder to iffy get rich schemes.

At some point in Romania in the early '90s, about 30% of households are believed to have put money in a pyramid scheme and at it heights up to half of the country's GDP was in those dodgy schemes.

I see similarities

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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 10d

Barbara Marques

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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · Jul 13

Jonathan Caravello
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The tracker of people kidnapped and "dissappeared" by ICE stands at 4773.

bsky.app/profile/figh...

Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · Jul 8

Cynthia Olivera
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The tracker of people kidnapped and "dissappeared" by ICE stands at 4749

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 16d

1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.

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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 11d

They're so afraid of people who think...

Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 12d

That would be a good thing. But if you have too many measures that go in the opposite direction, it may dilute the effect.

What you want to achieve more than anything is to empower disabled people to build up savings /a safety net while they work, for the times when they can't.