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Software engineering nerd, Citizen of Nowhere™, immigrant in beautiful România...

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Got to say, I'm loving my seat for this season's CSM București Handball...

#csm #București #Bucharest #Romania #ehfcl #ehf
Romania's CSM București on the offensive vs. Croatian side Podravka
October 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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This graph also instructive (if you ignore the infuriating way Worldbank sticks labels right over the data.) Romania has done pretty OK - not spectacular (but equally, probably not unsustainable); outperforming region & overtook Hungary on GDPPC-PPP recently...

data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY...
September 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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God, seriously? You visit the authoritarian west for one day, and it's already "papers please"...
A Bluesky popup which says [translated] "The legislation in your region requires age verification to access some features. Touch to find out more"
September 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Woooo-hooo - The Motans 😻.

It occurs that in these days of AI slop, live performers may not be in such a bad place...

#themotans #romania #București #bucharest
September 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Woo-hoo! It's nearly time for the new season...

Without Cristina 😱.

Interesting times.

#handball #CSM #bucuresti #bucharest
A CSM București season ticket for 2025-26
September 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Translation: My religion has all the intellectual and moral authority of a football chant.

🎶 TEAM JAYYYYSUS UNTIL I DIE.
Screenshot of BoueSky showing: Question: "In the size of a tweet, how would you respond if someone asks you what was the Gospel?" Response from a priest: "yet even at the grave we make our song: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia"
September 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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We were blessed with beautiful weather this weekend for the Bucharest International Air Show :-) #BIAS2025 #Bucharest #Romania
A smoke trail follows a plane doing a loop-the-loop at the Bucharest International Air Show 2025 A row of planes waiting to take off; they are in the colours of the Romanian flag Five aircraft from the Romanian Aeroclub aerobatic team flying formation, trailing smoke Three aircraft of the Romanian Aeroclub flying in formation
August 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Not exactly without precedent in our part of the world...
The "naughty document" with which Churchill condemned swathes of Europe to decades of systematic repression under Stalin, in favour of protecting British shipping interests in the Med
August 16, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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I know it's not Caturday, but...

#cat #pisica #catsofbluesky
Princess Sashenka, a calico tabby kitty who is old enough to know better, is snuggling my arm
August 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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If you see this post a castle...
Peleș Castle in Sinaia, România
August 3, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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For a different kind of perspective: The first of these shows the (wonderful) city of Changsha's metro system [Hunan province, China].

The second is the city of Changsha's metro system ~12 years ago.

Change is possible when you put your mind to it...
The Changsha metro map, with half a dozen lines and almost 150 stations. The map of the operational Changsha metro 12 years ago. There are no lines and no stations.
July 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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What perfect album came out when you were sixteen?

Debut albums don't get better than this...
The cover of Saint Etienne's Fox Base Alpha
July 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Signs you are a fascist according to BlueSky, #3,826:

Not liking Insane Clown Posse.

#BlueSkyThinking
A post on Bluesky: "If nothing else, ICP is aggressively anti-fascist. If someone had a virulent hatred of them, wonder if they don't have a non-music related reason."
July 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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We just remembered it's Caturday! #caturday #sasha #catsofbluesky
Sasha, a calico tabby kitty, looking sceptical. As always.
July 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Tbf, on my Samsung at least it's been doing that itself for donkeys'. If I go to gallery and search for, say, "Changsha Metro" it finds pictures I took of the Changsha Metro. For "cat looking like a flower" it finds the pics of my cat wearing a yellow surgical collar.

Assume iPhone can do same.
The results of searching for "Changsha Metro" in the Samsung gallery on my phone. The four results are photos taken on the Changsha Metro in China. It also gives me the option of searching for all photos geotagged Changsha. The results of searching for "cat looking like a flower" in the gallery of my Samsung phone. The top results are pictures of my cat, Sasha, wearing a fluffy yellow post-surgery collar that made her look like a sunflower.
July 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Don't worry, I appreciate the advice :-). She's had a few vets & is probably right to be anxious, she had a few ops/biopsies for what was initially suspected to be cancer, but now an obscure kitty disease (FGESF) under control with diet. Mostly though I think she fears the attached indignity again
Princess Sashenka wearing a yellow fluffy neck collar (to keep her from licking her stitches open) that makes her look like an extra from Teletubbies. She does NOT look impressed.
June 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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For contrast, this is the report card I got back after Sasha's last visit to the vet...

Honestly, she's an angel with me 😬.
A vet recommendation that the cat be dosed with Gabapentin and CBD oil at least two hours before setting foot in a veterinary office.
June 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Does this count as a sign? Maybe, maybe not. Is it unusual? Well, it's definitely NOT common enough because it is AWESOME. #thailand
June 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Will say again, this is how you do a military parade in a democratic country, when the purpose is to reassure not intimidate:
A Romanian soldier stands on his tank alongside a child for their photo to be taken, at the annual National Day parade A Portuguese soldier gives his helmet to a child to try on while his colleague photographs, at the Romanian National Day parade
June 18, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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They solve this problem at the annual National Day parade in Bucharest by stopping the column and letting kids play on the tanks... (I am sufficiently a child to also enjoy this.)
A Romanian soldier having his photo taken with a young girl standing on a tank at last December's Romanian National Day parade People milling around a Romanian Army LAROM multiple rocket launcher at last December's Romanian National Day parade A Portuguese soldier sitting on a tank and letting a child wear his helmet for photographs at last December's Romanian National Day parade
June 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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One of us wants to go to bed... The other thinks she's already there 🙄. Happy Caturday...

#pisica #cat #caturday
Princess Sashenka, a calico tabby kitty, looking quizzically at the camera while lying on my chest
June 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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The President of România, Nicușor Dan, attempting a shot from 7m at Cristina Neagu's testimonial.

That the whole hall cheered his effort is a ray of sunshine for our divided politics.

#romania #handball #csm #neagu
June 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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And our new president is here! Big cheers :-)

#romania #csm #neagu #dan #handball
Cristina Neagu with President Nicușor Dan
June 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Cristina Neagu at the Sala Polivalenta for her own testimonial match
June 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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At CSM București's Sala Polivalenta for the testimonial of someone with a good claim to bring the greatest Handball player of all time... Thank you Cristina Neagu 💙💙💙

#romania #csm #bucharest #handball
Sala Polivalenta
June 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM