Ro. An. Valen.
@anrova.bsky.social
Act justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. That is enough.
Lived everywhere, done everything. Currently in Sevilla, Spain.
Lived everywhere, done everything. Currently in Sevilla, Spain.
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Ro. An. Valen.
@anrova.bsky.social
· May 1
Due to the economic downturn, I'm likely getting downsized at month's end, thus looking for remote U.S. work.
J.D., qualified for legal research + writing, WordPress, and pretty much anything in the humanities (editing, mediation, meditation, etc.).
Hit me up with leads, please!
J.D., qualified for legal research + writing, WordPress, and pretty much anything in the humanities (editing, mediation, meditation, etc.).
Hit me up with leads, please!
It's almost like America is not as uniquely awful as the memes say she is.
No one, absolutely no one, rushed to fill the niche left by Trump and Musk and Rubio murdering USAID, and that should tell us a lot about other governments.
February 14, 2026 at 6:51 AM
It's almost like America is not as uniquely awful as the memes say she is.
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Hegseth's unconstitutional retaliation against Sen. Kelly was so brazen that an exasperated federal judge used more than a dozen exclamation points!
Highlights from the ruling: "Horsefeathers!" and "Please!"
"That is a troubling development in a free country!" buff.ly/YY60KWM
Highlights from the ruling: "Horsefeathers!" and "Please!"
"That is a troubling development in a free country!" buff.ly/YY60KWM
February 12, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Hegseth's unconstitutional retaliation against Sen. Kelly was so brazen that an exasperated federal judge used more than a dozen exclamation points!
Highlights from the ruling: "Horsefeathers!" and "Please!"
"That is a troubling development in a free country!" buff.ly/YY60KWM
Highlights from the ruling: "Horsefeathers!" and "Please!"
"That is a troubling development in a free country!" buff.ly/YY60KWM
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Being anti immigration is the ultimate luxury belief
February 13, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Being anti immigration is the ultimate luxury belief
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I mean if I was a politician I would simply not have the sell your house to Aquaman dipshit on my podcast.
February 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
I mean if I was a politician I would simply not have the sell your house to Aquaman dipshit on my podcast.
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Vought and Musk must never know freedom again after their mass murder of millions.
Every day I wonder if my friends’ family are alive or dead. A humanitarian catastrophe on the scale of the Cambodian or Bangladesh genocide is happening and Vought is sure he’s gonna skate back to the dinner party scene after it’s over like Kissinger did. There has to be legal accountability.
February 13, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Vought and Musk must never know freedom again after their mass murder of millions.
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There is great irony in the automatic, unchanging answer of "you idiot, they're just fancy autocomplete" to any question posed about LLMs.
February 11, 2026 at 6:04 PM
There is great irony in the automatic, unchanging answer of "you idiot, they're just fancy autocomplete" to any question posed about LLMs.
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We now have data from Trump's first full year in office. Let's review the performance of Trump and the two parties since 1989 and a new age of globalization began.
However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
February 11, 2026 at 3:12 PM
We now have data from Trump's first full year in office. Let's review the performance of Trump and the two parties since 1989 and a new age of globalization began.
However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
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Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
February 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
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Reiterating my belief that any trans person in a blue area who thinks there is no difference between parties has a moral obligation to switch homes with a trans person in Bumfuck, Mississippi who believes otherwise.
Your reminder that Jon Bel Edwards, a legit conservative and the last Dem governor of Louisiana, was pro trans rights while being anti choice. "Dems don't support queer people" is like the most easily disproven lie. If JBE, Kelly, Cooper, and Beshear are all pro trans.
hasan, who is not trans or queer, saying that Dems would shoot every trans person in the head to win elections, is just straight up ratfucking, indefensible
February 12, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Reiterating my belief that any trans person in a blue area who thinks there is no difference between parties has a moral obligation to switch homes with a trans person in Bumfuck, Mississippi who believes otherwise.
Horrific. Also a reason medical research should be publicly funded and public domain, ad nauseam
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Horrific. Also a reason medical research should be publicly funded and public domain, ad nauseam
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even if this wasn't just gibbering madness and idiocy (which it is)
Trump's killed by latest count 700,000 people, most of them children, all of whom would be alive today if Kamala Harris was the President
so worst outcome for Gaza, and the largest act of mass murder in the 21st century.
Trump's killed by latest count 700,000 people, most of them children, all of whom would be alive today if Kamala Harris was the President
so worst outcome for Gaza, and the largest act of mass murder in the 21st century.
There's more than 9 milliosn reason why you shouldn't be citing this person as morally superior to Trump. If you need more, add the over 70K murdered Palestinian women, men and children her silence on genocide helped make happen.
If you need even more than that you're willfully absent of morality.
If you need even more than that you're willfully absent of morality.
February 11, 2026 at 4:51 PM
even if this wasn't just gibbering madness and idiocy (which it is)
Trump's killed by latest count 700,000 people, most of them children, all of whom would be alive today if Kamala Harris was the President
so worst outcome for Gaza, and the largest act of mass murder in the 21st century.
Trump's killed by latest count 700,000 people, most of them children, all of whom would be alive today if Kamala Harris was the President
so worst outcome for Gaza, and the largest act of mass murder in the 21st century.
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Didnt the Qing have some dipship fail his LSAT equivalent, declare himself the second coming of Jesus as a way to cope with the failure, and start a rebellion that ended up killing millions?
February 13, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Didnt the Qing have some dipship fail his LSAT equivalent, declare himself the second coming of Jesus as a way to cope with the failure, and start a rebellion that ended up killing millions?
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"Censorship" and "Not platforming something" are not remotely the same, and this infuriating insistence on conflating the two is why I had zero moral choice other than to leave Substack.
NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them.
Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...
Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...
February 12, 2026 at 9:23 AM
"Censorship" and "Not platforming something" are not remotely the same, and this infuriating insistence on conflating the two is why I had zero moral choice other than to leave Substack.
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You can sort of tell when someone has never had a job where they had to clean up after other people
February 11, 2026 at 9:59 PM
You can sort of tell when someone has never had a job where they had to clean up after other people
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>story about how a new measure has made transit better for everyone
But have you considered the feelings of the I-Should-Be-Allowed-To-Freebase-And-Jack-Off-On-Public-Transit Caucus?
But have you considered the feelings of the I-Should-Be-Allowed-To-Freebase-And-Jack-Off-On-Public-Transit Caucus?
People should put down their phones and pay attention in freshman social studies
February 11, 2026 at 9:30 PM
>story about how a new measure has made transit better for everyone
But have you considered the feelings of the I-Should-Be-Allowed-To-Freebase-And-Jack-Off-On-Public-Transit Caucus?
But have you considered the feelings of the I-Should-Be-Allowed-To-Freebase-And-Jack-Off-On-Public-Transit Caucus?
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"Yes, the tech is being rolled out with no input from society except ruthless anti-social capitalist tycoons and resentful managers, a tiny handful of whom are exemplars of judgment or character, but..." is an insanely political position worthy of derision, regardless of what follows the ellipsis.
February 11, 2026 at 7:20 PM
"Yes, the tech is being rolled out with no input from society except ruthless anti-social capitalist tycoons and resentful managers, a tiny handful of whom are exemplars of judgment or character, but..." is an insanely political position worthy of derision, regardless of what follows the ellipsis.
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wow the cotton gin's gains aren't going to labor or pro-social uses but being captured upward oh such unexpected who could have expected this from rolling it out with zero input from any other facet of society besides capital huuuuuuh
replies on bluesky consistently talking about ai not working when the problem is that it works well enough that people end up working through their breaks and, in fact, doing a lot more work
i am probably working too much and i am posting all day long. these things used to be mutually contradictory
i am probably working too much and i am posting all day long. these things used to be mutually contradictory
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 11, 2026 at 5:53 PM
wow the cotton gin's gains aren't going to labor or pro-social uses but being captured upward oh such unexpected who could have expected this from rolling it out with zero input from any other facet of society besides capital huuuuuuh
The name "Ilia" is itself a Slavicized pronunciation of Hebrew Eliyahu (or more proximately, Greek Elias). Beware telling people they have to pronounce things like in the old country; it's impossible to stay consistent with that principle.
Sorry but the name thing works both ways. Ilia Malinin grew up in America and pronounces his name in an Americanized style. You don't get to tell an American how to pronounce his own name.
February 11, 2026 at 11:18 PM
The name "Ilia" is itself a Slavicized pronunciation of Hebrew Eliyahu (or more proximately, Greek Elias). Beware telling people they have to pronounce things like in the old country; it's impossible to stay consistent with that principle.
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Life hack as a kid, aka, preventing tons of complexes from infesting my thinking, was intuiting basically instantly that adults were just acting out on the same bullshit impulses as kids.
Too many teachers write kids off, mock them for wrong answers, publicly call them out for LEARNING instead of KNOWING. Too many of them show disdain for all but their most mathematically-advanced students, whom they lavish with attention and praise.
February 11, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Life hack as a kid, aka, preventing tons of complexes from infesting my thinking, was intuiting basically instantly that adults were just acting out on the same bullshit impulses as kids.
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On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.
Inside a Detention Site at the Heart of Europe’s Harsh New Approach to Immigration
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:23 AM
On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.
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New World GDI from Denali to Shipton. A respite from the unhappy Old World. A haven for all mankind.
NATO homies I love you too but tonight I'm NewWorldmaxxing
you might even say I'm dreaming of
a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere
you might even say I'm dreaming of
a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere
February 9, 2026 at 7:15 AM
New World GDI from Denali to Shipton. A respite from the unhappy Old World. A haven for all mankind.
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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I actually do think there’s a war on men. I just think it’s led by boys who are 30-60 years past 18 and not women.
February 8, 2026 at 6:52 PM
I actually do think there’s a war on men. I just think it’s led by boys who are 30-60 years past 18 and not women.