Ro. An. Valen.
anrova.bsky.social
Ro. An. Valen.
@anrova.bsky.social
Act justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. That is enough.

Lived everywhere, done everything. Currently in Sevilla, Spain.
Pinned
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!
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Rogue One was the worst SW movie I'd ever seen until TRoS, which is an abomination of an un-movie that should be subjected to DAMNATIO MEMORIAE.

Yes, TLJ is trash. All its support is impotent Trump 1.0 Left-of-Center hippie nonsense in the face of surging fascism, aged like blue milk.
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Evil is a seed, and life finds a way.
i'm going to sound sarcastic here but genuinely one of the most interesting aspects of LLMs is that they are proving that evil is real, by which i mean if you train them to do one bad thing they start doing other bad things that you have not trained them to do
At least once a month, Anthropic puts out an alignment paper d AI behavior where, if you saw it in a science fiction film, you‘d be screaming at the idiot scientists onscreen to stop development

www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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sharing the word here to try to and put a stop to this. Macron. Do not assassinate Candace Owens

youtu.be/SGp7-MS12aQ?...
Please Do Not Assassinate Candace Owens, Emmanuel Macron.
YouTube video by Little Joel
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November 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Crawling out a five day migraine hole
November 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Grand opening, grand closing.

X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Anyway the District of Columbia is an incredible city and I love it so much and I’m so glad I get to live here.
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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can't believe rfk jr wants to stop me from eating red M&Ms but he'll eat *** out of an ****
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago.

Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Here is my tip for getting Xmas music out of your head: you need a more powerful earworm. I find most any song from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory works wonders (with the exception, of course, of the bathroom break classic Cheer Up, Charlie)
November 22, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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62 Years Ago Today:
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Oswald was a Communist attempted defector and Castro-phile who hated JFK. He trained on marksmanship in the Marines. He bought the rifle used in the killing and practiced with it. He tried to kill General Walker with the same rifle a few weeks prior.

Only possible conclusion: “CIA musta dunnit!”
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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The Rainbow B-52 in that picture is sending hundreds of thousands of PLA soldiers on boats in the Taiwan Strait to their watery graves.
I hate this sort of meme.

“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”

Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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The original American immigration policy was the correct and most efficient one:

"Oh wow, you made it here? Okay, you clearly want to be here, welcome and good luck, my fellow American."
November 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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The best way to sustain broad support for immigrants it to ensure they hit the ground running so they aren't funneled down the many anti-social and aggravation channels that stem from displacement and poverty.
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Fast fashion and the de-unionization of textiles are abominations that must be purged from the earth.
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Also, the unerring Cassandra effect can stop anytime now, thanks
long time chomsky haters vindicated
November 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
As we have continued to be for a generation now
long time chomsky haters vindicated
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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This is one reason I'm expecting intense natural selection in forms of government and cultural norms returning to the fore.

If you don't have a society that's at least reasonably inclusive towards migrants, children, and parents, your country is gonna literally fucking die.
the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I mean, aqueducts existed
Showing someone from the middle aged a water faucet and breaking them when they think about how much time they spend hauling water
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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The Man Who Sleeps
Ooriginal French title: Un homme qui dort.
November 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Goebbels, wiping his brow:

"we seem to have a bit of a Nazi problem in this Nazi Party I've made"
November 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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This is the one and only question St. Peter proffers before the Gates, and the one and only correct answer is this:
November 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The Epstein Files are turning into what the Panama Papers should have been.
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM