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Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Jul 21

What’s happened to The Gilded Age 😭😭 It’s become darker than sin and I could’ve swore it wasn’t one of “those” HBO shows :)))) #chiaroscuro #thegildedage

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Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Jul 12

Haven’t watched Ballard yet but did binge #TooMuch and #TheEternaut ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 it feels like the binges keep dropping even in the generally deemed dead summer season - and i’m so here for it!!! 🥳🥳🥳

Too Much skims across culture clash for love

Too Much, Lena Dunham's answer to Ted Lasso or Emily in Paris, is all breeze. THE show to cuddle up with on the beach. Just don't think about it too hard. If you're primed for romcom, it's 10/10.

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Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Jul 6

I couldn’t suspend disbelief for Sandman, all that stuff I read on Vulture informed my viewing to the point that I couldn’t enjoy the fantasy. And I think that’s a healthy response. Bummer though :/

Couch Potato for Murica's Weekend 🎆

With new seasons of The Bear and Sandman out, you probably have your hands full this July 4th weekend. Both are navel-gazers, but only one is adding to the zeitgeist. Smaller gems recced below too💎

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Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Jun 23

This new season of the Gilded Age gives me so much, a feeling of continuity and renewal, not least of all the structure summer needs 🥹🥹🥹 Ep 1 is out now on MAX

Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Jun 22

Blue Sky wasn’t always a social platform ;) It used to denote a kind of series that was being commissioned by USA, and I wrote a bit on Substack about the revival of the blue-sky ethos today - [it’s in Romanian] ioanina.substack.com

Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Jun 6

H/t #ParrotAnalytics - #SUBTERAN is "the most successful title internationally from Romania"! It’s not just popular across the Netflix footprint, it’s even sought after in non-NFLX territorieS ( 🏴‍☠️) I love that Parrot Analytics can track that sort of shady demand as well as the above-board numbers 🤭🤭

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · May 19

President Trump is set to speak Monday with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in what the U.S. president said is an attempt to stop the “bloodbath” of the war in Ukraine.

Trump set to implore Putin to end the 'bloodbath' in Ukraine in high-stakes phone call

Ahead of the much anticipated call, leaders from Britain, France, Germany and Italy said they spoke Sunday with Trump, after Russia and Ukraine remained far apart in direct talks last week.

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Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · May 19

I wish there was a freeze streak option on the @nytimes.com games, alas, I lost my streak three times in 2 weeks, I was so consumed by the elections in my country ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 #RomanianElections #NicusorDan

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Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · May 13

Loads of pro-Europe voters in Romania hope Simion’s opponent, Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, wins on Sunday!! We wish you the same EU-friendly outcome, with a decisive victory by Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski ✌️ good luck to us all!! 🍀

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Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Apr 28

Thoughts I have instead of going to sleep.
💤 A Monday spent manifesting is a Monday of many fests lived inward
🤌Clocking in at 50 episodes, is You the longest running drama still on rn? &
🫥I wish our mayor and presidential hopeful had a wee bit more of Mayor Pete’s charm and speaking prowess 🫠

Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Mar 16

Every national film fund across the EU (and a lot of those who aren’t in the EU) invites series to apply for funding, not just films. Every one - except Romania’s. And that’s why we can’t have nice things.

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Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Mar 10

Romania lives to fight another day. The guru was duly thrown out of the race for the presidency of a democracy he explicitly didn’t want democratic. #democracy #europeanunion #globalization

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · Feb 27

Join us in Austin on March 10!

More info at events.voxmedia.com/sxsw

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Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Mar 4

I’m tired of getting no’s in my inbox but I’m also pretty sure my successful future self will have a better story to tell if I can withstand a few more. #failure #akickinthebuttisastepforward

Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Mar 2

What Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, is saying today is not so different to what Cheney, then the US defence secretary, said in 1989: “We must guard against gambling our nation’s security on what may be a temporary aberration in the behaviour of our foremost adversary.” www.ft.com/content/3507...

Europe should hijack Trump’s revolutionary plans for the world

Liberal nationalists must respond with imagination to US policies rather than gripe at being cut out of Ukraine talks

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Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Feb 24

I loved myself to completion this #Dragobete 🤍

Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Feb 23

Watching DeNiro do a rousing speech to angry mob as prez on Zero Day brings woman to tears #zeroday #netflix

Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Feb 22

Us: Man or bear?
Hollywood: Blink twice, Companion.

I feel heard.

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Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Feb 16

I learned a new word today c/o @financialtimes.com . Cock-a-hoop. As in, chuffed. As in, what the AfD is at Vance’s warm embrace. I’m sure the disgust at the sentence will help make the word a vocabulary staple. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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End of an era? Germany in disarray as US scolds staunchest European ally

Washington’s message at Munich security conference sends shockwaves through transatlantic alliance

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Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Feb 15

What kind of question is that. Obviously not. I love myself WAY MORE.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Feb 14

Incredible.

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stevebailie.bsky.social @stevebailie.bsky.social · Feb 3

Is there the teeniest-weeniest possibility that all this tariffs nonsense is insider trading stock manipulation by Trump to reward the cronies who put him in power, I dunno, just wondering.

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Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Feb 13

There's delulu and then there's whatever Elizabeth Holmes is

...A year later Holmes was pregnant again with daughter Invicta, which delayed her prison start by a month. “I always wanted to be a mother,” she explains. “I truly did not think I would ever be convicted or found guilty.”.. [srsly?!]

Elizabeth Holmes Breaks Her Silence in First Interview from Prison: 'It’s Been Hell and Torture' (Exclusive)

In a Candid, Exclusive Interview, the Former Theranos CEO and Convicted Felon, Shares Her Life Behind Bars and Quest for Freedom in PEOPLE's Cover Story. (Exclusive)

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Ioanina @ioanina.bsky.social · Feb 1

Yeah sex is cool, but have you ever delivered a show for Netflix?

🤭🤭 #SUBTERAN is out now everywhere on Netflix and it’s truly the best feeling in the world. Binge it this wknd yeah?

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Lorenzo Mejino @lmejino.bsky.social · Jan 14

Finalizada la serie rumana #Subteran en Netflix. Un thriller sucio y exótico que funciona bastante bien para mostrar la corrupción del país a muchos niveles con una buena protagonista en Ana Uluru . Me ha gustado más de lo que esperaba

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