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!
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The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.
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In order to deliver that right cross he had to set it up so that Paul was too tired to block or move. That right is one of the slowest punches in boxing and the fact he’s throwing it says a lot about Paul’s skill as a pugilist.
Boxing is problematic etc etc but Anthony Joshua cracking a smile as he lines up his kill shot on Jake Paul is giving me life
December 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
In order to deliver that right cross he had to set it up so that Paul was too tired to block or move. That right is one of the slowest punches in boxing and the fact he’s throwing it says a lot about Paul’s skill as a pugilist.
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Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
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We are, in fact, obliged to take in refugees. The right of asylum is a treaty obligation lmao, not that anyone seems to care these days
Bad military theory arguments usually require a more specific historical counterexample than just "WW2."
December 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We are, in fact, obliged to take in refugees. The right of asylum is a treaty obligation lmao, not that anyone seems to care these days
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There’s a free rider problem where everyone knows that (a) someone has to train juniors (b) training juniors is a time sink (c) industry norm is bosses who don’t care about retention so you level up by switching jobs (d) due to c nobody believes they will get to benefit from their investment in a/b.
December 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
There’s a free rider problem where everyone knows that (a) someone has to train juniors (b) training juniors is a time sink (c) industry norm is bosses who don’t care about retention so you level up by switching jobs (d) due to c nobody believes they will get to benefit from their investment in a/b.
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Horserace coverage turns a blind eye to the countless downsides of China's dominance model, which ultimately lies at the mercy of outsiders.
Overcapacity doesn't pay for itself. Money isn't nearly as efficient as trust.
Overcapacity doesn't pay for itself. Money isn't nearly as efficient as trust.
Despite its BRICS initiative, China is nowhere as morally connected as the U.S. China may well become the singular Olympus that all mere mortals look up to, but so long as it continues to disregard liberal values, it will struggle to expand its network of moral support.
December 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Horserace coverage turns a blind eye to the countless downsides of China's dominance model, which ultimately lies at the mercy of outsiders.
Overcapacity doesn't pay for itself. Money isn't nearly as efficient as trust.
Overcapacity doesn't pay for itself. Money isn't nearly as efficient as trust.
It is a consul's office to defeat the Carthaginians or else fall on the sword
More than that, it's literally your job, leaders. That's why you're at the top. It's why you have the privileges you've been given. You're supposed to rise to meet these moments, not slink away as if you "didn't sign up for it". Bullshit.
One of the reasons silence is not savvy is that voters crave leaders, and remaining silent about such disgusting behavior looks like cowardice, complicity, or indifference. You no longer look like someone who will fight for them—because you provably didn't do it.
December 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It is a consul's office to defeat the Carthaginians or else fall on the sword
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There was always going to be a rebound from the population explosion of the 20th century, but we have made it ten zillion times worse at the worst possible time by not forcing gender equality down everyone's throats by like 1930.
December 14, 2025 at 7:11 AM
There was always going to be a rebound from the population explosion of the 20th century, but we have made it ten zillion times worse at the worst possible time by not forcing gender equality down everyone's throats by like 1930.
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Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!
a man in a hat is dancing in a crowd of people
ALT: a man in a hat is dancing in a crowd of people
media.tenor.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!
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Just for funsies, outside of a rebuilt EU and NATO-member Ukraine, the best candidate for Russian dissidents' precious little European Russia would be breaking off St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad into a fourth Baltic Republic
(That you cannot name Ingria, idiots. Try "Nyennia" or something.)
(That you cannot name Ingria, idiots. Try "Nyennia" or something.)
December 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Just for funsies, outside of a rebuilt EU and NATO-member Ukraine, the best candidate for Russian dissidents' precious little European Russia would be breaking off St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad into a fourth Baltic Republic
(That you cannot name Ingria, idiots. Try "Nyennia" or something.)
(That you cannot name Ingria, idiots. Try "Nyennia" or something.)
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My advice to Russian "dissidents" is to cite Gandalf the White:
"That we should wish to cast him down and have *no one* in his place is not a thought that occurs to his mind. That we should try to destroy the Ring itself has not yet entered into his darkest dream."
"That we should wish to cast him down and have *no one* in his place is not a thought that occurs to his mind. That we should try to destroy the Ring itself has not yet entered into his darkest dream."
December 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
My advice to Russian "dissidents" is to cite Gandalf the White:
"That we should wish to cast him down and have *no one* in his place is not a thought that occurs to his mind. That we should try to destroy the Ring itself has not yet entered into his darkest dream."
"That we should wish to cast him down and have *no one* in his place is not a thought that occurs to his mind. That we should try to destroy the Ring itself has not yet entered into his darkest dream."
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Woke 2.0 must ban anything like this forever and go on a crusade to purge any data gathered.
USA visa requirements
If you think you can just delete social media before visiting the USA read this 👇🏼 from Arnaud Bertrand
If you think you can just delete social media before visiting the USA read this 👇🏼 from Arnaud Bertrand
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Woke 2.0 must ban anything like this forever and go on a crusade to purge any data gathered.
Terrible in the plenary sense of the term. Sweet Jesus.
The thin threads shimmering in the sunlight — all of it is fiber-optic cable from drones. There are so many fiber-tethered drones that the cables almost completely cover the forest in the Kupiansk direction.
December 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Terrible in the plenary sense of the term. Sweet Jesus.
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Yes. What of it? The Tree of Liberty thirsts.
Ugh we’re actually going to have to do Ameri-Maidan aren’t we
December 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Yes. What of it? The Tree of Liberty thirsts.
In other words, elite political analysts tend to think voters are people like themselves.
What better description is there of the Chris Cillizzas of the world, after all, than "having no beliefs and only caring about how many cheeseburgers they can jam in their fat gobs"?
What better description is there of the Chris Cillizzas of the world, after all, than "having no beliefs and only caring about how many cheeseburgers they can jam in their fat gobs"?
The problem with elite political analysis is that it actually centers entirely around contempt for voters as stupid, but misconceives “stupid” as meaning “having no beliefs and only caring about how many cheeseburgers they can jam in their fat gobs.”
Even stupid people have beliefs and ideas!
Even stupid people have beliefs and ideas!
See the problem with ALL of this is that most voters are simply STUPID and *every* election is basically won on "vibes;" but if you actually SAY that out loud in the aftermath you're going to make stupid people even more resentful so you have to at least pretend "Oh yeah 'affordability' sure."
December 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
In other words, elite political analysts tend to think voters are people like themselves.
What better description is there of the Chris Cillizzas of the world, after all, than "having no beliefs and only caring about how many cheeseburgers they can jam in their fat gobs"?
What better description is there of the Chris Cillizzas of the world, after all, than "having no beliefs and only caring about how many cheeseburgers they can jam in their fat gobs"?
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these are so clearly only controlled by humans it’s astounding how much everyone gives elon musk for lying to everyone all the time about everything
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 AM
these are so clearly only controlled by humans it’s astounding how much everyone gives elon musk for lying to everyone all the time about everything
Recovered memory about my dad being mad that my mother threw out his ten-year collection of Byte magazines
December 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Recovered memory about my dad being mad that my mother threw out his ten-year collection of Byte magazines
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You will be visited by three spirits (meaning of each subject to debate)
December 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
You will be visited by three spirits (meaning of each subject to debate)
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Origen sitting up in heaven waiting for his condemnation to be revoked, watching JD Vance still get communion after apostating himself multiple times and fucking a couch
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Origen sitting up in heaven waiting for his condemnation to be revoked, watching JD Vance still get communion after apostating himself multiple times and fucking a couch
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Richard Dawkins pronouncing "bulwark" as "bullurk" is a far graver crime against his beloved Western civilization than a million swarthy trans Muslim secular atheist migrants moving into his neighborhood.
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Richard Dawkins pronouncing "bulwark" as "bullurk" is a far graver crime against his beloved Western civilization than a million swarthy trans Muslim secular atheist migrants moving into his neighborhood.
Can't believe the U.S. deep state STILL hasn't learned that guerilla insurgencies are basically unbeatable if given a reason to persist with halfway decent morale
There are Christian slop movies that accurately depict what a fucking nightmare a suburban house held by well-armed hostiles can be for law enforcement, let alone several on the same block.
You are seeing glimmers of what a civil conflict would look like with ICE raids. The communities haven’t started shooting at them, but if they did, it would not be the community that would come out worse off
December 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Can't believe the U.S. deep state STILL hasn't learned that guerilla insurgencies are basically unbeatable if given a reason to persist with halfway decent morale