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Matei Tomasevici 🥨 拓馬太

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Historian of Chinese religions (MA) & data analyst. History, geography, religions, folklore, philosophy, cartography, mythology, TTRPG, dad jokes, bad humor and memes - mostly memes.


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Spouse talking excitingly about the election results in the UK. The child is still on football mode: “Did England win???”

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Blacksmithing obviously.

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Studying the Old Testament with Peppa Pig.

#bible
#numbers

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Thanks. And the hottest issue in Mongolia is centralised government? What do people argue about mostly?

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Would you explain a bit about the Mongolian political system and the parties? Agendas, key figures, popularity of different parties etc. (And why do think it is a good result?)

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Thor just wans to watch the match.
#eurocup
#football

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I was already a hater as a fetus.

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My copy from 20 years ago was simply red.

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I was actually referring to the ancient king that he's named after 😆

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I'm waiting for your response when she asks what AHAB means.

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So close…
Damn it!
#eurocup
#football

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Thanks

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Ok bloomer

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I know I got old when I search for lyrics* about nature. I have loved country music since I was a teenager, but now I’m focusing on songs about nature and landscape. I love writers who make my mind draw maps. *Or songs in languages I don’t understand anyway.

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Given the direction our world is moving to, a standstill sounds like an improvement.

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I participated in a group meditation this weekend for the first time in my life. Very unmeditative. The instructor meant to be spiritual and had good intentions, but I don’t understand why I need an artificial drums and her badly weaved prayers, when I have birds and wind fiddling the trees.

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Make A Band Smaller: Eight Treasures

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#Summerssolstice
#Solstice
#夏至

One day delay

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Indeed. Today identities and the need to identify as a part of a religion is also political. But in the past in many cases, people just practiced rituals without identifying them or naming them. As long as it did not disturb the ‘social order’, regulated by rulers on behalf of gods.

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I don’t think religion is what people do, more like: what people are expected to do, regulations of social norms with ritual and/or tradition. That’s why religion is always political.

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I beg to differ on 4

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I'm afraid it's the problem in every country. Pop music is a global pandemic. Folk fusions with rock/metal from different places is still too esoteric.

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I don't know what moots are and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.

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Reskeet how old you are, using a vague proxy: Facebook reminds of photos taken during FIFA world cup 2014 when I looked awesome. (Yes, obviously, I support the Croatian team)

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Something funny I noticed during the #euelections:

The European Conservative and Reformist party.

Am I the only who sees the paradox in it?

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Reskeet how old you are, using a vague proxy: I broke the Iron Curtain

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When I see the word “identity”, especially in a political context, it is usually a red flag indicating hardcore shit.

#eu
#euelections

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Seriously, I was wondering about that few weeks ago.

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How much does the average US voter take these things in consideration when voting?

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Gongsun Long: Ceci n’est pas un cheval

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Which nationalism ever has?

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So far the wiping out is going as planned and it is not very environmental.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/06/...

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More than a year ago, when I was still using Twitter more often and Eilon Musk claimed the twits will be used for AI generators, I started writing bullshit on purpose.

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There's an old comic strip running on the web

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佛誕節快樂!
Happy Vesak!
🪷

#vesak
#佛诞节

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I don’t believe they tossed it away! 😭

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Tipper

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Azerbaijan and Canada are not mentioned in the Quran as well. What’s your point?

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No one: Literally no one:

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VPN is not enough. You need to pay a fee with a credit card that belongs to the country from which you are voting.

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France was boring, Croatia was good and Ireland… what the hell was this shit???

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Armenia 🇦🇲 was the best tonight.
Second is Norway 🇳🇴
Third is Estonia 🇪🇪
Fourth is Israel 🇮🇱

The rest were boring or worse.
#eurovision
#eurovision2024

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It is said that fried phoenix tastes like chicken.

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Happy Easter!

#easter
#orthodoxeaster
#christianmemes

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I hope the didn't ruin your leisure time with too much noise.

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Eilon - communism is bad!!! - Musk?! How surprising... 🙄

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Any good news lately?

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Classic... literally... and literati.

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I'm not trying to start a debate. All are random thoughts.

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Every night before l go to sleep, I browse the Disney programs and find out I'm too tired to start something new. Then, what the heck, I'll see if it gets anywhere.

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