Funchal, Portugal
Joined July 2008
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"The open source spirit: To let a billion lemons go unsqueezed. To capture vanishingly less than you create. To marvel at a vast commons of software, offered with no strings attached, to any who might wish to build." world.hey.com/dhh/capture-le…
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Yesterday, Netflix officially premiered "The Three-Body Problem," a new drama carefully produced by the original team of "Game of Thrones." The drama is adapted from the long science fiction novel "The Three-Body" written by Chinese author Liu Cixin. The opening scene of the first episode describes a scene during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which has caused widespread heated discussions on social media (excluding viewers in China, because the drama has been banned by the Chinese government due to the censorship system). Many people commented that it was too violent and bloody, while others, particularly those who experienced the Cultural Revolution firsthand, argued that due to Netflix's rating system, it was impossible to fully capture the brutal reality of the era on screen. Indeed, my grandfather was one of those cruelty abused and maltreatment to death through struggle sessions. My mother was the daughter forced to witness her father's gruesome death. What was even more horrifying than depicted in the video was the public torture and abuse my grandfather endured day after day, beaten until unconsciousness, only to be dragged away and repeated the next morning. After each session, the Red Guards would force my grandmother, along with my mother and her siblings, to kneel on stage and clean up my grandfather's blood. My mother rarely recalled that period of her life. But one evening on the anniversary of my grandfather's death, when I was 16 years old, after drinking some glasses of wine, she began to recount those cruel memories to me. My mother who always proud and elegant broken down that night as if sulfuric acid had been poured onto a gypsum statue. She cried out like a child, tears streaming down her face, shouting for“Baba(father)”. I held her tightly, fearing she would shatter into sand and I would never be able to put her back together. She completely collapsed in my arms, crying out, "Those demons who killed my father! Not a single one was punished! Those executioners! Never apologized! They live among us, as if nothing ever happened, as if they were human!" That night, she cried herself to sleep in my embrace, while I stayed awake, fearing that the black hole of memory would consume her. Thankfully, the next day, my mother woke up and resumed her usual demeanor. For many years, she never mentioned it again until her passing, and I realized it was the cruelest pain and hatred she could never resolve in her life. Her elegance was her armor, her shield, and her spear. She made those demons see that even though they could destroy lives, they could never destroy spirits. There were things she wouldn't allow them to shatter! While people watch this TV series as entertainment but for me that feels like watching a documentary of my family's history. As I write these words today, my heart still bleeds. I feel I have to record that real history. Because those who lived through it are passing away, yet, the justice has not been arrived!
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O país onde tudo é grátis, mas nada funciona.
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Roberto Ornelas retweeted
This was funded by a group started by three rich Americans who became concerned about climate change after their houses in Malibu were threatened by wildfires in 2018. I'm not making this up.
NOW - Climate activists defile Van Gogh's Sunflowers at the National Gallery and glued themselves to the wall.
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Roberto Ornelas retweeted
Leave everything better than you found it.
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Roberto Ornelas retweeted
Powerful woman doing powerful things #DrupalConPrague #frontkom #DrupalGutenberg @frontkom
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Roberto Ornelas retweeted
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that created them.”
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Roberto Ornelas retweeted
We have answered the question "how did they let the atrocities of WW2 happen?".
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Roberto Ornelas retweeted
A história da Europa e do nosso século XXI mudou hoje. É bom que tenhamos noção disso para que possamos prevenir sermos atropelados pelo que aí vem.
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Roberto Ornelas retweeted
Cancel culture brings high school politics to the adult world.
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Roberto Ornelas retweeted
Just got called a “sheep” for wearing my mask in the elevator with a group of guys! I replied as I remove my mask! “Finally a group of guys that doesn’t mind me taking my mask off while having Covid”. Shit got really quiet!
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Roberto Ornelas retweeted
A indignação seletiva de revolucionários de sofá apoiantes de ideologias nefastas e regimes torcionários com setinhas de plástico ignorando olimpicamente as palavras do Pavel sobre a gravidade das ações da CML é só mais um retrato fiel do estado a que chegámos com a ajuda deles
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Roberto Ornelas retweeted
Since many have asked today, all approved covid vaccinations are VERY effective in preventing normal lungs (on the L) from looking like ones that need life support (on the R) Please pass it on: the brand doesn’t matter, as all will prevent severe illness from occurring.
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Lockdown Tip: Dub over gigs to make them sound bad so you don’t miss being able to go as much.
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Biografia de um governo PS 2015 A culpa é do Passos 2016 A culpa é do Passos 2017 A culpa é do Passos 2018 A culpa é do Passos 2019 A culpa é do Passos 2020 A culpa é do Passos 2021 A culpa é dos portugueses
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Roberto Ornelas retweeted
Vão duplicar o valor das multas: 2 x 0 = 0
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Demorei um pouco a vir falar deste tema. Agora aguentem com uma thread um pouco grande. Relativamente à vacina, algumas pessoas (meus utentes e não só) têm me questionado sobre a minha opinião relativamente a tomar a vacina ou não. Apresentando os seus vários medos e receios.
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The Dogs of 2020
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Ter sido o “Sr. Director” o primeiro vacinado em Portugal diz muito sobre o país, infelizmente.
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