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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Hoy era día de matrícula, en realidad excelente puesto que esta vez tuve cupo en todo, cada vez más cerca de la meta.

Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

What a fantastic show that Jaadugar is, truly my jam, and I'm quite hungry for more. I saw a comment that it reminded them of Persepolis, and I definitely need to rewatch that movie. But yeah, historical fiction ftw (once again talking about Jaadugar).

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Digging around Family Search, I've realized I'm descended from Nicaraguan migrants over a century ago, which I find touching; somehow they made a home as farmers and are buried in the land they tilled (metaphorically, they're buried in a town in the province I grew in). Costa Rican dream, baby.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Costa Rica ha sido eternamente chupapichas de Estados Unidos, pero como duele ver la patria vendida a los gringos así, destruyendo nuestras playas, violando los derechos humanos al recibir vuelos de ICE, todo un declive, y un 53% de ticos votó por cuatro años más de esta mierda. Que picha dijo Pooh.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Reading Earthsea with Frieren music is just so goated, absolutely fitting and wondrous, like a warm hug yet at the same time so intriguing

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Que feo una cruda cuando se hace despelote muchachada, creo quedé en la memoria de las personas de la carrera pero a qué costo, a qué costo jsjsj

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Fuck yeah KPop Demon Hunters won Best Animated Film, I'm so damn happy, well earned

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Man, I had such high hopes for Chainsaw Man Part 2, but truly this chapter was a gut punch, I already thought Part 2 was iffy but if this mf Fujimoto ends it next chapter, it's gonna be dog shit, like a steaming pile of crap level of ending. At least Part 1 is still a masterpiece + the anime is fire

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Reading Bolivar: Liberator of America (in Spanish, duh, I gotta have some pride) by Marie Arana, a shame I did not find a Latin American biography but despite its heavy pro-Bolivar slant (understandable) it is so readable, haven't had this much fun reading in a while.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Welp, the country got fucked and continuity got a plurality of the vote. Four more years of bullshit and stagnation in the best case. Oh well, hope springs eternal.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

There are elections today in Costa Rica. I fulfilled my duty and voted, did so for Broad Front (left party) for president and Assembly (unicameral legislative body). They're probably not getting elected. I'm pessimistic that the current administration's politics will be continued, but we'll see.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Gender studies really is the quintessential "useless" major that correctly explains basically everything that's going on in the world right now

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Gender studies wins again, honestly. Understanding rape as both a political act and a goal of policy helps break out of the strictly economic understanding of politics that has failed to predict or effectively describe Trumpism

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Gyökeres had a great game today, 1 G 1 A, reports of his washed status are greatly exaggerated

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Unfortunately America in general earns the hatred it gets around the world. Threatening Greenland, jfc, until a Second Reconstruction is achieved it is fundamentally an untrustworthy rogue state, pisses me off that Costa Rica sucks off the States so so much.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

What a fantastic movie It's A Wonderful Life is. A product of its time, sure, but still timeless in its own way. Bawled my eyes out at the end. Merry Christmas Eve, people.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

La conchesumare que orgullo el ser latino, grande 31 Minutos, los huevos de ir a NPR a tirarle a la migra gringa con clase y diversión, joyita, viva Chile weón, que belleza el hablar y comprender el español. Me dio una nostalgia que no anticipaba al final, me sacó las lágrimas. Gracias totales.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Man, Kamala really should have ran for CA Gov., could have really done some good and cleared the field, alas. It'd probably be better it if there was no 2028 run for President, though.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Funny family anecdote: my grandmother (whom I do not like due to reasons) iirc voted for the milquetoast center-left LGBT marriage accepting candidate in 2018's runoff because the other candidate was Protestant and this woman is Catholic through and through. Honestly so based (for once).

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I wonder from a sort of detachment (to maintain sanity) who is more incompetent: the Venezuelan or the American government. On one hand we have the most kleptocratic corrupt tinpot dictatorship on the continent; on the other hand, it is still possible they give the Americans a black eye.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku is just so good man, feel myself grinning madly now that I'm rereading the manga from the point the anime left off of. GOATed, viva el romance!

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Dandadan is just so fucking HYPEEEEEE! That ending scene lmao, anime-onlies will go nuts... Anyways, Science SARU you magnificent bastards, GOATs.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

It's a conundrum to be a downwardly mobile middle class person in this moment; in part it is my own pride to not accept my circumstances perhaps (like going to Subway a bit more often than needed, not helping that it is across the street). I recognize I'm still incredibly privileged, of course.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Dandadan is just so fucking good man, I felt so much cringe from Kinta but fucking hell this series never lets up, Science SARU knock it out of the park always, GOATed.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I will say, that even though I failed a Philosophy and History Seminary course in uni aborto 2 years ago, now that I'm retaking it I'm enjoying it again, led me down a rabbit hole into anarchist thought (interesting though in practice I still sustain the State), good to be an engineer w/ conscience

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

My main complaint with Bluesky rn is that it's showing me accounts dunking on Arsenal when I'm clearly an Arsenal fan; in non-politics the algorithm is a bit strange it seems.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It's weird how the current situation forces me to reevaluate stuff like trade; particularly in Costa Rica protectionism has been the rule of the land for decades and I don't necessarily disagree with its measured, but it's made us the most expensive country to live in Central America by far.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The one thing I will say is that the zeal I see for Just Cause'ing Bukele, while warranted, should not be translated into overthrowing the asshole immediately; when the moment comes that Dems can retaliate, they gotta use the financial might of their country to twist the Salvadorian arm first.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Seeing the current zeitgeist as a non-American, most Americans seem to me to be dumb as bricks and for once it would be good that their fucked up choices come home to roost. Not that I have much hope for positive change, and ofc there will be much suffering, but there's no negotiating with madmen.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

In an overly long trip back home, I've had a slightly existential crisis when I realized that I am now older than Evariste Galois when he died. Kinda fucked.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Finished Nineteen Eighty-Four; great novel, of course informed by Orwell's own biases and his epoch, but overall a fantastic exploration of the depths of human cruelty and oppression, exaggerated for good effect. I'm so glad I didn`t spoil myself in the Charrington and O'Brien twists.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Drunk af, spoilers inbound, Sunrise on the Reaping was so stupidly good, the Lou Lou twist left me cold, Ampert's fate left me speechless, and I was about to bawl my eyes out at Haymitch's fate, absolute cinema, obviously I cried at the epilogue. So so good.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I've begun reading Sunrise on the Reaping. Collins stings truer than ever in these trying times. Uncannily so, even, considering the book was completed before 2025 most surely. Tbf, the Hunger Games have always been the gold standard for YA dystopia imo, so it's no surprise that she hits the mark.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Re:Zero is just so peak, once it is adapted fully it may yet be one of the GOATs of anime, fantastic all in all.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Es hermoso el poder apreciar el arte, a veces el estudiar ingeniería me absorbe pero siempre es bueno el reconocer la riqueza cultural del país, los museos son de las cosas más bonitas de San José definitivamente.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Como me encanta estar en la U (esto no lo diré en 3 semanas jsjs). Mi lugar feliz es el Tec definitivamente (se me nota lo masoquista).

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Been reading 1984 (of course always latent), and boy does it shine through Orwell's hatred of Stalinism (much deservingly and I say this approvingly). Such a shame that right-wingers have completely twisted the meaning of the book for decades.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The solace I find in these troubling times is that uni while challenging is so fun to be in, and so fulfilling to my soul to be surrounded by friends and joy. Kinda nuts to feel so optimistic personally while pessimistic wrt the world, but it's good to find happiness within.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Freshman initiation at uni always gives me happiness, the goal is to motivated people into not abandoning the career lmao.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

If you grow inside of it you never fully reject the Catholicism, so full support to my based Argentinian Pope versus the heretic worshippers of cruelty in America, lessss gooo

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Definitivamente, el día de matrícula de la U es como los Juegos del Hambre, pocas veces se detona mi ansiedad como cada vez que toca esperar que haya cupo.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Thinking about Saxony (in Germany) and East Germany in general, it makes me sad, in Weimar times it was the paragon of leftism and an SPD stronghold, a productive industrial region, but between the Nazis, the GDR, and botched reunification the East is now the vanguard of reaction and fascism.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Rationally I get why Newcastle is a difficult team; but why is it always fucking horrible to play them? (apart from being a team full of dickheads) It seems the midblock is our weakness that we never fully shake off. Plus Martinelli injured, it's tiring.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Bought two energy drinks to try to stay awake and force a crash in my sleep schedule; I've drunk one, and realized it's a terrible idea to drink the other one, thus that one is shelved for the time being.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Onto lighter, completely unserious leisure endeavors: 100 Girlfriends is so funny and at the same time what a mind-bogglingly insane story lmao, I'd call it the best kind of trash but it is sometimes unironically touching and earnest.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Engineering is a conundrum; I love the career I've chosen, but I'm wary of the social environment it tends to create in its spaces. Oh well, at least I'm not part of CS, a good chunk of those desperately need to touch grass.

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Gotta say, when Bernie comes through he is such a champ, eviscerated RFK Jr. in the hearings, will always hold a soft spot for him even if I disagree with some positions he takes

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Luis Daniel Martínez 🇨🇷 @ludamaba26.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Every now and then, I have to remind myself to not get so lost into the world that I forget to inform myself of the happenings in my own homeland. Much civic duty to be attended to in the next few years.

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