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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 03/10/2026

More progress with the orks. Still have some basing to do, but that'll come later #orktober #wh40k #warhammercommunity #nerdlings

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 30/09/2026

Singapore taps Nobel-winning formula for government dating app - www.ft.com/content/a214... via @financialtimes.com

A meme: a sunset over a Japanese temple, with a photo of the late Japanese PM Shinzo Abe faded in the background. The caption says:

Top centre: "Have sex"

Bottom right: "SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY" in the Cowboy Bebop font

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 08/09/2026

'You can't just take any two characters and start writing slashfic, you know? There are standards to be upheld. There must be at least some chemistry in the canon already, for Pete's sake', said an exasperated official wearing a Reylo tie

A piece from the Financial Times, 'Global shipping rules are collapsing, say maritime nations'

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 06/09/2026

Finally painted my first set of minis in Spain! A squad of older Terminators, and a squad of Phobos marines. Not too disappointed with the results, as it has been a while. #wh40k #warhammercommunity

Five Terminators, painted in the colours of the Blood Ravens chapter and with green grass basing. Four of them are equipped with power fists, and the helmet-less sergeant is wielding a power sword.

A squad of Space Marines in the colours of the same chapter, this time wearing Phobos scout armour. One of them is not wearing a helmet, and another had an off-white helmet to match his rank

A closer look at the helmet-less Phobos marine, with even worse lighting

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 12/08/2026

We have never been post-colonial

Amazon tracking info, saying that a package has been sent to VOC (which happens to be the Dutch initials of their notorious East India Company)

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 09/08/2026

Saying "hi" to our very well-dressed new neighbour

A selfie, with part of the Madrid Royal Palace complex as background

Sight from atop the Campo del Moro garden

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 05/08/2026

If you want to have eyesight outside combat, make sure to visit

A billboard for a place named "hm eye center"

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 04/08/2026

10. do you have a guilty fav?

A meme that substitutes Garfield for the Wanderer above the Sea of Fog in Caspar David Friedrich's eponymous painting. Superimposed to it, the caption "Do not kill the part of you that is cringe... Kill the part of you that cringes"

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 04/08/2026

I love these silly online chains 1 like = 1 answer

Book asks

1. book you've reread the most times?
2. top 5 books of all time
3. what is your favourite genre?
4. what sections of a bookstore do you browse?
5. Where do you buy books?
6. What books have you read in the last month?
7. Is there a book/series that got you into reading?
8. What is the first book you remember reading yourself?
9. When do you tend to read most?
10. Do you have a guilty fav?
11. What non-fiction books do you like?
12. Did you enjoy any compulsory high school ratings?
13. Do you have a goodreads?
14. Do you ever mark/dog ear books you own?
15. Recommend and review a book
16. How many books have you read this year?
17. Top 5 children's books
18. Do you like historical books? Which time period?
19. Most disliked popular books
20. What are things you look for in a book?

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 03/08/2026

Thanks to the random wallpaper selector, my cell phone now looks like a Vampire: The Masquerade rulebook

A cell phone wallpaper with a pattern in various shades of emerald-ish green

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 23/07/2026

A quinta série que habita em mim saúda a quinta série que habita em ti

Um menu de restaurante português, com um prato "Espetada de peru e abacaxi na brasa"

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 22/07/2026

"What's the legal basis here? That's right, Article 114 TFEU"

Square hole meme: a screen capture from a viral TikTok video from a few years ago. On the left-hand side, a woman makes an anguished face. On the right-hand side, the video she reacts to: somebody placing a semi-circle piece (from one of those children's toys with geometric shapes that one must place in hones) in a square hole.

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 14/07/2026

Valencia has a Wario?!?!?!?!

A road sign, indicating 56km to Palencia

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 26/06/2026

Dodged a bullet there britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

Quiz results from the link shared in the main post:

Your Results
84% Woke - 16% Chud
48% Techbro - 52% Neo-Luddite
58% Hopepilled - 42% Doomer
88% Davos - 12% Dubai

Your Closest Match:
Zohran Mamdani

Mayor of New York City (2026-present)

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 24/06/2026

Cue Joyce Carol Oates on Twitter:

Joyce Carol Oates tweeted, on 22 November 2015 at 8:28 PM: "All we hear of ISIS is puritanical & punitive; is there nothing celebratory & joyous? Or is query naive?"

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 21/06/2026

Getting my Bluesky Papers in order kojira.github.io/bluesky-lice...

My Bluesky Licence: Marco Almada | mileage 3937 / WoT 634 / engagement 847 / generosity 1000+ / velocity 3.5/d / streak 20d / peak 09–11 UTC / verified ✓

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 27/05/2026

Update: there are still 8 Pokémon I haven't found, but from everybody else, only Munchlax isn't living his best life

The cover of the rulebook for Paranoia, a satiric TTRPG from the 1980s in which players lived in a dystopia ruled by a Computer tyrant that had as its goal the happiness of its subjects (under its particular and internally inconsistent construction).

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 17/05/2026

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have on your phone

The guy from the "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point" meme

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 16/05/2026

Me whenever I get to cite one of y'all in my writing

A screenshot from Pokémon Pokopia. Pidgey, a pigeon pokémon, says "Headin' out! Headin' out! Headin out with my BESTIE!" with a happy, singy tone

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 29/01/2026

- Que prático esse kit, você comprou aí? - Não, eu: #PavêBilíngue

Kit de escova e pasta de dentes para viagem, em francês chamado "trousse de voyage"

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 06/01/2026

Waldemar Lemos will return in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

O treinador de futebol Waldemar Lemos, mais conhecido pelo vídeo "Fora Waldemar"

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 21/12/2025

Winter solstice in Luxembourg

Sunrise and sunset
Sunrise at 08:30
Sunset at 16:37

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 21/12/2025

Sir, another gift has reached this Christmas party

A photo of the moment when George W Bush was informed of the 9/11 terrorist attacks

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 03/12/2025

I think this is the first time I've faced this kind of accusation anisota.net/harvest/

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 02/11/2025

To wrap up my vacation days, I used some Boyz and a Nob that were surplus to requirements, plus the leftover bits from the Wrecka Krew kill team, to build a Tankbusta mob Some arms feel pretty long in the old-fashioned Boyz, but I like it that way #kitbash #WAAAGH #warhammer40k #warhammercommunity

Five makeshift Tankbustas and a Boss Nob, built from Boyz miniatures in varied states of painting and unpainted spare parts

A closer look at five minks, mostly unpainted except for Ork skin. Some of the arms were sloppily cut to fit the weapons, so I had to use quite a bit of Vallejo putty

Another angle of the Boss Nob and the Tankbusta missing from the previouw picture. The latter is mostly painted, except for its two arms, which were swapped today.

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 02/11/2025

Not quite #guardtober ...now I'm finally converting some field ordnance batteries to Mek Guns Alas, it seems I lost the spare parts for my original Mek Gun, so I'm having to improvise a bit #WAAAGH #warhammer #warhammercommunity

Side by side, an Ork Mek Gun and an Imperial Guard Field Ordnance Battery that has been taken over by some intrepid grots (from the Blood Bowl Black Orcs kit). The Ork-ified battery has an upside-down jaw from the Deff Dread kit as shielding, as well as a Deff Dread pauldron as sights. It is armed with rocket launchers that I will modify to make look more orky.

The proud grots stand around their new gun. Because I want to run it as a bubblechukka, one of the rocket launchers is plugged to the battery from the laser Field Ordnance Battery

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 31/10/2025

Got a bit of painting done yesterday, adding some Meganobz and yet another deff dread to my WAAAGH #warhammer40k #warhammercommunity #orktober #waaagh

A few Meganobz and a Deff Dread from Warhammer 40k, plus a Big Mek in Mega Armour. Their main colour is purple, with details in bronze and some other colours.

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 21/10/2025

Better late than never! Starting my #orktober with some before-work painting. That should account for their basic colouring.

Three Warhammer 40k Ork miniatures, with some paint tubes behind them. The miniatures have purple armour, and the Ork faces are painted in green. Everything else is painted in a slapchop scheme: black base coat with dry-brushed whites

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 16/10/2025

Time for another cybersecurity training

Scene from "Mean Girls". Coach Carr teaches a class on safe sex. His lecture: "Don't have sex. Because you will get pregnant and die."

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 15/10/2025

A quinta série que habita dentro de mim saúda a quinta série que habita dentro de você

Mamo TCV Advocates
Again Receives Top Tier
Ranking in IFLR1000

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 28/09/2025

Which reminds me of a classic, only tangentially related:

He was once invited to give a talk at a girls’ school about his experience as a pilot during World War II.
Bader: “So there were two of these f**kers behind me, three f**kers to my right, another f**ker to the left“.

At this point, the principal turned pale and intervened saying

“Ladies, Fokker was a German aircraft“.

And Sir Douglas Bader answered:

“That may be madam, but these f**kers were in Messerschmitts“!

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