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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Yes, I'm religious. I believe in the holy Trinity.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I'm making ornaments to include in my Christmas cards this year. 🧶

Crochet snowflakes and stars in white, silver, and gold.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

He also thinks that people who take Adderall should be put in work camps, so good luck. futurism.com/neoscope/rfk...

Post by @tarashea11.bsky.social "Not taking my Adderall today because I refuse to have my appetite compromised in any way. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!"

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Long-term Damage: The effects of these failed policies left a lasting scar on Romanian society. As the cohort of the population boom ages, further strain is placed on the economy and their echo boom progeny will repeat the cycle in the years to come.

Aging Romanian woman looking up at the camera from her bed in a decrepit one-room apartment.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Social Unrest: The strain on resources & worsening living conditions fueled widespread unrest. Ceausescu doubled-down on surveillance & suppression of the population. This led to a full-on revolution & the downfall of Ceausescu's regime. He & his wife were publicly executed on Christmas Day, 1989.

Romanian citizens piled on a tank seized from the government.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Thousands of unwanted and motherless children were abandoned and placed in state-run orphanages. These institutions were overcrowded and underfunded, leading to severe neglect. No one alive at that time will forget the heartbreaking pictures and video leaked out of those pits of despair.

Dirty, neglected, apathetic children piled together in a crib in a Romanian orphanage.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Public Health Crisis: With more births and fewer resources, maternal and infant mortality rates soared. Lack of proper medical care contributed to a public healthcare disaster.

Long line of Romanians in line to buy groceries in the 1980s.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Sadly, this perverse experiment has already been run. Abolishing birth control and abortion had dire consequences in Romania. I'm just an amateur historian, but here's a look at some of the ways that Ceausescu's policies drove that country into ruin.

Map of Romania and the surrounding areas.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Show me your pet and what they were named after.

A tuxedo cat and a black cad, sleeping between my legs on a recliner.

Patsy and Eddy from Absolutely Fabulous.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Patsy is purring so loudly I can't hear myself think. #caterday

Tuxedo cat named Patsy, curled up on the footrest of my recliner.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

A man, a woman, and three people in costume as a hippo, a frog, and an owl.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Here's another down in the replies. Half of this person's replies are to blocked posts.

Screenshot of reply from humanpowered.bkst.social
"I'm not hostile to trans, I'm hostile to men. Trans women are a type of man."

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The tiny one I made for a coral reef art project. The big one I made just because I liked the yarn.

Tiny crochet octopus in multicolored yarn.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Tonight's project. Now for some sleep. 🧶

Crochet sea turtle in light blue yarn with a dark blue shell.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I needed the dopamine of a finished job, so this octopus was born today. 🧶 #crochet

Crochet octopus in pink and white variable yarn.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

@kamalladreams.bsky.social You may want to go and detach your post from her quote and then block her. She's a treat.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I can't be the only one who lives for the color changes. 🧶 #crochet

Piece of crochet work showing the first color change using four-strand striping yarn in top of the yarn cake.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.

Sun setting behind a small lake. Everything is bathed in golden light. In the foreground is an overturned, little blue boat.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I've been saving this cake for something for myself. So excited to finally start this shawl. #crochet #wip 🧶

The start of a crochet shawl, a 4mm crochet hook, and a cake of 2 weight cotton yarn in brown, camel, cream, and gold.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hi Betty. This is Patsy. She does not want me to pick up my crochet.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

🧶 My almost 7 granddaughter (who I have finally gotten to see after a year and multiple court battles) tells me she loves Cinnamoroll (from Hello Kitty). I made this from a modified bunny pattern. Honest opinions?

Big, white, squishy amigurumi of what I hope passes for the Hello Kitty character Cinnamoroll.

Actual drawing of the Cinnamoroll character.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Well, no one ever talks about it but me. I never shut up about it.

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Idris Rises @romanticskeptic.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

How are you making it through this? My drug of choice is #crochet So tell me, what's on your hook?

Crochet twelve point star blanket in black and gold stripes

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