Tio

tio@social.trom.tf

A bunch of atoms that are curious about the world, but furious about the society. We should help all humans to have a decent life without any strings attached, so that we can understand us, the atoms, and the rest of the universe. And create a smarter and saner society.

Since 2005 I make documentaries, write books, and enable many trade-free platforms for everyone.

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DNA testing site 23andMe files for bankruptcy protection - bbc.com/news/articles/c9q4r9xy…

Of course...a bullshit company, like most companies, providing nothing useful for the people and now even putting their personal information (and DNA) at risk. Because you know, other company may buy it and who knows what it does with the data. I have been saying that since the beginning when everyone was so excited about this useless company.

To read the DNA for useful purposes should be the job of entities that do not make a business out of it, but take care of people´s health. This nonsense of "see where you ancestors are from" "see if you are fucking irish or a goblin", is so useless even if accurate, which may not even be.

Anyway, another story of nonsense companies that make people give them their data to then fuck up this information for everyone.

#TradeRuinsEverything #capitalism #usa #profit #money

23andMe files for bankruptcy protection

The company said that it will now attempt to sell itself under the supervision of a court.

^{Lily Jamali (BBC News)}

#Capitalism #money #USA #Profit #TradeRuinsEverything

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Me & Māra are doing a lot of nature & wildlife protection and conservation work, and need some financial support. This week we participated in 2 actions, the first one was dolphin research expedition in France, 2nd habitat restoration for birds in Slovenia.
We have a Patreon page where we share our updates, plans, ideas, behind the scenes and other information. Anyone can support us there starting just from 5 euro per month. And we always produce short documentaries about the work we did, and about amazing project and organizations we are joining.
If you think that what we do is important please support us there.
patreon.com/c/BeBraveToAct
Thank you

Support Us On Patreon

^{www.patreon.com}

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Thank you Michael for becoming our new Patreon! Although we primarily rely on the 200 for TROM campaign and the donations that go through it - see tromsite.com/donate - we also have a Patreon patreon.com/c/TROM and Liberapay account liberapay.com/TROM/ .

These accounts were up and running before the 200 for TROM campaign so we decided to not close them. After all we calculate all of the Patreon and Liberapay donations towards the 200 for TROM campaign.

Thank you to everyone who supports our project!

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Many thanks to Joshua for becoming our new 200 for TROM supporter! This is so awesome to see people supporting TROM! tromsite.com/donate - We run many services and have a lot of original content that is trade-free for everyone.

Also thank you Nicholas again for donating 10 Euros! Much appreciated.

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Thank you Jaroslaw and €11.40 EUR donation and for the 5 EUR one from "pssst limited". Every donation count! tromsite.com/donate

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200 people x 5€/month = TROM FOREVER 88 DONATE 5€ MORE INFO Payment Information All donations are handled by Stripe, a well known worldwide payment service. Stripe supports multiple types of payments: from Cards to Paypal and more.

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Thank you Nerijus for becoming our new 200 for TROM supporter! tromsite.com/donate

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We spent 4 days in this spot and found a micromonster - videos.trom.tf/w/hww8YgbSA9mHL…

Cirat was such a wonderful place to be in. Close to the mountains and having access to all facilities we needed, made us stay there for 4 days. We just did not want to leave....

#motorhome #campervan #vanlife #travel #spain #europe #microscopy

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2025-03-19 20:48:18

We spent 4 days in this spot and found a micromonster

Cirat was such a wonderful place to be in. Close to the mountains and having access to all facilities we needed, made us stay there for 4 days. We just did not want to leave....

#europe #sPAIN #travel #vanlife #microscopy #Campervan #motorhome

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Kellen

in reply to Tio 1 year ago

In what frequency do you make a laundry? And if there is a large supply of public laundries In your area?

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Tio

in reply to Kellen 1 year ago

You mean how often we do the laundry? We managed to go 3 weeks before doing it, and we did 2 loads basically...in the next video we explain it all. But if you have a lot of underwear and socks :) then you can delay this task :9

And yes there are many laundromats in Spain.

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Big thanks to the 200 Euro anonymous donation! Much much appreciated! tromsite.com/donate

We still have an ongoing fundraiser for our backups - gofundme.com/f/paying-for-the-… - we need 40 more Euros. While we can, and we will use some of the money from the latest donation for it in case we do not raise it all, it would be much appreciated if the people who use our services can help us pay for the backups.

Our instances of Friendica, Peertube, Nextcloud, Matrix and more, are used by hundreds if not thousands of people. We are backing up all of their data in the cloud. So please help if you can.

Thanks!

#opensource #fediverse #fedi #friendica #peertube #trom

#Friendica #opensource #PeerTube #fediverse #trom #fedi

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I truly admire your campaign, would you be open to collaboration to expand it's reach?

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#Education #documentary #dogs #blind

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Thank you Nicholas for the 15 Euros donation! And this message:

Thank you especially to Alexio and Rokosun for listening to me and letting me vent on Matrix/Element. Fuck this trade-based system, the game we have to play, and the fact that we have to sell ourselves for who knows how long!

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We have started our journey and lost most of our footage.... - videos.trom.tf/w/5XT3pQdsFVQmR…

These are the first days on the road for us, and the experience was not the best. We went to Deltebre, a very weird place...we were so happy to move away from it. But we also experienced some nice other places on the way there.

#spain #travel #europe #vanlife #motorhome #camper #delta

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2025-03-14 21:12:58

We have started our journey and lost most of our footage....

These are the first days on the road for us, and the experience was not the best. We went to Deltebre, a very weird place...we were so happy to move away from it. But we also experienced some nice other places on the way there.

#europe #sPAIN #travel #vanlife #Delta #camper #motorhome

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Kellen

in reply to Tio 1 year ago

I will patiently wait for a video on monthly expenses living in car vs 1 bedroom apartment in Spain. I have seen such videos on Canada Mexico and the US yet I haven't seen on Spain it could be interesting :)

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We will do. We just have to wait a bit and see how much we spend. We are keeping track of all that.

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Super impressed with @CalyxOS ! We moved to a new phone and restored the backups - pretty much everything worked great. All restored. Apps and data. All because of how easy it is to use Calyx. Many many thanks for this fantastic trade-free operating system. I love it!

#trade-free #operatingsystem #calyx #android #foss

#foss #android #operatingsystem #trade-free #calyx @CalyxOS

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wilhelm

in reply to Tio 1 year ago

how is that backup recovery process working? from which system did you create a backup and using what tool?

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Tio

in reply to wilhelm 1 year ago

CalyxOS has its own backup tool. And accepts backups to all sort of locations such as WebDav or Nextcloud. When you reinstall Calyx you are asked to restore if you want. Use the same credentials for where you saved your backups and voila all will be restored.

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Here is a short documentary which I've made for one documentary competition. Basically it's about my music life and my life of environmentalist. I went trough a lot of old archive footage for the last 23 years to make this video, it was interesting to see and remember so much which somehow been forgotten.
In such moments I understand the value of "saving" some of our lives moments. With pictures, sounds, or videos. All of this usually don't feel something important, but looking back 20 years I really was experiencing joy of finding some old - home made videos or pictures. Something unimportant and not significant suddenly feels like a treasure.

videos.trom.tf/w/bJ1Jk2fyfSTua…

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Tradeless Earth

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amazing ☮️

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Tio

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Great job Dima and as I told you many times before I am so happy to see you doing what you do now. You are doing a lot of great stuff! And yes I totally understand about the old footage it was the same for me when I made TROM II.

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From Rockstar to Street Cleaner - videos.trom.tf/w/bJ1Jk2fyfSTua…

A short video about @Dima and how he started to realize what matters...for him, for others. Why fame feels empty, and why helping others, the nature and such, is so important.

Great job Dima! Keep up the great work!

#volunteering #bebravetoact

Be Brave To Act

2025-03-13 15:16:06

From Rockstar to Street Cleaner

Short documentary about my life as a musician and nature & wildlife conservation guy.
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Support me on Patreon : patreon.com/BeBraveToAct
Donate via paypal : paypal.com/donate?hosted_butto…

#volunteering #bebravetoact @Dima

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I rarely see such articles:

"Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead" - theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Congrats. We need more of these! And TROMnews is meant to bring such articles to light.

The real world is many times more mindblowing than any movie, book, or story humans have invented. Not to mention it is real. If we want people to care about it, then they have to know about it. Expose children to real wonders, real stories, real life.

#nature #education

Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead

Put up pictures of lemurs, penguins and wolves, and introduce tomorrow’s environmentalists to the amazing nature in our world, says author Isabel Losada

^{Isabel Losada (The Guardian)}

#Education #nature

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Angela Miller

in reply to Tio 1 year ago

Dinosaurs are real, and a big pathway to STEM careers for kids.

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Tio

in reply to Angela Miller 1 year ago

Of course dinosaurs WERE real, but the living creatures are far more important and complex. No need to push the "dinosaurs" so much into people´s faces. Read the article please. This is not Facebook where you only have to read the title of a shared link.

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Angela Miller

in reply to Tio 1 year ago

I did, actually.
Surprised to see.Dino Park near Dumfries name checked as its pretty small and not terribly serious.
My point is thereare a lot of people lured into STEM through Dinosaurs, so it's hardly invalid.
Neither is imaginary stuff like Unicorns, because that leads into Story Telling and mythology, which are perfectly valid interests too.
Actually reeks a little of snobbery, especially since kids can love those AND real creatures too.

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Tio

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Kids are exposed to nonsense fantasy a lot more than real stuff which is many times more complex and important. That is the point. Fantasy has its place, but it has become the main or only stimulant for kids and adults too. The real world is something that is not much at all showcased to kids.

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Angela Miller

in reply to Tio 1 year ago

As a librarian, I beg to differ. Kids books not only cover everything in both fiction and nonfiction, but kids love exploring the nonfiction and non fantastic just as much as anything else.
I genuinely think the article is a bit biased and not really based in what is going on with kids.
Dinosaurs are popular still though. Particularly in non fiction.

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Tio

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My experience and of many people I know from other parts of the world, is different. Libraries are one thing, what kids are exposed to is another. If you look based on numbers what is popular among kids is definitely not nature documentaries, or similar things related to the real natural world, but mostly silly fantasy.

Dinosaurs are popular and the article was arguing that is not ok if you put it in perspective to the creatures that exist. Why make dinosaurs so well known and popular while the creatures that exist today not? Probably Hollywood and movies like Jurassic Park made dinosaurs a lot more popular.

Point is kids, and all humans actually, should be exposed more to the real and wonderful world we live in rather than fantasies that are mostly made by those who want to sell (movies, books, art).

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Angela Miller

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Really not sure I agree at all. People learn best following their interests, so deciding for people what they should be exposed to will not make them automatically interested in it - quite the opposite. This is a problem encountered worldwide 8n schools because they are expected to take the approach of telling kids what they are to learn. Lots of research into child learning runs counter to that and as a consequence, education is changing, albeit slowly.

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Tio

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Schools are a livestock-like way of "educating" children unfortunately. Teachers have "jobs", kids have parents who work, and so they end up being forced to go to that place and "learn". They are labeled based on how well they do in school and all that.

I cannot see that as "education" as much as "forced" daycare.

That being said yes you should not force kids to learn this or that, you should make them curios. Expose them to real stuff. What you end up being excited about comes from enculturation/upbringing. So we need a saner environment. Part of it is exposing kids to real and wonderful information about the natural world.

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Rokosun

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@Tio @Angela Miller

I don't think fiction and nonfiction should be exclusionary to one another, we can certainly enjoy both. Humans have written about flying long before we actually invented airplanes, and we have written about going to the moon long before we actually did it, and some like dystopian fiction warns us about a future we should avoid - so I do think fantasy and fiction has a place in our world. However I also agree with this statement of yours:

Fantasy has its place, but it has become the main or only stimulant for kids and adults too.

I often feel like documentaries and other nonfiction media is far less popular than fictional stuff. And even the fiction these days lack creativity, just look at Hollywood for example and see how many sequels, prequels and remakes of already popular stuff instead of novel ideas.

@Tio @Angela Miller

Fantasy has its place, but it has become the main or only stimulant for kids and adults too.

And let me share my experience with a 3 year old, when I showed her nature documentaries on my laptop she watched it with the same curiosity she has when watching any other stuff, and she often asks questions about the animals or ask me to show her certain animals she likes. I don't think anyone else in the family really shows her documentaries other than me, and that's the point that article was trying to make - we don't expose kids to the real world as much as we expose them to fantasy, so they don't even have a chance to form their interests around real stuff. And don't get me wrong I also show her cartoons sometimes, but I feel like documentaries is not something she often gets to watch.... And the interesting thing is that no matter what she's watching she often gets bored after a while and wants to play in the real world, and I remember entertaining her by spinning a coin on the table one day - she asked me to do that again and again, I got bored after a while.... she did not! 😂 My point is that we often make assumptions about what kids like and don't like but we really have no clue what they could be interested in, we don't need to force kids into liking anything but we certainly do influence them.

@Tio @Angela Miller

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@roko
Definitely. We told ourselves stories of all kinds of fantastical things in the dark evenings for millenia. Imagination is the engine that drives curiously.

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Tio

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Imagination cannot work without en environment we are exposed to. And often that was the real world - observing birds fly, observing that thing in the sky we called the "moon", and so on. The more we are exposed to the real world, the more of that imagination can become complex and useful.

People could not imagine flying to the Moon without this knowledge.

Martians look like lobsters or human like creatures with eyes and a head, first attempts to fly were by using wings like birds, and so on.

Reality is what inspires humans to think and imagine. Kids and people of all ages are mostly exposed to bullshit content, from movies to videos, books to "entertainment". Of course they become uninterested in the real world.

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Angela Miller

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@roko
Honestly, I think you are going pretty overboard with this. Children literally don't just get exposed to Unicorns and Dinosaurs. Children who aren't compelled by those things won't be forced into them, and Children who are also enjoy other things. They also actually live in this world, so can't avoid it.
Worrying about curating what children are exposed to in this way is a bit redundant.

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Tio

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Parents have to trade themselves in this society and often do not have much time for their kids. It is easy to let them in front of the TV or a tablet/phone - and since most content is simplistic and fantasy/nonsense produced to get more views (meaning money) since this is also easier than producing good content, the result is obviously unicorns and dinosaurs :)

Same reason why so many movie remakes or based on books that are already popular. If something was selling well, why not continue to do the same content?

We made a book about this - tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo…

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Rokosun

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@Tio @Angela Miller

I'm just gonna leave this link here 'cause I think this is what happens to a society when the general population gets too detached from science and reality. It's not just about what kids watch or read, we want them to become knowledgeable adults when they grow up so that they don't fall into the same pits of ignorance that many have unfortunately. And you only have to look at the popularity of movies vs science documentaries to see where we're headed right now...

@Tio @Angela Miller

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Angela Miller

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@roko
Aye. It's literacy and the ability to reason at fault here. It's essentially the method of enquiry that is passed on, not the content of how that's delivered.

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BTW, I think we should make a Videoneat for kids one day. Just remove all of the sociopolitical stuff and keep it focused on science and nature documentaries - maybe we can do that by filtering our current catalog by tags. Let me know what you think.

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Tio

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idk...kids need to know about the society they live in as well. If you mean documentaries for little kids then hm, idk. Maybe. But they need parents to get these documentaries for them so maybe the parents are going to filter them anyway. But we can eventually do that.

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Rokosun

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I feel like most of the documentaries about society are rather depressing or too complex for kids to understand the nuances. I don't want any little kids to get traumatized by watching war documentaries and such lol 😅

And yeah I was thinking of making something I can recommend to parents as well for their kids.

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Huge thanks to @Roma for donating 100 Euros towards our yearly backups campaign! Thank you so so much! we only need 90 more Euros to reach the goal :) See gofundme.com/f/paying-for-the-…

So that we can keep all of our websites backed-up!

Many thanks!

#trom #foss #fedi #peertube #fediverse #friendica

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#Friendica #foss #PeerTube #fediverse #trom #fedi @Roma

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Thank you Charles and Jurgen for helping with our fundraiser! gofundme.com/f/paying-for-the-…

We need to pay for our yearly backups for all of our servers and files, that includes the files people store on any of our TROM.tf services.

So please, if you can help us a bit. We only need some 200 Euros for cover the bills.

Thanks!

#linux #opensource #fediverse #peertube #fedi #trom

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How sure are we that the world is not a silly dark comedy?

aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20…

Maybe it is...idk

#USA

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Absolute idiocracy.. 🤦‍♂️

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Yes this is really fucking weird....the world really has become like that Idiocracy movie...

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oh btw which one is from the idiocracy movie?

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Haha 😆 Looks like identical pictures to me 😅

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Tio

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true. funny and sad

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Roma

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It’s quite sad, true 😔

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We need to pay for the yearly backups for all of our services and content - gofundme.com/f/paying-for-the-…

This means all of our TROM.tf services (friendica, peertube, nextcloud, etc.), all of our websites like tromsite.com, videoneat.com, tromjaro.com, and so on.

We only need 230 Euros to cover another year of backups. Please if you can help out since we are underfunded and cannot afford to pay for them.

The payment is yearly. We need to pay by the end of this month (March).

Thanks a bunch!

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Fire of Love (2022)

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A wonderful documentary about two crazy souls, scientists and just beautiful human beings who shared not only their admiration and love to each other but to our wondrous home - planet Earth. Follow the adventurous volcanologists in their quest of understanding the nature of the one of the most powerful and disastrous natural phenomena at the very dawn of the vulcanology as a science branch. A bittersweat moving story (and real!! 🤯) that no doubts shows that the reality is way more fascinating, touching and jaw-dropping than any of the hollywood movies.

More hand-selected documentaries, movies, courses that will make your brain to fly like a butterfly: videoneat.com/

P.S. Thank you again my dear friend @T

#science #nature #videoneat #love #vulcano @Tio

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Yup quite an interesting documentary! :) So happy to see humans like you who enjoy these bits of reality and see them for their wonderful value, instead of being sucked into the fantasy movie-world that many are sucked into. Reality is far more complex and mid blowing. Come and see :)

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100% true ☺️ I’m glad we can share love to these things together, brother 💪

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