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Tibor M. Kalman
@kalmantibs
Building a bridge across the Atlantic, with steel beams and rivets. 🌎 🕊️ Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. — Kierkegaard
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Jan 28 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
As we gather to bid farewell to TG on the day of his funeral, thought I'd curate a thread with the remnants of his #TGTwitterTips. Feel free to add any I missed.

@TG22110 left a trail of breadcrumbs - his nuggets of wisdom - for new users & smaller accounts.

#ThankYouTG 💡✍️🏼🧵
Apr 23, 2023 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
Photo Thread.🧵

Incredible scenes of the Russian invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦 from Ukrainian photographer couple Kostyantin Liberov & Vlada Liberova.

"They've been traveling Ukraine since the first days of the Russian attack, documenting the war and its consequences."

🔗 @hvg_hu Image "Their pictures were taken in places that are bombed daily & often went beyond the front lines. Their photos show not only the pain, suffering and destruction, but also the strength, courage and resilience of the Ukrainian people."

#SlavaUkraini 💔🇺🇦🕊️

🔗 @hvg_hu Image
Apr 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Love this.

"Last month we heard Inuk singer-songwriter @Elisapie cover Blondie's "Heart of Glass" in her beautiful Inuktitut. Now, she's taking on Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time," and it's just as lovely."

🙏🌍🕊️

@LakotaMan1

boingboing.net/2023/04/23/inu… "This song is extra special, going to my aunt Alasie's house was like a window to modern things. Lots of songs & makeup… As a kid I had an amazing entourage of cousins. I felt loved, I felt stronger among them. My cousins who made me love pop music & allowed me to dream away!" ImageImage
Apr 22, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Word to the wise. Tread lightly, not all blue checks are the same. Let’s not throw out the baby with the bath water. 🛁🫧🧼
Apr 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Chaos & mayhem in Sudan 🇸🇩, Africa's third largest country. This perilous situation is escalating by the day. Praying for all in harm's way in Sudan and the region.

🙏🌍🕊️

Gift link from @nytimes. 🔗⬇️ nytimes.com/2023/04/20/wor…
Apr 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Pouring one out for friends we've lost over the years. My mom died ten years ago, too many friends soon followed. That's when it gets real.

We can smile, be nice...have a heart. Take each day as a blessing...do so with a bounce in our step. Don't fancy the alternative.

❤️🌍🕊️ Image Btw, that's my mom arm wrestling... three years before I was born. How cool is that? I put $5 bucks on my mom. She had this, all the way. ❤️💰🕊️
Mar 26, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Narrator: “That escalated quickly.” 😳
Mar 25, 2023 • 25 tweets • 10 min read
Watching Waco Trump-cult rally. Yes, I am. Pillow guy mumbled for a few minutes, didn't understand anything he said. Then, some MAGA preacher claimed America was founded on Christian principles & Trump was sent by God to save nation. Matt Gaetz, in a red jacket, up next. 🥱🚫🤡 Image Gaetz warns MAGA crowd, that 'they're coming after Trump, and they're coming after all of you next." He then says the GOP is Donald Trump's party and "I'm a Donald Trump Republican." Up next in Waco, wacky Majorie Taylor Greene. Crowd chants, USA, USA, USA.

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Mar 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Have never seen a natural, green rose before. Instantly became my favorite flower. Monochromatic roses forever!💚

"Yes, Green Roses are real and very special. They are the original rose and have been around for nearly 30.000 years."

📷 Earth Pictures Disclaimer: likely a good reason I've *never seen a natural, all-green rose* like this before. It may not exist. After a bit of research, can't vouch for the veracity of this picture, or the accompanying text. Found it on Earth Pictures site, seemed credible. My apologies. 🙏🕊️
Mar 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Instead of getting a dog (boring), thinking of talking my wife into adopting a wolverine as a pet. Been reading up on them, they're rather small, like a cat or a weasel. We're in a fifth floor apartment, there's no yard, but should be enough space. They seem so cute & cuddly. 🐻 ImageImageImageImage Several points of consternation: 🤔

- will it get along with Toby, our pet Chinchilla?
- razor-thin walls, cantankerous, alcoholic neighbor
- open-plan apartment, tight quarters
- wife is a light sleeper, easily agited by noise & movement
- newly refurbished, hardwood floors Image
Jan 31, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Few folks know of the brilliant astrophysicist, Cecilia Payne.

Isaac Newton discovered gravity. Charles Darwin, the theory of evolution. Albert Einstein, the relativity of time.

Cecilia Payne discovered the composition of our universe; that the most abundant atom is hydrogen. Image Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.

After completing her studies, Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree in astronomy as a woman, so she moved to the United States to work at Harvard. Image
Jan 31, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Renown *tidying expert* Marie Kondo giving up keeping her home orderly w three kids now in the household is akin to famed atheist, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sarte turning into a believer on his death bed. 😳🤐🤷‍♂️ Personal anecdote...was a staunch vegetarian for 18 years. Lived it, believed it, advocated it. Read tons of literature. Felt right to me, for nearly two decades. One day, walked into the kitchen, grabbed a slice of Italian salami and ate it. No explanation. Just felt like it.🤷‍♂️
Jan 31, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Hearfelt congratulations to Orban & Fidesz, for inching ahead of Bulgaria & Romania to claim title of Most Corrupt Nation in the EU 🇪🇺.

In @anticorruption 2022 rankings, Hungary sank to the level of East Timor, Vietnam & Burkina Faso.

Way to go, job well done. 👏🏼🤡🏆

@hvg_hu @anticorruption @hvg_hu
Sep 19, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Trump’s MAGA rally in Youngstown, Ohio last night brought back vivid images of Jim Jones in Guyana from 1978. The sense we are watching a dangerous, brainwashed cult seems real & palpable. This will not end well. 😐
May 21, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Things seem bad all over. Times like this, it's good to look back in history and try to gain some perspective.

Hence, here follows the Five Worst Times & Places to Be Alive in Human History, compiled by Kim Mia, History of Yesterday.

2022 Perspective Thread 🧵1/7 5. Europe — First Half of the 20th Century

Highest concentration of events in history that caused unbelievable suffering & misery. Within thirty years, two world wars were fought across the globe, genocides & mass murders were committed, hundreds of millions perished. 🧵2/7
May 18, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
A hacktivist group launched a website WasteRussianTime.today. You click a button, the service will call and connect two random Russian bureaucrats, who'll waste precious government time asking each other what the hell is going on.

Over 5,000 calls have been made. 😳📞 Image Franz Kafka would have *loved* this. 🏆

These internet activists deserve an ice-cold beer for this brilliant, devious concept to screw with the Russian war machine. Simple, yet ingenious. Best type of political activism. 👏🏼🍻

#SlavaUkraini ❤️🇺🇦🕊️

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Apr 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Sad night in Budapest. Sad night in Europe & around the world, for folks who stand for democracy, transparency & rule of law. Let Hungary be an example for all, including the United States. Democracy is not static, nor entrenched in stone. It must be fought for tooth & nail. 💔🇭🇺 Bravo to @markizaypeter. He put up a heroic fight to win hearts & minds of Hungarians. The Orban regime crushed him & the democratic opposition. Orban's kleptocracy is firmly entrenched in this EU/NATO country. Like Putin, Orban will now serve out his 20th year in power. 💔🇭🇺
Apr 3, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Hey, Orban. Do you know what Hungarians think of your condescending, homophobic referendum, demonizing the LMBTQ community? We think it fucking sucks. We're voting Yes and No on each question, to delegitimize the referendum. You can shove it right up your bigoted, pompous ass. 🤬 Hungarians used Orban's homophobic national referendum to 1). vote both Yes and No on each question, thus delegitimizing the referendum 2). Turn their ballots into works of art and 3) send disparaging messages to Orban & Fidesz for this shameful, insulting referendum. Bravo! 🏆
Apr 2, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Excellent article from the esteemed @b_novak & @ATHigginsNYT. 🏆 Under Prime Minister Viktor Orban, however, this fear has turned into a trusting embrace. Mr. Orban, a political bruiser who revels in defying what he scorns as liberal conventions, has for years looked to Russia as a reliable source of energy and its president...
Mar 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Ukrainian violinists are joined in harmony by top violinists across the world.

94 violinists. 29 countries. 🌎🎻🕯️

#SlavaUkraini ❤️🇺🇦🕊️

Violinists Across the World Play for Ukraine via @YouTube Violinist Kerenza Peacock: "I befriended some young violinists in Ukraine via Instagram and discovered some were in basement shelters but had their violins. So I asked colleagues across the world to accompany them in harmony.
Mar 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Glimmer of hope from Russia. 🙏🏼

Students, alumni & staff of Moscow State University (MGIMO), Russia’s elite institution specializing in international relations, bravely condemning Putin's belligerent invasion of Ukraine. ⚠️

#SlavaUkraini ❤️🇺🇦🕊️

johnmenadue.com/ukraine-open-l… "We consider it morally unacceptable to be silent bystanders, when people are dying in a neighbouring state. They are dying on account of those who preferred weapons to peaceful diplomacy."