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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 17 Sep 2014

    Some people like to put their faith books of fairy tales. I prefer to travel around with this. #reason #humanrightspic.twitter.com/AMIQ7ggVAw

    5:40 AM - 17 Sep 2014
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    • Hugo Daryl Walker-Smith ☕ Matthias Dittgen Comrade Tadpole No 3 #GTTO Alexander Repty fantastic ms. Sam Hutchings Wladyslawa Beau
    12 replies 16 retweets 43 likes
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      2. Chris Chinchilla‏ @ChrisChinch 17 Sep 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral It's so small :( That says something, not quite sure what though…

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 17 Sep 2014
        Replying to @ChrisChinch

        @ChrisChinch That bullshit requires verbosity?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Chris Chinchilla‏ @ChrisChinch 17 Sep 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Let's call it 'padding' ;)

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 17 Sep 2014
        Replying to @ChrisChinch

        @ChrisChinch ;)

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      2. Bruce Lawson‏ @brucel 17 Sep 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Similar. When friends have baby, I don't give bible but Amnesty's picturebook of Declaration of Human Rights http://www.amnesty.org.uk/universal-declaration-human-rights-pictures …

        4 replies 4 retweets 14 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 17 Sep 2014
        Replying to @brucel

        @brucel That’s so awesome :)

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      4. Bruce Lawson‏ @brucel 17 Sep 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral it's a great book for catching 'em young.

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      2. Jon Lamendola‏ @jon_lamendola 17 Sep 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Is degrading humans for having a different opinion than you a violation of human rights?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 17 Sep 2014
        Replying to @jon_lamendola

        @jon_lamendola Degrading people… interesting choice of word; something religions excel at. And no, this is simply rational critique.

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      1. Gry Hasselbalch‏ @mediamocracy 17 Sep 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral hey you can suplement it with this IRP charter: http://internetrightsandprinciples.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IRPC_Booklet-English_4thedition.pdf … #netrights

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      1. Tony Lukasavage‏ @tonylukasavage 17 Sep 2014
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        @aral we must have been drinking the same kool-aid this morning, I’m tweeting almost identical sentiment.

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      1. Baxley‏ @Baxley 17 Sep 2014
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        @aral it seems like a succinct book of human rights. :)

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      1. Jared Scheel‏ @jscheel 17 Sep 2014
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        @aral I respect man’s ability to reason but also understand that man is flawed. I choose to put my ultimate faith in something higher.

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      1. mytrip.to‏ @mytripto_bybia 17 Sep 2014
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        @aral Perfect!

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      1. Theo Lietaert‏ @TheoLietaert 17 Sep 2014
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        @aral I need to get a copy!

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      2.  🇪🇺 Steve Paris  🧷 🧬 🔬  🎬 📱 🖖‏ @sjparis 17 Sep 2014
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        @aral @Smutchings don't go to the UK with that: most people are being turned against it.

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      3. Sam Hutchings‏ @Smutchings 17 Sep 2014
        Replying to @sjparis

        @sjparis: @aral lives in the UK

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      4.  🇪🇺 Steve Paris  🧷 🧬 🔬  🎬 📱 🖖‏ @sjparis 17 Sep 2014
        Replying to @Smutchings

        @Smutchings @aral brave man

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