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From Australia, have also lived in Malaysia and Thailand. Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism. He/Him
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The ABC is so corrupted by years of rightwing whiteanting that this sort of biased framing is where we are at. On purpose or instinctive? Who knows, but it needs to be called out.

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Yep. Spirits love red fanta! I left them some soy milk cartons for a healthier diet.

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He can't keep getting away with this (serving)

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Independent Order of Odd Fellows Rushville, IL

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PS I’m begging universities to hire me to teach about memes 😭 Yes, students must create their own Dufu is Busy to share (an oldie but fun). Maybe students draw their own baozou as an exit ticket to gauge how they’re feeling about the content. 😂

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

The double-edged sword of Elon tying his wagon slow close to Trump's is yes he can leverage the full power of the US government to further his interests, but it also makes him a target for those wanting to hit the US *and* limits his ability to maneuver as US power is increasingly circumscribed

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#ImperialCitadel #HanoiVietnam There has been an Imperial Citadel’s history dates back 1000 years. China occupied Vietnam 🇻🇳 for a thousand years so the architecture is influenced by this history

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What the Idle Busy Themselves With 閑人忙事 tag yourself; I'm "listening to the wind play a qin on the wall" 風吹壁琴聲 excerpt from Love to Hate Your Fated Mate 歡喜冤家 (17th. C) 🀄📚

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Blossom Burst farm special for Sunday market

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Absolutely agree.

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Don't know what Kaboom! BBQ Curry flavour is, but will try it with Mr15 later today

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

Stolen from the Instagram of my retired NPS ranger friend

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Meng Fei, China’s unofficial tourism guru. Speciality Subject? Waterfalls. #IfYouAreTheOne

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Are you sitting at home waiting for #IfYouAreTheOne to start? #IYATO

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I’m sure we can think of some gloriously inventive ways that certain current leaders might meet their maker. Here’s some inspiration. A 🧵👇🏻

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If you never watch movies set in Bhutan, "Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom" is a good start. A simple story of a self-absorbed city teacher being sent to the remote Lunana village, and ends up loving the place. Heartwarming, sincere, with beautiful Bhutan mountain view to please your eyes. #moviesky

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Classy Scottish whales 🐋

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I liked kill bill better when it was called lady snowblood

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In one of the Chinese folklores, people lit lanterns during the Lantern Festival because a divine bird was accidentally shot by a hunter, prompting the Heavenly Emperor to order destruction on the fifteenth day of the new year. To save themselves, villagers decorated their homes 1/2 #folklore

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

There is absolutely no excuse for any streaming service to have any media without subtitles in 2025. Good grief.

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

New challenge! What are your #kdrama / #cdrama ABCs? Choose one drama, actor, song or trope that you love each day: A-Z. No order. No explanations. No reviews. Just clips/gifs #kdramachallenge #kdramas C: Confucianism (exploration of / conflicts within)

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Build up a supportive, close community of fellow writers! This is the best way to discover who to kill and eat so you can gain their precious, valuable writerly powers. You'll be leveling up in no time!

submitted 15 hours ago • 23 comments

hey! in 2021 i did a mailbag episode of @becauselanguage.com where we discussed the phrase “go woke, go broke” and even back then we had serious reservations about its origin and accuracy as a phrase. looks like it continues not to hold becauselanguage.com/41-mailbag-o...

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Just when you think you can't love Nicolas Cage any more than you already do.

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There’s some mad thinking going on among UK conservative figures right now. They’re cherry-picking the parts of the Trump agenda that they really, really like - the racism, the misogyny, the anti-trans stuff, the breaking the state so it can’t operate and calling it a return to democracy. 1/2

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

There's some really good commentary on Kill My Sins on the #CDrama subreddit. Good for unravelling the plot threads, and speculation on who the Big Bad is. Plus some needed rebuttal of philistines who criticise LSS's acting! www.reddit.com/r/CDrama/s/Z...

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Could someone define the Western Civilisation & how it is demarcated?

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments