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good morning and happy may day. to celebrate this worker's day, IHTOV has a great piece from tim truxell on the great musician/activist billy bragg ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/which...

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Just reposting to say Notes of a Crocodile is a really good book

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New Chthonic MV, “Endless Aeons” 百萬遍. As always, the song mix Buddhism with Taiwan history, but it hits differently today as Freddy Lim recently discovered through declassified archives the participation of his grandfather to the 228 movement which led to the White Terror youtu.be/xVIXCEyPrm8?...

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With apologies to @defector.com, I think we found the grimmest men's evening

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yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone

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Despite seeing several people I totally trust say this was real I still felt I had to verify it with my own eyes. And having done so I still can't believe it's real.

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someone tell alex thompson that he has a great chance to cover a president in mental decline if he wants to take it

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Big thanks to @asiasociety.org @chinafile.bsky.social @goldkorn.bsky.social for this new interview with me about my forthcoming book on Xi Jinping’s father Xi Zhongxun www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM_q...

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I had a lot of fun reviewing the new Hsu-Tang Library Project. Indebted to @jwassers.bsky.social and Brian Spivey for their trust and help with getting it in shape. We do pretty cool work. Let's talk about it in public venues too. #chineseliterature #premodernchinese #sinology

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Maybe they should try thinking of congestion pricing as road tariffs

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Watching Revenge of the Sith get retconned into a good film has been one of the more confusing parts of the culture war.

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I’ve been negatively polarized on this. You will eat them. We are no longer asking.

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This is quite the lineup

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Not the biggest problem with this deal ($1 billion from a city that just had a billion stolen out of its budget? 8,000 parking spaces??), but why is it a dome?

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Now available open access: _Lyrical Experiments in Sinophone Verse_, ed. Justyna Jaguscik, Joanna Krenz, and Andrea Riemenschnitter. Lots of pathbreaking research into Chinese poetry written by workers, women, computers, Hong Kongers, and others on the edge. library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

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Pretty clear admission that the NYT killed a story about the implausibility of the lab leak because editors believed bad-faith Trump Admin sources over actual scientists. donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learne...

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Shout! Studios launches Hong Kong Cinema Classics label variety.com/2025/film/ne... Hard Boiled and City on Fire begin digital roll out on June 24. A Better Tomorrow trilogy, Peking Opera Blues digital on July 22. A Chinese Ghost Story trilogy, Bullet in the Head Aug 5/Aug 19 Jet Li box set 7/29

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Every Monday I wake up, fully cognizant of the fact that the President took a perfectly healthy economy back behind the shed and shot it, and then I go about my job for the week like that didn’t happen because I have no control over it. It makes me feel ridiculous.

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that single sentence is going to drive me insane

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China Foreign Ministry spox overnight: “Let me make it clear one more time – China and the US are not engaged in any consultation or negotiation on tariffs.” Treasury Secretary Bessent on CNBC just now: *BESSENT: ALL ASPECTS OF GOVERNMENT IN CONTACT WITH CHINA Who you gunna believe?

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SCOOP: Trump administration officials late last night began placing dozens of posters of arrested unauthorized immigrants along the White House driveway. The intent is for the posters to be visible behind TV journalists reporting from those positions.

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Huh, and who exactly was leading the Replace Biden charge from the start with Palace Intrigue and Bad Polls? Oh, right, David Shor. The same David Shor who pushed anti-progressive policy stances among Dems during most of Biden's tenure. If only someone had called this out at the time! /s

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Santa’s helpers are freaking out that steep tariffs on Chinese imports will prevent toys, trees, and decorations from arriving in the US on time for the December holiday. www.wired.com/story/christ...

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In September 2024, China raised retirement ages for the first time since 1958—but skipped normal legislative review and consultation. Facing pressure and backlash, lawmakers rushed it through, exposing the fragility of public participation in Chinese lawmaking, write @w-ch.bsky.social and Taige Hu.

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Attempting to track baffling takes from foreign journalists/writers parachuting into Vietnam for the April 30th anniversary. This one takes the cake so far.

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Hi I’m a professional YouTuber and I’m starting to have sponsors back out of contracts because tariffs. I’ve done well for many years and I’m not worried about myself; I merely offer this information as an anecdotal indicator.

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Also not great that I wasn't even sure which of the groupchat guys who were backseat driving the Dems' 2024 campaign this was referring to

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wild how many of these people consort with hanania. i guess it’s not something people feel they have to be embarrassed about anymore

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everyone hated on true detective s2 dialogue but,,,

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This Tang dynasty earthenware jar has a distinctive blue glaze from the inside of the lip spreading unevenly down three quarters of the body. To achieve this effect, cobalt is used as a colouring agent. This method has been used to create blue pigments since ancient times.

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Kind of wild how unpopular this take is. Saw someone on here (a person I otherwise respect) say that it is "never, ever" the responsibility of the voter to vote for a preferred candidate if the candidate hasn't "motivated" them and idk that just feels fundamentally anti-democratic to me.

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Extremely if grimly funny how Marc Andreessen's friends describe his frantic cultivation of countless interlocking spaces where he can hear his own prejudices endlessly repeated and deepened, free from any criticism, as a "hunger for information"

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