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🍊🖕🇹🇼 Once more time: the Orange Crew abandoning Taiwan was already foreseeable at least in Jul'24 and probably earlier. Reading Elbridge Coldby stuff and the excellent thread by porteaux* it was quite obvious. While in retrospective I was too rational back then. *Nice to see @ptx.bsky.social here

bluesky is oligarch-free social

interesting

that’s him. he said “learn to code.”

raw milk chuds reject pasteurization because it’s “unnatural” and then go and drink the mammary lactations of a cow.

oh girl, it’s been seen

how it started / how it’s going

honestly amazed by China’s forethought and good fortune having cultivated Elon Musk who now controls the U.S. government

AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party

New Jerseyans when a commercial airplane flies overhead

is this real love

real

korea’s Jan 7th was 100x better than usa’s

1000% tariffs on podcast equipment

1000% tariffs on podcast equipment

surprise

“Get in losers. We’re getting measles.”

the MAGA “landslide”

old movie, fresh idea

me, logging into X

trying to listen as much as i can to smart ppl on the Right to understand their world view so far have: - spent 6+ months reading curtis yarvin - listened to endless red scare episodes - @RichardMCNgo (on X) DJT defenses - currently listening to the 3hrs of rogan + andreessen

thankful for such a smart and kind community of friends on Bluesky!

very happy to be on bluesky

lots of good movies recently, here are my faves in order: Anora All shall be well (广东话) A Real Pain Conclave Wicked

crackdowns on independent contractors is out of control. i don’t want to be an employee and can buy my own “benefits” and don’t need any government busybody “protecting” me by forcing me to accept a boss. NY in particular is backwards on this.

we’re gonna miss competent leaders

i pour my deepest emotions and darkest thoughts into chatgpt and then it responds with

prepare thyself for untold amounts of quackery from RFK/Oz/Weldon

is there a way to dump someone premptively

bluesky won, threads lost

these X posters are free marketing for bluesky

i really love using chatgpt or claude as a foreign language co-pilot when talking to friends, giving me ways to improve grammar rather than using it to directly translate from english

a friend caught me using my wallet and airpods to save my spot at a cafe in nyc now i realize i do this frequently bc nyc is quite safe, actually

people who read articles instead of headlines are being asked to leave twitter for bluesky

🇺🇦+ 🇵🇸 + 🇹🇼 = liberals 🇺🇦+ 🇮🇱 + 🇹🇼 = neocons 🇷🇺+ 🇵🇸 + 🇨🇳 = tankies 🇷🇺+ 🇮🇱 + 🇨🇳 = corporatists 🇷🇺+ 🇵🇸 + 🇹🇼 = kuomintang 🇷🇺+ 🇮🇱 + 💰 = MAGA

🇺🇦+ 🇵🇸 + 🇹🇼 = liberals 🇺🇦+ 🇮🇱 + 🇹🇼 = neocons 🇷🇺+ 🇵🇸 + 🇨🇳 = tankies 🇷🇺+ 🇮🇱 + 🇨🇳 = corporatists 🇷🇺+ 🇵🇸 + 🇹🇼 = kuomintang 🇷🇺+ 🇮🇱 + 💰 = MAGA

honestly sounds like he’s a good cultural fit for this administration

wtf do you mean “at YOUR bodyweight”??

the best part of winter and daylight savings is i get to play my Nightcore playlist even earlier in the day.

Ray Dalio compares Trump to 1930s fascists, and then takes GREAT PAINS to clarify that he isn’t saying whether Trump himself is a fascist.

death penalty for those who paint their nails in the subway

it’s crazy how much facebook fell off, if you really think about it

they miss getting to "own the libs"

大家早上好。你们说中文吗？

they miss getting to "own the libs"

the Epstein presidency

this is an actual circus