Rob
@greaterhermit.bsky.social
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Heian-kyo City Bureaucrat 小隐隐陵薮,大隐隐朝市
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greaterhermit.bsky.social
The thing about Twitter that makes it still have value for me is that it’s basically the last remaining major platform place where you can get a lot of information in text form. You can here, too, but this is much more niche. Everything else is just increasingly visual and I hate that.
greaterhermit.bsky.social
Does it have to be SET in the 21st century or just written in it? If the latter, Neal Stephenson’s baroque cycle is in large part about money
greaterhermit.bsky.social
I love how when I arrived in Japan in 2019 a colleague told me: “the good thing about Japanese politics is that it never changes”.

Since then, it’s been one insane thing after another.
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moara.bsky.social
ela vendo e mostrando os desenhos que vcs postam delas na internet
rngundam.bsky.social
Mobile Suit Gundam The Witch from Mercury (2022)
Episode 7 - Shall We Gundam
03:15.419
greaterhermit.bsky.social
Long and absolutely fantastic thread on Komeito and what happened to the coalition.

This thread alone is reason to stay on bluesky.
levimclaughlin.bsky.social
Japan, ostensibly one of the least religious countries in the world, had its political order upended by the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. That is THE story about Friday's epochal shift in Japanese politics (thread follows):
greaterhermit.bsky.social
Não era daquele aparato peniano mecânico segmentado?
greaterhermit.bsky.social
Connecticut yankee abbreviated, of course, to koneyan
greaterhermit.bsky.social
Ah yes, I love “Is it impossible for a Connecticut yankee to use magic from the future in the court of King Arthur?!”
irhottakes.bsky.social
Isekai is the funniest genre because exactly one good one was written and it was by Mark Twain in 1889 before Isekai was invented.
greaterhermit.bsky.social
Arguably the only accurate word here is “woman”
greaterhermit.bsky.social
Caraca meio que foda-se o robô (com todo respeito), mas essa linhazinha eletrônica do começo da música goes hard demais
robsongfreire.bsky.social
Lembram desse robozão bailando no torneio de robótica que rolou lá no Norte do país?

Então….
greaterhermit.bsky.social
No, just bigger missiles on bigger TELs, forever. Eventually a missile whose TEL cab is in the United States while the back wheels are in Sunan
greaterhermit.bsky.social
I went to the Apple Store and complained about my battery life on iOS 26 to an apple genius. She said she turned off all the special iOS effects on her phone and turned them all off for me too. The phone is genuinely better but this feels a little dumb…
greaterhermit.bsky.social
Thanks! Quite a bit of chatter I see. Still not sure what to make of it
greaterhermit.bsky.social
Where is it from, on X?
greaterhermit.bsky.social
Desde o governo passado, eu defendo que, se a direita quer indicar alguém “terrivelmente evangélico”, o tit-for-tat da esquerda seria indicar para o STF a Pabllo Vittar
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jasonfurman.bsky.social
The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.
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dkthomp.bsky.social
1. Social media is now 5% following friends and 95% watching videos made by strangers.
2. Every podcast is turning into a YouTube show.
3. AI companies can't stop building TikTok clones.

Everything is becoming television.

I wrote about why that matters.

www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...
Everything Is Television
A theory of culture and attention
www.derekthompson.org
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mattielubchansky.com
to be fair, it seems like that part wasn't the problem for the committee!
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado welcomed the US strike, describing it as legitimate pressure. She interpreted it as a direct attack on the government, which she said would be overthrown before long.
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greaterhermit.bsky.social
Really happy with these photos I took on a random night stroll around Bushwick/Williamsburg
greaterhermit.bsky.social
A indicação certa pro STF neste momento é um psicopata que vai tocar o terror no André Mendonça até ele renunciar