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Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Aug 10

(the Great Games Recommendation Thead, part 3, only another 500 plus games to go, you bastards)

201: Brindlewood Bay. Incredible game of improvised deduction where you are the Golden Girls but investigating a Cthulhoid murder cult in a small town through Monk-style quicky/cosy stories.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve now seen the letter my friend got and it’s a complete disaster - riddled with errors and internal inconsistencies, seemingly unclear about basic facts, switching at random between multiple kinds of visa, dates manufactured from thin air. Feels copied and pasted together from unrelated docs

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6h

Just learned about a brilliant scientist friend who is at risk of being deported because their research field (brain chemistry???) is apparently considered a priority for the People’s Liberation Army and I cannot express in words how much I despise this administration

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5h

they all got caught in the quicksand

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

In a better bicameral system yes

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Amanda Hoey @amandahoey.bsky.social · 8h

Public funding of elections, then instead of giving mostly-ceremonial ambassadorships to big donors, we give them to elderly Senators.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

We need a Senator Emeritus role where they still get to go to events and feel important but that gives them a graceful retirement route

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

I played a Bjornaer who could get himself up to being an elephant sized bear. He won combats by sitting on people

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

We need a Senator Emeritus role where they still get to go to events and feel important but that gives them a graceful retirement route

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Han Yang 杨涵 @hanyangsydney.bsky.social · 8h

My conversation with @beijingpalmer.bsky.social on Trump's trade war with China, Taiwan, AUKUS and his time spent in Beijing

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EP24 对话外交政策杂志副主编James Palmer

YouTube video by 涵瞰世界 Devil's Advocate

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

Once one of my players in Ars Magica took the Dreamer virtue and then tried to claim this gave him an extra two seasons of study a year and I just laughed.

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 12h

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 10h

The decline in the middle class is driven entirely by more people being rich.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10h

Basic support for special ed was a key part of the bipartisan consensus around disability rights dating back decades. Current gop lawmakers and scotus judges have played key roles recently in supporting those rights. But what use are rights without enforcement?

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Mar 25

what about Bernie? retire. what about some other person? they should retire too.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Mar 25

i cannot believe that after Biden and RBG we are still having discussions about whether 80-year-olds should hold public office. they shouldn't. flat out.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

Have you ever heard the Peter Cook bit about finding infant Jesus bodies all over the desert from where he would go out to practice resurrection?

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 12h

I feel like there's just a segment of the population, trans or cis or otherwise, who will always insist that being happy is fundamentally a character flaw that implies you are insufficiently aware of/don't care enough about the world's problems

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 14h

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13h

the American Relief Administration under Hoover also saved literally millions of lives in the Soviet Union during the 1921-22 famine

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13h

not to mention, of course, that the Red Army had made it to Eastern Europe thanks in large part to, among other forms of aid, Spam and Studebakers, both of which Soviet leaders acknowledged directly.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13h

even if you take the most wildly generous interpretation of 'jumped in' as meaning June 1944, and not say, September 1943 (invasion of Italy), or November 1942 (North African landings), let alone December 1941 (entrance into the war), the Soviets were still fighting hard battles in Eastern Europe.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13h

there's a lot of things dangerous about AI and the AI boom, but it's important to get them *right*

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 13h

andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...

The AI water issue is fake

On the national, local, and personal level

andymasley.substack.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13h

I love guys who are just blithely confident in their ignorance, they read like one statement on a tankie forum four years ago and now they think they know everything about one of the most involved conflicts in human history.

Teles Santos @telesjr.bsky.social · 14h

The US never fought to end fascism anywhere. They joined the war because Japan forced their hand, and they saw a great way to make money. After the USSR pretty much had pushed Germany out of eastern Europe and they knew the nazis were going to lose, they jumped in.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

defeating ICE the DC way: they must sit through the most boring powerpoint man has ever created

Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the Portland way.

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

are we certain it was the real Jesus though and not like the time he showed up in Ghost Ride but got retconned into a demon

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

god died in 1949 and so copyright has just expired

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