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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 16h

“When an era sheds a speck of dust it might not seem like much, but when it falls upon
the shoulders of an individual it feels like a mountain.” — Fang Fang

This is Banned Books Week, an annual event that celebrates the work of writers whose voices have been suppressed. 1

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 13h

ridiculous how the new woke catholicism game forces the mary character down everyone’s throat

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 14h

tell you next incarnation

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 15h

NANDuality

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 15h

INSANE new strat, WHEN will devs PATCH THIS??

Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 15h

100% Nirvana speedrun w/ Minecraft prayer wheel farm Infinite Merit glitch

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 15h

Achievement Unlocked: Stream-enterer

0.000000000001% of players have unlocked this

Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 15h

its a roguelike called samsara and there is only one way to quit

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 16h

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 15h

100% Nirvana speedrun w/ Minecraft prayer wheel farm Infinite Merit glitch

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 15h

大鬧天宮 / Monkey Griefs the Heavenly Court

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 15h

(to streaming chat) yeah I know it looks like what I’m doing now is weird but I’m setting up a karmic shortcut for later in the game

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 15h

on my grind, skipping the jataka cutscenes, stacking merit so i can level up before the "buddha on the road" boss fight

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 15h

its a roguelike called samsara and there is only one way to quit

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 16h

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1d

Double kaiju event chalkboard meme from pacific rim

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 1d

Yeah, it’s from an anecdote in the Li ji/Book of Rites, and is attributed to Confucius — 苛政猛於虎, “an oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.” CText has a translation of the passage.

Liji : Tan Gong II - 苛政猛于虎 - Chinese Text Project

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https://ctext.org/liji/tan-gong-ii?searchu=苛政猛于虎&searchmode=showall#n9720

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Maddalena Poli @madpoli.bsky.social · 1d

If you're new to the Warring States manuscripts, I published a piece with my colleague Li Yumeng which introduces the *Kongzi said and *Zhongni said manuscripts. And it's open access!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Jon Howlett @jonhowlett.bsky.social · 1d

If your Thursday needs a boost, can I recommend the delightful Jin Shengtan's 金聖嘆 "Thirty-three Nice Things", translated by @bokane.org?

www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good

— if that’s not nice, what is?

What's Good? A Collection of Small Nice Things

Everything is awful, the dynasty is collapsing, and the vibes are fucked. Other people have been here before. Here's a few of Jin Shengtan's favorite things to distract you.

www.burninghou.se

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AAUP–Penn @aaup-penn.bsky.social · 2d

Now and forever, AAUP-Penn stands in solidarity with GETUP-UAW. Read our public statement today, as GETUP members held a massive practice picket to show they are ready to win a fair contract aaup-penn.org/statement-of...

GETUP members in blue UAW shirts with picket signs gather near the entrance to College Green on Walnut St

picketers marching single-file in two lines that form a circle stretching across campus and around the block

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David Porter @dcporter.bsky.social · 2d

My review of @historianzhang.bsky.social's excellent Power for a Price is officially out in @hisjournalha.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China. By Lawrence Zhang. Cambridge University Press, 2023, 328 pp. $59.95.

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 3d

Yeah; the Jackson translation has the virtue of being based on the good edition of the novel (the shorter edition, which Buck also used), but it doesn’t have much else to recommend it. Interesting about Condor Heroes - wonder whose translation that was.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 3d

Of the available options, I would go with Shapiro’s “Outlaws of the Marsh.”

Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · Nov 7

It’s the least bad option at the moment. Pearl S Buck’s translation is better than its reputation (there are plenty of mistakes, but the Sinologists of her day would make allowances for Arthur Waley that they wouldn’t for a woman) but hard to recommend; the recent-ish Dent-Young translation has…

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 3d

I had to look up what they were in English, but it looks like you can get away with 'sprint点/点数'

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 3d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Annelous Stiggelbout @astigg1.bsky.social · 3d

Gisteren was het Midherfst, de avond om naar de volle maan te kijken en maancakejes te eten. En hier een sfeervolle vertaling van een 17e-eeuws verslag van een zangwedstrijd met een breed publiek:
#China

Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 5d

For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...

Mid-Autumn, Tiger Hill, Late Ming

"Everyone was perfectly silent, even the mosquitoes."

www.burninghou.se

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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · 4d

This is fascinating! Sima Qian is surely making a comeback! People wrote Shiji-style biographies of Li Wenliang during Wuhan lockdown - my piece on this is just out, open-access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Genre borrowing in Chinese digital culture: Narrative imagination and grassroots storytelling on social media - Guobin Yang, 2025

A notable feature in Chinese digital culture is its playful style. Memes, jokes, parodies, and coded language of all sorts abound on social media. While researc...

journals.sagepub.com

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe the news is getting to me, but I found this so touching and lovely.

Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 5d

For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...

Mid-Autumn, Tiger Hill, Late Ming

"Everyone was perfectly silent, even the mosquitoes."

www.burninghou.se

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