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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊

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Historian of rasaśāstra (Sanskrit alchemy) and tantra. Researches: medicine, gender, sexuality, religion, history of science and technology. Assistant Professor at HKBU. News junkie with a journalism past. https://hkbu.academia.edu/PatriciaSauthoff

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 2h

Pie crust! (For sweet American style pies, not savory British ones) cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1285...

Foolproof Pie Dough (Published 2012)

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 14h

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 11h

Also those are bagels

Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 18h

This photo is not from recent anti-deportation protests in Portland, Oregon. The image is more than a decade old and can be geolocated to Toronto, Canada. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 16h

It was vegan coconut. The most dangerous kind of shake known to man.

Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 1d

The feds really had no idea they were up against the most sarcastic and passive-aggressive city in America.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

But also good luck staffing the knowledge economy, which is required to operate an AI-centric ecosystem, after you've destroyed all of higher ed and made it impossible for the smartest people in the world to study here if they happen to be from another country.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 1d

What is “free” for a billionaire is not free for the rest of us.

Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone with a billion dollars should be shunned. These people have more money than most of us can imagine. They have no idea what a paycheck means.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 1d

That was a tiny glimpse at what happened under Churchill during the Bengal famine where there was food but no one could purchase it.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 1d

Let me tell you a story.
I lived in rural India when a little thing called demonetization happened. We had cash. The cash wasn’t worth anything.
People died in lines at ATMs waiting for valid cash.
Food rotted on the side of the roads because no one could by it.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 1d

When you’ve never been poor you don’t understand that even cheap things can be too expensive.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
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Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · 2d

Around this time of year, brits will wear ‘poppies’ out of deep respect for the international heroin trade

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 2d

That person who may or not be me luckily has an office staff with a decade of experience and spare keys!

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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 2d

"Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 Winners LIVE Updates: Will 2025 finally be Haruki Murakami’s year?" No

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 2d

OK but one of the stories only told in a photo caption here is that they widened the walkway because so many people take the exact same picture. Lol.

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 2d

Over 1.29 million mainland Chinese tourists visited HK during the first 7 days of the National Day Golden Week holiday, an uptick of around 6% compared with the previous year. In full: buff.ly/k2gkqrS

1.29m mainland Chinese visited HK in first 7 days of Golden Week holiday

Over 1.29 million mainland Chinese tourists visited HK during the first 7 days of the National Day Golden Week holiday, an uptick of around 6% compared with the previous year.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 2d

Guess who took her office keys out of her bag so she didn’t lose them on a trip and is now locked out of her office…

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Buddhistdoor Global (BDG) @buddhistdoor.bsky.social · 3d

BDG feature: Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies

🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/yuezuj5r

#Buddhism #BuddhistBooks #BookReview #Vajrayana #TantricBuddhism #TibetanBuddhism #BuddhistStudies

Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies - Buddhistdoor Global

The most ambitious academic engagement in a generation with the tantric expressions of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and more

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 3d

I contributed a chapter to this amazing volume that just received a glowing review from @buddhistdoor.bsky.social

Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies - Buddhistdoor Global

The most ambitious academic engagement in a generation with the tantric expressions of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and more

www.buddhistdoor.net

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 3d

A whole bunch of us have grown up in the UK knowing to flee in the other direction if we spot this flag anywhere. We’re not going to pause to see if there are stickers stuck below them.

And if they’re stuck elsewhere, we will not get close enough to see the text - again, we’re just going to leg it.

Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 5d

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧