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China Banking News: "Beijing has given marching orders to China’s commercial banks, to extend “special loans” to financially distressed government entities running late on their payments to regional businesses."
open.substack.com/pub/chinaban...
open.substack.com/pub/chinaban...
Beijing orders China's banks to lend to debt-burdened state-owned entities
The goal is to boost China's economy with an influx of funds for small businesses.
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 AM
China Banking News: "Beijing has given marching orders to China’s commercial banks, to extend “special loans” to financially distressed government entities running late on their payments to regional businesses."
open.substack.com/pub/chinaban...
open.substack.com/pub/chinaban...
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Today is the 10th anniversary of one of the stupidest tweets ever written
December 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Today is the 10th anniversary of one of the stupidest tweets ever written
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Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
February 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
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I think the median voter believes in Natural Prices, and these are about how much things costed at the most recent point in their mind where they felt relatively financially stable. They expect politicians and businesses to honour this and take steps to ensure things cost their Natural Price.
December 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I think the median voter believes in Natural Prices, and these are about how much things costed at the most recent point in their mind where they felt relatively financially stable. They expect politicians and businesses to honour this and take steps to ensure things cost their Natural Price.
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People who say Xeni Jardin can't be forgiven because they voluntold an owl are the same people who simp for these folks.
December 3, 2025 at 5:44 AM
People who say Xeni Jardin can't be forgiven because they voluntold an owl are the same people who simp for these folks.
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Clean electricity is officially growing fast enough in China that the level of fossil generation is falling, even as overall demand rises. They've gotten over the hump.
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Clean electricity is officially growing fast enough in China that the level of fossil generation is falling, even as overall demand rises. They've gotten over the hump.
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Deciding "tendies" is a fine thing to say tells me that y'all haven't been rejected by your Sicilian boyfriends and it SHOWS.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Deciding "tendies" is a fine thing to say tells me that y'all haven't been rejected by your Sicilian boyfriends and it SHOWS.
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cage free farm raised grass fed wet claude
November 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
cage free farm raised grass fed wet claude
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Ok this is a sign
Wow: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon seems to think that companies involved with Trump's ballroom project could be criminally prosecuted. thehill.com/business/559...
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Ok this is a sign
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One of the greatest to ever do it.
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
One of the greatest to ever do it.
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Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
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Clean power growth is now covering all new global demand. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in the first nine months of this year, exceeding the 603 TWh rise in global electricity demand, and holding fossil generation flat for the year. buff.ly/zRmwAmg
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Q3 Global Power Report: No fossil fuel growth expected in 2025 | Ember
Solar and wind power grew fast enough to keep up with rising electricity demand in the first three quarters of 2025, as fossil fuel growth should be stagnated. Ember forecasts no growth for fossil…
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Clean power growth is now covering all new global demand. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in the first nine months of this year, exceeding the 603 TWh rise in global electricity demand, and holding fossil generation flat for the year. buff.ly/zRmwAmg
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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pestering my dad to take me to GameStop at 6:00am so I can buy Barry Lyndon 64 on launch day
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
pestering my dad to take me to GameStop at 6:00am so I can buy Barry Lyndon 64 on launch day
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The experience of going on Facebook these days is equivalent of having a stroke
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The experience of going on Facebook these days is equivalent of having a stroke
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status symbol? my status symbol is comfortable financial security
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
status symbol? my status symbol is comfortable financial security
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Thankful to my Bluesky feed for giving me these two posts from @mamavitelli.bsky.social and @baronduki.bsky.social back to back
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Thankful to my Bluesky feed for giving me these two posts from @mamavitelli.bsky.social and @baronduki.bsky.social back to back
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so basically all of these are real political tendencies now, I was so early
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
so basically all of these are real political tendencies now, I was so early
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somehow this too is about the budget
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
somehow this too is about the budget
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The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
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Dispatch #938 from NROL-129 (Q CLEARANCE)
1. Unbearable Phonographs
2. Tower of Pizzas
1. Unbearable Phonographs
2. Tower of Pizzas
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Dispatch #938 from NROL-129 (Q CLEARANCE)
1. Unbearable Phonographs
2. Tower of Pizzas
1. Unbearable Phonographs
2. Tower of Pizzas
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Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
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The western Chinese region of Xinjiang dramatically increased tomato cultivation and processing in recent years, but slumping sales to Italy and other western European markets have left it sitting on a vast stockpile of unsold paste. on.ft.com/4i5bFtZ
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The western Chinese region of Xinjiang dramatically increased tomato cultivation and processing in recent years, but slumping sales to Italy and other western European markets have left it sitting on a vast stockpile of unsold paste. on.ft.com/4i5bFtZ
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Then Birdo did lay with Yoshi, and knew him.
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Then Birdo did lay with Yoshi, and knew him.