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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 5d

ATTENTION - ALL CHINAHEADS/HANDS/HEARTS, SINOPHILES, HISTORIANS, STORYTELLERS, WANDERING BARDS

It's October once again, & I'm putting out a call for any recommendations you may have for supernatural tales for my annual "Strange Tales" stories episode.

What are you favorite spooky stories from 中国?

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 1h

To John Carpenter, Thanks For Everything!
Julie Newmar

Goofrider @goofrider.bsky.social · 1h

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

The Adventure of John Carpenter, Queen of the Desert

National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 1h

John Carpenter's Cousin Vinny

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 1h

"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous" -- but enough about what Steve lists on his Tinder bio

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 1h

a man sitting on a bench with his hands behind his head

ALT: a man sitting on a bench with his hands behind his head

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 1h

Sorry no, that's a buffet. Duvet is a concept in Daoism/Confucianism where a ruler best rules via minimal direct intervention & instead favor a kind of "go with the flow" attitude, thus mirroring the essential dualistic nature of the universe itself.

the unreluctant optimist @unreluctance.blacksky.app · 3h

nah that's a bidet. a duvet is a place where you can eat as much as you want for a set price

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 2h

can't really press "rewind" on the duck-milkshake blender...

Vulture @vulture.com · 4h

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

www.vulture.com

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 4h

"In this hive, you gotta get the pollen first. Then when you get the pollen, you get the nectar. Then when you get the nectar, then you get the honey."

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 5h

D&E is the absolute only side-project I forgive Grrm for

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 6h

[Trump]: “Give me the peace prize for what I saved you from.”

[Norway]: “which is?”

[Trump]: “From what I’ll do to you if you don’t give me that medal.”

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 6h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 6h

Luv 2 demand the troops do war crimes on their own populace while calling them fat gay foreveralone slobs and then shrug when they ask for a check

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 6h

Troops turning to military relief groups for cash with next paycheck in doubt trib.al/TdDHiw1

Troops turning to military relief groups for cash with next paycheck in doubt

Service members have been working without pay since the government shutdown began on Oct. 1. They are increasingly asking for financial help.

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 8h

Can someone please just bite the bullet & write a different volume of midwit YA books about wizard middle school that everyone can *obsess over* for the next 40 yrs, so we can finally ignore this banshee's wailing & leave her to haunt her Scottish castle alone?

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 18h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 8h

Go home, Chris.

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 8h

Chris Cillizza clearly has a public self-humiliation fetish, & I refuse to be baited into involuntarily feeding his kink.

Chris Cillizza @chriscillizza.bsky.social · 10h

What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 8h

Bobby's only really been interested in the reproductive cycles of annalids every since he ate that raw pork...

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 9h

I am inordinately excited for Dunk & Egg to finally make it to the medium screen!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPFR...

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms | Official Teaser Trailer | HBO Max

YouTube video by HBO Max

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 10h

We now cut to a live-feed of Gov. Stitt realizing that they're eating her! And then they're going to eat me!...

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 10h

<RFK Jr. looking down at his own crotch>
"Well, well, well... it was you to blame this entire time..."

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 10h

Just their tax dollars.

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 10h

Ah, an optimist!

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 14h

[Chinese saints]: "Look, did she screw the dragon or not? We're not saying she had to raise a family with it or get legally married, but we don't get up in the morning for less than at least banging it out with the cryptid."

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 22h

You joke but this is the story with like half the saints

Like Saint Martha (Lazarus’s sister) per French legends moved to the south of France and tamed dragons

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 21h

(btw, that's a way of knowing someone never been to Wyoming: they think they need to stipulate "the rural part")

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 21h

highly doubtful. I think it's just a blind pitch from a list... just amusing email spam ;P

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 21h

It's like my friend Merry always said: "The closer you are to danger, the farther you are from harm!"

I'll be honest, it doesn't make much sense to me... but then again, he is very small.
Perhaps he's right

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 21h

So, I don't do a whole lot of interviews - largely cuz it's just not that kind of show.
& don't worry, that's not changing

...but some of the rando requests are just so out-of-the-blue... clearly blind pitches.
"Hey History of China, wanna interview a Doctor of ADHD who grew up in rural Wyoming?"

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 22h

I'd certainly never wish anything like a "century of humiliation" on any nation

... that said, the US could really do for about a couple of decades of humble-pie for this.

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 22h

I now comprehend the snare that I have been unwittingly drawn into - & its urgent desire to bind my strength to itself. So many spooling theads now grow taut in anticipation. But I have a surprise of my own in store. There may yet be a way to unweave the web of Fate that entraps us all...
#Silksong