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"After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit." Who is it? Yes.
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Go fuck yourself, Bill.
January 24, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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The stories about the end of newsstands in China is very sad - I've always enjoyed browsing them for new magazines and regional media. Here's a couple of photos - a Beijing news kiosk in 2002 and a mobile bicycle newsstand in Kunming, 2004....

Here's more www.sixthtone.com/news/1017763
January 21, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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Boat on a River, near Peking, Anatoli Efimov (1897-1981), graduate of the Moscow School of Painting, fled to Harbin in 1918, Qingdao in 1930 travelling frequently to both Peking and Shanghai to exhibit. Finally moved to Los Angeles.
January 18, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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Grok is on a path of self destruction, he'd better stay away from alcohol and sleeping pills...
January 10, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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Fritz Lang's Metropolis was released 99 years ago today!
And the story took place in... 2026 😁

And since it's never too late to (re)discover one of the first sci-fi classics...
Metropolis | 1927 | VOSTFR, Muet | Science-fiction
YouTube video by Bonjour Le Cinéma
www.youtube.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Suckers 🅰️t The Table

My AST SpaceMobile write up is live.

Special shout out to @keubiko.bsky.social as I referenced your infallible law of touts.

open.substack.com/pub/valuatio...
ASTS - Suckers at The Table
Of Memes and Men
open.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Close friends - couples that live within 100 yards of me right now (by "ethnicity"): Chinese man / white woman, white man / Philippine woman, white woman / Sri Lankan man, white man / Chinese woman, white man / white woman. It's going to be really awkward when Elon's boogaloo starts.
Dammit I guess my wife and our kids going to kill me. Better join Elon's Fourth Reich to protect myself from them. I'm outnumbered in my own damn house.
January 8, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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"Make Venezuela Mucho Grande!"

Lots of tacos, sexy mamacitas 😂😂😂
THIS IS AI

you know what, I’m grateful for this video after watching this thing for 1.5h and chugging bismol.

Happy lunch. 🌮
January 6, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Most Greenlanders are also citizens of the European Union with full rights through their Danish citizenship. So, dear EU, you can’t dodge this issue anymore.
From the wife of a Trump advisor following the Venezuela invasion.

Sick.

Sharing here bc it illustrates the mindset.
January 4, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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Had to look it up as I didn’t believe it. This is a real tweet. JFC these people are going to burn down the world lol.
January 3, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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Donald: "Putin wants to see Ukraine succeed"

Prez:
December 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

🧵
December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Having to find one book of the year for the China Books Review ‘best of….’ list is a toughie - but I always feel inclined towards fiction and Emma Pei Yin’s characters and setting (occupied Hong King in WW2) stuck with me…
December 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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A Citroen 2CV outside the old Bank of China building in Hong Kong, which was at the time a stronghold of the PRC in the Britsh colony…c.1968
December 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Exactly
December 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Cold war vibes, but with Europe as target. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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FT Editorial.

“This was the week when any ambiguity surely disappeared. The true cynical, money-grabbing and self-interested nature of his world view was laid bare.”
Trump’s world view: cynical, self-interested and money-grabbing
[FREE TO READ] Latest Ukraine peace plan presented by the US would be a capitulation to Moscow
on.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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RFK jr: "Put a potato in your socks also during the day to solve the energy crisis"
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Zu diesen Debatten gehören auch immer jene, die sie weitertreiben, anspitzen und bewirtschaften. Vermutlich muss man neben der Politik auch mediale Akteure in Haftung nehmen, die an diesem Diskursgeklingel mehr Interesse haben als an sachbezogener Politik.
War selten so froh über eine Zeile.

www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
October 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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"Pope Leo, please stop telling us what the Bible say and the teachings of Jesus. It’s hurting the feelings (and brain...) of us US Catholics"
October 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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"We don't fight with stupid rules of engagement"
September 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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It is difficult to win an argument with a smart person. It is impossible to win an argument with an idiot.
September 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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September 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."
September 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM