I really liked Huntington-Klein, The Effect.

Very solid and entertaining introduction to Labubu mania. Wondered why my visitors from China went into the Vienna Labubu store and straight out again last summer. Now I have an explanation. The Labubu store probably had no Labubus.

Genuinely delighted to have received a postcard from @polbehavior.bsky.social today. This is a very nice gesture that truly made my day.

Dear Indonesian on bsky, my name is ogi- I am an Indonesian zinester, and I am planning to make an informative/educational zine about what happened in Indonesia. I want to share it in one of my zinefest in Växjö Sweden and you can use the ready-print version to share awareness when its finished!

Here's my epic failure against Trump's tariffs: I placed an order from a Ukrainian woodworking shop on Aug 17, but it's still stuck at the customs. It turns out, big platforms like Temu ends up getting an advantage over indie sellers because they can better handle the post-de minimis tariff regime.

A very moving and informative essay with insights on how and why individuals (in China) consult LLMs for medical advice, and how Chinese companies employ LLMs in healthcare already now.

This will be one of the few things I’m looking forward to having in my inbox. Wired’s (China) reporting has been stellar, so I’m looking forward to more of it. I just signed up.

Oh, wow. I just know this will be good.

Instinctively understand it. A brain fast enough to do two translations while formulating an answer in conversation speed would be awesome.

‘Containing Xi’, or refining party rule? – Holly Snape for Observing China: ‘These planned regulations are part of Xi’s longstanding pet project to govern the CCP and the PRC by rules’
‘Xi has used rules not only to maximise his concentration of power, but also to facilitate its use.’

Hey, if you support CDT but can't give cash- give a retweet.
Maybe someone with more funds will see it.

They are almost at their modest goal of $10,000, but there's no reason 10,000 RTs shouldn't have been reached ages ago.

If anyone uses bsky data to research the impact of the New York Times #NYT recent reporting on #Mamdani, here is a data point: I'm not invested in US domestic politics, but cancelled my subscription because of what I perceive of as an inexcusable lack of journalistic and editorial standards.

If you’re a political scientist please consider joining @epssnet.bsky.social as a member to help support this new (not for profit!) organization and the next European Political Science Conference in 2026 in Belfast 👇

If that’s not in the budget: spreading the word is just as important 😊

Lucky shot, glad I had my camera with me.

A critical resource, under threat because of DOGE cuts. No group is better at finding cracks in the Great Firewall. If you think it’s important to understand China, consider donating

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This should be the one.

TLDR: don't take available data for granted, because it might disappear at any time. Redundancy is as important as storage. Download this and other datasets, and if you can, create additional repositories.

that information. As Christine L. Borgman wrote, "data have many kinds of value, and that value may not be apparent until long after those data are collected, curated, or lost.”

indexing, tagging, replication, publication etc extremely important, yet those doing this work find it very, very hard to source the needed funds. I assume that there will be many important questions in the future that we could have answered if we had not squandered the chance of archiving

won't be able to access this information. Memories will be lost, and those relying on online data to write history might encounter a distorted image of the past in which vulnerable groups are silenced. This makes data collection, storage, organisation,

useful online information exists in abundance, but in recent years, we're seeing a rapid disappearance of past online data from China. The impact of this might not be felt immediately, as catching up with the present is difficult enough. But future generations of researchers, activists, citizens