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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's always kinda funny to me when I meet black Americans who think I'm not really black because I don't fit their expectations of what a black American should be.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Before moving to Thailand I was completely unaware that rice comes in a wide range of types with various grades and quality. Now I'm a rice snob 😭😭

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Writers use AI they just don't use it to write. So yes, we can tell when AI wrote your post.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The US is a melting pot so there are lots of cultures but 'American Culture' in the eyes of the world appears to be just violence and racism. That makes me sad.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In late 2025, my wife and I began working with a developer on a platform to manage user registrations for her education seminars. We communicated with him primarily by email. By 2026 it was functional, allowing us to complete the first seminar using the app he built.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These 'testimonials' about Dots and Muse from 'people' claiming they're using these things + the comments on their posts just sound like bots interacting with each other. I have yet to see a compelling use case that warrants the kind of privacy access it requires. I feel ilke I'm in Bizarro World.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This mf is releasing a fuck privacy yamagatchi designed to appeal to children that mostly completes frivolous tasks, encourages laziness, tells you how to think and actively makes the owner dumber. What could go wrong?

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

First time shooting a gun was meh? I don't get the appeal but I stuck to the small caliber cuz they wouldn't let my stepson shoot anything over a .22. Maybe bigger guns with bigger bullets are more fun?

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Maybe I'm just not the target demographic but Muse seems like exchanging every last drop of privacy and agency one has in exchange for a glorified Siri. wtf are people thinking?

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Life is hard. Make it harder: learn to speak Thai.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Big shout out to USians who are keeping up the fight cuz it takes a lot of hope and courage to drag yourself outta bed every day knowing almost every politician out there has sold their soul. Full disclosure, I'm still a US Citizen but I left the US for good back in 2006.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The most insufferable mfs on earth rn are eligious mfs posting 'God is good' or whatever the fuck. Read the room. Your God is trash if it can't stop people from killing kids.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So I'm gonna take a wild guess and say some guy named Ed Sheeran fucked up today in a major way.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every story of someone using an 'AI assistant' is just them giving up unprecedented levels of privacy and agency to mega corporations that have proven time and time again they can't be trusted just to have it perform some mundane task that would've taken them maybe a few mins longer to do themselves

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Imagine how much money these AI bros could make if they focused on making things better for everyone rather than training their probability bots for maximum exploitation.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In my village there are clean drinking water pumps available to everyone to ensure that if you don't have any anything else at least you have clean water to drink.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

At the beginning of your language learning journey, record yourself speaking with bad tones and all. Keep going, don't quit. 2 years into that journey, pull those recordings out and listen to how far you've come. There's no better motivation than the sweet sound of how bad you were in the beginning.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It is wild that creators on YouTube don't have the option to schedule content for release to members only. To this day I have to manually go in and publish videos for members only based on reminders I set in Google Calendar.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Is this a safespace to talk about some of the things I've built using AI tools?

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Daniel / SwissInHKG 🇨🇭🌏 @wyss.social · 11/09/2026

A long, long time ago on Twitter, we had something like #FollowFriday or #FollowingFriday. Now today is Friday. We don't have Twitter anymore, but I still want to recommend Ron. You should follow him when you're learning Thai. Or when you're living in Thailand.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Zuck hittin y'all with the freejack where you get to use Muse for free then once a few hundred million people our hopelessly addicted, then he jacks up the price and you're handing over half your paycheck to meta to keep using it. Bro is a dope dealer.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Sometimes Thai native speakers will switch to English when they're addressed in Thai by a foreigner and there are many reasons for this. Many aspects of Thai culture are designed to help maintain social harmony and the way Thai people communicate with one another plays a signinficant role. 1/x

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

One of my students asked me to explain เกรงใจ (gring jai) for a personal situation so I'll share it with you guys too. It's mostly considered a feeling but it's also a custom, behaviour and cultural norm. It doesn't have a direct translation in English but I'd describe it as... 1/x

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

A few thoughts from a guy who has lived here since 2003 for my cousins who are interested in relocating to Thailand. This country has a wide variety of foreigners from around the world who come to live here for a variety of reasons. The most important part of accomplishing this... 1/x

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Someone asked me what made Black American culture so popular and influencial? I didn't have a good answer at the time but now that I've had a chance to think about it, I'm gonna say...

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Every American should have just one visit to a major city in China so they too can feel this sense of betrayal.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The post: "The rent in Thailand is cheap." What I read: "The currency I bring to spend in Thailand makes the cost of living here extremely affordable for me." "Cheap" is a subjective and condescending term.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I don't believe there are that many people who want to learn to speak Thai but I'm glad I can make a living helping those who do. No, I don't want to make more money, use a subscription model or scale my course. I have fun teaching and I'm satisfied with small class sizes. It's not that serious.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

If you want a peaceful life just learn to speak Thai, build a nice home and live in a remote province of Thailand. Scenery is top tier & the people are lovely. Outside of gardening & community activities you may need to investment in home entertainment to create what's basically retirement heaven.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

My unhinged theory about what's wrong with IG and it's algorithm: Meta is testing mixing in AI generated content to see how it affects activity and they're doing this live with real users so a lot of engagement is being redirected from creators to AI slop accounts. 1/5

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

In politics there is no left or right, there is only a means to an end. We share more in common than we share in differences but the powerful must exploit our differences in their bid to hold on to power and influence. 1/4

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

If you're learning to speak Thai, join us for 30 Thai Words A Week, a 10-week online course designed to help improve your ability to speak and understand Thai. Our next group meets on Thursdays at 19:00 Bangkok starting September 4 and we still have a few spots available. I hope to see you in class!

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The 'ph' in Phuket is pronounced with a 'p' sound not an 'f' sound. It's an English transliteration of a Thai word. Hope this helps.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Most education systems teach children WHAT to think not HOW to think and I'm starting to think that's by design.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Don't let the internet mislead you into thinking most relationships with Thai women don't end well. There are lots of happy couples out here living their best life. Success is quiet, failure is loud.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Me at 25: How does this outfit look? Me at 50: How does this outfit FEEL?

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

If you are only encountering Thai women who want your money, to the point that you find it extremely rare to encounter one who doesn’t, that leads me to believe that Thai women don't willingly interact with you...

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

In Thai, the term universally understood as "I miss you" or คิดถึง (kid teung) is a bit of a misnomer because it's made up of two words: คิด (kit) means "to think" and ถึง means "to" or in this context "about"... 1/2

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

“Attitude is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, money, circumstances, than failures and success, than what other people think, say, or do. 1/3

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

It makes me uncomfortable how comfortable some black Americans are with neocolonialism. Like, what do you mean you're moving to Thailand but have no plans to learn the language or anything about the culture and only plan to hang out with people who look like you??

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Whenever I kill an insect just for annoying me I think about AI.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Unfortunately life in Thailand... any foreign country... isn't for every American. I'd say the vast majority aint bout that life.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Whenever I kill an insect just for annoying me I think about AI.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

That moment when you start to get frustrated after studying Thai for a while but then go out somewhere and overhear a conversation in Thai and suddenly realize you understand a lot of what's being said.

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Ron Weaver @americanthaiguy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I love it for all the talented people in tech who are now sought after like free agents in the sports market. Get that bag, nerd.

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