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残り物には福がある。Trafiquant de l’ésoterique. Unverified(Ogre). Usually couth, sometimes kempt, often gruntled. Strong opinions held weekly.

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bau @bau.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Yau Ma Tei
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Sunny day, long weekend, and post-lunch coffee in the breeze.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Misty and gray.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I finally get it. 1) Raise tariffs. 2) Crash market. 3) USG gives $1000 to citizens in the form of New American Dynamism (NAD) Vouchers Like Russian Privatisation Vouchers. But for America. 4) Elmo/friends hold Trump 3 rallies, open voucher kiosks. Buy vouchers for $1100.
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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
From Victor Klemperer's diary on 30 March 1933, two months to the day after the start of Hitler's chancellorship:
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David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
None of the country’s top 20 law firms (and only 3 of the top 100) are willing to publicly oppose Trump’s attacks on law firms. @sindap.bsky.social 🎁🔗 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Descriptive article about the attitudes, sycophancy, helplessness. Even the fully-sycophantic have no idea but they are all-in on what is still a moving target. Why does he love tariffs? Because it is cash in an account he can call his. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
politico.com
Trump officials, allies grow anxious about April 2 tariffs
The president continues to throw curveballs at businesses — and even his own team.
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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Dear Jason Cummins, Attached is an article in the Financial Times, published yesterday. I feel you should know that some asshole is putting your name on stupid articles. Very truly yours, etc. www.ft.com/content/1de4...
ft.com
A 25% tariff on Europe is only fair
[FREE TO READ] The US needs to act over the competitive advantage the EU gives its companies in areas like value added taxes
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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 27/03/2025
4. Did you make investments in Canada/Mexico assuming that MY deal EXPLICITLY containing a 5yr review would hold for five years? Yes? 25% tariff on all Mexican/Canadian content. 5. You made a mistake calculating the amount of Canadian/Mexican content? 25% tariff on the whole thing
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
* MEXICAN PRESIDENT SHEINBAUM: WITHIN A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT, THERE SHOULD NOT BE TARIFFS @reuters.com
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Has that other place given up the ghost for good?
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I literally LOLed. Yesterday I posted the thread below both HERE and THERE and one of the responses OVER THERE was a link to a review about how Alexander Karp’s new book was about just that. An SV technobro takeover of govt. 10mins ago Jack posted this.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Today I added a new piece to the Bau Collection of Important Hong Kong Cultural and Kitsch Relics of the 1970-80s…
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I find it interesting so many SV would-be ‘libertarian’ technobroligarchs say ‘no’ to so many things but these builders never seem to say what they want… (other than Thiel’s desire to make sea-steading a thing). There’s a reason for that.
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Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
plum porn
Two pink plum blossoms presented in so much close-up detail it feels profane.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
MAGA is a weird grouping. I’d use the ‘c’ word. Now tariffs are upon us, I see ‘anti-government libertarian’ types applauding them (whereas 20-40yrs ago ‘ small govt conservatives’ would have been aghast). I am sure they will all jump at the chance to drill for heavy oil and grow avocados.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Rescued another couple of (identical) hardwood Hong Kong armchairs from potential demise. One needs a couple of joints re-glued. At some point, I need to stop doing this….
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Friday Afternoon Friday-afternooned pretty hard today.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
If anyone has suggestions for best damn pineapple mooncakes in Hong Kong, I’m all ears. I love them. This year I’d like to “Collect’em all”
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Starting early this year.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
No better mode of transport in Hong Kong.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Rise and shine! It’s a quadruple espresso and post-holiday stollen kind of morning!
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
This is somehow “very Evan”. A podcast about heat pumps? Of course he’s doing that. And he’ll somehow no doubt make it interesting.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Happy 26th of December for those who celebrate!
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I’ll take things Trump didn’t write for $1,000 - this ain’t even close lol
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Recently took a peek at Twitter and the disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous. Someone could get killed. The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Weekend pictures in HK
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The ultimate question. On Jan 21, 2025, who gets to run the @POTUS account here and on twitter: Trump or Musk ?
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Some incredible/depressing lines in this FT piece re the politicization of the Nippon Steel - US Steel deal, the politicizers' abuse of the CFIUS process, & its potential harms to US-Japan relations (& broader US economic/geopolitical objectives) www.ft.com/content/7679811f-f46c-41……
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I put a thread on The Other Place. Then a follow-up. It was too long but hordes of Bluesky users… actually just @gallimaufries.bsky.social) asked if I’d cross-post it here. It is stupidly long and could have been a ‘stack but I’m not quite there yet so here it is as text file screenshots.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Coffee and cormorants
Cormorants on a buoy with coffee in the foreground
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Congrats to @costa2866.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Hostplus Deputy CIO Michalakis Appointed New CIO of Funds SA
Con Michalakis, the Deputy Chief Investment Officer of A$120 billion ($76.7 billion) pension fund Hostplus, has been appointed chief investment officer of Funds SA.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Nearing day end…
Panoramic photo of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour near sundown.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Dr Ella McBiscuit (sorry Dr Hawkins!) has set up camp here at Blue Sky. Insta-follow! Her Biscuit Fu is most excellent. And her historical feed at The Other Place is AMAZING.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
*WARREN LICHTENSTEIN CONSIDERS RETURN TO INVESTING IN JAPAN: FT
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a close up of a man 's face with the words david on the bottom left
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words david on the bottom left
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
To get BlueSky up and running, if you see content you find worth re-skeeting (shivers just on writing it) to populate the platform with platform-worth content, pls RS. Anyone’s content. Likes don’t push it into your followers’ algos. And a better timeline is what makes this place better.
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a man in a suit and tie is giving a thumbs up sign .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is giving a thumbs up sign .
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
One of the reasons why I still like The Other Place is the serendipitous. I like wood craft so follow some furniture restoring and wood-turning accounts. I like audio so follow musicians and the odd vintage audio account. I occasionally comment on turntables (cc @moyeen.bsky.social).
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
On the other place I have been warning periodically of ‘end-user certificates’ for rare commodities. This looks like the start of it. Language seems a little odd but you can bet every exporter will be asking for clarification.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
(AP) - China announced Tuesday it is banning exports to the United States of gallium, germanium, antimony and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications, as a general principle, lashing back at U.S. limits on semiconductor-related exports.
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Sébastien Fauconnet @daryo.me · 01/12/2024
La fameuse fenêtre d’Overton
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EB @ellliotb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Bau Global’s HQ office Seating Nook has a New Nook Look - lots of brown and red. The old decrepit freebie sofa I had finally got too old. I scoured the classifieds and bingo. Need to get another sub-cushion to make the sofa napworthy. I napped. It is Nappable But Not Napworthy atm.
Really extravagantly gaudy carved Chinese hardwood sofa with thin cushions, a hardwood side table, and a traditional HK 1970s ‘throne chair’ modelled off older Chinese designs.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
There ya go.
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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 29/11/2024
If your flight departs from Runway 07C and you’re heading eastbound, choose a right side window seat
Hong Kong and Kowloon, seen from ~7500 ft
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Terminal Value🧃 @valueterminal.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
OK, I made a FinTwit starter pack. If you are reading this, are FinTwit affiliated, and want to be in it, reply to this skeet and I'll put you in it go.bsky.app/Hj3TtSv
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The replies to Obama’s benign Thanksgiving Message on The Other Place are a total cesspool. Hordes of blue ticks outraged about a brown ex-president, each getting thousands of likes. If I didn’t know better I’d say there are a LOT of bots but Elmo’s algo to boost blue ticks works for them.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This is either sloppy or subtle. If sloppy, he should know better. If subtle, he should have made up more papers. After all, having the AI make up stuff is ‘free speech’ isn’t it? Quite difficult for the opponent to complain about misleading content with intent to deceive.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Everybody, please put up a profile picture, even if it is only a picture of your cat. And write at least a few words in your bio. It is hard to distinguish people from bots otherwise. Thank you. And thanks to those who follow me.
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bau @bau.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Hong Kong in late November to late January is full of blue skies and great sunsets.
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