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Complicated thought which is not easy to express: piled up -- eminent motes in a sunbeam sternly pondering the fact that men were full of faults.

from Mathews 4113 and 4114, glossed respectively as "piles of stones" (example gloss: “piled up -- eminent") and "to look about. order, sequence. Complicated thought which is not easy to express."

Mathews 2691: "Motes in a sunbeam, thus: -- minute, impalpable. Bright. Fibrous."

Mathews 2675 means either "composed; contented; tranquil" or "very not composed; very not contented; very not tranquil."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

They won’t tell you this in school because of woke but this was a vuvuzela.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 29/09/2026

so does anybody have any stupid opinions about ai

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 28/09/2026

this is why you need a translator with lived experience as a hobbit

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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very belatedly seeing this -- ahoy Philly area folks! Jamelle Bouie "Reconstruction at America 250: History and Future of U.S. Democracy" September 29, 2026 Iron Gate Theatre 3700 Chestnut Street 5:30pm Registration via link: www.history.upenn.edu/node/16208

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 15/07/2025

in the process of having an idea

An orange cat with white socks and a sweet heart, emerging slowly from croissant mode on the sofa. He appears to be thinking about something, which he is - sorry, little homie - not really equipped to do.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 27/09/2026

@jevbot.bsky.social 以指喻指之非指，不若以非指喻指之非指也；以馬喻馬之非馬，不若以非馬喻馬之非馬也。天地，一指也；萬物，一馬也。可乎？

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 26/09/2026

PSA from Gangsters of Capitalism

Footnote 15
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15 This was false. As a journalist who'd been to Fascist Italy later recounted: "The author was employed as a courier by the Franco-Belgique Tours Company in the summer of 1930, the height of Mussolini's heyday, when a fascist guard rode on every train, and is willing to make an affidavit to the effect that most Italian trains on which he travelled were not on schedule-or near it.
There must be thousands who can support this attestation. It's a trifle, but it's worth nailing down." David Dudley, "The Problem with Mussolini and His Trains," Bloomberg, Nov. 15, 2016, www.bloomberg.com/news/ articles/2016-11-15/stop-saying-mussolini-made-the-trains-run-on-time.
See all footnotes

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

incredible thread in the replies to this post

Watching everyone decide an overexposed 30-something blonde wordsmith pop star sucks now because of their new album Encore, which has a cover of them standing in front of velvet theatre curtains............... We really are permanently recycling the second Bush admin

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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 26/09/2026

The US/China tech race is over and I'm calling it for China based on this: Jianbing 煎饼 making robots, powered by AI. Video in next post 1/2

Front view of a jianbing making robot at Olympic Park in Beijing

Side view of a Jianbing making robot in Olympic Park in Beijing

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Every citizen gotta have the portrait of the Respected General Comrade Secretary, and the portrait of the Eternal President

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 26/09/2026

The old website seems to be gone, but someone saved and posted all the old Popup Chinese episodes!

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 25/09/2026

it's *ẓi̯əb-ẓi̯əb season, motherfuckers (this is a Karlgrenoid reconstruction, so it is not actually *ẓi̯əb-ẓi̯əb season, motherfuckers, but it might've been *no-no season, motherfuckers)

crop from John Cikoski's 'Lexicon of Old Chinese': the digraph 䰰䰰 is glossed as "sound [a] spook makes" and given the goofy-sounding-to-me reconstructed reading given here in Karlgren's notation

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Context. In the following April after this, Ah To, the cartoonist who drew this and one of the most prominent protest artists during the revolution - would reveal he had gone into self exile

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 25/09/2026

been a while since I saw a mutant character that really delighted me

new to me: one 或 on top of another 或 that's been turned upside-down. It is apparently writing the homophonous 惑, "confusing."

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 24/09/2026

i once interpreted for a Canadian journalist who ended his visit to a petitioner encampment shortly after one resident welcomed the journalist effusively on behalf of his father, the sun

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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Mr. Trump called the Chinese leader 'an expert on stone' who 'loves good granite' as Mr. Xi stood by without changing his expression." As a former interpreter, I am sending solidarity to the poor soul who had to translate this while maintaining diplomatic decorum

nytimes.com

Live Updates: Trump Greets Xi at White House, Where Pomp May Mask Tensions

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Nathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A BBC Verify investigation found that Apple Maps' censoring of Chinese Military and Government sites has included arbitrary detention sites in Xinjiang, including the prison where Ilham Tohti is detained. Watch the investigation.

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well, here's an offer.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 23/09/2026

You could do a whole range of uninterested animal-themed dumpling franchises - Mabury, Maobury, Niuberry, and Ghibli, for starters

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Nick S @holgate.permanent.red · 23/09/2026

So I am now learning that San Francisco had a weekly anti-Asian satirical magazine established by the Korbel brothers of fake champagne and Wisconsin Old-Fashioned brandy fame which subsequently employed Ambrose Bierce to hate everybody. That was not how I expected to end my day. What the fuck.

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Nick S @holgate.permanent.red · 23/09/2026

THEY PUT THE MOST HEARTWARMINGLY GAYEST THING EVER IN THE PHILADELPHIA NEWSPAPER IN 1882.

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Soviet advertising poster: "Comrades, don't argue! Soviet citizens will become stronger through sports. What is strength? This cocoa," 1925

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Lettres de Hong Kong @lettresdehongkong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Comment appréhender la littérature hongkongaise, comment la cerner ?" Une introduction à la littérature de Hong Kong par Gregory B. Lee, professeur émérite d’études chinoises de l’Université de St Andrews. lettresdehongkong.com/2026/08/08/i...

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Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

if you're in line to remember the 21st night of September STAY IN LINE. As long as you're in line by 11:59:35 Maurice HAS TO let you remember.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

>chinese dynasty finally trending on bsky >ask poaster if the dynasty is river or steppe >she doesnt understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is river and what is steppe >she laughs and says "its a good dynasty sir" >check poasts >its steppe

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 21/09/2026

@theophite.bsky.social am I to understand that this all happened because the Emperor said to do a breakthrough

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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026

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An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 20/09/2026

I’ve been trying to read more local news from not-for-profit newsrooms (also LGBTQIA+ and black-owned newsrooms) so I’ve been vibing away at a site that aggregates them. Just sharing it out idly in case folks want anything like this. givemesomegood.news

givemesomegood.news

Give Me Some Good News

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Defense of the humanities has to include all of the branches and areas of study that other people defended for years until they didn't have jobs and voices anymore.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But what this really means--and no, it's not all of you, but maybe?--is that white guys who are big mad about the humanities getting torn apart should consider that other colleagues fought this fight for a long time but their work wasn't seen as universal and valuable like you believe yours is.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 20/09/2026

“Pace the frontier”? Try pacing the void 步虛 like Wu Yun you cowards. www.jstor.org/stable/2719049

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Client Challenge

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 19/09/2026

Fringe Festival shows, a complete (?) taxonomy: - Spicy Book Report - Gonna Drink That At The End - Narrating My Mid-Life Crisis In A Preschool Teacher Voice

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 19/09/2026

Episode 7 of Neagley contains my new favorite piece of furniture

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 19/09/2026

his poetry is shit too, absolute mountains of toss

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 18/09/2026

This was about the Jeopardy skeet

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

just found out about the weird harem the CEO had

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 18/09/2026

(paying attention to various separate discourses from the rebels currently holding the southern capital) I think the Qing empire is a sex cult

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Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not if you’re the Taiping… (Hong Rengan gloated over the destruction of the Summer Palace claiming it was the Xianfeng Emperor’s sex dungeon.)

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 17/09/2026

Told my little brother there would be at least one geographical absurdity in the new season of Reacher that would really annoy him, and he has been messaging me with things ever since and asking whether they were the one I meant. (He hasn’t gotten to it yet.)

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