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Edward w @edwardw2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · 05/10/2026

Jeanne Ten, who was charged in court the same day I was, was in lock-up for longer. This is her account of her humiliating ordeal, where it was a struggle to even get toilet paper from the officers. jeanneten.blogspot.com/2026/10/role...

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Role-playing a Prisoner Without the Conviction: Within the Dungeons of Singapore's State Courts

30 September 2026 I am writing about something uncomfortable and embarrassing, but sometimes the most uncomfortable stories are precisely th...

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Edward w @edwardw2.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

om mani padme hum pillar . ▟█▙ |唵| |嘛| |呢| |叭| |咪| |吽| ▟█▙

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Edward w @edwardw2.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

A small glass Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī pillar 佛頂尊勝陀羅尼

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Dr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I will always feel weird doing self promotion, but my latest article has been officially published in "Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Reforme," titled "Jockeying for Printed Reputation: Giovanni Bussi and the Apuleius of 1469." jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/re...

A screenshot of a journal article page titled “Jockeying for Printed Reputation: Giovanni Bussi and the Apuleius of 1469,” by Barry Torch, with an abstract in English and Italian, followed by the section heading “Premise” and the opening paragraph. The page is from Renaissance and Reformation, Winter 2026.

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Stephen Moore traces these dynamics all the way back to the 1st century Alexander Romance written in Greek, "another example of trashy commercial fiction, 'but eighty versions in twenty-four languages testify to a popularity and diffusion exceeded only by the Bible,' as one of its translators notes"

"It was at this time that the older Alexander Romance achieved its present form. Reading it on the heels of Daphnis is like following Ravel's ballet with a high-school marching band's rendition of the theme from Rocky. It's another example of trashy commercial fiction, "but eighty versions in twenty-four languages testify to a popularity and diffusion exceeded only by the Bible," as one of its translators notes (Reardon 650. Among its sources was a life of Alexander written shortly after his death, and the same translator admits: "It comes as a shock to realize how quickly historians fictionalized Alexander" (651), a process worth keeping in mind when we get to ancient Christian fiction. The Story of Apollonius King of Tyre, written by an anonymous author in Greek around the same time (3rd century) but surviving only in a Latin translation, is another crude novel in the vein of An Ephesian Tale and is noteworthy only for its frank treatment of incest and for its wide-reaching literary influence. (It was one of the sources for Shakespeare's Pericles.) Once again, artistic shortcomings didn't prevent readers from gobbling it tip: "an indication of the work's exceptional popularity can be found in the existence of over a hundred manuscripts of the Latin version of the story" (Reardon 737). In contrast, only one manuscript survives of the artistically superior Chaereas and Callirhoe." The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600 (2010)

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In terms of the history of global literature, it's very much a wash Lots of things that were once hugely influential are now considered nearly unreadable Lots and lots of things that only recently have been rediscovered but are now considered classics

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tctc @toastcrust.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

still think this is a fun story

Screenshot of a small thread I posted on Twitter back in May 2024:

people talk about the dorito peasant but imagine being a premodern peasant in East Asia and a bard wanders into your village and tells a part of The Water Margin or Romance of the Three Kingdoms just completely explodes your mind and you're all talking about Guan Yu afterwards

my favorite anecdotes about this, and I'm just paraphrasing a lecture from uni, was a testimony from white missionaries who got kidnapped for ransom by bandits in late Qing China, iirc, and the bandits apparently spent all night talking about their favorite Water Margin stories

just instantly brings to my imagination being some guys living out in the woods robbing people to survive and all your free time is spent arguing about the power levels of the coolest guys from the favorite oral classic stories

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Edward w @edwardw2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

no I just found it on twitter it apparently has an amazing effect (see below) but it doesnt display for me :(

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Edward w @edwardw2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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FPMT @fpmtinc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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In 2026, the FPMT Practice & Retreat Fund supported 7 projects helping Dharma practice flourish — from long-term retreats & retreat-center development. Projects include 108 Nyung Nä retreats, the Most Secret Hayagriva retreat & retreat facilities across Europe and the US. fpmt.org/charitable-a...

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Supporting Practice and Rejoicing Across the FPMT Mandala

Across the FPMT mandala, students are creating the causes and conditions for Dharma practice to flourish — from long-term intensive solitary and group retreats to the construction and preservation of ...

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this video of the great compassion mantra is good www.youtube.com/watch?v=MykG...

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(the first video was mantras of the six offerings; the second video is a hymn to the buddha, followed by invocations of the Five Buddhas (Akshobhya; Ratnasambhava; Amitābha, Amoghasiddhi and Vairocana)

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YouTube video by 净土梵音Pureland

having been in such a state before this particular segment of the chinese yoga-ritual for feeding pretas is very useful www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNVm...

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瑜伽焰口之八供及六字大明咒

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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · 01/10/2026

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An attempt was made to execute Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, after the US Supreme Court cleared the way for execution to proceed. But Pike was still breathing after receiving two doses of lethal pentobarbital, and was taken to hospital. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

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Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates

Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.

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:spooky dooting commences:

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why not stop there add leghorn, salonica, the bogue and archangel

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my other wish is for my skull to be made into a Kapala and my thighbones to be turned into kanglings and the rest of my bones made into beads for malas (if there's time); if I am hanged for a criminal offence I need that merit ...

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for my part I want to be hanged, because the rope used to hang a person is extremely powerful talismanic materia :3

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

im starting to wonder if this is a feature and not a bug: the public :demands: criminals be executed as painfully as possible and lethal injection fulfils this while giving a veneer of civilisation

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Unfortunately, I do think that mainstream romance genre fiction is highly susceptible to AI "disruption," both on account of 1) authors' needing to produce inhuman quantities of works in order to remain financially viable 2) readers' seeking novels that meet increasingly specific conditions

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