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I grew up with Chinese immigrants and evangelical homeschoolers before going to UC Berkeley and staying in the inner East Bay where libs are considered moderates. The combo of all of that would still be less of a bubble than Bluesky.

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 09/10/2026

Salt and light both melt ICE

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

one more provocative claim i would make (though not as anything like an expert like claire, just in my capacity as a guy with opinions) is that empathy can itself be a motivator for evil acts

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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Legalizing small elevators would solve this, though in context it would still probably cost too much for the owner to install, and she still would be yelled at for crying “white they/them tears”.

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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thecla mug from @christianityon.bsky.social spotted at church this morning. The pastor’s wife is a big Theclahead and found it online.

The Christianity on the Spectrum Thecla mug. The mug has a drawing of Thecla, holding a cross and a Bible with a halo around her head, on a plain white background. The drawing is captioned “~un~official Cult of Thecla” in large text and “Christianity on the Spectrum” in small text.

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Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You gotta stop (at the city limits). Your English too fluent. Your job too bougie. Your cocktail too craft. They’ll Hukou you.

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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Take the community-college-to-public-university transfer pill. I did this almost 11 years ago, and it's one of the best choices I've ever made.

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

American states are like "Unitary governance? That pales in effectiveness to my strategy, having each state be a lab of democracy" and then just be a carbon copy of the federal government

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Zoning kills, but Jesus saves.

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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

From @christianityon.bsky.social: christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/listing/no-i...

Sticker where "It's a relationship, not a religion" is crossed out with a red line. A red arrow points to bolded text that says "No, it's a religion." Below said text is "Christianity on the Spectrum" in smaller, unbolded text.

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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

If West Coast metropolitan areas do not replace their old housing stock and commercial buildings, the Big Ones will do it for us.

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Progress Demands That the Bay Area Be De-Balkanized S.F. Chron, 1957

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Maybe it’s because I was raised by libs in SF and most my friends parents were libs/ leftists, but there’s something irksome about people raised by conservatives, who became leftist after moving out, achieved a zealous passion for their new beliefs and then end up doing evangelical flavored leftism.

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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

My parents and I moved to Fremont when I was less than a year old, and we haven't left the East Bay since. I grew up in Union City, went to UC Berkeley, and live in Oakland. It taught me what the US is and could be: A land where difference doesn't separate us from making each other's dreams happen.

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 04/09/2025

I'd go even more specific here and say that in selling people on Christ that means much more than just "he was a swell guy with great ideas." Jesus's teaching doesn't really make much sense in toto except against the eschatological horizon, and that doesn't make much sense sans resurrection.

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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Honestly, the reconciliation bill being called the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” disproportionately bothers me relative to the actual bad things in it. It’s pure slavishness to Trump’s desires and doesn’t even make sense as the name of a law.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This fact is the main interesting thing *about* Christianity. Without the demand for radical abnegation of the self, it's just another cult in the empire

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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Something is wrong on Wikipedia.

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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

No one should be bound but not protected, and no one should be protected but not bound.

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

there is this chinese concept, known as 礼貌,

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Last Western Easter was a crossover for trans Christians (TDOV on 03-31). This Easter was a crossover for stoner Christians. Next Easter will be a crossover for Chinese Christians (Qingming on 04-05). 2027 Easter will be a crossover for Czech and Slovak teacher Christians (Teacher's Day on 03-28).

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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Imagining a right-wing straight female politician decades from now who plays “The Giver” by Chappell Roan at her campaign rallies like Donald Trump plays “YMCA” by the Village People.

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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

In response to DOGE, I propose that the next Democratic president should establish a government entity called JOKER (Joint Office for Knowledge and Executive Reform).

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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

"How to Bertaudpill an entire profession" Wait, this isn't Google.

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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

When I was talking with my mom before the election, she told me that she thought God is using Trump to reduce American influence over the world and set up whatever comes next. After the election, she concluded her intuition was right.

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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Well-meaning but unfamiliar person who calls it “rizz with autism”.

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