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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 12h
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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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The joke goes that non-denominational churches are just embarrassed Baptists who are somehow even more disorganized. (I say this as someone who has attended one of the rare woke non-denominational churches for the past eight years.)
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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
If you would like to buy the mug yourself and contribute to the Against Malaria Foundation: christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/listing/cult...
christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com
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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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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They are; those are definitely not PLA uniforms.
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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 · 21/09/2026
Thank you for bringing this meme to Bluesky, Wade.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
See my bio.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gemini edit of the Chad Xi meme where Xi's face has been replaced with David Eby's face. The flag of the PRC on his right has been replaced with British Columbia's.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
static.klipy.com
Arrested Development: There Are Dozens Of Us
ALT: Arrested Development: There Are Dozens Of Us
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
To be clear, the autistic version isn't necessarily indifferent to politics, but they are indifferent to internet identity dynamics around autism.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Sure.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Are you familiar with the "I Just Wanna Grill" meme? It depicts people indifferent to politics and just want to focus on what they find interesting. I'm suggesting that there's a version for autism dynamics. knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-just...
Stock image of a middle-aged balding man wearing white polo shirt over a large belly, blue shorts, and green flip-flops. In his right hand he holds a red can; in his left hand he holds a grill prong. In front of him is a wheeled portable grill with meat grilling on top.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Good question. Perhaps you are the autistic version of a grillpiller.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Political compass of autists, where the axes are level of trust and level of feelings (context: dispatchesfromtheautismwars.substack.com/p/we-need-to...)
High Feelings Autism:
- Cares so much about other people's feelings they get paralysis letting their waiter know they got the wrong order
-Listens, learns, does *clap* the *clap* work
- ruminates about the time in their life that they weren't a vegan, deeply regrets it
- card carrying member of ASAN
-cries when thinking about the lives destroyed by capitalism, creates furry art as protest
- has made several unsuccessful attempts to be in a polycule
- Cancelled a friend for criticizing their favourite dropout cast member
- Social worker or teacher
- Has a viral autism tik tok channel
- Has a substack dedicated to ranking muppets episodes from most to least fascist

Low Feelings Autism
- Killed 60 people with drones in the GWOT, only regrets that he wasn't making more money to donate to GiveWell
- proposed to his wife using FACTS and LOGIC
- got waterboarded because he wanted to know what it felt like, concluded the guys in Gitmo were faking
- last great accomplishment was gathering financing for a new innovative missile code named "Child melter 9000"
- Effective Altruist
- Has prepared 80 embryo's [sic] for IVF ordered by genetic IQ score
- believes that if something makes you feel good it must be secretly bad
- has a Twitter (formly [sic] known as X) account dedicated to contemplating race science
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Hell yeah! Well done.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Wow, that's awful.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Also because handgun bans have been unconstitutional since DC v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago, and Democrats haven't gotten into the idea of court reform in a major way until recently.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
You see a similar thing in some autistic circles where non-autistic parents are the first opponents of autistic people, so there's rejection of parents as potential partners, although children's legal rights are more emphasized for obvious reasons.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I think a lot of this comes from queerness not being like race+gender in being passed down familially. Not only do you not have built-in examples of older ppl as models, but your family may even be your first enemies! So it's easy to resent the valorization of family and devalue legal recognition.
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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"It's my duty"
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
"But it might work for us" meme: Two-panel meme using screencaps from Arrested Development. In the first panel, one character tells another "No, it never does, I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but...". In the second panel, he continues "...but it might work for us.".
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Swag.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Still from a video of a Ukrainian soldier talking to the camera while he is in position holding a rifle. The subtitle reads, "We are very lucky that they are so f*cking stupid.".
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The Upper Oakland Crosstown.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
No, MacArthur automated light metro that turns at Eastmont before heading to Coliseum and OAK, replacing the connector.
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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 · 24/04/2026
I liked The Cricket in Times Square as a child.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Love the picture at Union City station. That was my home station for years; I'd remember the architecture anywhere.
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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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Better Columbia @bettercolumbia.ca · 21/04/2026
Is housing demand fake? Absolutely not, writes Will Dawson #bcpoli #housing #yyj #vanpoli
bettercolumbia.ca
Housing Demand Isn't Fake - Better Columbia
Why do people assume that demand for expensive apartments is fraudulent? If you follow housing news in Canada at all, you’re surely familiar with two competing ideas for what’s to blame for the housin...
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Lotus in the context of East Asia seems too stereotypical. STONE LILY could work though: bsky.app/profile/what...
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Fair. Bonus ideas: BLOSSOM and MAGPIE.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
EMERALD, SUNFLOWER, or SUNRISE?
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It's almost like the Sierras should be the border between California and Nevada instead of the straight lines at obtuse angles running through Lake Tahoe.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Nope, and the post further up in the chain said, that's the problem. Making them thinly-veiled caricatures of specific people takes a lot of the original humor away from when they archetypes.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
They're not to me either.
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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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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
You can pop into the Discord and know the answer ;)
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Coworker who makes sure you’re always messaging with prospective dates so that you keep bringing cookies into work.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Experiencing sexual attraction.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Reminds me of the joke that autistic people were first diagnosed by their school bullies.
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Robin @robinjiaming.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Yes, it is Reddit-like, especially for zoomers. The downside is that none of it searchable through browsers, so a lot of knowledge gets hidden without knowing first where to go.
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