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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Believe it or not, sometimes Taiwanese people aren't thinking about China at all

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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 22/01/2026

Not one single intellectual position taken up by the right over the last thirty years has been argued in good faith. They don't actually believe in originalism, free trade, free speech, or any of the other ideas they have insisted we debate them on.

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

"reining in Taiwan" is such a ridiculous line, rein in from what? It's not 1970 any more with the KMT threatening to launch the most ambitious invasion in history, that's the other side doing that now. Taiwan is just trying to exist.

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Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue · 13/02/2025

These are cautionary tales of how a free and open society slips toward unaccountable rule — something our American friends may want to note. Most of the time, it's not mass arrests. It's not the boot on the neck but slow asphyxiation. It's letting institutions die a "natural" death and never return

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Will Buckingham @willbuckingham.com · 09/02/2025

So much media reporting seriously underplays the extent of this criminality, the sheer moral bankruptcy. "Bringing an unnerving revolution to America"? "An appetite for disruption, rule-breaking & goading liberals"? As if these might, somehow, be okay things. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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‘They will collide eventually’: how long will the Trump-Musk relationship survive?

The bromance may fade, but the two megalomaniacs could still reshape the US as long as Trump’s fickle affections hold

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Running With Spoons @runswithspoons.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

When we do the right thing and hold ourselves to high standards, we become better people. It's rewarding even if we fail. But we will seem ineffective right up until the moment we are not.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A good way to understand why wealth inequality is a problem is, if some idiot says "no regulations should exist" you just laugh at him, but if that idiot has $400 billion then it's an existential crisis for America.

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The idea that some people’s rights are a “distraction” while others are “the real issues” is exactly how injustice gets laundered into normalcy.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

This is describing "introspection," a thing you are definitely already supposed to be able to do yourself!!!!

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

An efficient facism does not require much direct state violence. It merely requires the assurance that private violence aligned with the desires of the regime will go unpunished.

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5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Translation. They’re not doing any crimes I care about

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2025

you see this everywhere. pervasive cultural attitude that we are owed everything but owe nothing in return.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Love it when Chinese diplomats accidentally acknowledge Taiwan is not China

Tweer that says ‘Farewell to late President Carter, who established diplomatic ties with China in 1979.’

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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 01/01/2025

We already know what works, so why can't we have nice things? Because we still don't know how to organize our society in such a way that vested interests can't sow doubt and confusion about that which we already know to be true.

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Taiwan Trails and Tales @taiwantrailsandtales.com · 21/12/2024

This information board took an unexpectedly philosophical turn. “人們的慾望總是大自然的殺手” “The appetites of mankind, once again, have proven the murderers of nature.”

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

It is very tempting to make opposition to the death penalty about wrongful convictions but it also has to be about correct ones.

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 08/12/2024

as said many times before, campism is incredibly West-centric bc it's never concerned in the slightest with the agency of non-western peoples, reducing struggles elsewhere and everywhere to a fake anti-imperialist analysis centering US foreign policy

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Will Buckingham @willbuckingham.com · 27/11/2024

I'm delighted to have this piece on the fortunes of Taiwanese language / Tâi-gí, published in @thedialmag.bsky.social (with some excellent editorial guidance from @maragwilson.bsky.social and @esthermavis.bsky.social). #tâi-gí #台語 #台灣 #Taiwan www.thedial.world/articles/new...

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The Survival of Tâi-gí — The Dial

A new generation of activists revives interest in a native language as Taiwan seeks distance from China.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Yes, stances are ethical. But if we want change, ethical stances must have power. That is political. One can be right and criticize others who aren’t, sure. And that is important. But then what? How do we flourish? We need to help the right thing win, and good people build. Electoral or not

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The NSL and most sedition laws are also vague by design, such that an act’s legality depends on who’s doing it rather than the act itself. Which by the way, also means many years down the road, a loyalist to a regime who’ve lost favour can still find they’ve apparently been breaking laws all along

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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Elder certified on Bluesky (and in real life)

Bluesky now has over 10 mil users, and I was #935,776 (first 10%)

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