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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Zone of Interest and I'm Still Here are two other recent films that jump ahead to the present at the end.

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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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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

If you're in any of these countries, you might need to use a VPN to watch it on Netflix

In May 2025, Netflix acquired rights to the film for the world excluding the Baltics, the Benelux, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, France, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Scandinavia, Poland and Taiwan. (Screenshot from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-Handed_Girl)

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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

From Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed

In other words, he has power over you. Where does he get it from? Not from vested authority, there isn't any. Not from intellectual excellence, he hasn't any. He gets it from the innate cowardice of the average human mind. Public opinion! That's the power structure he's part of, and knows how to use.

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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

During this part of Mamdani's Bulwark interview they refer to it as being a Muslim thing youtu.be/FZoW47fyK30?...

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EXCLUSIVE Interview: Is Zohran Mamdani Trump’s Nightmare?

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Yeah, I vaguely knew they had some sort of association with Liza Minnelli but wasn't clear on the exact connection. Just saw this video of them performing "Losing My Mind" together www.youtube.com/watch?v=4021...

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Liza Minnelli & The Pet Shop Boys - Losing My Mind [Live] 1989

YouTube video by ESClad

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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I mostly know this song through the Pet Shop Boys cover. Never knew that they produced the Liza Minnelli version until I watched this and noticed that the arrangement is identical to the PSB track.

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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

All the alternative systems are traps too (as someone with a Wade-Giles romanized last name)

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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

John Oliver endorsing eating a bill as a filibuster tactic www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y18...

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Taiwan: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Not sure if you've seen it, but there's a monument to him on Cijin Island in Kaohsiung. (Stumbling on the monument was how I first learned about Maxwell.)

A monument to James Laidlaw Maxwell with the date 1865-5-28

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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I'll forever associate that pronunciation with Jordan Schlansky because of this youtu.be/l0Evue46LNk?...

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Conan And Jordan Are Co-Hosting A Radio Show | Conan O'Brien Radio

YouTube video by Team Coco

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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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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

This is what got me to switch to Firefox

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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I think it was this? bsky.app/profile/aoc....

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
‪@aoc.bsky.social‬
One of the factors that I think is underdiscussed is the precision w/ which GOP drove wedges on this issue.

Years of inaction on path to citizenship created a window for GOP to drum up resentment among the undocumented against recent arrivals/asylees. “We’ve been waiting longer” + siloed info diets
February 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM

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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

@taiwanomaly.bsky.social‬ had a good thread on Taiwan pizzas bsky.app/profile/taiw...

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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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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

It's infuriating and feels like journalistic malpractice. This is the end result: www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

CBS News poll - February 5-7, 2025
Trump's Overall Job Rating
53% Approve
47% Disapprove

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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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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I think of this every time I see his name.

Screenshot of a tweet:

Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social)
@ashleyfeinberg

dylan byers has a little buzzer on his desk that starts flashing every time a billionaire needs defending online

2:05 PM · Dec 10, 2018

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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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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

This was one of those films where I wasn't sure I liked it as I was watching it, but was incredibly moved by the time I reached the end. Kept thinking about it afterwards.

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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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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Perfect analogy. Btw, I also enjoyed your BBC article on Tainan. Was pleasantly surprised at the inclusion of Tâi-gí in the piece and appreciated the look at Taiwan's history through the lens of language.

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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Great article. I grew up in the US, but spoke Tâi-gí at home. Went back to Taiwan to visit a few years ago, and communicating with my limited Mandarin skills was tough. It was discouraging to see how few people speak Tâi-gí in Taiwan.

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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I once saw a guy's phone fly out of his pocket and fall down a sewer grate as he was running to catch a bus. Been paranoid about this exact scenario ever since.

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Tdrick @tdrick.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm a baseball fan and didn't bother to learn what 40-man roster means exactly until now. Here's an explanation from Wikipedia: 'Also called the "40-man roster", the expanded roster is composed of all the players in a Major League club's organization who are signed to a major-league contract.'

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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 · 19/11/2024

Love that quote. I recently reread Middlemarch and was so struck by the ending that I immediately took a pic and sent it to a friend.

Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. THE END

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