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Tina Lu

@tinalu888.bsky.social
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Hermeneut to my bones. Prisoner of hope.

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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Is there something I am missing or did I in fact get the point? Harvard’s Asian Futures is all white people!
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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Thank you to all the MLA members who participated in this afternoon's open discussion session with @tinalu888.bsky.social, Herman Beavers, and Waïl Hassan and shared how the current threats to higher ed are affecting you and how the MLA might help. 1/3
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Hi, folks. I am the President of the MLA and am planning plenary sessions for the @modernlanguage.bsky.social convention in January. The theme is “Family Resemblances.” Brainstorm with me—below or via email: tina.lu@yale.edu. Read more about my theme below! 1/10
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Yale University
Since its founding in 1701, Yale University has been dedicated to expanding and sharing knowledge, inspiring innovation, and preserving cultural and scientific information for future generations.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025
i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I was yesterday years old when I learned that “condominium” is an 18th century word. It’s con-dominium (“shared dominion”) not condo-minium. You’re welcome!
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Always felt this way about the character 襪.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Let me be a cautionary tale. Don’t send in passport photos in glasses.
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Rosa DeLauro @delauro.house.gov · 11/12/2024
Back by popular demand💅
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
…and high school valedictorian, and double degrees from Penn, and now a modern day 刺客!
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
What an utterly unlikely assassin martyr. Here’s another image of him. x.com/pepmangione
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A high school valedictorian, a BSE and MSE from Penn, and now a martyr. The system really does seem broken. images.app.goo.gl/SPbS7Yv4PzcN...
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Google Image Result for https://i0.wp.com/baltimorefishbowl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Luigi-Mangione-360x450.jpeg?resize=360%2C450
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Within a few months we’ll be following all the public health folks. Might as well get a jump and start following @gregggonsalves.bsky.social !
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
So we haven’t seen this occur in nature and there are other hurdles H5N1 would have to surmount to efficiently spread human to human. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors
In 2024, several human infections with highly pathogenic clade 2.3.4.4b bovine influenza H5N1 viruses in the United States raised concerns about their capability for bovine-to-human or even human-to-h...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/11/2024
You should be able to go to your local Democratic Party headquarters and get help with anything you need help with. Don't have a printer and need to print out a form? We gotcha! Need help applying for a passport? We gotcha! Need a bathroom or a sandwich? We gotcha! I'm not kidding in the least.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/12/2024
"Democrats need to organize their future politics around the simple reality that the establishment media is structural hostile to the Democratic party."
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Wired for the GOP
This column, by Alexander Burns, the head of news at Politico, is a rich example of the DC logic that only Democrats have agency and it’s only to Democrats that standards, norms…
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Metric for cultural China: ratio on your socials now of 瓊瑤 content vs that health care CEO who was just shot. Ol’ what’s his name. @chowleen.bsky.social
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Me, letting out small shriek: “You play mahjong with Qiong Yao? In her mysterious downtown mansion with private bowling alley and screening room??” Mom, shrugging: “Oh right. She wrote those romance novels you used to borrow from your Guzhang.” @tinalu888.bsky.social
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Just using this once again to push for @contesteveryrace.bsky.social
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Just reposting this content one more time. NC Supreme Court seats are elected; so yes the entire House came down to one local seat or two. If we’d won the NC Supreme Court, the Dems would have had a House majority.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Scroll down for her suicide note—which at 86 and obviously in extremis is nonetheless distinctively her style. It sounds lifted from one of her novels.🀄️📚 www.hk01.com/%E5%8F%B0%E7...
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《還珠格格》作者瓊瑤家中輕生亡 遺書要年輕人「不要放棄生命」
新北市淡水區一處民宅4日下午發生一宗死亡事件,一名86歲女性在家中輕生,死者經台媒報道是知名言情小說作家瓊瑤,瓊瑤多部小說作品被改編為電影或
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
My childhood, our childhoods. Safe travels to the great storyteller Qiong Yao 瓊瑤. (1938-2024) (She was once my mom’s mahjong partner - and her age, and that makes me sad too)
A grid of covers of the legendary Taiwan writer Qiong Yao’s best known romance novels.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
theinitium.com/article/2024...
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知名作家瓊瑤在家去世,留有遺書,享年86歲|Whatsnew | 端傳媒 Initium Media
12月4日下午1時22分許,知名作家瓊瑤在淡水區住家被發現失去生命體徵。遺體旁留有遺書。
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The author Qiong Yao 瓊瑤 with Brigitte Lin 林青霞, the most frequent and best embodiment of her many romantic protagonists-
B/w photo of Qiong Yao and a young Brigitte LinB/w photo of Brigitte Lin as a teen in her debut role
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WIRED @wired.com · 04/12/2024
NEW: Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. There are 24 million users on the social media platform. With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.
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Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification
At WIRED's The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Omg I couldn’t love this more. Maybe one day I will name an orange dog 柿子. And check out how long lived so many of the dogs were—a number made it to their early teens.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Totally agree. The older I get the more I realize complicated conspiracies are impossible. People are way too incompetent.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
This genre (“why Trump won”) consistently muddles two separate problems: 1) the many many reasons folks voted for him (and yes the MSM is one); 2) the swing voters who would have swung the election. Sorry, TNR. If “inflation” voters had voted Dem, we obviously WOULD be swearing in Pres Kamala.
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Obama's '08 campaign won the biggest margin of victory in the last 30+ years. Within hours of his inauguration, Republicans went to dinner and agreed to oppose him on every single item. Two years later, they won 63 House seats and 6 Senate seats.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Absolutely grueling to read.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I am such a believer in this. Down-ballot is the way. It’s also how we build a sustainable future of good leaders and infrastructure to elect and support them, as well as the movements they represent. We don’t just need strong candidates. We need strong organizers, managers, CoS, grassroots, etc.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Dems, let’s pour energy into swing districts in non-swing states. We got so so close to taking the House. There are very few people in even the most reliably blue districts who don’t live within commuting distance of a swing district.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
@semmiotic.bsky.social and I knocked on close to 600 doors for her and did not know she was a “Run for Something” alum. We’ve got 700 days before the next election. Supporting Run for Something and @contesteveryrace.bsky.social is a very efficient use of volunteer energy!
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
You hear that, right? These state offices matter so much.
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Konrad Lawson @kml.muninn.net · 27/11/2024
In case anyone wants to try their hand at some 1930s Chinese crossword puzzles. From 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937 issues of 新天津畫報 respectively. (From my tweet archive)
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
And that’s a good thing.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 27/11/2024
After Trump was elected, I started to wonder what could the grassroots, cities, and states do to move the needle on climate change without federal support. It turns out, a lot (gift link)
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What Can US Cities and States Do for the Climate Under Trump? Plenty
Federal progress on climate may stall, but city halls and statehouses are in a good position to build on recent gains.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Let’s just emphasize that: *ONE DEFECTION* changes the vote in the House. Their majority is 217-215.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Folks, it looks like we flipped #ca13 (as well as #ca45)! Look at that margin!
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Just an observation: over the last 8 years of 3000+ Run for Something state & local candidates, the most persistent issues ppl ran on were (1) housing & (2) opioids. Other stuff obvs came up as relevant for the office/community, but those 2 were far & away the most common for the entire time.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Sometimes we think we—in the higher ed world—are marginal. We’re not.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Very much this, from Dan Drezner. He focuses a lot on universities, but rightly so. U.S. educational, scientific and technological preeminence are closely linked — and all have a lot to do with the past openness of our society 1/ open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
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The Return of The Erosion of the Pillars of American Power
American structural power will decline slowly and then suddenly.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Show me your pet and what they are named after:
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
In the dictionary under “臨時抱佛腳.” Sigh. We had four years to do this.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Please please read this. I won’t tag the Sinologists but there is no Sinologist who won’t find this kind of scholarship deeply satisfying.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
100%. And of course you can help push your elected representatives in this direction.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Women are going to die in droves—and in most cases it’s going to be not coat hangers but physicians and hospitals that “obey in advance.” And this case is going to be harder for the left to explain bc it’s going to be statistical rather than grueling stories like this one.
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Wow! Have you seen this, @zevhandel.bsky.social ?
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
1. Don’t expend too much agita on Trump. He is no Putin, never mind Erdogan. 2. Work on local government! These folks are great. I’ve volunteered with them before and will continue to do so. www.contesteveryrace.com
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Contest Every Race
520,000 elected offices — and Democrats aren’t competing in up to 75% of them. Contest Every Race is an unprecedented coalition of organizations working to transform this moment of crisis into long-te...
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Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
So here’s the crazy thing. I read one forecast that the margin in #ca13 might end up being less than a DOZEN votes. Now how many folks in Modesto do you think didn’t vote because “it’s a blue state anyway”???
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China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum @chinalawtranslate.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Looks like Abbot is also blocking state school faculty in Texan from travel to China (In their professional capacity). gov.texas.gov/uploads/file...
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