This is, of course, rather a sweeping generalization. Yes, there *are* a ton of malls, often built in the HK style around transpo hubs. But the cities are enormous and multifaceted - surprise, surprise ! - with all kinds of multifunctional spaces

Ryan Schwank, ICE whistleblower & ex-academy instructor: “At the academy, we took out the class that tells the officers that they have an oath to the Constitution”

Back when legends wore tweed

“Productive cough” is one of the most viscerally disgusting terms in the whole English language.

"I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths." -*Fahrenheit 451*

So, now, maybe, China won't be able to take hockey from us once we sign more trade deals with them. Congrats to team USA for a hard fought win. Looking forward to the next match up.

So…you’re a tiefling.

I want to congratulate the US team on their victory. They played extremely well, and they earned their victory. I hope it brings them some comfort and joy in a dark, dark period in their history. You were outstanding opponents that forced Canada to dig deep, and I appreciate that. Job well done.

God this was really not the right moment to get devastatingly ill

Just spent real money to buy a pair of nice shoes via eBay, and I’m rather freaking out.

Sigh. I followed this dude and now I watch videos about linen and I want ALL THE CLOTHES

Meanwhile, the Trumps have made almost $4 billion since he took office again.

AOC might as well just run for President; there’s no substantive reason not to.

I guess…I’m lucky I didn’t make the campus interview there.

We managed to endure 38 minutes of the first episode of The Witcher Season 4 before switching off. What a disastrous disappointment. Hemsworth looks like the Pillsbury Doughboy compared to Henry Caville, and the writing is mind-numbingly stupid.

I swear on my father’s grave I will see Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, Steven Miller, and all the rest of them in orange jumpsuits before I die.

I wish I lived there

Attorneys on the ground.

Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it. The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after. I’ve had a front row seat. 7/

I do pull a good shot.

I hope never to become a tired or jaded teacher. The energizing feeling of possibility I get from my students is not a projection, but a source of light and heat.

All of the campus interviews I’ve ever done, save this last one, ended with at least a courteous letter from the search committee, and sometimes even with a productive exchange. A personal rejection letter for final-round candidates is considered common decorum, isn’t it?

Let’s go!!! Read this awesome thread.

This is fucking horrifying.

I hate the term “K-shaped economy.” It’s nothing but a euphemism for “the rich are flourishing and the rest of us are starving.”

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I’m way late to this, but — that’s my brother!

- Will the film of Wuthering Heights be faithful to the book? - No, I was hoping it might be good.

Welp, my Pats lost, but I guess it’s nice to share once in a while. Also Laura Loomer is angry at the halftime show, so they did something right. Honestly, I was home reading the 古文觀止 because I have no friends in Charlottesville 😅

Welp, my Pats lost, but I guess it’s nice to share once in a while. Also Laura Loomer is angry at the halftime show, so they did something right. Honestly, I was home reading the 古文觀止 because I have no friends in Charlottesville 😅

Welp, my Pats lost, but I guess it’s nice to share once in a while. Also Laura Loomer is angry at the halftime show, so they did something right. Honestly, I was home reading the 古文觀止 because I have no friends in Charlottesville 😅

Broadly, this admin is staffed with either total lickspittles or reactionary racists — they can’t actually fight on all fronts, they’re relying on capitulation. Its easy points to show you can and will fight, and the voting public wants conviction, not poll-tested triangulation on issues

My MA advisor, recently retired, as an undergraduate in Jiangxi in 1983. That summer suit with the blue tie — I feel like @dieworkwear.bsky.social would dig this

Last year I traveled all the way to rural Vietnam to officiate a friend's wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony that mixed cultures and language, and was a celebration of the best of humanity. He just sent me this post and said "this is how you lost the war."

Felt a little like fate that, the very same week I fell down the rabbit hole of watching Ken Kataoka make dress shoes, both of my office pairs literally came apart at the seams. Threw down $52 in a fit of pique for a year’s subscription at Put This On. Maybe I can find some old shoes worth a damn.

How far you can get literally anywhere just by eating with people and offering to help do dishes

More super bowls: A three-thousand-year old sacrificial bowl, graven with a hymn announcing that the New England Patriots have not lost the Mandate of Heaven

And whisky is for all-nighters

Apply the Ship of Theseus paradox to Nicki Minaj

"This how men behave." NO IT IS NOT. Not once in my career have I offered a description of someone's appearance, nor I have I ever been asked. WTF. This dude should not be teaching. And we ask ourselves why women fall out of fields like CS, as if it is a mystery with guys like this out there

Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.

This country isn’t divided between Democrats and Republicans. It’s divided between wealthy people who think it’s fine to do whatever it takes to amass money and power—including sucking up to known pedophiles for access to the elite— and the rest of us suckers who are not amoral monsters.

Are there any Congresspeople who are **not** filthy rich?

Normies, baby. We show up in work clothes, show our faces, and go by our real names on social media

Oklahoma City keeping the evil out of their back yard.

Folks, the next step is MAGA gradually shifting their adoration to Vance or Stephen Miller.

Duh.

Liam is back home. He is only one of the approximately 3,800 children in ICE custody. (Source: www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...)

Black History Month 2026 marks 100 years of honoring Black history and building power. Progress isn’t accidental. It’s organized. This month, Run for Something is recruiting 1,000 Black women to run for local office. You’re already leading. Now it’s time to run. The future needs new leadership.

The gossip columns of late Qing newspapers are THE BEST.