I’m struggling with my focus today. So I wrote out everything I’ve done this year, long hand and in a proper notebook. I decided that the problem may be that I’ve done enough.

Chicago blizzard snuggles to cleanse your timelines

Somehow this creature is what is keeping me sane in 2025

My feelings are a complex mix of PTSD from Beijing 听写s and 😍

Worth noting that he’s citing an Australian twentysomething who got his start by harassing professors and politicians around the world for being too “friendly” to China and thus supporting the Uighur genocide

The goodest and most anxious boy in his training class

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So my LG tv has insisted upon installing a chatbot? What are we even doing here

Spring baby’s first snow!

I do sometimes miss the constant zaniness of living in China

It is November www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

So if I understand correctly, in the last 48 hours we’ve seen: 1) planes diverted from DFW due to a bomb threat 2) planes diverted from DCA due to a bomb threat 3) plane crash at Louisville

In this as in so many other areas of American life, China has been the model

Some sliver of hope restored by this rather transcendent performance at CSO by an Uzbek-born pianist (who is based in Missouri) to a highly diverse crowd who were all held rapt by his talent for two hours

His majesty had no thoughts whatsoever

Has anyone ever attempted a Mandarin transcription system alignment chart? 🍿

In which I am reminded that despite its tone of authority, the Economist often gets American politics very, very wrong

Same, girl, same.

Cannot imagine how I would have gotten through the last six months of horrors without the addition of this little guy

If you ever wonder why fascism is so popular, just spend some time working to make things better in a small-d democratic institution and you’ll understand. (Yes, this is an HOA subskeet.)

👇 @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on academia’s future, saying the quiet part out loud

…”their identities as billionaires” www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

Rupert enjoying, and thankfully not urinating on, his great-grandmother’s quilt

Dreaming feetsies

The thing is, there *is* something revolutionary happening. But too many don’t realize they are the ones currently deciding what that something will result in.

Rupert, who is not a fascist, sends greetings

Rupert, who is not a fascist, sends greetings

OK if true this is very cool

Not now, dear cephalopods

This was much more enlightening than I expected, although I suspect not in the way Klein hoped. He comes across as flailing, philosophically and intellectually, because he has never had to understand adversity in the way Coates has. 1/3

Wait

Bring back mechanical buttons. More of this 👇 www.wired.com/story/why-ca...

He was both a force of nature and very kind. RIP

Freshly cone-free

It is wild to me that even people like Ezra Klein - who makes a living from convincing people his views are correct - refuse to understand that politics is also about convincing people, not just trying to follow the popular mood.

How did I not know this was happening??

Close the universities and send down the students to labor on the farms. What could go wrong?

It me

Annoyed but still regal

I just have to laugh at nonsense like this: “One of the reasons opposition to Donald Trump’s executive overreach and harmful policies has been weak in his second term in office is that progressive writers are hanging out on Bluesky trying (and failing) to cancel Matt Yglesias and Nate Silver.”

Well, he’s not wrong

Taps @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s sign:

Oh to be as stoned as this guy amidst all the discourse

The only take I truly needed today

Well if WWIII starts tonight at least my puppy is miserable?

Public health officials broadly speaking in fact discouraged protests strongly