Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

What did y'all think Just Stop Oil meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.

Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better?

The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but it’s also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are “Heritage Americans”. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

This is evil -- the kind of evil you read about in history books, the kind of evil you would never mistake for a single second if you saw it in another country. When you ask, of historical evils, "how could they let that happen?" That's us. We're letting this happen.

This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...

It appears there were casualties after the collision between the Chinese destroyer and Coast Guard vessel judging by the movement of Chinese ships afterward x.com/GordianKnotR...

Not sure how I’m going to get through these next four years without becoming a crazed street preacher going, “Repent! Repent! You will meet God one day!”

The air force of the navy of the army

Xiang gang? Yeah, that's what I call my friends in Hunan

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before? That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators. My how times change ...

There was an elite consensus against transphobia so strong Texas’ Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus refused to pass a transphobic law, the public broadly agreed, and then a few elite liberals took it upon themselves to make transphobia popular and more or less succeeded.

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

i just want people with an avatar that’s an animal or a cartoon or a famous person to know that that’s still what i think you look like

WSJ, three years ago: Flight data indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed a China Eastern jet www.wsj.com/world/china/...

"Cuomintang" 😂😂😂

Every time someone responds to an obviously normative-aspirational claim ("this not who we are", "this is not America", etc) with some I'm-very-radical descriptive rebuttal ("er actually America has always done <similar bad stuff>") an angel dies. Like, no joke, dead. Direct causal result of this.

Are they roasting Trump's military parade on Weibo?

this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.

I had no idea samurai in feudal Japan were that dedicated to troubleshooting Flash

This applies to Australia too: 'Taiwan’s democracy is both shield and target. Its openness enables resistance but also allows infiltration. This contradiction must be acknowledged – not as a failure of the system, but as a feature that requires constant attention.' newbloommag.net/2025/04/20/r...

Literally worse than China. China doesn't ask for this and I've never heard of people being rejected from entering China only for online activity, unlike America now.

A rare public protest in Chengdu "Without political reform there can be no national rejuvenation" "The people do not want a party with unbound power" "China does not need someone to dictate her path, because democracy is the way"

The only truly consistent working theory of how helicopters fly is that there is a god, and both they and the devil consider helicopters to be abominations. They fly only because neither the god above nor the devil below will accept them

Tapping the sign.

I haven't gotten over the fact Evangelicals helped elect the most Darwinian US government ever

Wow, excited to see the US turn into China

I guess it's sorta ironic that the "cosmopolitan elites have no principles or values" has turned out to be true but for basically every conservative

That child's name? Elon Musk

the "DEI pilots" thing is not only untrue, but the opposite of true. The piloting profession in the late 20th century was so dominated by one Guy Type that they had to invent a new kind of training that forced pilots to listen to their first officers so they would stop flying planes into the ground

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Translated this now censored post by a queer Chinese netizen calling out their non-queer counterparts for whitewashing the #LGBTQ situation in #China in front Western #tiktokrefugees (see alt text) People outside China should see this scathing post too imo, so please share!

rarely I find something fun on the other site that has to be shared with language nerds Japanese and Chinese speakers finding a new way to communicate that completely makes sense :)))

This controversy over centralized procurement of drugs has contributed to Luigi's popularity in China

Imagine if diamonds really were your best friend, how sad. Imagine if it really was raining men, how terrible. I think songs are just awful

This is one of the funniest thing I've seen on Tiktok refugee Xiaohongshu. Some rich guy showing off his "rural China" house, and Americans not realising this is a conspicuous consumption app.

Top three Xiaohongshu posts for me today are a dual English/Chinese "I'm deleting this and going back to TikTok", an English "I'm deleting this because us Americans are doing more harm than good", and a Chinese-only "why does everyone not like Jews?"

I saw someone converting a USD amount to yen. Have we considered the possibility some people aren't really aware Japan and China are different countries?

Most Americans know so little about China that I kind of think this direct experience in a Chinese space will be good for a lot of people, provided they can think about it a little bit

"Chinese friend, can you tell me why the video I posted disappeared?"