I'm a pedantic twit and I vote. Sometimes I post cat photos. Resident of Taiwan. 外國人
Joined September 2018
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Jun 10
Not even just fanbases, communities and hobbies as a whole. 5 minutes on the hobby drama subreddit and you’ll realise that even the underwater basket weaving community has toxic people and elements in it…
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Brendan AE retweeted
Jun 10
"The _____ fanbase sucks" applies to almost every fanbase because ultimately people generally just suck. It has nothing to do with the IP in question.
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Jun 2
The beautiful thing about the ogre meme imo is that all of the anxiety is coming from a genuine effort to engage with the work. It is admirable to be Ogre. In college the class Ogre during literature courses was a crucial participant cause they would always ask the best questions
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when i read or watch something and can't interpret it correctly i feel like the ogre dumb ogre stupid at this rate ogre will never understand finnegans wake
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May 31
RT @christinelu: My mom and dad were still teenagers in 1963. They weren’t allowed to speak Taiwanese in pubic let alone try to ask or unde…
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I think this is all downstream of a critical mass of people truly internalizing the fact that they can type literally any sequence of words and hit “Post” and there will likely be no consequences
Ppl will misread your sentence because they can't read and then tell you to take accountability for how it made them feel because they can't read
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Brendan AE retweeted
May 26
I would warn people against the belief that any individual or group has been so specifically, thoroughly, and uniquely victimized that it is categorically impossible that they themselves are capable of any form of violence. It is dangerous and it should not be dignified.
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Brendan AE retweeted
May 26
ppl really should stop equating victimhood with a moral cleanliness because those really are not connected no matter how much everyone wants them to be
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Brendan AE retweeted
May 26
Imagine sending these back five years ago and asking people to try to figure out the joke
May 26
PICARD: Data, shields up
DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.
[camera shakes]
WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS
DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't
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Brendan AE retweeted
May 26
One thing that bothers me to no end in the discourse around reading and artificial intelligence is when people say there's no point in reading a whole book if they can get the relevant information in a short AI summary. A book isn't a list of bullet points!
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May 25
Charles III is not a direct descendant of Charles I or Charles II.
But William is (because Diana was).
May 23
What is your favorite historical fact?
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Brendan AE retweeted
May 23
Glad I discovered my favourite shows before the internet convinced me I was supposed to hate them.
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Brendan AE retweeted
May 20
There's a ton of books like this, but I do think we (as historians) also overcorrect a lot in our messaging.
A lot of books are flawed messengers for interesting topics but fine compared to the alternative of people reading nothing
Better to 'yes and' their readings than shame
May 18
sometimes I'll hear about an interesting sounding history book, and then I do some more research and learn that historians actually consider it the stupid book for morons that you should only read if you want to be wrong about everything
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Brendan AE retweeted
May 18
feels like there’s this problem across mediums where a lot of online people feel like their morality is directly tied to their media consumption rather than like, the things they actually do
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Brendan AE retweeted
May 18
Us Westerners learn one fact about a place and then assume their entire society revolves around this fact like it’s a planet in Star Wars.
See — Korean gender polarization, SEA sex tourism, Baltic SS collaboration, Gulf State forced labor, Mexican/Colombian cartels, etc.
May 18
I remember during the mid-10s when I was in the prime of my Burmese elephant research I encountered an archetypal parochial Brooklyn millennial who called me a "passport bro" and "sketchy" for doing that. I assume if I'd been going to the UK or Toronto I wouldn't have been called that. Anyway, I realized I shared nothing in common with such people (even though we'd gone to similar schools etc).
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PLEASE! STOP USING FLAGS TO REPRESENT LANGUAGES!
ENGLISH COULD BE DISPLAYED AS 🇺🇸 AND 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿🇮🇳🇵🇰
FRENCH 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇨🇦🇸🇳🇩🇿🇨🇩🇱🇧
GERMAN 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇱🇮🇱🇺
RUSSIAN 🇷🇺🇺🇦🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬
ARABIC 🇸🇦🇦🇪🇶🇦🇪🇬🇲🇦🇮🇶
CHINESE 🇨🇳🇭🇰🇲🇴🇹🇼🇸🇬🇲🇾
SPANISH 🇪🇸🇦🇷🇲🇽🇻🇪🇧🇴🇨🇱🇵🇪🇨🇺🇺🇾
PORTUGUESE 🇧🇷🇵🇹🇲🇿
LANGUAGES ≠ COUNTRIES AND FLAGS
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Brendan AE retweeted
May 15
I never said the book is good. I said I loved it. Those two are VERY different things
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Brendan AE retweeted
May 16
A whole generation losing the genuinely important ability to bullshit through an annoying assignment
I was told by a 22yr old today that there was no way people were writing 10 page papers without AI.
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May 15
But what if I like to eat saliva chicken (口水雞)
May 15
Don’t calque the name of Chinese food, just say “Zhajiangmian”. If westerners are fine with Ramen than “stretched noodle” then they should be fine with Zhajiangmian
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May 15
“Bait for people who only half-read tweets before responding” is one of my favorite genres
There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire Solar System!
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