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multi-national surgeon, writer, technologist 中文OK ex- @Harvard @uiowa (MD, MPH) manhattan, nyc, usa read.pourteaux.xyz

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Once more time: the Orange Crew abandoning Taiwan was already foreseeable at least in Jul'24 and probably earlier.

Reading Elbridge Coldby stuff and the excellent thread by porteaux* it was quite obvious. While in retrospective I was too rational back then.

*Nice to see @ptx.bsky.social here

03.02.2025 03:39 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

bluesky is oligarch-free social

11.01.2025 17:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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interesting

22.12.2024 02:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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that’s him. he said “learn to code.”

21.12.2024 19:06 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

raw milk chuds reject pasteurization because it’s “unnatural” and then go and drink the mammary lactations of a cow.

21.12.2024 01:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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oh girl, it’s been seen

20.12.2024 21:03 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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how it started / how it’s going

20.12.2024 16:21 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

honestly amazed by China’s forethought and good fortune having cultivated Elon Musk who now controls the U.S. government

20.12.2024 15:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party

20.12.2024 15:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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New Jerseyans when a commercial airplane flies overhead

15.12.2024 20:14 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

exactly- VoA becomes much more like CGTN when a propagandist like Lake is at the helm. really unfortunate

12.12.2024 04:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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is this real love

11.12.2024 04:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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real

04.12.2024 20:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

korea’s Jan 7th was 100x better than usa’s

04.12.2024 18:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

1000% tariffs on podcast equipment

30.11.2024 16:26 👍 25 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

1000% tariffs on podcast equipment

30.11.2024 16:26 👍 25 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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surprise

29.11.2024 18:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Get in losers. We’re getting measles.”

29.11.2024 15:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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the MAGA “landslide”

29.11.2024 02:19 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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old movie, fresh idea

29.11.2024 02:03 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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me, logging into X

28.11.2024 22:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

yeah… what’s amazing to me is the stuff they know *not* to talk about (anti-vax, jan6) in order to keep their world alive

28.11.2024 21:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

trying to listen as much as i can to smart ppl on the Right to understand their world view

so far have:
- spent 6+ months reading curtis yarvin
- listened to endless red scare episodes
- @RichardMCNgo (on X) DJT defenses
- currently listening to the 3hrs of rogan + andreessen

28.11.2024 17:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

thankful for such a smart and kind community of friends on Bluesky!

28.11.2024 15:31 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

very happy to be on bluesky

28.11.2024 03:44 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

good!

28.11.2024 00:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

lots of good movies recently, here are my faves in order:

Anora
All shall be well (广东话)
A Real Pain
Conclave
Wicked

27.11.2024 05:11 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

crackdowns on independent contractors is out of control. i don’t want to be an employee and can buy my own “benefits” and don’t need any government busybody “protecting” me by forcing me to accept a boss. NY in particular is backwards on this.

26.11.2024 23:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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big beasts and many tiny creatures

26.11.2024 18:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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windswept grassy plains, expansive landscape, and majestic clouds

26.11.2024 17:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0