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Terence Lau

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Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 1h

Pitchers who rake - I kind of remember he and Fernando being decent with the bat (which probably means like .200 with 10 rbis)

Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 2h

I couldn’t easily find a longer list but where does 1988 Orel wind up? 6 games 1.05 era, 3 cg, 2 shut outs and a save.

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Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 2h

Age 51! Pancreatic cancer.

Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah you’re obviously much more of a chōkuto man

Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 13h

New Rush Drummer Anika Nilles excited to be only woman in arena

Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 13h

Episode 6 of task was good enough to have been a series finale.

Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 15h

The Battleship Potemkin (1925) is still very watchable and much funnier than a Soviet movie about the revolution should be

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Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 15h

Fuck the certain price of goods would be a good tattoo that only a certain population of China expats from 1995 - 2010 would get

Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 15h

Oski with an axe screaming Yes Yes like a sicko

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 15h

The Calgorithm has gained corporeal form.

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Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 15h

Fuck the Green Beans!

Not only was Powerword always wrong, but it made using my colleagues laptops so unusable. And then halfway through a paragraph it’d switch to Chinese because I hit tab or crtl or something.

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Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 16h

I am not going to survive the playoffs

Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 17h

Yo what the hell

From the I guess that’s why they call them the blues Wikipedia - Stevie Wonder plays the harmonica

Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 17h

Even in sunny Los Angeles, its soup season

Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 17h

I guess that's why they call them the blues will instantly trigger singing in the car.

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Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 18h

I watched Inherent Vice, didn’t like it. Then read the novel, again didn’t get it. Then watched the movie again - both the movie and novel made a lot more sense but still didn’t push it into something I liked.

Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 18h

built by the common sports fan, for the common sports fan.

No thanks.

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Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 21h

wait wait wait . . . is this true?

Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 23h

It’s a bicep!

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Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 23h

Lucy, Michelle and David.

I swear, HR people. She earned snitch status that day.

Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 23h

Once they came to our office to do a work permit check and all the (white) foreigners were out at lunch, me + a couple Chinese foreigners were working/eating. They poke their heads in, don’t see any “foreigners” and prepare to leave and our HR rep says “oh there’s foreigners here” and points to me

Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 23h

WHAD UP? WE'RE THREE COOL GUYS

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Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 23h

281-330-8004

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 23h

It is required in China to always have your passport on your (to be fair, Chinese citizens also need to have their ID card with them) but I didn't want to carry around my passport so I had a photo of my data page and my current residence permit on my phone. I was probably checked 10x in 15 years?

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Terence Lau @terencelau.bsky.social · 1d

Even past Taylor records - like Midnights (2023) I heard Anti-Hero and Lavender Haze in many places - passing cars, retail and coffee shops, etc. I have paid to see Taylor in concert (1989 tour) and consider 1989 and folklore to be in my top 100 albums - I haven't heard the new one at all.