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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 11h

the best seats at beijing's best theater that will be screening one battle after another are gone within minutes! and i was partially responsible for that 😏

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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 12h

before my time in beijing is up i should key at least 10 cars that have decided that the bike lane is the best parking spot out there. bicycle kingdom my ass

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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 2d

wait until you find out about the rule whereby a chinese citizen with a valid american B visa is allowed to enter argentina without an argentinian visa. i literally cannot comprehend this

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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 2d

might have to go on a business trip to ARGENTINA which is kind of a terrifying prospect

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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 2d

rather dire that tron ares is making people reclaim tron legacy, a film so bad it had my philistine friends talk like seasoned critics after seeing it. not good for anything other than as a key stepping stone to random access memories sorry

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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 3d

he's getting stuck at the part where the pequod meets the bachelor because he doesn't have a clean way to round off the prophecy yet. he'll go and get an in-universe treatise about the history of whale-hunting out of the way first

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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 3d

announcing my immediate retirement from hat-wearing. in fact if i ever see someone wearing some kind of headwear i'm just gonna mutter to myself "this is just like tarantino stealing from better filmmakers." rest in peace diane keaton, someone better take good care of your huge collection

ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 3d

no i don't think i will be paying ¥100 to visit labubuland as a bit

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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 3d

diane keaton lives!

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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 5d

what if it was The Blair Twitch Project instead

ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 6d

this one goes out to the quirked up jesuit white boys that ran qing dynasty's imperial observatory from the 17th century on

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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 7d

gets 6-3-ed anyway

ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 8d

potato… wheat… flour… salt… steak???… foie gras???… so mote it be

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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 8d

y'all i'm at beijing's diplomatic quarter rn is there a particular diplomatic mission you guys would like me to flip the bird at

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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 8d

guy who thinks the three fates are proto-historical materialist

ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 8d

resisting the temptation to randomly start humming this song on public transport

ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 9d

for this chinese century thing to truly go ahead the chinese must first establish their superiority in theater etiquette over americans. sadly since i got back here i don't think i've been to a single screening where i wasn't subjected to at least two live commentary tracks within earshot

ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 10d

thank you the soviets for threatening to nuke us at the height of the sino-soviet split and forcing us to cobble together like a million air raid shelters in beijing. now we have ample parking space and some really nice underground malls

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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 11d

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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 11d

found a nice indian restaurant in beijing and reduced my friend's racism by a solid 2.5%

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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 12d

exquisite patterns in my elevator

ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 13d

it has no plot it's just a car chase which is precisely why it's great

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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 13d

"fork found in kitchen" utterly western-centric expression. no fork to be found in my family's kitchen at all

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ravenmeister harmonies @ravennotexactly.bsky.social · 14d

call me joyless or whatever but it's a coward's way out if you're like "i was boycotting this evil thing already because it sucked". the real testament to one's principles is being able to go against an evil thing that's good

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