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The western Chinese region of Xinjiang dramatically increased tomato cultivation and processing in recent years, but slumping sales to Italy and other western European markets have left it sitting on a vast stockpile of unsold paste. on.ft.com/4i5bFtZ
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The western Chinese region of Xinjiang dramatically increased tomato cultivation and processing in recent years, but slumping sales to Italy and other western European markets have left it sitting on a vast stockpile of unsold paste. on.ft.com/4i5bFtZ
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Then Birdo did lay with Yoshi, and knew him.
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Then Birdo did lay with Yoshi, and knew him.
a lot of people are being more than a bit credulous in accepting the representations of somebody whose whole schtick was appearing connected to and influential with powerful people as completely and totally true
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
a lot of people are being more than a bit credulous in accepting the representations of somebody whose whole schtick was appearing connected to and influential with powerful people as completely and totally true
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I wrote a primer on this, actually (acoup.blog/2022/01/14/c...) - the collapse of Rome was both meaningfully worse than the medievalist change-and-continuity boosters would have, but also meaningfully less disruptive and bad than the 'fall of civilization' doom-sayers would have. It is complex.
Collections: Rome: Decline and Fall? Part I: Words
This week we’re going to start tackling a complex and much debated question: ‘how bad was the fall of Rome (in the West)?’ This was the topic that won the vote among the patrons o…
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November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I wrote a primer on this, actually (acoup.blog/2022/01/14/c...) - the collapse of Rome was both meaningfully worse than the medievalist change-and-continuity boosters would have, but also meaningfully less disruptive and bad than the 'fall of civilization' doom-sayers would have. It is complex.
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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in copenhangen we need to cultivate…dessert power
October 23, 2025 at 6:20 AM
in copenhangen we need to cultivate…dessert power
in copenhangen we need to cultivate…dessert power
October 23, 2025 at 6:20 AM
in copenhangen we need to cultivate…dessert power
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Judging by the price/volume chart, it looks like the government carried out interventions at four key price levels over the past month: first 1475 in mid-Sep, then at 1425 followed by 1430 in early October, and currently the intervention is taking place at... 1488 exactly:
October 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Judging by the price/volume chart, it looks like the government carried out interventions at four key price levels over the past month: first 1475 in mid-Sep, then at 1425 followed by 1430 in early October, and currently the intervention is taking place at... 1488 exactly:
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as Alasdair Grey put it, "work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation." Today, that often feels like being in the morbid interregnum. But you should write as if you were a citizen with an interest in a healthy, fair, and free government.
October 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
as Alasdair Grey put it, "work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation." Today, that often feels like being in the morbid interregnum. But you should write as if you were a citizen with an interest in a healthy, fair, and free government.
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Weird how when a Judge John Hodgman muppet Ba'athist quote tweets your account you end up deluged with post-menopausal females and lawn gnomes in the notifications.
October 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Weird how when a Judge John Hodgman muppet Ba'athist quote tweets your account you end up deluged with post-menopausal females and lawn gnomes in the notifications.
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some of y’all have internalized transphobia against racist polyamorous people who look like they were created in Minecraft and it shows 🍕
October 14, 2025 at 4:50 AM
some of y’all have internalized transphobia against racist polyamorous people who look like they were created in Minecraft and it shows 🍕
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Asking Claude for advice 3 times, colorized
October 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Asking Claude for advice 3 times, colorized
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I actually misremembered this - it’s 100 papers *a month*. Essentially total access unless you’re @sharonk.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I actually misremembered this - it’s 100 papers *a month*. Essentially total access unless you’re @sharonk.bsky.social
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This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
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Yessss the big master encyclopedia of Indian monsters and folklore I ordered has finally arrived, can't wait to learn about some new incredibl-
October 30, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Yessss the big master encyclopedia of Indian monsters and folklore I ordered has finally arrived, can't wait to learn about some new incredibl-