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#311 - Qing 42: Charting the Collision Course by The History of China
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#311 - Qing 42: Charting the Collision Course
The 19th century is pretty rough on Qing China. We're going to need to set things up a bit before we start knocking the dominoes down...
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The 19th century is pretty rough on Qing China. We're going to need to set things up a bit before we start knocking the dominoes down...
megaphone.link/ARML1714886620
They exist there, trapped in that eternal prison of their own construction - frittering away the hours of their lives not doing things they'd actually like because it's not... "X-enough-coded"
What a waste.
What a waste.
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
They exist there, trapped in that eternal prison of their own construction - frittering away the hours of their lives not doing things they'd actually like because it's not... "X-enough-coded"
What a waste.
What a waste.
I - along with many others - have been saying since the ICE/DHS/NatGuard deployments were being announced... these incidents are going to be inevitable, stochastic, & - unfortunately - play directly into the regime's hands, in terms of them gaining "justification" for even more draconian measures...
Multiple people, including 2 National Guardsmen, shot near Farragut Square Park (two blocks from the White House). Flights paused at DCA.
Multiple people, including 2 National Guardsmen, shot near Farragut Square Park
Two National Guardsmen and a third person were injured in an exchange of gunfire just blocks north of the White House.
www.nbcwashington.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I - along with many others - have been saying since the ICE/DHS/NatGuard deployments were being announced... these incidents are going to be inevitable, stochastic, & - unfortunately - play directly into the regime's hands, in terms of them gaining "justification" for even more draconian measures...
She’s right, you know…
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
She’s right, you know…
As today is T-Day -1, my kid turned to me this morning and said, "Dad, today's cook-day."
And I immediately thought
And I immediately thought
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
As today is T-Day -1, my kid turned to me this morning and said, "Dad, today's cook-day."
And I immediately thought
And I immediately thought
CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "horse meat and deer meat taste the same, thus proving that they are in fact the exact same animal, Your Majesty."
CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "horse meat and deer meat taste the same, thus proving that they are in fact the exact same animal, Your Majesty."
Sir, everyone's calling MAGA Trump Republicans "National Conservatives," sir!
But the really cool and "HOT!" people are all saying a much hipper abbreviations, Sir! They're saying that everyone who follows you, Sir, is a Nat-C!
All MAGA Repulicans are Nat-Cs, Sir! Everyone's saying it, Sir!
But the really cool and "HOT!" people are all saying a much hipper abbreviations, Sir! They're saying that everyone who follows you, Sir, is a Nat-C!
All MAGA Repulicans are Nat-Cs, Sir! Everyone's saying it, Sir!
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Sir, everyone's calling MAGA Trump Republicans "National Conservatives," sir!
But the really cool and "HOT!" people are all saying a much hipper abbreviations, Sir! They're saying that everyone who follows you, Sir, is a Nat-C!
All MAGA Repulicans are Nat-Cs, Sir! Everyone's saying it, Sir!
But the really cool and "HOT!" people are all saying a much hipper abbreviations, Sir! They're saying that everyone who follows you, Sir, is a Nat-C!
All MAGA Repulicans are Nat-Cs, Sir! Everyone's saying it, Sir!
NOEM for Gravel Pit 2026!
New Justice Department filings reveal that it was Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem who chose to defy a federal court order by transferring more than 100 Venezuelan men into Salvadoran custody to be imprisoned.
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
NOEM for Gravel Pit 2026!
The incident of this type that sticks out in my mind are the several times in - I wanna say Hangzhou or Nanjing (maybe both) - that some park/mall rent-a-cops made a huge stink and detained groups of 20-sthing cosplayers for "Dressing Japanese."
They were wearing hanfu.
They were wearing hanfu.
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 AM
The incident of this type that sticks out in my mind are the several times in - I wanna say Hangzhou or Nanjing (maybe both) - that some park/mall rent-a-cops made a huge stink and detained groups of 20-sthing cosplayers for "Dressing Japanese."
They were wearing hanfu.
They were wearing hanfu.
"Gentlemen, you can't be fighting here! This is the War Room!"
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM
"Gentlemen, you can't be fighting here! This is the War Room!"
What many would-be posters fail to realize is that, like any garden, the soil of growth must rest atop & subsist upon an sublayer of decay & entropy. It is not to be swept away, but used as the manure that it is.
We need to do everything we can to encourage posts like this on bluesky. Terrible food opinions from big name sportswriters are genuinely the lifeblood of any social media app
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
What many would-be posters fail to realize is that, like any garden, the soil of growth must rest atop & subsist upon an sublayer of decay & entropy. It is not to be swept away, but used as the manure that it is.
The realest thing I heard today was that Marjorie Taylor Green timed her "retirement" to fall just after her Congressional pension kicks in...
Welfare Queens are real & they are bottle-blonde & named Marjorie.
Welfare Queens are real & they are bottle-blonde & named Marjorie.
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The realest thing I heard today was that Marjorie Taylor Green timed her "retirement" to fall just after her Congressional pension kicks in...
Welfare Queens are real & they are bottle-blonde & named Marjorie.
Welfare Queens are real & they are bottle-blonde & named Marjorie.
Bari Weiss working tirelessly to give CBS the critical edge in that existentially-important market niche: The Dersh-Heads.
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Bari Weiss working tirelessly to give CBS the critical edge in that existentially-important market niche: The Dersh-Heads.
The X mobile app has gotten to the point that it automatically puts me onto the “For You” tab by default upon opening, every single time. It will no longer “stay stuck” to the “Following” tab.
As insidious as it is insufferable.
As insidious as it is insufferable.
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The X mobile app has gotten to the point that it automatically puts me onto the “For You” tab by default upon opening, every single time. It will no longer “stay stuck” to the “Following” tab.
As insidious as it is insufferable.
As insidious as it is insufferable.
TFW you're on your way home from the gym when you remember you promised to help your hamlet drive back the border-raiders tonight, it's too late to cancel, & you left your good spear at home...
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
TFW you're on your way home from the gym when you remember you promised to help your hamlet drive back the border-raiders tonight, it's too late to cancel, & you left your good spear at home...
It'd impossible for me to contain how giddy I am that I get to use a section of the PRC's "State Religious Affairs Bureau Order No. 5" (2007) as one of the episode intro quotes this week... right alongside 17th century travel journal entries...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_R...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_R...
State Religious Affairs Bureau Order No. 5 - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It'd impossible for me to contain how giddy I am that I get to use a section of the PRC's "State Religious Affairs Bureau Order No. 5" (2007) as one of the episode intro quotes this week... right alongside 17th century travel journal entries...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_R...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_R...
Sir, the test results are back, and... you may want to sit down for this... it's not good news. I'm afraid that the Idaho that showed up on the scan appears to be trying to metastasize...
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Sir, the test results are back, and... you may want to sit down for this... it's not good news. I'm afraid that the Idaho that showed up on the scan appears to be trying to metastasize...
Why stop at just cabbages? Why, for a mere pittance, this holiday season your family can look forward to dining on the finest turnip and crow feast they've ever sucked the marrow from! Your hovel will be the envy of the entire neighborhood!
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
The Most Underrated Thanksgiving Vegetable
Embrace cabbage.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Why stop at just cabbages? Why, for a mere pittance, this holiday season your family can look forward to dining on the finest turnip and crow feast they've ever sucked the marrow from! Your hovel will be the envy of the entire neighborhood!
The systemic inability of the modern *NEWS MEDIA* to be able to even say that the emperor is striding though the town square butt-naked with his weewee flapping in the breeze - since His Majesty will be quite put out - is as much a damning indictment of the media itself, as anything else
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The systemic inability of the modern *NEWS MEDIA* to be able to even say that the emperor is striding though the town square butt-naked with his weewee flapping in the breeze - since His Majesty will be quite put out - is as much a damning indictment of the media itself, as anything else
"The more you tighten your grip, incels, the more uteruses will slip from your fingers."
"Not after we demonstrate the power of our new tax rebates on becoming broodmother to four or more children!"
"Not after we demonstrate the power of our new tax rebates on becoming broodmother to four or more children!"
Hungary, like Russia, has adopted ambitious policies intended to raise the birth rate, but both efforts have fizzled after early seeming gains [Vanessa Brown Calder, AEI]
Hungary’s Fertility Outcomes Highlight Pro-Natal Policy Limitations
Increasing fertility is an objective for many countries worldwide, but Hungary’s pro-natal policies have received an outsized amount of attention in recent years. Hungary is unique because its pro-nat...
cosm.aei.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"The more you tighten your grip, incels, the more uteruses will slip from your fingers."
"Not after we demonstrate the power of our new tax rebates on becoming broodmother to four or more children!"
"Not after we demonstrate the power of our new tax rebates on becoming broodmother to four or more children!"
Dangerous Buddhist Extremism, you say??
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Dangerous Buddhist Extremism, you say??
Whenever I'd go to a Chinese restaurant and talk to the waitress about the menu, they'd always recommend the same dish every time: "MAIWANLE," they called it. Over and over, "MAIWANLE" "MAIWANLE."
But no matter how I asked, they never once let me taste it.
It must've really been something special.
But no matter how I asked, they never once let me taste it.
It must've really been something special.
Love Chinese food in the boonies.
"Northern Chinese Cuisine"
Mapo Tofu? Typically associated with Southwest Sichuan
Hunan Tofu? Of Hunan province, definitely not in the North?
"Northern Chinese Cuisine"
Mapo Tofu? Typically associated with Southwest Sichuan
Hunan Tofu? Of Hunan province, definitely not in the North?
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Whenever I'd go to a Chinese restaurant and talk to the waitress about the menu, they'd always recommend the same dish every time: "MAIWANLE," they called it. Over and over, "MAIWANLE" "MAIWANLE."
But no matter how I asked, they never once let me taste it.
It must've really been something special.
But no matter how I asked, they never once let me taste it.
It must've really been something special.
OK! 312 recorded, and 313 about 1/2-written (they're a two-parter), SO! There should be 2 T-Day ear-treats on The Qing Periphery coming out...
SOON!™-ish!!
SOON!™-ish!!
a cartoon drawing of a man laying on a table with jars of spices
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a man laying on a table with jars of spices
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 AM
OK! 312 recorded, and 313 about 1/2-written (they're a two-parter), SO! There should be 2 T-Day ear-treats on The Qing Periphery coming out...
SOON!™-ish!!
SOON!™-ish!!
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
A Response OpEd: "WHY SYSTEMIC JOURNALISTIC ROT IS ACTUALLY A PERFECTLY NATURAL & HEALTHY PART OF REJUVENATING THE BODY POLITIC & WE MUST ENCOURAGE IT"
- By: G.F. Nurgle, Editor-In-Chief of the Empyrean Times
- By: G.F. Nurgle, Editor-In-Chief of the Empyrean Times
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
A Response OpEd: "WHY SYSTEMIC JOURNALISTIC ROT IS ACTUALLY A PERFECTLY NATURAL & HEALTHY PART OF REJUVENATING THE BODY POLITIC & WE MUST ENCOURAGE IT"
- By: G.F. Nurgle, Editor-In-Chief of the Empyrean Times
- By: G.F. Nurgle, Editor-In-Chief of the Empyrean Times
SIR! ... er... Ma'am? In any case - KIRBY!! PUT THAT AWAY!!!
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 AM
SIR! ... er... Ma'am? In any case - KIRBY!! PUT THAT AWAY!!!