Minister Denby
@tjmzj.bsky.social
Union officer, diplomat. Evansville, Peking, Tientsin.
From the puffy profile Tablet ran about Palmer (even Palmer’s PR guy knows this is nuts):
December 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
From the puffy profile Tablet ran about Palmer (even Palmer’s PR guy knows this is nuts):
I don’t understand how my reply constitutes a misreading of the post here and why it was removed. Sometimes I think Twitter PTSD plus the tools Bluesky gives us—great tools!—encourage hair-trigger responses.
December 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I don’t understand how my reply constitutes a misreading of the post here and why it was removed. Sometimes I think Twitter PTSD plus the tools Bluesky gives us—great tools!—encourage hair-trigger responses.
Circling back to the issue of agency, a key theme of the new right is an echo of the old—they believe some people are fit only to be enslaved, and any attempt to resist that state of affairs is condemned as upending the cornerstone of civilization.
Basically, it’s this guy all the way down.
Basically, it’s this guy all the way down.
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Circling back to the issue of agency, a key theme of the new right is an echo of the old—they believe some people are fit only to be enslaved, and any attempt to resist that state of affairs is condemned as upending the cornerstone of civilization.
Basically, it’s this guy all the way down.
Basically, it’s this guy all the way down.
I came across a flower shop yesterday which has a little courtyard that looks like a kaiju swallowed Yiwu and then vomited Christmas everywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I came across a flower shop yesterday which has a little courtyard that looks like a kaiju swallowed Yiwu and then vomited Christmas everywhere.
Say what you will, but RFK Jr helped them save a lot of money on prosthetics in “Dick Tracy.”
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Say what you will, but RFK Jr helped them save a lot of money on prosthetics in “Dick Tracy.”
I’ve been online 2/3 of my lifetime and “Brit who thinks civil liberties are for criminals” has always been a guy.
November 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I’ve been online 2/3 of my lifetime and “Brit who thinks civil liberties are for criminals” has always been a guy.
Prosperity gospel with Chinese characteristics.
November 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Prosperity gospel with Chinese characteristics.
BRO!!! DO YOU WANT SOME DONER?
HELL YEAH BRO!!! I WANT A KEBAB AND I WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH IT!!!
AWESOME, WAIT— WHAT, BRO?
HELL YEAH BRO!!! I WANT A KEBAB AND I WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH IT!!!
AWESOME, WAIT— WHAT, BRO?
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
BRO!!! DO YOU WANT SOME DONER?
HELL YEAH BRO!!! I WANT A KEBAB AND I WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH IT!!!
AWESOME, WAIT— WHAT, BRO?
HELL YEAH BRO!!! I WANT A KEBAB AND I WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH IT!!!
AWESOME, WAIT— WHAT, BRO?
INFINITE Barbershop, the hottest indie game this winter, mark my words.
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
INFINITE Barbershop, the hottest indie game this winter, mark my words.
Taobao’s Singles’ Day sale has been going on for awhile now, and one of the things they recently added is a jingle that plays when you redeem their membership points, Taojinbi, for discounts. It’s very … uh … this👇
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Taobao’s Singles’ Day sale has been going on for awhile now, and one of the things they recently added is a jingle that plays when you redeem their membership points, Taojinbi, for discounts. It’s very … uh … this👇
Today in juxtapositions.
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Today in juxtapositions.
This is basically the 90s conservative complaint about media bias repackaged for the left.
November 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This is basically the 90s conservative complaint about media bias repackaged for the left.
Trump showing off new fittings in the Overlook just in time for Halloween.
November 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Trump showing off new fittings in the Overlook just in time for Halloween.
Tianjin has seen an almost Shanghai-esque outpouring of Halloween cosplayers in downtown, which I don’t really remember happening before. (The tourism bureau might have something to do with it.) There was a Mona Lisa, a cockroach man, and my favorite, who seems to be patrolling Liberation Road:
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Tianjin has seen an almost Shanghai-esque outpouring of Halloween cosplayers in downtown, which I don’t really remember happening before. (The tourism bureau might have something to do with it.) There was a Mona Lisa, a cockroach man, and my favorite, who seems to be patrolling Liberation Road:
I actually tried to sketch it and the Venn diagram is awkward. For instance, we have to include that tiny sliver of the Bernie left that thinks Mamdani is fake, and most but not all defend Platner. (Area does not actually correspond to percentages.)
October 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I actually tried to sketch it and the Venn diagram is awkward. For instance, we have to include that tiny sliver of the Bernie left that thinks Mamdani is fake, and most but not all defend Platner. (Area does not actually correspond to percentages.)
In defense of the attack on the Pentagon: Osama bin Laden vs. the NIMBYs
October 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In defense of the attack on the Pentagon: Osama bin Laden vs. the NIMBYs
Right around here.
October 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Right around here.
So it’s not just my dog, then.
October 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
So it’s not just my dog, then.
One of the most cursed sentences in Chinese urban development is to call a creative district “another 798,” after Beijing’s world-famous art district. They will simply never reach 798’s level. Anyways, TAFA* opened an art street. It’s pretty cool. But it’s not 798. 50D on #Pentax645. #believeinfilm
October 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
One of the most cursed sentences in Chinese urban development is to call a creative district “another 798,” after Beijing’s world-famous art district. They will simply never reach 798’s level. Anyways, TAFA* opened an art street. It’s pretty cool. But it’s not 798. 50D on #Pentax645. #believeinfilm
This is the car we all want that Big Auto refuses to make
October 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This is the car we all want that Big Auto refuses to make
Random meme thought. Might delete later.
October 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Random meme thought. Might delete later.
Sharon busting into the Kelce-Swift bedroom like
October 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Sharon busting into the Kelce-Swift bedroom like