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Christopher Nugent

@cmbnugent.bsky.social

Scholar of medieval Chinese literary and manuscript culture (mostly Dunhuang), occasional potter, avid bad tennis player.

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I assume NG.

12.10.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already. It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

11.10.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 488    πŸ” 575    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 15

Don’t do it! They’re recording your screams to train a new neural net used to produce sounds for horror films!

12.10.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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9 paints β€’ 12 hrs
The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

Tweet: @vexwerewolf Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth" Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem Show this thread 9 paints β€’ 12 hrs The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content. That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well. In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

Amazing

12.10.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2923    πŸ” 1032    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 55

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

11.10.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 19800    πŸ” 5978    πŸ’¬ 417    πŸ“Œ 332
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ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to groundβ€”then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doorsβ€”so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

11.10.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1434    πŸ” 802    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 90

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interestsβ€”not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

10.10.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3754    πŸ” 1052    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 92

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

11.10.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5604    πŸ” 1640    πŸ’¬ 154    πŸ“Œ 54
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Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

11.10.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1894    πŸ” 458    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 11

A thousand times this!

11.10.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

11.10.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 15339    πŸ” 8462    πŸ’¬ 859    πŸ“Œ 1123
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Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

10.10.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 21696    πŸ” 8300    πŸ’¬ 1318    πŸ“Œ 566

I’m peeing on the seat. Give me a raise! (which I use among friends to describe certain colleagues’ approach to their work).

10.10.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

An improvement over the original. At least there’s one appealing character.

10.10.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Stop giving them ideas!!!

10.10.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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eamw.mh.sinica.edu.tw

10.10.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Have you tried einkorn? Great flavor.

10.10.2025 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

so the frog is 卖娃青蛙。https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_23101624 it was designed by a mom with the last name Tong in Nanjing, inspired by the toad in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabas.... it is a mascot of θΊΊεΉ³culture (lay-flat, against capitalism)

09.10.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 283    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 23

If you're new to the Warring States manuscripts, I published a piece with my colleague Li Yumeng which introduces the *Kongzi said and *Zhongni said manuscripts. And it's open access!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

09.10.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

09.10.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 9746    πŸ” 2628    πŸ’¬ 219    πŸ“Œ 150

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

09.10.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 613    πŸ” 119    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5

once again re-airing my unpopular opinion that widespread use of the abbrev "antifa" for "anti-fascist" opened a welcome door for fascists to elide who & what their opposition actually is (almost everyone)

22.09.2025 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

"antifa" sounds spooky & mystifying & mixes right into a reactionary jingo scare salad along with "MS-13" & "al qaeda" (bad). saying someone is "anti-fascist" puts them in ideological company with Captain America & Our Boys Who Stormed the Beaches at Normandy (unimpeachably good)

22.09.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6
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So cool that whenever someone asks the president, β€œdid you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, β€œno but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

08.10.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 16269    πŸ” 3058    πŸ’¬ 225    πŸ“Œ 80
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Good lord.

@apnews.com

08.10.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 12512    πŸ” 3914    πŸ’¬ 1085    πŸ“Œ 539
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My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

08.10.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3464    πŸ” 1353    πŸ’¬ 302    πŸ“Œ 544

Fail

08.10.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2077    πŸ” 221    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 7
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ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

08.10.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5341    πŸ” 2143    πŸ’¬ 211    πŸ“Œ 261

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