Chris Cyr @poppersghost@qoto.org
Imperfect Daoist.
Joined Nov 2022
Was having a talk with my mother the other day abt how things have changed. I cook myself more than my mother, grandmother, or great grandmother ever did. They say great grandmom only did desserts.
But I've never woven a tapestry or a carpet. Sort of reminds me #ReadingTheStone. All the women are makers. Weaving things, sewing, and the like. All I've ever done was a bit of knitting really.
So I think that will be this year's project. Already have a few looms on the way. Thinking I'll start out with some silk belts and few towels. And try a few carpets before the end of 2023.
Chris Cyr
boosted
"The coronavirus surge in Beijing has peaked – the first Chinese city to reach this point since the country abandoned its zero-Covid policy, according to the foreign ministry."
Chris Cyr
boosted
RT @jinpeili@twitter.com
wordless sheet of blank paper is taken from hands of a protester who remains standing with an invisible wordless message
It's still a powerful message...
Chris Cyr
boosted
#DOTD: Ba Jin 巴金 (1904–2005), né Li Yaotang 李堯棠, Chinese #anarchist writer who also wrote in #Esperanto and is most renowned for his semi-autobiographical novel 'The Family' #家. #ChineseLiterature #ModernChina
Chris Cyr
boosted
People who came here from Twitter, are you still using the bird site?
Chris Cyr
boosted
Car Companies and Subscription Creep
Mercedes is the latest car company to put something that your car can already do behind a subscription fee.
Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual paywall
Chris Cyr
boosted
23-30 November is for #HistFicOutsideTheBox
Love fiction that really engages with history?
Look no further! These awesome authors combine great storytelling with diverse representations of places, times and peoples.
If you like creative and unconventional, we have some intriguing tales for you!
https://books.bookfunnel.com/histfic-outsidethebox/cbdc1qjc6a
Chris Cyr
boosted
I keep seeing posts in my feed from weird accounts I’m not following and that are not being retweeted by anyone I’m following. Hmm. Anyone else seeing this too?
Chris Cyr
boosted
#时光网Mtime 微博：
#伊朗著名女演员被捕 伊朗著名的女演员塔拉内·阿里多斯蒂(《推销员》《关于伊丽》)被逮捕，前段时间她曾摘下头巾，并举着牌子，写道：“女人，生命，自由”。 #推销员女主被捕 她在社交媒体上发文：“这可能是我最后一次发帖。从这一刻起，无论我发生什么事，都要知道，一如既往，我和伊朗人民在一起，直到我最后一口气。” 
时光网Mtime的微博视频 https://video.weibo.com/show?fid=1034:4838186233561132
Chris Cyr
boosted
A pretty mosque assemblage in Khujand - our last stop before bidding Tajikistan farewell
Chris Cyr
boosted
"This is the challenge of wise China policy: how do we structure an information environment when our understanding of Chinese politics increasingly relies on textual analysis of stilted and opaque party directives, while still keeping policy debates accessible to researchers, businessmen, and opinion shapers who have never been nor will ever be trained to read the sources on which our analysis is based?" https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/14/why-we-need-the-center-for-strategic-translation/
Chris Cyr
boosted
RT @joseph_gaglione@twitter.com
MUQI FACHANG,
Six Persimmons, 13th Century,
China
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/joseph_gaglione/status/1594506190691893253
Update. Things here are pretty normal. For the previous 4 weekends or so wife had multiple boarders stuck at school because their families were in lockdowns in GZ. This week none.
They're also getting a trickle of boarders for the Western provinces. I guess they're just trying to get their kids to a city with more resources in case of lockdowns. Not sure.
Chris Cyr
boosted
Let's see how far we get - #China Twitter goes #Mastodon:
Please add your information here: https://forms.gle/fL282sgxm3smZo8E7
Results here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EQKt_Pd1sus-NFyHrMYrczj72jcY-Xx8_MCIj7-9SkY/edit?usp=sharing
Chris Cyr
boosted
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like one person spread over too many social media accounts
Chris Cyr
boosted
RT @artcrimeprof@twitter.com
Today, the Manhattan DA repatriated a Vishnu stolen from a Cambodian temple for the antiquities trafficker Doris Wiener. The @metmuseum@twitter.com still holds 15 sacred sculptures from Cambodia, India, and Nepal that passed through her - including one whose feet remain in Cambodia: https://twitter.com/artcrimeprof/status/1567112794012631041
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/artcrimeprof/status/1588179160564133888
Chris Cyr
boosted
Here’s an interesting fact: Trump’s Twitter account just came back online and it has only 2.8 million followers. If memory serves, this is down from more than 80 million when the account was suspended. What explains the more than 90 percent decrease? Is it that a huge number of his followers left? That they were purged in bot purges? That they were fake to begin with with?
Chris Cyr
boosted
A warning about deactivating your birdsite account
Your Twitter handle can be registered by anyone 30 days after deactivation. If impersonation is in your threat model, lock your account and park it.
Imperfect Daoist.
Joined Nov 2022
