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Tori Thee Goddess 💜

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Shinzo Abe: - Born into militarist dynasty - Worked tirelessly to increase population - Brutal and extremely public death Pour one out for a real G.

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Observe the deleterious effect that the presence of just one university has upon public order.

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When you're running low on court eunuchs

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Pls wat dynasty is this?

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I am going to burn 52 books this year, one per week. Here's my list. (1/53)

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Bianna Golodryga

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My God, Tucker’s response: “Every leader kills people, including my leader. Some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people.”

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Have a happy Christmas. It's mandatory.

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Huge if true

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@ohmwu Ngl after that intro I was bracing for perky retro anti-Semitism.

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Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn

@GunterFehlinger

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I put China to notice - if you do not break with Russia - #ExRussia you will be dismantled into #ExChina Do you want this? ⁦ @ChinaDaily ⁩

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Selection pressure maxing (via Discord)

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Every Han dynasty empress:

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4 years

Pretty sure this is how Korea was founded.

Nature and animals🌿😽🐶🐒🐰🐼🐥🐿️

@Chinaanimals

4 years

What the hell is going on here?

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Someone on here once pointed out that the best expression of wuwei is the fact that water moves most efficiently in a state of laminar flow - i.e. when it looks like it isn't moving at all. I think about it often.

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Adhesion is the stickiness that water molecules have for substances. This is what happens when water stickiness and surface tension are broken and a laminar flow becomes turbulent

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hey chat when you're running out of water in a country that's famous for its perpetual rain is that a mandate of heaven issue just checking thx

Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social

@ianwalker

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The UK risks running short of water and the goal is to get consumption down to 110 litres/person/day

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Who dresses better? Alpha males or funeral effigies of the post-unification Qin army? Let's explore. 🧵

derek guy

@dieworkwear

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Who dresses better? Alpha males or aristocratic babies? Let's explore. 🧵

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Been meaning to do this since @Paracelsus1092 published this great article... Atheism in Ancient China (1/n)

Stone Age Herbalist

@Paracelsus1092

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New Atheism is dead, but what about atheism and religious skepticism in the past and around the world? An examination of the Comanche, Pirahã and ancient Greek mindset. Warriors, aristocrats and hunters.

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New Daoist immortal just dropped

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A common convo I have with PhD students who are about to graduate: Them: I haven't done anything useful/good/impressive Me: True

Dr. Hadas Kotek 🦄🎗️

@HadasKotek

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A common convo I have with PhD students who are about to graduate: Them: I haven't done anything useful/good/impressive Me: You got good grades in undergrad Them: right, but Me: and got admitted into this grad program Them: .. Me: and got a fellowship / other financial support

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A friend recently came back from China. He spoke in wondrous terms about how safe and clean it was, how easy it was to buy stuff and get it delivered. And he casually mentioned his friend rushing to dinner because she'd be boiled alive in a ceremonial bronze cauldron if she was

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@XianyangCB

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FYI: if you always wanted to be in an ancient army and can make it to France in August, there's a YouTube channel trying to get 1000 volunteer hoplites together to study attack and retreat dynamics.

Lucius Gellius Publicola 🏺

@Lucius_Gellius

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Le temps d'un week-end d'août 2025, vous avez envie de vivre une expérience hors du commun ? Celle d'une phalange hoplitique et de la débandade ennemie qui suit la poussée victorieuse? @surlechampFr tente de monter un projet ambitieux et il a tout notre soutien: rassembler 1000

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If foreign leaders don't look like this after a 30 minute conversation with you, you're ngmi.

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The tree thing is true. Zhou/Han people really liked tall buildings but by the Tang dynasty the trees for them were running out, and now traditional Chinese architecture is mainly one or two storey courtyard houses.

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I'm inclined to suspect that much premodern warfare looked a lot like this - far more cautious jostling for space than glorious last ditch charges. For such purposes a dagger-axe is pretty much a perfect weapon.

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@XianyangCB

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You don't understand scale. Use $50 to buy a crossbow. Invade your neighbour's land and force him to plant tomatoes for you. 6 mo you have 3.9MM tomatoes. Sell them for $1 each.

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Jakabfi Károly (霸王最忠之臣子）

@JakabfiK

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The very interesting part of this text is how in essence it means that the reforms basically restored the quasi-imperial structure where one peasant with connections to the central government is the head of the village while subordinating the local peasantry.

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The emperor lies dying, poisoned by his closest advisors. An attempt to assassinate the challenger has failed. There is chaos among the rival factions. You must secure the i̶m̶p̶e̶r̶i̶a̶l̶ ̶s̶e̶a̶l̶ social media intern and thereby pass the decrees that will raise you to glory.

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The palace eunuchs, having no children for which to secure a fiefdom and no other source of income beyond their stipend, could be expected to be completely loyal to their leaders.

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Free abortions, vasectomies will be available to DNC attendees in Chicago

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HOW TO GET YOUR ANNOYING COWORKER TORN APART BY CHARIOTS: a thread

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@YSufferer @growing_daniel Keeping it tight for the LSD rape party later 💪

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im 2240 and i don’t date girls over 24 my girlfriends are 20, 21 and 24. the 24yo i’ve been with her since 2 years too much mileage and baggage when they’re older than that. trust me i’ve tested it extensively so i recommend you do the same 18-24 only understand the game

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@XianyangCB

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Xiongnu update:

Sharing Travel

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Riders in Hulunbeier, Inner Mongolia shot down unauthorized drones with bows and arrows. They are preparing for a horse riding and archery competition.

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Consider this.

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Very trad. Am approve.

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You're in the club and this guy usurps your mandate of heaven. Wyd?

jāna ᠶᠠᠨᠠ

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In 2021 not even the richest person in the world can have: - a harem - rhino hunts - vassals - a corps of trained assassins - droit de seigneur - a court alchemist - human sacrifice - Jolt Cola

Chris Powers

@fortworthchris

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125 yrs ago not even the richest person in the world could have: - air conditioning - home refrigerator - a flashlight - a personal computer - access to an airplane - a radio - a television The world is getting better if you choose to look at progress rather than the media.

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This is the Beijing branch of the national archives. There are outposts in similar style around the country. I really enjoy the early Chinese futurist architectural style.

Yan Xiusheng 延秀生

@YXiusheng

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President Xi Jinping has made an instruction on the work of public communication and culture

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Unpopular opinion: he's right.

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Westerners translate “天命” as “Mandate of Heaven” and interpret it like being anointed by the gods, but “天” is less like Jesus or Zeus, and more like “everything working together like it should”. In today's English the closest usage to “天命” is probably “state capacity”.

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Students: "After years of exhausting study I can finally read the ancient and mystical Daoist classics." The ancient and mystical Daoist classics:

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These three made China rich, not Mao.

Hunter📈🌈📊

@StatisticUrban

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These three made China rich, not Mao.

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You need to be extrospection-maxxing. Never self-analyse, never think about your actions or thoughts. Terrify therapycels with this one weird trick. Descend every gradient. Become the mirror of heaven and earth.

anna!!! :) 🇵🇸🌸✨🌸🇵🇸

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u ever realize that vast amounts of people have never done like. any sort of introspection. no self analysis. never thought about their actions or thoughts beyond the most basic surface level. it’s terrifying

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This is the first time I've actually seen one of these - a passport for the dead. During the late warring states/Han dynasty people would be buried with official ID to get them into the underworld. (Translation in comments, HT @Catcher4242 )

Tinaᛏᛁᚾᚨ ከሰማየ ꀑꃈꃀꃅꃴ

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I've come across an ancient ID card dating back 2400 years. Including birthplace, gender, skin color, height, and age, etc.

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"'Horse' is the form; 'white' is the color. That which names color does not name shape. Thus I say: 'a white horse is not the same as a horse'." "Having a white horse cannot be said to be having no horses. Is not that which cannot be said to be having no horses a horse?"

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Very important to detain anyone caught being a philosophy professor in public. It is good that the Mei authorities have finally realised this.

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Noelle McAfee, the chair of the philosophy department at Emory University in Atlanta, was arrested during a pro-Palestine protest on campus.

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Me clicking through: "Ooh, I wonder which one this is about."

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A little more background on this... Classical Chinese names are interesting and somewhat mysterious. While modern names tend to describe a positive quality parents want their children to have, pre-imperial names are… euh… more diverse. (1/n)

Xianyang City Bureaucrat

@XianyangCB

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With this one simple trick (reconstructed Old Chinese pronunciation) you can turn Sima Qian's biography of Qin Shihuang from a regular historical chronicle into pure H. P. Lovecraft.

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🖤

Sol 太陽 솔

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Here is one of the many popular, but fake, “Confucius said” quotes that circulate the English-speaking world. As for the real source, it appears to be from some cheesy-sounding book “Secrets of Superstar Speakers” (2000) by Lillet Walters. For a real quote, see Analects 14:34…

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meanwhile you go to WINE BAR with "gf" and enjoy tasteful banter

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China's PLA Border Guard on India border in body armor armed with a traditional sword known locally as a ‘Guandao’, 2023.

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@Babygravy9 100% sure one of my mutuals is doing this right now

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The sovereign citizen movement has many parallels with Chinese folk religion. Both essentially involve conjuring up a mystical parallel bureaucracy to do battle with the mundane one using its own tools. (1/n)

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More/better shots of this. Last time I posted it I had people in the comments insisting it was proof of the Chinese government faking archaeological discoveries because the design looks so modern.

Xianyang City Bureaucrat

@XianyangCB

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Check out this chariot fitting from a Han dynasty tomb in Hebei. It's not just cool because it looks like something a hippy painted on his sex van, but because it shows how long Zhongshan's distinctive aesthetics outlived the state.

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Mingcel btfo. Many such cases.

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Ji family DESTROYS Duke Zhuang of Wey with FACTS and LOGIC

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Wounded, Duke Zhuang of Wey entered the Ji household saying, “If you save my life, I will give you this jade disk.” The Ji men said, “And what happens to the jade disk if we kill you?” So they killed him and took his disk. — Zuozhuan, Duke Ai, Year 17 (478 BC)

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Confucian Hooters just dropped.

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Reminder that it was normal for ancient Chinese sovereigns to employ both strongmen and dwarfs to provide entertainment so Confucius definitely watched this happen more than once.

ACD MMA

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EDDIE HALL JUST POWERBOMBED A MIDGET AND THEN KO’D HIM IN A 2V1 WTF 😭😭

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Who followed Duke Mu to the grave? Ziche Yansi. And this Yansi, Was a man above a hundred. When he came to the grave, He looked terrified and trembled... Let's talk about human sacrifice (1/n)

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When you own the scholars so hard they're still sneeding 2000 years later

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Me and the boys heading out to rectify some names

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@XianyangCB

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@Noahpinion has all of my accounts blocked because I mogged one of his China takes three years back, but I still see all of his China takes when they are mogged by everyone else on my timeline. Is this how engagement bait works?

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@XianyangCB

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It was all downhill from there

Balaji

@balajis

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History isn't exactly cyclic, it's stochastic. More like a stock price than a sine wave.

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Before the crackdown on "abnormal aesthetics" hits, let's do a thread. Yes, it's time for *The Classical Chinese Sexual Vocabulary*.

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@XianyangCB

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The Xia dynasty established its hydraulic empire in a world that still contained woolly mammoths.

Populism Updates

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What are the craziest two people/things to coexist at the same time in history?

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Sima Jin update

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wow is this true

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Unpopular opinion: the Zhou emperors probably looked more like this than 99% of the "historically informed" attempts to recreate their court dress.

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Aspiring warlords pls take note

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What arrow can penetrate metal riot shields? [📹 百不自知]

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If yours is missing it means your clan are n00bs (we regret to inform)

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Kamala HQ

@KamalaHQ

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Trump claims he will ban crime by enacting “crime-free zones”

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This is the ideal bureaucrat body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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@XianyangCB

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"Chinese people are law-abiding and compliant due to their Confucian culture."

ollie

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chinese peasants did not chill

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(HT @AestheteFanatic )

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@primalpoly The beacon chain, but I'm an Aeschylus fan.

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Still got it.

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It's moderately fascinating that none of the reassurances offered in the thread are about actually doing research in the sense of discovering something previously unknown. They're all about simulating research-like activities and thereby improving one's social status.

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Funerary mounds, then and now.

The Mainichi (Japan Daily News)

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Site of Japanese ex-PM Abe's assassination turned into road with nearby flowerbed

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y'all what the hell is in my shein package

willow !! 🍉

@tallerwillows

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500k+ likes and not an ounce of critical thinking in the comments. are we cooked

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New York Post

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EXCLUSIVE: Map shows Chinese-owned farmland next to 19 US military bases in ‘alarming’ threat to national security: experts

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Have you been to mainland China? If you go to a restaurant there, just before it opens, it looks like this.

FischerKing

@FischerKing64

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Have you been to mainland China? If you go to a restaurant there, just before it opens, it looks like this. These are disciplined people, primed for authoritarianism. They aren’t even allowed to think for themselves. This isn’t the American way. The Chinese can steal Western

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The three types of poetry: 1. Former gifted kid has underwhelming civil service career 2. The West(ern Zhou) has fallen 3. I just met you and this is crazy but let's have sex in a hedgerow

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@ARKloster I am poasting on the shoulders of giants.

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@XianyangCB

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Following the Qin conquest this will be your state-mandated gf. How this maek u feel?

カナタ (SMT Devil) │Megaten brainrot 👹

@Kanataent

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Calm down guys, she's for the weaklings like me

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Confucianism Daoism Mohism Legalism

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@XianyangCB

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New warring states era just dropped

Greg Abbott

@GregAbbott_TX

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The Texas National Guard continues to hold the line in Eagle Pass. Texas will not back down from our efforts to secure the border in Biden’s absence.

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0.005 Seconds (102/300)

@seconds_0

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I ate one swordfish steak and got fucking mercury poisoning.

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Tfw you just spent a year translating a 2000 year-old Chinese book about territorial disputes and are informed by an expert that the Chinese language has no word for territory.

Bill Hayton

@bill_hayton

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@CarlZha And I point out that the Chinese language didn’t even have a word for ‘territory’ until it was translated from English via Japanese in the late 19th century...

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With this one simple trick (reconstructed Old Chinese pronunciation) you can turn Sima Qian's biography of Qin Shihuang from a regular historical chronicle into pure H. P. Lovecraft.

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Xianyang City Bureaucrat

@XianyangCB

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Delete the apps. Move to a wasteland and cultivate it. Find three or four nice girls at the local Xiongnu encampment and take them captive.

Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187

@ScottMGreer

4 months

Every married person on here: "Delete the apps. Move to the middle of nowhere. Find a nice girl at the local church where the average age is 65. No I did none of these things and no one else I know did either. But I guarantee you it works!"

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