Matt Schrader
@mattschrader
Taco Bell stan account, Phoenician by choice. Mostly tweets about China stuff, with some occasional bleating about sport or sci-fi. Opinions are not my employer's.
Without off-the-rails groupchats that produce inexplicable in-jokes like happy cartoon bass who just love moppin we'd all go insane.
Lovely, elegiac story by Thomas Hale for the @financialtimes.com here about an American hotel proprietor in Yunnan's decision to leave China. His dawning realization--that he will always be a "them" rather than an "us"--had a lot to do with why I eventually came home too. www.ft.com/content/c2b7...
As long as we're on this where the fuck does this guy live? My go-to pickup spot is in Manhattan Island USA and I'm still coming in 10 bucks below him
Me. I am much better than in 1986. Then I couldn't even dunk a basketball. Now I also can't dunk but I have a Claude Pro subscription.
There is a 100% chance that the company loaning people money for *education* with a basic grammar error in its (or should I say it's?) ad copy is scamming people.
even after a few years in the Big Apple still got mixed feelings, but I have to admit that the city's casual throwaway highs are about as high as you're gonna get anywhere in the world
If someone showed me this list and gave me 30 guesses I might not still get what the letter was for
East Coast rn really giving Olympics era Beijing a run for its money
Wife said I looked like a sad beluga whale on the couch and I guess chatgpt isn't totally useless
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
Oregon Trail was sitting right there and I missed it. I'm sorry, three people on Bluesky who've read both this and my previous post, I failed you.
occasional plug for Jia Lynn Yang's excellent book on this subject. unfortunately she does not seem to be on bsky so can't tag her
Micron/Samsung/Hynix not moving fast enough to boost capacity is exactly the opening CXTM and YMTC have been waiting for
clearly the takeaway from the ice age land maps is that China belongs to the Phillippines
Fifty millionth American to make this joke but man, soccer, what a game
No one cares about anyone's random opinion on anything on bsky but 15 years later this album still absolutely cooks
Game 3 front row tickets in true if you have to ask you can't afford it territory
We're going to get a Hunter Biden/Andrew Yang presidential ticket aren't we