Revisionist Western Stock Character

Prone to straggling through violently windswept country roads... Fighter for lost causes. Film Dilettante.

[Andrew Seth Meyer @AndrewSethMeyer]

A reader at a recent event asked why I didn't simply title my book "The Hundred Schools of Thought 百家." Surveys of the "Hundred Schools" are indeed very conventional, but I wanted to convey the ways in which figures such as Confucius, Mo Di, and even Zhuangzi were dynamically shaped by and responding to the material reality of their time. If one pays attention to the concrete social and political context in which they operated, it is no longer possible to dismiss classical Chinese thinkers as mystics or quaint traditionalists. Rather, one sees them for what they were- intellectuals desperately fighting to reinvent a world that was falling apart.

[Peter Gardner @PeterDGardner]

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys https://t.co/9BeOX8hiip

[leah⁷¹ @meowbrini]

even the giggles are hereditary 😭

[Michael Cuenco @1TrueCuencoism]

@2067Journal A Thread (1/6):

[Dr. Brian Goldman @NightShiftMD]

US MDs are welcome to come to Canada.

[Kristin Raworth 🇨🇦 @KristinRaworth]

This is just a *chefs kiss* of a political move.

[John Pasalis @JohnPasalis]

Five years in a row

Detached home sales have been at their lowest levels since 2000

[Globe Politics @globepolitics]

Quebec Conservative MP Richard Martel quits caucus, to be appointed to Senate https://t.co/HviKjjwjvB

[Mike W @woweezowee83]

@terrynewman What the hell are you doing working for a "Canadian" newspaper if you hate Canada so much? I'm going to go on a little tour of convenience stores near me and throw every @nationalpost I see in the garbage. You and your wretched traitorous paper can fuck off.

[dias @mcelebeanie]

i want macklin to monotonously explain all about hockey to me 🤍

[Zoo Tycoon Posts @zt2zoo]

Visit the zoo: we have pandas.

Our panda is very unique as they're the only group of pandas in the whole world that eats hay! Due to budgeting reasons, they live with our gazelles.

Trust me, we really have pandas here.

[ella Ψ Z-Z-ZAP! 🦈 @loverunamotion]

another clip of mack singing to me. i was shocked and i said thank you 🙂‍↕️

[poli_nerd @poli_nerd]

@Righteousdudett Canada ranks 13th in AVERAGE wealth but 7th in MEDIAN wealth (US ranks 2nd in average, but 28th in median). So the typical Canadian has noticeably more wealth than the typical American, but US has many more billionaires.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Sgt. Clifford Roy Wherley flew many missions during WWII before his real age was discovered

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

Samuel Sprague (1753-1844) was one of the few participants in the Boston Tea Party to have been photographed later in life. Below is Sprague, age 89, in 1842.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🌡️ China is fighting the heat with rooftop mist cooling systems

Residential buildings are spraying ultra-fine mist from their rooftops, creating evaporative cooling that can lower the surrounding air temperature by 5–8°C within minutes during heatwaves.

Source: Mao Ning 毛宁

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Interview with an 84-year-old farmer in New York, 1926.

The farmer describes the change he’s seen over the years, and what life was like for a farmer in the Catskill Mountains of New York State during the early to mid 19th-century.

[The Specter @specter_affairs]

🇨🇳 | The last believed survivor of the “Long March” during the Chinese Civil War celebrated her 105th birthday.

Her name is Wang Quanying, she joined the Red Army as a medic when she was only 14 years old.

Born into a Tibetan family in 1921, Sichuan province, she lost both parents by age one.

 From age five, she was forced into harsh labor.

When the Red Army entered her hometown, Wang was attracted by their policy of protecting the poor and joined the Women's Independent Regiment.

The one-year-long march starting in 1934 under the leadership of Mao Zedong is viewed as one of the most daring military manoeuvres in modern history.



The Chinese Communist Party defied all odds, including total defeat, by what is often described as sheer revolutionary willpower.



Starting with about 100,000 people, only around 8,000 survivors eventually made it to their destination in Yan'an.



During battles with the Nationalist forces led by Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Quanying was cut off from her unit and went into hiding in 1936. Authorities verified her as a veteran in 1984.

[Beckett Fan 🦆 @DuckyBecks45]

why does he say "favorite" like that? is it his canadian accent? 😭