Brendan O’Kane
Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming and Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian. Shitposty sinology. Signal: @bokane.1644.
http://www.burninghou.se
- i’d be offended but yeah, fair cop, i am absolutely a posting gremlin
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View full threadI’d like to think I’m a BIT more malevolent than that lol more of a Trickster Demigod vibe ?
- you're a sweetheart as long as people remember to leave out the milk and nobody crosses the stones
- for whatever it's worth i had always pictured you as more of a posting wood sprite, i think it was all the puckishness
- i do not understand political doomers. i understand suicide bombers better.
- And to be clear that second group are worthless and should stop paying attention altogether. If you don’t have hope, get out of the fucking political kitchen and shut up.People who expect doom are literally harmful to everyone who hopes to survive and thrive and should not be welcome in any movement
- guys ending their lives in an act of amoral suicidal optimism make more sense to me than people who are yelling at everyone else that they want to watch television in a gulag for the rest of their lives because there's no other choice
- always just assumed it was the form of depression that rages at any suggestion of hope and can't stand to see it in others; been on both sides of it and both of them suck
- i mean so did the last one
- UnitedHealth Group CEO Witty suddenly out "for personal reasons." www.axios.com/2025/05/13/u...
- AI Hallucination Celebrating JG Ballard Inadvertently Celebrates JG Ballard
- A new Coke ad proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book, only he didn’t write the words and it’s not his book. www.404media.co/ai-powered-c...
- this feels off
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View full threadThe long arm of the law ends in six fingers
- Up to 27% more blobby and asymmetrical than analog police; we live in amazing times
- they deputized DJ Khaled
- ah man that is not a guy you want to assign a quota to
- GenAI-ass stormtroopers
- Can’t believe my friends are being disappeared by the SECCET POLLC, this fucking sucks
- one of funniest things i’ve relatedly learned recently is that every place we “orientalize” also has a place it orientalizes
- This is, of course, why we need reciprocal "occidentalism."
- i gotchu
