Mex Bao (@BaoMex) profile picture
Joined September 2017
I wrote a personal essay on what it has meant for me witnessing events in Gaza since October 2023. I would be grateful if you help spread it. These were painful, disturbing conclusions to reach. But inescapable…
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Fun fact dua lipa was my high school sweetheart and we still talk every single fucking day
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Pete Namlook & Bill Laswell - Psychonavigation 38 minute first track will absolutely send you into orbit, this is bonkers good. dub as a sense of air pressure more than a genre, feels amazing inside my skull right now
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🍉Please donate and share I’m Ahmed , from Gaza. I’m in dire need of your help, I'm trying to evacuate my family from Gaza to Egypt ⌛️ My brother died in the war don’t make me lose another one of my family 💔 chuffed.org/project/110769-h…
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Budget day here we go! 🤪👍 📈📉
man pretending to understand chancellors autumn statement
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The discovery of the statue of Antinous in Delphi, Greece in 1894 is one of my favourite photographs of all time
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I really have to make it out to the region of Goujòn at some stage. Jadore what they've done with their chicken out there.
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Harsh but true fitness advice
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In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most influential 20th c. Spanish-language writers, told William F. Buckley (whose first language was Spanish) his reasons for feeling, age 78, that English was 'far finer' than his native tongue. Right or wrong, I love his savor for language
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Hanging out with my favorite coworker
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It takes serious cojones to spin vinyl. Respect!
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F. A. Hayek read George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" as affirming his thesis in "The Road to Serfdom" that economic planning represents the seeds of totalitarianism. But Orwell was a socialist who explicitly rejected Hayek's defense of capitalism. jacobin.com/2023/03/orwell-h…
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when hustlers on here do their “i work every weekend” threads
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It's tempting to compare Mircea Catarescu's bizarre novel "Solenoid" to the work of, say, Pynchon, but it's really sui generis. This is the book a college boy is most likely to recommend to you in 20 years, but don't let that stop you from reveling in it washingtonpost.com/books/202…
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Police arresting each other
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