Ameya Warde
@ameyawarde.bsky.social
American teaching #ESL / #EFL in Korea. Love history, science, LitRPG, anime, and other nerdy stuff.
Anyway, I have gotten super into oldweb stuff these last few months, and I’ve been hapily building my old, early 00s (/late 90s)-style website. So much nostalgia.
I really want to connect with more people who make such sites! I’m in some discords but not really successfully convo’d yet??
I really want to connect with more people who make such sites! I’m in some discords but not really successfully convo’d yet??
June 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Anyway, I have gotten super into oldweb stuff these last few months, and I’ve been hapily building my old, early 00s (/late 90s)-style website. So much nostalgia.
I really want to connect with more people who make such sites! I’m in some discords but not really successfully convo’d yet??
I really want to connect with more people who make such sites! I’m in some discords but not really successfully convo’d yet??
This guy is behind SO much of all the current non-Putin orchestrated horrors. I don’t understand why so few political people in my circles talk about him.
Peter Thiel, an avowed atheist, has unveiled his new techno-religious babble filled with End Times rhetoric. It's all slickly packaged to sell Thiel to the white Evangelicals with whom he has aligned himself. Gil Duran explains. www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...
Silicon Valley's New Religion: Peter Thiel's Tech Apocalypse
A strange essay reveals how Silicon Valley elites are creating an apocalyptic techno-religion to rule the future of civilization
www.thenerdreich.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This guy is behind SO much of all the current non-Putin orchestrated horrors. I don’t understand why so few political people in my circles talk about him.
Lol, hi. I .. um… (whatever the word for ‘tweeted’ is here) when i was bored and had no one to yap at, but once i had a boy to yap at I just totally forgot this place existed.
He dares to be at work rn though and I’m home alone with my (also new!!!) kitty cat and some mega sized Korean beers.
He dares to be at work rn though and I’m home alone with my (also new!!!) kitty cat and some mega sized Korean beers.
June 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Lol, hi. I .. um… (whatever the word for ‘tweeted’ is here) when i was bored and had no one to yap at, but once i had a boy to yap at I just totally forgot this place existed.
He dares to be at work rn though and I’m home alone with my (also new!!!) kitty cat and some mega sized Korean beers.
He dares to be at work rn though and I’m home alone with my (also new!!!) kitty cat and some mega sized Korean beers.
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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
I finally looked at my Storygraph now that it has my goodreads data. And... quite a few items on the 2024 overview are wrong. It must not have imported all of the books. Also it said I only read 8 history books and 4 fantasy books. O.o The 86 books I read were almost exclusively either of those...
February 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I finally looked at my Storygraph now that it has my goodreads data. And... quite a few items on the 2024 overview are wrong. It must not have imported all of the books. Also it said I only read 8 history books and 4 fantasy books. O.o The 86 books I read were almost exclusively either of those...
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If the administration moves forward with dismantling the Department of Education, students of all ages could face a more divided, unequal system that restricts opportunities instead of creating them.
Read more here ⤵️
Read more here ⤵️
What Will Happen to Your Student Loans if Trump Closes the Department of Education?
Dismantling the department would put Pell grants and other need-based aid programs at risk.
www.teenvogue.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
If the administration moves forward with dismantling the Department of Education, students of all ages could face a more divided, unequal system that restricts opportunities instead of creating them.
Read more here ⤵️
Read more here ⤵️
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(To be clear, I already don't think the fight between AP and the White House is funny. The implications of this seem serious to me. The fact that they have chosen such a trivial battleground on which to fight feels like a way of not just masking but mocking what's at stake.)
February 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
(To be clear, I already don't think the fight between AP and the White House is funny. The implications of this seem serious to me. The fact that they have chosen such a trivial battleground on which to fight feels like a way of not just masking but mocking what's at stake.)
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Could you please consider using your larger platform to amplify the Feb 17 National Day of Protest? We little guys are trying to do what we can to fight. Thanks and muxh respect. www.wardrobeoxygen.com/national-day...
Details on the February 17 National Day of Protest
All the details on National Day of Protest taking place on February 17, 2025. Who is organizing, what time, where to go, and other details.
www.wardrobeoxygen.com
February 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Reminder that you don't own the ebooks you "buy" on Amazon. They can take it all away from you with the click of a button, and if they decide to comply with "any mention of queer or trans lives is pornographic," they can digitally burn your whole library.
FYI, Amazon will no longer enable the downloading of ebooks to exterior devices starting February 26th.
Here’s a tutorial on how to download your ebooks off of Amazon. You can use Calibre (free software) to reformat the kindle books to be used on other devices.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2DQuRqn/
Here’s a tutorial on how to download your ebooks off of Amazon. You can use Calibre (free software) to reformat the kindle books to be used on other devices.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2DQuRqn/
Replying to @BookishbyJennaavh I got you! 🫶 #thecozyarchivist #ebooks #ereader #kindle #kindlegirlie #kindlealternative #boox #booxgocolor7 #kobo
TikTok video by candice🍿📚🏁
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February 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Reminder that you don't own the ebooks you "buy" on Amazon. They can take it all away from you with the click of a button, and if they decide to comply with "any mention of queer or trans lives is pornographic," they can digitally burn your whole library.
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It's @george-lakoff.com's Truth Sandwich.
An essential skill for anyone who does any communications. Yet, over and over, people start by privileging their opposition's message or just outright lies.
Only way to deal with guys like Elon and Trump.
An essential skill for anyone who does any communications. Yet, over and over, people start by privileging their opposition's message or just outright lies.
Only way to deal with guys like Elon and Trump.
February 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It's @george-lakoff.com's Truth Sandwich.
An essential skill for anyone who does any communications. Yet, over and over, people start by privileging their opposition's message or just outright lies.
Only way to deal with guys like Elon and Trump.
An essential skill for anyone who does any communications. Yet, over and over, people start by privileging their opposition's message or just outright lies.
Only way to deal with guys like Elon and Trump.
I got excited that Foundation, the medieval city builder that has been in beta for 6 years but looked great, was finally released! I watched a vid and ran and bought it! (I dont treat myself to such purchases often (it's only $26ish atm))
Then i tried to download!
Windows only. T_T #sorrow
Then i tried to download!
Windows only. T_T #sorrow
February 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I got excited that Foundation, the medieval city builder that has been in beta for 6 years but looked great, was finally released! I watched a vid and ran and bought it! (I dont treat myself to such purchases often (it's only $26ish atm))
Then i tried to download!
Windows only. T_T #sorrow
Then i tried to download!
Windows only. T_T #sorrow
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Book burning?
If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."
If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."
February 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Book burning?
If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."
If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."
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Did you know?
In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine.
The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.
In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine.
The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.
February 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Did you know?
In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine.
The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.
In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine.
The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.
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5. The plan is simple: Use tech wealth and crypto to buy American democracy and turn it into something else...a "parallel" institution that serves tech billionaire interests. A few days before the inauguration, Trump makes billions from a memecoin. Hello?
newrepublic.com/article/1857...
newrepublic.com/article/1857...
The Most Powerful Crypto Bro in Washington Has Very Weird Beliefs
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the U.S. is in “decline” and embraces a cultish tech movement to build “network” societies beyond the reach of nation-states—and he’s got Congress eating out of his h...
newrepublic.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
5. The plan is simple: Use tech wealth and crypto to buy American democracy and turn it into something else...a "parallel" institution that serves tech billionaire interests. A few days before the inauguration, Trump makes billions from a memecoin. Hello?
newrepublic.com/article/1857...
newrepublic.com/article/1857...
OMG. I didn't know any of this. JFC
4. Musk's DOGE is a rebranding of Curtis Yarvin's RAGE (Retire All Government Employees). This is behind the buyout offers, firings, and elimination of entire departments. Purge the government of civil servants and replace them with those loyal to a dictator.
newrepublic.com/article/1839...
newrepublic.com/article/1839...
Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas
Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.
newrepublic.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
OMG. I didn't know any of this. JFC
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2. I spent last year writing about the Network State cult for the @newrepublic.com. Everything happening now was spelled out in this series. A tech CEO takeover of government, the purging of institutions, the rise of crypto corruption as a dominant economic force, the quest for new territory...
February 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
2. I spent last year writing about the Network State cult for the @newrepublic.com. Everything happening now was spelled out in this series. A tech CEO takeover of government, the purging of institutions, the rise of crypto corruption as a dominant economic force, the quest for new territory...
TIL the Mary-marry-merry merger is mostly North American specific. I assumed they used to be said differently, but I didn't realize they still were, somehow!
Apparently:
"Mary has the a sound of mare, marry has the "short a" sound of mat, and merry has the "short e" sound of met."
Apparently:
"Mary has the a sound of mare, marry has the "short a" sound of mat, and merry has the "short e" sound of met."
February 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
TIL the Mary-marry-merry merger is mostly North American specific. I assumed they used to be said differently, but I didn't realize they still were, somehow!
Apparently:
"Mary has the a sound of mare, marry has the "short a" sound of mat, and merry has the "short e" sound of met."
Apparently:
"Mary has the a sound of mare, marry has the "short a" sound of mat, and merry has the "short e" sound of met."
I found Wikitionary this week and it's super helpful in my lesson planning! But I need more #linguistics types to contribute because I'm teaching elementary kids in a dual British-American taught school in Korea, and I need to be able to reference the IPA & audio files for even more words.~~
February 1, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I found Wikitionary this week and it's super helpful in my lesson planning! But I need more #linguistics types to contribute because I'm teaching elementary kids in a dual British-American taught school in Korea, and I need to be able to reference the IPA & audio files for even more words.~~
I love waking up feeling like I'm mid-venlafaxine withdrawl. (I'm not!)
As an experienced EDSer, I know I must have tweaked my neck just so while I slept. This is impressive because I already have to sleep with a firm airline-style neck pillow to keep my bones where they belong. So, like, HOW? -_-
As an experienced EDSer, I know I must have tweaked my neck just so while I slept. This is impressive because I already have to sleep with a firm airline-style neck pillow to keep my bones where they belong. So, like, HOW? -_-
January 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I love waking up feeling like I'm mid-venlafaxine withdrawl. (I'm not!)
As an experienced EDSer, I know I must have tweaked my neck just so while I slept. This is impressive because I already have to sleep with a firm airline-style neck pillow to keep my bones where they belong. So, like, HOW? -_-
As an experienced EDSer, I know I must have tweaked my neck just so while I slept. This is impressive because I already have to sleep with a firm airline-style neck pillow to keep my bones where they belong. So, like, HOW? -_-
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This shows that pushing back legally and politically when the would-be dictator crosses the line can succeed. His power has limits. Resistance pays off. Onward!
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Trump Administration Rescinds Freeze on Federal Grants and Loans: Live Updates
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This shows that pushing back legally and politically when the would-be dictator crosses the line can succeed. His power has limits. Resistance pays off. Onward!
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
Make me get off the couch and clean. T_T
Starting a non-cozy LitRPG to listen to while I try to make myself work. Maybe I was getting TOO cozy and that's why it's so hard to get up and clean...
Starting a non-cozy LitRPG to listen to while I try to make myself work. Maybe I was getting TOO cozy and that's why it's so hard to get up and clean...
January 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Make me get off the couch and clean. T_T
Starting a non-cozy LitRPG to listen to while I try to make myself work. Maybe I was getting TOO cozy and that's why it's so hard to get up and clean...
Starting a non-cozy LitRPG to listen to while I try to make myself work. Maybe I was getting TOO cozy and that's why it's so hard to get up and clean...
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MENT is a K-media magazine that challenges the genre and disciplinary boundaries long since broken by Korean popular culture. MENT provides social, cultural, and political perspectives on the Korean media we love, from academics, fans, and everyone in between at www.mentmagazine.com
#kpop #kdrama
#kpop #kdrama
January 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
MENT is a K-media magazine that challenges the genre and disciplinary boundaries long since broken by Korean popular culture. MENT provides social, cultural, and political perspectives on the Korean media we love, from academics, fans, and everyone in between at www.mentmagazine.com
#kpop #kdrama
#kpop #kdrama
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This is literally Lakoff’s strict father moral structure. Saying the neuro cognitive framework out loud is just, wow. @gilduran.com @lolgop.bsky.social
Mel Gibson: I’m glad Trump is here. It’s like daddy arrived and he’s taking his belt off
January 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This is literally Lakoff’s strict father moral structure. Saying the neuro cognitive framework out loud is just, wow. @gilduran.com @lolgop.bsky.social
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PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch.
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
Stream PBS and PBS KIDS Free on Prime Video
PBS and Amazon announced that more than 150 local PBS stations and the PBS KIDS Channel will launch ad-free as a Prime Video FAST offering. This marks the…
www.pbs.org
January 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch.
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky