Yvon Wang
@yyvonwang.bsky.social
🏔️🏃♂️🏋️♂️📚🐈. NoCo🔁TO. 🚫Authoritarianism. 🚫Dehumanization. China+ at U of T. Rainbow mafioso. He/they.
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Yvon Wang
@yyvonwang.bsky.social
· Feb 8
I really worry when I see the Left (or anyone who claims to be Concerned About Democracy) still not admitting that COVID responses were extremely authoritarian and bound to have severe boomerang effects. 1 piece of anti-trans rhetoric is intense skepticism of credentialed expertise, for ex. (1/2)
It's so little, too little, but little has got to be better than nothing... chuffed.org/project/1368...
Gaza City Mutual Aid - Help Us Provide For Local Families
In collaboration with my friend Mohsen in the north west of Gaza City, we are aiming to raise money to provide flour and water for families in Mohsen's local community.
chuffed.org
July 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
It's so little, too little, but little has got to be better than nothing... chuffed.org/project/1368...
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I don’t believe the whole “shut up and vote” thing is compelling or helpful but it sure as shit is definitely not helpful until a primary happens and there’s a nominee. Right now those people are just saying “accept transphobic shithead governors without question”
July 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I don’t believe the whole “shut up and vote” thing is compelling or helpful but it sure as shit is definitely not helpful until a primary happens and there’s a nominee. Right now those people are just saying “accept transphobic shithead governors without question”
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We’re apparently at the point where anonymous Facebook smack talk that exactly nobody is going to follow through on counts as news.
Across various private New York Facebook groups viewed by CNN – such as those for residents of the Upper East Side – some users have anonymously discussed potential plans to move out of the city following Zohran Mamdani’s primary win. cnn.it/3IpkOjr
July 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
We’re apparently at the point where anonymous Facebook smack talk that exactly nobody is going to follow through on counts as news.
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Alternative view: no they're not
I am the opposite. I think it's only a matter of time before people realize that humans are just biological "AI products".
Emotions, guilt, pride, self-awareness: just good programming. And it can be replicated in electronics instead of biology.
Emotions, guilt, pride, self-awareness: just good programming. And it can be replicated in electronics instead of biology.
July 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Alternative view: no they're not
5 years married, disgustingly happy, horrifyingly lucky. 🥰
July 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
5 years married, disgustingly happy, horrifyingly lucky. 🥰
Just so delighted to get out this much this summer. There must be flowers as well as bread. 🌹🥖
July 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Just so delighted to get out this much this summer. There must be flowers as well as bread. 🌹🥖
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hey, you guys? is it a good thing or a bad thing if during a hearing your own co-counsel texts your other co-counsel and says “oh shit that was just not true” in reference to something you just told the chief judge of the D.C. district court???
July 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
hey, you guys? is it a good thing or a bad thing if during a hearing your own co-counsel texts your other co-counsel and says “oh shit that was just not true” in reference to something you just told the chief judge of the D.C. district court???
Another beautiful weekend in and on top of some mountains. Reminds me of why it’s all worth fighting for.
July 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Another beautiful weekend in and on top of some mountains. Reminds me of why it’s all worth fighting for.
Back on my BS (blue sky) after a month in Asia. Will never get tired of having Rocky Mountain NP in our backyard
June 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Back on my BS (blue sky) after a month in Asia. Will never get tired of having Rocky Mountain NP in our backyard
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so the Signal clone that Michael Waltz used was made by an Israeli company and some hacker found it trivially easy to own. in fuckin credible www.404media.co/the-signal-c...
The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.
www.404media.co
May 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
so the Signal clone that Michael Waltz used was made by an Israeli company and some hacker found it trivially easy to own. in fuckin credible www.404media.co/the-signal-c...
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I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?
May 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?
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jeez this is bleak
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Fearing Trump’s Visa Crackdown, College Students Race to Scrub Op-Eds
Campus newspapers confront ethics debates as foreign students ask that their names and views be removed from past articles.
www.wsj.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:19 AM
jeez this is bleak
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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I think there’s some college students who would disagree that the president believes we can “say whatever the f*ck you want”
April 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I think there’s some college students who would disagree that the president believes we can “say whatever the f*ck you want”
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The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.
one of the tasks of the American left is to explain to retail and service workers that this is the future that America has planned for them
April 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.
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love a senator imploring regular citizens to fight back against tyranny. dawg you spent the last twenty years giving machine guns and tanks to traffic cops this is like pushing your toddler into the ring with ivan drago
April 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
love a senator imploring regular citizens to fight back against tyranny. dawg you spent the last twenty years giving machine guns and tanks to traffic cops this is like pushing your toddler into the ring with ivan drago
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Literary Chinese you can use, from Zhang Yanghao (1270-1329) on history:
興，百姓苦，亡，百姓苦
“Rise: the little people suffer.
Fall: the little people suffer.”
興，百姓苦，亡，百姓苦
“Rise: the little people suffer.
Fall: the little people suffer.”
April 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Literary Chinese you can use, from Zhang Yanghao (1270-1329) on history:
興，百姓苦，亡，百姓苦
“Rise: the little people suffer.
Fall: the little people suffer.”
興，百姓苦，亡，百姓苦
“Rise: the little people suffer.
Fall: the little people suffer.”
🎻: spent hours today trying to move 6k mp3s from my ancient laptop using iTunes (yes, by not upgrading the OS for 4 yrs) to new (to me, 2ndhand) iPhone. Best option for Mac/iOS is Doppler. 1-time payment, $39 to hook up a phone + up to 3 computers. Enshittified subscription-based apps are evil.
April 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
🎻: spent hours today trying to move 6k mp3s from my ancient laptop using iTunes (yes, by not upgrading the OS for 4 yrs) to new (to me, 2ndhand) iPhone. Best option for Mac/iOS is Doppler. 1-time payment, $39 to hook up a phone + up to 3 computers. Enshittified subscription-based apps are evil.
✊ desperately need in Toronto too.
Chinese delivery workers in NYC organizing against wage theft
April 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
✊ desperately need in Toronto too.
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The reason for the season:
April 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The reason for the season:
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I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.
April 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.
I dressed up like this as soon as I'd seen the book cover
April 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I dressed up like this as soon as I'd seen the book cover
this would be encouraging if I weren't so skeptical of the ability of the Institutions That Be to stand firm, make noise, and stare them down.
Not ‘malice OR stupidity’ so much as malice AND stupidity, at this point, across the board.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:20 AM
this would be encouraging if I weren't so skeptical of the ability of the Institutions That Be to stand firm, make noise, and stare them down.
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Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?
April 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?