When I’m using my text to speech app and listening to audiobooks about China, ‘Xi Jinping’ is always parsed as “Roman Eleven Jinping” which feels somehow appropriate for the century.

Shimmering vibrated spectral electric guitar. As if the Beach Boys were filtered leaving only the good vibrations left

I find myself drinking fine teas that evoke strong bad coffee (smoked yunnan teas) and find coffees that evoke mild tea (Panamanian Gesha beans)

“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep”

Mountaintop pastures are the original solar farms. Converting photons into big bushel batteries of animal feed for the winter.

Daily reminder: during the Mongolian expansion the average warrior had ~7 horses. Some for eating, some for riding, some for breeding, some for milking. Horse armies were massive and would exhaust all available pastures. They were nomadic not by choice but by necessity. If they weren’t nomading, the horses would starve... Show more

I'm planning to organize a loose Schelling point for folks who like coffee at @devcon We'll pick a nice landmark near La Rural, I'll bring a camp stove, grinder, scale and papers. You bring beans from around the world! Anyone open to cohosing drop me a DM!

Back home in ever-raining Taipei.

Seriously though, Farcaster rebrand should have just indexed super hard into Hyperion 80s golden age sci-fi art. Brand book and enforceable simplicity be damned! I want to cast with the Shrike.