David Hull 胡大衛

@hushuo.bsky.social

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Associate Prof of Chinese, gamer, reader of books. Translator of Zhang Tianyi's The Pidgin Warrior and Mao Dun's Waverings among other things. Ex-98G. He/him

General Burnside and his fabulous facial hair.
A grey floof cat sprawled out on the floor. His eyes are an empty as his soul. There is not a single brain cell rattling around in that noggin of his. He's also got one fang hanging out. Which, in his defense, is adorable.
An image of Grace Chang singing Carmen. Her arms are raised in joyous triumph. Caption: "愛情不過是一種普通的玩意 [Love is nothing but a commonplace trick]"
three image from Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Dancing Men. Holmes is dancing around with the coded messages on blackboards behind him.
An ad for the KFC nightmare triple crispy chicken patty no bun monstrosity. Available in "original flavor" or "NEW!" "PEANUT LAVA"
It weird. There's a collection of ancient Chinese characters and a description under it. "難: Disaster" "A bounded human cries in fire getting attack by bird."
The four ways of writing 'fennel' from Kong Yiji
"A few months ago (likely after one of Gmail's deliverability updates), we had a major issue with our domain reputation," Movchan told Futurism. "While we started working on the recovery, we decided to purchase pre-warmed domains, so as not to halt outreach, as a temporary measure. They came with pre-warmed mailboxes with set names and pictures from the vendor."
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam. Google's own satellite imagery underneath all three. What on earth is Google doing?" Henk van Ess, an OSINT researcher, wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
A coffee table book of Chinese propaganda posters.
The Time-Life "The Old West" series of books.
A woodblock print of a ban in bed with his legs bizarrely crossed. He is looking at a piece of paper with a magnifying glass.
David Mimno @dmimno ... Tip for students going off to college: study 80s/90s pop culture. Particularly Ferris Beuller, Princess Bride, Simpsons seasons 2-5. Your gen x/early millennial profs will try to connect with you through these, and will be confused/sad when you stare blankly at them. Not joking. 9:59 PM · 2019-08-01 . Twitter for iPhone
An email header: "Guns.com I'm Giving Away 200 Stun Guns for You,"
A photo of a Shang Dynasty Ding with a Taotie design from the Shanghai Museum. It's so very incredibly cool. This is one corner, and it looks like a stylized, sort of bug eyed monster, and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible.
A propaganda photo of a bunch of folks eating together at a table. Painted on the wall is the slogan, "吃飯不花錢，努力搞生產 [No need to pay for food, work hard for production]"
The classic /u/reachling cartoon about tree law, but with "tree" replaced with "grungo." Text: "Oh no! The rare Grungo grandma brought with her from the old country! It's been chopped down!!" "And only a week after by neighbor complained about it blocking his view!" "Grungo Law?" "Grungo Law?" "Grungo Law?!" "Grungo Law!!" "GRUNGO! LAW! GRUNGO! LAW!"
A line from the Wang Wei poem. It reads: "Empty mountain not see human."
image explaining the difference between a watch and a warning. Taco watch shows all the fixings for a taco laid out. Taco Warning shows a taco sitting there ready to be eaten.
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The couple received a stream of online threats and strange deliveries to their home, including live insects, a funeral wreath, a bloody pig mask and a book about surviving the loss of a spouse. Additionally, former eBay employees surveilled the couple and attempted to install a GPS tracker on their car to keep tabs on their whereabouts.
"The Deer Enclosure" by Wang Wei, translated and written by Xu Bing. It's... it's a hell of thing. Xu has written the English translation as if each word were a Chinese character. It's readable, but it will break your brain. Fair warning.
A squirrel sitting in a trash can. Below them is written the word, 'Trash.'
An image from the arcade game Time Pilot. The player's jet thing is shooting down biplanes. There is an ejected pilot floating down with a parachute (with a red cross on it).
A scan from the Archie comic. Betty is wearing a bikini and dancing with her hands above her head. She's saying, "The best sub in town! That's me!"
An online ad for Maotai booze. The copy: "Some bottles are meant to be opened. Others are meant to be remembered. Discover the legacy of Moutai.
A beautiful but evil spotted bug
老烏龜! 老甲魚！老糊塗！
There’s a scene in Zardoz where Friend is sitting in one of the Vortex’s storage rooms full of art and artifacts from human history. He’s asking Tabernacle to analyze historical car designs for him. He’s frustrated with the result, but he doesn’t do anything about it. He doesn’t find a way to study cars himself; he isn’t tinkering or repairing; he doesn’t even interact with the archive directly. He doesn’t even seem interested. He’s just passing the time by having the machine that governs their lives do his thinking for him.
Lady Catherine DeBourge at the gateway to the little garden, looking unhinged. Caption: "Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?"
Lady Catherine DeBourge looking SCANDALIZED. SCANDALIZED THAT THE HALLS OF PEMBERLEY WOULD SO SO POLLUTED.
"Purchasing paper books at scale from the secondary market does not deprive any creator of income they would otherwise have received," ISBNdb's site says. "These are books that have already fully discharged their financial obligation to their creators." "Responsible physical sourcing is not book burning," ISBNdb's site in a section about why it's crucial to recycle the destroyed books. "It is the completion of a book's lifecycle: from tree to knowledge to tree again."
A photo of a Honda Odyssey
A shot from the BBC Pride and Prejudice series. Lizzie is looking at Wickham with kind dismissal. Caption: "How would you have liked making sermons?"
The SNL Washington's Dream skit meme. Top Caption: "好不容易 - What does it mean?" Bottom Caption: "Nobody knows."
「阿菊!」一手抓住了她的手,一手又彎住了她的膀子。於是阿菊的身子,很隨意地躺在她的爸懷裹。在李英的意思,本想去撫摹她的胸脯。但究竟阿菊已不是個孩子,這樣粗手粗脚,未免有亂倫之嫌,如果黃臉婆看見了,那眞不得了,所以這個動機就給理智很快地制服了。
A propaganda poster. There is a menacing soviet soldier injecting red color into a small red schoolhouse. The needle is labeled "Organized Communist Propaganda. Top Caption: "How Red is the little red schoolhouse?" Bottom Caption: "It's high time American parents knew the facts!"
From the Arby's Font Generator. There's an image of a giant roast beef sandwich and an order of curly fries. Caption: "What are you going to do? Eat a Salad?"
A gorgeous grey cat sprawled out on the top of a loveseat. He's looking at the camera with hooded scornful eyes, judging. Always judging.
It's a pretty red rose. That's it. So pretty though.
Soviet pseudoscientist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko via wikipedia
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A still from the Rubik, The Amazing Cube cartoon. It's, I mean, it's a rubik's cube with a really disturbing gremlin face and strangely digital-looking feet.
Later Clark asked, “You claim that you once called in a U.S. military airstrike that killed 70 ISIS fighters. I didn’t realize that civilians could essentially facilitate military airstrikes. Could you walk me through how that worked?” Marx: “No.”
Image from A Man For All Seasons. Orson Wells as Cardinal Wolsey. The man looks as healthy as Trump.
A still from the Lizzie Bennett Diaries show. Lydia Bennett is looking at the screen looking adorable and unhinged. Caption: "The adorbs, like I said, is back!"
A screenshot of me trying to read an article from Reuters. You can read the end of one sentence from the article, otherwise the screen id completely blocked with ads.