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Carlos S's avatar

99% of people in California, and anyone over 45, can tell the difference between hippie tie-dye and rainbow coalition. It must be like the confusion that central Asians feel when we lump together disparate turkic customs, which are as different as The Dead and Act Up. Good luck finding your way through all this in China. (I found you years ago, when you found the source of the fake UFO heiroglyphic and have been following since.)

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sarah's avatar

everything you share makes me feel An Emotion As Yet Undescribed. big love to you ottilie

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s. kim's avatar

"online friends with Hank Green" should be your fun fact icebreaker forever and ever. how did you guys cross paths?!?!?!?

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BCO's avatar

1- Hank did a tiktok saying there were other scientists out there who knew more than he and that they should stitch there areas of expertise

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2- ottilie stitched saying she was not a scientist, but was very good at lying and began giving funny and incorrect answers to science questions

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4- ottilie stopped doing these... I think because a bunch of 8 year Olds in China got super offended when she offered definitive proof that she had invented science

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5- while ottilie took them down prior to moving to uzbekistan, you can still find lots of people's response stitches to them by searching 'ottilie science' on tiktok

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3- these were very popular and where ottilie got most of her followers, answering questions like 'why is water blue'

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James A W Johnson's avatar

Was always hard during my Fulbright to differentiate between whether I was doing quite a bit or nothing

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Peter Wiggin's avatar

Really looking forward to all of the thoughts Beijing will lend you.

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