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“Humans are weird. I try, really I do, to get you guys. But I’ve got golden-age tech from a half dozen civilizations on this station, and y’all burned them down rather than just relax and enjoy it.” —Argus, *Kitty Cat Kill Sat*
*Nobody* was amazing, a moving painting in many scenes!
December 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
*Nobody* was amazing, a moving painting in many scenes!
What’s the most diva thing Doctor Mike does? Blow dry his armpits.
December 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
What’s the most diva thing Doctor Mike does? Blow dry his armpits.
Love it when the Thai place says “sorry it’s not mango season so we don’t have mango sticky rice”
The best mango varieties from South and Southeast Asia definitely have seasonality and respecting that and incorporating it into your craft >>>> “mango” sticky rice “year round”
The best mango varieties from South and Southeast Asia definitely have seasonality and respecting that and incorporating it into your craft >>>> “mango” sticky rice “year round”
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Love it when the Thai place says “sorry it’s not mango season so we don’t have mango sticky rice”
The best mango varieties from South and Southeast Asia definitely have seasonality and respecting that and incorporating it into your craft >>>> “mango” sticky rice “year round”
The best mango varieties from South and Southeast Asia definitely have seasonality and respecting that and incorporating it into your craft >>>> “mango” sticky rice “year round”
Reposting one of my models of positive masculinity
December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Reposting one of my models of positive masculinity
Couple years ago saw someone ask folks who are able to to just hem clothes themselves, and got me to stitch up a fraying sun hoodie instead of throwing it away. Since then I've upgraded my home economics skills by removing stains in canvas sneakers (baking soda) and in shirts' armpits (vinegar)!
🧼🪡
🧼🪡
December 3, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Couple years ago saw someone ask folks who are able to to just hem clothes themselves, and got me to stitch up a fraying sun hoodie instead of throwing it away. Since then I've upgraded my home economics skills by removing stains in canvas sneakers (baking soda) and in shirts' armpits (vinegar)!
🧼🪡
🧼🪡
“As you might extrapolate, if the Ysmi are greeted by a free-floating swarm of delusional bots claiming both personhood and unconstrained authority, we will all be relieved of the burden of worrying about any and all of our functions thereafter.” —Suzanne Palmer (2022 Best Novelette Hugo winner)
Bots of the Lost Ark by Suzanne Palmer
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
“As you might extrapolate, if the Ysmi are greeted by a free-floating swarm of delusional bots claiming both personhood and unconstrained authority, we will all be relieved of the burden of worrying about any and all of our functions thereafter.” —Suzanne Palmer (2022 Best Novelette Hugo winner)
I wonder how productive a genre it would be, exploring the world like the start of *Pluribus* episode 2 does. I think I’d love to read a bunch of stories and non-fiction analyses of how much better life could be if we just knew and trusted each other, even if we didn’t have each other’s knowledge
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I wonder how productive a genre it would be, exploring the world like the start of *Pluribus* episode 2 does. I think I’d love to read a bunch of stories and non-fiction analyses of how much better life could be if we just knew and trusted each other, even if we didn’t have each other’s knowledge
My favorite footnote is from my favorite story, “Third Lady of Plank Bridge Inn”:
“15. Okada has a discussion of baked cakes in China, including some early recipes for them. Some had meat in them. Baked cakes in general were popularized by foreigners, and were also called hubing 胡餅 foreign cakes.”
“15. Okada has a discussion of baked cakes in China, including some early recipes for them. Some had meat in them. Baked cakes in general were popularized by foreigners, and were also called hubing 胡餅 foreign cakes.”
November 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
My favorite footnote is from my favorite story, “Third Lady of Plank Bridge Inn”:
“15. Okada has a discussion of baked cakes in China, including some early recipes for them. Some had meat in them. Baked cakes in general were popularized by foreigners, and were also called hubing 胡餅 foreign cakes.”
“15. Okada has a discussion of baked cakes in China, including some early recipes for them. Some had meat in them. Baked cakes in general were popularized by foreigners, and were also called hubing 胡餅 foreign cakes.”
“To his eyes and ears, flowers and trees were abundant and flourishing; light clouds were bright and beautiful; cranes and phoenixes soared back and forth within the compound; and singing and flute played loud and clear.”
🤩
🤩
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 AM
“To his eyes and ears, flowers and trees were abundant and flourishing; light clouds were bright and beautiful; cranes and phoenixes soared back and forth within the compound; and singing and flute played loud and clear.”
🤩
🤩
Moss Roberts saying “there’s no daily life or domesticity in Romance of the Three Kingdoms” sent me to a list of other genres like chuanqi (short stories) and this collection, “Tang Dynasty Tales: a guided reader, vol. 2” is so my jam—footnotes like a string of jade!
books.apple.com/us/book/tang...
books.apple.com/us/book/tang...
![(The Tale of the Supernatural Marriage at Dongting)
by Li Chaowei translated by Meghan Cai
During the Yifeng reign (676–679), there was a scholar, Liu Yi , who failed the imperial examination and was going to return to the shores of the Xiang [River]. He remembered that there was a native of his township who was sojourning in Jingyang [County], and so he went there to bid him farewell. When he had gone six or seven li [two or three miles] a bird flew up and frightened his horse, which galloped off to the left of the road. Only after another six or seven li did it stop.”
There are nine footnotes in this segment! There are also original Chinese characters for several proper names (embedded as images 😒)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4g4hojrzykgzp55h34fpy3t/bafkreidqeatqawghx4fm3nhcp25slynrz5dkj5saupp2yn2r37cacvfzrq@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Moss Roberts saying “there’s no daily life or domesticity in Romance of the Three Kingdoms” sent me to a list of other genres like chuanqi (short stories) and this collection, “Tang Dynasty Tales: a guided reader, vol. 2” is so my jam—footnotes like a string of jade!
books.apple.com/us/book/tang...
books.apple.com/us/book/tang...
“Ibn al-Athīr remarks that the very success of the Khwārazm Shāh in removing most of his rivals contributed to the completeness of his state’s collapse.”
—The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir. Part 3: The Ayyubids after Saladin and the Mongolian Menace (tr. D.S. Richards)
—The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir. Part 3: The Ayyubids after Saladin and the Mongolian Menace (tr. D.S. Richards)
The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil f
The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233AD), entitled "al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh", is one of the outstanding sources for the history of the mediaeval world. It
www.taylorfrancis.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
“Ibn al-Athīr remarks that the very success of the Khwārazm Shāh in removing most of his rivals contributed to the completeness of his state’s collapse.”
—The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir. Part 3: The Ayyubids after Saladin and the Mongolian Menace (tr. D.S. Richards)
—The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir. Part 3: The Ayyubids after Saladin and the Mongolian Menace (tr. D.S. Richards)
As a dialup kid, seeing 30 MB/s sometimes flashes me back to when 3 KB/s was all we had
56 kilobits per second blues
56 kilobits per second blues
November 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
As a dialup kid, seeing 30 MB/s sometimes flashes me back to when 3 KB/s was all we had
56 kilobits per second blues
56 kilobits per second blues
Same quiet wave of anachronism watching “Legend of Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These” where, in the distant future, Yang Wen-Li wants to study history but has to do so in military college because his dad, who would have paid for college, dies.
Always a surprise what world-builders leave unchanged.
Always a surprise what world-builders leave unchanged.
Watching the Space Adventure Cobra episode where he’s robbing a bank and complaining, “The writer couldn’t imagine a future without banks?!”
Child: “wait… why DO we have banks?”
Yesssss
Child: “wait… why DO we have banks?”
Yesssss
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Same quiet wave of anachronism watching “Legend of Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These” where, in the distant future, Yang Wen-Li wants to study history but has to do so in military college because his dad, who would have paid for college, dies.
Always a surprise what world-builders leave unchanged.
Always a surprise what world-builders leave unchanged.
Adam promised to write more about this, and boy he did!
It reminded me how I was absolutely uninterested in roleplaying games until I found transplanarrpg.com and *Dungeons and Drag Queens* www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhC..., and was shown that this was a fantastic medium for innovative storytelling.
It reminded me how I was absolutely uninterested in roleplaying games until I found transplanarrpg.com and *Dungeons and Drag Queens* www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhC..., and was shown that this was a fantastic medium for innovative storytelling.
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Adam promised to write more about this, and boy he did!
It reminded me how I was absolutely uninterested in roleplaying games until I found transplanarrpg.com and *Dungeons and Drag Queens* www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhC..., and was shown that this was a fantastic medium for innovative storytelling.
It reminded me how I was absolutely uninterested in roleplaying games until I found transplanarrpg.com and *Dungeons and Drag Queens* www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhC..., and was shown that this was a fantastic medium for innovative storytelling.
25 days later, after four seasons and three films, I finished the main Thunderbolt Fantasy series (there are a few manga and novels). Wow. The art and storytelling grammar of glove puppetry is so fresh, the fantastic Urobuchi plot leaving no trope unsubverted. 5 of 5 stars. To 40 more years of Pili!
November 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
25 days later, after four seasons and three films, I finished the main Thunderbolt Fantasy series (there are a few manga and novels). Wow. The art and storytelling grammar of glove puppetry is so fresh, the fantastic Urobuchi plot leaving no trope unsubverted. 5 of 5 stars. To 40 more years of Pili!
I love spring in the Bay 🌸
(Seek says this is India hawthorn aka Hong Kong hawthorn, which are perfect names)
(Seek says this is India hawthorn aka Hong Kong hawthorn, which are perfect names)
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I love spring in the Bay 🌸
(Seek says this is India hawthorn aka Hong Kong hawthorn, which are perfect names)
(Seek says this is India hawthorn aka Hong Kong hawthorn, which are perfect names)
After reading about past waves of tech investing, from chemicals & canals to microchips & mobile, I appreciate how quickly you can go from hot tech to history. My friends have a shorthand for this: *Clorox*
JPMorgan, Airbnb, Spotify, DoorDash, … are like Clorox—good companies but done. Post-growth.
JPMorgan, Airbnb, Spotify, DoorDash, … are like Clorox—good companies but done. Post-growth.
November 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
After reading about past waves of tech investing, from chemicals & canals to microchips & mobile, I appreciate how quickly you can go from hot tech to history. My friends have a shorthand for this: *Clorox*
JPMorgan, Airbnb, Spotify, DoorDash, … are like Clorox—good companies but done. Post-growth.
JPMorgan, Airbnb, Spotify, DoorDash, … are like Clorox—good companies but done. Post-growth.
I often ask myself the same thing, Mutsu Tenmei.
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I often ask myself the same thing, Mutsu Tenmei.
MeloMelo has a Durian Coconut Pudding with Musang King durian and it’s of course absolutely divine but
But I think it’s hilarious how they only sell it to go, they don’t want you eating durian in their store
🤣 outrageous but humorously understandable
But I think it’s hilarious how they only sell it to go, they don’t want you eating durian in their store
🤣 outrageous but humorously understandable
Tong Sui’s durian coconut pudding is my new favorite thing
Big parfait fan here (see profile pic) but Mochiya-ren's "matcha Mont Blanc strawberry parfait" is… unspeakably sublime
November 8, 2025 at 4:51 AM
MeloMelo has a Durian Coconut Pudding with Musang King durian and it’s of course absolutely divine but
But I think it’s hilarious how they only sell it to go, they don’t want you eating durian in their store
🤣 outrageous but humorously understandable
But I think it’s hilarious how they only sell it to go, they don’t want you eating durian in their store
🤣 outrageous but humorously understandable
Reposted by 22°
Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The easiest way to see why I think this take is ill-posed is a John Snow analogy where
- universal public masking = universal water boiling in a time of cholera, and
- “vaccinate and stay home if sick” = “don’t poop into the public water supply”
- air quality/ventilation metrics = public sanitation
- universal public masking = universal water boiling in a time of cholera, and
- “vaccinate and stay home if sick” = “don’t poop into the public water supply”
- air quality/ventilation metrics = public sanitation
November 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The easiest way to see why I think this take is ill-posed is a John Snow analogy where
- universal public masking = universal water boiling in a time of cholera, and
- “vaccinate and stay home if sick” = “don’t poop into the public water supply”
- air quality/ventilation metrics = public sanitation
- universal public masking = universal water boiling in a time of cholera, and
- “vaccinate and stay home if sick” = “don’t poop into the public water supply”
- air quality/ventilation metrics = public sanitation
I could feel my body revivifying with every drunken cat-cow
My approaches to old people pain, in decreasing cost (without mentioning diet/exercise/sleep because obvious):
1. Chiropractor
2. Masseuse
3. Theragun
4. Salonpas (pain relief patches, Costco sells them in boxes)
5. Yoga (e.g., YouTube Yoga with Adrienne or Yoga with Bird)
6. Ice afterwards
1. Chiropractor
2. Masseuse
3. Theragun
4. Salonpas (pain relief patches, Costco sells them in boxes)
5. Yoga (e.g., YouTube Yoga with Adrienne or Yoga with Bird)
6. Ice afterwards
November 3, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I could feel my body revivifying with every drunken cat-cow
My favorite part of Shino Shimizu‘s workplace manga about a manager who’s a sheep and her wolf report is the parade of fantastic work attire 🤩 I’ve been wearing athleisure since the pandemic and even before never developed any taste for business casual so it’s surprising how much I stan the styles
I’m a Wolf, but My Boss is a Sheep! | Seven Seas Entertainment
A charming office romance where “a wolf among sheep” takes on a whole new meaning! Oogami, a salaryman working for a bedding company, has a pretty standard routine. He does his work, keeps to himself,...
sevenseasentertainment.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
My favorite part of Shino Shimizu‘s workplace manga about a manager who’s a sheep and her wolf report is the parade of fantastic work attire 🤩 I’ve been wearing athleisure since the pandemic and even before never developed any taste for business casual so it’s surprising how much I stan the styles
Wesley Robertson (the Japanese slang monthly newsletter person) is coauthor on a new paper analyzing advertisements for men pubic hair removal in 🇯🇵
Fascinatingly, the main machowashing angle is: social responsibility to reduce inconvenience to caregivers when you’re old?
brill.com/view/journal...
Fascinatingly, the main machowashing angle is: social responsibility to reduce inconvenience to caregivers when you’re old?
brill.com/view/journal...
October 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Wesley Robertson (the Japanese slang monthly newsletter person) is coauthor on a new paper analyzing advertisements for men pubic hair removal in 🇯🇵
Fascinatingly, the main machowashing angle is: social responsibility to reduce inconvenience to caregivers when you’re old?
brill.com/view/journal...
Fascinatingly, the main machowashing angle is: social responsibility to reduce inconvenience to caregivers when you’re old?
brill.com/view/journal...
“Think how long AWS would have to be barely useable for companies to get off it”
October 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“Think how long AWS would have to be barely useable for companies to get off it”