And no, they are not trash for the reasons conspiracy theorists and "independent" podcasters and bloggers like to pretend they are trash - in fact that bloc of grifters whose primary message is "LOL the mainstream media sucks so send us money so we can tell you just how much they suck" are exactly a part of the problem. Those guys have no content ( Read more... )

And every time the UK leaks out into international news i am re-ashamed of what an utterly trash country it is. The latest facepalm is the American liberals who are cheering what appears to be a well-deserved thrashing of the Conservative party in the UK elections, except unfortunately the so-called Labour party under Starmer is useless too ( Read more... )

This week has been less than optimal. There's the usual work stuff, okay, but outside of that my mind has gone off on one of its spirals, the kind of spiral i haven't been on since the Finding Clothes For An Ogre Debacle of April 2024 ( Read more... )

This weekend was 端午節 Duanwu, aka Dragon Boat Festival. That's one of those rebrandings that feels a bit out of left field because when most people in Taiwan think about Duanwu they don't think about canoes, they think about zongzi (aka "Chinese tamale" aka rice pyramid filled with stuff wrapped in a banana leaf ( Read more... )

There is a nostalgic smell from my past, a smell i always associated with Chinatown. I could never quite pin down what it was. It is a slightly acrid smell, not from food or incense, but something else. For the longest time i thought it must be some kind of exotic packing material that only existed in the warehouses of Hong Kong through which all ( Read more... )

I got the email this morning that my gold card was approved ( Read more... )

It seems i recovered from my depressive episode, got sick, recovered from being sick, and then got burnt out ( Read more... )

I am sick. I have only been sick this bad twice since COVID times. The first was when i was traveling in Guangdong and Hunan in January 2020, when there had been a few whisperings about the "new SARS" online, but still a few weeks before people started getting really worried about it. It was the worst flu-type sickness i remember having as an adult ( Read more... )

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I am still in the funk that i got into when i posted about clothes, and i know i should not have done that, because clothes continue to be one of the things that send me on massive anxiety spirals. You'd think twentysomething years later i would have gotten over it, but no, i have not. I fucking hate buying clothes, i hate that i can never, ever ( Read more... )