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ABD historian of diet & medicine in China (#FirstGen), creative non-fiction editor @tendonmag.bsky.social, companion to a really good dog named Barktholomew (號小聃) Taipei / Baltimore / Los Angeles they/them 🏳️‍🌈 all views my own (君子不器)
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Bluesky feature where you can scroll back upwards to erase what you just read from your brain

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Research Fellow in Global Health History x2- University of Leeds - Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures - School of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNE369/r...

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Lecturer in Early Modern History (Fixed Term, Teaching & Scholarship) The University of Manchester - Humanities - History - School of Arts, Languages and Cultures #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC878/l...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage- University of Oxford - Faculty of English #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC287/p...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Through a mix of subsidised tours, university scholarships, TikTok-style propaganda and influencer outreach, Beijing is trying to win over the generation in Taiwan that has grown up with democracy, freedom and a deepening sense of Taiwanese identity separate from China. tinyurl.com/47pxrcub

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Takes 8 years to be diagnosed with endometriosis on average. For me it was about 20. As part of my treatment got an IUD. At no point did they warn me how painful the procedure is - but they did shame me for not knowing to pregame an NSAID and/or for "having low pain tolerance"

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Hands down the funniest context for roadsign typos to show up in 😅

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Disabled people: “Telemedicine is an important accommodation that we need” The System: “No we won’t fund that anymore you must attend in person” Disabled people: “Some of us literally can’t. Please help” System: “Too bad” Then the system proceeds to roll out hologram & virtual doctors:

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Spits facts & walks away implying anyone choosing nationalism over humanity, got shit for brains. Protect this kid at all costs!

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

ISO advice from a birder or biologist. One of my worst fears has come to pass; yesterday my dog offended a local bird that I fear is a kind of magpie (corvid). Today one of these birds let us know in no uncertain terms that we're now persona and canine non grata on that block. 1/

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

I blame Joel Salatin for this and Michael Pollan for platforming it. Nice as this sort of idea is for anyone who lives in a town with an artisanal dairy farm, for the rest of us who depend on supermarkets there's absolutely no way for it to safely scale.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

applying for jobs again

submitted 27 days ago • 135 comments

I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

submitted 26 days ago • 155 comments

I'm so exhausted by this nonsense. It's one thing to discuss the vast overreach of the US military. It's another to write off the sovereignty of entire countries as if they're merely client states - yet I'm seeing "leftists" do it all the damn time lately re: South Korea and Taiwan and it's worrying

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

submitted 28 days ago • 248 comments

Absolutely correct. Did DOGE kids who cut funding for VOA even know they were killing our best sources for news on authoritarian Asian countries at the same time? Killing RFA cedes info space to PRC, is really hurting US, not to mention Uyghurs, Tibetans www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

submitted 31 days ago • 111 comments

Every day I buy a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1 because May loves pineapple and May 1 is my birthday. I tell myself that if she doesn’t come back by the time I’ve bought 30 cans, then our love will expire too Chungking Express 重慶森林 dir. Wong Kar Wai #everynightapoem #ofsorts

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments