plantmaize.bsky.social
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
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extremely bold to want to “close the borders” of a place where literally every resident—besides the actual Native population—is either descended from immigrants or from people who were kidnapped and forcibly trafficked here from elsewhere
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Unconscionable carelessness towards all the students currently working towards degrees there. It's heartbreaking. I hope enough are wealthy and well-connected enough to have a class action suit or otherwise apply pressure for a reversal.
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One of the top endometriosis specialists in the top hospital in the region, too. 🙄 I'm only doing better nowadays because I found a different provider willing to prescribe T for a nonbinary person (which at low doses is known to shrink endo lesions). 1 year of it, and 2 years out still pain free
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That's exactly when my BP spiked reading this. Like, ignore the woman you've been stabbing for 5 minutes, but the man who doesn't like watching? Obviously he's the real priority ARGGGH
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Just reading this makes my blood boil, knowing how many of us have stories highlighting this sort of medical abuse - and how slanted the demographics are for which people are less or more likely to have their pain taken seriously by a provider.
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I feel like the real lede is buried with the firing of the copyright official, both because of the obvious cronyism at play and because if said official works for the LOC she may be subject to Legislative rather than Executive authority.
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Doubtless useful info for someone 😑
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I would love this. Could I venmo you to cover postage?
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This may genuinely be one of the most devastating things I've seen about a tech CEO in the mainstream media. Amazing.
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Also Star Trek: what if ghosts are real and every season we make a female lead fuck one?
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Thank you for this advice! It is pouring buckets today, but as soon as the rain abates I'll try out this method.
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I needed this level of hope today. Especially that mic drop moment at the very end:
"Who taught you [to value humanity over nationalism]?"
"Who? I have a brain, man."
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I was thinking peanuts as a first option, thanks for reinforcing the easy choice!
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Pictures of the offender, for tax and also scale. He's large and unperturbed enough that I'm more worried for me than for him, but still: one corvid holding a grudge is scary enough. An entire murder bent on policing their turf? Terrifying.
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I apologized with words, yesterday and today, but that obviously wasn't enough.
What is the best way to apologize to a corvid? Is there a food I can bring them, or some trinkets they might value and accept as a proper apology? /3
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The trouble is that this particular block is one we walk every day, multiple times per day. Also this bird was big mad at us, and angry birds targeting my face and my dog's face is something I'd like to avoid going forward. Even more so I wanna avoid trouble with it's buddies, for generations. /2
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Yeah, I was thinking of the hot springs museum up in Beitou (and to a lesser extent the Bopiliao museum) which discuss the era of Japanese occupation in fairly positive terms.
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Yeah for me that's been the most surprising thing about living in Taipei - the romantic lens through which the Japanese colonial period is often viewed. So different than Seoul where there were monuments everywhere to various heroes that at different times fought and won against Japan.
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Precisely. One can only wonder from where such rhetoric originated and whom it will most benefit *COUGH*
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This made me laugh unreasonably hard. 100% agree with you
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It's hard for me not to read it as a long term psy-op so that one day there will be global support for the "liberatation" of Tw. and SK from evil American imperialism (by whom and to what end ahem ahem). I've seriously seen this revisionist nonsense gaining traction re: T*bet and 🤢😢
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Yep. It smacks of not only ignorance but a kind of nouveau Orientalism to me. I've never heard anyone make the same argument about Germany or Japan (Okinawa/Ryukyu being doubly colonized by Japan and the US military), both of which are better known in the west and have their own imperial histories.
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Yes, and it is nonsense if you know anything about the places they're mentioning.
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The "anti-imperialism of idiots" is only growing stronger and louder thanks to social media and at this point it's so hard to tell who's a real person whom I might be able to get through to, who's a bot, and who's a paid agent putting me on some kinda list
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Every day I try to focus on really small quotidian joys. The past couple of weeks my neighborhood has been full of birdsong. The trees have leafed past flower, but butterflies are out dancing in pairs. Choosing to literally touch grass as often as possible helps.
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You're literally just repeating tiktok propaganda points, confirming you don't know what you're talking about
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Have you ever been to Taiwan? Do you even know any Taiwanese people? Somehow I doubt it talking like that
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Luckily for me he's not on Bluesky and he can't type.
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These systems are 95% petty cruelty. I'm so sorry you experienced it, and still so angry we can't have a national conversation about how mostly useless TSA security theater is :/
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This is actually such a good idea for ⚫ ◼ protest fashion