gilrandir.bsky.social
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You make a really good point about it being a brand rather than a movement... The sad thing is, it kinda makes sense that the only way to bring this many people together all at once (especially in this country) *is* through a blank-slate brand that people can take to mean whatever they want
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Reminds me of this meme lol
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🤣
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I've eaten the outer red squishy bit of yew berries and they are indeed sweet and delicious :D
Someone also came up with a pie/tart recipe for them: fergustheforager.co.uk/recipe/yew-b...
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My dad once took teenage me to a banquet with his all-male colleagues, and there was a dish of chicken testicles. I knew what it was, but out of a sense of mischief, I "innocently" asked what the dish was. Everyone hemmed and hawed, and then one man said, "Just eat it, it's good for your yang qi."
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So much of Chinese banquet food is just elevated starvation food.
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I LOVE MUSHISHI
Ginko is one of my favorite characters of all time XD
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Fullmetal Alchemist (the manga, and the newer "Brotherhood" anime version, *not* the 2003 anime) has all of the above XD
The mangaka (Hiromu Arakawa) also did Silver Spoon which is a cozy Japanese agricultural high school slice of life/coming of age story (and also has an anime version).
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Flip you around and you'd make a pretty passable Taiwan! (Image from this Reddit post, which is apparently a repost of a Tweet www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/com... )
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(Which is to say, everything you said above is extremely relatable to me XD )
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I've discovered that outside of the growing season, just standing in my yard passively soaking in the sun is surprisingly not as restful for my brain, because the active process of "unfucking my plants" is what makes my brain switch gears and engage with the world differently.
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*immediately sends this to my chemical engineering friend for his entertainment* XD
(He periodically rereads the "Things I Won't Work With" blog by Derek Lowe, for fun)
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I feel like conspiracy theorists have poisoned the messaging well because it's hard to raise any urgent alarms without sounding like a fucking crank =_=
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I feel like white people tend to especially fetishize The Law like this, which yes is "not how it works actually" but I also can't help but think about how much WORSE some of them could be if they weren't conditioned to think about it this way and realized all the things they could do with impunity.
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This tweet is sadly perennially relevant
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Same tbh
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The trust thermocline hasn't been breached yet, but... hopefully soon...
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A country where government officials can say, believe, and behave like this, and aren't immediately smacked down hard enough by reality.
(from www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/m... )
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I think there's a spectrum of humanity ranging from "easily demagogued" to "not easily demagogued" in every country, but not many countries get to create their own hegemonic exceptionalism-ridden bubble insulated from the reality of "the rest of the world".
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(ehehehehehehe)
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That saying "good times make weak men" makes me think of this series of essays on "the Fremen mirage": acoup.blog/2020/01/17/c...
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聽不懂就是聽不懂, 懂嗎?? 這些腦袋空空的老外當然不懂 =_=
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Monolingual people, man. (This is also my pet peeve with movie/TV shows portraying fictional language barriers in which that shit ends up *working* when the protagonists do it because the people creating the media have never had to seriously deal with another language in their entire lives)
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Schroedinger's Joke: it is both a joke and also not a joke, depending on audience response.
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OH SHIT I completely forgot I stuck pawpaw seeds in the back of my fridge last fall to stratify them o_o And did not consider them in this year's garden planning o__o Aaaack (thank you for the reminder) (as I quietly panic XD)
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THIS TBH
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I'm in the process of starting seeds too, and if I could bottle and sell The Excitement Of Seeing That First Sprout Come Up, I'd make a gazillion dollars lol
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Like, they knew there was ugliness in the US, but that thin veneer you mentioned was what they took to be solid truth, and the ugliness was considered just occasional exceptions... so finding out that it's the other way around is breaking their brains.
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As someone who was raised in another country under no illusions about the greatness of that counrty or the US, it's been fascinating watching not just the white people in my life, but also even some nonBlack 2nd gen POC, struggle and despair with the "this is not the America I know and love!"
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Thank you so much for this important info! I've been telling my friends about it, and one asked if there were published references for the measles immunity waning that she could throw at her Trump-supporting doctor (actual MD, lolsob) father in law?
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I share that opinion XD Cheesecakes are considered a type of cake in the same way that "jellyfish" or "starfish" are "fish", i.e. solely on the basis of their colloquial name.
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Health quackery, get-rich-quick money "hacks" (that don't actually work), bigotry and racism and anti-LGBTQ attitudes, nasty gossip, fake news, etc. passed around like pandemic viral contagions.
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Whoops realized I typed WhatsApp when I meant WeChat, but I'm sure similar types are in both - I only use Line myself (and only with my Taiwanese relatives, whose egregious posts tend to revolve around health quackery), but I hear about WeChat shit from my ABC friends.
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(trying to explain to my parents that, no, Trump is *not* a genius businessman, has been an exercise in excruciating futility)
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Also, translators have to make Trump's ramblings coherent in order to translate them at all, which likely makes him sound much more normal to non-English speakers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...
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Whatsapp Aunties abound in the Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin, that I know of) communities 🙃
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but in Love Game (at least, the first episode we were watching last night) it was MUCH more stylized, in a way that he (as a Westerner) noticed and I (as an Easterner) did not XD
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He was thinking about the contrast between the fights in, say, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon or Hero, where there's more of a sense of physicality to the martial arts when the characters fight hand-to-hand or weapon-to-weapon (in between the wire work and qigong and such,
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Yeah for sure! To be clear, we were only talking about fight aesthetics, since we'd already previously talked about the difference between wuxia and xianxia when we were watching The Untamed, and I'd also showed him this excellent Venn diagram from Yilin bsky.app/profile/yili...
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And so, I concluded that wuxia fighting is fight choreography (with wire work), and xianxia fighting is Chinese opera choreography XD 3/3
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- it literally never occurred to me to question the stylization of xianxia fighting (Partner: "It's like they told the choreographer to have them fight, but make every frame *pretty*") because I grew up watching Chinese opera, 布袋戲, etc, and *that's* the style of fighting being portrayed. 2/
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I finally got ahold of this show and watched the first episode with my Western partner, and then had a fascinating discussion with him about the difference between wuxia and xianxia fight choreography (as he's discovering he aesthetically prefers the more "realistic" wuxia fighting) and 1/
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I like that it implies the mice are going to take (and pass!) the 高考 as an especial "fuck you" to human university aspirants XD
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I've had at least 2 "same dream city" and 3 "dream logic told me this is my aunt's house but upon waking, wtf the architecture makes no sense" (with the same wtf architecture!) dreams that I can remember... The second "same dream city" dream definitely came with a sense of "I've been here before".
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Came here to say ^this 😆
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They should be happy people are still talking to them. When people *stop* blowing up their phones, that's when the general public has decided they're truly useless and have thereby abandoned them altogether. (And their boogeyman of "not getting reelected" may be the least of anyone's worries...)