This is the Alysa Liu performance everyone is talking about, and yes, you should watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCrF...

So I was soaking my green onions in water while making soup, then went to clean them, then found the measuring cup to be full of water and -assuming I had forgotten it while making the soup- poured the water into the pot. Only a second later did I realize it was the green onion root water 😭

I remember when the blinders came off for me and I stopped falling for “personal responsibility“. It was when cities were banning plastic straws at restaurants. It screamed, “Look over here!! Ignore the pollution behind the curtain”

Sorry y’all, I just can’t stop reading interesting articles these days and so you get more of me spamming your feeds with screenshots of something I found particularly interesting. Enjoy!

Did any of you watch #TheGreatestTeacher? it’s a jdrama about a teacher who goes back to the first day of school after one of her students kills her on graduation day. She chooses to not feign ignorance of her students problems, but to help them face them head-on

For @boltsmag.org, I wrote about the race to unseat Rep. Carla Cunningham in NC. After casting critical votes forcing cooperation with ICE, and backing other Republican legislation, the longtime Democratic lawmaker is facing a strong challenge in next month’s primary. boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

This article abt the budget dance (cutting&restoring funding, ad infinitum) in re:NYC libraries & the disappointment w/ Mandani for failing to live up to his budget promise is great. I particularly love this paragraph which is in line w/ the truth that libraries wouldn’t pass in today’s congress

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#ToMyBelovedThief episode 14 spoiler 🚨 ***spoilers*** I was legit holding my breath during the hanging scene as the 2ml steeled himself for what he was about to do I also found the king’s madness scenes genuinely frightening. More so than scary scenes in most other dramas tbh Different strokes!

Um oops I underrated how hard it would be to get the kimchi smell out of my office when I brought kimchi jjigae for lunch 😬 All my fans and air purifies are going and it’s still so obvious lol

Caught up with #ToMyBelovedThief and I’m so happy with where we are heading into the final two episodes. I have been sufficiently hooked into caring about all the characters and I want to know what their “tomorrow” will look like! Also that 😚 was beautifully done.

Has anyone seen this movie? I know I’m not alone in being fascinated by the Shakers. Also fun note: Ann Lee would only be 72.5 years old this March lol www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...

Y’all I’ve said it before, but talking to a chatbot is the highest form of narcissism. But it’s worse than that too. It doesn't just tell you what you want to hear: it eggs you on! The article is well worth your time to read fully, but here’s some choice quotes:

This question has only one correct answer imo #LoveAndRedemption

This year, for Lent, I'm giving up.

I have no interest in policing other people's personal health choices in any way. If you're taking a GLP-1 and happy with it, then I'm happy. But we're never going to be a country without fat people — or the need to treat each other with grace and humanity regardless of size.

This is a phenomenal article I highly recommend reading One of the reasons behind “defund” is to stop letting them use taxpayer money to influence elections or pay consultants to smear people. People are so easily swayed through fear campaigns, and cops always use that to their advantage

My husband just texted this to me:

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

My favorite wtf?!?!?!? from the article These are some ideas they brainstormed for how to surveil and collect more data on their $$$ (aka students)

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oh man, wait till you really dig into the history of this time measuring methodology it goes and goes and goes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthly... it's a deep DEEP hole of Daoism/Neo-Daoism etc. etc. navigational positioning, wuxia martial arts stuff, all of this is related.

“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups… “Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”

That people are already staking out strong takes on voting in the 2028 primary on this website is simply further evidence that people need to get out more and do literally anything. Even laying in a field and looking at clouds is more productive

Since its Chinese New Year, I want to share a fun detail youve probably noticed in costume cdramas and historical kdramas: Telling time used to be based on Chinese Zodiac Time where every 2 hours corresponds to a zodiac animal

It’s interesting to see how people are showing how build local infrastructure servers for their entertainment or privacy, I’m glad I hopped on it since early 2024.

While a shorthand distinction of ‘idol’ & ‘serious’ (non-idol) #cdrama can be useful, it seems to me it has also accumulated a lot of baggage While it can be used as a neutral genre label, it is often *misused* as a value judgment, reflecting a particular subjective aesthetic prejudice

I started #ToMyBelovedThief yesterday and I was thinking it was such a strong start but didn’t I remember there’s a soul-swap plot 🤔 I was liking it so much and getting so nervous about the soul-swap but now that it happened I’m into it! They aren’t cringe! I’m impressed!

@winterwoman112.bsky.social Just making a side thread in case you decide to mute the other one :-) I really like being able to have semi-antagonistic discussions with people who I know and like, so thanks for jumping into the melee 😊

My take on this take: Calling historical cdramas “idol dramas“ is reductive and dismissive Thoughts? I view painting historical cdramas with the “idol” brush like I viewed people calling Buffy a “teen” drama— dismissing its complexity and reducing it to its demographics

My Trump-supporting cousin-in-law just texted my husband to say he encountered this Mother Jones on social media, read it, realized I wrote it, and told him to tell me I’m doing good work and to keep going. Things are changing, y’all. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Shouldnt have read this while eating my instant ramen lunch 😵‍💫🍜

Oh look. My post is even more relevant. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/t...

Oklahoma not beating its rep as a “flyover state“ Though tbh with the EPA’s collapse, bad and no environmental regulation is coming for us all

This is easily the hardest thing I've ever had to write.

"The OPB on your coffee mug, or on your window sticker, might not be the exact place you think it is." This week, we're telling you why we started the @thewesternedge.bsky.social. Today read @ryanjhaas.bsky.social's devastating essay about local media: www.thewesternedge.media/p/i-had-a-dr...

I am a bit overwhelmed at the moment with very concrete things (starting taxes, uncluttering house, meeting up with friends while in town, etc) and my stupid anxiety brain keeps chiming in with “what if your place burns down and you also end up having to deal with insurance 🤔 🤔“ cool thanks brain

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Y‘all, if you have an Activate Games near you, you should definitely go! This place is a blast playactivate.com

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

I’m watching #YoungBlood and I just can’t handle #StevenZhang’s impish smile. It kills me dead. I maybe had to pause watching to rush through a rewatch of my favorite parts of #SkateIntoLove too. Maybe. Seriously love him in roles like this.

Hi. It's me again. Just here to remind you that it's doxxing not doxing because it gets you more points in scrabble

Need a mood boost? Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl

Friends! Tuesday, Feb. 10th, at 6:00 pm EST, @resistanceschool.bsky.social will host our very first virtual public salon! We will discuss the killings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and why the system erases white martyrs in the fight for civil rights. Register here: buy.stripe.com/28EfZi7VN6RA...

How few people know about John Brown in 2026 is a testament to this.

I learned while I was in Seoul: “silver town” = retirement community

Looks like someone was inspired by the Who Am I? mv lol 🦡🦡

Every step of the way, Bernie Sanders has been trying to show us the off-ramp. If he says it’s not too late, I choose to believe him. It’s time to remove your blinders and stop falling for the democrat’s fundraiser talking points. Support the people. It can be done.

I am totally up with the push to make Yuan Yang PM! Her book is brilliant too! Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang review – an intimate account of how China is changing | Society books | The Guardian share.google/CXxXBugqUdX2...

Was just musing on #SeoInGuk. Hope he doesn’t chew off anyone’s ear in this one!