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I regret to inform you that despite having a neutral sounding pair of headphones, wireless gaming headset, planar headphones and the original Apple AirPods Max, I might like the AirPods Max 2 most. Now I'm trying to figure out how to sort out my headphone collection which is getting out of hand

Taipei Times: China ‘incentives’ fail to sway Taiwan – ‘willingness to work in China hit a record low of 1.6 percent, a Ministry of Labor survey showed.’ ‘the number of Taiwanese workers in China has nearly halved from a peak of 430,000 in 2012 to an estimated 231,000 in 2024.’

i regularly go into universities to tell soon to graduate students how to get a job in infosec, except in my industry AI has all but killed off what i used to do, and is creeping into related areas. those 20 year olds aren't massively excited by "try and get a job in something else maybe, idk"

The House of Hikmah is a celebration of the Islamic Golden Age

Concern grows for Suella Braverman as she completely forgets she spent nine years as part of the Conservative government, including two periods as Home Secretary, responsible for immigration.

I miss Taiwanese food. I miss the calmness of Taipei, the feeling of adventure in a bubble, knowing I could safely get lost. But maybe next year I'll get to go back. I've never missed a foreign destination before but there's a first time for everything.

I just come over here to wave at the Bluesky refugees and then head back to the modern Tower of Babel that is now Twitter

'Just a tainted dream of El Dorado' — funny how prescient this line is from my favourite BIGBANG song 에라 모르겠다(FXXK IT). Glad that T.O.P is back making music and doing his thing. Sad that Korea tried to cancel him so hard but I hope he keeps thriving. My fave idol rapper.

I imagine they want Taiwan to be Singapore, lol. Anyhow, the KMT is also the party that wants to make the death penalty more widespread for crimes all the time so I propose to one-up them by introducing Battle Royale-style explosive collars as a punishment for crimes

When I get back from Penang gonna have to call the e-waste recyclers to pick up my washing machine. It still works but the drainpipe has so many holes and you have to take out the back to replace it and giving it to people I know is...tricky because if it breaks kan teruk? It'll make me look bad.

The more I read about the horrors of space the more I would never go near it. Having to work out hard two hours a day just so your bones won't fall apart? No thanks

My colleagues' tastebuds never miss. Pity this place is so far away else I'd give it a try. ebx.sh/uMRxPS

One of the days in Taipei it got so cold I ducked into a 7-11. It was gloriously heated and I realised right then...I could never move to a country with winter.

Ryan Gosling is me. The thought of going up to where everything and everyone I love is far away while my bones slowly become brittle NO THANK YOU I love gravity and firm earth under my feet. (Also space is total no-go if you have vertigo/inner ear issues)

This reminds me a conversation last year with a certain journalist-since-turned-pro-unification-influencer who was arguing they did not want their tax money to be used to promote Taiwan's litterature, seen as an ideological enterprise without literary merit.

If this isn't some whack madeup post on Reddit, it's pretty awful. And demonstrates how dangerous it is to rely on tech companies to manage our data/life.

The lower gravity doesn't even make the top five unhealthy things about trying to live on Mars, friends: 1. Almost no atmosphere 2. No magnetic field 3. Toxic soil (perchlorates) 4. Average surface temp of -60°C 5. Minimum 7-9 month trip *each way* for literally *everything you need to live*

'I'm pleased to have this opportunity to update you on our longstanding position.' is fucking baller

For the first time, the Singapore govt has issued a POFMA direction that demands the target—The Online Citizen, a news site operating from exile—to place a “Correction Notice” ad in The Straits Times. The ad space costs more than S$10k. Failure to comply with a POFMA order is a criminal offence.

Pray for us now and in the hour when we really should have gone to bed ages ago

Handsome semi longhair cat chilling in front of my mother’s house

I will always love Sabah but I just feel a lot of sorrow about how I can never truly ‘return’ here. Beautiful, peaceful, chill, the kindest people in the country.

And now a happy Sheila's/Sile's/Sheelagh's day to you all! A good day to remember that behind most great men in history there was a woman doing most of the work; and that behind so many of our modern holidays is a woman who has been written out of legend. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheelah...

The opening paragraph of this article is INCREDIBLE.

If you're a PC gamer main, getting Switch 2 just for Pokopia won't be a good idea as the limitations/cost of the platform will annoy you. And if you don't already love Pokemon, Pokopia will be kind of wasted on you. But I'm a Switch main and Pokemon freak so yes, Pokopia was a Day 1 purchase lol.

I wistfully looked at all the wheeled luggage (gave all mine away for backpacks) then I remembered they're bloody useless on the stairs. When lifts break down or the quicker/faster route is down stairs wheeled luggage is a pain and I've had to run to catch an airport bus so backpacks still win.

Inwardly amused at random white guy wearing the Adidas Manchu jacket

Currently judging my countrymen - I know 10 words of mandarin and maybe 20 of Cantonese - so tell me why I had to help a Mainland Chinese guy figure out how to use the check in kiosk with the help of a translation app 😩😩😩

Just airport kiasu things - hurriedly using the socket near my seat so the foreign man next to me doesn’t hog all of the sockets.

Usborne released a bunch of their old 80s programming books for free a while back, and they're all just a gem: usborne.com/us/books/com...

Pokopia is adorable but dear god it's huge. Like i'm only in the starting area and there's so much to clear/prep

Can't believe my first try of the Pokopia game is at a media preview. 🫠 My copy is arriving late I'm so sad and grumpy about it but eh

Precisely targeting schoolchildren. Got it.

"Racial, nationality and and gender based hatred is positive for conservatives.They derive pleasure from saying this stuff, if the laugh emoji are any indication. I mean, their grandparents made postcards of lynchings, for crying out loud. "

I met Jay Chou at a gas station. He looked at me I looked at him then we went out separate ways lol (he was otw to Genting with his manager for a concert this was right after his first album was a big hit)

So this arrived

lol i took a marketing class and the professor straight up marked down my discussion posts because i didnt run it through gemini/gpt/claude he then proceeded to give feedback using AI

If Pokémon Pokopia was a Light Novel

Hey Nintendo can we get a new Star Fox game? Nintendo:

this guy challenged a sitting Democratic lawmaker in yesterday's primary, angered by her pro-ICE vote, and he ousted her 70% to 22%. boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

I want to be an artist, but I don't want to learn how. I want to be a filmmaker, but I don't want to learn how. I want to be a musician, but I don't want to learn how. I want to be a writer, but I don't want to learn how. AI, for those who can't, don't, and won't.

I wrote this in a Horse month in 2018 when I was worrying about ICE. Funny how things change and how they stay the same. seriousfengshui.info/horse-month-... #Astrology

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

i still find it absolutely fucking incredible that Marco Rubio has a imagined version of Chiang Kai-Shek that he's turned into a ancestor spirit for the GOP

Pokemon news be like

Dogs... #Pokemon #Pombon

People wanted to be treated like kings and queens, which is not quite possible in liberal democracies with a strong culture of labor rights and women's rights