One of my fave things of all time is watching people dance at the parks and metro station plazas. Aunties doing ballroom, grandmas doing taichi, girls break dancing or doing whatever K-pop group dance is cutest at the moment. It’s just so nice to see people making places community.

Sunday brunch in 15 minutes: Strawberries and cream crepes. 🍽️ The secret: Beat sweetened condensed milk with lemon juice until thick. The acid transforms it into something almost custard-like. Fold in whipped cream and sugared strawberries. worldfoodwine.com/recipe/strawberries-and-cream-crepes

We don’t need the TSA either

And we all love the post abt how there should be 1 normal person in every Olympic event to show how hard it is, but did you know this happened in 1980? Two kids spent 4 months trying to learn pair figure from some Canadian newspaper photos and an audiotape, on a pond, went to the World Championships

I had a used EV for a long time and it served me really well. Unless you’re thinking you need to make long journeys through rural areas, battery life is not nearly as prohibitive as people think.

"Members of X marginalized group are always on a hairpin trigger!" Because that's what marginalization DOES. When people are facing constant existential threats to their survival, whether it's from genocide or institutional prejudice or white supremacy or misogynoir or imperialism or racism,

….the added awful of 2026 is all the plea for help posts because billionaires and politicians have made it that much harder to exist. The rest is bad enough but seeing endless “please help me survive” posts is a new circle of hell I never knew humanity would allow.

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

I will forever be grateful that Taiwan allows two name changes, no questions asked, just as matter of course. You can even change your family name if you want. Being able to determine your identity is so very basic an expression, that it's gatekept at all is super alarming actually.

Actually the legal system should let you change your name and gender marker whenever you want on demand and recognize both polyamorous and asexual relationships with the same legal protections as monogamous marriages but we're not ready for that conversation.

Okay, so the site is being weird and I noticed that it's unfollowed some people for me... Unless the block forced unfollow thing now works here too? If I've unfollowed you, that's almost certainly not me as I haven't even been on the site much lately.

Suddenly realizing that regardless of original meaning, you could technically translate 歹勢 as "bad move" and I am perhaps enjoying that way too much. Also. Why do I not have Chinese input on this laptop...

Lately, every time I see a self-published novel with a cover that’s clearly, like, a photo the author took themself with their phone, or an awkward-looking 3D render, I want to hug that author for using something a human made rather than the shiny shit machine.

"In Stuart Fairchild, both Han and Indigenous baseball fans get their man" is certainly a headline for 2026...

I was looking for some music to do work to, realized that so much of the pop music I liked had really depressing lyrics, so I figured maybe musical affirmations were the way to go. Not a bad idea, but I just wanted to note how overwhelmingly they have videos of blonde white women as the MC.

I met Ny only once, at a @bostonfanbrunch.bsky.social event nearly a decade ago, and she made such an impression on me. I'm so sad to hear she's gone.

When faced with death, it’s so hard to hold onto faith. Theoretically I believe in karma and reincarnation and cause and effect. But too often I just want to howl “it’s not fair” at the sky.

Just found out Piper needs help and I’m gutted. I only met her once and not for very long, but she really was, as her husband says, bubbles and sunshine. Hard to believe, but some people really do shine that bright. gofund.me/df78c1923

The feeling when you spent the last two hours putting together a fairly heavy piece of furniture and you wrench it upright — only to discover you left out two bits. …the perfectionism and “but it exists it might as well be attached” wants me to take it apart and redo it but spoons say no 😃

Maybe it’s M Rx maybe it’s because I claimed so stoutly I never knew a trans person, but I dreamed of Jojo this morning. Jojo, who loved and idolized Mei Yanfang, who cut their hair short and dressed so androgynously my mother commented, who wrote movie scripts, who I talked coffin cafes with.

….

relatedly, this Jewish Currents piece about how hate-crime legislation gets weaponized to ruin the lives of people who speak out for Palestine has really stuck with me

In 2026, any dude (gender neutral) who doesn’t get how deeply creepy it is to ask someone to commit to this is honestly a red flag. No, I’m not walking out into the woods with a stranger that early! That’s how you end up in case files!

grief is exhausting

The feeling I had when I learned that the number of men who ask their girlfriends to go hiking and then speed ahead leaving them lost is significantly higher than zero… Also apparently many women hikers keep an eye out for lone women because they know this. 😭

The bake sale is back! Palestine is still facing an ongoing genocide from Israel, and Sudan from U.A.E. This fundraiser is for lifesaving aid for people in Gaza and Darfur.

Interpreters are easily one of the most exploited groups of employees I have worked with. Because they’re often considered contractors, they lack the protections of the companies they’re working for, and their deployment companies don’t compensate for the level of skill and training.

Every pronatalist argument I’ve encountered seems like it could be solved by a robust immigration system that allowed more people to move here. The reluctance to entertain that solution tells you what the real concern is.

If you can continue to boost this call, or chip in, Mary Ellen and Jeff could still use help. They're doing their best but the medical bills and energy bills have been brutal.

Help me find an essay on so called "passive characters" & voices in Eastern tradition vs Western storytelling. There was a great blog post or breakdown of this by...someone... I can't remember well enough to get the keywords right for a search. Do y'all know what I'm talking about? Plot w/o 3 parts~

i hate, HATE the trend of books being skimmable documents now. i know there are people out there who want genre books deeper than a teaspoon.

I have ADHD. I don't use it because I want to take the time to learn the skill instead of stealing from artists and contributing to CEOs who view me as livestock. I'm not your cudgel. Fuck off.

I’ve honestly just quit reposting pictures and kind of assume all video is fake now because I cannot tell what is and isn’t AI and it’s brain numbingly exhausting to exist like this.

Me looking at an instantly replying conversation machine that can make art and pretend to be human and roleplay and comes with both the safety and the allure of knowing it’s not an actual person on the other end: oh so THIS is biblical temptation, I understand. If I touch this I will be damned.

It’s fine, as one of those ADHD people you’re so concerned about, I’m happy to shame them for both of us.

hey! this sale continues until the end of the day!

my newsletter today: links to Queer Your Bookshelf and a few musings on Moby-Dick and 19th-century queerness. buttondown.com/SharonJGoche...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BUTT PIRATES! A whole year old 😭 and I'm so proud of the baby. And it's on sale today to celebrate! Buttpirates.carrd.co

I share stuff like this because I’m like “Look, a unicorn! An academic job/funded PhD!” Also this sounds like a really cool project and I hope whoever gets it shares fun finds on Bluesky

So I used to think that driving with tons of weaving and dodging motorcycles was awful but I see “Mario kart racing in Tokyo” on the exact same city streets as trucks and the rest of the world and guys. I’d hate tourists too. I’d hate them so so so much.

2026 energy is so weird. I’ve been having so much more “go go go” urges but the PEM is still so real. I’m currently sat at the dining table jiggling my foot because it feels like doing something. I want to go tick down the to do list but I just know I’ll get sicker if I do.

'A growing number of papers report that people tend to pick up writing patterns, reasoning methods and even opinions from the large language models (LLMs) they use. Some researchers...warn that the effect could even extend to text written by humans who aren’t first-hand AI users.' 1/2

…don’t answer this but I will never understand why people who don’t want to parent go to the effort of becoming parents. Also… am imagining people responding with the equivalent of “that’s AI talk” to actual people talking and it’s breaking my mind.

So, if you’re disabled and use the accessible toilets — try not to defecate in the accessible toilets in Taiwan because I swear to god nine out of ten times they use low flow automatic flush toilets and those just don’t do well, iykwim. Spare yourself; try to do business at the hotel.

I once did telemarketing as a teen in the 90s. I thought that was a soul-sucking destroying job. (I only lasted 3 months.) I can't imagine the mental trauma this is causing these people.

Funnily enough, JK asshole Rowling was the person to make me aware this needed attention. I live in a bubble, didn’t know anyone trans, and it wasn’t until BB was talking about her friend J that I knew someone peripherally. And even then I didn’t get it, not truly.

can confirm, trying to write has been...difficult, to put it mildly

Calling on all writers! Do you have a short story, poem, zine, chapter of a book, or any other writing that you would like feedback on? Join us for the first meeting of Constructive Reading in Taipei- or CRIT, on Thursday, March 19, 2026.

Added AI to maps and Google still can’t figure out when to overshoot on the bus or train and walk back rather than walk nearly the full length of another stop’s worth of distance. Is this because no one working on maps takes mass transit or what.

Man. The world fucking is on fire. So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people. Live whats left of your only life. If you can’t be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul. Fuck the haters.