Giant Devil Fruit, for some reason ...

Exhibit at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan basically said that ancient people made discs and tubes out of jade because discs and tubes are cool and jade is pretty. I'm honestly fine with that explanation.

Plenty of justifiable leopards-eating-faces jokes in the comments, but it's genuinely enraging how they only care when Trump harms them personally.

You know the museum is hardcore when it has a spawn point and a designated beating area.

In a sane country, Blanche would lose the nominating vote 100-0. Guessing he'll get at least 51 votes, and one will be Fetterman.

Alienating Ukraine was probably the dumbest thing we could've done in an age of escalating drone warfare. Unless, of course, your primary goal is to empower and enrich Putin.

Looking forward to the White House UFC Iran Peace Spectacular.

You could also launch a bunch of drones from a field *without* wind turbines. How does Burgum walk with no spine and no brain?

Controversial opinion, but I think it's bad that the President of The United States is completely delusional and getting worse by the day.

Anyone awake in the Chicago burbs? Just got a Comed text that power is out and might not be restored until Saturday (?!)

Update: Good news from the future ...

Regret to inform you that it's Thursday morning where I'm currently at, and the Knicks still aren't winning.

As a Chicagoan, I don't have much skin in the game re: NYC sports, but I am happy to blame any Knicks' losses on Trump if that helps.

I would like every reporter in this country to honestly ask themselves what headline they would have written if Barack Obama had said “I love the inflation” when asked about the economy during a war he started.

Really interesting to see how batteries are replacing “peaking gas” (on-demand generation) instead of coal. Batteries deliver power at the time it’s most needed. They’re literally changing the game.

Kids are clothes shopping in Taipei, so I bought a Frieren mystery box.

Being 14 hours ahead of home really tells you which of your online friends suffers from insomnia.

My wife's discussing politics with Taiwanese cabbies again. My Mandarin's not good enough to know if they're loudly disagreeing or noisily agreeing.

Think I can make the turn at 264 KPH?

I wish Nancy Mace lost because she was a horrible person and awful to trans folk, and not because she talked about the Epstein Files too.much.

"ME GROK WINNER. NEWS SAY ME GROK LOSE. NO MAKE SENSE. WINNER NOT LOSE. BIG FRAUD!"

A Modest Proposal: * Mon/Wed/Fri: WAR * Tues/Thurs/Sat: PEACE * Sun: TACOS

What undermines the integrity of our elections is one party loudly, baselessly crying foul every single time the voters choose the other party.

"They're taking too long to count the votes! They must be cheating!!" I don't know, man -- I feel like I could cheat really fast.

As a data scientist, I reject any definition of masculinity that includes Ted Cruz.

I always get in my head that Taipei is in the South, and then I remember it literally means "North City" and feel very dumb.

Taking high-speed rail in any country on the world makes me hate Elon Musk just a little bit more. His Hyperloop bullshit robbed a lot of folks of better transportation.

Late to our next stop and pushing the local speed limit a bit. Hold on tight, kids!

Temu Wolverine takes a break from begging Daddy Trump for crumbs to lecture us about masculinity.

Not that this makes her unique in Trump's Cabinet, but does Rollins actually do anything? I've seen dozens of interviews with her and heard zero actual agriculture-related policies.

Is there any limit to how long Blanche can be acting AG without a confirmation vote, or can they just drag that out for Trump's whole term?

@drmag00.bsky.social I came up with a new sing to annoy A. that is on par with our classics. Chorus goes: "It's time to party. 2-0-2-0-2 It's time to party. 2-0-2-0-6 It's time to party. 2-0-2-0-8 ..."

At the Kaohsiung City Costco ... Executive Members, baby ...

Never seen a water ski terrain park ...

Our time-honored family tradition of getting drenched in Kaohsiung City ...

Happy Bisexual Lighting Month to all who celebrate.

Breaking World News: Korean Baskin Robbins has ice cream waffles ...

Korean youth are starting to sell me on the virtues of an entirely black-and-white wardrobe.

I'd never heard of Olive Young before, and now I've been to 4 of them in a week.

No idea if you can get a work visa, but if you were young and trendy and willing to learn Korean, Busan would be a pretty cool place to be.

Bulgolgi breakfast sandwich ...

Obviously, the only solution to the NBA playoffs is to finish the ballroom and add a full court.

Downtown Busan shopping district is hoppin', and I feel like I'm about 2X the average age.

Level 2 ("the start of spiciness") nearly killed me.

Starting to think we owe Hungarian voters a massive debt of gratitude.

I don't post a ton of pics of the kids these days, but here's our two learning to surf yesterday in Busan ...

Strait of Hormuz live tracker ...

Glass-bottom sky tram (Busan) ...

Time for lunch.

What "tough on crime" conservatives actually fear is people realizing they don't need the for-profit prison-industrial.complex.