Keep getting these typhoon wind warnings. Finally went to the website explaining the scale — we’re at level 14, which sounds about right based on the racket that wind outside is making. Stuff strewn all over the street outside my house already. #typhoonpodul #taitung

Turns out this warning was warranted. The rain is alright but the wind out there is fierce right now. Sounds like a plane taking off over and over. Strongest typhoon I’ve experienced in some years. Power is flickering.

My storm-chasing friends have a live feed from SE Taiwan right now of the landfall of typhoon #11 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFV2...

The typhoon day started off with a surprise in my kitchen! 🐍 Thank goodness for a good landlord who has a snake guy on speed dial. Didn’t like the part where I had to help lift the furniture to get the rest of it loose, but thankful it’s gone now. *shudder*

First time seeing this particular warning during a typhoon. This one is shaping up to be a biggie. #typhoonpodul #taitung

Live stream from Taitung, Taiwan — no obvious tsunami waves so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqS_...

Crossposted from TVBS on Threads: the scene in Hualien, Taiwan, as the tsunami from the M8.8 earthquake in Kamchatka arrives.

Tsunami warning for Taiwan: Less than 30cm for northern Taiwan 30cm to 1 meter for southern Taiwan

Tsunami estimated to arrive at about 12:40 in Hokkaido (Sapporo). 1pm in Niigata. Just before 2pm in Okinawa (Naha I guess). Taiwan: 1:19pm local time in Hualien, 1:24 in Taitung, 1:52pm in Keelung, 2:06pm in Kaohsiung. tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/... 🧪⚒️⚛️

A little rattle down here in Taitung. First time getting the mobile earthquake alert in a couple of months. Could tell it was local before the data was published because there wasn’t a peep on my timeline about it. XD

2/13（四）19:00在台東晃晃書店見！ 情人節前夕，晃晃會有一場特別的講座，是來自荷蘭的譯者 Annelous Stiggelbout（施露）要來分享三毛的故事，《撒哈拉的故事》的荷蘭文本《Berichten uit de Sahara》是她的譯作之一。 主題：翻譯三毛 Translating Sanmao 地點：晃晃書店 #台東 #台灣 facebook.com/events/s/%E8...

President Donald Trump has paused imposing tariffs on small-value packages arriving from #China, apparently to give federal agencies time to sort out how to process millions of such shipments that have come through the U.S. border every day without paying taxes. apnews.com/article/tari...

I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

TIL: I thought I spotted an anachronism in a novel just now, but it turns out CDs and CD players have been around a good decade longer than I thought. 🤯 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact...

Am really looking forward to the end of those fireworks that sound like rifle shots after this weekend. 😫

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

Wow Just freakin’ wow www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...

F*ck @usatoday.com for amplifying bigoted transphobic rhetoric...

Felt that HUGE in Taitung!

Was wondering why my neighbors on both sides seem so much louder today than usual. Just realized it’s bc this is my first Lunar New Year in Taiwan living in a house on a residential street in Taitung instead of an apartment in Taipei. My Taipei place always got quieter at LNY with ppl traveling!

One more little earthquake in Taitung. Seems like are affected more by the Tainan/Chiayi fault than the Hualien one.

I briefly convinced myself that I had imagined that earthquake because 1) I rarely feel earthquakes in Taitung and 2) nobody I follow posted about it. 😅 #vindication

That earthquake warning woke me in Taitung. First time since last April’s big quake. Hope there’s not too much damage in Chiayi. 🙏

That said, after almost 2 decades of losing my cold tolerance in Taiwan, I’m wearing layers on this 66°F (19°C) day. 🥶 😅

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

they should shut down every social media site and force us all to get a life tbh

One of Taipei’s hidden natural gems. Most people look to the mountains as the top natural attraction, but I love this little refuge in Taipei. It feels like you’re in the countryside.

Repping Maryland as an AmeriCorps alumni at Obama’s first inauguration in 2009. We froze our asses off, but it was worth the long hours in freezing temps (Wiki says 28°F). Over a million people turned out anyway (Wiki says 1.8). TL;DR: The weather is no reason to do an indoor inauguration 🤨

I reached 18,000 words today on the novel I’m writing. 🥳 It’s a contemporary romance set in Taitung, adapted from a screenplay I wrote over a decade ago. I’ve been working on it for almost 2 months now, and little old ADHD me is proud I’m still actually following through. Please clap for me!

CCP is willing to open up XiaoHongShu and Douyin internationally as TikTok ends, but something feels off… We should all be concerned by how much effort the Chinese government is willing to tolerate to maintain its grip on American Gen Z’s attention.

🇹🇼 🍽️ Taitung restaurant recommendation: 深黑義法餐酒館 (at the Taitung Sugar Factory) A friend took me here for a late birthday dinner and it was amazing. 100% recommend the pork knuckle, and save room for fried mochi for dessert! maps.app.goo.gl/3JFLoSbMmb1L... #Taitung #Taiwan #台東 #台灣

Editorial on the new digital nomad visa. Likely will not be very successful www.taipeitimes.com/News/editori...

"Rawdog" is the 2024 American Dialect Society word of the year. Read the full press release. #WOTY2024 #ADS2025 #LSA2025 americandialect.org/2024-word-of...

Hardle in 5 guesses today! 1/11/2025 | 5/10 ⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ 3️⃣0️⃣ 🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛ 1️⃣2️⃣ ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟨 1️⃣2️⃣ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ 0️⃣2️⃣ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0️⃣5️⃣ Play #hardle on hardle.org

"So much of my life was about assimilating [to life in the US]” she says, ruefully admitting she’s only been to Taiwan twice and speaks very little Mandarin." This photo will strike fear into the heart of any foreigner who taught English before 2000 in Taiwan. www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

Where to go, what to do when visiting Taiwan? Great replies in this thread, especially from @aimenlau.bsky.social and @rshean.bsky.social.

So proud of myself for getting the Hardle two days in a row. 💪 😅 hardle.org

Taiwan launches ‘digital nomad’ visas in bid to confront talent shortage – SCMP

Publication no. 1: I wrote about a Taiwanese Texan tofu factory and how food trends and demographic changes gave rise to a demand for tofu and new dishes like tofu tamales. www.houstoniamag.com/news-and-cit...

PopCorners should be illegal. They really impair one’s self-control.

Although (continues from yesterday) it would appear that they started with “Wholesome and Tedious Brian”, a exercise in complete pointlessness bsky.app/profile/forg...

I, for one, yearn to have pointless, time-sapping interactions with Racist Sheila, Dim-bulb Simon and Provocative Bob

Today’s newest fake followers ✨ I feel sorry for the real people whose photos were stolen for these. @moderation.bsky.app

Oh look, the scamming continues on Insta. Another “military guy” whose photos (all of the same guy, some with kids) are most surely all stolen from a real person with real children.

I remember seeing this in the theater and being moved to tears by the applause from the audience at the end. It’s really that lovely.

Turned out to be a lovely day in Taitung after rain this morning ❤️