my uncle here has an avocado tree 🥑🌳

some idiot visiting the sydney opera house and harbor bridge

Anyway, off to go do some sightseeing

I didn't watch here, but we have to acknowledge that Meek Mill was ahead of his time

I took the train here this evening and some of the stations had names like "Doonside" and "Toongabbie"

I try not to offer too many travel opinions, but yet another of my "I'm one of 3 remaining people that think this" is that for carry on luggage, two wheel luggage is superior to spinner luggage.

Also, I've been really impressed with the holiday decorations here in the Philippines. They're exceptionally well done. The only piece missing is actual winter weather tbh.

If I had more time here or a weekend to kill, I feel like I might actually hit up this Shrek musical they're advertising a bunch in this area

Apparently, the Artistic Gymnastics Junior World Championships are at my hotel in Manila this week 🤸

I watched Girls Will Be Girls on the plane which also stars Kani Kusruti from All We Imagine As Light. While it had a few snippets that felt a hair off, I thought it was very insightful with regards to human nature and the baggage we each carry. Felt like watching again, I'd pick up more subtleties.

It seems there is an Australian youth baseball team on my flight today. I guess because it's going into summer here now, there's baseball here? Which makes me consider the idea of getting into random southern hemisphere baseball for the off-season.

@yaeltime.bsky.social lmao theonion.com/gatorade-rel...

I'm traveling most of the day today here but go birds

Attending my cousin's wedding this morning 🌹

go birds

I was able to confirm Australian cats have an accent, and it's kind of more like a "miao"

today I learned about the blind women's cricket team. this is cool as hell.

not the 6th?

I had to buy some laundry supplies here and the dryer sheet brand is called "Fluffy" and I'm like dang that is a really good name for dryer sheets

go birds

Some very beautiful henna in progress for my cousin's wedding

I regret to inform that completely useless half shower partition thing has reached Australia as well

I'm so glad my travel here arrived at night so I could immediately do that first night of rest. I hate long haul flights that arrive in the morning because you gotta try and stumble through a whole dang day.

I forgot to post this, but Cathay Pacific has this usually cute little "baby boat floatation" device in their emergency safety video. Maybe other airlines have this, but it's the first time I've seen one?

Welcome to Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney, Australia, where the local time is 8:45 pm Thursday November 20

@cairdiul.bsky.social fyi, I mostly picked to watch this based on your review of it some time back. It was indeed great.

I watched "All We Imagine As Light" on the plane here and it was exceptionally intimate and wonderful. The movie also does a great job of capturing the real life vibe of India on a screen without weirdly overdoing it. Especially the Mumbai monsoon time.

Even if you’re not an archaeologist/anthropologist, yall should go ahead and block Weiss, an unethical white supremacist.

Fish have committed credit card fraud

it's totally the jet lag talking, but y'all ever think about how amazing light is. like what even is it, but without it everything would be totally dark! you couldn't see shit.

Briefly transiting through Hong Kong

CPJ (@pressfreedom.bsky.social ) is a good org to give to and you can do so here. cpj.org/ways-to-give/

this was good on how LLM’s limit us “as opposed to a feature of algorithmically generated content that usefully serves to shrink audiences’ horizons and harden their tastes, thereby making it easier to predict what they will or won’t consume next.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

good blog here imo on our “current mess” “leading us to seek out, perceive, trust, and remember information that affirms the status of the groups we identify with, while ignoring, mistrusting, and forgetting that which contradicts or threatens our identities.” blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...

@yaeltime.bsky.social fyi, today is world toilet day 🚽 www.loowatt.com/wtd-hub

Me when I shake the air fryer basket half way through the cooking time

the Cathay Pacific in-flight entertainment system is a pain to navigate and very slow and laggy. don't like it.

Dunno what they're doing to SFO Terminal 3 but I had to like leave the airport and go outside to get to baggage claim

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UPDATE: the seasonally available winter spiced cranberry Sprite is back on United

I put work email on my ipad so it's a little easier to keep up when I'm traveling, but brother ain't no one in their right mind clicking "yes" on this, lmao

I believe this is where we get the term 'milquetoast' from, meaning a timid, feeble person i.e. like a milk float whose battery has been drained by toast-making

I think others have commented this also and I'm not sure if it's the slightly different acceleration/braking or what, but whenever I'm a passenger in an EV on a slightly longer ride, I end up getting mildly nauseous

I drove past a vehicle labeled as "Armored Transport" but it was just a slightly larger minivan and had a few dents and dings. And I'm imagining a scenario where you ordered such a service and *that* is what pulls up, lol

I had a good terrible idea this morning how instead of opting-out or muting certain words, there should be a social media where you get nothing to start with and have to opt-in to words

I would be more inclined to do political donations if it didn't result in so many complete dogshit emails and texts. It's gotten to a point where even if it might be something I care about, I reflexively unsubscribe because it's such a complete misuse of my contact info.

Festive philly guys 🎊✨ 5x7 postcards are available now! a portion of each postcard profit will go toward my local food bank 🫶🏽 if you can, please consider getting one for the holiday months and helping out the community during a time that can be difficult for many families 💖

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