tea-forward cafe used bookstore situation but focused on asian teas because sometimes i want to sample some oolong in a cafe setting

Sorry, C-drama fans.

contemporary horror's fun and all but every once in a while i see something that reminds me that my one true love is dark fantasy

as someone who did her MA on Aldous Huxley and BMW........ 😐

muuuuust i be allergic to all the nice sunscreens? 😫

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This researcher created a fictional illness, and fake studies funded by the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and University of the Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad. LLMs warned people the illness was real. go.nature.com/48mAyh9

now, i Know that novel writing is a marathon and yet i'm always surprised when it takes me forever to get anywhere (and it should not! i've done this before with a longer project! but my general fatigue has seeped into both creative work and physical work 😞)

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

How did we end up with a culture of people bragging about being planet-boilingly bad at their jobs Like do people genuinely not feel shame any more BRING BACK SHAME

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oh no i've developed anxiety about writing my anxiety novel

"It's just a bad period." A personal piece about Endometriosis.

"It's just a headache." Migraines are far worse than headaches. They impact vision, feel skull-splittingly painful and make it impossible to function properly. They are debilitating, chronic and can last an awfully long time, even days.

it's always interesting to me how white people will continually dismiss and denigrate the experience of people of other ethnicities, particularly diaspora, by claiming authority and privileging the voices of a few people they know from source countries the sheer arrogance

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Has anyone else noticed that Leech takes place in Quebec or like....

alas this is relevant again today 😔✌️

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one of these days i'm going to have to write an essay or something summarizing my master's research because i keep seeing brave new world get cited as a critique of technology and eugenics and... if you read even one of huxley's essays in that time, you'll see that it was the exact opposite

Glad I'm not alone 🫠

honestly i think the reason the trendiness of ~being chinese annoys me so much is because people get very confident in their cursory understanding of [thing] whenever [thing] is popular and now i have white people telling me i don't know anything about chinese food despite declaring myself chinese

happy new year to my fellow east asians i have a... lot of very complicated feelings toward the popularity (?) of CNY and the trendiness of ~being chinese in online spaces right now. i'll spare everyone here of the stereotypical diaspora whinging about it

i have still not made anything spooky! nor have i made more art! so enjoy this for tomorrow is CNY maybe one day i'll hunt down a place that'll print custom laisee and i'll use this

don't forget they were trying to sell you NFTs on latenight talk shows, they were asking you to join the Metaverse without any legs, they were claiming you could raise your family up out of poverty on gambling apps. now it's 'writing' 200 books a year - the same shitshake with a new flimsy straw.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

my poor trackbear account i'm so bad at actually putting in any words that i write

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woke up again to an annoying tightness in my scapula area stretched in ridiculous ways (did not work) picked up my 5lb weights again (very weak, can't even do shoulder presses) stretched again but differently (kind of worked, pain has moved further down my back) bad times

"passive consumers of unthought thoughts" is such an elegant way to put slop-eaters

When asked why we were in the MA in English lit program, I said (to the department head) that my BSc in biochemistry is useless on its own He asked if he could quote me on the pitches to prospective students lmao

wanted to do something Spooky but ended up just making straightforward CNY art did it as a collage which is fun but it did remind me that attribution for asian artists is severely lacking

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These are totally unsupported claims with no links, citations or even statements like “sources familiar with the matter.” I read basically every single story about AI efficacy at big companies, especially salesforce. These are either made up or egregious extrapolations of things.

wrote a short story (1.1k) yesterday from start to finish so that's an improvement was it entirely inspired by my back pain? yes. but it came out like a story which i haven't been able to do in a while now, to edit

It's once again that time of year where I wish the broader population did not know about LNY

I would love to see us lend considerably less oxygen to rage bait in 2026. Like just say no.

“I have no professional interest in people looking at my face” is, not to be dramatic about it or anything, an idea for which I am willing to live and die

oh no this project is like 90% paramore melancholy

At this point it's bordering on dishonest to keep bringing up protein systhesis or cancer detection when all those data centers and chips and greenhouse gases and trillions of dollars are *really* for lying, theiving chatbots, surveillance capitalism, and unethical porn.

hm winter solstice is tomorrow i think i will attempt to recreate my grandmother's tangyuan recipe and actually write it down this time i did it a few years ago, the christmas after she passed away, and got the approval from my family but i Do Not remember what i did and recipes online don't match

double vaxxed and still got the flu 😔✌️ and somehow not from work (pharmacy)! it's a bad flu season y'all

having OCD and being on social media is Fun because almost all content but especially cool recipe ones is full of comments with OCD traits and you Can't Escape the triggers

engaging with TikTok content as if most of it is posted in good faith is a fundamental failure of media literacy in 2025. people openly brag about how much money they make ragebaiting the algorithm. if TikTok content outrages you, assume it was made for that purpose and that’s how they make money

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