Perverse: when half the team is out sick, we have excellent indoor air quality (Because, adequate ventilation prevents airborne illnesses.)

✨ superior ✨ 🦜 #art #lintuart #transformers #soundwave #maccadam

Heard a “haiyyaa“ in the wild on the street from an East Asian auntie passing by, you know, like Uncle Roger, and it was everything I hoped it’d be

“It’s not a rare thing for people to mix with people who are quite different from them. It’s in fact the rule.” This sentence reminded me how Amitav Ghosh’s blog name is “Confessions of a Xenophile”. Xenophilia is baked into our bones. It hurts to cut yourself off from very different people.

👏! but I believe Affleck is wearing an “N95” mask here, specifically, the 3M Aura, which I buy in packs of 20 from the local Home Depot I don’t think “K95” is a mask (maybe the journalist confused it with “KN95“)

Couldn’t find Horimiya in iBooks; “oh I must have bought on Kindle gross”; went to check, not there; “where the heck did I buy this manga?”; checking journal; “the library?!?! oh right I used to get manga from the library!” 💞📚

“Were they an ESL [English as a second language] person?” “Nope, they suffered from English being their first language”

The emotional toll of a well-placed “this is intended?” ⚰️

[CW: WW2 war crime.] Les Grandes Grandes Vacances (2015) has no right to go this hard. It's very much a kids show, but its frank depictions of war, of being a refugee, then running and scattering as Messerschmitts gun down you and your fellow civilians… Worth the watch—streaming on Prime.

Today I finally learned that Hans and Hant aren’t people, they’re simplified vs traditional Chinese characters, respectively

I feel more at ease knowing I’m under Rudy’s jurisdiction in BlackSky because Rudy understands shit better than the official team by a far mile and know I’m in good hands. Finally can be at ease on social median😭whew

I often think about how writers craft perspective. A common difference between shōjo and shōnen romance is, whose interiority the author reveals. But such demographic labels fail in the light of those rare beloved stories that switch perspectives, like コンビニで君との５分間 by Ichinaga Nozomi!

Tong Sui’s durian coconut pudding is my new favorite thing

Picking my coffee based on the mugs they serve it in

“An exhausting exercise in jaw-grinding frustration” —Murderbot

我相信你们跟我一样 也有那些再也见不到 可是总也忘不掉的人 "I'm sure that, like me, you have people that you'll never see again but that you'll never forget" ("Yao-Chinese Folktales", episode 3: "She Wolf")

This film was fantastic, thank you Animation Obsessive! Besides the incredible story, art, and production history, also swirling in my mind is the Subcontinental representation, & allusions to looting (rarely discussed in war films) It reminded me of Makoto Shinkai’s Beyond the Clouds (2004) 🫶❤️‍🔥💎🫟

When the dreadful Ax Rives me apart, When the sharp wedge cracks My arid heart, Turn to this book Of the singing me For a springtime look At the wintry tree. —Countee Cullen, "To You Who Read My Book" (1925) 🐦‍🔥❤️‍🔥🎇💎

Historical vignettes that confused me suddenly rendered cogent— Romans had a temple to Jupiter Praedator the Plunderer. Enshrining pillaging, enslaving A Chinese history podcast: the Song–Tang interregnum was "quite short, just 75 years" Ignaz Semmelweis begging surgeons to wash hands, in vain

Got my European coworker into Indian paan 🙌 (this en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betel_n... except the edible, non-narcotic kind they sell in the Indian supermarkets lol)

Watching the Space Adventure Cobra episode where he’s robbing a bank and complaining, “The writer couldn’t imagine a future without banks?!” Child: “wait… why DO we have banks?” Yesssss

The Glassworker is a gorgeous, moving, sometimes brutal feature from Pakistan. Making it was a decade-long struggle. Ghibli inspired it, but this is no GenAI knockoff. It’s a deep study of Hayao Miyazaki's and Isao Takahata's filmmaking. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/learning-t...

2D animation is booming in theaters. In China, the film Nobody is outgrossing many of Hollywood's recent CG films—on a $10< million budget. It's only one example. As 2D films rise, Hollywood's decision to kill them off looks shortsighted. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-hand-d...

Setting up Minecraft Forge to make Java mods with the kooks and thinking of two things 1) the “teach kids to code” scams preying on hopeful parents are diabolical 😭 2) and perversely, real resources are still plagued by what Dr Philip Guo called “command-line bullshittery” 😖

gonna scream about this every week til y'all watch it with me

AR doesn't suffer from the same motion sickness issues, so it is an objectively more inclusive technology from the dimension of gender👍🏿 But a bunch of dudes that have never been stalked, never been surreptitiously photographed, never been assaulted, never received unwanted pics, can't design this.🤷🏿‍♂️

This cover art by Edizon Musavuli took my breath away 🤩

The most cringe thing about Cuban’s plaintive bleating is, AFAIK, currently no country taxes unrealized gains, not even the Nordics, because it’s hard to imagine a rational way to do so (that’s why we have VAT, etc., instead). Cuban is literally a child complaining about the monster under the bed.

Fogust in the Bay is a delight, I love to see that laminar flow of fog down the Coastal Range when I’m down at San Bruno or Millbrae. It looks like living glass

Crap I might be too familiar with shōnen romance manga 😅 I saw a review for "Now that we draw", something like, "Niina is like Marin and Anna" and I knew *exactly* what they were saying 🤣 (the heroines from "Dress-up darling" and "Dangers of my heart", both superb shōnen romcom anime + manga)

Can’t believe K. Anders Ericsson passed away five years ago 😢 So much of my life and interests are adjacent to expertise and its (usually difficult) cultivation

“The creatures are orders of being outside the house of humanity, he is told: they are antigods and devils.” —Vajra Chandrasekera, *Saint of Bright Doors* 🤩

I love @sgj.bsky.social Earthdivers for moments like this.

I no longer work in finance so caveat lector but this fundamentally misunderstands the role of economic data in banking and finance: it doesn’t need to be accurate, everyone just needs to agree those are the numbers. Banks and traders will continue to make money just fine with wildly “adjusted” data

It’s been a joy to keep coming back to this world. This series has got me drinking Turkish coffee and looking for Ethiopian cafes Now reading the novel www.librarything.com/work/2464893...

Oceanographer Andrew Thaler wrote my favorite blog post about the nightmare called Vibrio vulnificus and I revisit it at least once a year: www.southernfriedscience.com/flesh-eaters...

“Immortals didn’t just kill themselves.” —P. Djèlí Clark. “A Dead Djinn in Cairo”

My Aranet4 CO2 monitor goes everywhere with me and I show it to everyone as soon as I start getting that carbon dioxide headache (usually when it’s at 900 or more) So many places that could be better ventilated are instead nausea-inducing (and potentially infectious-disease-laden)

The other day we were getting ready for our weekly meeting with support engineers and didn’t expect my coworker to casually and brilliantly quote the Ecclesiast: “There’s a time to make bugs, and a time to hear about the bugs you made” (3:5 🤣)

I was not ready for the first page of Dr Hartman's *Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America* archive.org/details/scen... I 💯 recognize myself in what she's asking—how am I participating in scenes that Douglass describes? en.wikisource.org/wiki/Narrati...

Read the two volumes of Ami Uozumi's Pink Candy Kiss on Viz www.viz.com/vizmanga/cha... and And so blown away I immediately pre-orderd next two volumes Then bought all five Japanese volumes on BookWalker.jp. About to read with translator app When new favorite thing explodes in your life, 🎇🧠🧨🤩💘

Gonna rename account to: Pavitr Prabhakar's Maya Auntie's chaiwalla

Been recording online Japanese speaking practice sessions with my teacher in the most jankiest way: my phone’s voice memo. Didn’t expect much when I threw the audio at MacWhisper’s pro model but! It gets most of the bilingual text transcribed to use as a reliable table of contents!

I’ve commuted by train in three separate cities (DC, NYC, and San Francisco) and have enjoyed them all but it’s clear that, if my life were a novel, that all three metro systems were such different *characters*

I read the entire essay (archive.org/details/lesb...) on the cogency of this excerpt and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it And like. I came for this critique of straight culture but stayed for the analysis of the gulf (political and cultural) between the lesbian & gay rights movements

The Dutch murdered most of the population of several of the smaller Indonesian islands so as to corner the market in nutmeg. There’s still a street in Utrecht and a freeway tunnel in Amsterdam named for the guy that ordered the Banda Massacre.

Steel of the Celestial Shadows

Cordelia Cupp stan account

Hikaru Utada is sustaining me today