After a very tedious week of bad hot takes about the American election, the most obnoxious of which centered around a narrative that a majority of American voters support Trump and that's why trans people should be thrown under the bus, today California's count finally inched up to the point that it put Trump under 50% nationally. Which, if you ( Read more... )

For entirely selfish reasons, i really wish the US election season was limited, like it is in pretty much every other democracy. The reason is that apparently no matter my intent beforehand, i still end up getting suckered into following the horse race, for nigh on TWO FUCKING YEARS out of every four. It's ridiculous. "She doesn't even go here ( Read more... )

Every weekend that i don't go out for a bike ride, i feel like perhaps i wasted the weekend ( Read more... )

And every time the UK leaks out into international news i am re-ashamed of what an utterly trash country it is. The latest facepalm is the American liberals who are cheering what appears to be a well-deserved thrashing of the Conservative party in the UK elections, except unfortunately the so-called Labour party under Starmer is useless too ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since i went to a Pride. I never really got the point of them, to be honest. Lots of people dressing up and parading around like clowns in front of the normies, how is that supposed to advance gay rights? Isn't it just going to trigger fragile conservatives? Don't we win rights by being unremarkable ( Read more... )

I read the news every day. Any given day in my life you can be sure of two things. I will drink coffee and i will read the news. To be honest, i mostly just glance the headlines because that's enough to give me general overview of what is going on in the world, but there are always a couple of articles a day that warrant a clickthrough ( Read more... )

I really hate the idea that such a thing as "an addictive personality" exists, and even more the idea that i have one. But i do often find myself getting sucked quite deeply into a particular thing for longish periods ( Read more... )

After threatening to dive into the Confucius wiki hole a couple entries ago, i decided i'd do just that. But rather than going straight to the man himself, i figured it'd make more sense to get a broader overview of Chinese history before deep-diving on philosophy that i've previously barely shallow-dived on. Also i figured it'd help so next time i ( Read more... )

The company trip this year was a hilarious clusterfuck of west European ignorance. (Lest anyone think Americans have the monopoly on that ( Read more... )

annaserene noticed two focus group discussions in the NYT recently, this one featuring Asian Americans and this one featuring trans people. The three main questions are interesting and i wanted to answer them too. I'm interested to see what sorts of answers come up for those of us living in different countries ( Read more... )