A few weeks back a Taiwanese YouTuber released a video that went viral involving the "defection" of another Taiwanese YouTuber who had previously worked in China for the CCP's "united front" civilian propaganda/influence outfit. The miniseries is structured as a sort of heist story, even down to the part where our heroes are in fact reformed (?) ( Read more... )

So, recently a friend of mine came out as a Swiftie. My sum total knowledge of Taylor Swift is that she is a country singer who had a song featured on the episode of Supernatural where Dean gets turned into a teenage version of himself, the punchline being that this famously gruff and manly classic rock listening bro is now listening to girly ( Read more... )

It never ceases to amaze me how utterly exhausted i get sitting behind a desk for 8 hours. It's only Monday and i am already done. I need a vacation so bad. I have taken 6 days off all year and have 12 days of annual leave banked, which i want to carry over 10 of them to next year for my trip to Aotearoa, so 2024 i have two more long weekends to ( Read more... )

I left y'all hanging in the middle of a party in the mountains two weeks ago ( Read more... )

Taking the bus up to this party led me largely along the same route I took two weeks ago to get to Yilan for the company off-site. The weather was slightly less typhonic, so it was a bit easier to appreciate the nuttery of anyone trying to build a community out here. It is all steep-ass mountains completely covered in verdant jungle and it rains ( Read more... )

I'm back, and i'm alive.

Firstly, and most importantly, i went back in the ocean.


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Last week Sunday morning i headed out to the corner of town where my European colleagues are housed up while they are in Taipei. I met up with J from Slovakia, who was one of the first to arrive. He was unprepared for the heat, humidity and torrential downpour that ensued over the next couple hours, but we did have a nice coffee and - more ( Read more... )

Last weekend i boldly goed ( Read more... )

Alas, we barely knew you, but those few short years we spent together were amongst the best of my life ( Read more... )

Although the temperature is glorious during the summer in Taiwan, Taipei in particular is somewhat depressing due to the overlapping rainy season. I suppose if you enjoy epic thunderstorms it's pretty cool - and i do enjoy those to a point - but when they're happening every single day it kinda throws a wrench into any kind of outdoor activity ( Read more... )