As it turned out, the emotional breakdown i had in Hamilton did not persist through to Cambridge ( Read more... )

As expected, this "vacation" is very different for me, because instead of going somewhere different to spend more time with myself, i am going somewhere different to spend more time with other people ( Read more... )

Kia ora! Here it comes ( Read more... )

For those of us who work in the tech industry it comes as no surprise that suddenly, miraculously, we are no longer the far-left California-based boogieman that spent the last decade captured by cultural Marxism. Now, seemingly overnight, we are back to our roots of prioritizing free speech and acting as icons of libertarianism and rational thought ( Read more... )

For some reason over the past few years i have made a habit of bundling all my friends' year end memes together - rather than reading them as they appear in my friends page, i open them in a background tab and then read them all at the same time. I'm not sure why, but it's just neat for me to contrast and compare how the year impacted different ( Read more... )

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... )

I am so fucking tired. My new year's resolution for 2025 is to take my annual leave. I suppose you can make a case that i will be taking my 2024 annual leave in about 3 weeks' time because that's what i saved it for, but turns out going 12 months without a week off is too long. And, quite frankly, it's fucked the hell up that we even have to do it ( Read more... )

Well, i worked, obviously. Christmas is not a holiday in Taiwan ( Read more... )

Over the past 24 hours or so a shitshow unfolded over on ONTD about a celebrity called Blake Lively who i have no idea who it is but actually the individual isn't what makes the story interesting ( Read more... )

My favorite thing about going to Kaohsiung Pride this year was watching a rep from the US embassy (which isn't allowed to be called an embassy because China) show up to give a 30 second speech reaffirming American solidarity with Taiwan, its democracy and the LGBTQ community, or something. To be honest, i didn't quite follow because he started out ( Read more... )