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coreo, 25 days ago to random

I want to write SF that feels like watching Arrival felt tonight. I want to make people feel things like what I just felt. I want to think and dream in the ways this story made people do.

JillsJoy, 1 month ago to random

I found a clip from a previous season of Street Dance of China with #EXO's LAY dancing Krump.

I just love the attitude of a krump dancer. Like a big gorilla just DARING you to mess with it.
#StreetDanceOfChina

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q8YSK2GHYlI&t=6m16s

liztai, 1 month ago to random

Have you enjoyed some Chinese propaganda lately? I did.

I watched a Chinese legal drama called Draw the Line and I'd like to reassure you that I'm still not a member of the Communist Party of China.

Usually, these issues are for subscribers to my blog (it's a free subscription), but I'm setting it free for Mastadon folks for a week.

PS: Before you reply, could you read the article first? I'm anticipating reply guys lol

#China #Chinese #Drama #Cdrama #CDramas

http://elizabethtai.com/2024/03/30/have-you-enjoyed-some-chinese-propaganda-lately-i-did/

coreo, 2 months ago to random

I mostly yell about Our Song 我们的歌 in DMs with Forest but let me hit you with some recent joys. This is a show where veteran pop singers have to match up with young pop singers, and season 1 has a lot of people I know and love from elsewhere. So let's share some joy!

coreo, 3 months ago to random

Y'all, can you spread this far and wide and help my bud out? E has been so supportive to me as I healed from my trauma, and they need help right now with a string of financial bad luck. They're a disabled transgender person in Detroit, and care for their elderly Grama, and had a recent fender-bender that has made their car undrivable. It's devastating to a family who lives paycheck to paycheck
Please share, and donate if able. Thank you, friends! https://gofund.me/573df6bd #transcrowdfund

liztai, 3 months ago to tv

Dudes I am so indescribably happy that there will be another Jin Yong adaptation. If I am not mistaken, a series of dramas will be made based on Jin Yong's stories. The trailer looks magnificent and really reminds me of the wuxia dramas I used to watch. Oh please let this be good 🙏

#Wuxia #LouisCha #CDrama #CDramas #TV #China

https://youtu.be/-Kh7ZmyUqBo?si=UskYS7g9-4eOxEva

coreo, 5 months ago to random

Okay wait, but I DO have a question: some of y'all probably have opinions on what instance I should set up on under my librarianship name to start soliciting consulting work. My core competencies are research data librarianship, research computing support and general STEM research support, and I have 20 years of background in science and data librarianship and in instructional technology. Which home would you suggest?

liztai, 6 months ago to Malaysia

Yesterday, randomly came across a #Cdrama where someone needed a super rare blood type. Super tickled that they had to fly over the blood from #Malaysia to save that person.

Eh dei, as far as I know there is only a number of blood types and unless we have mutant nasi lemak blood pretty sure you can find that rare blood type from among the billions of people in #China 😂

Malaysians are so mysterious people think we have magic blood lol.

#Funny #Malaysian #SouthEastAsia

coreo, 7 months ago to random

I was honest today with my PCP that I'm still unable to work and want a number of mental health related referrals. She said she supports and will refer me to whomever I pick for all of them based on insurance and people taking new clients.

I have two siblings with ADHD. I have sensory sensitivities. My exec function is shot. I have so many Autistic and ADHD and AuDHD friends I admire and yet it was STILL hard to admit I want neuropsych evaluation.

coreo, 8 months ago to random

I think it's funny and also sort of cool that my brain is spitting out poems every so often, because I'm not really thinking of it as writing and not really focusing on whether or not I have been writing, and yet clearly I am writing.

It's an interesting way in which I'm being creative, and doing things that will develop skill, without looking directly at it As A Practice and having either demand refusal or perfectionism about it.

coreo, 8 months ago to random

Everyone I have talked to today is horrified that the CDC might only recommend the next COVID-19 booster for elderly and immunocompromised people, after we have been told for years to expect it to become like the seasonal flu shot, while we are waiting for better boosters, while cases are spiking and the long COVID research is damning. Please. Ask them to approve it for everyone. We have until Friday to comment. Pls boost. https://www.regulations.gov/document/CDC-2023-0060-0001

coreo, 8 months ago to random

For reasons, I have confused Arches NP with Bryce Canyon NP enough times this summer that we're contemplating making "Bryce Canyon: It's Not Arches" items.

coreo, 8 months ago to random

Friends, you deserve technological autonomy. Partners often divide up the technological work for their household. However, if your partner hogs a shared device or one that is yours, while making excuses as to why they can't or won't have their own, or insists you expose your data to the internet for their privacy, it's not okay. If you're comfortable that's fine. If you need to say no and that such a situation needs to change, it's your right.

coreo, 8 months ago to random

I am watching a guy in Australia tearing down salvaged things like spa pumps and an industrial pumping apparatus to melt down and reclaim aluminum and copper and brass. He's so meticulous about reclaiming the bits and I'm in heaven identifying electronic components and guessing why they're there. He just pulled 2 350v rated 1500uF capacitors, each beer can sized, out of a pump controller (apparently?) and I'm studying them like I've just seen a new Pokemon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Mp9NRdCvw

coreo, 9 months ago to random

Made plans to go to a current popular movie in a few days, my first since the pandemic times, and I'm sad and angry because being masked and not eating snacks in the theater reminds me of the safety we do not have, and seeing what my sweetie wants to see reminds me of how I haven't had the energy or health to go see the niche film I really did want to see in a theater with friends earlier this year.

I feel fortunate overall, but there is so much to grieve and be angry about.

coreo, 9 months ago to random

Great news! My dear friend @mamajo just got a surgery date that is in JUST UNDER TWO WEEKS so we gotta raise the rest of their top surgery money POST HASTE. Germany does not recognize nonbinary people as transgender people, and after multiple attempts to get this surgery covered, they really can't wait any longer to get it done. https://gofund.me/81d92ea1

Please share, donate if you can, etc. #transcrowdfund

coreo, 9 months ago to random

I'm surprised at how little press there is about what's going on with Eastern Gateway Community College in Ohio. They're changing leadership and it's my understanding that there are questions about whether the college will be able to operate this fall given ongoing investigation of their practices. This is the only recent article about it that I know of, and the rest of my impressions are because I have family there.
https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2023/07/stall-tactics-frustrate-gateway/

coreo, 10 months ago to random

Re last share: "
When mission-driven organizations unionize it becomes immediatly clear that the values espoused by the leaders of these organizations apply to only those they intend to serve, not those doing the actual work."

Oh so that's what the constant low level cognitive dissonance has been at every academic support job I have worked.

That shit'll burn you out, folks.

coreo, 10 months ago to random

Unhappy with the harm and disruption self-driving cars are causing in San Francisco and other places? You can disable one by gently placing a traffic cone on the hood. Here is a video with examples. There is also a public hearing coming up on July 13 2023 about this. And here's one of David Zipper's articles about the topic. Hat tip to his recent tweets about this for these sources.

https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/san-francisco-waymo-cruise-self-driving-cars-robotaxis.html

A TikTok from safestreetrebel showing examples of robotaxi harm caused and showing examples of disabling an empty taxi by placing a traffic cone on the hood of the vehicle.

coreo, 11 months ago to random

I slowed down reading Witch King because I did not want it to end and wasn't sure where it would land. Didn't want to leave the brilliant genderfluid mess and his angry lesbian mom bestie and her hot wife's fucked up but endearing little brother behind. I kept finding stuff I could already tell would be cool in new ways on the second reading. I love that.

coreo, 11 months ago to random

Driving around in a huge diesel truck with the windows down singing along with Lainey Wilson's "Middle Finger" after a long day outdoors. And the grille lights on the truck are a rainbow for Pride. Awwww yeah.

coreo, 1 year ago to random

I have a scientist acquaintance who has been attempting to publish philosophical mathematical stuff about a different kind of unification of theory for mathematics and physics. I both don't comprehend it well enough to critique thoroughly, and can hear the tone of eccentricity and obsessiveness that give me pause.

I'm reading The Three-Body Problem and I caught myself wondering if he's been targeted by a sophon.

The work is theoretical, mind you. But his spouse is an LHC physicist....

coreo, 1 year ago to random

For the @danmei fans out there:

My #danmei fandoms are #tgcf #TianGuanCiFu #HeavenOfficialsBlessing #svsss #ScumVillain #ScumVillainsSelfSavingSystem #RenZhaFanpaiZijiuXitong #mdzs #TheUntamed #MoDaoZuShi #woh #WordOfHonor #TheFourteenthYearOfChenghua #TheSleuthoftheMingDynasty #CanCiPin

Also interested in non Danmei webnovels like #YouFei #LegendOfFei and #ClearAndMuddyLossOfLove
I read/watch in English and look up 中文 names and wordplay and literary references as I go.