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Pinned list of reading recommendations, updated February 2023. Please read through the various lists here, but remember they're limited by how much time I personally have to read books (not articles) #BooksonKorea #EducateYourself

Please clap, I finished our complicated tax return and it's not the night before the deadline, and the FBAR (yes, US persons living abroad must complete a tax return, even if lower earners don't have to pay) (and since the husband works in the US, we do have complicated taxes).

@mianocha I feel for you. I remember when I was in my early 30s and tons of Korean friends were getting married and I was a grad student but there were weddings 3 weekends a month, sometimes, mostly people I had to drop around 100,000 for...

What do you mean my cousin got married and it's chinese culture to give wedding red pockets and the lowest recommended amount is 1000 that I have to give him 🥲 I love my cousin but that will literally set me back so much, just had a talk with my dad and held back my tears.

@fred_mcnulty If you don't have access, email me (my user name at gmail) and I'll send you the PDF onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/po…

@TheKpopProf Thank you, I appreciate it

Part of an interesting article by Lee & Abidin on the topic of foreigner influencers in #Korea. There's a trade-off, where Korea likes you as a foreigner talking about Korea as long as you're pretty positive towards Korea, and this article gets into that tension,

@bonniexplore You look cute!!!

Restricting replies - because why cant a trans woman just post a picture of them happy and excited for a night out without slurs and abuse from these shithouse trolls ? So guess how much grief I got whilst out in Leeds ? None, nada, didely squat, f'all. This is the real world 🖕

@CatholicCharm Have your kids grab them all, give them to the family, and say "littering is bad." Then take them for ice cream

At a public playground right now and there’s about 8 different families here- one set of parents have put about 200 Easter eggs all over the playground that are only for their kids and expect all the other parents to be constantly fending their kids away. How would you handle this as a parent?

@otokyo__ Oasis (Lee Changdong)

I don’t want your “best movie ever.” I want the one that made you sit in silence when the credits rolled. The one where you said, “what… was that?” No spoilers. Just titles. Let’s ruin my week.

why is there actually, legitimately, discourse around reading speed right now “8 hours to read a book is slow” “you should be able to read a book in 3-5 hours” bro we are in a literacy CRISIS, i do not care how fast or slow you read a book, just pick one up and read it

Inviting submissions on feminism in Asian contexts. Guest edited by Sonia Soans @POWES_BPS. We welcome theoretical/empirical papers, reviews, short papers, interviews and creative work. 🔗 shorturl.at/U5yr8 #FeminismInAsia #Psychology #CallforPapers 📷

@fred_mcnulty Will look for it when I am at my desk later

@TheKpopProf Could you please post the link? I want to read this one

@heyshrutimishra This is good, and yet I worry about the sea life in the area, since I recently read data centers on land can raise nearby temps by 16 degrees (F) and ocean warming is an issue.

China deployed a 1,300-ton data center on the ocean floor off the coast of Hainan. No cooling towers or air conditioning. Just cold seawater doing the job for free. The result? Cooling costs drop from ~50% of total energy to under 10%.

It's actually fine to say "Author, name of work, page number, has a point that I think you should [engage with, use to support your paper, refute, etc] at this point in your paper." It's much more helpful than saying "Author should be cited on this topic" (which paper!!!)

including how non-white foreign influencers may get larger backlash if they say something negative.

@PaleoStephen @ma1ybe But this is your imagination. Plenty of people with men of average height, or shorter than them. It's about personality (my husband is 8 cms shorter)

@ma1ybe Controversial take, I think women’s obsession with men being tall sits uncomfortably close to achondroplasiaphobia. The cultural obsession women have with a tall male body deserves scrutiny.

Controversial take, I think men’s obsession with women being hairless sits uncomfortably close to pedophilia. The cultural obsession men have with a completely hairless female body deserves scrutiny.

I am in Bali now for 2 weeks …. And I’m too old for this place. The crowd is easy to spot. Yoga mats. Linen bags. Tattoos. Matcha to go. Scooters. No helmet. No shirt. It’s almost a UNIFORM/ BRAND of the consciously awakened nomad, spiritually aligned, recently escaped from the 9–5 pressure of the West. Three months in Bali. Sometimes more. Living well on prices they’d complain about back home. Sitting in cafés, MacBooks open, talking about healing, spirituality, the next cacao ceremony. And how much they LOVE this island. Sure you do. You love your photos. The aesthetic. The affordable “healthy lifestyle”…. bowls, matcha, sunlight. But DO YOU actually love Bali? Because loving a place isn’t just consuming what’s beautiful. It’s taking responsibility for what isn’t. And the other Bali exists too…. trash in the streets, sick street dogs, stray cats, the parts that don’t fit your feed. They don’t disappear just because you crop them out. So here’s a thought: Skip one smoothie. One. And donate that money to the people actually doing the work here… cleaning up what your version of Bali ignores. Or at least BE HONEST. You don’t love Bali. You love the version of it that looks good on your social media feed.

@james_xond Of course, still getting them because I am not science illiterate

Be honest…If you could go back, would you make the same choice about the COVID shot?

@Sinfulskin2 Hold firm!!!

I need advice. My wife is really good friends with a girl from work and come to find out she is MAGA. They’ve been hanging out a bit which is fine, but now I'm being asked to go out on double-dates with her hubs and I'm not hanging out with fucking MAGA. Am I being unreasonable?

@markminscape @LizzyLaurie Wow, just wow

i am genuinely just speechless bro like atp i dont know what to say

@LIVIEPRINT ummmm, well, first I wouldn't start from recent groups, it's like making the highest location on a family tree be your parents and ignoring the grandparents, great grandparents, and so on. Also, I'd start before 1st generation Kpop because there are lines you can draw to the 50s

k-pop family tree based on concept & sound, what would you change?