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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 3h
anyway, here’s the black sesame matcha i had at a friend’s matcha bar. it was my first time there since they officially opened and they were doing a charity event (to help pay for their friend’s hospital bills) which was very overstimulating. but it was gratifying to see the place so busy
me holding my black sesame matcha while trying to navigate the maze of bodies to get out
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 4h
i’m now finding out that people genuinely believe that the long-established “chinese” schools are sus? my curriculum was the same as any school in its category. maybe heavier on english. we barely had chinese classes and i was reading entire novels in filipino (tagalog) and english for class
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 4h
i wouldn’t call it IMPOSSIBLE that some chinese-language teachers (from china) are sus, but honestly for my school specifically, if the goal is C//CP pr0paganda they would not succeed bc the language gap between us and the foreign teachers was so wide we didn’t learn anything beyond 你叫什麼名字 你今年幾歲 😂
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 23h
only halfway? 😭😭😭 (i was expecting this to be a 20-hour VN but i’m 25 hours in and it sounds like i have 25 more to go…)
dialogue box from a game

Narrator:
Oh, by the way! You're about halfway through the game now! Go you!
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Yunna🌿 MSQSG B34 @taotaotuzi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
早上好 MAJULAH EORZEAAAA
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ginger!—what the devil is ginger? Sea-coal? firewood?—lucifer matches?—tinder?—gunpowder?—what the devil is ginger, I say
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
rip lol
Fuel prices are seen to rise in October after China announced that it will suspend its exports of refined products to the Asia-Pacific region, according to the Department of Energy.
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
today’s cats!!!!!!
a cat sleeping on top of a shoe rackanother cat sleeping somewhere i cannot reachcat#1 scratching the mat and stretchingsame cat contemplating jumping on the roof below bc it was annoyed with our presence
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
exactly this! it’s interesting to me how easily ppl bend their hard moral stance as long as it benefits them. but also i just never realized until now that there ai vs mtl arguments existed ahaha
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
yeah, for me the technology is different, but for the person using these tools, the process and intent are the same (for novel fanTLs specifically). ie. they’re (usually!) relying on a middleman and not engaging directly with the original text.
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
- the village ep had very good tension, so much that i forgive the action ep—i don’t care for fight scenes or rescue tropes, so i’m pleasantly surprised that the action turned out to be a leadup that bolstered the impact of the succeeding ep that was more human-centered.
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
- when i said i was ready for Fan Changyu to leave the village i didn’t mean like That 😭 but i like that it’s MMC-coded, more so than whatever the ML has going on
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pursuit of Jade 16-18 - Jin Yuanbao(?) lost aura when he lost his earmuffs - i continue to stress about Fan Changning’s sporadic absence - really liked the closure we got with the nosy auntie character (FCY’s ops in the village). i was skeptical at first but it was a satisfying arc
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🔗 transparentem.org/report/debt-...
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Debt Before Day One: New Factory Evidence of Migrant Worker Recruitment Fees in Taiwan - Transparentem
Published: October 2026 From November 2025 to June 2026, Transparentem investigators interviewed 24 migrant workers from Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines employed by seven manufacturers in Taiwa...
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
dystopian
Reproductive Rights Connected to Forced Labor Violations: An Emerging Issue

Transparentem obtained very concerning information at one of the factories covered by this report, including a list of 141 former female Vietnamese employees of the same company who said that, in order to secure their jobs in Taiwan, they had been required by their recruitment agency to use one of two contraceptive methods: either to have a contraceptive implant inserted in their body or to have an intrauterine device (IUD) inserted. Several of the women also said that they had been required to deposit US$1,100 to US$1,200 into a bank account managed by the recruitment agency and that they would lose the money if they became pregnant during the contract period.
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
people have been hoarding bottled water and i don’t think the government’s advisories about not hoarding bottled water are gonna help when they’re not offering any assurances about what they’re doing to mitigate the consequences 💀 mind you, meteorologists have been talking about it for months
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
turned on the AC in the office today…. not for me but for the muachee/mochi for a family friend’s tinghun 💀 they’re just chilling with me rn, at least i get to benefit
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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The Hearth (1/21) A sapphic horror comic about witchcraft and hunger in the dead of winter.
An illustrated cover for a short comic called The Hearth by lainey williams. A cabin sits in a clearing in a snowy forest. The small windows in the log cabin are lit yellow and there is a trail of blood through the snow leading to the door. Smoke rises from the cabin’s chimney to surround the title. On either side of the smoke are illustrations in the style of Karelian embroidery, showing stylized geometric patterns in red thread. On the left side embroidery section, there is a depiction of a woman kneeling. her hands are stained red and she wears a headscarf. Opposite her is a woman standing. Instead of a left arm she has a wing. Over the top of the image, two geese shaded in red fly over the cabin and smoke. The trees all around the cabin are shaded in dark blue.
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
seeing ppl say MTL isn’t A///I bc it’s not generative (implying M.TL is better)… from a TL pov, does it really matter…?
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i swear no one hates readers as much as k-corporations
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
crazy how ppl aren't aware that the south has already been experiencing drought and low power supply (they've been having rotational brownouts for a while now).... a consequence of TV being dead, i think. like, it's so insane that news is so avoidable now bc you're supposed to watch it on youtube
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
my 2026 reading pet peeve is when books do chapters with alternating povs/timelines but the structure isn’t working for me
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
also dropped the one where the FMC gets knocked up after a drunken ONS (she was drunk, he was not) with her best friend’s younger bro (ML)… the ML unknowingly flies off to china and comes back to KR 4 years later after rupturing a testicle.
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
recently dropped m@nhwa: the one where the ML is an idol and he has a secret disability where he passes out every time he has to read something cold (eg. a script) due to Trauma (one of the first things he tried to read as a child was a newspaper article about his parents getting murdered)
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i’m tired 😭😭😭
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ants have also been a lot more active in the monsoon season than during the summer…
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
can feel a shift in the ecosystem bc this is the 2nd time i’ve spotted a centipede in my bathroom when i’ve gone 10 years without seeing one 😱 not sure if they’re coming from the sink or one of the holes in the ceiling 🙃 meanwhile, i haven’t seen the little (practically invisible!) spiders in months
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
oil crisis economic crisis power crisis heat crisis and water crisis when will it end
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
here we gooooo
BAWAS ALOKASYON
Metro Manila's water allocation will be reduced starting October as the government prepares for the potential impact of Super El Niño.
The National Water Resources Board will cut the allocation for Metro Manila from 50-53 cubic meters per second to 44 cubic meters per second. The agency is also urging water providers to tap alternative sources and the public to manage water use as it seeks to conserve Angat Dam's supply.
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i also don’t want to hear about diScrimInation from ppl who’ve never experienced their (general their, not mine specifically) native accent being a punchline. ppl will imitate the accent unprovoked as a joke and use it as a shorthand for “this person is uneducated” 🤪 in 2016 this was the dynamic
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
anecdotal + would it kill you to respect the locals and just speak ENG instead of forcing them to speak tagalog? what happened to the 🇵🇭 BiLinGuAL pride lol anecdotally, i default to tagalog in cebu (only for asking basic questions, bc it’s easier for me to speak politely in tagalog) and nobody GAF
Same here! Experienced it first hand in Cebu back in 2016. Nag-Tagalog ako, and when they learned I'm from Manila, sinabihan ako in a mataray manner na pwede lang ako mag-English or Bisaya. First time to experience discrimination in my own country.
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
meant to do a bit more (non-webt00n) reading but the only reading i got done was thread after thread of local celebrity tea 🥀 but at least i’m now up to speed on why people hate #her
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
comedy (FMC is 28)
random classmate:
hey, are you interested in the transfer student?

ML:
*eyes fixed*
*body turned toward her*
What? Me? what makes you say that?ML, hand dramatically combing his hair:
And just so you know, don’t me to speak formally. I don’t do that shit, not even when I was dating someone 4 years older. So how old? 22? 23?
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the host himself is a composer who’s used one of the 2 main A///I music apps. and he interviews industry professionals who have started integrating it into their workflow and gets into why they use it. very, very fascinating stuff, it also demystifies the subject for me
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
really recommending the p0dcast Light Box, which is a docu-style series about the pop music industry and how A///I has been affecting it
Description:
Mark Henry Phillips has spent twenty years making music for a living. Then one night he typed a few words into an A/I music generator and it did his job better than he ever could. In ten seconds. Basically for free. Light Box is what happened next: a season-long investigation into what A//I is doing to music and the people who love it. What happens when a machine can do the thing you thought made you, you?
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
can now confidently say that that the electric wire birds are starlings, they still look glossy to me AND i have finally confirmed (through binoculars) that their eyes are red 🥹 how nice of them to stand a little closer to me, usually they’re on top of the pole 🥹
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
from yesterday’s journal
- 8-9PM: heavy rain
- centipede in the bathroom
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That’s queer, too.
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
they look SO good ugh
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
sighs
JUST IN
SEPTEMBER 28, 2026
Airfares to rise by up to P13,726.58 in first half of October, as government raises fuel surcharge to Level 17
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
anyway one thing i’ll miss about the daily system is having the space to write/draw my notes on novels as i’m reading them 🥀 i really should organize and transcribe these 😂
Y*steryear notesCreator’s Grace tissue notes
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i do kinda feel like i’m failing socially bc everyone around me who is into j0urnaling is a H0b0nichi Girlie 😅 it’s p frustrating to finally have a common ground/shared hobby w your friends but still not really have a common ground. the need to show & tell makes me want to die
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
v glad to have tried h0bonichi (daily) so i now know its system isn’t compatible w my habits! it’s also not compatible w my financial status lmao not sure if i’ll go back to muji/midori next. crazy idea: what if i quit physical journaling for a year? i alr maintain many digital journals lol
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it’s always so incredible when our athletes win international competitions, considering the nonexistent government support. to win, in spite of your country 😭😭😭
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
why are IRL normies becoming a cdrama-watcher at a time when i’ve become a cdrama-non-watcher 😭😭😭
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
coughing baby hydrogen bomb
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
you thought Pursuit of Jade was good except for one overly drawn-out plot? i have a show where every storyline is exactly as long as it needs to be
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A @halfcactus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Person I Am Desperately Trying To Befriend* has revealed to herself to be a cdrama watcher so she has been upgraded to Person I Am Desperately Trying To Convince To Watch NiF *we were friends in HS, but now have no common ground
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wratty @wrat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Foxfire - A Short Rest. I wrote a short story in the alt text #wratsarts #Foxfire
Most denizens of Horai are always on the move. One day whilst out on a journey, the Dragon King stopped to take a rare moment of rest in the peaceful Forest of the Fairies. Nodding off for a time, their slumber was disturbed by a tiny commotion of voices.
"Goodness, it's fallen asleep, asleep on Their Royal Highness's Royal Robe!"
"How bold! How dare!"
"Oh so bold! BOLD!!" 
Small fairies had gathered around their feet. And right on top of the hem of the King's robe was another creature. Dark as a void, warm and soft to the touch. It also appeared to be.. snoring. 
 The Dragon King gazed warmly upon the creature and said nothing, for it was merely another weary traveller on the road, traversing the realms of The World Between. 
 Back to sleep.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
oil is a sliding thing
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