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Da’an location edges out Zhongshan, but you can wander the mall and grocery store while you wait.

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Not sure about other DTF in Asia, but reports seem to be that the ones in the US aren’t as good and the London one was straight up bad.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

I’m at Din Tai Fung next to a table of Korean guys who ordered so many dumplings and they’re so excited. It’s adorable.

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Do you know why I think every prisoner should get to vote in prison? Not only are prisoners counted in the census and are most affected by policies (check out prison gerrymandering), but also if you don't, regimes could simply round up 1,000s of dissidents and minorities to reshape the electorate

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Just some woman clipping her nails on the platform and the train in Taipei. NBD.

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Old man in the Garfield Halloween special and Unsolved Mysteries — people disappearing without a trace and any light with an unclear source is an alien.

Scary looking Old man with a single fan tooth and creepy wrinkles and caterpillar eyebrows from the Garfield Halloween special

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After watching 3 buses I needed leave a stop while I was trapped at a cross walk for a million years in Tainan, in 90F and obscene dewpoint, with the next bus not for 20 min I will accept metro.

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The view from my room doesn’t suck. Minus the 12 lane city road.

A skyline in Taipei in a city with 12 lanes of traffic, dusk, overpass and mountain in the background.

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The capitalization choices: Donald TRUMP UNITED

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Just saw a Taiwanese high speed train pass the station and holy cow it’s fast!

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And unfortunately Tainan is a continual game of is that smell hot garbage or stinky tofu?

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Tainan is really cool, as the oldest city in Taiwan and its former capital. In spite of the fact it was a Dutch port in the 1600s you see more Japanese influence. One thing I didn’t love is it’s not easy to deal with the bus system, which has an infrequent schedule.

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The AIP Statistical Research Center is so great and the Historical Archives are another one that is still around and great. It’s one of the things I wish ACS had been stronger in, and ACS had a tiny library (with some cool archival photos too).

I learned the Chinese name for passionfruit a few days ago. Like Spanish it has a few different names. The main one is bǎixiāngguǒ, which in English literally translates to hundred fragrance fruit. But since it’s not a native fruit, it sounds like a phonetic version of passionfruit.

Taiwan really needs its due, but also I don’t want it to get overrun with tourists like Japan. Amazing, inexpensive food; beautiful landscapes; efficient and clean public transit, high speed rail (using same tech as Shinkansen). Vending machine on the train!

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Rarely can go out to eat without hearing it from other tables or walking past people eating outside without hearing about it.

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*singing at an appropriate volume, appropriate for the song

Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just walked past a grade school in Taipei, and the kids are sweeping the grounds and raking leaves. Teaching them not to be helpless.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Btw if you read this and immediately thought “well not all men”… pause for a second. The men I trust are the ones who read what I just wrote and choose to listen, to empathize, to ask questions to better understand. They know they are not the men I am angry about and they don’t need say so.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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As a non-chemist, Bunsen burners aren’t a thing anymore? Lighting them did give me anxiety because I was never sure I could get the janky old lighters to work.

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Any other women are also brave, but in the face of overwhelmingly negative consequences they need to be open to doubt, criticism, gaslighting and so much more.

Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The thing that worries me sick about the Cornell story is that this is one woman who came forward about SA. And if history has shown us anything is that she is likely not the only one this happened to from this group of men, only the one brave/strong enough to take action.

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I can't recommend @nbedera.bsky.social's book 'On the Wrong Side' enough. I interviewed her in 2024, this part really stuck with me. Rapists often don't just not face consequences but reap benefits bc the school is so sorry for even investigating them/afraid of seeming 'biased':

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A flight to SFO not for AGU just hits different in terms of the lack of poster tubes. 🤣

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Have you had the Doritos liquor? www.totalwine.com/liqueurs-cor...

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ooff this tracks with all of my British Airways experiences post pandemic (multiple multi hour delays). They rushed us to board the plane so they wouldn’t have to pay delay fees to passengers and then we sat on the plane for another long while.

Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Did they ever run the This American Life? And if not maybe now this extra story can make an episode.

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Who has two thumbs and is back to crying every day again?

Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But also I’ve gotten sick all over the world, and have needed all of these at some point.

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How I know I’m a hypochondriac: 15 medications/topical treatments/supplements on my packing list. Only 4 are dailies (keep me functioning).

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Jamie Bear 🐻 @jamiebear.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My friend and I are INFJ and planning a series of events for our friends. We developed a long list of guidance and rules, but we decided to tamp down our type A behavior and hide our crazy for a little bit.