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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Many other stunning manga I had never heard of!

Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The manga exhibition at the Brooklyn museum, featuring a manga representation of Moby Dick — in a world where this came out while I was in undergrad, would I have studied 19th c American lit?!

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My facial expression when I wake up to wandb graphs that *do not* match my expectations.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

TIL Stonington Burrow contains one of TSwift’s homes and, perhaps more importantly, a nautical art museum! I’ve learned that “haunted galley” is generally what I’m looking for.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Saw a bunch of these ship heads at a boat building in Mystic today. Thinking things like, “first arcade fighter?” “Which character would I choose?”

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Yale, I’m not gonna lie, you’ve got it real good. 😂

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Upsides of heatwave, sneaking into usually busy restaurant, staring into David Bowie’s eyes. Downsides, *faints*

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I have never seen the polar bear at the Lincoln park zoo so mobile!

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

First time at the Met — wistful sigh!

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Cooking up silly conspiracy theories with my partner -- and don't worry folks, i'm ever-vigilant for circumstantial signs that winter cheer is declining over time.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I keep moving away from Chicago, but it keeps beckoning me.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

At a bookstore, getting out of the way of someone, bumped into this bookshelf: “Yes, it’s in the room with us, I always see it lurking a few steps behind me.” 😂

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The special Korean exhibit at the Art institute has taught me an important lesson… If I am part owner of Samsung — I too can own priceless historical artifacts and lend them at my leisure.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Zenyatta cosplayers about to be put out of business

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

“No no, I’m not a weeb, I just *love* Japanese woodblock prints!” (From the current rotation of prints at the chicago art institute)

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Currently at the art institute of chicago: not the vase we need but the vase we deserve.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Got to be mere inches from a tiger!

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Also, what is the name of this band? 😂

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

When you happen to look down from a pier and a harbor seal emerges, looking up at you— before going underwater again, teasing me into waiting with my binoculars for half an hour… — Dear reader, the cute harbor seal did not return. 😔😔😔 instead I was treated to a smorgasbord of sea lions

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

My partner and I were looking for the last few edge pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, but there were quite a few pieces to sort through. So as a joke he took a picture of all the pieces asked it to find them, and… it found them 😂 Fun benchmark idea: visual needle in a haystack (if not already a thing)

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

TIL, San Luis Obispo features the very first Jamba Juice. Which in my historical mental model was the popularizer of the health smoothie? Idk if there was one before that?

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

California’s state slogan should really be “nothing you do will make your state as beautiful as ours, surrender.”

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Little does Katseye know that 21st century kpop stars 🤝 19th century horticulturists

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Will post prettier pics in a bit, but today I got to witness 3 park rangers coral a bobcat away from humans. Barely visible in this picture.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

The tour guide’s sermon on the perils of yellow journalism doesn’t quite have the intended effect when you follow it up with the afforded opulence.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Monarch butterfly grove near Mismo beach! The sleeping clusters are very hard to spot. Also bonus image of sleepy California beach towns being unreal.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

There’s a breakfast place in Ballard that has this *extremely* cozy bar in the back. And I now suddenly feel compelled to drink warm alcoholic beverages.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Look, uiuc is great for many academic reasons, but if you’re a food motivated critter:

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Boss: “hey I saw your one of your training jobs errored out, is there some cluster issue we need to report?” Me: *humming, adorning yet another stuffed tiger in a wreath* My jobs may have been submitted with priority 1, but little does my boss know that there’s an even *higher* priority!

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Art institute questions of the day: 1) how many thoughts between that child and that goat? 2) what would a Flemish painter put on Mary Magdalen’s lap? 3) have the French ever seen a pelican?

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

This morning’s view + final fantasy soundtrack? *chef’s kiss*

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

My sister has introduced her childhood favorite sailor moon to the nieces. And all I can say is major solidarity with Sailor Pluto today.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

From Danielewski’s Fifty Year Sword. It didn’t live up to my love of House of Leaves, but the story/visual setup was very dramatic.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I’m a machine that transforms free Sunday afternoons into walks along the arboretum waterfront trail.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I’ve been in a Halloween costume rut, but the gay Halloween meme format is truly inspirational.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

This lil’ guy is living my dream of being hidden in a shrub, nibbling on flowers — not thinking about computer science/ world affairs 😂 On the flip side, I don’t live in mortal fear of the dogs at the dog park.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Visiting Chicago, god this place is gorgeous.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The art institute has a pretty broad exhibit on Symbolism. If it were me, I would’ve titled it “Brooding, but sometimes colorful.”

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I’ve seen this movie before! That fog grows, creeps closer, before revealing what it contains.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Someone get ucla law on the line, cause this data viz’s color choice is hot garbo.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

They were selling these in the gift shop in the Seattle art museum. And, my god, the restraint I showed? Applaudable. *waits for applause* But also, these are absolutely stunning.

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

You might think tpus/GPUs are complicated, but have you tried operating a 1910 “fish processing machine”?

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Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Somewhere, my Korean and Chinese ancestors are like “oh yeah? You like ordering Japanese things? GET TARRIFFED, SON!”

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