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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Apparently in the UK, the HMRC already has your employment income and none of the W2 submitting nonsense… can you imagine??? Actually working government??? Crazy 🤯

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Love that London has heard my plead. I hate bikes omg these ppl are so awful 💀 *spiked anxiety * www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/cit…

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Really curious how Republicans will explain how they won the midterm because no one likes them… Maybe the reason it won’t end until after midterm is Putin is promising to help republicans win if he keeps giving them money for oil. Really the only way this makes sense 🤷‍♀️ […]

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

NYC subways smelling like pee is what happens when a society treats private responsibility as a virtue but collective responsibility as an ideological threat. 😛

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Toxic narcissistic social patterns: Low interpersonal interests High shame Collective mockery / ridicule as bonding So weird to see this in adults tbh, you’d think ppl would’ve grown out of this loser mindset after high school…or realize this belonged only in shitty movies. 🤷‍♀️ #EndRant

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

“Socially polished people can be very good at making cruelty deniable.” Crazy that people find it acceptable, also interesting that people who operate in socially cruel environments actually don’t believe in kindness - only pretense and transactional relationships. Sad but true…. Gross.

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

This topic should get some attention in the conversation around race and gender discrimination. It’s something I’ve noticed more in the last few years. The couple times I’ve had overtly racist interactions were from white women. So weird, why is that […]

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Day 3 of complaining about America… Some of the best (18th-19th) art here is tucked away behind a $30 paywall a la Frick Collection. And they don’t let you take (non flash) photos either. There’s just such a weird treatment of art here, like yet another contrived status symbol as oppose to be […]

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I’m a strong believer in that the best investment you can make in your future self is find a *good* therapist. It’s tempting to think friends are enough, they most definitely are not…and should not […]

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Weird sexist(?) trend why is it that when you’re a woman at a nice hotel BY YOURSELF, people just call you mrs 🫩 Do you see a mr??? No?? Well!!!! 😑

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

It seems MAGA’s goal is to prevent more US citizenships / greencard which actually makes sense for a white nationalist state :P “No one is American unless they are white and born here” is their definition […]

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

After 6mo of 🇬🇧 I was back to the weight I have been most of my life without trying… and had none of the weird bloating I’ve had in last couple years in the US. 1st meal in the US (actually nice place), and the weird bloat is back 🫩 i don’t know what it is, but it’s def something weird in the […]

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Hot take… i don’t understand people who want to move to / prefer NYC, it’s dirty, it smells, it’s old but not in the historic way… 🫣 Every other city of similar “weight” i’ve been to in EU and China in the past few years have been 10x better… what am i missing 😅 why is it a destination? […]

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Apparently a row of tape showing up in the airport scanner means your bag is search and each tube of paint is subjected to the chemical scanner… lol wtf 😵‍💫

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I think I read somewhere when I was very young that one should endeavor to live as many lives as possible and that has stayed with me. Maybe “embodied traveling” is essentially trial runs. Instead of being a tourist with your “home identity”, you travel imagining what it’s like to actually live […]

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Something about all this is making me want to rewatch Battlestar Galactica 🤖✨

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no ‘Algorithms lack the spark of humanity’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCWgoIrRCo… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261005-anthr… - podcast time: 7 min 58 sec

Pope Bob writes to the AI bros: it's not me, it's you

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

‘O no “illegal” immigrants’ Thinly veiled racism disguised as “legal matter”

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I'm no supporter of Donald
Trump, but I'll give him this:
he's held up a mirror to
society and revealed just
how many people put
hatred, bigotry, and self-
interest above compassion
and decency. What shocks
me most is how many now
wear it proudly.

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I think I’ve finally pinpointed my extreme discomfort with the American branded aggression. In looking at the fear mongering around China, an interesting pattern emerges once you started looking into the facts. TLDR: Since the PRC, China has initiated 0 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

CFR notes that China "has not invaded any
nation since Vietnam in 1979", which is a useful
shorthand for exactly the distinction you're
getting at.
(fr)
Council on Foreign Relations
And there's an interesting historical wrinkle: the
1979 Vietnam war itself was partly a response
to Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia, so if you
make your criterion even stricter-China must
initiate an invasion without responding to
another country's invasion of a third country-
then the answer becomes basically no clear
example for the PRC since 1949.
That's a pretty striking distinction from the US,
which has conducted numerous post-1945
wars/interventions that weren't responses to
another state's invasion of the US or its territory.

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

“History is made one mundane day at a time, lives are also wasted that same way.” #randomthoughts

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

“Maybe it's why I reject group identity of any form, as they are an illusion of belonging. It's a psychological comfort we crave, many would pay dearly to preserve that illusion through conformity and sacrificing of self and values. I think the truth is closer to "we belong nowhere, and we […]

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

For the first time in my life I actually don’t want to travel anywhere… because why would you leave when you’re in the best city in the world 😝🤪 …. I think I’m in loovvveeee ❤️🇬🇧❤️ (yes even through its dreary winter… i think 🤣) #SlightlyDeluluButReally

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Accidentally typed “silly valley tech bro” instead of silicon valley… and you know.. it works quite well, too well. It shall now be my new insult 🤪

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

There’s a very specific type of aggressive stupidity that’s uniquely republican. Quite triggering indeed if you watch the hearing… Jack Smith is a real patriot, a hero standing up to a class of unchecked buffoons and trying to save the country. I’m sadly not optimistic he’ll succeed, but I […]

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I prefer existential motivation over toxic positivity 😄 “We’re all gonna die so what you gonna do” is better than (and more accurate than) “it’s going to be ok” platitude 😄

Your death will come on an ordinary day,
in the middle of unfinished plans, and the
world will continue without you.
So live a little.

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Today in I love 🇬🇧💕 Can you even imagine the US government doing this? Lolll in fact probably the opposite. Anyways, aside from some problemstic* wordings… i welcome this initiative from this civilized country trying to curb toxic US culture […]

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

“The more I study happiness, the more I realize it comes down to one thing: living in alignment with what truly matters to you. Not success. Not stuff. Just a life that feels like yours, where you wake up glad it's your day, where you'd choose your own life again if you could. Where your joy […]

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Questioning my identity as a Swiftie rn because now that Jack Antonoff is no longer producing her work i hate everything 🫣

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: mastodon.art/@jlam/1173382732875158… My new career where i work a full day on Saturdays now 😅 And other days i slack off like a severe case of auDHD 🥹

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Apparently (sadly) bros are in every industry. Some random painter just told me to “google him” before talking to him 🤣 Not all men, but always men, always Americans. It’s almost like Trump is an accurate reflection of the population. Anyways, most painters i’ve met have been lovely people tho […]

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

If anyone need some GBP, today is the day 🇬🇧✨💰

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

In more civilized societies this would be capital punishment. It would be fitting if these monsters were removed from society for good. Wtf is wrong with the Cornell. Disgustingly incompetent and misogynistic […]

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.art/@jlam/1172987147572606… Me to me: “ok we are going to draw a great / correct nose today instead of glossing it over like usual” My brain: * forgets how to draw an eye for about 4 hours * Working with limited RAM is hard 😒😵‍💫

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J Lam 👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

RE: mastodon.art/@jlam/1172928608676149… Appreciate all the voting, I shall take a trip to the 🇺🇸 for this… wish me luck? But also come say hi if you can make it in NYC ☺️✨ #fineart #artauction

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