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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 12m

LOST IN TRANSLATION holds up less and less with each viewing. I forgot there’s a scene where the doctor speaks Japanese and the girl has no idea what he’s saying, and you’re supposed to be like WOW, TOKYO IS WILD. And Bill Murray’s character is a rich actor so, like, hire a fucking translator lol

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i am not an expert on london by any means, but this trip i felt the classism play out where if retail and service industry people feel you are not in (or, rather, performing) the right class, they will act unfriendly to punish your trespassing of norms. exhausting

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ok the totoro stage show was vv cute with some wonderful puppetry

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

getting to peek in on alaïa’s studio as preserved after his passing is legitimately a gift

a rack of clothing samples and mock-ups and a table full of rolls of fabric

tables still with boxes of items and a tower of boxes along the side of the wall

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the middling, forced cheers when zuck announced it captures this moment. sure, some people will enthusiastically embrace tech for tech’s sake, but this isn’t 2008 or 2018 anymore. hard to muster excitement when these companies are so malicious

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

my cousins are playing pokemon go and the buff mosquito centaur is sending me

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

versace really knew how to slut out men

open versace silk shirt on mannequin with signature colourful print

open versace silk shirt on mannequin with repeated heart motif

open versace silk shirt on mannequin with black floral detail

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

a bahn mi with parisian baguette has genuinely returned a few years of lifespan

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

finally saw my first nightmare AI food picture in the wild!

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i need the city transit nerds to explain to me what happens to the TTC if there’s a fuel crisis. i know diesel-running buses would be greatest affected, but what would be the likeliest plan of action?

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the woman in front of me is watching a tv show on her phone at double speed. i know it’s common for podcasts but a full on series?!

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ok, so time out has listed st. catharines as the 9th coolest neighbourhood in the world, which, i’m sorry, even as someone who likes the city knows it’s not true but what makes it laughable is describing it as located between toronto and hamilton, which is incredibly wrong

Located between Toronto and Hamilton (of
Heated Rivalry fame), Downtown St.
Catharines is home to Montebello Park, one of the few places in Canada designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (the visionary behind New York City's Central Park). And the neighbourhood is shaped by its rich history, particularly its ties to the Underground Railroad. This year's Emancipation Day STC celebrations included a special downtown community event marking the 175th anniversary of Harriet Tubman's arrival in St. Catharines, where she lived for nearly a decade.

a map of hamilton, toronto, and st. catharines

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

we have now reached the point where for a solo passenger taking the train from toronto to montreal is just about the price of gas driving, wowza mind you, it often takes longer on the train with frequent delays, everything’s outdated, and you can’t even refill water easily on most cars soooo

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

zombie films throughout the years have reflected something about us culturally, so i am gonna need a horror-comedy where machiavellian handlings trot out zombie politicians to keep a symbolically zombie society going

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

matthew lillard praising melissa barrera and acknowledging that he let his excitement of returning to the franchise override his sense of humanity, and that he is embarrassed in hindsight, is good to see, even if of course it’s fairly long after the fact

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i keep having to tell myself i still have previous fire emblems to finish first but i may craaaaack

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the ending of RESIDENT EVIL better not be him turning into a zombie that one of the canon characters meet later because zzzzzzzzzzzz

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i saw these two gorgeous birds and then the one on the right took a giant crap and spread its wings like AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ego is such a wild thing, and will drive people to do destructive things all in the name of feeling in control this isn’t about anything in particular but also everything all at once haha

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

all the irish artists leaving in solidarity continuing to demonstrate that ireland and spain are the european countries meeting this moment

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i would love recos for a piece contextualizing the critiques of ocean vuong and rf kuang. of course racialized queer and woman writers aren’t untouchable but i don’t know how much of it is based on their identities

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the fact he waited until all the byelections were done before announcing the airport sales tells you everything you need to know

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

with carney and the liberals selling everything off, we’ve seen this play out already with mike harris, and it’s not good

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

back in june, hearing rumours of motor oil shortages, i picked up some at costco for $50. we never hit outages but in 3 months it did jump to $80 😬

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

montreal has a whole bookstore dedicated to wine, and to me a hallmark of a great city is having space for niche interests. you should be able to easily nourish the weirder version of yourself

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

i hate that you can’t remove spam followers on here easily

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

this is the opposite of the amazon- and walmart-ification of life

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But when shopping, I encourage you to consider the total package. Sometimes you're not just buying a product, but also good service, a fun day, and a memory. After all, it's through shopping at these places that they will continue to exist. Video: Creutz in Nice, France (IG thenorejectionguy)

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The light tone of this piece reflects the NY Times’ attitude that Trump is just a goof and all this madness is temporary. It’s mind-blowing that a major newspaper is trivializing a fascist movement that has committed mass murder and stated openly last night that it will cheat in the midterms.

nytimes.com

Trump’s Grand Midterm Convention Finale: ‘I’m a Little Bit Tired of Politics’ (Gift Article)

The president made clear as his convention wrapped up that he wants to carry his party through a tough midterms. He just won’t go too far out of his way to do it.

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

it’s funny how little buzz project runway has. i’ve seen no one talking about the finale at all

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i need a word for that feeling where you understand there are a million marvels in the world to still see but simultaneously you feel immense gratefulness and satisfaction for everything you’ve already seen and don’t need anything more

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

defending a tech startup over its racial insensitivity is, unfortunately, just another sign that proximity to whiteness can lead to choosing power over solidarity. and, like, of course not every “wasian” will think that way, but that gap ultimately led to the missteps around the whole meetup

Online, it's easy for identity to become emptied of meaning - detached and ironic — to meet the demands of an algorithm.
Whereas in the past, young mixed Asian kids might have gone to a hapa conference at Berkeley, now they're largely figuring themselves out through social media. The nation of Wasia had been airdropped into Central Park from the technological ether, contextless and ahistorical. The meetup was a perfect storm: a tech platform capitalizing on the pop-cultural Zeitgeist as a group of 20-somethings went through the throes of self-discovery. For some of the co-hosts, however, the overriding concern is that Partiful is not damaged by association. "They have real money at stake," says one. "I'm super-capitalist, so I believe in protecting businesses." I say it seems unfair that they should bear the brunt of the blame when Partiful organized the event. "I feel like the people that made the negative discourse are responsible," she says. "They're responsible for hurting my feelings, not Partiful." The backlash had left her bruised and cynical. "I always felt really proud to be Asian," she says, "and then this whole thing made me feel like my identity is contaminated." She pauses. "I don't know why I feel like I might cry."

A couple of months have passed since the meetup, but the organizers are still smarting from the fallout. Some lost friends, who wrote them long messages about taking accountability.
Others got death threats. Some of the attacks were viciously personal, like about how a deceased family member deserved to die. "We got compared to Hitler," says Amy, who tells me the angriest messages she got were from gay Asian men. "From the full Asian perspective, it's like, 'You're so close to being white you're almost there. But the thing is we're not almost there." She had grown up going to boarding schools in the Northeast, where a white classmate once said she would never see her as white because to be white was to be "pure-blooded."

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe.

theverge.com

1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project

The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

i need a breakdown of this statistic because a third of 18-29 year olds never having had a relationship doesn’t seem to me a result of greater independence and autonomy as the article suggests. like, fewer marriages, maybe. fewer relationships, eek www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

A recent YouGov survey revealed that 33 per cent of 18 to 29-year-olds have never been in a relationship, compared with 9 per cent of the wider population. To older generations, this might read like a tragedy of modern loneliness. To anyone under 30, it barely raises an eyebrow.

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

i don’t understand this partly because i’m not british and partly because i’m not 18-29. what is the wrong currency??

Last year I went on a date with a gorgeous man who ticked all my boxes: funny, clever, close with his family, capable of asking a follow-up question and - unusually for a dating app
- exactly as advertised. After a fantastic date I watched him select the wrong currency at an ATM and felt all interest evaporate on the spot. By the next Tube station I had remembered an improbably early start the next morning and fled. Not my finest moment, but unfortunately a terminal one.

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

interesting to see this kind of shame-based haterbot crop up on twitter. highly proficient in rude commenterslop, but usually with very low engagement

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the big thing you learn when pitching pieces is gauging how “newsworthy” something is, which is defined by gatekeepers (who usually mean well), and true or important or relevant isn’t necessarily enough. if they think this isn’t worth it, it’s not newsworthy

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

i appreciate that the 20th anniversary has cleaner mixes but there’s something about that fat, slightly fuzzy sound of the original that i love

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

i still love posting food photos. i get that it was an easy joke but like in this current timeline maybe we all would have done better just sticking to lunch pics

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

watching that singer expose herself as a thin-skinned karen by melting down on IG is actually kinda entertaining

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

plastique was born in 97??!?!!!!!!?????

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

that lady selling a limited edition empty box to store her vinyls for $1,500 cad is too funny

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

well i guess that emergency alert wasn’t overreacting lol

hail from the thunderstorms today in toronto

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

at some point i need to accept brains online are sufficiently scrambled that it’s not even worth pointing out. like, kelly clarkson singing a notoriously difficult song live is a) a massive demonstration of talent most people can’t do, b) does not take away from the writer and original singer, who

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

COYOTE V ACME is more sombre than you might expect for a Looney Tunes film, but it’s also one of the most ambitious mainstream animation works right now, unexpectedly tackling corporate corruption, loneliness, and spirituality. The cleverness is packed up front, with heart taking centre stage

a still from coyote v acme with wile e. coyote holding up a sign that reads “acme sucks”

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Jaime Woo @thejaimewoo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

so the thing with all the deluxe and collector editions of music coming out is, i believe, very little of it will hold its value because the market is constantly flooding with more crap and trends move so fast i mean, people can spend their money anyway they want, but vinyls are for higher quality

a tweet about wanting someone else to open their collector edition of bday on vinyl so they can keep their copy pristine

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I finally read this review and I’m moved by the extent to which Dwight Garner praises the novel and also the depth of his work here—it’s not a simple rave, by any means, but a class on how to read. If you want that.

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I also donated a signed book bundle and would be glad to personalize the books to you (or others)!

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