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Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the day I tested positive for covid for the first time. All things considered I thought I had done well to avoid it for three years though it obviously...

Recently I chanced upon a tweet stating that highly sensitive persons (HSPs) are basically autistic without admitting it. It surprised me, since the traits of HSPs as I know it seem to be...

I didn’t actually feel like writing today, but I’m worried if I don’t write I would forget the feelings and thoughts I have at this point in time. It doesn’t seem right to write about my friend who...

Hong Kong still seems like the same place in many ways, but it feels different. I don't know how much of it is due to the changes in me or the changes of the place itself. But I am still so fond of...

This is the 39th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have …

A few days ago a Singapore Airlines flight encountered severe turbulence, causing one death and tens of people to be injured. The night the news broke out I commented to my partner that this may...

Neatnik Notes

When I wrote about how it’s sometimes hard to be undecided or hold a complex view on the internet, I also noted: Shame is a powerful social and cultural tool to shape behavior. Norms are powerful. I think it’s great that most people can’t and won’t talk about members of the LGBTQ community the way we used to because you’ll be immediately shamed and dragged. I am perfectly happy at times to directly confront someone and ask if they’ve really thought about the consequences of what they’re saying or expressing.

The web is, at its core, a conversation tool. At least for the most part. You can have a conversation synchronously via chats and DMs, you can have a …

I had a lot of self-hatred when I was younger. But over the past few years it gradually eased up as I embarked on a journey of self-understanding. This journey wasn't voluntary, it was forced upon...

Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to temporarily forget things that usually weigh me down. Certain familiar things back home trigger...

If you're like me and you're trying to keep an open mind that there may someday be a non-scam application of blockchains, you've probably read some articles about "Web3", which promises to re-decentr…

I get frustrated when things don’t work. Increasingly I have been getting especially frustrated when things that are fancy don’t work, because I feel bamboozled. The other day, I went to wash my hands in the bathroom at work, and the automated soap dispenser/foamer didn’t work. I was awkwardly placing and retracting my hands under the sensor repeatedly like please sir… just a bit of soap to wash my bathroom hands… and nothing.

Post prompted by a series of posts I read recently, written by Matthew, So1o, Simone, and Alex and also by posts on the 32bit.cafe. I wrote some 1000 …

Neatnik Notes

If I'd grown up online I might feel differently about the last five years, but without physical human interaction, the bite-sized epistolary nature of social media seems hollow. You're great, but you're better in person.

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Had a video call with my brother Chuck the other day.  Things got heavy: KATE: Was Kurt Cobain a trans woman? CHUCK: What? Kurt Cobain.  Rock musician.  He was in a band called Nirvana. I’m famil…

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It is with great sorrow but even greater fury that I have submitted my resignation from the NaNoWrimo Authors Board this morning. Why? Because they’ve come out with an absolutely insupportable posi…