John Avocado 宇杰

Candy Shop socks for my birthday. I made these in 2022, and they remain one of my favourite pairs.

Elton John top 3 1. Don't go breaking my heart (with Kiki Dee) 2. Teardrops (with Lulu) 3. Passengers

Reminded of a guy in my Chinese class in first year who had a double-double-barrelled surname – ie, his mum had taken his father's name and kept her own, and he had his dad's surname and his mum's full surname, so he was like Brian Williams Johnson-Williams.

Flashback to the time I got laoban 老板 and laogong 老公 mixed up and told my classmate that I am so tired at the moment because I have three or four husbands to keep happy.

This building has floors in Celsius AND Fahrenheit!

A selection of tonight's best dishes at Wugu Fengdeng in Weihai. I especially liked the sweet potatoes in sugar.

Traffic control

They're making a show about syphilis?!

a weird set of people who only exist online are people who celebrate the defeat of global fascism in every other country and are then horrified and appalled at the idea that they should also be expected to vote for their domestic opponent of global fascism if some of their stances are Problematic

I'm not here long enough now, but if I were, I'd be getting some of this to find out what Chinese salad cream is like

Why?

Today's Threads roundup. Why don't chickens have nipples, and Jenny Say Quan.

The full moon over Rongcheng

I feel a bit of sad nostalgia about this because in my previous incarnation, I worked at the Spring Ball at Victoria Barracks every year and it was, well actually never much fun, but the people were, well actually quite unpleasant.

I have been thinking about the tofu stew today because it was so good. It was made with chicken skin that managed to stay crispy in the stew. We've been to this restaurant three times in three days, it's so good.

I do understand why people are very protective of their languages and why they get upset when words from their languages are borrowed into other languages and then used in different ways. However, this process happens all the time in all languages.

After, therefore because.

Marriage agency ads in the mall

I see the "I hate fun" anti-halloween brigade are ramping up their scolding as there's less than a week to go.

Are we sure it's "by" and not "despite"?

Most of the people who bleat "artists should be paid for their work" as a defence of copyright maximalism are horrified by any suggestion of models that involve artists actually being paid for the work that they do rather than collecting cash for owning the IP they produce as an asset.

Taking the copyright maximalist position on "IP" law is a reactionary, anti-humanist, and objectively harmful approach compared to supporting the free diffusion of ideas

There is no such thing as 'intellectual property theft", because theft definitionally involves the permanent intention to deprive, whereas the free diffusion of ideas makes society better off at zero cost to the original possessor of the idea.

My Grindr profile when I'm home for Christmas:

There is literally no excuse for an Instagram story like this

I'm one of them, and it's so important. It means I see my GP regularly, have a relationship with him*, and don't let health concerns fester. *this is the most important bit

Who was the advisor? Henry VIII?

215 million years of dinosaur evolution, made for an info screen in science center @heureka.fi ’s new exhibition, The Evolution of Dinosaurs. Left, Tawa hallae, a basal dinosaur from the Triassic Ghost Ranch location in the US. Right, the common crane, a beloved species of living dinosaur.

My sexual/romantic fantasies each fall into either one of two categories, which can be represented by the following Jay Chou album covers.

Few things in this world as joyous as being at the dinner table with children who absolutely fuckin love eating.

"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."

I got tempted by Jay Chou, who is not only the most attractive man in the world and my favourite Mandopop star, but also the brand ambassador for Starbucks in China, and I ordered the EXPENSIVE sea salt caramel cheese latte made with real mascarpone.