Troubled and Troublesome: Coping with the Disease of the Second-born Son
January 2, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Troubled and Troublesome: Coping with the Disease of the Second-born Son
the writing sprint is going well
December 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
the writing sprint is going well
kill that one from shijiazhuang seems pretty famous now but 山雀 remains my favorite song by 万能青年旅店 www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6cX...
i wish somebody could translate the lyrics esp. the 1st verse
自然赠予你
树冠 微风 肩头的暴雨
片刻后生成
平衡 忠诚 不息的身体
捕食饮水
清早眉间白云生
跳跃漫游
晚来拂面渤海风
朝霞化精灵
轻快 明亮 恒温的伴侣
她与你共存
违背 对抗 相同的命运
i wish somebody could translate the lyrics esp. the 1st verse
自然赠予你
树冠 微风 肩头的暴雨
片刻后生成
平衡 忠诚 不息的身体
捕食饮水
清早眉间白云生
跳跃漫游
晚来拂面渤海风
朝霞化精灵
轻快 明亮 恒温的伴侣
她与你共存
违背 对抗 相同的命运
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December 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
kill that one from shijiazhuang seems pretty famous now but 山雀 remains my favorite song by 万能青年旅店 www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6cX...
i wish somebody could translate the lyrics esp. the 1st verse
自然赠予你
树冠 微风 肩头的暴雨
片刻后生成
平衡 忠诚 不息的身体
捕食饮水
清早眉间白云生
跳跃漫游
晚来拂面渤海风
朝霞化精灵
轻快 明亮 恒温的伴侣
她与你共存
违背 对抗 相同的命运
i wish somebody could translate the lyrics esp. the 1st verse
自然赠予你
树冠 微风 肩头的暴雨
片刻后生成
平衡 忠诚 不息的身体
捕食饮水
清早眉间白云生
跳跃漫游
晚来拂面渤海风
朝霞化精灵
轻快 明亮 恒温的伴侣
她与你共存
违背 对抗 相同的命运
TIL this mysterious dude with his exquisite smile and woolen fedora who keeps showing up in my news feed is neither mlg's close ally nor ambrose castellano, loyal democratic soldier of new mexico, but a sfnm reporter who uses his own headshot as the illustration & thumbnail for everything he writes
December 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
TIL this mysterious dude with his exquisite smile and woolen fedora who keeps showing up in my news feed is neither mlg's close ally nor ambrose castellano, loyal democratic soldier of new mexico, but a sfnm reporter who uses his own headshot as the illustration & thumbnail for everything he writes
1 thing i'll never be able to understand is why the spanish cover of a novel is always better than its english cover
December 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
1 thing i'll never be able to understand is why the spanish cover of a novel is always better than its english cover
at the halloween party
friend: sijing, are you you?
me: i'm not exactly me, but close
friend: you are the first-person narrator!
me: 🫰
friend 2: which one?
me: the graduate student at nyu
friend: sijing, are you you?
me: i'm not exactly me, but close
friend: you are the first-person narrator!
me: 🫰
friend 2: which one?
me: the graduate student at nyu
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
at the halloween party
friend: sijing, are you you?
me: i'm not exactly me, but close
friend: you are the first-person narrator!
me: 🫰
friend 2: which one?
me: the graduate student at nyu
friend: sijing, are you you?
me: i'm not exactly me, but close
friend: you are the first-person narrator!
me: 🫰
friend 2: which one?
me: the graduate student at nyu
the nobel physics prize is awarded to physicists again? how quaint. these swedes have really lost touch with current trends
October 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
the nobel physics prize is awarded to physicists again? how quaint. these swedes have really lost touch with current trends
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I regret to inform you that people are now listening to their phones on speaker on airplanes. Insufferable! Am seriously thinking that next time I am in such a situation, I will just start reading my book out loud??
October 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I regret to inform you that people are now listening to their phones on speaker on airplanes. Insufferable! Am seriously thinking that next time I am in such a situation, I will just start reading my book out loud??
professor walked into the room, said, "how you holding up?" and "ah y'all look great, not at all like 'tattered coat upon a stick'" and now there's a new deadline for a weekend homework 🙇♀️
September 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
professor walked into the room, said, "how you holding up?" and "ah y'all look great, not at all like 'tattered coat upon a stick'" and now there's a new deadline for a weekend homework 🙇♀️
Reposted by sijing
‘Leonard’s superpower was to apprehend the broken syntax of real speech and translate it to the page so that it jumped straight from the eye to the ear, bypassing the inner grammarian.’
J. Robert Lennon reads Elmore Leonard: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
J. Robert Lennon reads Elmore Leonard: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
J. Robert Lennon · Never use your own car: Elmore Leonard’s Superpower
I don’t think there’s anyone on today’s bestseller lists as accomplished on the page as Elmore Leonard was; he...
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September 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
‘Leonard’s superpower was to apprehend the broken syntax of real speech and translate it to the page so that it jumped straight from the eye to the ear, bypassing the inner grammarian.’
J. Robert Lennon reads Elmore Leonard: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
J. Robert Lennon reads Elmore Leonard: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
there are some books that are so special to you, telling other people at a social gathering that it's your favorite book feels like a betrayal (e.g. the 13 1/2 lives of captain bluebear
September 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
there are some books that are so special to you, telling other people at a social gathering that it's your favorite book feels like a betrayal (e.g. the 13 1/2 lives of captain bluebear
my friend says ireland is "friendly incompetence." but if you think about it it really is the best thing there is that a regime has to offer: it's better than hostile meritocracy, or friendly meritocracy, or hostile incompetence which is the default package for normie players like you and me
September 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
my friend says ireland is "friendly incompetence." but if you think about it it really is the best thing there is that a regime has to offer: it's better than hostile meritocracy, or friendly meritocracy, or hostile incompetence which is the default package for normie players like you and me
a guy told my friend that her story was like ikea furniture, which was not real furniture. some people are such big believers of real furniture they can no longer see that all of the middle-class offerings aren't like lululemon. some of them are so good we don't deserve them. like ikea and wegmans
August 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
a guy told my friend that her story was like ikea furniture, which was not real furniture. some people are such big believers of real furniture they can no longer see that all of the middle-class offerings aren't like lululemon. some of them are so good we don't deserve them. like ikea and wegmans
a guy tried to tailgate me into the lobby and when i asked if he had the key he said "uber. no speak english. spanish." i said, "ah! tu no vives aqui, yo no puedo let you in. es the rule del apartamento." he looked at me with his mouth half-opened and said nothing
August 26, 2025 at 3:48 AM
a guy tried to tailgate me into the lobby and when i asked if he had the key he said "uber. no speak english. spanish." i said, "ah! tu no vives aqui, yo no puedo let you in. es the rule del apartamento." he looked at me with his mouth half-opened and said nothing
1 week back in apartment life
- beautiful but dirty & sad: fingerboard parquet floor
- ugly & maddening: pvc vertical blinds, fake vent hood
- things that used to drive me crazy 10 yrs ago but seem tolerable now: lack of in-unit laundry, 12,000 BTU window AC
- beautiful but dirty & sad: fingerboard parquet floor
- ugly & maddening: pvc vertical blinds, fake vent hood
- things that used to drive me crazy 10 yrs ago but seem tolerable now: lack of in-unit laundry, 12,000 BTU window AC
August 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
1 week back in apartment life
- beautiful but dirty & sad: fingerboard parquet floor
- ugly & maddening: pvc vertical blinds, fake vent hood
- things that used to drive me crazy 10 yrs ago but seem tolerable now: lack of in-unit laundry, 12,000 BTU window AC
- beautiful but dirty & sad: fingerboard parquet floor
- ugly & maddening: pvc vertical blinds, fake vent hood
- things that used to drive me crazy 10 yrs ago but seem tolerable now: lack of in-unit laundry, 12,000 BTU window AC
whenever i start watching Infernal Affairs there is no way not to watch it through to the end
August 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
whenever i start watching Infernal Affairs there is no way not to watch it through to the end
me: well, i could do a little bit of 3 ball cascade
very intense maestro standing at the recreational service booth: oh yeah? lemme test your juggling skills. here, show me what you got
me: i said 3 ball. idk what to do with 2 balls [throwing ball 1 in the air and it almost hit my head]
very intense maestro standing at the recreational service booth: oh yeah? lemme test your juggling skills. here, show me what you got
me: i said 3 ball. idk what to do with 2 balls [throwing ball 1 in the air and it almost hit my head]
August 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
me: well, i could do a little bit of 3 ball cascade
very intense maestro standing at the recreational service booth: oh yeah? lemme test your juggling skills. here, show me what you got
me: i said 3 ball. idk what to do with 2 balls [throwing ball 1 in the air and it almost hit my head]
very intense maestro standing at the recreational service booth: oh yeah? lemme test your juggling skills. here, show me what you got
me: i said 3 ball. idk what to do with 2 balls [throwing ball 1 in the air and it almost hit my head]
i totally understand. anyone can easily get addicted to writing sth like a sestina. sometimes i wish we had these frolic & nonsensical constraints in prose writing, it would help alleviate agoraphobia
August 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
i totally understand. anyone can easily get addicted to writing sth like a sestina. sometimes i wish we had these frolic & nonsensical constraints in prose writing, it would help alleviate agoraphobia
somebody should write a story about zip codes in, idk, palo alto. the way in which they register a provençal so however late in the day she has her coffee, she will never be a parisienne by birth
August 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
somebody should write a story about zip codes in, idk, palo alto. the way in which they register a provençal so however late in the day she has her coffee, she will never be a parisienne by birth
phenomenal product rollout. it is "available" and at the same time "slowly rolling out" to all users. if you ask "what model am i using?" it emits some marketing content and that "it's highly likely you are interacting with gpt-5" alerting meanwhile on the ui that you are running out of gpt-4o quota
August 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
phenomenal product rollout. it is "available" and at the same time "slowly rolling out" to all users. if you ask "what model am i using?" it emits some marketing content and that "it's highly likely you are interacting with gpt-5" alerting meanwhile on the ui that you are running out of gpt-4o quota