SJ Zanolini (李思捷)
@plantmaize.bsky.social
ABD historian of diet & medicine in China (#FirstGen), creative non-fiction editor @tendonmag.bsky.social, companion to a really good dog named Barktholomew (號小聃)
Taipei / Baltimore / Los Angeles
they/them 🏳️🌈
all views my own (君子不器)
Taipei / Baltimore / Los Angeles
they/them 🏳️🌈
all views my own (君子不器)
Woke up this morning mentally bracing to finally draft the last pieces of my dissertation this month. 🥴
The serendipitous digital peer pressure of @annakornbluh.bsky.social's #acadecawriteathon plus some light dopamine farming ahead of starting got me out of monkeymind morass!
1 down, 30 to go 🤘
The serendipitous digital peer pressure of @annakornbluh.bsky.social's #acadecawriteathon plus some light dopamine farming ahead of starting got me out of monkeymind morass!
1 down, 30 to go 🤘
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Woke up this morning mentally bracing to finally draft the last pieces of my dissertation this month. 🥴
The serendipitous digital peer pressure of @annakornbluh.bsky.social's #acadecawriteathon plus some light dopamine farming ahead of starting got me out of monkeymind morass!
1 down, 30 to go 🤘
The serendipitous digital peer pressure of @annakornbluh.bsky.social's #acadecawriteathon plus some light dopamine farming ahead of starting got me out of monkeymind morass!
1 down, 30 to go 🤘
I was in Berkeley for a day and I went to pay homage. The vibes felt different and I couldn't place my finger on why (is it the place or me that has changed, or both?) but it still made me so happy to browse all the different things I still can't afford while picking up masa to bring back to Taipei.
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I was in Berkeley for a day and I went to pay homage. The vibes felt different and I couldn't place my finger on why (is it the place or me that has changed, or both?) but it still made me so happy to browse all the different things I still can't afford while picking up masa to bring back to Taipei.
I feel like the real lede is buried with the firing of the copyright official, both because of the obvious cronyism at play and because if said official works for the LOC she may be subject to Legislative rather than Executive authority.
May 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I feel like the real lede is buried with the firing of the copyright official, both because of the obvious cronyism at play and because if said official works for the LOC she may be subject to Legislative rather than Executive authority.
Hands down the funniest context for roadsign typos to show up in 😅
May 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Hands down the funniest context for roadsign typos to show up in 😅
Pictures of the offender, for tax and also scale. He's large and unperturbed enough that I'm more worried for me than for him, but still: one corvid holding a grudge is scary enough. An entire murder bent on policing their turf? Terrifying.
May 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Pictures of the offender, for tax and also scale. He's large and unperturbed enough that I'm more worried for me than for him, but still: one corvid holding a grudge is scary enough. An entire murder bent on policing their turf? Terrifying.
He does seem to love dog camp (evidence below) but I think he still loves me more 💕 wish we could get you out for a visit while we're still in Taiwan!
March 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
He does seem to love dog camp (evidence below) but I think he still loves me more 💕 wish we could get you out for a visit while we're still in Taiwan!
Traveled to AAS this weekend and flight delays allowed me to set foot in my homestate for the first time in 5 years. The bay is as beautiful, and in-n-out as tasty, as ever. But now SFO has gender neutral bathrooms! Mostly used by old men tho bc gender inclusive design benefits everyone!
March 20, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Traveled to AAS this weekend and flight delays allowed me to set foot in my homestate for the first time in 5 years. The bay is as beautiful, and in-n-out as tasty, as ever. But now SFO has gender neutral bathrooms! Mostly used by old men tho bc gender inclusive design benefits everyone!
Reposting with alt text bc important things deserve to be read by everybody
February 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Reposting with alt text bc important things deserve to be read by everybody
The thing about imperial boomerangs is that sooner or later the coup comes home
February 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The thing about imperial boomerangs is that sooner or later the coup comes home
Night-time wanderings and stray tags in the already emptying Wanhua streets ahead of Lunar New Year.
January 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Night-time wanderings and stray tags in the already emptying Wanhua streets ahead of Lunar New Year.
Without downloading new pics, where are you mentally?
January 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Without downloading new pics, where are you mentally?
"One treat, please, shopkeep. And another for my friends here if you wouldn't mind."
January 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"One treat, please, shopkeep. And another for my friends here if you wouldn't mind."
The wolfcut I requested versus the haircut I somehiw got: a Taipei story 😭
January 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The wolfcut I requested versus the haircut I somehiw got: a Taipei story 😭
Without downloading any new pics what's your energy going into 2025/year of the snake
January 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Without downloading any new pics what's your energy going into 2025/year of the snake
Alleycat posting here for awhile as a timeline cleanser, while I boycott the app I used to use for such frippery.
January 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Alleycat posting here for awhile as a timeline cleanser, while I boycott the app I used to use for such frippery.
Age yourself with your first computer
When I started college, I made it 2 months before computer lab life broke me. A friend sold me their old Mac Powerbook G3. Only 5 or 6 lbs. Sleek. Smol. Sexy. Buying that laptop, even used, felt like such a status marker.
When I started college, I made it 2 months before computer lab life broke me. A friend sold me their old Mac Powerbook G3. Only 5 or 6 lbs. Sleek. Smol. Sexy. Buying that laptop, even used, felt like such a status marker.
January 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Age yourself with your first computer
When I started college, I made it 2 months before computer lab life broke me. A friend sold me their old Mac Powerbook G3. Only 5 or 6 lbs. Sleek. Smol. Sexy. Buying that laptop, even used, felt like such a status marker.
When I started college, I made it 2 months before computer lab life broke me. A friend sold me their old Mac Powerbook G3. Only 5 or 6 lbs. Sleek. Smol. Sexy. Buying that laptop, even used, felt like such a status marker.
By high school computers were normalized enough that teachers only accepted typed papers. Mom had upgraded our second hand tech by then, building us a 486 or a Pentium II (or maybe both). But I didn't have access to a printer, so instead through grade 12 I actually typed assignments on one of these.
January 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
By high school computers were normalized enough that teachers only accepted typed papers. Mom had upgraded our second hand tech by then, building us a 486 or a Pentium II (or maybe both). But I didn't have access to a printer, so instead through grade 12 I actually typed assignments on one of these.
Age yourself with your first computer
We got this secondhand, years after it was actually released. Sometimes I was allowed to play video games on it (or the typing tutor that pretended to be a video game)
We got this secondhand, years after it was actually released. Sometimes I was allowed to play video games on it (or the typing tutor that pretended to be a video game)
January 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Age yourself with your first computer
We got this secondhand, years after it was actually released. Sometimes I was allowed to play video games on it (or the typing tutor that pretended to be a video game)
We got this secondhand, years after it was actually released. Sometimes I was allowed to play video games on it (or the typing tutor that pretended to be a video game)
What a lovely potion! What's it for? I just made a batch of Purple Cloud linament (紫雲膏/紫當膏) and am preparing to brew another, this time with a smidge less beeswax to keep it more supple.
December 11, 2024 at 4:43 AM
What a lovely potion! What's it for? I just made a batch of Purple Cloud linament (紫雲膏/紫當膏) and am preparing to brew another, this time with a smidge less beeswax to keep it more supple.
That said, the algorithm recently reminded me that I enjoy Throwing Muses so I relistered to this in its entirety and was impressed how well it aged.
December 11, 2024 at 4:28 AM
That said, the algorithm recently reminded me that I enjoy Throwing Muses so I relistered to this in its entirety and was impressed how well it aged.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam.
This by a long mile, altho mostly that's because "Surfer Rosa" by the Pixies actually came out in 1988.
This by a long mile, altho mostly that's because "Surfer Rosa" by the Pixies actually came out in 1988.
December 11, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam.
This by a long mile, altho mostly that's because "Surfer Rosa" by the Pixies actually came out in 1988.
This by a long mile, altho mostly that's because "Surfer Rosa" by the Pixies actually came out in 1988.
I'm also obsessed with this, but it seems fairly common around Taipei.
December 5, 2024 at 5:52 AM
I'm also obsessed with this, but it seems fairly common around Taipei.
Anyone here into visible mending/sashiko patching and embroidery to repair clothing? I'm experimenting with it to salvage my favorite pants but feeling some kinda way about the look of a large patch in isolation versus maybe adding patches for aesthetics that aren't yet structurally necessary.
December 1, 2024 at 6:13 AM
Anyone here into visible mending/sashiko patching and embroidery to repair clothing? I'm experimenting with it to salvage my favorite pants but feeling some kinda way about the look of a large patch in isolation versus maybe adding patches for aesthetics that aren't yet structurally necessary.
This quote reminds me of something I read in the introduction of Jane Bennett's "Vibrant Matter" last night about the role of past reading in shaping perception, changing random gutter trash into an assemblage of things:
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'This window onto an eccentric out-side was made possible by the fortuity of that particular assemblage, but also by a certain anticipatory readiness on my in-side, by a perceptual style open to the appearance of thing-power. For I came on the glove-pollen-rat-cap-stick with Thoreau in my head, who had encouraged me to practice “the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen”; with Spinoza’s claim that all things are “animate, albeit in different degrees”; and with Maurice Merleau-Ponty, whose Phenomenology of Perception had disclosed for me “an immanent or incipient significance in the living body [which] extends, . . . to the whole sensible world” and which had shown me how “our gaze, prompted by the experience of our own body, will discover in all other ‘objects’ the miracle of expression.”'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b73lyp2bpdoohyyhs4ibvuvr/bafkreifarexmtt6qlybwr6dylxfkusanscpm72xsvjuwm3f63jteaybtoq@jpeg)
November 21, 2024 at 2:43 AM
This quote reminds me of something I read in the introduction of Jane Bennett's "Vibrant Matter" last night about the role of past reading in shaping perception, changing random gutter trash into an assemblage of things:
(in a nutshell)
November 15, 2024 at 1:18 PM
(in a nutshell)