Paul Lai
@pylduck.bsky.social
Librarian. Duck. 📚🦆 Meaningless bound form. Mostly posts about Taiwanese/American stuff? And doggos, of course. Always. he/伊/鴨
Profile image from Young Vo's Makers
Profile image from Young Vo's Makers
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Fobazi is a dear friend and amazing advocate for the LIS field. Right now, she needs our help. I’m thinking of her and sending her all my love. Please share, donate, and keep her in your thoughts.
Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena
gofund.me/c8485b58
gofund.me/c8485b58
Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
gofund.me
August 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Fobazi is a dear friend and amazing advocate for the LIS field. Right now, she needs our help. I’m thinking of her and sending her all my love. Please share, donate, and keep her in your thoughts.
Reposted by Paul Lai
I wrote about Trµmp's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, the trial of Mitsuye Endo, the example of Japanese American incarceration, pledging allegiance to war, the inherence of fascism, and my grandfather's Alien Enemy Wind-Up Doll™ @thebaffler.com: t.ly/n07l7
July 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I wrote about Trµmp's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, the trial of Mitsuye Endo, the example of Japanese American incarceration, pledging allegiance to war, the inherence of fascism, and my grandfather's Alien Enemy Wind-Up Doll™ @thebaffler.com: t.ly/n07l7
George A. Mashour: Thomas H. Huxley once remarked, “How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djinn when Aladdin rubbed his lamp.”
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Consciousness
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
June 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
George A. Mashour: Thomas H. Huxley once remarked, “How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djinn when Aladdin rubbed his lamp.”
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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If you think COVID vaccines should continue to be available to all: take 5 min and add your comments at the link below. (Advice for what to say in the linked thread.)
You do NOT have to accept this! Post on the public comments to pressure them to NOT do this! www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
If you think COVID vaccines should continue to be available to all: take 5 min and add your comments at the link below. (Advice for what to say in the linked thread.)
FYI Yellowface on PBS Friday, May 16, 2025. www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/y...
Yellow Face ~ About | Great Performances | PBS
Enjoy Tony winner David Henry Hwang’s Broadway comedy starring Daniel Dae Kim.
www.pbs.org
May 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
FYI Yellowface on PBS Friday, May 16, 2025. www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/y...
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"Nothing is quite as sexy to them as hearing a gay Chinese man say: hair dryer."
from HOW TO SPEAK HOKKIEN by Siete Lin #OnSaleNow #2024title https://buff.ly/41ySRNA
from HOW TO SPEAK HOKKIEN by Siete Lin #OnSaleNow #2024title https://buff.ly/41ySRNA
December 15, 2024 at 5:00 PM
"Nothing is quite as sexy to them as hearing a gay Chinese man say: hair dryer."
from HOW TO SPEAK HOKKIEN by Siete Lin #OnSaleNow #2024title https://buff.ly/41ySRNA
from HOW TO SPEAK HOKKIEN by Siete Lin #OnSaleNow #2024title https://buff.ly/41ySRNA
Where Every Ghost Has a Name: A Memoir of Taiwanese Independence
Kim Liao
Sat, Feb 22 10:00 AM PT
This event is hosted by the Taiwanese American Federation of Northern California as part of their annual 228 Commemoration and is co-presented by TaiwaneseAmerican.org.
🔗: bit.ly/tafnc-kimliao
Kim Liao
Sat, Feb 22 10:00 AM PT
This event is hosted by the Taiwanese American Federation of Northern California as part of their annual 228 Commemoration and is co-presented by TaiwaneseAmerican.org.
🔗: bit.ly/tafnc-kimliao
January 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Where Every Ghost Has a Name: A Memoir of Taiwanese Independence
Kim Liao
Sat, Feb 22 10:00 AM PT
This event is hosted by the Taiwanese American Federation of Northern California as part of their annual 228 Commemoration and is co-presented by TaiwaneseAmerican.org.
🔗: bit.ly/tafnc-kimliao
Kim Liao
Sat, Feb 22 10:00 AM PT
This event is hosted by the Taiwanese American Federation of Northern California as part of their annual 228 Commemoration and is co-presented by TaiwaneseAmerican.org.
🔗: bit.ly/tafnc-kimliao
Who will chase the squirrels out of our yard?
December 28, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Who will chase the squirrels out of our yard?
We said goodbye to our good, sweet boy Otis this morning. His health rapidly decided this week (chest cavity filled with fluids and cancerous cells). We will miss him so much.
Otis, 2014-2024
Otis, 2014-2024
December 27, 2024 at 9:33 PM
We said goodbye to our good, sweet boy Otis this morning. His health rapidly decided this week (chest cavity filled with fluids and cancerous cells). We will miss him so much.
Otis, 2014-2024
Otis, 2014-2024
From Lynda Barry's Making Comics
December 25, 2024 at 8:04 PM
From Lynda Barry's Making Comics
Ooof such a searingly painful but necessary book of poems about the long-standing trauma of abuse and bipolar 2.... Eugenia Leigh's Bianca. fourwaybooks.com/site/bianca/
Bianca – Four Way Books
fourwaybooks.com
December 25, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Ooof such a searingly painful but necessary book of poems about the long-standing trauma of abuse and bipolar 2.... Eugenia Leigh's Bianca. fourwaybooks.com/site/bianca/
Current mood
a woman with green hair is standing next to another woman
Alt: Elphaba and Galinda flipping their hair
media.tenor.com
December 24, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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