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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨
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Author of TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU DON’T REMEMBER Ecco/Harper Collins | 🐓+🐝💨 | doberman mind, dachshund body | Essays Editor @ The Offing | she/they

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I did a lot of #beekeeping aka bee meditation tho. Sharing my corner of peace with you.
August 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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On a trip to Seoul. Feeling relief and regenerating for the fight when return home to the US. watching the No Kings protests from Seoul feels like watching the Seoul protests last year from the US. Inspiring to see everyone out. Here is Seoul Pride 2025. Small in comparison to SF or NYC but mighty!
June 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Here’s a range of prices for said veg.
Screenshot of red bell pepper (Mexico) priced at $4.99 each Screenshot of red pepper priced at $2.39 each Screenshot of one bunch of asparagus (non organic) priced at $7.99 Screenshot of one bunch of asparagus (organic) priced at $9.99
April 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Fill up gas today. Get your necessities. Tomorrow we don’t use our credit cards.
February 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Okay for those who also went to send a handmade quilt, the call is on IG from shaadeemae

www.instagram.com/p/DE28_qwzRE...
Call for quilts for those affected by the Altadena Fire by shaadeemae on Instagram.
January 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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This is a throw quilt inspired by bojagi that I made a few years ago. Hand pieced. Hand quilted. No one ever wanted it. I kept it, hoping for the right time to give it as a gift. Now sending it to be an emotional support quilt for someone affected by the Eaton Fire in Altadena.
A picture of a 60 inch by 60 inch quilt that is comprised of many rectangular and square shaped solid color fabrics, pink to teal.
January 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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I love hexagon quilts. I’ve made quite a few by hand.
January 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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I made a quilt bc i needed distraction from awaiting test results and the news and…welp, a friend had a baby amidst all this and a quilt is celebration, too!
January 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Everybody going to holiday parties and this is the scene here.

Introverts: be jealous. Be very very jealous.
December 16, 2024 at 4:35 AM
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Let’s see you at 21.

I don’t have many pictures from 21. It was the year I had my nervous breakdown. But here is one outside my apartment where sometimes a man would be doing drugs in the stairwell and other times a man taking shelter from rain.
December 16, 2024 at 3:41 AM
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Yesterday, a dear friend texted me a picture she took of me in 2017. I’m holding Han Kang’s HUMAN ACTS in my hand.
Picture of an Asian lady wearing indigo tie dyed pants and burgundy loafers in a black puffer jacket and a wacky purse w a face on it. The lady is me. Standing against a pink wall on a sidewalk. Holding recently purchased books. The one on top is Han Kang’s Human Acts.
December 10, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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So I made them. They didn’t really crinkle. They’re okay but Not sure I’ll make them again. My cookies need to be hedonistic.
Picture of lemon-turmeric crinkle cookies on a plate with zest-less bald lemons in the background. The cookies are only slightly crinkled. They are very very orange from the turmeric even though I put in the correct amount of turmeric.
December 10, 2024 at 2:02 AM
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Then again. This was Pantone color of the year 2024. Peach fuzz.
Pantone color of the year 2024 was Peach Fuzz. It reminds me of creamsicles and sherbets and granny crochet work. And sunbeams and late spring and of course peach fuzz. It was aspirational. But was this 2024’s vibe? 2024 was continued world conflict with deaths in Gaza and Ukraine nevermind the rarely mentioned tragedies in Sudan and Yemen. It was the rise of fascism. It was the death of Navalny. I guess we had the Olympics. This might make a good blush or lipgloss.
December 5, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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Pantone color of the year 2025. My opinions are in the alt text.
Pantone color of the year 2024 is “mocha mousse.” On the left is the Pantone as shown on pantone’s Instagram reels in different shades and looks like chocolate cake frosting or a swirl of nail polish or poo in golden browns and the swirl is also in the shape of a gonad. On the right is a solid color swatch of the color and it looks like liquid foundation from a beauty brand or the color of a penis. This is the color that says we are doomed in 2025. We should go down into a bunker. We should try to switch to another multiverse. Nothing will inspire us. Just go eat some chocolate mousse.
December 5, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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Yo. Tsunami evacuation order for West Berkeley. Stay east of 7th street. Apparently a tsunami is on its way.
December 5, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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Tsunami alert
December 5, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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On IG, Pantone plays a a confusing video/reel. They never show one solid color. You wonder if it’s the darker brown or the more golden brown and you wonder too, why it all looks like gonads.
Screenshot of Pantone’s IG real for color of the year 2025: mocha mousse. It looks like a swirl of warm brown and darker brown reflected in light. It looks like an ultrasound. It also looks like chocolate mousse being swirled. It also looks like nail polish being mixed. It looks a sepia color picture of gonads.
December 5, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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When people ask me to bring a vegetable to Thanksgiving potluck, I bring veggie japchae. I made 20+ servings in my kimchi-making vat.
Sweet potato vermicelli noodles and cooked vegetables about to be mixed for japchae.
November 29, 2024 at 4:04 AM
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The product of my rudimentary skills. Wood is walnut. I like the shape. I wanted a deeper spoon. I have other shapes like the one Stanley Tucci used recently in a TikTok it is some HUGE wooden spoon!
Hand carved wooden spoon Hand carved wooden spoon
November 26, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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Ms Warwick, this is Shadow the Very Good Dog.
A picture of a tri-color small dog that is a cross of beagle + dachshund + toy fox terrier + chihuahua. He is sitting on a green couch looking expectantly, as if for treats just for being cute.
November 24, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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Alt Goldgrün swatch.
Picture of “col-o-ring” with fountain pen ink samples showing part of a spectrum of green + olive and highlighting a green shading ink called Alt Goldgrün
November 20, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.
Clouds from a plane at dusk. Gray and pink and baby blue.
November 17, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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Someone in my bee community went and got some compost and posted this picture. Said they were impressed (it’s also certified; didn’t know compost could be certified). It sure looks beautiful.
Picture of a garden with raised garden beds for vegetables. The soil in the raised beds looks recently deposited and is a very dark brown like dark chocolate or dark coffee grounds.
November 17, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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One bright piece of news: @theonion.com bought Infowars out of bankruptcy and will turn infowars into a parody of its original self. HAHAHAHAHA YAAAAAAS.
Picture of nytimes news alert saying the onion has bought jnfowars out of bankruptcy.
November 14, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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Quote post with a sunset picture you took yourself.

Sunset used to be the time of day I got most suicidal during my suicidal days. But now it is simply a beautiful time.
Picture of sunset over the Bay Area. Neon pink and blue sky. Oakland port in the distance behind the trees.
November 14, 2024 at 3:54 AM