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@tweetsbymoi Summarizing the session made me really pity the PCs. They got food and water, fled to safety, realized it wasn’t safe, fled to maybe-safer safety, set up camp, cooked food, got attacked by giant ants, and lost a party member as they fled, losing the food. “Isle of Joy” like hell!

You know you’re tired when you’re trying to say “four part harmony” but it comes out “poor fart harmony”!

(This became a recurring joke in my Sunday night game! Also, my son thinks it’s the best joke ever.)

RT @aaronhoyland: Govt: We trust people to act responsibly.
Me: So you’ll tell us where people are catching it?
G: Nah.
Me: Give us timel…

@xtinehlee Thanks, that WAS glorious. It might not be huge to you, but I kept saying, “There’s more?!?!” as I went through all the videos. 🙂 It looks pretty amazing to me.

As of a few days ago, >50% of S. Korean kids 0-9 officially have had COVID. (No vaccine for kids 0-4 is available here, but the one for kids 5-11 is… now. Officials put off the start of vaccinating kids 5-11 till a month into the school year…)

https://t.co/StEm2wOYWf (… knowing full well that many kids would be attending and likely exposed, and that many parents would have no choice but to send them.)

RT @koryodynasty: Honestly this number is so horrifying and shocking.

It basically means that if you are a woman and come to study in Kore…

@koryodynasty When, at a past university job, a student came to me about it because admin refused to do anything, I learned from other faculty that it was a recurring problem: they’d had students come to them too. Admin was like, “We can’t do anything.” Which is code for, “We could but won’t.” @koryodynasty Long story short, I tried three or four different ways to get it addressed and none resulted in any action. Students ended up with nothing but word of mouth. Even explaining clearly how it could damage the exchange program or bring bad press didn’t result in action or concern.

@GarethMorley3 @BenBurgis This is what I was going to say.

@xtinehlee Sounds glorious! I’d definitely watch a tour video if you posted one (and pinged this thread, because I’m terrible at keeping up with social media these days).

@JustinHowe Nope! (I *think* I got that as an ebook in some bundle at some point, but it languishes unread so far.)

@JustinHowe Was it me? I have a “Return to Justin if he wants them” pile here.

RT @rhiankatie: Why we can’t stop saying gay, a story

On the first day of my senior year of high school, a new boy showed up in my AP Engl…

Oh, and C.L. Moore’s very odd Doomsday Morning, which has a kind of eerily prophetic clarity to it when it comes to the awfulness of social networks and the role of art and performance in resistance to authoritarian power. Ooops, I guess it would help to link the post, too.
gordsellar.com/2019/07/15/rec…

No sure why this post from 2019 never got published, but there are so many interesting books I have to share it. Almost all of the books (except for the ones that were not for me) have stuck with me, but especially the Minsoo Kang’s Hong Gildong translation, @victorlavalle’s Ballad of Black Tom, and @KameronHurley’s The Stars Are Legion.

Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada by Anna Brownell Jameson #booksread2022

(Yes, actual CanLit. What’s happening?)

https://t.co/uSpGRCFAfe Weird, somehow my blog thought I’d published this in March when, nope, it was a draft until today. I have no idea what’s up with that. Anyway…

@JustinHowe “See a man about a dog,” is a fun one for excusing yourself to go to the bathroom.

“Putting out fires” is another good one for work-related stuff. “Cleaning up after —’s mess,” or “Cleaning up after ——,” too.

@JustinHowe “I wasn’t born yesterday.”
“Like shooting fish in a barrel.” (Ok, a simile.)
Using “playing whack-a-mole” or “cat herding” for appropriate work-related tasks.
“… eyes in the back of his/her/their head.”
“If the creek don’t rise,” for, “Barring any unforeseen circumstances.”

RT @TheEagleist: Canada demonstrates how serious they are about cutting oil & gas emissions by approving ocean floor drilling

RT @OldDogGames: A thread of recaps for our campaign of the AGON rpg (in vase-form, naturally)
🏺🏺🏺
Meet our heroes in this thread: https://…

Our interview with Djuna (@djuna01), a titan of South Korean SF, is included this month’s Clarkesworld, alongside a ton of other great stuff for you to check out!

clarkesworldmagazine.com/djuna_intervie…

RT @ClimateBen: BREAKING: simultaneous freakish heat in the Arctic and Antarctic described as ‘impossible’ and ‘unthinkable’ by scientists…

Dragons (Time Life Enchanted World) gordsellar.com/2022/04/01/dra…

TFW you are disappointed to discover the bizarre sound you were hearing through the door (“Kaiju owl housecat hyrbid purr-hooting?”) is actually just the familiar sound of a home appliance doing exactly what it’s supposed to do.

@jeremiahtolbert I’ve barely driven anywhere for a few years now and despite all the stresses of the pandemic, man, not having to deal with the insanity that is normal on the roads over here has been immensely good for me.

@GeekinKorea Not really a surprising omission, though:
thedailybeast.com/the-complicate…

RT @BaroqueNorth: LAST CHANCE to support this amazing project! And we have a new incentive. The highest pledge will gain you named ‘Angel’…

@spacenakji @KoreanWeird Thank you! It was looking like we’d have to do bananakick fondue to please the sprog, but this will probably be an acceptable substitute!

@KoreanWeird Read this to my son and he melted to the floor in protest of the fact he missed out on the chance to try them! (I’ll look around.)

I don’t mind the fake banana aroma/flavour myself! @KoreanWeird Oh man… should have googled before asking:

Weather forecast for tonight:

youtube.com/watch?v=vugqRA…

Heard my son talking about “chocolate bananakick” (no idea why) but it hit me that this should be a thing, and I’m surprised it’s not. Or… is it? If anyone knows, it’s the our friendly neighborhood Korean Snack Expert, @KoreanWeird…

@GeekinKorea (The schtick being that they go though the process step-by-step, noting why one does this or that, and also noting things to be careful with, which helps them organize the information when writing a step-by-step process paragraph or whatever.)

@GeekinKorea 🙂 I bet those are some interesting conversations. @GeekinKorea I have occasionally asked them to cook something they’ve never cooked before (and film themselves doing it, video blog style) as a preparatory step to the unit on Process Writing.
There’s a fair bit of “Ramyeon, but with a few veggies added,” but also some off the wall stuff!

@ImpChan Absolutely! I don’t think I’d like escargot, at least not from their descriptions! Like, no thanks!
I’m not bananas about the Korean style of preparing snail either, but it was okay.

@jeremiahtolbert True, but this is honestly a first for me. (I’m more accustomed to people wanting to use some really awful local word processing software that is ubiquitous an broken and terrible, which barely runs on Mac anyway and I cannot open let alone grade.) But yeah…

I am amused that some of my (Korean) students wrote about how horrifying escargot is (“Ugh, snail!”), given that my only experience eating snail was… at a Korean 탈펭이 speciality restaurant in southwestern Korea many years ago. (Different snails & preparation method, though.)

@xtinehlee I don’t have any amazing insights either, but shoring up the crumbling barrier between work & life and reclaiming energy that the latter seems to insist on sapping from the former has helped a lot. Storytime and cooking together and being more present. Less doomscrolling. @xtinehlee I will also saying getting back to an old hobby of mine (tabletop RPGing with friends regularly) has been relatively sanity-preserving… and thank goodness it’s easy to do online.

RT @lisa_iannattone: This study circulated widely recently and while the increased risk of heart disease got the headlines, they also found…

RT @GeorgeMonbiot: A short thread on some of the challenges we face.

1. Climate and ecological breakdown are now imminent and probable. C…

@ArulaRatnakar Damn, I’m sorry, that’s rough!

RT @daandydan: – Total deaths doubled in 6 weeks.
– Crematoria and funeral homes overwhelmed and having to work longer hours.

BBC Seoul Co…

@Ben_UK_KR But I’m also 100% up front about this, explain it in detail, and mention “Submit PDF only” on every assignment, so it’s not like I don’t give advance warning. (Even if some people do ignore it and submit .HWP files anyway.)

@Ben_UK_KR True. But I would understand people struggling to adjust to GDocs from HWP a lot more, since at GDocs doesn’t emulate HWP’s interface almost entirely, y’know? @Ben_UK_KR Our LMS borks the formatting on anything except PDFs anyway, so HWP files were never going to happen. Plus the fonts used in HWP often totally mess up formatting in English texts. Since time immemorial, submitting an HWP file earns an automatic F on the assignments in my class.

TFW when undergrads in their 20s complain that Google Docs is “too different” from MS Word and learning how to use it is “too hard”. Er… what?

Not that things are perfect here—far from it—but I was shocked when I arrived in South Korea to discover how many of those things are included under basic coverage here, that aren’t in Canada. twitter.com/AmitAryaMD/sta…

RT @AmitAryaMD: Canada actually calls its healthcare system “universal” but does not cover:

🦷 dental care
💊 medications
👁️ eye care
🏡 comp…

“The Slave” from Anna Brownell Jameson’s Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada gordsellar.com/2022/03/23/the…

How much y’all wanna bet the tune Dr. Ma’s singing modulates to, “Oh, everyone should have been more careful, personal responsibility is the issue…” as cases of Long COVID start to hit the media and people start needing long term treatment and support? twitter.com/hyunsuinseoul/…