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a man and a woman are sitting at a table with plates of food and cups of coffee . ALT: a man and a woman are sitting at a table with plates of food and cups of coffee .

Now that was a great drama! He held his own against a huge actress. You have to hand it to him! Plus, he looks great with long hair, even if Koreans don't like it.!

Frogs before the Pot Boils Podcast Episode · Dr. Chi’s Salon · 06/21/2025 · 24m

We were talking about the best Kdramas of 2024. But then Kat Turner mentioned that she had been in Seoul in April 2025, so we chatted about Korean politics. Here it is! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

You have to see the one with him in Cuba! With Song Hyekyo!

Who is talking about mean white people? I have no idea what you were talking about.

AnyWho, for people who actually want a list of the active gangs in LAPD, here's a Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Colour me interested 👀

There's a journalist-scholar who literally documented the gangs in the LAPD. This is not even hyperbole.

True story bro.

Cover of Life Magazine from May 197- showing 3 protestors working to save a fellow protestor shot by the National Guard at the Kent State Campus during a demonstration.

Last time I posted a picture of Kent State, Bluesky flagged it as a sensitive image. But here is a cover story to remind people why sending in the National Guard is a horrible act. I had a friend who suffered greatly from the things she witnessed that day.

Screencap of text message that reads RCS chat with Mom LUCY Good Morning California ns don't take no shit Texting with Mom LUCY (SMS/MMS)

Meanwhile this is the text I got this morning from my mother in NYC #LosAngeles

My monthly reading recommendation, last month, was an essay by Umberto Eco called Ur Fascism or Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt.

A more friendly and helpful read, I think.

I'm hosting watch parties for When Life Gives You Tangerines. Come to find out that the other people had refused to watch it because it seemed too depressing and they needed support while watching it!

Glad I can offer some Kdrama support! @daebakpodcast.bsky.social @kdramamenfess.bsky.social

Americans need to be like South Korea NOW!!

YouTube video by Talk To Me In Korean ❓Why does 네 sound like [de], not [ne]? | Korean Pronunciation

I like this video explainer on how to pronounce 네 (which means yes) and 뭐 (which means what). I guarantee you've heard these words in Kdramas but you probably think they sound like de and bwo when they are actually closer to ne and mwo. youtu.be/mu6TfeVN7yw?...

There are things I miss about Twitter, like the thrill of posting something mildly clever and getting 6 likes and one death threat.

I love Jesus and think this in AWESOME!

I'm watching a show set in Scotland and I see a man with this face. Acting seems much more democratic there in comparison to Korean television where only the prettiest of people have the right to earn a living showing their face on the screen. Is the US in the middle? @daebakpodcast.bsky.social

Happy Pride.

No matter who you are, how you identify, you are valid and loved.

#FACTS

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

So excited to read this! When I'm watching a romance develop, if I see a dude with a black hat avoiding cameras, I cheer! 😂

Image by Amber Lee. Adapted from screenshot of “The Real Aesoons are here! A Reaction Video to When Life Gives You Tangerines by the Jeju Painting Grandmothers Who Have Long Captured Jeju in Their Art” (translated title), 2025, by Netflix Korea (YouTube); St. Ives: Cornwall, 1883-1884, by James McNeill Whistler (National Museum of Asian Art, Gift of Charles Lang Freer); and Untitled (Landscape), ca. 1938, by Arthur Dove, born Canandaigua, NY 1880-died Huntington, NY 1946 (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation).

If #WhenLifeGivesYouTangerines moved you with its depictions of Jeju everyday life, don’t miss our interview with acclaimed feminist and anthropologist Haejoang Cho.

Professor Cho reflects on postwar Korea, the rise of Hallyu, and how fans might “gather and start activities to save the world.”

Also, her hair was another character in the show!

Forget You Not was excellent! I highly recommend it!

I'm having a Tangerines watchparty this coming Tuesday at 8pm ET. If you want in, let me know....

Linguistics isn't language specific since it's the science of language. It's like saying "Western biology." (FWIW, I learned this mainly in Spanish linguistics class.)

Cantonese and Fujianese are not varieties, they are different languages entirely.

Topolects in the US would be Southern English or Pacific Northwest English. In Europe it would be Swiss vs Austrian German. Someone from Guangzhou and someone from Fuzhou couldn't communicate without Mandarin.

Interesting. I was taught that dialects are mutually intelligible whereas languages are not. I googled "topolect" and it is defined as "the dialects of a specific area collectively, constituting a variety of a language." Cantonese and Fujianese would not be topolects since they languages.