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My second immersive card in Pokémon TCG Pocket

Cropped screenshot of the mobile game Pokémon TCG Pocket, showing a newly-obtained rare immersive card version of Celebi EX of three-star rarity.

Whoa, today I obtained an immersive Celebi EX card from a Mythical Island pack that I received from the holiday mission in Pokémon TCG Pocket!

This was my second immersive card. My first one was the Mewtwo which I obtained when I started playing the game.


🔗 Stardew Valley Polyamory mod

Previously, I had been using the unofficial update of Free Love as my polyamory mod of choice in Stardew Valley, but unfortunately it appeared that a recent update to the game broke Free Love's unofficial update.

Fortunately, I discovered a new polyamory mod for Stardew Valley made by EnderTedi, literally named Polyamory, through the Diverse Stardew Valley Discord server.


🔗 Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand: The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami 20 years on - ABC News

Asia’s deadliest wave turned towns to rubble. Here’s how its survivors are doing

The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war, triggered the worst rail accident in history and shattered the lives of millions. Twenty years on, the survivors share their incredible stories.


A New Wallet

I received a new wallet as a Christmas present from my mother on this 2024 Christmas Day.


🔗 Christmas: Then and Now

The biblical Christmas story is thus a Palestinian story par excellence. It is not a fairy tale from the distant past. It is not a story of Northern European elves, flying on sleds pulled by magical reindeer. It is a real story, of a real people, in a real time and place. It is a story that we can profoundly identify with in December 2023.


Happy 30th Birthday to My Brother

This Christmas Eve marks the day my younger brother officially joins me in the 30s club!


New glasses

I just got a new pair of glasses. It is time since I had used my previous pair of glasses for years.


🔗 Email obfuscation: What works in 2024?

I have been trying to obfuscate my email address on Leilukin's Hub to hopefully stop email spams as much as possible. Today I came across this article that has the most comphrehensive list of methods to do so, along with the effectiveness of those methods.

Currently, I chose to use the CSS display: none and HTTP redirect methods.


🔗 Harry Potter is Also Ableist

Ember Green's video essay "Harry Potter is Also Ableist" is another great addition to my anti-Harry Potter and anti-J.K. Rowling masterlist.


🔗 Psyduck (SM-P Promo 286) - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia

Today I learned that the Psyduck has a Japanese-exclusive Pokémon card that was inspired by Edvard Munch's "The Scream", both in the illustration and the attack, which was literally named Scream.