Mallory Yu
@malloryyu.bsky.social
NPR producer and editor, movie watcher, little bit of everything else. New Kpop enthusiast.
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I didn’t come back to Seoul just to visit this Samoyed cafe but it WAS one of the first things I mapped on my itinerary.
February 12, 2026 at 2:43 PM
I didn’t come back to Seoul just to visit this Samoyed cafe but it WAS one of the first things I mapped on my itinerary.
I saw SORRY TO BOTHER YOU at Sundance which was especially funny bc none of the white people in the audience knew how to react while the BIPOC folks hooted uproariously.
Have asked this before and always like the responses. What are your biggest “I saw that in the first run cinema” flexes? Couple of mine:
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
February 12, 2026 at 2:30 AM
I saw SORRY TO BOTHER YOU at Sundance which was especially funny bc none of the white people in the audience knew how to react while the BIPOC folks hooted uproariously.
Did Sony learn NOTHING from K-pop Demon Hunters??????
Matt Braly has revealed that his feature film, co-written with Rebecca Sugar, has been scrapped at Sony Pictures Animation.
The project centered on a young boy who embarks on an emotional journey into a fantastical realm of Thai spirits, hoping to find a cure for his illness.
The project centered on a young boy who embarks on an emotional journey into a fantastical realm of Thai spirits, hoping to find a cure for his illness.
February 11, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Did Sony learn NOTHING from K-pop Demon Hunters??????
Hit the point of travel when all I can think about is my bed and my cats.
February 11, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Hit the point of travel when all I can think about is my bed and my cats.
And people think Asians all look alike
February 10, 2026 at 11:54 AM
And people think Asians all look alike
Sappy post alert: Befriended a fellow ATINY from Italy at the Golden Hour Pt4 pop-up event in Seoul — love how K-pop brings people together (with international fans banding together in mutual confusion).
February 10, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Sappy post alert: Befriended a fellow ATINY from Italy at the Golden Hour Pt4 pop-up event in Seoul — love how K-pop brings people together (with international fans banding together in mutual confusion).
I BETTER see bunches of sugarcane grass running around city streets come Halloween!!!
February 10, 2026 at 2:56 AM
I BETTER see bunches of sugarcane grass running around city streets come Halloween!!!
Yeah, going to be adding “does not use AI in surgery” to my list of criteria for a surgeon. Any surgeon. Absolutely not.
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Yeah, going to be adding “does not use AI in surgery” to my list of criteria for a surgeon. Any surgeon. Absolutely not.
Knowing there are direct flights to Asia from Dulles is going to be so bad for my wallet. Gonna become one of those people that’s like “I’m itchy in DC, gonna fly to Seoul/Taipei for a few days, bye”
February 10, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Knowing there are direct flights to Asia from Dulles is going to be so bad for my wallet. Gonna become one of those people that’s like “I’m itchy in DC, gonna fly to Seoul/Taipei for a few days, bye”
Really feel that the people who didn’t like watching Bad Bunny’s halftime show are sad, joyless people in general. Can’t be helped, I guess!
February 9, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Really feel that the people who didn’t like watching Bad Bunny’s halftime show are sad, joyless people in general. Can’t be helped, I guess!
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Variety confirms the wedding in Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show was real
Bad Bunny Stuns the Super Bowl With Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin and a Real Wedding Ceremony as Pedro Pascal, Jessica Alba and More Party on Stage
Bad Bunny staged a Super Bowl Halftime performance for the ages on Sunday, with Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, an elaborate set and a real wedding.
variety.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Variety confirms the wedding in Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show was real
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If you are in charge of a large organization of any kind that cuts jobs, but particularly one that employs journalists, part of what you get paid so much money for is looking angry and disappointed people in the eye while they yell at you.
If you don’t want to do that, don’t be the big boss.
If you don’t want to do that, don’t be the big boss.
I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.
February 8, 2026 at 6:29 AM
If you are in charge of a large organization of any kind that cuts jobs, but particularly one that employs journalists, part of what you get paid so much money for is looking angry and disappointed people in the eye while they yell at you.
If you don’t want to do that, don’t be the big boss.
If you don’t want to do that, don’t be the big boss.
DC friends, please stay warm!
STRONG MESSAGING about the seriousness of the cold and wind on Saturday from the National Weather Service. Power outages possible. Longest period with subzero wind chills in 30+ years.
A good day to stay inside, or bundle up big time if you have to be outside.
A good day to stay inside, or bundle up big time if you have to be outside.
February 7, 2026 at 4:10 AM
DC friends, please stay warm!
Unfortunately, I know just enough Mandarin to convince people I understand them when they speak to me (I sometimes do, but usually don’t lol).
I *think* my chin was complimented but I also can’t be sure lmao
I *think* my chin was complimented but I also can’t be sure lmao
February 5, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Unfortunately, I know just enough Mandarin to convince people I understand them when they speak to me (I sometimes do, but usually don’t lol).
I *think* my chin was complimented but I also can’t be sure lmao
I *think* my chin was complimented but I also can’t be sure lmao
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One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
February 5, 2026 at 3:11 AM
One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
Like what’s the point now of being a billionaire and owning a newspaper? At least the robber barons gave some of what they stole back to the public.
February 4, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Like what’s the point now of being a billionaire and owning a newspaper? At least the robber barons gave some of what they stole back to the public.
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Sorry, I can't come into the office because my cat would be sad.
February 3, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Sorry, I can't come into the office because my cat would be sad.
What do you call it when you’re so in sync with your partner that you end up with matching injuries that occurred on opposite sides of the world?
February 2, 2026 at 11:16 AM
What do you call it when you’re so in sync with your partner that you end up with matching injuries that occurred on opposite sides of the world?
I’m finally back in Asia after a 16-hr flight and another 3-hr one. Ready to fall into bed.
February 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
I’m finally back in Asia after a 16-hr flight and another 3-hr one. Ready to fall into bed.
I resent how difficult it is for me to walk in DC right now. Roads are cleared *for cars* but the pedestrian situation is absolutely ridiculous.
January 30, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I resent how difficult it is for me to walk in DC right now. Roads are cleared *for cars* but the pedestrian situation is absolutely ridiculous.
I hate ticketmaster so much
a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames
Alt: Madeline Kahn as Mrs. White in Clue, in a black dress with her hands to her face, saying “it - it - the f - it - flam - flames. Flames, on the side of my face.”
media.tenor.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:53 PM
I hate ticketmaster so much
Thrilled for all the SINNERS noms, including and especially Wunmi Mosaku and Delroy Lindo!!!
January 22, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Thrilled for all the SINNERS noms, including and especially Wunmi Mosaku and Delroy Lindo!!!
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This reminds me of an excellent review I read on this movie by Brooke Obie, which has this banger line in it:
“A loveless revolutionary is just a terrorist.”
blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/one-battle...
“A loveless revolutionary is just a terrorist.”
blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/one-battle...
January 22, 2026 at 3:27 PM
This reminds me of an excellent review I read on this movie by Brooke Obie, which has this banger line in it:
“A loveless revolutionary is just a terrorist.”
blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/one-battle...
“A loveless revolutionary is just a terrorist.”
blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/one-battle...
See, I'm not fighting in today's BTS Ticketmaster battles for myself, I'm fighting them for my mom which makes the stakes so much higher.
January 22, 2026 at 3:35 PM
See, I'm not fighting in today's BTS Ticketmaster battles for myself, I'm fighting them for my mom which makes the stakes so much higher.