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Ng Yi-Sheng

4 months

RAYA & THE LAST DRAGON X BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF A magical realist retelling of the rise of the first king of medieval Singapore, Sang Nila Utama, seen through the eyes of the men and women who paved his way to power. Feat. dragons, goddesses, lesbian shamans! #Q #OS #Questpit

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5 years

Yeah Southeast Asia be like that

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Just realised Tiktok CEO Shou Zi Chew bears more than enough resemblance to @TylerWu_97 to justify a gay porn parody of the hearings

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4 years

I just read online that during WW2 Raffles Institution was renamed Beach Road Boys School & now I think RI boys should be outraged that they were cheated out of being called Beach Boys

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@XiranJayZhao There's a great memoir titled No Other Road to Take by the female revolutionary Nguyen Thi Dinh, who later became Vice President of Vietnam. In this bit she talks about her work w "long-haired troops":

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@geshi2samatai Thanks for bringing this to my attention. My god, what a clusterf*ck. I oppose pedophilia based on the inability of a child to consent & as co-editor of the book I can say we didn't feature any stories that even mentioned the subject.

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2 years

@dicklevitating As a Singaporean gay activist, I don't think comments like this help—they build resentment more than agreement. Most of these countries got the law while we were colonised by the British—and as my country shows, you really can have development without human rights.

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1 year

At Springleaf Curry. Old man w improperly worn mask is talking to a table full of ACS boys in tank tops. Old Man: That was my school too! You know what they used to call us? American C*ck Suckers!

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4 years

I know she's trying to defend the higher price point of Peranakan food against a non-Peranakan critic who's saying it shouldn't be more expensive than Malay food, but... ... racial elitism from the 1920s is unconvincing & super cringey? 😬

Karen Teoh - 🇸🇬

@cryptoecongames

4 years

PENANG NONYA FOOD NO EXPENSE IS SPARED ALL ATTENTION MUST BE PAID OR YOUR EXISTENCE IS MEANINGLESS AND YOUR FAMILY'S HONOUR IS QUESTIONABLE. So fuck off you Chinese pleb. I have krosang, Kebaya, sarong and tali pendent older than your grandparents.

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@RaeesahKhanwpsg @jamuslim THIS NO LONGER SOUNDS LIKE A FANFIC PROMPT!!!!

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2 years

Breaking news: Jee Leong Koh just won the Singapore Literature Prize for English Fiction. He announced (via his proxy Thow Xin Wei) that he'd donate the money to @tjc_singapore for the defence of death row inmates. (2nd Minister of Law Edwin Tong is attending!) #singlitftw

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3 years

Has anyone else noticed the strange parallels btw Yale-NUS's dismantling & Nantah? Both daring new ideas for universities (American liberal arts in the 00s vs. a decolonial Sinophone program in the 50s), abandoned by SG once their priorities shifted

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I'm at Springleaf Prata next to a table of old army friends in their 60s & suddenly the Malay guy has brought up racism in the SAF & everyone's uncomfy but they're listening 😮

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2 years

All Pride Month, I've been wanting to do a resource thread on queer Singapore literature! There's a *lot* of it, so I'm gonna start w #singlit about trans people 🏳️‍⚧️🇸🇬

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@imaginmatrix @AllieGolem There was also this whole thing of the larger women being more difficult to auction off. (Mind you, if I recall correctly, the women were presented as being kinda into it?)

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@neilhimself I have to admit, reading about Aslan *stripping* Eustace out of his dragon skin was extremely sexually arousing for me as a confused gay preteen

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4 years

Thread on why folks (even Chinese folks!) are getting fed up with Malay foods being labelled Peranakan for a 1000% markup

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4 years

So I caused a bit of a kerfuffle today with the peranakan Nasi Lemak post about the Lemak Boys (disputed).

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I only had 4 minutes to speak so I had to make it count

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2 years

Today, at 3pm, death row inmate Kalwant Singh made a last-minute application for a stay for his execution. A bunch of us turned up to support him—so many that the Court of Appeal maxed out its capacity of 40 seats, so that some of us had to wait outside w the security guards.

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2 years

@thebeetabz @lynymo @Drea_xs They have such independently wild energies

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4 years

Why is our library propagating racist myths of 1819 SG being a "fishing village" again...

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4 years

[1/4]Singapore has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a fishing village. Today, it is bustling metropolis all thanks to the nation's land use strategy that has evolved over the last 50 years! Click through to read more about these Concept Plans.

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In the Court of Appeal for the constitutional challenge by 24 death row prisoners for lack of legal representation. All virtual. They've just appeared on the Zoom screen. They're wishing each other, "Hidup, Iskandar. Pray hard."

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4 years

@RaeesahKhanwpsg @jamuslim This sounds like a fanfic prompt

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@godweaver I get so peeved at New World crops appearing before early modernity

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@theserfstv Also really weird to say "haha these women got beat by these men" as if that's not just patriarchy

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@imaginmatrix @AllieGolem One of my friends was doing the whole political correctness gone mad thing when it got changed. I think that was *before* she found out she was into BDSM

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2 years

Btw, this tweet is not an endorsement of social media apps that track & sell personal info; I'm just revelling in the fact that some non-showbiz public figures are pretty hot

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Nyan. Happy Halloween from Junji Ito ( @junjiitofficial )! 🙀

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@notCursedE I don't think most of them actually believe she's trans. They just want to hurt the feelings of anyone who's associated with trans acceptance. Their brand is cruelty, and they're proud of it.

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@EmmaTolkin I was actually suspecting that it was gonna turn out to be useless and tainted w Covid & since action spans 24 hours there's no evidence I'm wrong

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3 years

I was gonna boast about finishing my PhD thesis (a historical novel) or publishing 2 books I edited, but then I realised, nope. I participated in a public protest for trans rights & all of us got off with only warnings from the police. That's what makes me f*cking proud.

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@dicklevitating By the way, Singapore has been a 1st world country since the 1980s and we're only JUST getting rid of our law. The Prime Minister announced it on Sunday night. Result of 15 years of our lobbying & constitutional challenges. Every country's activists have to find their own way

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4 years

@nlbsingapore You should be ashamed of yourself for propagating the racist myth that Singapore was only a "fishing village". Historians have shown that it's been serving as an entrepot port, a plantation, a shipbuilding centre, even in precolonial times. Please value precolonial history!

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1 year

@XiranJayZhao I love how you used this SG invite as a way to see all of Southeast Asia

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2 years

Another queer #singlit thread for Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇬🏳️‍⚧️, this time focused on queer women! 👩‍❤️‍👩 Btw, I’m not simply labelling this as “lesbian”, because many notable works here are written about or authored by bisexual folks. ❤️💜💙 There's also some overlap w trans & NB folks too

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@XiranJayZhao Awww you're too young to have seen the Salma Hayek movie when it came out

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2 years

@buffys "There's literally poop on your dick" "OMG, you think I look like a top? Stop it 😊"

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@clarkesworld That's a dignified and productive way to go forward

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2 years

I'm organising two panels for NSFW: Not the Singapore Festival of Writers! Queer Writing After 377A, Sat 5 Nov, 9pm w @stephdogfoot , @pauljerusalem & Carissa Cheow Writing as Activism, Sat 19 Nov, 9pm w @Kokilaparvathi , @alfian77 & @subhas_music Help me spread the word!

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@yishkabob

11 months

Super stoked to finally have a second short story published by @clarkesworld !!! (It's inspired by the Chinese myth of Pan Gu / 盤古, but I didn't know where to signal that in the text!)

clarkesworld

@clarkesworld

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Our December 2023 issue is now online at: and features original fiction by Fiona Moore, Samara Auman, Kelsea Yu, Ryan Cole, Ng Yi-Sheng, Angela Liu, Fu Qiang, and Thoraiya Dyer. Subscribe at:

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I've seen at least 21 languages on #sgreads : Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Sinhalese, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai & Vietnamese. 😎

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4 years

I'm 40 years old & this is the 1st time I'm included in an international fiction anthology ❤ Thanks to @lavietidhar for editing!!!

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1 year

@geshi2samatai It's come to my attention that some of the individuals involved in this controversy are transphobic. So, for the record: Trans women are women, trans men are men, and nonbinary people are valid. They deserve protection and liberation, just like all the queer community.

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4 years

@shakiraIaw No lah he is just selling Indonesian weight loss medicine. Jamu slim

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@ariesmidheaven Also I am literally 40

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My @strangehorizons article on global inequities in SFF publishing is finally out! Thanks to @jolantru for commissioning, @IndrapramitDas @KaaronWarren , @Penprince_ @RSAGarcia & Dean Francis Alfar for letting me interview them, & @lavietidhar for advice!

A Not-So-Swiftly Tilting Planet: Global Inequities in SFF Publishing

Back in 2005, the journalist Thomas L. Friedman championed the wave of globalisation in the 21st century in his book The World Is Flat. Today, that title’s more notable for its shortcomings than it…

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1 year

@XiranJayZhao You'd have better luck at the Orchard branch of Kinokuniya (which hosts events and is better than this) but there's no need to do a megacorp a favour

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3 years

@fidgetings Hey, you get a platform, you use it

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2 years

One of the most well-known YA novels w trans themes is by a Singaporean. The Black Tides of Heaven, by Neon Yang (2017) is an Asian-themed fantasy work set in a culture where no-one gets assigned a gender at birth. (Writing it helped Neon realise they're NB!)

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5 years

@jourdayen Why not cast a redhead Prince Eric? That'd actually help with male redheads feeling desexualised!

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11 months

@IsraelWarRoom Also, Singaporeans don't like Israeli policies either? Sure, our government refuses to call this a genocide, but the average citizen understands that Palestineans are actually *people* & bombing hospitals is wrong?

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3 years

@PritamFanBot Maybe the PAP isn't the best party to talk about founders being disappointed by successors

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4 years

@tonygoldmark I know she's an overprivileged white girl whose conplicitness in kyriarchy goes unaddressed but I am so grateful that the movie decided to show us that people can be genuinely HAPPY for their friends becoming more successful than themselves

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Discovered that under the hashtag #lesbiansingapore there are hardly any pics of actual SG lesbians (unlike the abundance of guys under #gaysingapore ). Gonna try & make up for this in a thread! Please join in! (Pls only feature folks who are already 100% out!)

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4 years

Why has no one written about a secret community of witches in Singapore who live in Kovan

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@geshi2samatai @sazki__ Anyway, check in with your friends. A *lot* of people are survivors of child abuse in its many forms. (Not just sexual!) And if you have kids, make sure they're empowered to say no to *anyone* who makes them uncomfortable. Let's build a culture of care, not fear.

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@yishkabob

3 years

If you're a Singapore scholar (resident or studying SG), do consider signing this letter to Lianhe Zaobao taking it to task over its editorial blaming racist incidents on the rise of Critical Race Theory ✊

Open letter to Lianhe Zaobao from Singapore scholars (June 13, 2021)

Link to this letter: http://bit.ly/ZBopenletter (Update: 15 June 2021) Lianhe Zaobao’s response to this open letter (bilingual): https://www.zaobao.com.sg/forum/views/story20210615-1156218 Straits...

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@geshi2samatai Children are most in danger in an authoritarian, conservative society where they are unable to report the abuse they are suffering. If you claim you're fighting against child abuse, you need to make sure you're building a culture that's based on care, not fear.

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2 years

I mean sure I love elephants but I find it kinda sus that (Western & 1st world) folks are more inclined to empathise with them than a 60 year old rural Indian woman that one of them murdered

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2 years

@Miexriir @actoradammeir @AustinPowersGuy Um why is your mime so fine

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@thelindsayellis I'm remembering how one of your early video essays was Earth Girls Are Easy

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@geshi2samatai @sazki__ And though I'm very uncomfortable with the topic, she's telling the truth. What matters is the harm you cause, not the harm you *may* cause. It's almost like calling all men rapists.

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@geshi2samatai I can't say I understand all the issues in this controversy. But I do know that there is a long, dangerous tradition of justifying bigotry against queer people by accusing us of child abuse—which covers up the actual child abuse happening among us today.

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4 years

(My father is singing the Raffles Institution anthem to the twins) Dad: 🎵Auspicium melioris aevi...🎶 Me: So, uh, you know, folks are talking about tearing down the Raffles statue. Dad: (grabs twins feet) Yes! Let's tear down the statue together!!!

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4 years

@fdbckfdfwd Fixed it

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Yay someone at #swf2023 finally brought up Gaza & the need for a ceasefire

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2 years

(It's become pretty depressing. It's clear Iskandar means he doesn't understand how to challenge the obvious systemic injustice of how they're being barred to access to lawyers. & Menon is just saying you have to stick to the letter of the law, not its spirit.)

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@XiranJayZhao Am hoping it's Malay/Indonesian but I suppose it's more likely Japanese!

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My essay for Strange Horizons' Southeast Asia issue is out! It's titled, "A Spicepunk Manifesto: Towards a Critical Movement of Southeast Asian Heritage-Based SFF". Special thanks to @amirmu , @laviecestmoi , @VictorOcampo & @Eve_Shi for their input!

A Spicepunk Manifesto: Towards a Critical Movement of Southeast Asian Heritage-Based SFF

Thus, here, on the landless soil of the online journal, I imagine a garden. Here, seeds of spice have already been planted by generations past and present; here, I call others to plant varietals of…

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2 years

And I felt ashamed, that we dare to act so high & mighty when the most powerful among us can conceive no notion of mercy, of humanity, of respect for the poorest of us struggling to survive.

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1 year

Um wow OK now marginally less ashamed of my country

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'Think especially of the children': President Tharman calls for 'vastly larger' humanitarian relief to enter Gaza

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2 years

Getting into ad hominem flame wars on Facebook cos I said Nazism and European colonialism have parallels 😂

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5 years

OMG heterosexuality is a prison

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5 years

One might look upon this appalling monstrosity and ask...why black and white? "No, seriously," you might ask, "what the hell does drab colorlessness have to do with being heterosexual?" The answer, of course, is nothing. There is no thematic connection whatsoever.

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@DrJenGunter @jameelajamil Unless the man is a trans man, of course!

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I saw @Kokilaparvathi from @tjc_singapore calling folks in Malaysia to inform them of the outcome, tears streaming down her cheeks. Is this why cameras and recording devices aren't allowed in the Supreme Court? So no-one sees the real impact of the laws they cherish?

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@geshi2samatai From what I understand, @sazki__ has been harassed for emphasising that there's a difference between child abusers & people with pedophilic tendencies.

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4 years

Just a reminder that even though sex work is supposedly legal in Singapore, sex workers (including transgender friends) are still subject to violent police raids.

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Today is Police Day, & 200 years since the @SingaporePolice was formed in 1820. My deepest appreciation to the men & women of the SPF for their commitment to safeguarding Singapore, without fear or favour, regardless of race, language or religion. – LHL

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Also recalling what a friend told me about the closure of NYU Tisch-Asia: once Democrats get elected into office, they summon all their cronies from universities to serve in the government, & the Republicans/conservatives replace them

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It's the final hours of Pride Month! I’ve already done a bunch of threads about the history of queer women & trans folks in #singlit , plus non-Singaporean writing about queer SG 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇬🏳️‍⚧️ Now it’s time to tackle the elephant in the room: the topic of gay, bisexual & queer men 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

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Suratman Markasan won the Singapore Literature Prize for the first time! He's 91 years old!!! (The book is Mengasa Kalam Jilid 2 in the Creative Non-Fiction category. He's been nominated many times before) #singlitftw

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@wilsonyimby @amerhadiazmi And as a Singaporean, I want a Malaysia that's so safe and equal that folks in my country here would *want* to join the union, just like in 1963. We're not a foreign people; we're a breakaway city-state

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2 years

British women played major roles in Singapore as teachers & Christian missionaries & it's kinda insidious how we see it as 100% progressive rather than part of the colonial project

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2 years

losing my mind at the idea that british women are exempt from white colonial feminism

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@medievalpoc Here's a self-portrait by the 1/4 black Dominican artist Théodore Chassériau, made under the influence of Eugene Delacroix in Paris

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@hankgreen @snazzeo I've always thought you were hot! (I have a thing for thin bespectacled guys like my bf)

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@ProBirdRights It killed the dinosaurs

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2 years

Judges have been added to the Zoom. Sundaresh Menon presiding. No photos or recordings allowed. They're going through the chronology now, explaining why the hearing is being held so urgently

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UPDATE: @iliyaizzudin tells me that IndigNation's currently organising a conference in early 2023, about envisioning a queer future and more than just 377A. Contact them if you wanna help make more cool stuff happen!

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@amerhadiazmi Probably all of ASEAN gets a shake. Oh, & East Timor, cos apparently our vote is keeping them OUT of ASEAN

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Got pics w @XiranJayZhao & @hannaalkaf at yesterday's Asian Festival of Children's Content! Long IG recap tonight! #afcc2023

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2 years

The appellants speaking Tamil on Zoom are laughing, btw, and the few Tamil speakers waiting in the courtroom itself are cracking up. (Damn, this is *literally* gallows humour.)

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4 years

WE MOURN FOR THE LOSS OF BRAVE SOULS WHO WERE MURDERED BY TERRORIST MYANMAR JUNTA. MAY THEIR COURAGE BE CONTAGIOUS. REST IN POWER.’ #BlackWednesday #StandWithMyanmar #MilkTeaAlliance " @herstoryseapod @hoc_pod @poojanansi @lim_jialiang @alfpang @ikanselarkuning @siwaratrikalpa

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2 years

So the consensus is that I've done a bad take by calling @PinkDotSG "utopian". Yes, it feels that way to me, but that's because of my cis Chinese male privilege—as folks have pointed out, it does *not* feel that way to a lot of people in SG who identify as LGBT+. A 🧵:

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@yishkabob

2 years

Iskandar is saying that Prison Services has used sustained deliberate delaying tactics which led to the last min application, therefore this is not an abuse of process. They actually approved the same docs on Mon which they refused earlier

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@yishkabob

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Southeast Asians in the comments refusing the divide-and-conquer tactics ❤️❤️❤️

Israel War Room

@IsraelWarRoom

11 months

🚨 MALAYSIAN ANTISEMITISM EXPOSED 🚨 Ever wondered why online Malaysians are so venomous and hateful to Jews and the Jewish state? Well, there's some history here. Southeast Asian history is replete with instances of Malaysia bullying and intimidating smaller neighboring

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@yishkabob

4 years

@cryptoecongames I am proudly sinkhek. My grandfathers were coolies.

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@yishkabob

11 months

Crazy question at #swf2023 : Audience member: Is hip-hop like dikir barat? Because I listen to my Malay colleague's dikir barat at school... Akeem Jahat: No. Dikir barat don't have MF Doom.

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@yishkabob

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@medievalpoc Here's a self-portrait by the half-Indonesian artist Jan Toorop while in the Netherlands in 1882:

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@yishkabob

2 years

Kali is not only the goddess of death, but also of time and change. A better Singapore is possible.

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@yishkabob

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On the way to the airport headed for the 6 week Clarion Workshop & I'm sweating buckets

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@yishkabob

4 years

@RaeesahKhanwpsg I love how classy you're being. Uplifting others in this contest when so many people's strategy is to tear down

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@yishkabob

4 years

This is worrying—Ivan Lim is used in schools as a poster child for cyberbullying!!! It really shows that PAP didn't take everyday citizens' concerns about him seriously

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@dweenzers

4 years

Posts like these are a little disconcerting, especially if they suggest that school teachers are going to be rallied to warn their students of the bogeymen online.

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