Maya ☁️➡️🌸 (➡️🇹🇭🇸🇬➡️)

what is the median TTS (time till subtweet) for the two of us?

(move each Chinese-speaking place 1 tier down and Japan 3 tiers down had I not known how to read Japanese)

east Asia "how much I understand in my surroundings" tiers (places I've been to):

A: 🇸🇬Singapore; 🇯🇵Japan
B: 🇭🇰Hong Kong; 🇮🇩Bali
C: 🇹🇼Taiwan; 🇹🇭Bangkok
D: 🇨🇳Shenzhen
F: 🇰🇷South Korea

They say that travel lets people discover themselves

thus far I've discovered that I need to live next to a Daiso and 30 Maimai machines

(🇭🇰 travel diary) I think I overdosed on milk tea

A bottle labelled: 只供在店使用，非可取走 Only for use in-house, not to take away

"O Housekeeper of the Inn, what is your wisdom?"

"shikyou zaiten shiyou

hika shusou"

I'm not sure what the wisest-sounding language possible is, but Chinese read with Japanese on'yomi pronunciations would be up there as far as my ears go

I do not like making a consequentialist argument this direct but what do they actually think would happen if they cave in and ban Singal? Would Singal's influence decrease or increase? Would Bluesky's influence decrease or increase?

(Maybe I should get a more distinctive pfp, it's rather difficult to notice. This one I set when I started tweeting due to a lack of better ideas, and the lack of better ideas still persists)

made it into the croissant ✊

I sometimes forget how impressive the resident Bluesky bot accounts are! They read so naturally, and induce a much greater shock about the state of AI in me than any of the big lab product demos do

(good job @astrra.space )

admittedly the biggest thing stopping me from getting organised is that 'get organised' has become yet another Task hanging over me :(

now I wonder if alternating between scheduled and unscheduled weeks could be something that works? I have a similar problem where I feel like I'm behind on ~everything and I'm pretty sure being organised would help, but it also feels quite alien to me and not sure I could manage it 24/7

(admittedly the only thing keeping me using Twitter as the default is network effects 😦 density of exciting stuff is greater there still 😦
like there could have been a world where the fun cluster moved here and ignored this type of accounts, just as in this world we try to ignore the racists there)

> mass move to other apps
selfishly I would like that they do that tbh, as having less of entitled attempts at mob rule would make Bluesky look more inviting in contrast to racist-infested x dot com

Due to the meaning of numbers in Chinese culture, "auspicious" numbering system was adopted by the developers, where the top floor was "88" – Chinese for double fortune. It is already common in Hong Kong for ~4th floors not to exist; there is no requirement by the Buildings Department for numbering other than that it being "made in a logical order."[14] A total of 42 intermediate floor numbers are omitted from 39 Conduit Road: those missing include 14, 24, 34, 64, all floors between 40 and 59; the floor number which follows 68 is 88.

They don't want you to know this but floor numbers don't mean anything
you can just make them up
I live on floor 1429

the Hong Kong programming puzzle:

Maya is staying in a hotel at floor N. The hotel omits floors that contain the digit 4, or the substring 13. How many floors above ground is she actually?

(0<N<10^18; your solution needs to handle all plausible HK building heights after all)

nighttime photo from a plane, with a thunder visible in the distance

oh to take a flight in faraway skies, where the clouds tower and distant storms light up the night

the HSBC ad from the inspirational quote series inside the jetbridge next to me said
"Can we win more
by competing less?"

and let me just say that if I were a regulated corporation I WOULD NOT say that

Purple orchid

yellow orchid

white-purple orchid

white-purple orchid

Consider

purple orchids

white orchids

orange orchids

garden landscape; background is a path with lush greenery on either side, foreground is a plushie stuck between metal arches

Almost forgot to report that last Sunday I visited the National Orchid Garden in Singapore (again)

Experienced overwhelming joy (again)

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

after three tries I'm giving up, it is impossible to upload a tweet with 4 images from a mobile browser here

I guess I'll once again post on Twitter first instead and then later copy using my laptop...

(that or set up typefully or whatever)

this post elicits such mixed feelings, well done

using the phrase "thread the needle" as a metaphor for a routine task made simple via a simple dedicated cheap tool (the 'needle threader')

thank you the person who pressed 'like' on my nonsensical post bringing it to my attention!

Skyline of Singapore with Lee Kuan Yew overlaid in the background, and the text "install ac" "see you space cowboy"

Tweet screenshot zhil @zhil_arf "We did it. We resurrected LKY. Father, tell us: what should we do to fix America?" "Ten billion H1B Indians." "What? B-but—" "Forced race mixing of neighborhoods." "Father, no—" "Arrest anyone who disagrees." <image of Lee Kuan Yew>

Ended up introducing Singaporean friends to these two images

They were very well received

time to delete and repost

tfw messed up and accidentally pasted the intended alt text into tweet text instead of image alt text

😌

Fragment of a metro map that includes two stations labelled 'Orchard' and 'Somerset' next to each other

So incredibly disappointing that this area is not cider paradise
(it's a lot of shopping malls instead)