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love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.

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Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

It’s always election season somewhere in Singapore: Inside HDB’s colour democracy Seemingly mundane democratic exercises over municipal issues are part of urban life in the Republic. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Who's winning the game of tones in Singapore?

Check out my latest story about the colour elections that happen almost every day here:

From Singapore with love: 11 home-grown video games coming in 2025 It is shaping up to be a big year for Singapore-made video games. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

If you're interested to find out more about what's coming down the pipeline from Singapore's video game sector, check out this story I wrote on 11 Singapore-made video games to look forward to in 2025:

Sedap! They ate cai fan for a year to make this cooking video game Players serve up delicacies and fight monsters across various levels of a fantasy world in Sedap!. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Support local!

Singapore's indie game developers are serving up a really impressive selection of video games this year, and this is one in particular I'm happy to recommend:

Ghost jobs and AI girlfriends: A dystopian dictionary of modern financial anxiety Understand today's economy with dystopian terms such as quiet vacationing and productivity theatre. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The increasingly bleak and dystopian shape of the economy inspired me to write this article:

Thank you for the kind words ❤️

In today's edition of the straits times, I write about what it's like to be diagnosed with ADHD later in life - and why it made me so so angry at our schools and attitudes towards mental health: www.straitstimes.com/life/hear-me...

Stacked Homes: They tried to cut out property agents, but created one of S’pore’s top blogs instead Stacked Homes aims to de-mystify real estate for Singaporeans. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

If you're at all interested in buying or renovating a home in Singapore, chances are you've come across Stacked Homes.

How did it become one of the island's leading sources of property advice and home inspiration? I spoke to the founders behind it to find out: www.straitstimes.com/life/home-de...

Who made this BL edit for the PAP??! Identify yourself!

‘Over 800 messages on A-level day’: Enter the emotional support tutor-therapist Singapore's tutors share what makes them stand out in the country's billion-dollar shadow education system. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Singapore has a world-class education system. So why are we spending so much on tuition and out-of-school help?

Find out more in my story taking a behind-the-scenes look into the lives and work of Singapore's tutors here:

A furry cure for loneliness: ‘It’s like socialising on easy mode’ Members say their oft-misunderstood subculture has become a sanctuary for those who feel excluded from mainstream society. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Meet the furries of Singapore:

“To me, it means a community of people who are free to express themselves without judgment,” says a member of Singapore Furries. “The cartoon animals are just a way of expressing what’s inside.”

How does one even begin to explain Singapore's nomination day shenanigans to someone living in a democracy where submitting your nomination papers is a largely administrative exercise barely worthy of news coverage...

More questions asked, more ministerial statements: Inside S’pore Parliament’s record-setting 14th term: www.straitstimes.com/singapore/po...

Cream walls, beige furniture: Why do Singapore millennial homes look the same? On Singapore social media, “Mujicore” and “Japandi” homes in shades of beige and white dominate. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Why do Singapore millennial homes look like that?

The rise of the infinite fringe How the internet immortalized the conspiracy theory

I have finally done it.

It has taken three years to pull this together.

This is my grand unified theory of why the MAGA beat (and everything in politics and possibly the world) has turned into a batshit hot mess.

I present to you: The Infinite Fringe.

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Parliament has been dissolved! It's election season in Singapore!

‘Revenge porn’ victims speak out: ‘Will he take pictures of me when I’m not looking?’ He filmed her without consent. The police gave him a warning. She's still living with the scars. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

🗞️Relevant Article: #StraitsTimes by @kaixiang.info on #ImageBasedSexualAbuse and #RevengePorn in SG.

CASMIDA's @michellehsho.bsky.social comments on the root causes of #IBSA, how it impacts survivors, and digital-natives' interaction with related materials.

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Cited in this important @straitstimes.bsky.social article on #ImageBasedSexualAbuse #IBSA and #RevengePorn in #Singapore by @kaixiang.info

Full article here: www.straitstimes.com/singapore/be...

For more on these issues, connect with the team at @casmidaproject.bsky.social

Because of the popularity of Netflix's Adolescence in Singapore, many are wondering what the manosphere even is and how to recognise it.

To help readers understand, I put together this glossary of manosphere and incel terminology for The Straits Times: www.straitstimes.com/life/red-pil...

Singapore’s mobile data price war: ‘You lose out if you don’t switch’ Who’s winning Singapore’s mobile data price war? According to the data: consumers. Read more at straitstimes.com.

How did mobile data become dirt cheap in Singapore?

The short answer: Xiaomi, a new telco, and our changing relationship with our phones.

My biggest tech story yet for The Straits Times delves into the history of Singapore's mobile data price war, read it here:

Meta Tries to Bury a Tell-All Book Mark Zuckerberg might be in his post-fact-checking-era. But that hasn’t stopped Meta from going after the author of Careless People.

My question to Meta is, why bother to roll out the cannons to blast this tome? The effort to neutralize the book seems quaint and futile. For one thing, NDAs do not cancel out the first amendment, @stevenlevy.bsky.social writes.

On Meta's effort to bury the book, "Careless People."

Young Singapore families flock to Punggol Digital District for ‘domestic tourism’ Despite being slated for completion in 2026, the district's futuristic design is already drawing curious visitors. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Why yes, I did write an article about how some feel that Singapore is so lacking in weekend activities that an unfinished tech park has become our newest attraction:

Involuntarily celibate: Inside the minds of ‘incels’ who blame women and society Experts say incel ideology promotes misogyny and creates toxic social pressures. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The latest article I wrote (about incels in Singapore) is also the one that has triggered the most hate mail and online harassment in my entire career in journalism so far!

If you're curious about what in the article could be making folks so mad, read the full story here:

Call it the “Jennie effect”: After the Blackpink member posted pictures in a gray mini-skirt, mobs of fans tracked it down to a small Vietnamese fashion brand and nearly crashed its website with their orders
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‘I love you’: What is stopping Singaporeans from saying these three words? Singaporeans’ preference for action over sentiment may be feeding a loneliness epidemic. Read more at straitstimes.com.

What's stopping Singaporeans from saying "I love you"?

According to the experts I spoke to, everything from our intense work-life balance to our authoritarian parenting styles.

Here's why we should change that:

'I Could Make "Fart Fart Boobie Fart: The Game" and Maybe It Would Eventually Get Taken Down' - Devs Reveal Why the Consoles Are Drowning in 'Eslop' - IGN There’s something goofy going on over on the PlayStation Store and the Nintendo eshop. Over the last few months, the two storefronts have been slowly filling up with what some users are referring to a...

I spoke to a bunch of devs about the recent "slop" epidemic on the Nintendo eshop and PS Store - why and how it's happening, what platform holders could do about it, and why tighter restrictions could be bad for indies:
www.ign.com/articles/i-c...

Will there ever be a better explanation of what the Public Domain is than this? I don't think so. scp-wiki.wikidot.com/pdcontest2025

I just published my first ever piece of travel journalism, and what better place for it to be about than Sri Lanka, probably my favourite country I visited in 2024!

Read about the island's dramatic ascent as the next big tourism destination here: www.straitstimes.com/life/travel/...