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Singapore, it’s wayyy too early for Christmas

It’s in their nature. They need food.

Loving the Cuomomintang jokes going around.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Not a New Yorker but cheering for you. Having a mango lassi for you from Singapore

How Cats Used Humans to Conquer the World Ancient DNA from 209 cats over 9,000 years tell the story of their dispersal.

I don’t usually read The Atlantic anymore. But I had to read this - and I’m reminded of what @wesleydean.bsky.social used to tell me about cats www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Teen Vogue writers have been resisting the president's disinformation machine for over a decade. It's frightening how many actual news outlets are being been shut down or subsumed into megacorporations.
www.teenvogue.com/story/donald...

Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data October 30th, 2025 Why do we need urgent action to protect our data? The mandate of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research is to review and report on topics relating to scien...

The Canadian Conservatives and Right Wingers (including the Bloc) are whipping up culture wars again by demanding Sshrc release data of applicants on their DEI info. Petition to stop this please: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I encourage people to listen. Sonic protection. Acoustic healing.

Back in Singapore, at World Series watch party - it’s 9 am - packed crowds, high on coffee. More Blue Jays fans than Dodgers

We told you so.

Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.

The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.

SQUID OF THE YEAR

Watching Western social media react to scenes from Malaysia is kinda funny. They think that the global south never changes or build without Western intervention. Such arrogant insularity.

close the law schools

Pretty damn sure right know KL residents are complaining about the traffic hold ups (as if it wasn’t bad before)

For Americans figuring out what ASEAN is and where is “Southeast Asia” - or Malaysia…. We have awesome food.

Leftwinger Catherine Connolly wins Ireland presidential election by landslide Heather Humphreys concedes defeat after early vote tallies show insurmountable gap between candidates

The leftwing independent candidate, Catherine Connolly, has won a landslide victory in Ireland’s presidential election.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The Alchemy Lecture The Alchemy Lecture is a multi-vocal model that brings together a constellation of three to four thinkers and practitioners from different disciplines and geographies annually to think together and in...

I’m going to be on a plane but I’m gonna be streaming this (cos I’ve got wifi) cos I never want to miss this.

Cricket > Baseball

She’s proud of herself

The lecture is free. In person and live streaming.

Perhaps have a heart to heart with Anwar Ibrahim on Gaza - oh wait - you don’t have a heart for Gaza.

The dirtiest park ball is the best ball.

Pretty much

This is very good

As a bureaucrat now, I have to ask myself “where have all the data gone, long time parsing”

Declaring my new favourite European football club: PSG (dumping Barcelona for good).

Yeah there's no ceasefire now. Sort of made it ~9 days, but there were dozens of violations. Hamas released all the hostages and Israel is back to collective punishment. Khan Yunis (below) and Deir al-Balah are nowhere near the alleged firefight with resistance fighters, but Israel is bombing them.