Happiness is a good night's sleep followed by a bowl of my favourite Sarawak laksa and iced milk tea

My life right now is seeing an open google drive tab titled "MoH" and wondering why I have a "Maid of Honour" folder then clicking over to it and realising I'm on my project desktop and it's a "Ministry of Health" folder.

How does your Himalayan pink salt get extracted? youtu.be/HjSQ10zDB0k?...

So it might not have been the BEST idea to get married the year after I took a sabbatical and started freelancing. The good news is I picked up enough jobs to pay for the wedding. The bad news is that institutions in Malaysia really really really suck at paying on time.

Optical illusion cat

"Wait our national flower is non-native?" The hibiscus rosa sinensis is an artificial hybrid created by the Polynesians. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibiscu...

Okay hear me out. O Fortuna for my walk in song. youtu.be/GXFSK0ogeg4?...

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

Happily in love, getting married soon and yet this song still manages to be heartbreaking. youtu.be/HmE0kkqkutE?...

When even ChatGPT is telling me that a phrase I want to add to my article is "too overwritten" I guess I better listen.

Ella Fitzgerald forgot the lyrics of Mack the Knife halfway through her performance, but improvised and slayed it anyway. youtu.be/M0mXle68qGM

not the most important thing going on rn by a wide margin and not something that is new information to me but nonetheless my mind keeps drifting back to the absolutely confounding idea of going on vacation to dubai

an incredible distraction from present panic is historical panic! in sheep no less

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Oh just me pulling out purchasing power parity when trying to renegotiate website subscription costs for the Collective I'm volunteering for 💅

I'm quite positive all of this would've been lost on me if I just watched the movie How Margot Robbie's Skin Became Wallpaper in 'Wuthering Heights' share.google/r5q01bVQvLe6...

A 24-year old just sent me a picture of Jim Carrey and was like "don't know who that is but he has a good point". Don't mind me. Just slowly decomposing over here.

Tell Rachel Reeves, to intervene and investigate the Shell and Equinor merger that will allow them to dodge £1.3 billion in tax. Sign the petition now: act.350.org/sign/stop-sh...

Sometimes my fiancé sends me photos of the cats which feel very Edward Hopper

Singapore will hit their earth overshoot day this month. overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/cou...

Unfortunately rather relevant today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX8s...

It's a new year. Some of you might be thinking about fixing your sleep schedule. I offer this rather long but informative read. www.lesswrong.com/posts/E4cKD9...

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Cecilia Giménez’s botched Monkey Christ became a global meme. The real marvel was the woman behind it | Sam Jones | The Guardian share.google/OPUh0f9UGyQj...

Can't believe it's 2025 and governments still think this is a good idea. Indonesia calls in military to help clear forests at rapid pace share.google/JwITujo6R3Yj...

‘Magical’ galaxy frogs disappear after reports of photographers destroying their habitats | Amphibians | The Guardian share.google/5tXSgdq0NWlV...

A random memory - mostly cause I wish Bongocat had this. Do you guys remember ICQ chat rooms? And then you could press Ctrl+... something... and it would play the big foghorn. Hilarious.

Someone tell me again why I'm planning and spending three months salary on a party where I don't even get to choose what I wear?

Really quite alien looking

Me: Just sitting here minding my own business, working a bit on my puter. My asthma: Hey wouldn't it be fun to struggle to breathe?

The way the US is stamping all over human rights right now - if it were a developing country other countries would already be stepping in and condemning it.

You ever randomly think of a way to explain an answer to a math question your friend asked about 25 years ago? Just me? Okay.

HI I'M OVERWHELMED. okthxbai

There is nothing you can do about Trump calling that reporter Piggy, and that is frustrating, but what you CAN do is if you're ever around a man who talks about someone like that, shut him down. Tell him right then it's vile and wrong. Call that shit out.

He’s held to zero standards, and yet he’s the highest officeholder in the land.

Adventures with a flat, part 1. Cleared my boot. Located my spare. Unscrewed the cute pink thing that keeps the spare in place. But... Where are my tools and jack???

I got hearing aids a few weeks ago to address my genetically caused "hear-like-a-grandma" issues. I've been super lazy to wear them while I'm just in the house by myself but I've just put them on to hear the rain.

Was dress shopping yesterday - not a "yay! Dress shopping!" but "omg I need to find a dress, this is such a chore". At one point this little kid decided to yell "ta dah!" every time I came out of the dressing room though - that was pretty cool. Kinda needed that!!

TwoXChromosomes is a women's subreddit and it covers everything from "partner doesn't wash up" to domestic violence to when to leave a country whose politics are heading towards fascism. www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromo...

NGL, kinda enjoying volunteering as a PA for someone who is spearheading a local action on environmental stuff on the ground.

"You can't strike, you're too important" from a judge or government should instantly make you side with the people striking. They're *that* important but they get treated like shit? Nah. Naaaah. Let the government force better conditions.

Finally, note: DOGE and the Trump administration are so opposed to remote work that they rushed CDC employees back to the office without active shooter training. Other security measures failed because of staffing shortages. The shooter killed himself because no one else managed to.

CDC leadership also hasn’t been very communicative. To be fair to them, their staff who would would have dealt with this situation were mostly fired by DOGE. So my fellow civil servants at the CDC feel abandoned. They are hated with a murderous rage and no one cares.

But a white guy with a COVID conspiracy manifesto isn’t news at this point. After all, that’s who runs the government now! The CDC is a part of Health & Human Services, headed by RFK Jr., whose conspiracy-addled ideology is indistinguishable from the motivations of this terrorist.

My old school campus has been turned into a mall. It's pretty cool actually, but it's led to meet ups with old classmates being "where's [restaurant]?" "9th grade math class" and "meet outside the canteen?" (Canteen no longer exists as a single room and is now a number of shops)

Tried watching A Family Affair and couldn't get through it. They got a firm list of favourite actors/actresses and wrote THAT script??? Plot is a bit meta???

Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years. “There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Same, little pepper, same