Absolutely gorgeous photos of wildlife in Botswana taken by my friend. 😍 I should perhaps start uploading photos on my @leaflet.pub too. 📸 Hmm. 🤔

Simply put: fict/fact/fuct - Fict = a fact in a fictional narrative; Fact = held as true by a faction; and Fuct = a fact that has been sold to people as if it’s good for them when ‘in fact’ it’s just the opposite. - I wonder what Fred would’ve made of this moment…

Nice. I should re-write my memoir (Phoenix Rising: A Memoir about being Bipolar, Gay & Christian) & submit to suitable literary agents? Hmm.

Fascinating. Gotta get myself a copy now. Thanks for sharing!

1. This is one of Singapore’s bestselling book, largely due to the Streisand effect. The National Arts Council pulled the $8000 grant it gave as it “potentially undermines the authority or legitimacy" of the 🇸🇬 govt. It promptly sold out at Kinokuniya. Source: www.straitstimes.com/singapore/na...

Inspired by one of his posts, I would put one interesting word in each can, and use *texts as toys*. To play, each participant picks up a random can, takes out a word, and can play an assorted number of games. 1) Word Association Game: List as many orthogonal words. 2) Linking Word Stories Game

Violence only begets violence. Enduring change comes from building solutions, transforming minds, and cultivating what is good, in the human heart and in the world.

I remember my Malaysian Chinese friend telling me about a “香蕉鬼” which I’ve never heard before. But she said I had! Only that I know it as a Pontianak. I’m intrigued that Kak P also appeared in the Qing dynasty’s drawings. Super cool.

Also discovered @hirokoyoda.bsky.social soon to be released new book from the Substack. Very exciting! I remember my girlfriend telling me about “Yaoyorozu no kami” (8 million spiritual beings) in Shinto and I absolutely love the homage to the concept. Congratulations on your new book!

Very lovely YouTube recording of Hiroko Yoda & Matt Alt’s presentation of Spirituality in Anime at AnimeNYC 2025. I will pay ever closer attention to Shinto shrines, Buddhist symbols & other assorted emblems of spirituality in anime going forward. Thank you for this.

Increasingly I look back on the time when everyone was on Old Twitter like the undivided Church of the first few centuries - now social media feels as though it’s fragmented into denominations: the Xians, the Blueskytes, the Threadsians, the Substackites, the Instagramarians &c

this practise is understandable given what singapore went through in the 20th century: - japanese invasion and subsequent massacres - malayan emergency - exhumation of whole graveyards to make space for public housing all create a lot of wandering ghosts, torn or cut off from lineage sacrifices

a quietly disturbing thing I saw on Facebook was a 7th month altar - dedicated to the wandering spirits- in Hong Lim complex, Singapore. This is near the inspection site for the "Sook Ching"-肅清 SuQing, the purge conducted by the Japanese after invading singapore; at least 10,000 were killed.

In this video, ordained Taoist priest of the Quan Zhen sect in Singapore talks about offerings to deities & to ghosts in an interview. There are bilingual Chinese & English subtitles so I do invite you to watch the little clip.

In Chinese #mythology, Ox-Head and Horse-Face (牛頭馬面) are the grim enforcers of the underworld. With beastly visages—one ox, one horse, they serve Yanluo Wang, the King of Hell, as soul-reaping envoys. Their duty is to capture wandering spirits and drag them back to face judgment, 1/2

Fascinating look into the “Labubu vaccine” that the Japanese have organically developed herd immunity over the years through their culture.

In Yunnan’s mining #folklore, a chilling type of Jiangshi (殭屍) called Gan Ji Zi (干麂子) haunts the tunnels. Formed from miners buried alive in cave-ins, their bodies preserved over decades, they awaken with eerie civility. When encountered, a Gan Ji Zi smiles, complains of cold, and begs for1/2 🎨 祈荷不喪

Thought to post more videos about the 7th lunar month. This is an except from the podcast called “Hellbank” and the full interview can be found on YouTube I believe. Here they talk about how as energy changes, people die. Hence the increased number of deaths in 七月, during CNY & Winter Solstice.

Very excited about this! Can’t wait to read it whenever it’s out. As an exvangelical in Singapore, I’m still friends with people who think that Christianity is a monolith & unchanging (when it’s neither), so this would be a most scintillating read. :)

Very excited about this! Can’t wait to read it whenever it’s out. As an exvangelical in Singapore, I’m still friends with people who think that Christianity is a monolith & unchanging (when it’s neither), so this would be a most scintillating read. :)

This is a little video made by ordained Taoist Priest Chee Tong, from the Instagram account @ qztaoism for Qi Xi. 七夕 is the Double Seventh Festival or the Chinese Valentine’s Day. It’s a celebration of the legend of the human cowherd & heavenly weaver girl’s eternal love.

Changed my name to a gender-neutral one last year & now I've finally changed all my handles across Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok & here. Welcome to the same old brand new me. Cheers. 💛🤍💜🖤

may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|

Just bought this book! Can’t wait for it to arrive. :)) Also got another Yuri book recommended by the algorithm after I added the former to my cart. Haha.

This was fun!

may all sentient beings be at peace om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum om mani padme hum 🐀 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐂 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐅 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐇 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐉 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🐑 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🐒 🐈 唵嘛呢叭咪吽👻唵嘛呢叭咪吽 😈唵嘛呢叭咪吽 🌍 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌎 唵嘛呢叭咪吽🌏 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 唵嘛呢叭咪吽ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་| ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་|

Before I started seeing my Japanese girlfriend, I was interested in Japanese woodworking. Building magnificent temples without nails is truly a feat. Just interlocking pieces of timber, carefully measured & cut.

Saw a hornbill eating berries near Changi Beach.

Do y’all have any burning feng shui questions here on Bluesky?

tpot reassemble (connect me/this to new folks showing up)

Should I repost my greatest feng shui hits from Twitter here? Seems like a good idea if that ship is sinking. Hmm.

I have goodwill for footless beings, two-footed beings, goodwill for four-footed, & many-footed beings. ... May all creatures, all breathing things, all beings —each & every one— meet with good fortune. May none of them come to any evil. www.dhammatalks.org/books/Chanti...

Trying to figure if I should go to church this week or stay home and finish my library book on (Taoist) spirit medium cults in Singapore. The answer seems to be clear. 🤭🤭🤭

Yes and amen. 🙏🏼

Wondering if I should complete my collection of Eugene Peterson’s spiritual theology series beginning with “Christ Plays in 10,000 Places” cos I remembered I really loved the first book but I now have way too many books and I’m not sure if I’ll still like him. Hmm.

Am now wondering if I should cross-post my new found obsession with esoterica. Or do it here only? Or there only? Decisions.

Just got back on this app after being logged out for months after the app kicked me out after being updated. Also cos I saw my friends @ineslauradawson.bsky.social & @sadalsvvd.stoat.zone.ap.brid.gy posting about being on here. More incentive to re-login. How’s everyone doing today?

#womeninhistory event. One of the reasons why Avalokitesvara became female when they were localised into Guan Yin in China was female involvement in Buddhist monasteries during the Northern & Southern dynasties. I wrote about this in my guide to deities. #books www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

English weather is wet But German weather is Wetter   English children are kind But German kids are Kinder   English mothers mumble But German mothers Mutter   The English shout the word people But Germans just quietly Menschen it   And English sausages can be bad But a German sausage is the Wurst

I’d like to think if they were all gathered that they’d be having a good time, spreading love and kindness and not fighting. :)

Very pleased to have finished crocheting all my Christmas gifts to distribute at church tomorrow :)

Late lunch

Powerful and stunning visual essay by Giorgia Lupi on her years with long covid. I share her dear data project with students all the time - this is a really important piece on many levels…

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Coming tomorrow from @dorialexander.bsky.social : chat with your seventeenth-century advisor.

I saw a really lovely 观自在菩萨 figurine at Bright Hill Temple today at their thrift shop. Pity I don’t yet have my apartment or I’d have bought it and gotten a Taoist priest I know from TikTok to do a 开光 for me. Ah well. One needs to save up a bundle of money for expensive homes in 🇸🇬.

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