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Kirsten Han

@kixes

3 years

Today: A protest by Singaporeans against transphobia in the education system.

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Overheard at the vaccination centre: Nurse: After getting your jab, don’t do any strenuous exercise for one week, okay? Guy: No problem! I very lazy one, one year don’t do also can

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Rest In Peace, Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam. Before an execution, family members are allowed to buy clothes for the prisoner to wear at a photo shoot. The photos are given to the family shortly before, or after execution. Navin says this was Nagen’s favourite outfit and photo.

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@kixes

5 years

There is a village in #Taiwan called Houtong Cat Village 猴硐貓村. Need I say more

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Sometimes I don't know if Ronny Chieng was poorly educated by the Singaporean system or too well educated by the Singaporean system. Here he is demonstrating the unholy marriage of Chinese privilege + East Asian American-centric thinking

The Daily Show

@TheDailyShow

2 years

Don't call Rishi Sunak the UK's first Asian PM in front of @ronnychieng

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@kixes

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These are a couple of the photos from the pre-execution photoshoot Tangaraju posed for. He hadn’t wanted to do it at first but a loved one had wanted to have more recent photos of him. Rest in Power, Appu.

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@kixes

5 years

每一隻貓都是好貓，100分 Every cat is a good cat, 💯

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@kixes

4 years

So NS Square is a circle

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@MothershipSG

4 years

PM Lee reveals how Float @Marina Bay, renamed as NS Square, will look like in 2025

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@kixes

4 years

THREAD ⬇️ 1/ Today I've seen/heard more than one American take that #Singapore 's spike in #COVID19 cases is due to easing social distancing measures too quickly. I'd like to do a thread about what's really going on in Singapore and what lessons can be learnt from it.

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@kixes

4 years

I'd like to share the story of Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi, a young Nigerian footballer. In 2007, at the age of 21, Tochi was hanged in #Singapore .

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@kixes

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@acertainjolene

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Mark Saltzman wrote scripts and songs for the Muppets and Sesame Street. He tells @Queerty that he wrote Bert and Ernie as a gay couple, based on his relationship with his partner. I loved Bert and Ernie growing up and I love this.

EXCLUSIVE: Are Bert & Ernie a couple? We finally have an answer... - Queerty

A former 'Sesame Street' writer dishes on the famous duo, Jim Henson, flirting with monsters, Elmo's scandal, and more.

www.queerty.com

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@kixes

5 years

#Taiwan has approved same-sex marriage. Organisers of the rally are calling on people to stay in place because there are other details and articles to be debated. They call on people to express support and thanks for the legislators who have voted for marriage equality. #LGBT

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@kixes

5 years

This is the cattiest cat place I have ever catted

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@kixes

5 years

This cat was just incredibly photogenic so it gets its own tweet.

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5 years

There’s more than enough miserable news from around the world going around, so I decided to add to this thread on the Cats of Houtong Cat Village.

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@kixes

3 years

Update: I received a call from the police earlier today telling me to present myself at the police station for questioning this coming week.

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@kixes

3 years

Today: A protest by Singaporeans against transphobia in the education system.

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“You get a cat photo! And you get a cat photo! And you get a cat photo!"

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3 years

This is a national costume I’m proud of, but back home if she held up “Stop Asian Hate” on a placard she’d be investigated under our public order laws. Singapore will co-op activist movements while oppressing local activists.

Inquirer

@inquirerdotnet

3 years

WATCH: Miss Universe Singapore Bernadette Belle Ong, who was born and raised in the Philippines, calls to #StopAsianHate as she dons her national costume in this year's Miss Universe. (🎥 Miss Universe/Twitter)

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5 years

ALL EXCELLENT

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Exhibit A: someone actually donated a van that is now permanently parked in the car park with the back left open like this so cats can seek shelter in and under the vehicle. There’s water and cat stuff inside. The sign on the windscreen declares it an “Automobile Cat Hotel”.

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@kixes

4 years

This uncle shouldn't have to be in this situation in the first place. We didn't *have* to hold #GE2020 right now.

Tan Si Hui

@TanSiHuiCNA

4 years

#GE2020 This uncle came by at 8:15pm and was glad there was an extension because he was waiting for his neighbour to wheel him to Chongfu School. But when asked if he was afraid of potentially being exposed to people on SHN, he says he’s already old, and he’s not afraid to die

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4 years

To all the minorities in #Singapore (I don't care if you're Singaporean) who are just so fucking angry and tired of having to prove to Chinese Singaporeans that racism exists, and of seeing this sort of crap deployed over and over, I stand with you. #IStandWithRaeesah

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@kixes

5 years

@noviesurya @acertainjolene

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@kixes

4 years

Hi @CNN , what is happening here

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@kixes

3 years

Chinese Singaporeans did not make “concessions” by speaking English. This “concession” logic only works if the starting point is an assumption that Singapore, by rights, should have been a Chinese-speaking country. And that assumption is 🤢

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@kixes

5 years

You’re welcome.

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@kixes

2 years

Today in Singapore, on my way home after an event, I was met at the MRT station by two police officers, who then got MRT staff to let us into a private (isolation?) room, just to hand me this letter summoning me for questioning re: "taking part in a public assembly w/o a permit".

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3 years

They've issued a statement and are using the hashtag #FixSchoolsNotStudents

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@kixes

3 years

Singapore government: We're going to plant 1 million more trees in Singapore as part of our Green Plan, yayyyyy!!! Singaporeans in the comments: Just leave the existing forests the fuck alone

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@kixes

4 years

18/ What should we learn from this? I think what we're seeing in #Singapore is that even if you do most things right, if you're not considering or proactively looking out for the most vulnerable and marginalised in your society, you're not going to effectively fight #COVID19 .

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@kixes

2 years

I’m not a Halloween fan either but if you’re following the news about what happened in Itaewon and the contribution you want to make is “why were Koreans so excited about Halloween it isn’t even their culture” the best practice is to shut the fuck up

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@kixes

4 years

Siri, show me elitism and backhanded compliments #GE2020 #SingaporeVotes

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@kixes

5 years

If you would like to pay a visit to this cat-obsessed village, you can take a bus from Taipei (965 from Ximen MRT Exit 2 is a good option) to Ruifang Station, and then take the local train one stop. Please don’t grab the cats or use flash photography or raise your voice!

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@kixes

5 years

For foreigners stuck on the idea that Singaporeans don’t have chewing gum, here are some things that we also don’t have that could do with a bit more attention: 1. Freedom of expression 2. Press freedom 3. Free and fair elections We really don’t care about the gum.

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@sharanvkaur

5 years

to reiterate- no one gives a shit. there's no demand for gum here. if you really want gum, it's a twenty minute cab ride to Malaysia, and you can bring it back. in contrast, 25-30 million Americans live in food deserts.

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@kixes

3 years

Woman: What I’m looking for in a partner is someone who can respect my opinions and goals in life, isn’t threatened by my success, and isn’t a creep who sends dick pics CNA: ARE UNIVERSITY-EDUCATED WOMEN ASKING TOO MUCH FOR MARRIAGE

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@kixes

6 years

Singaporeans watching #CrazyRichAsians *gratuitous shots of Merlion*: this is cheesy but fine *lack of Singlish/Singaporean accent*: I don’t like this but what do you expect from Hollywood *Nick Young says the best satay is at Newton hawker centre*: Fuck you I will fight you

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@kixes

4 years

Love this. That foodpanda delivery rider is a hero of the pandemic and he deserves his parade

kah 🐺

@svnnychn

4 years

majulah foodpanda ! @foodpandasg

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@kixes

2 years

As expected before #ndr2022 : #Singapore will finally repeal Section 377A (which criminalises sex between men), while also undermining the main point of repealing Section 377A by enshrining the discrimination against #LGBTQ people elsewhere

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@kixes

3 years

‘I feel weirded out by trans people but am too scared to say so publicly in case I get cancelled cos the woke movement has created such a climate of fear” says person who just got her article published in a major local media outlet

Gen Y Speaks: This is why I don’t want to be woke. Don’t cancel me for it

Being “hella woke” is foolish. Lower your pitchforks, and hear me out.

www.todayonline.com

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@kixes

4 years

People of #Singapore , please satisfy my curiosity: have you ever used the Norwegian salmon vending machine

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@kixes

4 years

My parents (dad in China and mum in Singapore) got into a fight and she blocked him on WeChat so guess who is now refereeing a transnational argument in two languages between two chat apps Surely this amount of filial piety makes me the modern-day Mulan

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@kixes

2 years

Nagen was arrested in Singapore in 2009. He was 20 years old. To the Singapore state, he was defined by that arrest, which led to charge, conviction, sentence, now death. To his family, Nagen was so much more. He was, and still is, so loved. Today, he will finally go home.

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3 years

Photos from earlier. #FixSchoolsNotStudents

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1 year

URGENT: #HR23 , I’m calling for solidarity and support for Tangaraju s/o Suppiah and his family, who received an execution notice today informing them that #Singapore intends to hang him Wednesday 26 April for conspiracy to traffic around 1kg of cannabis. #StrengthInSolidarity

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@kixes

4 years

American audiences should learn the world doesn't revolve around them and no one owes them the effort to try to spell or write or sound like them.

Scared of Media

@DDBUCHANAN

4 years

@kixes “Learnt” is not commonly used by Americans which is the audience you specifically requested. “I learn today, I will learn tomorrow and I have learned before.” You make yourself seem illiterate to your American audience when you use “learnt”.

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@kixes

5 years

THINGS THAT GET YOU IN TROUBLE IN #SINGAPORE , A THREAD IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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@kixes

4 years

This is incredibly patronising towards young Singaporeans. I’ve seen conversations on Twitter and IG, and some have reached out to me privately, that are far more engaged and thoughtful than many voters much older than them.

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@kixes

4 years

Human rights lawyer M Ravi posted this on Facebook: an interim stay of execution has been granted to Syed Suhail bin Syed Zin, and he will not be hanged tomorrow, pending further hearings in court. #deathpenalty #Singapore

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@kixes

11 months

In an unexpected twist, it turned out that fucking was the problem after all

bani haykal

@fdbckfdfwd

11 months

funny that some folks out here think that people are offended by the word “fucking” said by a minister and not the fact that he had likened positions such as having an official poverty line to being populist what age we living in to be offended by the word fuck said publicly lol

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@kixes

3 years

Clearing/sorting photos on my phone and would just like to share this A** subtitling job

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@kixes

5 years

Also Houtong is very pretty. A cat feeder auntie told me that over 100 cats roam this area. Some belong to shops/cafes but there are lots of strays too. They all seem to be cared for.

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@kixes

4 years

By now everyone knows what Lee Hsien Yang thinks of his brother @leehsienloong . But then you see a video like this on the final day of #GE2020 campaigning—Lee Kuan Yew's younger son in opposition colours, slamming the party his father founded—and think, "Wah siao liao"

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@kixes

3 years

On the individual level, it's "nice" to see people donating to help others in need. The local media loves to highlight this; the angle is usually how Singaporeans are generous and caring and empathetic, really. What's less examined is *why* we're crowdfunding in the first place.

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@kixes

3 years

"None of us involved in the process saw a problem with stealing a Malay couple's wedding photo, cutting out their faces, and turning it into a caricature for our Hari Raya decorations, but how dare you say we're racist"

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@kixes

5 years

@waltonkate @kwcollins @TomPepinsky Nooooooo! *hugs sinigang and adobo and halo-halo to self*

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@kixes

5 years

Basically all the paragraphs on authoritarianism are gone.

Edward Snowden

@Snowden

5 years

If you can read simplified Chinese and another language Permanent Record has been translated into (or know someone who does), tag them on this thread and see if they can help restore the missing passages to the Chinese edition. Here we go. From Chapter 18, p. 183 of the Chinese:

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@kixes

4 years

I can't wait for Singaporeans to grow more entitled... to our rights and expectations of those in power, not to elitism and superiority. Punch up, not down.

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@kixes

4 years

Why on earth would you choose this photo to be the featured image

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@kixes

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Nas Daily, welcomed to #Singapore with open arms by the PAP because authoritarians love a useful idiot

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@kixes

5 years

Singapore: We are a multiracial society! We have Chinese, Malays, Indians and “Others” (CMIO)! We are an example to the world! It’s #Deepavali today. Singapore malls: MERRY CHRISTMAS Please do better.

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@kixes

5 years

So remember to use disinfectant and wash hands, etc. before you go home and touch your own cats! Luckily for me, there’s still some time (and many showers) to go before I encounter my boys, so it should be fine. Because I definitely failed to resist petting the cats.

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@kixes

3 years

You're not allowed access to legal counsel during police interrogation 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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@SingaporePolice

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"It's okay to do this when no one's watching." 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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“He has overstayed his welcome.” The Ministry of Manpower confirms that Zakir, a migrant worker and poet who literally helped build Singapore and enriched our literary scene, was kicked out of Singapore because they didn’t like his Facebook post.

Migrant worker advocate whose work pass was not renewed made misleading public posts: MOM

Mr Zakir Hossain Khokan has returned to Bangladesh after working in Singapore's construction sector for nearly two decades. Read more at straitstimes.com.

www.straitstimes.com

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@kixes

1 year

This whole article is so cursed. Singaporeans don’t *need* domestic workers; we need labour rights, flexi-work options, living wages, work-life balance. We outsource to domestic workers because we don’t have these things, but this should not be accepted as a solution.

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@asiaonecom

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'My maid wore shorter and shorter outfits': Zoe Tay explains why she sets ground rules

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@kixes

3 years

MediaCorp got upset that Sharanjit Leyl said in a BBC World Service segment that she'd had trouble getting hired at a local news broadcaster as a presenter due to the colour of her skin. These are CNA's current presenters:

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@kixes

3 years

The three protesters have been arrested.

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2 years

Let’s all toast this 16-year-old with a non-alcoholic beverage 🍻

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5 years

Some of the shops sell cat food and treats for you to feed the cats but personally I don’t recommend it because it’s not good for them if every tourist does it. Some of the cats already look quite… rotund. There are cat feeders in Houtong so they aren’t starving by any measure!

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@kixes

1 year

As a Singaporean I'm both embarrassed but also eye-rolling because this bit isn't an original joke, it's just documentary re-enactment of how some Singaporeans are truly elitist dicks to our neighbours, then wonder why so many SEAsians find Singaporeans unbearable

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3 years

Excuse me, may I have another drink because this is too salty

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@kixes

6 years

“You gonna get representation in #CrazyRichAsians ?” “Nah.” “Me neither.” #NDP2018

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@kixes

4 years

The thing that really infuriates me about all this "young people just voting oppo 'cos it trendy" condescension is that on a daily basis I see older Singaporeans publish hot-takes making us collectively stupider politically but sure, it's the young people who are the problem

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@kixes

2 years

Why should migrant workers be “grateful” to Singapore? They worked and earned their salaries. In fact, they are underpaid and subjected to discriminatory and substandard living and work conditions. Singapore exploits and profits from their labour.

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@Shiva29003988

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@kixes I bet Zakir and his family back home benefited tremendously from his earnings over the 19 years in Singapore. I don’t see his gratitude towards SG in any of his posts. Goodbye.

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@kixes

3 years

Singapore doesn’t have universal healthcare and the narrative that the PAP government doesn’t politicise things is one of their most successful myths

The Daily Show

@TheDailyShow

3 years

Singapore’s like the parents who actually do the s**t that you threaten your kids with, and this time they’re taking on people who won’t get a Covid shot.

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@kixes

5 years

According to this report, city workers and volunteers also administer vaccinations to the 286 (!!!) cats that they have on record. Still, some might get missed out, which is why they warn visitors against bringing their own cats, or touching the cats.

Office warns of Houtong Cat Village disease risk - Taipei Times

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

www.taipeitimes.com

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@kixes

3 years

tl;dr 5 Singaporeans stood with placards and flags outside the Ministry of Education. Security arrived under 5 mins to tell them to leave. 2 did, 3 remained. They were surrounded by police, given move-on orders. Under half an hour of the protest beginning, all 3 were arrested.

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@kixes

3 years

Today: A protest by Singaporeans against transphobia in the education system.

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Years ago, when we needed someone to translate interviews with a death row inmate's family from Malay to English, Fadli came to my tiny flat and sat with me to subtitle the footage. I don't live in Marine Parade GRC, but I'm glad someone like him is entering politics.

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@humswhilepeeing

4 years

. @FadliFawzi is what heng swee keat thought he sounded like

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@kixes

5 years

I’d say “don’t touch the cats” is a hard rule to enforce, given that most visitors can be assumed to be cat lovers (and we cat lovers see cats and we must pet the beautiful babies) and some cats straight up walk up to you and start rubbing themselves against your leg.

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@kixes

3 years

1/ This @straits_times headline and graphic is so thoughtless and frames this issue in such a damaging way.

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@kixes

2 years

I wrote this in May 2020 and the Singapore ambassador to the US wrote a huffy letter to @ForeignPolicy and SGeans got upset I said we don’t treat migrant workers like people. I’d like to point out that it’s now 3 January 2022 and workers are still largely confined to dorms.

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@kixes

3 years

Congratulations to Gina Chua, a Singaporean trans woman who is now executive editor of @Reuters ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

Reuters appoints Gina Chua as executive editor | Reuters News Agency

Reuters, the world’s largest multimedia news provider, announced today that Gina Chua has been appointed executive editor. Alessandra Galloni,

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@kixes

1 year

Yes Singapore has a lovely airport. I'm also a beneficiary. It's amazing what you can do with a ton of money and a lot of underpaid, exploited migrant workers. Please stop extrapolating all sorts of things about SG from just one video. And if you're Matt Walsh, shut the fuck up

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@kixes

4 years

Look at all these bots Making America Boleh Again

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@kixes

3 years

In solidarity with @subhas_music who was charged today. The photo in the @straits_times online story is cropped, but this @ChannelNewsAsia article shows (and mentions) that he is wearing a shirt with a photo of Nagaenthran, whose execution in Singapore is imminent.

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@kixes

2 years

Nazeri bin Lajim, a 64-year-old Singaporean, has days left to live. #Singapore intends to hang him in the early hours of Friday morning. His family were informed by the prison 7 days in advance. In this 🧵, I'd like to talk about Nazeri and his life. #deathpenalty

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@kixes

4 years

Exactly what sort of racist Slumdog Millionaire scenes are Singaporeans imagining, when 12-20 migrant workers are squeezed in a room and being given undercooked rice and miserable pieces of mystery meat, that they can still think "this is better than what they get back home"?

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@kixes

3 years

Every school is a good school but also we will fixate on where you went even when we’re all old enough to be grandparents

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@kixes

2 years

cw: sexual assault I did not realise that this needed to be said but hey journalists please don’t start articles about horrific sexual assault with an opening line like this

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@kixes

5 years

@waltonkate @kwcollins @TomPepinsky

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3 years

The problem wasn't that she was snide. It was that she was racist.

Mothership

@MothershipSG

3 years

Woman on MRT train asks fellow commuters what race they belong to, makes snide remarks

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@kixes

4 years

#Singapore likes to portray itself as a multicultural paradise of racial harmony, but we have a serious problem of racism and elitism. You can always find it in the way many Singaporeans talk about migrant workers:

Forum: Restrict gatherings of maids to stop coronavirus spread

In the light of the Covid-19 outbreak, the authorities should restrict foreign domestic workers from gathering at public places on their days off. Read more at straitstimes.com.

www.straitstimes.com

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11 months

The worst part for me is that Tan Chuan-jin resigned in *February* and Lee Hsien Loong *accepted* his resignation, and then they just didn't tell Singaporeans and continued on as usual.

Inappropriate relationship between Tan Chuan-Jin and Cheng Li Hui continued despite counselling: PM...

PM Lee said he had learnt about the relationship some time after GE2020, but did not know when it began. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Kirsten Han

@kixes

2 years

This is literally nothing and hurt no one and the only reason it's an offence to be investigated is because Singapore has laws that police Singaporean bodies even when we are abroad

Joseph Schooling caught for cannabis consumption together with swimmer Amanda Lim

Singapore's only Olympic gold medallist Joseph Schooling and fellow national swimmer Amanda Lim have been investigated by the Central Narcotics Bureau for possible offences related to the consumption...

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Kirsten Han

@kixes

11 months

what the fuck is happening with Singapore's politicians

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Kirsten Han

@kixes

4 years

COMPLICITY AND WHITE-WASHING IN #SINGAPORE , A THREAD 1/ There are a number of PAP MPs who are very popular, and/or those who don't come from the more conventional PAP recruitment pools (civil service, military, legal fraternity) and seem more progressive than the rest.

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Kirsten Han

@kixes

4 years

You know you’re in #Singapore when “WE ARE WATCHING YOU” ad campaigns about people snitching is considered a big positive. Calling the police is a national pastime

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Kirsten Han

@kixes

4 years

These are photos of meals provided to migrant workers confined to their rooms in dormitories declared "isolation areas" in #Singapore 'cos of #COVID19 clusters. Again Singapore has different realities: one for those of us who can isolate in hotels, another for low-wage migrants.

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Kirsten Han

@kixes

3 years

An officer: "You've had 20 minutes of exposure..." Response: "You've been standing in front of us for most of it!" The officer is saying they are being given a move on order, and if not, he will have them arrested.

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Kirsten Han

@kixes

3 years

A whole bunch of people (I suspect plainclothes police officers?) have arrived -- it's all happened quite quickly!

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