DPM Lawrence Wong to take over from PM Lee on May 15 (www.straitstimes.com)
He is leader of the PAP’s 4G team and will be Singapore's fourth prime minister. Read more at straitstimes.com.
br00t4c, Turbulent airplane rides are getting worse
https://qz.com/turbulence-singapore-air-climate-change-1851507949
mof_sg,
cjeng, Exploring Tangling Halt, old estate in #Singapore soon to be demolished for redevelopment.
#urbanphotography #streetphotography
A sign that reads Tangling Halt neighborhood center, part of Queenstown heritage trail
Many of the shops have ceased opening for business, traditional old style shop signs in Chinese.
One of the shops still in business, groceries and selling large selection of biscuits and sweets
skinnylatte, If you’re in Singapore, like din tai fung, but don’t like how crowded / expensive their restaurants get: here’s a hawker stall that does functionally the same food for $4ish. Will also be crowded, but it won’t be $40
(I believe the chef used to work at DTF)
Taste of Jiang Nan
https://maps.app.goo.gl/CK7YDYrk2x7RkaMF7?g_st=icIf you’re interested in making the DTF fried rice, here’s how: https://youtu.be/-YO63Wnz_Vo
Littlebobbytables, https://www.50pies50states.com/about
Native of Singapore, baking pies for every state.
skinnylatte, @Littlebobbytables all my people are food nerds
br00t4c, Spinal surgeries needed for 22 on board turbulent Singapore Airlines flight, hospital says
CassandraZeroCovid, Far scarier than the one anomalous death.
CassandraZeroCovid, "Staff say 6 others on board Boeing 777 needed brain surgery."
gyokusai,
RiversideBryan, Fantastic! I love it! 🤩🙌🙏
glynmoody, Hospital details brain and spinal injuries after turbulence on #Singapore flight - https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/23/passengers-suffer-brain-and-spinal-injuries-on-singapore-flight-hit-by-extreme-turbulence "Twenty people remain in intensive care in Bangkok, where plane landed on Tuesday following mid-air emergency" #ClimateCrisis
Norobiik, Senator #RisaHontiveros welcomed the decision of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (#DILG) to strip Bamban, Tarlac Mayor #AliceGuo of supervision over #LocalPolice, citing her ties to “criminals.”
Two of Bamban Mayor Alice Guo's fellow incorporators of #BaofuLandDevelopment are involved in #Singapore's largest money laundering case. #Philippines
Another red flag: Hontiveros bares Bamban Mayor Alice Guo's 'ties to criminals'
https://www.rappler.com/philippines/hontiveros-bares-ties-criminals-bamban-tarlac-mayor-alice-guo/
nando161, #Anyone know #downsides of #expatting to #Singapore?
skinnylatte, When I saw this web story about ‘terraforming Singapore’ I was floored. What a great use of the web to tell a story about a country, land use, sand, environmental degradation, and the price of ‘progress’. Singapore’s success, skyscrapers, comes at the cost of literally mining and eroding some of our poorest neighbors’.
This story is so important and had to be told. Oh and it also won some awards! Proud of the friends who put this together
seachanger, @skinnylatte @athena wow that is an incredible publication and really cool article
skinnylatte, (edited ) I found this article irritating. Singaporean small country insecurity and exceptionalism is still deeply Western-centric. It’s all look at us, we are better / different
LinkedIn types are celebrating it and saying ‘Singapore is better because we don’t have culture wars/ identity politics’
Well that’s different from ‘not being allowed to have identity politics’, or ‘identities’, but I find it nauseating that dominant group people think this is great
https://archive.ph/2024.05.19-021846/https://www.ft.com/content/6f59d545-8201-4fe6-b280-3e96cc245dc4
skinnylatte, I don’t think anyone needs lessons on anything from Singapore. Literally nowhere else is a microscopic city state island nation with a deep port. LA is 1.82x bigger than us. A Taiwanese minister once called Singapore ‘a very deeply irritating booger’ (more melodic in our shared Hokkien: pee sai). Now that’s the Singapore think piece I want to read
skinnylatte, Don’t get me wrong, Singapore is wonderful within some constraints. If you’re fine with boundaries and limits, and your identity gives you some privileges. However I would not recommend it to anyone who is any type of outside the box person. There’s a special type of soul crushing you can expect, one that I will take the rest of my life to unravel
Snoro, Majority of Singaporeans aware of net zero concept, but less clear on national climate targets: study
Research finds that only 15 per cent of respondents know of the city-state’s goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Singaporeans also lack understanding of the types of action – for example, switching to a plant-based diet – that can bring about larger impact on cutting emissions
#Singapore #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
skinnylatte, “Singapore is one of the most expensive cities in the world, but it does not have a minimum wage. Housing prices have surged, and many Singaporeans say social mobility has dropped considerably. Others complain that freedom of expression is still tightly controlled, if less so than before.”
Fairly certain my life trajectory will not really be possible in today’s Singapore (re social mobility)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/world/asia/singapore-lee-prime-minister-retire.html
skinnylatte, The thing im maddest at him about is in pretending that he did so much for lgbt rights (repealed 377A, pfft) but in practice really made queer life harder for queer people there in so many other ways. So I don’t like the stories that attribute ‘liberal values’ to his era
budak,
sohkamyung, "When the Singaporean government asked local writers if they would agree to having their work used to train a large language model, it probably did not expect the country’s tiny literary community to react so fiercely."
https://restofworld.org/2024/singapore-writers-reject-ai-training/
budak, belalangsamkeit
#Singapore #insect #macro #bug #biodiversity #animal #wildlife
side view of a grasshopper nymph from the family Chorotypidae, which has an enlarged pronotum that obscures its profile and moves slowly to mimic a dead leaf
side view of a grasshopper from the family Chorotypidae, which has an enlarged pronotum that obscures its profile and moves slowly to mimic a dead leaf
skinnylatte, I have a canned response to everyone from Singapore who texts me with ‘should I move to SF?’
- If you have the rare opportunity to level up in work / life, do it
- The first few years will be hard: re settling in. Life, comforts will feel harder
- Better work/life balance (SF is intense for US, but easier than SG)
- More ways to live: don’t like it, move to a nearby city / town
- If you don’t like it you can always go home
skinnylatte, It also frustrates me sometimes that my compatriots don’t understand the position of privilege they’re in. Mostly, my peers from back home have absolutely no problem getting jobs in almost any country in the world. We have almost no visa problems either. The world is, quite literally, our oyster. But the brainwashing and the material comforts are so strong that it makes it very difficult to leave. I’m certainly guilty of that myself (I’m often moping about how much easier things are back home)
skinnylatte, If any of this resonates: here’s some info I wrote on the logistics. You have to find the job yourself, but once you do, it’s pretty straightforward (and very few other foreigners have it this easy)
https://popagandhi.com/posts/how-to-get-a-h1-b1-visa-for-singaporeans/
joshourisman, Dear #Singapore friends (and let’s be honest, on mastodon that’s mostly @skinnylatte): a friend of a friend is visiting Singapore, and is looking for recommendations for pescatarian-friendly fine dining besides sushi. I don’t do a lot of fine dining when I’m there, so don’t have much to offer myself.
joshourisman, @skinnylatte awesome, thank you! Non-fine dining options should be helpful, too (for me, if not them). Nobody can eat at nothing but fine dining restaurants, right? Right‽
joshourisman, @skinnylatte just noticed that Boneless Kitchen is on the list. I’ve been wanting to try them for a while! Darn, now I need to plan another trip to Singapore…
kixes, #Singapore #DeathPenalty #StopTheKilling
🧵 A flurry of execution notices have been issued these past few weeks. It is of course horrific every time a notice is delivered to a death row prisoner and their family, but what’s especially troubling in these cases is that all these prisoners are currently party to a joint application to the court, filed even before the first execution notice was issued.
kixes, [5] We are also aware of effort by the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) to further expedite the joint proceedings beyond timelines that are already unusually tight. This is no mundane administrative hiccup; these are human lives we’re talking about.
kixes, [6] Singapore’s bloodthirsty drug control regime continues to make a mockery of life, and the state refuses an honest reckoning with the immeasurable human cost of these cruel laws, from the families that are devastated to the torturous conditions prisoners suffer on death row.
The only way to protect the lives of the over 50 people on death row is by declaring a moratorium on the use of capital punishment in Singapore.
serialdeviant, It says a lot about my upbringing when my EIGHT-year old brings home a test paper (not sure of the reason, she doesn't sit an English test till she's 11), and my instinctive reaction was, She could've got full marks for that. 😬 #Singapore
serialdeviant, And now my 11 year old is in the midst of her first exams in secondary school, and I tell you, it's taking all of my willpower to hold myself back from saying things that are unhelpful.
ross, @serialdeviant See you at the primary school gate for a rant about poor communication and rote learning/memorization?
chartier, Great. Another #Boeing whistleblower has come forward, now about the entire 787 and 777 lines.
Those were the two planes I flew on to and from #Singapore last month, via #TurkishAirlines.
😰 😰 😰
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/16/boeing-whistleblower-787-dreamliner
gyokusai, Keppel Harbor — Siloso Skywalk, Sentosa Island, Singapore. August 2019, Canon PowerShot.
#vintagestyle #singapore #Siloso #skywalk #sentosa #island #Keppel #KeppelHarbor #harbor
skinnylatte, (edited ) A few brave Singaporeans unfurled this banner in front of the iconic Marina Bay Sands, in a country where any public protest is illegal without prior approval and approved protests are only allowed at one park (and the authorities already said all registered protest applications relating to Gaza will be denied)
If they were foreigners they would almost certainly be deported. As citizens they’ll definitely see some legal action
https://www.wethecitizens.net/here-comes-the-wong-administration/
arno_in_sing, @skinnylatte minor correction it’s at the Gardens by the Bay // “supertrees”. I love her newsletter and Ethos is an excellent publishing house.
skinnylatte, I mean this is a country that put a man in jail for 15 days for holding up a smiley face sign (they’ll say ‘he should have chosen the fine, but that’s not quite the point)
I grew up being told (by teachers!) that if I made my political opinions known I would almost certainly be sued out of existence and out of my pants. That’s why I am awed by the people back home who do choose direct action
He is leader of the PAP’s 4G team and will be Singapore's fourth prime minister. Read more at straitstimes.com.