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cydonian

@cydonian@vivaldi.net

Professionally: AI, data strategy, aviation.

Personally: Interests in travel, languages, history, post-colonial narratives, multiculturalism and much more. Do tend to think that the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Also on Instagram, Flickr, Tumblr, Medium and other websites too numerous to name. Also post GenAI-tuned classical poetry at https://me.dm/@metamutator as an amusement.

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skinnylatte, to BelieveInFilm
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I love seeing old film photos of mine. Reminds me of past lives.

From one of the first rolls I ever shot as a teenager: Cambodia in one of the Angkor temples (around 2004)

Something about the colors and ‘look’ of the film photo makes it more visceral to me, like I can remember that memory better

cydonian,
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@skinnylatte This feels like one of those title photos for Lonely Planet Cambodia. 😊

atomicpoet, to random
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Has anyone in Japan seen House of Ninjas? If so, what do you think?

cydonian,
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@atomicpoet I’m interested as well. Begun to watch the show and like the premise, but am keen on understanding the Japanese reaction to it.

cydonian, to random
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On the eve of General Elections, India’s Income Tax department levies a fine worth ₹ 2 billion on the lead opposition party over a dispute worth ₹1.4 million dating 7 years back. As a result, they have frozen their accounts.

https://scroll.in/latest/1065562/no-democracy-in-india-today-says-congress-on-it-department-freezing-its-bank-accounts

cydonian, to random
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Why yes, I signed the daughter’s Chinese worksheets in Telugu. It’ll be an interesting conversation between her and her lǎoshī.

cydonian, to random
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The temple in my ‘hood: Thendayuthapani Temple at Tank Road, where the cabinet of the (short-lived, controversial) Arzi Hukumat e Azad Hind sat a couple of times, and from where kāvadis leave every year on Thaipūsam.

Willow, to random
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Closing tickets is sooooo draining. I need chocolate.

cydonian,
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@Willow I always used to have a secret stash of dark chocolate TimTam’s somewhere. 😊

cydonian, to random
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“The checks and balances the founding fathers of the Constitution had put in place were dismantled. Nobody would hear of it being done. It was done within the confines of closed, sound-proof rooms. With hundreds of quick signatures on files.“
https://mastodon.social/@sushubh/112125818938660049

cydonian, to random
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Bloddy hell. Red Ventures - the digital marketing geniuses who made CNet a front for AI generated spam - have also bought over Lonely Planet.

Hearing bad things about the latest edition of Lonely Planet Great Britain. Will be checking it out soon.

cydonian, (edited ) to random
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And on this fine day, I’ve come upon the Answer to Life, Universe and Everything.

cydonian,
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@nitin Thanks! Also, in case you were wondering, I can confirm that Shahi Maharani at the former Westin Plaza is still its same self: hasn’t changed in 24 years. 😊

cydonian, to random
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HRW notices what we (OCIs in favour of free speech in India) have been saying since 2019.
https://mastodon.social/@sushubh/112114776266447793

cydonian, to random
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Daughter likes making flyers for her imagined businesses.

MoonshotErin, to random
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Took forever for my aunt to go to bed, but mom and I just spent the last few hours painting each other's nails 💅 🥰

I'm not very good at it, but I loved every moment and made a miserable day worth it

cydonian,
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@MoonshotErin I’m sure you guys know this, but I recently learnt that one does not do the outline first and then fill the nail in like one does in colouring books. One apparently starts from a single side, and overlays the paint gradually till one reaches the other side. Blew my mind when I found this out.

cydonian,
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@MoonshotErin Glad you had some bonding time with your mom! 😊 Bit curious now, but what colour did you put?

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Red flag at Desaru beach.

cydonian, to magASEAN
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Breakfast: roti canai with channa and utappam.

cydonian, to random
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The Chinese Chamber of Commerce and a Shia mosque share space in one of the oldest stretches in central Singapore.

cydonian, to random
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At the Singapore premiere for Matilda the Musical. Watched it once on stage in Westend, and watched both movie versions, but the wife is a big fan of the show and has successfully passed on the fandom to our daughter.

Meanwhile, I’ve successfully incepted the daughter with Harry Belomfonte, so she’s now singing about girls who take money and run Venezuela while waiting for a musical about a bookworm girl.

cydonian, to random
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King of fruits: why choose between mango and durian?

cydonian,
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@samebchase We do, but this juice was made from Thai mangoes in Malaysia.

(I’m Team Mango as well. 😊 Just that South East Asians like my wife insist durian is the king of fruits and not mangoes. This is my way of declaring truce on the everlasting discussion in the household )

cydonian, to magASEAN
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Fruit party.

cydonian, to magASEAN
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Peanut toast, curry puff and kopi peng.

itsjustjenn, to random
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So I finally watched the new Dune. I've read the book, and love the David Lynch version. How did I NEVER notice how transy it is?

cydonian,
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@itsjustjenn And you change your name too to find your true calling.

cydonian, to random
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Traders in Mahbubnagar district’s Narāyanapēta still use the Modi script to write accounts and communicate secretly, both among themselves and with other traders in Pune. Its usage, however, is dying. (The article seems to imply it is used for Marathi and Telugu but doesn’t say explicitly)

There is a Unicode block and a font, however. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modi_script

matratype, to random
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I find introductions very awkward 🙈 but here goes nothing.

My name is Pooja 👋🏼 I live and work from a suburb of Delhi.

I’m a senior designer at TypeTogether https://www.type-together.com/, where I draw type, engineer fonts, do research and write.

That aside, my interests lie in scripts from India, especially Devanagari, and others used in the northern plains. I also enjoy lettering and designing books.

I recently started a newsletter about type and design curiosities http://www.matratype.com/my-typographic-eye.

cydonian,
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@matratype ¡Hola! Coincidentally just posted something on Indic lettering if you’re interested 😀

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