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skinnylatte

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

Queer Southeast Asian in California working on #civictech. I lead the product team at San Francisco Digital Services.

I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, photography and other analog hobbies.

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skinnylatte, to random
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This is what the internet was created for. Learning about things you’ll never otherwise know

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/men-soap-washing-butt-reddit.html

skinnylatte, to magASEAN
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Feminist org in Singapore is looking for volunteers who can speak and transcribe Vietnamese.

They’re doing a study on coercive control. Singapore has a large trans-national marriage rate, largely between citizen men and non-citizen wives from countries like Vietnam.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4pS-CrUnbN38Wvo1GM9r-92LCaakipzSgzkhwrIKK-o0Jvw/viewform

#TootSea #Singapore #Vietnam

skinnylatte, to animals
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Mila is turning 18 and has severe arthritis. She can’t sleep on our heads upstairs in the bed anymore (ramps don’t help, due to the layout of our apartment). A few nights a week I pull out a mattress and sleep with her downstairs. And when I don’t.. she starts screaming at 6am until I come down and get sat on. I love her so much

skinnylatte, (edited ) to singapore
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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,
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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

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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

skinnylatte, to random
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Quite excited that I’ll get to spend time in India again soon. I’ve missed it so much. Will plan it out in more detail soon but so excited to see everyone again, and more importantly eat all the food again

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Other people who live in humid climes and buy garlic powder in the large containers: how do you keep it from becoming a giant unusable mass. This is my second container since I moved here, I thought since the first was powder rather than granulated that was the problem, but the granulated does it too.

(Don't @ me about using garlic powder, it's one of the secrets to a great egg & cheese sandwich and I eat a lot of those, ok?)

skinnylatte,
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@SRLevine freeze in airtight container

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@SRLevine try several ziploc bags but in really squeeze the air out and pack it tight, and take out a bag at a time

skinnylatte,
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@SRLevine find the coolest darkest place!

skinnylatte,
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@SRLevine maybe @SRDas will have other ideas

skinnylatte, (edited ) to random
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I’ve received invites to almost every queer Asian activism thing in the Bay Area this summer, so I think I’m going to be extremely busy. I don’t have enough ‘gala clothes’ but I am also excited that I don’t need to conform to the feminine expectations of such events in straight spaces.

skinnylatte,
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I want rent the runway but for gender amorphous people

skinnylatte,
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I also think going to these things is important for me so I stop feeling the doom and gloom of the ‘SF Asians are actually conservatives’ message I hear in the media. Have you seen the people I know??? Why doesn’t anyone write stories about how Asians in the Bay Area are radical progressives actually

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@joshourisman oh yeah a lot of this stuff is east bay centered

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@joshourisman I’m going to a queer AAPI gala in.. Hayward. Now that’s new.

SRLevine, to random
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The time has come to admit I don't have a good idea of what to use these jars of olive brine for and recover the space in my fridge.

I'm currently trying to convince myself to actually throw it out and not just consolidate to fewer jars.

It's ok to point and laugh at me over this.

skinnylatte,
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@SRLevine maybe some Dijon mustard to emulsify.. enjoy!

gregpak, to BelieveInFilm
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I'm selling another classic camera at a big discount! Check out this film-tested Canonet QL17 GIII! https://gregpakshop.com/collections/featured/products/canonet-ql17-g-iii-35mm-rangefinder-camera-film-tested-but-read

skinnylatte,
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@gregpak my first rangefinder ever!

skinnylatte, to cycling
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I love my bike and I still can’t believe I got it back

https://popagandhi.com/bikes/incredible-story-rivendell/

skinnylatte,
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The fun story of how I got this bike in the first place: I have alerts for Rivendell in Craigslist. Something popped up. I wrote. And then, JOE BREEZE replied. He said I could buy it from him.

So I got a super unique bike AND I got to meet Joe Breeze

skinnylatte,
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@mculbertson I have a beater bike for that. This is the bike I take when I don’t really leave it much

skinnylatte,
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@forteller @severud one of the fathers of modern mountain biking

evan, (edited ) to random
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When you have access to a bidet, do you use it?

#EvanPoll #poll

skinnylatte,
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@aulia @evan nooooo

skinnylatte, to food
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More soy toots: when you buy soy sauce look at the ingredient list and label.

If it has ‘hydrolyzed soy protein’, it’ll be roughly the same quality as ‘cheap Chinese restaurant takeout soy sauce packets’. Soy sauce made from chemical processes. It doesn’t taste good to me and is usually amped up with sugar.

If it just says ‘soy beans’, and the label says ‘naturally brewed’ or ‘naturally fermented’ or ‘first draw soy sauce’ it will be pretty good.

skinnylatte,
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@MarcVolquardsen yep this stuff is good!

skinnylatte,
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@ChasMusic I think it’s green and says 30% less sodium

skinnylatte,
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@ChasMusic I don’t think that exists!

skinnylatte, to random
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Every day I read news about San Francisco by people who clammer to say the city I live in is too liberal, too progressive, but I dont see any evidence of such claims although I wish they were right

skinnylatte,
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@miah it’s like telling children that Santa isn’t real. No you don’t get free drugs etc.

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