#tootsea — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tootsea, aggregated by home.social.
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Gunshots ring out at #philippines Senate where lawmaker is holed up
“Ronald dela Rosa, police chief under ex-President Rodrigo Duterte, faces an #ICC arrest warrant.”
“Former police chief dela Rosa, who was the top enforcer of ex-President Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called “war on drugs”, urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Tuesday not to hand him over to the ICC, adding that he was ready to face justice at home.”
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very desperately homesick for south and southeast asia this morning
thankfully we have music for that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDErhADhhmg
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I always love reading this piece:
“Singapore, though, has always been noted for the quality and variety of its street food and, not coincidentally, for having a citizenry whose interest in eating borders on the obsessive. The population combines migrants from several parts of China with minorities of Indians and Malays and people who look Chinese but are known as Peranakans—a separate ethnic group, long prominent in the government and business life of Singapore, which traces its origins to early Chinese traders who absorbed some of the culture and the genes of the local Malays. The evidence indicates that every one of these groups arrived hungry.”
“Apparently, though, a dish that is reminiscent of what’s found in Singapore serves only to make overseas Singaporeans long for the real article. Culinarily, they are among the most homesick people I have ever met.”
It me
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/09/03/three-chopsticks
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The Durian Express? New Southeast Asia rail service cuts fruit prices in China
“Southeast Asian growers can now ship durians to #China faster than before using a new cold-storage rail service linking #Thailand, #Laos and southwest China’s #Yunnan province, slashing prices for the pungent fruit.” #tootsea
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The Durian Express? New Southeast Asia rail service cuts fruit prices in China
“Southeast Asian growers can now ship durians to #China faster than before using a new cold-storage rail service linking #Thailand, #Laos and southwest China’s #Yunnan province, slashing prices for the pungent fruit.” #tootsea
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The Durian Express? New Southeast Asia rail service cuts fruit prices in China
“Southeast Asian growers can now ship durians to #China faster than before using a new cold-storage rail service linking #Thailand, #Laos and southwest China’s #Yunnan province, slashing prices for the pungent fruit.” #tootsea
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The Durian Express? New Southeast Asia rail service cuts fruit prices in China
“Southeast Asian growers can now ship durians to #China faster than before using a new cold-storage rail service linking #Thailand, #Laos and southwest China’s #Yunnan province, slashing prices for the pungent fruit.” #tootsea
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The Durian Express? New Southeast Asia rail service cuts fruit prices in China
“Southeast Asian growers can now ship durians to #China faster than before using a new cold-storage rail service linking #Thailand, #Laos and southwest China’s #Yunnan province, slashing prices for the pungent fruit.” #tootsea
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Pre-order my friend's new novel! (She's a Singaporean writer living in Boston)
From a Boston bookstore: https://papercutsjp.com/item/uFul1NHY3vAvtRSYBg4E6Q
From a Singapore bookstore: https://www.bookbar.sg/store/p/nameshavebeenchanged
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#Singapore: French teen who licked the straw of a mall orange juice vending machine and posted to Insta faces two-year jail term
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Just saw a #YouTube video of a #detailer showing how to clean a snowfoam cannon, and someone from UK commenting "you should use citric acid for that (he is already using 25% acetic acid) it is safer. You can buy that from Asian shops"
The detailer is in #Indonesia 😁 (did the commenter not notice the accent, or even look at the creators profile?)
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/116457221816093505
Singapore is the only city on earth where you can pay $9 for a flat white (we have many Aussie cafes), $15 for a beer, $1.2 million for public housing and the government says things like you don’t need space to have children you can just do it in a closet why is everyone failing at this
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/ministers-rejoinder-to-no-flat-no-child-belief
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“Dr Balakrishnan pointed out Singapore’s longstanding position of not taking sides between the US and China, even as strategic competition between the two powers intensifies.
"To quote Mr Lee Kuan Yew, we will refuse to choose. The way we conduct our affairs is we assess what is in Singapore’s long-term national interest," he said, referencing Singapore's first prime minister.
"And if I have to say no to Washington or Beijing or anyone else, we do not flinch from that. But they will also know that when we say no, it is not at the behest of the other party; we are acting in our own long-term national interest.
"We will be useful, but we will not be made use of."
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The latest article I did for Smile online (Cebu Pac's publication) is already live! It's a short roundup of Singapore spots that boast great design and architecture. Writing this made me miss SG.
A quick note on the Central Fire Station: the lookout tower is 111 feet, as in my original submission, *not* 11 feet. I've already alerted the editor to correct this.
(Please click the link twice in case it doesn't work the first time.)
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Digging the scene with the #gasoline : Former rally driver and #motoring journalist "Uncle" YS Khong from #Malaysia advises young #drivers how to save #petrol ( even though Malaysia has its own oil reserves and refineries, its still affected by #war in the #MiddleEast )
You can also hear #Malaysian English or #Manglish in this video 😁
The petrol stations in suburban Malaysia are larger and bigger than UK, and even have small restaurant areas with proper tables (my cousin said the food at them is very good, it is better than you would get here in Blighty)
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That's certainly one approach to data protection law I guess
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So many photos from yesterday's food crawl/photo walk in Binondo, touted as the world's oldest Chinatown. Need to find time to organize them and come up with a photo essay for my blog. In the meantime, let's start with these four street shots.
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😆 LOL, I have discovered that there is indeed a programming language based on Manglish, named bolehlang: https://bolehlang.dev/
As a Malaysian programmer, I wholeheartedly approve!
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😆 LOL, I just discovered Lahlang, a programming language based on Singlish: https://lahlang.dev/
I am Malaysian and not Singaporean, but Manglish is very similar to Singlish, so the lingo is still familar to me.
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How port cities like Singapore shaped the world | Ideas | CBC
“Without port cities, our world would look very different.
In the first episode of our series on how port cities shaped the world as we know it, #UBC journalism professor Kamal Al-Solaylee visits #Singapore — a constantly-evolving port city whose maritime roots go back to the 13th century.”
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16203675-how-port-cities-singapore-shaped-world
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How port cities like Singapore shaped the world | Ideas | CBC
“Without port cities, our world would look very different.
In the first episode of our series on how port cities shaped the world as we know it, #UBC journalism professor Kamal Al-Solaylee visits #Singapore — a constantly-evolving port city whose maritime roots go back to the 13th century.”
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16203675-how-port-cities-singapore-shaped-world
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How port cities like Singapore shaped the world | Ideas | CBC
“Without port cities, our world would look very different.
In the first episode of our series on how port cities shaped the world as we know it, #UBC journalism professor Kamal Al-Solaylee visits #Singapore — a constantly-evolving port city whose maritime roots go back to the 13th century.”
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16203675-how-port-cities-singapore-shaped-world
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How port cities like Singapore shaped the world | Ideas | CBC
“Without port cities, our world would look very different.
In the first episode of our series on how port cities shaped the world as we know it, #UBC journalism professor Kamal Al-Solaylee visits #Singapore — a constantly-evolving port city whose maritime roots go back to the 13th century.”
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16203675-how-port-cities-singapore-shaped-world
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How port cities like Singapore shaped the world | Ideas | CBC
“Without port cities, our world would look very different.
In the first episode of our series on how port cities shaped the world as we know it, #UBC journalism professor Kamal Al-Solaylee visits #Singapore — a constantly-evolving port city whose maritime roots go back to the 13th century.”
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16203675-how-port-cities-singapore-shaped-world
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"Are you a Southeast Asia (excluding Indonesia) or Africa scholar committed to challenging colonial legacies and reimagining foundational concepts in the humanities from a Global South perspective?"
"The Decolonizing Humanities Fellowship, hosted by the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia (UI), supported by Gerda Henkel Stiftung, is a critical initiative responding to the persistent dominance of colonial and Eurocentric frameworks in global humanities scholarship."
https://anthropology.fisip.ui.ac.id/international-programs/decolonizing-humanities-fellowship/
#Academia #GlobalSouth #TootSea #Africa #Asia #Decolonization
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Interesting paper on a 1960s Malay film-fan magazine and what it can tell us: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/berita-filem-malay-fan-magazines-and-modernity-in-the-early-1960s/5DA83FC727FE36D25FA0613F5916E44C
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Anyone in the #Phillipines who can update on the state of national emergency due to fuel shortage?
#AsianMastodon #TootSEA #Filipinos #SouthEastAsia #ASEAN #USIsraelIranWar #GlobalSouth
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Hold your weak cowardly white folks accountable when they support wankerbutternoodles in public.
It is literally one of the lowest level of asking for white privileged bravery, online. Some folks cannot even step-up to that basic plate of online humanity.I judge them on both actions & lack of actions.
#AsianMastodon #POC #BIPOC #TootSEA #LoudPOCVoices #POCWomen #WeWontBeQuietForWhiteMen
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Mom & I watched an episode of #DeadliestRoads last night. The episode was the Green Gold in #Vietnam episode. We both laughed when we saw the man loading & transporting a lot of weaved fishing traps, on his #bicycle. It reminded us of one of Mom's younger brothers, my 3rd Uncle, on matriarch side. He transported fishing traps that my Aunties made in the village & would pedal all day, mostly on rough rural paths, to get them to nearest town market to sell. He would be gone a week, staying in town until traps were sold, before bicycling back to the village.
I made a gif of screenshots of how the fish traps are packed on his bicycle & him on the bicycle during the journey.
#AsianMastodon #MadSkills #BicyclePower #Vietnamese #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA #FishTraps #SuperOldSchoolStyle #CyclePower #CreativePacking #Transportation #determination
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CW: snek
Dilarang mengetuk cermin (MY) = do not knock on glass (EN)
Which seems like good advice, given what lurks behind it!
At a rural fire station somewhere in Malaysia, they keep some #snakes for training the officers and also to show locals about how to identify snakes and how to stay safe as many are venomous)
Folk are encouraged to stand clear and call 999 / 112 rather than attempt to catch them themselves (this works the same as in UK and the calls from mobiles are geolocated if possible using #GNSS)
#KingCobra #Malaysia #Bomba #FireBrigade #EmergencyServices #TootSEA
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CW: snek
Dilarang mengetuk cermin (MY) = do not knock on glass (EN)
Which seems like good advice, given what lurks behind it!
At a rural fire station somewhere in Malaysia, they keep some #snakes for training the officers and also to show locals about how to identify snakes and how to stay safe as many are venomous)
Folk are encouraged to stand clear and call 999 / 112 rather than attempt to catch them themselves (this works the same as in UK and the calls from mobiles are geolocated if possible using #GNSS)
#KingCobra #Malaysia #Bomba #FireBrigade #EmergencyServices #TootSEA
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CW: snek
Dilarang mengetuk cermin (MY) = do not knock on glass (EN)
Which seems like good advice, given what lurks behind it!
At a rural fire station somewhere in Malaysia, they keep some #snakes for training the officers and also to show locals about how to identify snakes and how to stay safe as many are venomous)
Folk are encouraged to stand clear and call 999 / 112 rather than attempt to catch them themselves (this works the same as in UK and the calls from mobiles are geolocated if possible using #GNSS)
#KingCobra #Malaysia #Bomba #FireBrigade #EmergencyServices #TootSEA
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CW: snek
Dilarang mengetuk cermin (MY) = do not knock on glass (EN)
Which seems like good advice, given what lurks behind it!
At a rural fire station somewhere in Malaysia, they keep some #snakes for training the officers and also to show locals about how to identify snakes and how to stay safe as many are venomous)
Folk are encouraged to stand clear and call 999 / 112 rather than attempt to catch them themselves (this works the same as in UK and the calls from mobiles are geolocated if possible using #GNSS)
#KingCobra #Malaysia #Bomba #FireBrigade #EmergencyServices #TootSEA
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CW: snek
Dilarang mengetuk cermin (MY) = do not knock on glass (EN)
Which seems like good advice, given what lurks behind it!
At a rural fire station somewhere in Malaysia, they keep some #snakes for training the officers and also to show locals about how to identify snakes and how to stay safe as many are venomous)
Folk are encouraged to stand clear and call 999 / 112 rather than attempt to catch them themselves (this works the same as in UK and the calls from mobiles are geolocated if possible using #GNSS)
#KingCobra #Malaysia #Bomba #FireBrigade #EmergencyServices #TootSEA
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The US never learned from its past mistakes in South East Asia. It's using same #DominoTheory in their attacks on #MiddleEast under false guise of stopping the #Muslim threat from spreading.
They're still fabricating attacks & using propaganda to try to fool people.Do not buy more lies from #TerroristUSA.
#USpol #geopolitics #BoycottUSA #SanctionUSA #USWarCrimes #TootSEA #ASEAN #SouthEastAsia #WarSurvivorsForPeace #StopWar
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Software internships in the Singapore govt
https://govtech-portal-2026.vercel.app/
#Government #GovTech #CivicTech #Internships #Singapore #TootSea #GetFediHired
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"We won the Vietnam War! We saved the Vietnamese from Communism. We needed to help them."
Da fuck. US did not win nor was that global terrorist, warmongering, war criminals filled government helping any Vietnamese citizens by carpet/cluster bombing, using us as involuntary test subjects for illegal war shit - dropping never used before munitions/biochemical warfare on us! Then, lying to US citizens about what they were doing/did to our peoples.
Vietnam stayed Communist, after US were ran out. US invaders literally had to be quickly evacuated. They had thousands of angry Vietnamese people chasing/screaming at them (my family & others also yelled: #DeathToAmerica ), throwing all sorts of stuff & physically attacking them as they ran to leave Saigon, like rats trying to get off a burning ship. Several Vietnamese were carrying machetes & screaming that they are going to chop off US soldiers' heads. These were people who lost entire family from US terrorist attacks.
I know all of this because my family was right there, in Saigon, when it happened. I was in a baby carrier on Mom's back. Dad & big Uncle threw many molotovs at US army trucks as they were trying to get to airplane. One of my other Uncles yanked a US invader, who was foolish enough to point a rifle at the citizens & then shot two unarmed civilians - straight out of a moving truck. That invader was pummeled by angry crowd. The US army driver was yanked out & given same brutal beat down treatment.
That is what happens when you invade sovereign nations & try to install foreign puppet government leaders. Eventually, the people will revolt & seize their sovereignty back. You create a lot of new enemies, every single time you violently & illegally invade sovereign nations/territories.
Our peoples were willing to die, fighting for sovereignty. US has always underestimated the love & passion that many Global South peoples have for their ancestral homelands. US still makes exact same decisions that aren't helping US unless the goal is to make the world hate you.
#AsianMastodon #WarSurvivorsForPeace #USpol #TootSEA #BoycottUSA #SanctionUSA #geopolitics #VietnamWar
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If you hate #immigrants & #refugees - fight your shitty governments much harder & get them to stop invading/bombing/attacking sovereign nations all across #GlobalSouth regions.
Your fucking Western #warmongering governments created more war refugees, more displacements of POC folks, more desperation & poverty. To satiate just a few human devils with too much public power, too much money & no humanity.
USA is inviting rogue attacks from multiple angry folks with their blatant arrogance & ongoing crimes on humanity. So is their BFF devil pals, Israel.
#Geopolitics #Ire #Rage #FuckTheUSA #FuckIsrael #DeathToZionazis #FedUp #USTerrorism #BoomBoomHellAviv #CrimesAgainstHumanity #USpol #CDNpol #AsianMastodon #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA #WarSurvivorsForPeace
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If you hate #immigrants & #refugees - fight your shitty governments much harder & get them to stop invading/bombing/attacking sovereign nations all across #GlobalSouth regions.
Your fucking Western #warmongering governments created more war refugees, more displacements of POC folks, more desperation & poverty. To satiate just a few human devils with too much public power, too much money & no humanity.
USA is inviting rogue attacks from multiple angry folks with their blatant arrogance & ongoing crimes on humanity. So is their BFF devil pals, Israel.
#Geopolitics #Ire #Rage #FuckTheUSA #FuckIsrael #DeathToZionazis #FedUp #USTerrorism #BoomBoomHellAviv #CrimesAgainstHumanity #USpol #CDNpol #AsianMastodon #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA #WarSurvivorsForPeace
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If you hate #immigrants & #refugees - fight your shitty governments much harder & get them to stop invading/bombing/attacking sovereign nations all across #GlobalSouth regions.
Your fucking Western #warmongering governments created more war refugees, more displacements of POC folks, more desperation & poverty. To satiate just a few human devils with too much public power, too much money & no humanity.
USA is inviting rogue attacks from multiple angry folks with their blatant arrogance & ongoing crimes on humanity. So is their BFF devil pals, Israel.
#Geopolitics #Ire #Rage #FuckTheUSA #FuckIsrael #DeathToZionazis #FedUp #USTerrorism #BoomBoomHellAviv #CrimesAgainstHumanity #USpol #CDNpol #AsianMastodon #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA #WarSurvivorsForPeace
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Michelle Yeoh plays several characters in this short film set in Penang.
The codeswitching (language and body language) based on status / environment / character is nuanced and reflects a broad range of the Malaysian Chinese city life experience that I have been a part of.
I also love that most of it is filmed in food places, and now I am terribly homesick.
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I’ve met a few folks from this community!
Singaporean (and Malaysian) Chinese women who were adopted and raised by Tamil families as infants
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Our Indigenous Vietnamese family back in South #Vietnam village still practice the new year ritual of putting a couple of lucky red envelopes with some money in them, into their refillable, large rice barrel. To protect the family from hunger & keep being blessed with rice & food to eat 🙏🍚🌾
#AsianMastodon #Tet #Cultural #Superstitious #Spiritual #TootSEA #SouthEastAsia #IndigenousVietnamese
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Our Indigenous Vietnamese family back in South #Vietnam village still practice the new year ritual of putting a couple of lucky red envelopes with some money in them, into their refillable, large rice barrel. To protect the family from hunger & keep being blessed with rice & food to eat 🙏🍚🌾
#AsianMastodon #Tet #Cultural #Superstitious #Spiritual #TootSEA #SouthEastAsia #IndigenousVietnamese
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Our Indigenous Vietnamese family back in South #Vietnam village still practice the new year ritual of putting a couple of lucky red envelopes with some money in them, into their refillable, large rice barrel. To protect the family from hunger & keep being blessed with rice & food to eat 🙏🍚🌾
#AsianMastodon #Tet #Cultural #Superstitious #Spiritual #TootSEA #SouthEastAsia #IndigenousVietnamese
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Our Indigenous Vietnamese family back in South #Vietnam village still practice the new year ritual of putting a couple of lucky red envelopes with some money in them, into their refillable, large rice barrel. To protect the family from hunger & keep being blessed with rice & food to eat 🙏🍚🌾
#AsianMastodon #Tet #Cultural #Superstitious #Spiritual #TootSEA #SouthEastAsia #IndigenousVietnamese
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Our Indigenous Vietnamese family back in South #Vietnam village still practice the new year ritual of putting a couple of lucky red envelopes with some money in them, into their refillable, large rice barrel. To protect the family from hunger & keep being blessed with rice & food to eat 🙏🍚🌾
#AsianMastodon #Tet #Cultural #Superstitious #Spiritual #TootSEA #SouthEastAsia #IndigenousVietnamese
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Day 2 of our family's new year celebrations. No meat day. Buddhist plate, vegetarian dishes, sesame seed paste stuffed glutinous rice balls sweet soup, tea & red roses for ancestors ceremonies 🙏❤️
#LunarNewYear #AsianMastodon #AsianFood #CulturalFood #TraditionalFood #ChineseNewYear #Tet #CulturalHoliday #offerings #food #HonourAncestors #Spiritual #Cultural #Family #SouthEastAsian #AsianDiaspora #TootSEA