Notices by ubi (ubi@ecoevo.social), page 2

@nancylwayne @liztai The title of the queen of fruits has been taken by the mangosteen. It's common to eat durians and mangosteens together in Malaysia.

I need a way to filter out US politics. It's not even november and my feed is full this stuff.

@liztai Jalan Alor functions well as the tourist containment zone.

@liztai @chungliwen Still can get RM6 mee goreng away from the KL city center. I've found some recently at the poorer parts of Shah Alam.

@nitin @ElizabethLeeCo Some antlion species do have dark patterns on the wings.

@nitin Looks a bit like an adult antlion

@goblin @youronlyone SEAsians are actually a terminally online people, they form some of the biggest most online demographics. But they tend to spend their time on corporate social media and speak their own languages.

Kids these days don't appreciate what they have. In my day we only got misinformation once every year, on the 1st of April.

Let's be positive about the climate for once. I'm sure the monitor lizards are enjoying all this global warming.

@liztai Kuih were never meant to have names. They exist purely as sensations and moments in time. Never constrained by mere words.

@liztai I reject the term banana and prefer Langsat. Yellow on the outside, white on the inside, but dig even deeper and you find a hidden bitterness.

@rakyat @atomicpoet @liztai Im always so disappointed when I see a synopsis about a master of cultivation and it isn't about farming.

@rakyat @atomicpoet @liztai After many years of study, her disciples ask her, "Ok, but when do we learn all the flying fighting stuff?"

@liztai Isn't that PNB 118? TRX is distant in the background. Although TRX is a very evil looking building too.

The two towers of the Najib era.

The way I receive news on Mastodon: I get some strange random references that make no sense (submarine! Cage match! Russia!) about a day before I actually see the actual news report.

Maybe I should follow more news accounts.

@youronlyone I'm so annoyed by those things, thankfully that tiktok driven craze has died down in Malaysia. It was everywhere earlier this year.

@youronlyone@c.im @gowin @hishgraphics @cendawanita @youronlyone@calckey.social @rakyat @Munkao @irfan
There is an anthology of SEA steampunk stories published in Malaysia. It had some Philippine authors if I remember correctly.
https://www.nlb.gov.sg/biblio/202544696

@hishgraphics @Munkao Biologists have a name for the area that comprises Perlis, Langkawi and Northern Kedah: Kedawi. The species there are a bit different from the rest of the peninsula and have more similarities to Southern Thailand and include some Northern Thailand species as well.

This biogeographic pattern is believed to be caused by climate, physical barriers like mountain ranges and historical factors.

@irfan @hishgraphics @Munkao There's a whole field that studies this called biogeography and that is one of the classic case studies.

Basically we're on the Sunda plate, which has its own unique flora and fauna compared to Eurasia.

Fun fact: Malaysia used to be a biogeographic term until some politicians took it. Now biologists have to use Malesia as a substitute.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malesia

@cendawanita @irfan @hishgraphics @Munkao Now I'm curious about this tankie theory. Where do they think the name comes from?