Notices by neocolonial malcontent chic (toridas_@wandering.shop)

@liztai ah, same here, was just waiting to learn this tidbit to justify ordering takeaway, because I can't cook in this heat and with this shark week chronic illness flare-up

@liztai people eat rice with forks??

The moist wind from the Bay of Bengal is driving the felt temperatures in Gangetic Bengal to intolerable levels, too. I'm aiming to make the most of this heatwave by learning to make pickles and preserves, because the alternative -- climate despair -- is dangerously debilitating.

#ClimateDiary #FoodSecurity

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/north-central-india-sizzle-under-severe-heatwave-nearly-50-degree-c-in-parts-of-delhi/article68227337.ece,

@liztai YouTube has been recommending the trailer to me but I'm too scared.

@liztai language learning struggles are the realest, and also the funniest

SFF readers and fans! Point me towards your fave speculative fiction (TV/film/books, but no Marvel/DC superhero stuff, please) with bisexual or biromantic protagonists 🌈 I'd appreciate it if the writers/directors recced are BIPOC, but White people's stuff will also do.

#BoostsWelcome #Bookstodon #AmReadingSFF #SFFH #SFFBookClub

@liztai I was rewatching Ashes of Time just a few days ago. I wish East Asian stars still had the same look, I don't know how to describe it but they looked human, and yet undeniably gorgeous and charismatic. I mean, no one could've looked at Leslie Cheung and complained because that guy was such a powerhouse performer AND a looker!

@chu @skinnylatte @liztai @Fury this is pretty interesting! Considering I learn the most from listening to conversations and dialogue, this might actually work. Also, I'm going to try and learn Bangla, my ancestral tongue that I grew up distanced from due to an Anglophone education, the same way: by reading books. So this might be fun.

So I'm getting a bit desperate to learn Mandarin because my copy of the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon pentalogy is begging to be read, and because I'm too ambitious for my own good 🫣 Any recommendations, resources, tips, for a beginner? I don't want to have to resort to Duolingo with their AI rubbish, but I'm very short on money, which is an automatic hamstring when it comes to getting an education, I know 🙃

CC: @skinnylatte #TootSEA #China @liztai @chu @Fury

Making tonight's dinner took inordinately long because frying the fish took ONE WHOLE HOUR. But it's quite simple fare. Erred on the side of caution with the salt, I think.

On the plus side, the tomato and orange chutney is close to running out, and today I bought fresh, perfectly ripe and red tomatoes, and big oranges. I'm hoping I can make a new bowl of chutney, but better this time, on BFF#1's birthday.

#MakanApaToday #HomeCooking

@chu @liztai I've become kinda immune to Western propaganda in films. What I absolutely cannot stand is Hindu supremacist propaganda in films because the cronyism is so obvious.

@Sheril astronomers are calling it noctalgia. Living in a heavily light polluted city, I sure feel it