Notices by Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)

@jadp @czds you need an Alphonso in season, from Goa :) I’ve had the other versions and.. no

@llPK I like it! Not many where I am now but plenty in Asia

@jadp @czds if you find more Indian mangoes through the season, try Alphonso, banganpalli, and others. They’re sublime and very different from each other

Banganpalli is my fave. Also imam pasand

Prob available at Indian stores at diff times through the summer.

@jadp @czds love those. Huge!!

@ilmari sounds amazing!

Upset that I completely missed this because I was out of town. Star Trek library cards at SF Public Library

Going to see if they have more

(Any CA resident can get a library card..)

#Libraries #SFPL #SanFrancisco #StarTrek

I'm glad someone in mainstream Singapore media is talking about this:

The migrant workers who literally build and clean Singapore have to deal with conditions nobody else would accept, and they do not have leverage or rights or very much support

We have a three-tier immigration system: at the very bottom, work permit holders, people in construction and domestic labour.

https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/singapores-building-boom-is-forcing-a-reckoning-on-migrant-labour

#Singapore #TootSea

maybe my equivalent would be me telling people from back home that

'out here, i've met people who don't like coconut and mango!'

i have to explain that i'm telling the truth, it's not just aliens that i've met

(coconut and mango also taste much better closer to the equator.. divine really.)

@tgent_fens some people truly love it and it works for them, but if you look at the depression stats..

@gcvsa yeah, i miss it all so bad

@grumpasaurus it’s more tasty than being cold

The mangoes are amazing in that part of the world and I’m sorry most people haven’t had them (freshly picked in the right season. Many different types. All different.)

Always kind of cute to see people from places with seasons ask about no seasons

‘When do you have your winter vacation?’

That’s easy, in December, and we call them ‘end of the year’ school vacation, not winter

‘How do you celebrate Christmas when it’s not cold?’

(If a cold Christmas is not a thing it’s just not a thing anyone misses. My Singaporean Christian family eats noodles for Christmas)

‘How do you know when it’s a different season?’

You don’t, there are no seasons. That’s the point.

Oh, there’s monsoon and mango season. And there’s monsoon but no mango season.

You’re just used to what you’re used to.

I was telling someone from New England that the first three years I was here, I was ANGRY every morning when I awoke and

The sun wasn’t beating into my face

That I couldn’t see it, even

I just read about someone posting about how they’d met a person from Malaysia who was depressed that it was too dark and cold in the summer where they were

And whose mind was utterly blown that the sun didn’t set at the same time all year round

If you’ve ever met me and you’re posting about how wild this is, that’s okay, I don’t mind

I think it’s wild when the sun set shifts by more than 10 mins in a year :)

I know the Telegraph is trash, but they just ran an op-ed by a woman who thinks leftist women are scarier than the manosphere, and proposes we put women on an island with strapping English military jocks, because apparently leftist women won’t be able to resist them.

What a strange island

More importantly I feel like most criticism of the H-1B program just.. doesn’t really understand how skilled visas work.

Treating skilled legal immigrants like shit and giving them no rights is kind of the hallmark of almost all major immigration policies, not just the American one.

Proposing that we get rid of it because you think it is exploitative is as bad as the ‘I am all for open borders but I have no real suggestion for how western governments can right now stop treating brown people like shit’ problem.

The people who enjoy living in SF neighborhoods with no public transit, and who think anywhere close to diversity is scary: why aren’t you living in a suburb?

@Colman breakfast samosas are savory tho!

@Recalcitrant @http_error_418 the Bay Area is ridiculously priced for most things, except groceries (and global groceries)