(also bold of you to assume MUDA is actually plugged in to whatever's going on in the world. They already have trouble getting their own country.) 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

I'd settle for BFM to stop doing nothing but twitter threads!

Wah you also got internal body dairy meter ar, my condolences

India is a huge country with very unique cuisines, if I had to guess locals probably wouldn’t refer to their unique dishes as curry and will just call it by their name.

Yeah, so when I read their complaints about it, even the British Indians, i keep that in mind, because there's another conversation that's actually happening that I'm really just an observer (it's essentially an economic and cultural preservation argument). But outside that, language IS flexible - however much I still sideeye it, Malay CKT is berkuah and Sino-Malay use of jelak instead of muak fits their respective contexts. In America an entree is the main dish but to the French that is so silly because it obviously means a starter course.

I suppose the inciting incident here (calling kurma a curry) depends very much on what you reckon would be the likely result: perpetuated by a global cultural majority (gwailo anglophones) who simply say it's curry, it might lead to other ppl also making the same mistake, frustrating the ppl who originated the cuisine as well as ppl who'd like their Google search to not be corrupted further. If you want to take the power differential reading. That's the only angle to me that answers why you'd feel off about it. If it's just some rando saying a thing that'll not be popularized by other ignorant ppl, and it's just going to stay a silly English thing, then let it beeee

I got link to their website in my post! Pen Gallery is also on Shopee, and if you rajin their shop is at SS2. There are three more Malaysia inks they did with Diamine Inks, I haven't bought the newest one (Ungu Senja) but the others I did cos I can't resist a good gimmick. Jalur Gemilang is like Manggis, but it's deep blue with red-purple sheen. Kopi O Kaw is a nice brown that legit smells like coffee.

If u want to restock new calligraphy stuff also can I think.... meracun mode

I see, thank you!

Go pharmacy, get two things: ORS (oral rehydration solution) and charcoal tabs. Since u no longer laosai, keep the tabs for next time you're feeling gassy/about to get into food poisoning. ORS because it does sound u dah dehydrated sangat. (Just water not sufficient. It's a combo of salts etc. If ur curious can look up the story of the indian doctor who saved so many kids from cholera)

Oh want to story: my pins (for me and friends) have arrived wheeee (later will post to Pixelfed). Shop is in Canada, is cute: Bibi Pins

Nothing off of the top of my mind as there's more of food tour type things. Meetups with food... Is just lepak lmao

Pu erh is pretty common these days... But what is it that you want replacing? Energy? sugary is your alt so maybe teh tarik (if mamak drinks got). Anything with ginseng if it's not too heaty for you. Mouthfeel? Then just switch to decaf (if kopitiam got). Just lower caffeine? cold green tea or cham.

If you want taste to your plain water, ask for air limau but kosong (no sugar). If you can get the shops that would layan you adding a bit of salt you've basically halfway to an isotonic solution lol

I am soooooo not techy but my fedi timeline is full of techy ppl, and I thought these might be fun to share:

from this thread , Darius K (who developed the Hometown fork for Mastodon) shared this: https://wiby.me/. You can build your own search engine???

In terms of hosting your own fedi instances, there's mastohost and yunohost but these two news are interesting to me:

https://calckey.social/notes/9h3u4tz7h7z8v378 - Chris T announcing Spacehost going to be in closed beta soon. Not just for Mastodon, and in fact they're starting with support for Lemmy and Kbin. (Looking into this to pujuk my friends to try fedi via a Calckey instance)

https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/110703980980525426 - Pixelfed is kinda like an Instagram analogue and this is announcing shared hosting plans soon for Pixelfed instances. I'm super interested as well because Pixelfed has been really working on tiered access for post privacy (mutuals/followers/specific ppl) with post comment permissions or hybrid Allowlist mode. Also looking into trying to encourage friends to join if I have my own server...

Whyyyyyyy youuuuu--- shakes fist