@SurenVynn
knower of norms | categorymaker | working on constitutive features of agency and agentization criteria | histories of personhood | scion of सुभगन and Δωροθέα
Joined: 12/26/2012
Archived: 10/5/2024
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FYI: China banned skyscrapers in 2020 and Malaysia's minimum wage has remained stagnant for years. https://t.co/vjoDWCkJ7z
I love the Johor Royal Family. The petulance, the constant cry for attention, the daddy's money vibes, the sheer lack of concern for the public. No one is doing a better job of drumming up hatred for the monarchy than the Prince of Johor. Let's help the boy.
Something very poetically ironic about those Muslim Malays who will kutuk Christians, deplore the depravity of the West to no end and then study overseas only to take graduation photos in front of gothic cathedrals as an ornamental backdrop to mark the capstone of their education
Only #Sabahans know this #Sabah #SekolahBebasDariDadah #lmao #yeahright https://t.co/OCOMYds3ts
People often ask why the Chinese don't assimilate into local culture more. Firstly, they do, just not in the way that some of you expect them to. Secondly, the reason the barrier exists is because of Islamic conversionary laws that prevent two-way assimilation. Consider Sabah. https://t.co/gSgyk3E43R
This really ought to be a single country https://t.co/aglXJXd7P1 https://t.co/oh6VMrzr2l
Seeing semenanjung insta stories where they visit Borneo for the first time and they're like "can't believe Sabah can be this rich" I'm like ??? Where do you think all your oil money comes from?? 🤔
Religious belief is so institutionalized that a simple declaration of faith is written down on a piece of paper and processed by a government bureaucracy so that it may better regulate every aspect of a person's behaviour according to the dictates of a state. https://t.co/0sOhPZJ7lS
This is a fairly common misconception amongst Malaysians. Time to debunk this myth with a Twitter thread. https://t.co/4bYVY6eZNk
Every year, I send an email of appreciation to the author of something I read that year that I felt was meaningful to me. For this year's pantheon, almost a dozen wrote back. https://t.co/sFbLkJ3nEh
The way Jocelyn Chia said "fuck you asshole" with such contempt at that random Malaysian she didnt know in the audience, using interpersonal metaphors like "breakup revenge" and "dumped" to describe IR between two nations, suggests she got rejected by a Malaysian at some point.
I've figured out how to do Malaysian accents. It's always baffled me how I can do my naturalized accents on the spot but struggle to do Malaysian accent when a non-Malaysian asks me to do it. And the reason is because the Malaysian accent is at least four different accents.
@ExcitedLeigh "It's not that you were forged in fire. Everyone else is just dead"
@abdulhadiawang never let them know your next move
@ElleWCarter And kindness without honesty is manipulation. Never forget that.
First my mother climbed. After her, my father climbed. And so then I climbed. https://t.co/ieLeGMjmkM
A reminder that Dr Rafidah Hanim Mokhtar is a medical doctor not a geneticist, sexologist, endocrinologist or a scientific researcher in any way, shape or form. She lacks understanding of standardized MeSH terminology and constantly conflates gender and sex to serve her ideology. https://t.co/qo4WPRxzot
"Bahasa Jiwa Bangsa" Which is why the Malaysian central government undertook great pains to suspend the publication of Kadazan newspapers in the 1970s, to curtail the radio broadcasts of the Bajau, to suppress the local tongues of the Sabahans.
@kuasasiswa Fahmi Reza has balls made of steel
Holy shit was I wrong on this one. https://t.co/RhcFzQ0rVX
I see posts questioning whether this counts as interreligious marriage in Sabah as a contrast to West Malaysia. To answer, technically Sabah marital laws between a Muslim individual and a non-Muslim individual are not legally recognized by the state. But— https://t.co/0BRPhyuVgF
This only works if interreligious marriages are permitted. Without legal recognition, this will disappear in a generation or two. https://t.co/RG72MLlYx6
The worst thing Malay historical revisionists have done is to erase the centuries long pre-colonial interchange the Malay realm had with Tamils. Constantly drumming "pendatang" at Indians when the presence of Tamils has been recorded since the early days of the Melaka sultanate. https://t.co/bordENUQdf
Sabah, Singapore, and Sarawak. All three were needed for the vision of a Malaysian Malaysia to work. Without Singapore, Malaysia would be dominated by Malays. And it has. Unfortunate state of affairs. https://t.co/rElxpvYQci
Malaysia is a pretty good example of where "sensitivities" are weaponized to safeguard the status quo. Curtailing free speech in the name of not causing offence. Who decides what is offensive? Claims to "emotional harm" are enough to deflect any critical examination of beliefs.
This is an attack on Veveonah. This is fitnah of Veveonah. An attack on a Sabahan is an attack on all Sabahans. @ZahidiZainuI seorang penipu. Federal government propaganda only works on an uninformed populace. Sabah will take no insult from the Ministry of Fake News. https://t.co/NYghujecmu
@nosilverv "Damn what the fuck, we really talk like that?" Moment of self-realization
@MakeedaRoberts @thering26 The entire show is so eminently quotable. Elektra would be the Jesus, tho.
@beanytuesday it's called the passion not the dispassion of christ
Malaysia was formed to weaken the left
A lot of Malaysians are saying that "fascism is back" - I disagree. According to Roger Griffin's pointedly concise definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism, I would say that fascism never left Malaysia. It was always latent. It was always part of the establishment.
@muazzer_ @TehlohSuwi @syimir_ezyan The point is, when fragile toxic masculinity is threatened, men resort to making jabs at physical features instead of addressing the valid contents of a woman's speech. Strong men don't do that.
People like my mother who pray several times a day do not get ADHD because prayer serves to reinforce intention. This is purely anecdotal evidence, of course, but something about repeatedly training attention to cultivate specific conative states is giving prayers an edge. https://t.co/7jOWx71txb
The notion that some people have no religious beliefs implies that the Bajau Laut have no cosmology, supernatural agent beliefs, beliefs about the afterlife, moral system, beliefs abt who counts as real persons, beliefs about assigning credit & blame, rituals etc. It's untenable. https://t.co/InTVCm1q6f
This is why we need historiography. The sudden shift in tone towards anti-communism in the second textbook was a result of political concerns of the elite during that era and does not reflect the past. The Malaysian education system is anti-socialist propaganda. https://t.co/F8Hnx4QMd6
@theonlyizzah @prishlings Academic excellence can be a result of privilege (socioeconomic, racial, gender etc.), but academic excellence in itself is not privilege. Academic excellence is earned.
Malays being proud of being included in Blumenbach's Race (pseudo)Science is the height of colonizer irony. Must be nice eating the scraps of your master when you feel like you're being given a place at their table. https://t.co/qHQC4BZPCf
Pendidikan Moral was nothing but a fake subject to counterbalance the real political ambitions of the nation's education policymakers - Pendidikan Islam. What better way to police the "deviant" interpretations of religion than by institutionalizing an officially taught doctrine? https://t.co/6Dy1uMcnXA
@w4lr6sAbdulRauf Skyscrapers are a nuisance. Nothing but a phallic dream of growing ever taller without concern for sustainable growth. Pencakar langit, more like penzakar langit.
@Halalcoholism how do you even find these people
@faristheahmad TLDR: Karen is a punching-up pejorative because it targets privilege Meleis is a punching-down pejorative because its target is associated with socioeconomic disadvantage
In Sabah, the Chinese can and do acquire Bumiputera status and are treated as natives legally. Often known as Sino-natives, there are many cases of Chinese intermarrying with natives and passing down their names, languages, cuisine, schooling, values, & wealth to their children.
Popular misconception: Testosterone is the male sex hormone. That is scientifically inaccurate. Testosterone is one of the many human steroid hormones and plays a vital role in female physiology. https://t.co/OtGejgt8qO
@misterscottfree gay rights or a booming economy? https://t.co/nJKCgOeQ6z
They can't lock us all up babes https://t.co/IYHbDQGkzU
There are certain features of Malay grammar that bleed its way into the English of Malaylanguage-speakers. Some features worth pointing out: 1. questions in Malay can be lexically expressed using the interrogative particle "kah" whereas English achieves this by tonal inflection. https://t.co/xPnMLQBCBW
Before the 1970s, Sabah and Sarawak had the Borneo Literature Bureau. During the time of the British, the Borneo Literature Bureau functioned to promote the literary works of the indigenous languages of Borneo. Everything changed when Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka took over in 1977.
Bumiputra is not an ethnicity.
Borneo Literature Bureau books written in Bornean languages were buried and then burnt in Kuching (Postill, 2006). This strong opposition was part of an agenda of assimilation of the indigenous peoples of Borneo that became established in the 1970s.
#NewProfilePic My internal view of myself has finally caught up to how I look like. So here's an end to a decade of ugly @SurenVynn profile pic https://t.co/FvPsPmOles
In Buddhism, homosexuality is neither evil nor virtuous. The issue of one's sexuality is simply irrelevant to Buddhism. Ananda — Buddha's cousin and disciple — was said to be a paṇḍaka (homosexual) in one of his many lives. https://t.co/bCIpTCCi2f
Sabahans don't really realise how privileged we are, having grown up in a racist-free environment. This seems like such a fiction to me. Unbelievable. https://t.co/vXpwmrvG89
i wonder how much of our psychology is shaped by our early gaming habits. like, how many of us who played the sims as kids now have a god complex https://t.co/53q5kATDua
One of the weirdest things I have seen Kadazan elders take offence to is the insinuation from West Malaysians that it is a liquor drinking festival. I'm referring to Datuk IR John Anthony nya 2017 article. A big part of Kaamatan is in fact the moginakan ritual. https://t.co/EwnBlLVxJU
experimenting with hot girl energy https://t.co/VjdkOffkKJ
Beow Tan going full on racist mode possessed so completely by the spirit of Hwa Chong she starts speaking in tongues https://t.co/GVVixIfmBr
Still thinking about that tweet from a Malaysian student returning from their studies in the States and referred to the "PoC of Malaysia". Gurl... aren't. all. of. us. POC??? An American education rots the brain, I swear.
@climateaidil This isn't surprising at all. Her beliefs about "indigeneity" rest on different presuppositions from the one that's taken for granted on the pro-Palestine side.
sons hold power against their fathers by withholding forgiveness
So, next time you come across a tweet that says all religions condemn LGBTQ identities, show them this thread.
Still catches me off guard to know that Indonesians can just deconvert out of Islam without going through the rigmarole Malaysians do. https://t.co/bjUPa4cQxQ
Chinese identity is seamlessly wedded to native identity in Sabah. The sharp faultlines that typify Sino-Malay relations in West Malaysia are so blurred in Sabah that the racial fear mongering which has long been the mainstay of Peninsular politics
It's 11:11 11/11 Make a wish for gayer times ahead https://t.co/RWikf8AJCZ
i am cringe but i am free https://t.co/eVBVYkZjRy
This is, I believe, when Malay is at its most powerful. When it borrows from English but disambiguates the words better than English. Example: agent is disambiguated in Malay into agen & ejen; Charge into caj & cas; rational into rasional & nisbah. https://t.co/6UWhK0dcWF
Beaufort. Dead giveaway. https://t.co/D9saT68Bj6
Can't believe I have to say this, but Sarawak & North Borneo would have attained independence from the British with or without Malaya. Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore were married off into a federation as a convenient way to quell leftist insurgency.
This is one of the most fascinating things about America. I used to think these were staged because no one actually does this in real life, right? Wrong! When I was there people walked up to me out of nowhere & lavished me with compliments like these. Style is so openly praised. https://t.co/WNds9tNJ7H
In a 1994 interview, the Dalai Lama stated: "If someone comes to me and asks whether homosexuality is okay or not, I will ask 'What is your companion's opinion?' https://t.co/LrWd8uCp3E
@RnaudBertrand Not to be that guy, but this is Sabah, which, together with the other Bornean state, Sarawak, has historically been a separate culture from West Malaysia. Malaysia, insofar as it is a product of Malay nationalism, is highly intolerant of anything that challenges Islamic identity.
@tomhyde_ @prishlings Don't forget my favourite contranym: sanction https://t.co/Oj3onHN7ne
Sabah is not a monarchy. Never has been. It was forged by capitalists without war, without kings, without armies. Its unillustrious past means that Sabahans know their best days are ahead. We do not long for a golden age. We do not hold on to the past. We learn from it.
Jong Jong Inai is one of those songs I can still sing the lyrics to without understanding what the words mean because I memorized it very early in life, like a prayer learnt in early childhood. https://t.co/tTgQRx5Yac
"What are you doing in the UK?" I live here. I have leave to remain status. "No you don't." Yes. I do. It's digital. Check your system. "It says you're not on the system" Well, I am. "I'm going to have to detain you" *scribbles a note and makes me wait in 'The Pen'*
For my birthday wish, I want the oil money generated from Sabahan oil rigs to directly benefit the education and living conditions of the people within its immediate vicinity.
When Mahathir dies, I hope we respect him the same way Margaret Thatcher was shown respect
Every slave-owning society, be it the Arabs, the Brits or the Malays, makes this same goddamn argument. "BuT oUR SLaVeRy wAS hUMaNE". How bout nah https://t.co/rhWXOj19LJ
psychological trauma ❌️ • intrinsically victimizing • defeatist worldview • promotes defectiveness soul tattoo ✅️ • pain can be beautiful • an act of self-creation • kintsugi your suffering
Hindu mythic stories have portrayed homosexual experience as natural and joyful, and there are several Hindu temples which have carvings that depict both men and women engaging in homosexual acts. https://t.co/R7Xx1FJctC
Getting my hair cut today so I'm posting this for posterity's sake https://t.co/Jv4IXC8CTw
@Halalcoholism "Dog look at my socialists we never having a revolution" is evergreen right up there with "ugh you people can't do anything"
White and Black https://t.co/7Fod9Wja77
Do you all know that I live on an island paradise? https://t.co/K5seaHvDi9
If you both agree, then I think I would say 'if two males or two females voluntarily agree to have mutual satisfaction without further implication of harming others, then it is okay'."
living with family after having done psychological purification is like being in a room where everyone is wadded in trauma and no one can hear you, just the muffled babbles that make it through their sensory filter. the sheer weight of the accreted trauma renders them insensate
Ayat paling sialan: "Be grateful" Borneans are getting fed up with this tiered citizenship bullshit This kind of disrespect deserves to catch these hands https://t.co/T3aK79IRzx
Happy one year anniversary to me deciding to cease being ugly. This year, I stop being stupid. Next year, I stop being poor. It is known it is known. https://t.co/7hJdh1KeZZ
There would be no Malaysia https://t.co/xhVPuDs0Ff
You don't have access to the basic assumptions of your culture unless you get exposed to an epistemic reset. That's why this is so rare an ability.
If you can hear the echo of past humiliation as they speak, never shine too direct, too harsh a light upon it
The year is now 2024 and I have fully 360'd the doctrine of no-self. The self is now real. In fact, I want self to be real. Without a self, there are no duties to self, no notions of self-worth, no possibility of self-love or self-hate, no responsibility, standards, resolutions.
@meakoopa Be the unrecognisable monster you were always meant to be. Unleash the inner fire.
So, here's a little something I did over the weekend that I want to share with you folks. So while I was in Worcester College on Sunday, admiring the neoclassical architecture of the east range of the quadrangle, I noticed a familiar name on one of the signs - Sultan Nazrin Shah. https://t.co/JROzM9wT7k
Has to be the most galaxy brain take I've ever seen. I won't even edit out their twitter handles. The public needs to see the worms-for-brains organization who are supposedly responsible for women's care. https://t.co/OPdZlZGbun
Homosexual orientation is not considered sinful according to the Cathecism of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church recognizes that homosexuality is an innate condition, not a choice, and therefore cannot be considered a sin. Sexual activity is condemned, not the orientation. https://t.co/9z0Y99xwx3
Bobohizans are commonly known as shamans, seers, mediums, diviners, poets, healers, or spiritualists in Borneo. In my district, the role of bobohizan is restricted to women only, so when the late Amit binti Guntawoi passed away, with no female that she could pass her mantle to, https://t.co/jUtVz0f26O
my style maturing through the years https://t.co/EqK2j9hZTs
this is a pretty standard look for me tbh https://t.co/ERFfcSssoi https://t.co/wNPqJ9jhNA
hello humans 👋 https://t.co/EVWC20X9RU
In 2009, the Hindu Council of the United Kingdom issued a statement that "Hinduism does not condemn homosexuality," subsequent to the decision of the Delhi High Court to legalise homosexuality in India. https://t.co/680K6w4oHo