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Dien1 Hui6 Geung2 (張慧瑾)

@pliqueajour.bsky.social

She/They🩷💛🩵| Thai-Teochew&Hakka🇹🇭🇨🇳 Plique à jour🌞 - Letting in daylight. May the sun shines through me, reaching those who are cold and in need.

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Dr. Todd Arrington@btarrington.bsky.social · 4d ago

Caroline Still Anderson was born into a prominent Black family in Philadelphia on this day 178 years ago: Nov. 1, 1848. She attended Oberlin College and, after graduating from Howard University College of Medicine, became one of the nation’s first Black female physicians. Image: Public domain.

This black and white photo shows a Black woman, Caroline Still Anderson, standing and wearing a dark-colored skirt and coat. She also wears a hat with flowers on her head.
Adrianna Tan@skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 4d ago

There is a popup in #Singapore featuring the food of the Indigenous orang laut (seafaring people) community now through Dec 26 Gonna try to go https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/dining/orang-laut-food-terumbu-chef-x-clarke-quay-590571 #Food #Singapore

Orang Laut SG opens its first pop-up cafe at Clarke Quay serving Southern Islander dishes

Terumbu will be at Chef X in Clarke Quay Central from Oct 23 to Dec 26, serving traditional dishes like bubur lambuk tenggiri and showcasing the community's culinary heritage.

cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com

Titania@titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 5d ago

Halloween has its roots in Samhain, one of the four ancient Celtic fire festivals. According to folklore, the veil that separates this world and the Otherworld draws thin at this liminal time of the year, and it was believed that supernatural creatures would cross over 🎨 Elin Manon

Artwork depicting people in costumes dancing around a bonfire in the autumn woods.
XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore@xingwu.bsky.social · 6d ago

others suffered in cauldrons of boiling oil. Some traditions claimed each successive hell brought twenty times the suffering. Under the judgment of the Ten Kings of Hell, including Yanluo Wang (阎罗王), earthly deeds became evidence, and punishment followed a 2/3

XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore@xingwu.bsky.social · 6d ago

What if the afterlife operated like an imperial court, where every sin had its sentence? In Chinese #mythology, the Eighteen Levels of Hell (十八层地狱) imagined a terrifying system of cosmic justice. Liars faced tongue-pulling, the wicked climbed mountains of knives, and 1/3

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Dien1 Hui6 Geung2 (張慧瑾)@pliqueajour.bsky.social · last wk.

鲛人(jiāo rén) otherkin | Don’t repost without permission A coining for people bodily of Chinese descent who relate or feel like the Chinese creature 鲛人 in an alterhuman or otherkin way. This term is exclusive to bodily Chinese people and inclusive of different genders and sexes.

[Image ID: a white silhouette of Jiao Ren is infront of a flag with circles of color, on the outermost layer is dark blue, then pale blue, then golden yellow, then bright red, then purple, then forest green and the inner most ring is pale white. On the border of the flags are waves with colors in order, from lighter above to darker below. /.End ID]
News to Remember@moments2remember.link · 2w ago

We are seeing RECORD Black turnout across the south. The racist republicans in congress and our courts have made a terrible mistake, and Black voters will lead the charge to vote them out and hold them accountable!