🌳astrid

coffee addict.

[🌳astrid @astrd898]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[🌳astrid @astrd898]

Kalau masuk sini, kelihatan banget ini bikinan orde baru banget, karena penjelasan diorama dalam bahasa Indonesia isinya BERBEDA dengan deskripsi dalam bahasa Inggris. Mana kadang bedanya jauh dan krusial wkwkwk banyak yang ditutup-tutupin hahaha

[Adriansyah Yasin Sulaeman @adriansyahyasin]

Mungkin relate, tapi entah kenapa banyak sekali Museum yang menyajikan sejarah masa pasca Kemerdekaan Indonesia rata-rata hanya menerangkan sejarah mentok sampai Orde Baru

Baru minggu lalu ke Monas, melihat museum di bawahnya like bjir sangat mengagungkan Orde Baru sekali dengan "integrasi" Timor Lestenya.

Diorama mentok sampai 1995 saja dengan "Kemajuan Teknologi N250", sudah hampir lebih lama waktu berlalu dari 1995 ke 2026 dari masa Orde Baru. Apakah gak ada niat untuk nambahin peristiwa sejarah yang lain kayak Reformasi?

[🌳astrid @astrd898]

i really cant take this wikihow point seriously

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

yes, asian and african rivers produce 95% of ocean plastic but nobody asks where the plastic comes from.

plastic recycling is a scam. always has been.
the industry knew since 1974 it “cant be justified economically”

they funded the recycling campaigns anyway because the alternative was banning plastic.

only 5-6% of US plastic actually gets recycled and europe isnt better.
the EU exports 1.1 million tonnes of plastic waste per year, 3 million kg leaving every single day.
31% goes to turkey, 16% to malaysia, 13% to indonesia, all labeled “recyclable”

most plastics cant even be recycled to begin with (thousands of types, different chemical properties). and for the few that can, the output is lower quality and more toxic than virgin plastic.
you literally degrade the material each cycle until its worthless.

so what happens to the other 95%?
western countries ship it to southeast asia and africa under the label “recycling exports” with the receiving countries promising to recycle it in their stead for a price, but those countries dont have facilities either. so they burn it or dump it in rivers.

every 20 minutes, a 10-tonne truckload of plastic enters the ocean in indonesia alone.
it may look like indonesians pollute more but that’s because we ship them our garbage and they have no infrastructure to handle it.

china used to absorb it all. when they banned imports in 2018, the west just redirected to countries with weaker regulations. malaysia, vietnam, philippines. the map below shows the result.

you sort your trash so you feel like youre helping, the plastic goes on a boat, gets burned in a village without emissions controls, poisons their air and water, flows into their rivers, enters the ocean, and in your food and water.
you feel good about the plastic you recycled and never think about it again but you end up eating it anyway.

then we ban straws and plastic bags and call it environmentalism

[🌳astrid @astrd898]

@jayforeman @markcooperjones I’m wondering if there’s any chance we’ll be able to watch the talk show (or book-signing?) event on youtube at some point. I’ve already bought the book, but since I live thousands of miles away, I’m just genuinely curious!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Everyone’s missing the real story here.

The bridge didn’t fail, the monitoring systems actually worked perfectly, and that’s what makes this terrifying.

Police closed Hongqi Bridge on Monday after detecting slope deformation and cracks, then the mountainside collapsed Tuesday exactly as predicted, which means Chinese infrastructure monitoring caught a catastrophic failure 24 hours before it happened.

Zero casualties because the sensors and visual inspections flagged the warning signs early enough to evacuate, so this isn’t a story about shoddy construction, it’s about approving projects on geological timebombs and hoping the monitoring catches it before people die.

The 758-meter bridge structure itself held fine when the approach span disappeared into the river, which tells you the engineering was competent and the site selection was insane.

Sichuan Road & Bridge Group celebrated this project as a milestone connecting China to Tibet, but the same contractor falsified death counts after a flood killed their workers in 2023, which reveals the institutional incentive structure: deliver the project on schedule, monitor it obsessively after opening, and pray the mountain holds.

This is Chinese infrastructure strategy in one collapse: world-class engineering and monitoring systems deployed on geologically unstable sites because the political directive to connect western provinces overrides the geological assessment that says “don’t build here.”

The second you start designing around real-time landslide monitoring instead of selecting stable sites, you’ve admitted that project timelines matter more than physics, and eventually physics wins anyway.

[Taufik Basari @taufikbasari]

Beberapa hari lalu saya melihat postingan IG @studisejarah ada foto Bung Karno sedang menari dengan seorang perempuan di Istana Cipanas tahun 1963 Saya perhatikan fotonya baik-baik, ada wajah yang raut mukanya saya kenal. Siapakah penari itu?

[Dondi (🏀,⚽️) X (🍔,🍜) @dondihananto]

Meluruskan aja:

Revolusionernya QRIS bukan sistem pembayaran pakai scan QR. Kl itu jauh duluan Alipay & Wechatpay di 🇨🇳

Kerennya QRIS itu interoperability, 1 sistem bisa terima dari bank/wallet manapun. Kl kalian inget sblm QRIS, di toko ada bbrp QR code krn semua sendiri2

[🌳astrid @astrd898]

@TRANS7 Bad move! None of the C levels seems to understand what crisis management is. This was a good opportunity to bring awareness and build wider audience, but …… yeah, what do you expect from CT

[🌳astrid @astrd898]

@jayforeman Grimsby

[🌳astrid @astrd898]

kapan ya warga bogor bisa rame ke sempur tapi udah ga perlu bawa kendaraan pribadi karena angkutan umumnya bisa diandalkan, cepat, murah dan menjangkau seluruh sudut kota

[txtdaribogor @txtdaribogor]

update situesyeen sempur malam ini, rame bener sampe susah nyari tempat parkir

[Mickamious @MickamiousG]

This is Charlie Gee

One of the world’s most respected and renowned stonemason

His work in performing restoration works on Cathedrals throughout Europe is some of the best

A skill set that is becoming rarer to find and master in a more modern world

He’s only 23 years old

[🌳astrid @astrd898]

@AditMKM wkwkwk street feeding jadi bansos, gitu? 🥹

[Nuice Media @nuicemedia]

US: We found radioactive shrimp from Indonesia
ID: But we don’t have nuclear reactors
US: Doesn’t matter, your shrimp’s radioactive.
ID: Oh, we found a contaminated area, Cikande, Banten. It’s the only one, we swear, no other place.
US: Your cloves are also radioactive
ID: 🫠

[Georitmus 🇮🇩 @zakiberkata]

https://t.co/GfcVqUxY3C

[🌳astrid @astrd898]

Gerbang kutek bersalju tuh motor bakal jadi biji karambol semua, meluncur tak terarah ke semua penjuru

[BEM UI @bemuiofficial]

UI winter season 🥶

Cr: Tiktok/raddsky

[🌳astrid @astrd898]

Too bad i've just seen this one now... but lets see

[Jay Foreman @jayforeman]

MAP CHALLENGE!! 🗺️

Make this map fairer. Redraw the boundaries so each book signing serves roughly the same sized population.

[🌳astrid @astrd898]

@tanehongo Aaaa intan senseiii ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[🌳astrid @astrd898]

Ini tuh kita sebagai warga bisa ga sih nuntut pidana utk kelalaian program keracunan massal kek gini??

Ini sih bikin anak orang keracunan secara sistematis, terstruktur dan masif

[cassie @SLYTHERlNSS]

I know it's them