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[Derek Devicemanager @IT_unhinged]

Closing a ticket is always faster than actually doing the work.

A junior developer opened an urgent request saying an internal wiki was completely down.

I checked the server and realized I'd accidentally deleted the routing tables during a routine purge.

Restoring the backups would take at least 3 hours.

My SLA limit for internal tools is 45 minutes.

I updated the company status page to announce a surprise 'Digital Wellness Day'.

I sent a mass email explaining that the wiki was intentionally disabled to encourage organic cross-departmental conversations.

I changed the ticket category from an outage to a feature request and marked it resolved.

Total SLA impact was 6 minutes.

The HR director replied thanking me for prioritizing employee mental health over screen time.

I spent the next 3 hours quietly rebuilding the routing tables in absolute secrecy.

Nobody questioned it when the wiki magically came back online after lunch.

Sometimes the best technical solution is aggressive social engineering.

[mryap @mryap]

@ofmeowandbake I have the same plan too. As in not to climb the career ladder but earn enough to fund my photography trip

[mryap @mryap]

@hwsoh this type CBK already one kind.

[mryap @mryap]

Also the audacity of the agency representative who threatened the magistrate!

https://t.co/M4kltURRNC

[mryap @mryap]

https://t.co/4ZE74S1rf1

[The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动 @TGTM_Official]

Filipinos dying under rubble from 7.8 quake… Chinese netizens cheer ‘KARMA’ & call them MONKEYS

Right after PH Defense Chief slammed China over South China Sea, disaster strikes Mindanao.

Weibo reactions? Pure cold-blooded racism.

No sympathy — just celebration. What does this say about them?

[mryap @mryap]

Shot down by a drone, rescued by a drone.

[mryap @mryap]

@hwsoh nope. keep your hard earn cash.

[𝑷𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌 @LKpaddy]

Garage Italia, Milano, 2017 •
Tom Vack •

[mryap @mryap]

Life is good so far. Can't complian.
Better yet if can hop on the next flight to a destination outside SE Asia wil be great....

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

Decisive moment in Beijing, China, by Chris Yan

[mryap @mryap]

After doing Number 1 in the bathroom, I at times feel sorry people who is coming in right after that.
Yes I did a full flush but even before the next water level is being fill up...

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

The Singapore government is trying to block access to social media posts (some featuring videos, many in Chinese) warning citizens that their nation is being overrun by ethnic Indians.

The content originated on China-based platforms such as Douyin, Rednote and TikTok.

Singapore handles foreign information operations with unusual clarity and decisiveness. It identifies them early, then compels platforms to block the content so it never reaches Singaporean eyes.

I remain skeptical that this game of censorship whack-a-mole can ever be fully won, but there is real value in ministers publicly naming the source and explaining exactly why these narratives are subversive.

The narratives being peddled claim that Singapore’s multiracial model is just a “facade” to placate Western sensibilities, and that the country has really always been anchored by its Chinese-majority demographics.

They assert that “Singapore’s culture is fundamentally Chinese,” and that the government’s decision to distance itself from Beijing while ignoring the “threat” of a growing Indian community will end in disaster.

The videos portray the Chinese majority as under siege by an increasingly powerful Indian minority, including politicians. They single out President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, of Indian heritage, and warn that “curry concentration” (yes, really) is eroding Chinese cultural dominance.

This coordinated push arrived immediately after Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s recent viral remarks in China where he reminded Beijing that Singapore-China ties are based on “mutual benefit and shared interests, not ethnicity.”

He drew a clear red line saying that Singapore is sovereign and not an overseas extension of the PRC. Chinese netizens and state-aligned voices reacted with indignation, framing it as ingratitude from “ethnic kin” who should show deference to the motherland. The subtext was clear: how dare Singapore prioritize its Indian, Malay, and other communities over blood-and-soil solidarity with the CCP?

Connect the dots to Beijing’s broader information warfare against Israel, the United States, and others, and the pattern becomes clearer. Especially since Oct 7th, Beijing has weaponized antisemitism as a wedge issue.

On its tightly censored platforms, state media and influencers have let Hitler memes, "Jews control America" conspiracies, and Nazi comparisons proliferate unchecked. This all has spilled out into global social media.

What is the goal? Fracture the West, erode US-Israel ties, poison diaspora debates, sow domestic discord, and paint America's alliances as puppets of a shadowy cabal. It's created and amplified because it distracts, divides, and weakens the very coalition (MAGA) containing Chinese expansion.

Now, apply this same lens to the sudden surge of anti-Indian content in Singapore and even in the US, particularly targeting tech circles. While organic frustrations (H-1B abuse, cultural friction) exist, the volume, timing, and precision point to deliberate seeding.

Amplify resentment against Indian professionals and you damage the American-India tech alliance, the most credible long-term hedge against China dependence. It disrupts supply-chain diversification and poison talent pipelines in Silicon Valley.

In Singapore, the same operation pits the Chinese majority against the Indian community, weakening society from within. This should be recognized for what it is: classic United Front work in the digital world. It's low-cost, high-impact subversion with plausible deniability.

China doesn’t need naval fleets in the Strait of Malacca when it can export ethnic poison to fracture societies from within. A divided Singapore becomes a less reliable financial and technological anchor for US interests in Southeast Asia. A majority-Chinese Singapore riled up by Indian invasion narratives becomes more inclined to embrace the ethnic ties to the motherland and advocate for deepening Singapore's ties to the CCP.

Likewise, a fractured US-India partnership keeps supply chains tethered to the PRC. Stoked antisemitism keeps the West chasing ghosts instead of confronting the primary challenge of our era.

Western democracies cannot and should not copy Singapore’s blunt censorship model. But we must learn from its vigilance.

We are all being targeted by sophisticated, state-driven influence campaigns designed to exploit our existing fault lines.

Recognizing the playbook is the first step toward resisting it. The price of complacency is a more divided, weaker, and more easily manipulated world.

[mryap @mryap]

Only in Singapore member of a public complain and report to police cos an artist express himself in a public place. In other country like Ireland, it a common occurrence and society there does not collapse.
https://t.co/tI0uanw15A

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Whoever said ‘out of sight, out of mind’ never had a spider disappear inside their tent.

[mryap @mryap]

https://t.co/w2FSkhQgNT
?!?!?

[mryap @mryap]

Public facing gallaries are devoid of photo caption that already being captured after yopu upload!
Here the @PixiesetApp Photo Library
https://t.co/W20JRgEZqF

[mryap @mryap]

Pixieset's Photo Library feature is brilliant. It pulls embedding IPTC/EXIF metadata from photos upload and you can search by camera settings, metadata, caption via a Search field. This only works in the admin area.

[Tomris Laffly @TomiLaffly]

Nice touch here, whoever did this.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Aurora exploding over Black Church, Iceland

[📸 Navaneeth Unnikrishnan]