As well as my dislike of needles, /this/ is why I never get #tattoos - "cultural awareness" training given to old bill (from late 90s and put together by the Church of England who wanted to keep relevance and clout in increasingly secular "Cool Britannia" era) stereotypes men of #ESEA ancestry with tattoos as #Triad / gang member (I also fit some of the other stereotypes such as having a clean car with a personalised registration mark and driving around late at night)
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New #words enter #English from #ESEA countries ( predictably many of them are about #food 
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BBC NewsGigil, alamak among new words in Oxford English DictionaryThe Oxford English Dictionary has added new untranslatable words from South East Asia.
Some gammon is claiming logistics/warehouse businesses in *Mid #Suffolk * (a good 15-20km from #Ipswich) are not employing locals but staffed by "hordes of #Chinese citizens from the mainland".
If any of that were in the slightest true, I would have noticed this - I'm always driving around the area and I'm near enough only #ESEA person there other than my own relatives and a few local healthcare workers, (many of whom work at same place as me!)
ESEA's Battle Against Hardware-Based Cheating: A Deep Dive into Anti-Cheat Technology
As the competitive gaming landscape evolves, so do the methods employed by cheaters. ESEA's Anti-Cheat team reveals their ongoing struggle against sophisticated hardware-based cheats, offering insight...
@ben my full name is widely duplicated in SE Asia (due to my fathers side of the family being Malaysian Chinese and me having a single Western given name without any Chinese characters) - companies based in #ESEA countries routinely gave me the title of "Mr Great Britain" or "Mr Reading / Lower Earley" (a suburb of Wokingham near Reading where I once worked), presumably to avoid confusion with similarly named staff at their companies
The saddest thing about Nadiya's experiences is she is a good few years younger than myself, yet nothing really improved in all that time.. I can definitely relate to the pressures to be both #British and #Asian at the same time, in varying different proportions depending on who you happen to be around at the time #BritishAsian #UK #ESEA #Desi
BBCNadiya Hussain: ‘Constant pressure to prove how British I was’Cook Once, Eat Twice host Nadiya Hussain talks Bake Off, anxiety and the joys of eating banana peel.
Just had a sponsored post for an #ANPR #surveillance camera scheme appear in my #Meta feed, from a company that sells "normal " #CCTV equipment. and burglar alarms. The kit seems as capable as that used by the public services, yet is clearly intended for small private users (such as guarding a yard/car park). Such schemes are widespread in #ESEA countries, but its the first time I've seen one advertised to the #UK market..
An #oil tanker has capsized and sunk off the coast of the #Phillipines in rough weather - 1,5 million litres of oil is at risk of polluting the #marine #environment
BBC NewsPhilippines: Industrial fuel tanker capsizes, causing oil spillThe oil tanker is one of two vessels to sink in the wider region as Typhoon Gaemi passes through.
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@gerrymcgovern its worrying too as Malaysia is one of the richer and more advanced #ESEA countries these days. Also the elcos (electrolytic capacitors) appear to have been quite carefully picked off and sorted separately - I hope those aren't being resold and finding their way into "new" equipment! (it is the early failure of these low cost but important components which creates a lot of e-waste in the first place)
as an aside, my late father was once a reporter for NST..
LB: wasn't expecting Petronas and so many others from #ESEA countries to turn up at the top, and there aren't even that much reserves compared to the UK! I hope it doesn't result in the environment being completely destroyed for relatively short term gains (one source claims reserves in #Malaysia would only last 14 years at current consumption rates)
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Haiyaa : A British #Singapore #Chinese businessman was kidnapped from the #golf course and worked over in #Hertfordshire and threatened in an attempt to get a ransom in #cryptocurrency , amid scenes that wouldn't have been out of place in a Hong Kong action movie (this level of #crime is rare amongst the #ESEA community nowadays, although it did occasionally happen in 1970s to 1990s)
BBC NewsGolfer kidnapped in Hertfordshire told he'd be 'killed', jury hears A jury hears how a wealthy businessman was snatched from the golf course and then held to ransom for $15m.
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@purplepadma @TCMuffin in the countries where this has been tried - mostly in #ESEA (East and SE Asia, particularly #japan it is only because of depopulation and ageing (there aren't enough young people around in some regions to work as carers); and the projects haven't been that successful..
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1065135/japan-automating-eldercare-robots/
MIT Technology Review · Inside Japan’s long experiment in automating elder care
9 #East and #SouthEast #Asian #musicians worth #checkingout now.
As hand-selected by the #cofounder of the #UK’s #ESEA #Music #community.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Asia #EastAsia #SoutheastAsia #Entertainment #Music #Representation #Culture
https://theface.com/music/east-south-east-asian-musicians-uk
The Face9 East and South East Asian musicians worth checking out nowAs hand-selected by the co-founder of the UK’s ESEA Music community.
Other retailers are available but Angela Hui's thoroughly good & powerful read Takeaway - her memoir of growing up in Beddau, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf to the north west of Cardiff, is 99p currently at that Big River's UK eBook store.
It shines light on life in the takeaway, blending Chinese & Welsh heritage & gives voice to the experience of immigrant parents & the meaning of ESEA identity.
#book #reading #wales #cymru #food #esea
In 2011, broadcast engineers in #Singapore were transmitting footage the Formula 1 Grand Prix via Singapore Telecom, and sent "bars on red" as a test pattern in the PAL video feed to the #EBU (the large red field shows up distortion in the PAL analogue video).
The specifications don't define which order the bars and red field appear (normally they are at the bottom), so they took this opportunity to be patriotic at the same time #ESEA #TootSEA
Mit dem Klassenerhalt gesichert, sind wir gespannt, was unser #CSGO Main-Team nun in der #ESEA Main noch erreichen kann. 
heute, 21 Uhr
Munich eSports vs. Mix Machine
http://twitch.tv/munich_esports
“It's important for me to transition not only for myself and my own self identity but it's important that I become a role model for other Malaysians and Indians that we can live authentically and we must unite to fight for our rights.” Valiant
Alt text: Picture of Valiant wearing glasses and jacket, smiling and hold a sign that reads 'You Matter'.
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I've been watching various videos of industrial processes in #ESEA (East and SE Asian) countries. Most of the videos are recent (well after 2020) but *everyone* is wearing masks in the factories - in some cases its protection against chemicals/particulates but I'm also seeing the same in CAD and admin office areas. This is across multiple different countries too, KR, SG, JP, CN - everyone is now masked at work...