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skinnylatte

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

Queer Southeast Asian in California working on #civictech. I lead the product team at San Francisco Digital Services.

I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, photography and other analog hobbies.

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skinnylatte, to random
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I was yelling about the NAR Christians for the last decade in Singapore, where local acolytes also have implemented versions of this theology (there’s a cinema with evangelical Christian certified content for example)

You can’t divorce that movement from the parent theology, which is this stuff. Except in Asia it becomes 80% about prosperity, 5% about God, 15% about MLM

https://www.texasobserver.org/new-apostolic-reformation-texas-leaders/

skinnylatte,
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It goes back a long way. In the 70s, American Pentecostal ‘prophets’ (Billy Graham etc) were disgusted by the roaring 60s / free love / anti-war movements and they took to Asia to find the next billion believers. There were large cult-like ‘revivals’ all over. There were already mainline traditional Christians, but these events created a different breed of believers. From there, 2 generations of mega churches. Add to that the Australian Christian incursion from Hillsong

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My family was caught up in this (my parents converted in the 70s). I grew up completely divorced from my culture’s traditional beliefs. The faith and its practices were central. We could not, for example, give offerings to our dead relatives (even as a sign of respect. Because all pre-Christian beliefs are ‘devil worship’). Later as an increasingly political person I saw the links between conservatism, warmongering, bigotry and the church movement I know well

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The reason why many people in this cult will not see the damage their movement is causing is, this heretic version* of the religion also functionally acts as self-help / therapy for the people who need it the most. If the music feels good, and everyone is happy, can it really be as harmful as people think?

Most can’t connect the dots.

  • Many ways to debunk their beliefs in mainline Christian theology; many core tenets are also considered heretical
skinnylatte, (edited )
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I don’t think the average person who likes going to this form of church is actively plotting to bring about bigotry and harm to the world.

But in failing to see how their church leaders and related movements cause harm and oppression, runs counter to all religious exhortations to ‘bring light into the world’. And actively declining to investigate how their beliefs and practices may cause harm, is complicity.

skinnylatte, to animals
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A few days ago I told someone ‘I used to be deathly afraid of cats’

They asked how I fixed that

I said, ‘I became a lesbian’

skinnylatte,
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(Exposure helped. Mila is my first cat, though a decade before I lived with a few cats who were Cookie’s friends as well. Then when we got Mila she pretty much gave me no choice… cuddle times all the time)

skinnylatte, to animals
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Holding paws and watching TV

skinnylatte, to random
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I’ve been invited to a pride party whose tagline is, drink chai be gay, be a chai slut

skinnylatte,
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On a side note I’m also starting to see more alcohol-free spaces in the queer community (at least with the queer women). Among the younger people it is definitely acceptable to be no alcohol at all. As someone who went sober myself that’s very nice to see

skinnylatte,
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This feels like a big cultural shift. I think elderly queer millennials like me were the last group to see alcohol as ‘even slightly cool’. Our younger friends all have totally different relationships with booze now. I think that’s true in and out of the queer community

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Lesbian speed dating night sponsored by U-Haul

skinnylatte,
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@rooster next to U-haul

skinnylatte,
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@rooster maybe that’s why they like going to zeitgeist here in sf. There’s a u-haul just across!

skinnylatte,
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@castironflower @rooster I once threw a coming out party and everyone who came thought I was going to tell them I’m actually hetero because they all thought I was queer

skinnylatte, to random
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I ran, swam and biked today. You can’t tell me to tri harder

skinnylatte,
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A study came out recently that said 20 years of same sex marriage hasn’t negatively impacted anything. I beg to differ. Same sex marriage has turned me into a dad joke appreciator and maker

skinnylatte, to random
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People get RSI from work, I think I got mine from carrying my dog

engagedpractx, to random
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My lovely sib has a husband who sees himself in the stereotypical role of the breadwinner and leaves her to deal with all the housekeeping, child-rearing, domestic and administrative labour. Completely unfair situation.

Friends, especially people who partner and live with men, what is the BARE MINIMUM? The basic package, if you like, of men's contribution to domestic life?

I will compile suggestions here into a Google Doc and circulate that for the menfolk.

skinnylatte,
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@engagedpractx oldie but goodie

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/she-divorced-me-i-left-dishes-by-the-sink_b_9055288

skinnylatte, to magASEAN
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I want to make a vegan kaya and call it ‘kayak kaya’ (like kaya)

My multilingual food puns have to go somewhere so hello #tootsea

skinnylatte, to animals
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Cookie’s face when I’m eating tacos

#DogsOfMastodon #Dogs

skinnylatte, to random
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Ahahaha this South Park song ‘navigating the American healthcare system’ is going to be playing in my head every time I interface with healthcare here

https://youtu.be/VAfy26xs6e0

skinnylatte, to california
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Fun game to name every county in CA

https://mattmangels.com/code/california_counties/

Also check out this game to name every street in SF

https://carvin.github.io/sf-street-names/

#California #SanFrancisco #GIS #Maps #Games

skinnylatte, to random
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Every Chinese American young person has a dog named Matcha

#AAPI

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To a significant degree, San Francisco seems to be staking its economic future on "AI" companies. It feels like our city is making a deal with the devil because these companies are, 1, overhyped and many of them will likely collapse, and 2, clearly bad for the world: plagiarizing, resource-hungry bullshit generators.

skinnylatte,
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@scott but cerebral valley

skinnylatte, to singapore
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An excellent essay about the challenges navigating Singapore’s political / socio boundaries as an academic

https://knowledgepraxis.academia.sg/blog/2024/06/01/mark-baildon/

#Singapore #TootSea

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