Mae 美妍
@atfruitbat.myatproto.social
She/her. Chinese Singaporean immigrant in the UK. Writer. Shortlisted for the Hachette Children’s Novel Awards 2025.
Here's where I write about writing:
https://bsky.app/profile/maetang.myatproto.social
Here's where I write about writing:
https://bsky.app/profile/maetang.myatproto.social
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Mae 美妍
@atfruitbat.myatproto.social
· Oct 6
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Hello! You may find me posting about politics, animals, games (esp. wholesome & cosy games), books, TV shows, music, movies, baseball, etc. I may also make updates about my daily life. And I have a 2nd account just to talk about my writing here:
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The purpose of these flags was always intimidation. Otherwise why attack people who are doing their job removing them?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Workers face 'unacceptable' abuse for removing flags
Several councils say workers have been verbally abused in the street for taking the flags down.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The purpose of these flags was always intimidation. Otherwise why attack people who are doing their job removing them?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Can you imagine being at school with him?
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Can you imagine being at school with him?
One of the feelings I have when people give their cats and dogs buttons to communicate in words is that it's prob frustrating for the animals. Because they can "say" their feelings, but it's not as if the humans are going to do what the animals want. Spamming vacuum will not result in more snacks. 😿
Reposting with alt text
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
One of the feelings I have when people give their cats and dogs buttons to communicate in words is that it's prob frustrating for the animals. Because they can "say" their feelings, but it's not as if the humans are going to do what the animals want. Spamming vacuum will not result in more snacks. 😿
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Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
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The way this Govenrment are treating some of the most vulnerable people in the world is disgusting.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The way this Govenrment are treating some of the most vulnerable people in the world is disgusting.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
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From Duke:
“A small group of women with advanced breast cancer received a vaccine via a clinical trial more than 20 years ago. Today, they’re all still alive. Scientists say that kind of long-term survival is almost unheard of for patients with metastatic breast cancer”.
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“A small group of women with advanced breast cancer received a vaccine via a clinical trial more than 20 years ago. Today, they’re all still alive. Scientists say that kind of long-term survival is almost unheard of for patients with metastatic breast cancer”.
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Could a Cancer Vaccine Developed Long Ago Hold the Key to Long-Term Survival?
DURHAM, N.C. – A small group of women with advanced breast cancer received a vaccine via a clinical trial more than 20 years ago. Today, they’re all still alive. Scientists say that kind of long-term ...
corporate.dukehealth.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
From Duke:
“A small group of women with advanced breast cancer received a vaccine via a clinical trial more than 20 years ago. Today, they’re all still alive. Scientists say that kind of long-term survival is almost unheard of for patients with metastatic breast cancer”.
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“A small group of women with advanced breast cancer received a vaccine via a clinical trial more than 20 years ago. Today, they’re all still alive. Scientists say that kind of long-term survival is almost unheard of for patients with metastatic breast cancer”.
4/
You can see why some people historically needed assistance to get dressed 😂
www.youtube.com/shorts/uS1nh...
www.youtube.com/shorts/uS1nh...
Get Ready With Me; 1610s Edition
YouTube video by Pinsent Tailoring
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
You can see why some people historically needed assistance to get dressed 😂
www.youtube.com/shorts/uS1nh...
www.youtube.com/shorts/uS1nh...
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Farage and Zia Yusuf are going to announce tomorrow that a Reform government will strip millions of EU nationals of benefits, more than double the cost of the NHS surcharge and cut foreign aid spending by more than 70%, The Times reports.
More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.
More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Farage and Zia Yusuf are going to announce tomorrow that a Reform government will strip millions of EU nationals of benefits, more than double the cost of the NHS surcharge and cut foreign aid spending by more than 70%, The Times reports.
More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.
More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.
Sometimes it's hard to describe the sense of relief I feel seeing a British politician countering the level of hate that's been ginned up against minorities by the Tories, by Labour, by Reform.
Cruel. Callous. Cowardly.
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Sometimes it's hard to describe the sense of relief I feel seeing a British politician countering the level of hate that's been ginned up against minorities by the Tories, by Labour, by Reform.
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You don't defeat "dark forces" by embracing them.
Mahmood's proposals for refugees in particular completely ignore the fact that people - especially children - have lives that grow and evolve.
For some "home" may become safe, but may no longer be home.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Mahmood's proposals for refugees in particular completely ignore the fact that people - especially children - have lives that grow and evolve.
For some "home" may become safe, but may no longer be home.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Shabana Mahmood warns Labour MPs ‘dark forces are stirring up anger’ over migration
There is understood to be growing unease in party over home secretary’s sweeping overhaul of refugee rights
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
You don't defeat "dark forces" by embracing them.
Mahmood's proposals for refugees in particular completely ignore the fact that people - especially children - have lives that grow and evolve.
For some "home" may become safe, but may no longer be home.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Mahmood's proposals for refugees in particular completely ignore the fact that people - especially children - have lives that grow and evolve.
For some "home" may become safe, but may no longer be home.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.
The full count as of today:
YouTube suspended
Twitch banned 3x
Patreon suspended (temporary)
Patreon 3x audio flags (one false posi)
Ko-fi suspended (indefinite?)
Buy Me a Coffee suspended
Vice reporting censored
Pornhub censored 3x times
Fansly censored 1x
YouTube suspended
Twitch banned 3x
Patreon suspended (temporary)
Patreon 3x audio flags (one false posi)
Ko-fi suspended (indefinite?)
Buy Me a Coffee suspended
Vice reporting censored
Pornhub censored 3x times
Fansly censored 1x
Is it really a conspiracy to say Ana is being explicitly flagged by finance bros when she's now been banned (or censored) from Twitch, Patreon, Buy Me A Coffee, Ko-Fi, and *PornHub*??
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.
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Now until 11/30, Chico DX is 25% off in the EU and Aus eShops!
Roll your walnut, solve puzzles, beat bosses, rescue bees, and more, in a GBC style adventure!
Just search for Chico on your Switch
#indiegames #blackfriday #nintendoswitch #gameboy #gamesale
Roll your walnut, solve puzzles, beat bosses, rescue bees, and more, in a GBC style adventure!
Just search for Chico on your Switch
#indiegames #blackfriday #nintendoswitch #gameboy #gamesale
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Now until 11/30, Chico DX is 25% off in the EU and Aus eShops!
Roll your walnut, solve puzzles, beat bosses, rescue bees, and more, in a GBC style adventure!
Just search for Chico on your Switch
#indiegames #blackfriday #nintendoswitch #gameboy #gamesale
Roll your walnut, solve puzzles, beat bosses, rescue bees, and more, in a GBC style adventure!
Just search for Chico on your Switch
#indiegames #blackfriday #nintendoswitch #gameboy #gamesale
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Refugees have often smuggled valuables so that they aren’t completely destitute on arrival at their destination. Sewing coins or jewelry into clothing as a nest egg for starting a new life. This is deliberate impoverishment followed by complaints about dependence on state resources.
November 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Refugees have often smuggled valuables so that they aren’t completely destitute on arrival at their destination. Sewing coins or jewelry into clothing as a nest egg for starting a new life. This is deliberate impoverishment followed by complaints about dependence on state resources.
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theres a whole bunch of cultures that don't do rings to mark marriage but do do necklaces for the purpose, so do only Christians get to keep wedding jewelry or
Ministers now appear to be confirming in broadcast interviews that they would audit and could confiscate assets (including jewellery) excepting wedding rings from the jewellery that they could confiscate.
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
theres a whole bunch of cultures that don't do rings to mark marriage but do do necklaces for the purpose, so do only Christians get to keep wedding jewelry or
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Every migrant who arrives in Britain to study at a University brings in more foreign currency than we get by exporting a luxury car. Yet we are driving them away in order to appease the far right.
Labour concocts more ugly measures to punish asylum seekers and the right immediately demands worse… howling to leave the ECHR.
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Every migrant who arrives in Britain to study at a University brings in more foreign currency than we get by exporting a luxury car. Yet we are driving them away in order to appease the far right.
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I am beyond grateful for these nominations 🥰I'd appreciate your vote for any category 💜
Nomination for The Self Care Award
Just Chatting Creator of the Year
Disabled Indie Gamer of the Year
Disabled Rising Creator of the Year
LGBTQIA+ Creator of the Year
Disability Advocate of the Year
#vtuber
Nomination for The Self Care Award
Just Chatting Creator of the Year
Disabled Indie Gamer of the Year
Disabled Rising Creator of the Year
LGBTQIA+ Creator of the Year
Disability Advocate of the Year
#vtuber
Nomination emails have officially gone out to everyone! You can vote for your favorite creators for the Disabled Creators Awards via this link: forms.gle/6R3k9XEu26tY...
Congrats to all of the nominees! Voting closes 11:59 Eastern Time on December 15th, 2025.
Congrats to all of the nominees! Voting closes 11:59 Eastern Time on December 15th, 2025.
Disabled Creators' Award Voting Form (Round Two)
Vote for your favorite creators for the Disabled Creators' Award. Please read each description carefully. There are 18 categories, and creators can be nominated for multiple awards. This form is due b...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I am beyond grateful for these nominations 🥰I'd appreciate your vote for any category 💜
Nomination for The Self Care Award
Just Chatting Creator of the Year
Disabled Indie Gamer of the Year
Disabled Rising Creator of the Year
LGBTQIA+ Creator of the Year
Disability Advocate of the Year
#vtuber
Nomination for The Self Care Award
Just Chatting Creator of the Year
Disabled Indie Gamer of the Year
Disabled Rising Creator of the Year
LGBTQIA+ Creator of the Year
Disability Advocate of the Year
#vtuber
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APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!
With the destruction of the U.S. Department of Education and 2026 marking the beginning of student loan caps for American students who cannot afford their dreams out of pocket, my nonprofit continues to step in to ensure women have what the need.
With the destruction of the U.S. Department of Education and 2026 marking the beginning of student loan caps for American students who cannot afford their dreams out of pocket, my nonprofit continues to step in to ensure women have what the need.
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!
With the destruction of the U.S. Department of Education and 2026 marking the beginning of student loan caps for American students who cannot afford their dreams out of pocket, my nonprofit continues to step in to ensure women have what the need.
With the destruction of the U.S. Department of Education and 2026 marking the beginning of student loan caps for American students who cannot afford their dreams out of pocket, my nonprofit continues to step in to ensure women have what the need.
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I interviewed ferociously brilliant filmmaker Mira Nair, a.k.a Zohran Mamdani’s mother, about how her voice and vision have shaped a man who sees a better way forward for all of us. SPOILER ALERT: Love matters.
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
How Mira Nair Built the World That Made Zohran Mamdani
The legendary director talks with Harper's Bazaar about becoming an artist and a parent
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I interviewed ferociously brilliant filmmaker Mira Nair, a.k.a Zohran Mamdani’s mother, about how her voice and vision have shaped a man who sees a better way forward for all of us. SPOILER ALERT: Love matters.
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
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Watched Frankenstein, and if he didn't want his brother's girlfriend to choose the creature, he shouldn't have made him so hot, then should he? It's all self-inflicted. 🤷♀️
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Watched Frankenstein, and if he didn't want his brother's girlfriend to choose the creature, he shouldn't have made him so hot, then should he? It's all self-inflicted. 🤷♀️
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My favourite word for “slow motion”from another language is the German Zeitlupe. It means “time magnifying glass”
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
My favourite word for “slow motion”from another language is the German Zeitlupe. It means “time magnifying glass”
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#ScienceSunday
#Vaccines
Here is another example where scientists have generated systemic immunity against human papilloma virus using nasal delivery of a cationic nanogel containing the HPV16 E7 protein as an antigen. In addition, an anti-tumor effect was seen. Game-changing!
Vaccines save lives.
#Vaccines
Here is another example where scientists have generated systemic immunity against human papilloma virus using nasal delivery of a cationic nanogel containing the HPV16 E7 protein as an antigen. In addition, an anti-tumor effect was seen. Game-changing!
Vaccines save lives.
Cationic nanogel–based nasal therapeutic HPV vaccine prevents the development of cervical cancer
Cationic nanogel–based nasal therapeutic vaccine induces cancer-specific immune responses and inhibits cancer development in cervical tissue.
www.science.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
#ScienceSunday
#Vaccines
Here is another example where scientists have generated systemic immunity against human papilloma virus using nasal delivery of a cationic nanogel containing the HPV16 E7 protein as an antigen. In addition, an anti-tumor effect was seen. Game-changing!
Vaccines save lives.
#Vaccines
Here is another example where scientists have generated systemic immunity against human papilloma virus using nasal delivery of a cationic nanogel containing the HPV16 E7 protein as an antigen. In addition, an anti-tumor effect was seen. Game-changing!
Vaccines save lives.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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⛰️山海経16: 鴸。人の手を持つトンビ。一般的に「両足が人の手のような形をしている」と解釈される鳥ですが、本文を読んで受けた印象そのままに描きました。
🌊Shanhai jing 16: Zhu, the black kite with human hands. Traditionally the description has been interpreted as “their foot look like human hands”. But here is what I thought.
#山海経の怪鳥30羽描く #30WeirdAncientBirds
🌊Shanhai jing 16: Zhu, the black kite with human hands. Traditionally the description has been interpreted as “their foot look like human hands”. But here is what I thought.
#山海経の怪鳥30羽描く #30WeirdAncientBirds
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
⛰️山海経16: 鴸。人の手を持つトンビ。一般的に「両足が人の手のような形をしている」と解釈される鳥ですが、本文を読んで受けた印象そのままに描きました。
🌊Shanhai jing 16: Zhu, the black kite with human hands. Traditionally the description has been interpreted as “their foot look like human hands”. But here is what I thought.
#山海経の怪鳥30羽描く #30WeirdAncientBirds
🌊Shanhai jing 16: Zhu, the black kite with human hands. Traditionally the description has been interpreted as “their foot look like human hands”. But here is what I thought.
#山海経の怪鳥30羽描く #30WeirdAncientBirds