Microblog

The @Monocle24 radio show gives a tour of #Smithfield, our neighborhood in Dublin!

“The feud between a South African comedian and a French diplomat reveals just how difficult it is to step outside one’s own cultural framework and understand the ways that other cultures and nations conceive of, and reinforce, identity.”

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After rewatching #RogueOne on the plane back from our holidays, we’re now going through #StarWars #ANewHope

The fact that people apply “branding” and marketing to wine is kind of beyond me…

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“What Noah, Beydoun, and others may not realize is that the soccer players themselves don’t want to be seen as anything other than French.”

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“Breaking Bad became a classic drama for many reasons: some to do with craft, some to do with creativity. But above all else it stood out because, however surreal the surroundings, in its conflicted, complicated characters it was true to reality.”

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Weekdays-breakfast-when-Shana-is-taking-a-day-off is OFF THE CHAIN!

OH FFS (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)

“Google is saying, with a straight face, that it’s perfectly clear that disabling the feature named ‘Location History’ does not prevent Google from tracking your location history.”

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Catching up on the second season of #Humans — such a unique and fascinating show!

“The Best Movie About Asian People in Decades and the Best Rom-Com of the Summer.”

Stoked for #Arzani, stoked for @mancity, stoked for Australian Soccer! ⚽️

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How the world’s best basketball player became a political force for racial justice 🏀

Caught the soccer bug this past summer?

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“Maybe all of us would have understood that “Asian” is a shared ethnic background and not a personality type.”

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“TV and movies taught me how to be American”

Vox.com on “Crazy Rich Asian” and representation!

Lovely sunset in #Croatia tonight!

“We see you, 5pm BST Thursday, we see you.”

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“To Facebook, the world is not made up of individuals, but of connections between them.”

Wow 😮qz.com

Happy New Music Day: #MacMiller and #TravisScott dropped!

Final episode of #TheWire. Let’s go! 📺

Current status

I would love, Love, LOVE for @Amazon to release a Dark Mode for the #Kindle paperwhite but I suspect it’d be too intense on the screens/battery

Sad Tibz: still so long until the 🏀 NBA season starts.
Happy Tibz: football continues with the “International Champions’ Cup” and the french “Trophée Des Champions”, and the season starts in less than two weeks! ⚽️🏆

There’s a World Music Festival outside the apartment, and they’re playing a lot of Asian music so I really wanted to rewatch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon!

I remember seeing it in the Theater with my mom and my brother.

This summer, I’m reading through the #Soccernomics book, and I’ve just learnt about DETROIT FC celebration called the Tetris!

Got more pictures from last month’s Toronto Wedding!

Awesome red sky tonight after lots of rain earlier today

🏀 #WNBAAllStar live now! Go #TeamDelleDone #DCFamily!

Just came back from a 10th-Anniversary screening of #TheDarkKnight! The third or fourth time I see it in theaters and easily the 20th time rewatching the movie as a whole. Still fascinating, still unparalleled, still found new things I never caught before! #Masterpiece

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