These lines are to commemorate my spectacular failure to win the North Street Book Prize with my 2024 collection “After Spruce: Poems in the Manner of Tom Jenks’ ‘Spruce’ During the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic”.

Originally published Infection House July 2020

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The top of an old #WetMarket in the city of #Yangon, #Myanmar. A daily photo from my archives.
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Beautiful Street Art in Chinatown, Singapore (15 pics +video)

Street Artist Yip Yew Chong By Yip Yew Chong at the wet market on 30 Temple Street in Chinatown, Singapore. Yip Yew Chong: "While visitors are having fun posing for photos, I also hope they will get up close to the mural to study the details. This mural at 30 Temple Street is now probably the most intricate outdoor mural in Singapore! I tried making the details authentic, balanced with aestheticism and fair representation of the 1970s-80s Chinatown Street Market. Many visitors who saw me […]

https://streetartutopia.com/2025/04/29/yip-yew-chong-chinatown-singapore/

Beautiful Street Art in Chinatown, Singapore (15 pics +video) - STREET ART UTOPIA

Street Artist Yip Yew Chong By Yip Yew Chong at the wet market on 30 Temple Street in Chinatown, Singapore. Yip Yew Chong: “While visitors are having fun posing for photos, I also hope they will get up close to the mural to study the details. This mural at 30 Temple Street is now probably ... Read more

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மாமிச சந்தைகளை உடனே மூடுங்கள்! சீனாவுக்கு அமெரிக்க செனட்சபை கடிதம்…

https://www.patrikai.com/shut-down-wet-markets-immediately-us-lawmakers-urge-china-over-covid-19/

#wetmarket #WetMarkets #ChineseMeat #meat #Senate #SenateDemocrats #senaterepublicans #ussenate #USA #veganfood

மாமிச்சந்தைகளை உடனே மூடுங்கள்! சீனாவுக்கு அமெரிக்க செனட்சபை கடிதம்... | Patrikai - Tamil Daily - latest online local breaking news & reviews - Tamilnadu, India & World - politics, cinema, cricket, video & cartoon

Shut Down Wet Markets Immediately, US Lawmakers Urge China Over COVID-19 Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, a bipartisan group of top US lawmakers have urged China to urgently shut down all of its operating wet markets as that has the potential to expose humans to health risks through the introduction of zoonotic disease.

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மே1 முதல் பூனை, நாய் சாப்பிடத் தடை! சீன அரசு திடீர் நடவடிக்கை

https://www.patrikai.com/chinese-govt-to-ban-eating-cat-and-dogs-in-shenzhen-from-may-1st/

#Wuhan #seafood #WetMarket #chinesefood #dogs #DogMeat #DogMeatTrade #Meat #cat #CatMeat @[email protected]

மே1 முதல் பூனை, நாய் சாப்பிடத் தடை! சீன அரசு திடீர் நடவடிக்கை | | Patrikai - Tamil Daily - latest online local breaking news & reviews - Tamilnadu, India & World - politics, cinema, cricket, video & cartoon

Shenzhen becomes first Chinese city to ban eating cat and dogs

Patrikai - Tamil Daily - latest online local breaking news & reviews - Tamilnadu, India & World - politics, cinema, cricket, video & cartoon

Google have created a wet-market of malware and spyware distribution. It’s on fucking Google to fucking fix this shit and mothefucking fast.

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/17221891

#google #malware #spyware #wetMarket #surveillanceCapitalism #dontBeEvil

I hold this truth to be self-evident: That corporations which inst...

I hold this truth to be self-evident: That corporations which institute systems for their express benefit are and should be held directly accountable for the negative consequences of those systems You might have heard that 500 Chrome extensions secretly uploaded private data from millions of users (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/500-chrome-extensions-secretly-uploaded-private-data-from-millions-of-users/). Which highlights a point I've been making for years: that browser extensions (and related services such as Android and iPhone app stores) are cesspits and disasters in the making. With numerous associations to cesspits and their consequences quite deliberately made. An apologist for Google (after the obligatory denial of being an apologist for Google) writes: I don’t think it’s right to hold them to account for things uploaded to their server. It is the end-user’s responsibilty to make good decisions and avoid bad ones. Woah, buddy! We fucking know this ...