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Soon Lee

@soonleenz.bsky.social

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Malaysian Chinese Aotearoa (New Zealander), geek, food, wine & microbes interest. Best Auckland Restaurant Venn diagram (Onedrive): https://tinyurl.com/BestAuckland TL50

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Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · Jan 27

Text reads: "TRANS PPL EXISTING DOES NOTHING NEGATIVE TO YOUR LIFE, YOU CRYBABY BITCH" Background is the Trans flag bordered by a rainbow circle.

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Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 1h

#Wordle #dailyWordleClub #Wordle1580 Wordle 1,580 5/6*
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Toby Morris @xtotl.bsky.social · 23h

People Watching: Lunchtime in Paeroa on a Friday

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Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 9h

My version of Wat Tan Hor Fun: fried rice noodles in an eggy gravy with vegetables & meat. In this case, gai lan with chicken & prawn. With sliced red chilli in soy sauce to accompany. #cookingDiary #kai #food🍜 🍽️

Dinner as described served on a round white soup plate. A pair of wooden chopsticks lie atop the plate on a diagonal & balanced on the chopsticks is a small dish with sliced red chilli in soy sauce

Ingredients clockwise from left of a bowl of gai lan pieces, a bowl with five eggs, a small bowl of sliced red chilli, a ramekin with cornstarch slurry, a small bowl of raw prawn, a small dish of chopped garlic, a bowl of flat rice noodles, a plate of chicken breast sliced.

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Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 10h

The 2025 Best Auckland Restaurant Venn diagram. Can you let me know if you spot any mistakes or typos? Uses Cuisine mag's pick for Auckland, Metro mag's Top 50 (in current issue) & a top 60 TripAdvisor snapshot. Repost
#BestAucklandRestaurant #VennDiagram #TamakiMakaurau #BestRestaurantVennDiagram

Venn diagram of 'best' Auckland restaurants 2025 using three data sources: Cuisine's best of Auckland, Metro magazine's Top 50, and a snapshot of the top 60 restaurants in Auckland grabbed on August, 25, 2025.

Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 10h

Dammit, found another mistake. Will delete & repost corrected version. Hopefully that will be it.

Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 11h

I'll delete the original & repost.

Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 11h

Congratulations, you found a mistake. Which means Rothko is in all three lists & should be in the middle of the Venn. I'll have to make a corrected version. #ThankYou

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 18h

Today's planned discussion on Roman theater skewed sideways into a discussion of how many years it takes to get a PhD. "That's so long!" said one student, horrified. "Nothing is worth that!"

Ah, but have they considered the value of a gender-neutral title available in all the drop-down menus?

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 19h

With the advent of AI slop burying short story markets and agency submissions, I wonder if we aren’t going to end up turning full circle and going back to paper submissions to build in cost friction and weed out slop.

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Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 19h

Camera phone pressed against window for the win.

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 20h

Traditionally, of course, paper runs were done by bicycle, on quiet streets that were safe for children.

So perhaps the minister is inadvertently onto something here? 🤔🤔

Grant Brookes (he/him/ia) @grantbrookesnz.bsky.social · 22h

Simeon Brown tells young jobseekers to “get a paper run” on RNZ this morning 🙀

He is so out of touch, he thinks neighbourhoods still get a daily newspaper delivered
#nzpol

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23h

It is at least *interesting* that the people making this supposedly world-changing technology think its most profitable use cases are: social media videos and sexting.

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Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 20h

Best wishes that everything goes well.

Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 20h

Views from bus.

Whau River as seen this morning from upstairs on a WX1 electric double-decker bus on the Northwestern Motorway (SH16).

#publicTransport #Auckland #TamakiMakaurau #bus #somethingBeautiful

Boats moored at Whau River mouth. The sky is blue with few clouds. The water is calm with few ripples & the moored boats reflect the golden morning light.

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Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 1d

#Wordle #dailyWordleClub #Wordle1579 Wordle 1,579 3/6*
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Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 1d

Rice. Chicken & daikon cooked in soy. Cauliflower & salted pickled cabbage 'omelette' (didn't turn out quite how I planned but tasted fine). #cookingDiary #kai #food🍜 🍽️

Dinner as described served on a round white soup plate

Ingredients at top is a pot of chicken & daikon in soy already cooked. next to the pot a bowl with four eggs cracked into it, a bowl of cauliflower cut into small pieces, a small dish with salted pickled cabbage.

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Tony Hafoka Ao NZ TON @ahafoka.bsky.social · 1d

This reminded me of Ruby Tui at Eden Park ...
youtu.be/y2ETGpoLfSs?...

Ruby Tui sings "Tūtira Mai" to whole 40,000+ crowd of Eden Park after winning Rugby World Cup 2022

YouTube video by Pick Six Productions

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Gary @netchicken1.bsky.social · 1d

Now this is cool.

Overseas comedian making a joke about Kiwis not having a chant.

Then someone in the audience sings out Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi and the whole audience shouts Hi aue hei in response.

So the comedian tries to learn it.

Good vibes, real kiwis.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Kiwi crowd schools US comedian

Visiting US stand-up Jeff Arcuri expressed his surprise that there were no New Zealand chants - his fans quickly put him right.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 1d

The maximum level in Pokemon GO goes up from 50 to 80 on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, with a rebalance of experience needed for each level.

So now's a good time to screenshot your account before everything changes tomorrow*. #PokemonGO #pokemon

*Assuming the update goes live with no hitches...

Screenshot of Pokemon GO account showing the pre-update statistics for soonleenz of Level 50, and 497,311,751 experience points.

Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 1d

You can add udm=14 to your Google search URL to exclude Google AI results. Some people also report using the -AI modifier can also work.

More info here: tedium.co/2024/05/17/g...

I've done the udm=14 for both my phone & laptop, and it's helped making Google more usable.

How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search

Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.

tedium.co

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Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 2d

#Wordle #dailyWordleClub #Wordle1578 Wordle 1,578 3/6*
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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 3d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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𝕯𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖘™ @dallasbarnett.com · 2d

Treat Yo'self

Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, more - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" | 2004 Induction

YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 2d

Another successful Pokemon GO new feature released. No wait...

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Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 2d

Another successful Pokemon GO new feature released. No wait...

Leek Duck @leekduck.com · 2d

The Weekly Challenge feature in Pokémon GO has been disabled to address an issue with some Trainers being unable to close the completion popup and play the game.

All active Challenges have ended early, and Trainers will receive the default 2,000 Stardust for participation.

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