In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

Today I just found out that "Dari Sabang Sampai Merauke" plagiarized Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture. Oh, Indonesia. hermansaksono.com/2005/09/buda...

Today is the day where Indonesians should reread "Malu aku jadi orang Indonesia" by Taufik Ismail

#SoehartoBukanPahlawan (Suharto is not a hero) very active on Instagram right now. Here's a small selection:v

What was behind the mass protests in Indonesia this year, and how did they change the country? From Jakarta, a report by Hanna Samosir, on an unfinished revolution

Indonesian friends will be protesting in at least 3 places (Jakarta, Bali, Lamogan) tomorrow! against giving the old murderous dictator (Soeharto) the title of national hero & for the release of activists arrested during the protests of late Aug. #FreeOurFriends #TolakGelarPahlawanSoeharto

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Indonesian Activists Reject Hero Title for Soeharto, Dubbed 'Father of Corruption' dlvr.it/TP61wx #TempoEnglish #Indonesia

Nobody talks about it, but this is actually the way Donald Trump is most like Adolf Hitler. It’s not his racism or his will to power or his disrespect of democracy. It’s his ability to convince a large group of people he’s a character with magic powers.

(Almost) not opening social media the last weekend, it was great. Went to a nice Chinese place then watched the Chainsaw Man movie on Saturday. Had pistachio pancake and went to a vinyl market event on Sunday - bought Joni Mitchell and Deftones' LPs.

This is an incredible effort among Amazon employees to pressure their employer: "We believe that the all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth." www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...

This is a good piece but god almighty is it sad, sad, sad

Devastated to learn that my regular coffee shop is closing indefinitely for a renovation :(

I just cross checked ChatGPT's rewrite on Grammarly and the latter found grammatical error. Meanwhile tech bros are touting that AGI is near. When I asked both Claude and ChatGPT whether they "think" AGI is near, both didn't think that it's the case.

LOL all morning picturing some finance quant slouched at his desk prompting Dalle, like, "make me a picture of pikachu having sex with the Apple logo" or whatever tf those guys use these things for, then throwing up his hands like "WHY WON'T THIS FIND ALPHA?!" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I’d like to stop talking about ICE so I can focus on talking about ice in Greenland, Antarctica, the Arctic, and elsewhere.

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass. youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

it turned out that life's not too bad when I don't start my day with social media and get exposed to whatever happens in the US through Bluesky everyday

Currently in Shibuya where a BIG anti-genocide demo is about to take place. Protest is set to start in 20 minutes, but there are already easily 100~200 (maybe more?) people gathered here.

per @brunodias.bsky.social: But for that 'buffet' style of social media to actually exist, there has to be a damn buffet! Right now there's a sad salad bar with maybe two or three niche options, one large bowl of soup that 99% of diners are eating from, and one smaller bowl of much more niche soup.

I was Bluesky user #308, and have been a major booster of this platform since the beginning, but I'm starting to think that the skeptics were right. It isn't too late to fix things, but I'm doubtful the team will take this excellent advice from @brunodias.bsky.social to heart:

It’s a very US-centric app and news from the Middle East or Asia either you need to specifically look for or get moderated into oblivion due to the fact that it’s considered too violent. Which I can understand but I also find ICE raids violent and those don’t get censored.

wow I just learned about Link's ban today. This made me think that there's little to no benefits in using Bluesky

These are actions that will affect Bluesky’s future. You gained a following because this place offered a safe haven for many oppressed minorities after Twitter went to hell. You need to be more honest with your users, and yourself. You know what you are doing, and you know it’s not right. /6

We have seen in recent days that users who critiqued or even made light of the death of Charlie Kirk get suspensions or bans. You allowed people to harass your mods to take that action, including banning people who didn’t violate any of the TOS. You caved to that mob. We have seen that. /4

You have said that harassing mods to ban people has never worked, but that is demonstrably untrue. We have seen Palestinian users, some here since the first days of Bluesky, banned for sharing fundraisers. Those users were harassed and mass-reported, and you capitulated to the harassers. /3

Okay, so I've been attending Portuguese class for about three years now and I noticed something peculiar: some of my male classmates tend to debate the teacher on what's grammatically correct/not even though the teachers are native speakers 🤔

uninstalled Bluesky on my phone, and I must say I don't miss it 😬

#1312ACAB 的必知道。 支持 #奶茶聯盟 與我們的盟友 —— More: mtag.info/gal2live Original tweet by @spicy_ramyun Link: twitter.com/1004029917074341889/status/1961730938154680434

Activists are on their way to block Webb Dock in Port Melbourne in solidarity with Palestine, the Sumud Flotilla, and the six Australians abducted illegally by Israel. "Block everything".

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information: gizmodo.com/apple-sells-...

Peaceful Action of the Voice of Indonesian Mothers in Yogyakarta a couple days ago regarding MBG(free nutritious food) government program that have caused thousands of food poisoning in schools throughout Indonesia

Successive Indonesian governments made vague promises that they failed to keep. Bedjo Untung of the 1965 Murder Victims Research Foundation said, “Not a single 1965 survivor or family could get a court decision to document what they had suffered” www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Judgement at Nuremberg - David Low's cartoon in the Evening Standard #OnThisDay 1946

The stories of Indo (Dutch-Indonesian) people are still rarely told in Indonesia, unfortunately, so you've got to read Chris' account on his family here. For me it's a powerful yet poignant story, but sadly for many people it's a reality that they must live in.

When my grandfather died in 2004, I was 11. At his home in Nijmegen I found a battered briefcase, unopened for years. Inside: photos, consular forms and letters — a history of falling empire, colonial decoupling and rising nationalism that marked those who lived it. newlinesmag.com/first-person...

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Why are swimming pools curvy and what does this have to do with pants design? substack.com/home/post/p-...

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Indonesia experiences state violence, rampant corruption, lack of jobs due to economic slowdowns, questionable state budgets etc so the people went to the street to protest. Some random leftist on Bluesky: OMG US is behind these protests!

Prabowo has revoked the press pass of a CNN Indonesia reporter for asking about the free lunch food poisoning scandal: www.tempo.co/politik/ista...

To all of the people who keep parroting the narrative that the protests in Indonesia were results of foreign interference: congrats, you're helping to spread Russian propaganda! youtube.com/shorts/ndbT9...

Vigil against political repression in Indonesia, in which the Australian government is complicit. Straw Hat flags representing. The rally was called by Melbourne Bergerak

It is a nightmare that when the US does something idiotic, the rest of the world has to frantically move to reassure their nationals

NEW 🇮🇩 Indonesia’s small but active anarchist community has become the go-to bogeyman for governments seeking to justify crackdowns. The scapegoating of anarchists has meanwhile undermined the unity and political impact of anti-oligarchic protest movements. www.newmandala.org/whos-afraid-...

New event 📆27th Sept 🕕6pm AEST Melbourne Bergerak hold "Vigil for the Disappeared" In solidarity with Indonesian activists targeted, silenced, and disappeared under the Prabowo regime. At the state library Victoria, Naarm / Melbourne www.instagram.com/p/DO-boxLETUu/

hate to say i told you so share.google/4FfpeWYJ8kEF...

Italy and Spain deploy ships to help Gaza aid flotilla targeted in drone attack www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/w...

Last weekend, demonstrators in Peru clashed with riot police, displaying some of the same iconography as the "Gen Z" protesters who overthrew the government in Nepal two weeks ago. Resistance is contagious. For background, you can consult this article we published in 2023: crimethinc.com/Peru2023