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

My grandparents had a bunch of these neatly folded in a closet for literal decades after they came to the UK Seen many Hong Kongers with them in the last few years in the UK Diasporas of many places know what these bags are & what they represent Louis Vuitton bringing out a $3k appropriation😡 🤮

Learned about the history of this bag here: articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/ghana-go-h... and it makes it feel even worse....

Not the Ghana Must Go bag being appropriated and sold for $3000. 🙃 I just…🤷🏾‍♀️

New from me: Last week I noticed a feature on TikTok that used AI to scan videos and identify products. It turns out the feature is being applied even to videos from Gaza. In one, a mother cries out for her family. TikTok tagged dresses, head coverings, and handbags. www.theverge.com/tech/782540/...

Happy to announce the sold-out Indonesian version of "We Have Tired of Violence" is now available in a 2nd printing from marjinkiri.id, local bookstores, and online shops. It's timely, as some protestors have begun bringing a copy to demonstrations since the first run came out last year.

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, our healthcare, and the information we receive. Many are now currying favor with Trump to avoid accountability and maintain their power. This is what oligarchy looks like.

"(Prabowo) talks of raising Indonesia’s growth rate to 8 per cent, a level rarely sustained by any economy outside the Asian export miracles, and by no country since the 2000s.

Next up KontraS released their report on short-term enforced disappearance; detained without legal access, with their fate & whereabouts concealed by security forces during the recent protests in Indonesia. kontras.org/laporan/they... 13/

The Philippines, Indonesia, Peru, Ecuador, Kenya, and Nepal are fighting corrupt governments. We're truly fed up. www.scmp.com/week-asia/po...

Like I don't know how to grasp the reality anymore. There are streams of bad news involving bad people with names I can't even follow anymore in the US and state violence and intimidation in Indonesia. Meanwhile, I am doing Portuguese homework due tomorrow

Quoting my friend, "I hate that I am so connected to my phone, I don't even like it or feel good about it anymore!"

Large anti corruption protests in the Philippines are underway. Triggered by deadly floods which exposed $2billion lost to corruption in flood defence projects some of which didn't exist at all. www.rappler.com/philippines/... And a familiar flag is being flown at the protests.

“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.” Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Speaking of folks coming together & speaking out for each other. Students at Thammasat University held a Solidarity rally with Indonesian protesters yesterday. #IndonesiaGelap Photo via newinreallife on twitter

In the old days, you'd occasionally run into somebody totally normal who had one utterly insane belief, like a co-worker who just causally says he thinks the sun is alive. Social media is like if we extracted all of those individual bits of madness, cooked them into a stew and ate it for every meal.

"Environmental activists have long sounded the alarm about the impacts of mass tourism on the island, saying stricter controls to prevent land conversion would reduce the risks from flooding and other natural disasters." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Our statement on Indonesia got linked in a @thediplomat.com article. Read the statement in full here (cause trying a page a text from an image can be troublesome & they linked our IG that we only really use to find events): docs.google.com/document/d/1... #ResetIndonesia

Indonesian Activist on Week-Long Hunger Strike Demanding Protesters' Release - https://en.tempo.co/read/2049999/indonesian-activist-on-week-long-hunger-strike-demanding-protesters-release

New event! 📆19th Sept 🕐13:00 WIB Indonesian friends will hold a March in Jakarta to demand: The Release of all protestors Return of the military to the barracks End all criminalization of environmental & human rights activists Tax the Rich, Tax the Polluters

Bruh

last year in China a 21yo man killed 8 people and injured 17 in an indiscriminate knife attack at a vocational training school. he was sentenced to death only a month later. there's an interesting report tracing his radicalisation online, also a mixture of "far right" & "far left" influences.

Invite: We are organising a discussion on the protests in Indonesia and Nepal, this monday 15-17 at the University of Amsterdam. Do join!

One more reminder that Slack is a terrible choice for communities, and extorts even nonprofits. Even when it’s one teaching teens to code, for free. Hack Club is moving to Mattermost. They really have no choice. Just a poor taste how Slack demands $50K in a week, no real notice

NEW: Bernie Sanders becomes the first Senator of the United States to label Israel's war on Gaza a genocide.

🇫🇮 VIDEO: Finnish phone ban brings a new normal In this Finnish school, mobile phones are now banned. At Kungsvagens Skola, northeast of Helsinki, teachers collect students' phones in the morning and lock them in a storage room until the end of the school day.

articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/boy-skirts... Enjoyed this piece from @trufelman.bsky.social's Article of Interest!

I cannot believe they allowed that man into power not once but twice. With all the mechanisms in place to stop him - mechanisms that other countries would beg for. And they just let it happen. It is enraging and painful beyond measure and so many more will die before he is done.

Demonstrators at the Indonesian embassy in Netherlands. Indonesian anarchists have called for demonstrations at Indonesian embassies around the world as a way to express solidarity with the uprising that took place there three weeks ago and discourage state repression. crimethinc.com/Indonesia2025

Indonesian authorities are still detaining 1000s of people following the protests amongst them hundreds of children (who under law shouldn't be detained for more than a day). Reports of police abuses against detained children widespread as well. #FreeOurFriends

Gift link: www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...

Social media is 90% tolerating absolute garbage so you can enjoy 10% of stuff you actually want to see nowdays

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Hundreds are still arrested and three people still missing

I don't think Bluesky would ever really take off for non-Americans with the way things are atm. US is given 90% of the airtime and though what happens in the US affects the ROW, not all of them are relevant for us

Bluesky doesn’t get to position itself as an alternative to the Nazi app and suspend Black women for being flippant about someone who was a MAJOR factor in attacks on our well being and livelihood, while his own folks actually killed him is still frying my brain. And you’re gonna hear about it.

Salut untuk Koalisi Masyarakat Sipil Melawan Impunitas www.cnnindonesia.com/nasional/202....

I think one of the downsides on this site is that I rarely see anyone from the Filipino side talking here as they're still on Twitter. Some of the Filipino analysts here rarely post and sadly, not a lot of people discuss news about the PH and SEA in this site.

plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel

You don’t have to know, but what you do need to know we need strict gun laws, expanding, comprehensive, accessible mental health care, and we must hold Big Tech accountable. These are things we can do, without marinating our brains in the vile. Be proactive. Protect your mind. Work for change.

Bluesky moderation is absolutely out of fucking control right now just absolutely arbitrary politically motivated suspensions and bans. No explanations. No adherence to terms of service. It’s literally impossible to know what we are and aren’t allowed to say.

Hundreds of billions sunk into ratshit llm tools and all I want is the "mute America" button

Just saw a pair of wedge sneakers in the wild. I thought we all agreed to leave them in the 2010s!

The resistance in Myanmar isn't always easy to donate to directly One place is: www.liberatemyanmar.net There are also orgs doing humanitarian aid work in areas the Junta won't allow aid to get to which also helps! Kachin Relief Fund: kachinrelief.org.uk Karen Women's Organisation: karenwomen.org

Won't get as much attention as the murder of someone I'd never heard of in #Utah, but the suspicious killing of Vian Ruma, a young #environmental activist in #Indonesia deserves more global attention. We're losing too many of our future in #Asia @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2025/09/deat...