A great read from @edgeofsports.bsky.social on right-wing US attempts to infiltrate Ireland through sport www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Datch died, and people loved him. @kirstenhan.com describes the final wait, the final cruelty, and his mother finally being able to touch her son again, after so many years, after Singapore killed him. www.wethecitizens.net/no-more-not-...

Delhi police have arrested 30+ African refugees, mostly from Somalia and Sudan. Accounts of racial targeting, refusal to accept UNHCR cards, detention in inhumane conditions m.thewire.in/article/righ...

Many in the media are “unprepared […] in dealing with the terminally online”, while doing the journalistic equivalent of scrambling to yell “FIRST!!11!” under a celebrity’s brand-new Instagram post.

Extremely poor show: NEXT reports record profits, approves multimillion-pound executive bonuses, and fires its only unionised garment workers in Sri Lanka. There's a protest message you can click to send here: www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaig...

This is a great look at why people in the island nation of Malta feel largely disconnected from the migrant deaths that take place in surrounding waters blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

In a rare effort to keep up with US developments, I just looked up Charlie Kirk on Wikipedia, and wow, what a waste of a life. He had 31 years to do something worthwhile with it but he failed. So sad.

I spent years yelling about the uselessness of Malaysian government websites but now I'm wondering if Malaysia and Malta have been exchanging information on how to ruin the user experience

Scottish Councils demanding that trans children out themselves to their classmates is obviously institutional transphobic abuse, and schools should absolutely refuse to comply. The obsession with policing children's bodies is disturbing.

Wow, this is vile. Shame on Edinburgh Council. goodlawproject.org/what-have-i-...

“After almost thirty years of rejected clemency appeals by three different Presidents—and more than 250 executions” 😭

Jimmy Eat Universe Linkin National Park Pop Will Eat Everything

The Strongerthans Hyperchunk J Cathedral

“We don’t have to accept nonsense sold to us about AI: we can ridicule it as a thinking public, and resist its implementation through our strength as organised workers.” Great review of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/ai-i...

It's only been a couple of months since I got a set of phone-compatible earphones and now finally I can have a soundtrack again while I'm out and about. Here's what I start with each time: huremic.bandcamp.com/track/seekin...

Went to @worldpressphoto.bsky.social today & of course there were so many amazing & important photos but I think this is the one I found most striking. The story of the subject - a Ukrainian forcibly conscripted into the Russian army - is all the more haunting www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/p...

“The Committee to Protect Journalists last month said it was gravely concerned for the journalist’s safety as he was being ‘targeted by an Israeli military smear campaign’.”

Up until today I had no idea that professional mermaids & mermen were even a thing, let alone that performers in China face so many risks to their health, safety, & financial stability. This is an excellent deep dive (sorry) into the industry by @sixthtone.bsky.social: www.sixthtone.com/news/1017335

Last time I visited the USA (2010), they pulled me aside for an hour because I was a suspicious freelancer. If I went back today, I’d likely end up with a story like this. (The ICE system has of course long been brutal, it’s just now the brutality is on steroids.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Long shot on Bluesky I think but here we are. I know Moniro well and I’m deeply invested in ensuring that her cat Ava can join her after she’s resettled to Australia. To make this happen, we need to start by finding a foster home in Malaysia - before the end of July. Ava is currently in KL.

“Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk has written about her own ordeal of being imprisoned for 45 days for nothing […]. Sorry I shouldn’t have said for nothing. She committed the crime of co-authoring an op-ed asking for less massacring of Palestinians.” www.welcometohellworld.com/even-god-can...

"Thirsty buildings": great explainer from @malaysiakini.com on the environmental impact of data centres in Malaysia, and the prospect that they might be prioritised over households as water supplies decrease during droughts. newslab.malaysiakini.com/johor-data-c...

The thing about living in Malta is we are just all collectively melting together

"O world, do you know what it means for thousands to gather for a sack of flour? To sell your dignity, to gamble with your body, to wrestle your hunger— not to live, but to delay your death." www.gofundme.com/f/help-reyad...

“I work against the idea that it is male characters who are dangerous and exciting, and that the function of female characters is to support and understand them” - Deborah Levy www.waterstones.com/blog/q-and-a...

“The US is filled with ‘pretty nice guys’ who are ready to inflict, who have already inflicted, senseless and life-shattering violence on innocent, impoverished people.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

New US ambassador to Malaysia just dropped, and he is a batshit choice even by 2025 standards www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Thrilled to see Dali honoured by @attitudemag.bsky.social for his groundbreaking activism for LGBTQ+ refugees and other migrants in Malta and beyond ❤️ www.attitude.co.uk/life/peugeot...

Well, Duolingo did the thing I knew it was going to do: “seen this person lately? Give them a nudge!” less than two weeks after their death

“If ‘riots’ are synonymous with ‘violence’, does that include police violence? If not, why? What are you taking for granted?” www.hauntologies.net/p/framing-vi...

CNY is sorted!!

Just a note that yesterday I was trying to trace someone caught up in Malaysia’s criminal punishment system; this required a captcha every step of the way; and every captcha was “click on all the images containing an animal on top of a skateboard”

This was a really good read, on Afrikaner identity in today’s South Africa. I learned some things! newlinesmag.com/reportage/wh...

Without legal protections, abuse of migrant domestic workers remains normalised in Malaysia and it's only by chance that a few like this woman are safely rescued. It's worth noting also that escaping by herself could have landed her in immigration detention www.rri.co.id/en/internati...

Got a lot of cat therapy as we walked by the neighbourhood houseboats this morning

If I ever return to a stable income I would like very much to become a paid subscriber to @shamjaff.bsky.social’s newsletter. This week, I learned about Cameroon’s neglected displacement crisis, and a data sales experiment in Brazil: mailchi.mp/whathappened...

It’s so sad and frustrating tbh. Racial discrimination in housing is the norm in Malaysia, with no legal protection against it. Add to this peninsular ignorance about East Malaysia, and widespread xenophobia www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/...

I hate having to know anything about the US, a country that never stops inflicting its main character syndrome on the rest of us. But since we’re here: jacobin.com/2025/06/trum...

It’s been 15 years since I last lived in Edinburgh and I still have dreams about being there and in every single dream I am figuring out a bus route

Some stunning photos from rural China here, taken by Chen Jie www.sixthtone.com/news/1017019

This is pretty cool www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/w...

Good morning it is grey and rainy and horrible here in Amsterdam but the man in the window opposite just opened his curtains, held up a little white Scottish terrier, and spent some time pointing out various sights to it

Mohamad Alzaqzooq, an extraordinary author in Gaza who has published widely, including in the @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, urgently needs to evacuate with his family. The costs are steep but he is close to covering them. Please help if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/from-war-t...

This interview with Liu, a university cleaner in Shanghai, is so kesian 😭 www.sixthtone.com/news/1017054

I’m in Amsterdam for not happy reasons but someone just cycled past absolutely blasting a mash-up of Porque Te Vas with some hip hop, so that was good

It's been 15 years since I left the UK. Even if I wanted to return (which I kind of did), I can’t live in the country of my birth because of its position that citizens may only bring foreign partners if they are sufficiently wealthy. In our case we’re just lucky I’m also an EU citizen.