I belatedly wrote a post for Transgender Day of Remembrance, for a refugee who was not resettled in time. www.linkedin.com/posts/ninesi...

“Freelance journalism in 2025 is an incredibly difficult place to build a career. But, it turns out, it’s a decent enough arena for a scam.” An excellent investigation by @nickhunebrown.bsky.social, and what an ending thelocal.to/investigatin...

Idk what's up with @hypem.com today but as a substitute I'm playing Hamnawa's collection of Pakistani pop and it is 🔥 tv.hamnawa.net

Resolutely avoiding my ex-colleagues’ updates this week as they attend an event that I was previously in charge of. Two years after the experience I can still feel the stress. It was the beginning of the end, realising I was no longer at a workplace where we had each other’s backs.

Twenty years after the war, I walked sniper alley in Sarajevo haunted by images of civilians dashing between buildings for cover. I never imagined that some may have been shot by ‘sniper tourists’ who paid for a chance to kill them. My god!

In 2014 when the kidnapped Chibok girls made world headlines, Nigerian soldiers kidnapped 42 men from a village, baselessly accusing them of Boko Haram membership. Over years of torture, 37 were murdered. This year 3 survivors were released & given USD 35 each africauncensored.online/blog/2025/10...

Watched Good News tonight and now I am going down a rabbit hole learning about the Japanese hijackers who inspired the film throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2017/12/18/y...

The thing is, while all of this fuckery plays out, thousands of refugees in bad situations around the world are stuck in limbo with their files held by the US. This means their cases can’t be submitted to other countries which might actually consider accepting them www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Please, I want to know how this works. He got Malaysian citizenship and now he's returned to Argentina to play for a local club but can't play yet because Fifa banned him for a year. So what's his visa situation? Because Malaysians aren't allowed dual nationality www.malaysiakini.com/read4free/75...

Obviously Trump can get fucked but there should also be anti-Modi protests. Thank you.

Police overreach in Malaysian schools. This new level of surveillance is liable to negatively impact LGBTQ+ students. Already they "caught" students "carrying playing cards" which is a bit of a distance away from the supposed goal of violence prevention www.malaysiakini.com/read4free/75...

My husband had a vivid dream the other night that he had a cat called Tuna and he loved it so much. I am delighted for him because he doesn't usually have nice dreams, he only got over his fear of cats when we got together, and Tuna is an excellent name

Refugee activist Thuzar Maung and her family were disappeared in Malaysia over two years ago. Malaysian police said they were investigating, but nothing more was heard. Suddenly it emerges that they are back in Myanmar, under arrest. How did they get back there? english.dvb.no/myanmar-refu...

In Malta people just leave their bin bags in the street overnight and it’s gross and encourages cockroaches. I get up earlier than I’d like just to take our rubbish out in time for the bin lorry and thereby minimise our contribution to the problem

Yes it has its flaws (don’t even start me), but we definitely need a LOT more awareness and discussion about what happens if the UN goes bankrupt. I’m terrified for example of how this would impact refugees in Malaysia news.un.org/en/story/202...

Fantastic interview by @patrickfreyne.bsky.social with Dr Mohammed Abu Mughessib on surviving two years in Gaza under Israeli attack. He is now in Ireland, a country I couldn’t live in due to the housing crisis - I hope he has better luck so his family can join him www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Tonight’s insomniac read was on Arthur Miller and the Down-syndrome son he never publicly acknowledged archive.is/QWERX

Some relevant context absent from this article might be Libya’s torture centres or the deliberate attacks on migrant boats by its EU-funded ‘coastguard’

All the way to Pannir’s execution, Singapore chose callous and inhumane bureaucracy. @kirstenhan.com writes of a remarkable young man with so much potential and love, and a family who loved him fiercely in return. Wishing them all the strength in the world now www.wethecitizens.net/goodbye-pann...

This is a really lovely reminiscence by @werd.io of what it was like to run a popular website in the early 2000s. Also, having met Fred, I can’t overstate how on-brand this snippet is. words.werd.io/we-are-the-m...

I think it was 20 years ago this month that I last smoked a cigarette, so well done me

I haven’t posted for ages on here about my work with refugees in Malaysia. I’m actually doing this every day, while still chasing money to live on. (Note that money raised through our appeals goes 100% to refugees.) Here’s some of what we’ve done in recent months: www.linkedin.com/posts/garabt...

Absolutely obsessed with this song lately soundcloud.com/girlhouseban...

Love this. I've degoogled to a considerable extent, but I'm only about halfway out of its clutches. Signed up to see if this initiative can help extricate me from the rest. degoogle.tech

A fascinating and enraging scandal. What the article neglects to mention is that it’s normally very difficult to obtain Malaysian citizenship - even for people with Malaysian mothers. But here ‘discretion’ was gleefully used, while the government pretends that the system is fair and reasonable

"Because you rejected cookies, lower-quality ads may be displayed" oh my god what?? I'm sorry I'm sorry I didn't realise what I was doing

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