downplaying human casualties while there are various on the ground witness is such a stupid move.

there were too many casualties after the flood. yet we're about to embrace our next storm.

gm to me.

absolutely crushed thinking about the flood tonight.

truly poetic: a climate crisis is roaming the nation, mass concerns over tariff pressure on trade YET we're the ideal luxurious travel destination. the name Annam making a return in these times is no less than a cruel joke.

frankly pissed off and frustrated that it gets so difficult and takes too much time to get an overview of what's going on during a fucking climate crisis.

fuck me, my family hometown is going through a historical flooding disaster and there's hardly that many places for you to keep updated on the situation nor resources. but at least for now i found this one website that has the best info hub for it: thongtincuuho.org.

btw i post so many links to longer form content because i believe we can get our attention spans back but only if we actually do it, not if we sit around complaining on short form platforms about how bad our attention spans are

guys i don't get it....this is the discourse moment where i really wanna know what's going on but i'm so out of the loop to piece everything together.

rewatching Julie & Julia just to learn that the character Julie IRL passed away in 2022.

struggling to get out of bed again cos now i have no job and no friends to tend to.

Selfie shot on iphone.

brb might experiencing a near-spiritual realisation about the fragility of life and the attempt to create one.

Jacob Elordi is ragingly Australian i can't.

aight whomst of you will be in europe around december?

What's left of Gaza: Black—urban neighborhoods the IDF has fully demolished with earthmovers etc. White—undemolished urban neighborhoods (with varying levels of major damage from 2 years of bombing, artillery, and ground fighting) Yellow—IDF-controlled (white areas liable to further demolition)

apologies for the spam if you saw it, but i'm manually catching up on everyone after spending more than 12-hour working everyday for the past month.

One for the planners and political scientists out there: I'm working interrogating local government through a representative democracy lens and I'm finding a real lack of Australian research. Most has either focused on amalgamations and NPM, deliberative democracy or "planning democracy". Any leads?

still a weird ass period where even *my* tweets got quoted on Junkee and Pedestrian lmao

Vietnamese libs are calling Mamdani "too communist" lmao

digitally displaced (i'm terrified of my local discourse so i end up snooping around with foreign countries' discourse).

my first time hearing land acknowledgment in Australia years ago struck a chord, while yes knowing the fact that it's a British colony, but seeing and hearing that one tiny line did change the way i think and approach racial politics since then.

once i'm back to the habit of blasting 5 posts/hour then we'll be sooooo back.

to the founding mythos of the CCP and the People's Republic - Mao's 'innovation' of finding the base of the Party among the peasantry, 'people's war' from the countryside, "sent-down" urban youth during the cultural revolution - and how this is all increasingly disconnected from contemporary reality

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strategically reading news at late night so i can just sleep it off instead of being submerged in rage if i pick it up throughout daytime.

"In 2023, the top 10 per cent captured 58 per cent of income in India, 52 per cent in Thailand, 46 per cent in Indonesia, and 43 per cent in both Vietnam and China." amp.scmp.com/week-asia/ec...

truly poetic: a climate crisis is roaming the nation, mass concerns over tariff pressure on trade YET we're the ideal luxurious travel destination. the name Annam making a return in these times is no less than a cruel joke.

scaling my concerns down into the daily hurdles instead of whatever systemic shit is going on in my nation or risk being stuck in perpetual doom on defeatism.

I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?

tale as old as time: art scene filled with spoiled rich kids so they don't even know how to properly compensate the people they work with while being stupidly entitled.

So I’ve had a very brief search of the Epstein database in the last half hour. Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences

post-colonial opulence.

rare pokemon: a production I worked on got released on netflix.

if i'm bored enough i might seriously consider being an accountant or work in finance.

experiencing the worst posting draught of my life.

scrolled past Manny Jacinto promo for his latest audio erotica and i'm reminded that i've sent zero nudes nor kissed anyone in this entire year.

never been this glad to be back in Saigon.

why am i kinda sad lol

measuring how close me and a friend is by letting them do my hair.

logging on my Linkedin feed to catch up on my mutuals' professional developments (proud of youse).

local viet artsy scene just got another predator expose, except this time they created a strange myth that they're possessed by famous Vietnamese literary figures. hence, such past lives connection means the victims gotta have sex with them.

halfies with white moms hit different ngl.

i hate that mf so much but geez his playlists still slap.

in order for aus pollies to even have some rizz, one gotta settle the petty rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne for good.

ashfield is the most normal place in sydney

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saw a post that said this Mamdani win is Gen Z's Obama moment and I-

i'm allowing myself to post about American local politics just this time cos it's good vibes rn and also NYC is my favourite fantasy.