You know it's probably a slight relief that the fascists in Washington really don't seem to have the confidence of the military at all

Did a proper rewatch of Oppenheimer to check it wasn't just the release hype, actually brilliant film and wild anyone ever thought it was an endorsement of the man or the bomb. I don't think those people ever watched it.

Another youth led protest movement fella a government! The PM and govt have been dismissed in Madagascar after week long protests about water supply have left 22 dead apnews.com/article/mada...

New from 404 Media: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. I was sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. Opt-out means no housing www.404media.co/landlords-de...

it's crazy. there's a wave of backlash against China's new K visa meant to attract STEM graduates on social media. why? the same thing everywhere, fear of immigration, more specifically racism against Indians. influencers push conspiracist misinfo that claims Indians are studying the visa and that

If 小時 is an hour then what is a 大時

i fucking hate tour companies omg

person who reads all of the lord of the rings in absolute chronological order (silmarillion first, not forgetting the lotr appendices with the timeline pre-fellowship)

Cc: esports are not sports

A proposed bill in Indonesia will expand censorship of LGBT+ content online. It expands the authority of the Broadcasting Commission to censor digital platforms It threatens freedom of expression and will futher suppress an already marginalized community.

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

It really should be clear to anyone by now that Israel is the sole major and open opponent of a two state solution

The Internet has given us greater coverage from local citizen journalists but also convinced a lot of papers that they can do all reporting and research from their computer without leaving the office

Since today is the #EuropeanDayOfLanguages, let's not forget that you are not required to keep your languages separate, pure, intact or in any way feel inadequate about your way of using your own language/s. And don't let anyone take away your co-ownership of the languages you have.

Part of me feels like stopping the minimum wage rise at $196/$29,500 is so they can announce the big 200/30k milestone right before the local elections next year

Treating the gov’t as a protected group and dissent as violence against it is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. In HK, criticism of Beijing has been recast as “inciting hatred against the central gov’t” under national security legislation introduced after the expulsion of the opposition.

This article (from May) by China's ambassador to Israel highlights how the China-operated Haifa port has stepped up for the cause since October 7. China supports Palestine rhetorically, its support for Israel is material www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

There's definitely a strain of low information leftie types on here (I feel especially in Australia) that genuinely seem to think that Taiwan is actually part of the PRC already and that this is another Iraq where America is threatening invasion to split it off, rather than the other way around

It's very on brand for Xi to announce a pathetically unambitious target and then give himself a round of applause when things already in motion surpass it without having to do anything

“drones manufactured by the Chinese tech giant DJI have been used to attack hospitals and civilian shelters and to surveil Palestinian prisoners being forced to act as human shields”. DJI stopped sales to Russia & Ukraine, but did not stop selling to Israel www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

I have been tasked with doing a major overhaul and migration of our research centre's website and man i really hate whoever set this site up even more

To be clear - this plan can’t succeed without mass violence against immigrants. One reason we know that is because it’s the carbon copy of a plan pushed by the German far-right, whose main thinker (Götz Kubitschek) recently expressed the hope that a few thousand German men would do it one day.

It's honestly insane how many people fail to understand that the new Cold War is an authoritarian internationale that freely and openly aligns itself across national borders so the retreating from the international stage is just never going to be an option

what are some good (left leaning) weekly/monthly print news/politics outlets to subscribe to? I am craving for some old fashioned print news media in my life

I really think the recalls did push the election cycle ahead a year so we're getting the "KMT reveals its true, deeply unpopular, deep blue beliefs" out of post-election overconfidence part a year early, when this normally happens after the locals focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...

Important read. The Taiwan Association for Human Rights and Taiwan Fishermen's Union FOSPI-PMFU was silenced at the UNRBHR 2025 Forum shortly before presenting on migrant worker issues in Taiwan due to likely Chinese pressure. More details here

Hotel in kaohsiung came up with the weakest excuse to cancel our booking so they could likely jack up their rates for the blackpink weekend

Another layer to this is that a lot of skilled visa holders tend to be more aligned with the right (and enemies of working class immigrants) because they think they're the "good" ones. This will erode that.

It's such a very 90s paranoid authoritarian hangup that shines through that one of the things the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation declares to be one of the three most evil forces they must dedicate themselves to fighting is.... separatism

"the most important anticolonial intellectuals may not use the language of decolonization and may not be in unis, but on the streets, with social movements, and in prison" Alpa Shah. not the state-affiliated think tanks talking deco, not the deco big names talking multipolar civilizational order

Two British Members of Parliament attempted to visit the occupied West Bank including Ease Jerusalem last week via the crossing from Jordan into Palestine and were denied entry by the State of Israel. One of them, who is Jewish, wrote an op-ed in the Guardian condemning this.

Nuking skilled visas overnight is like a precision strike on a high income economy

Prosecuting journalists for acquiring “unauthorised information” is common in China. Document No. 9 is a textbook example. Last year, Article 23 also made this all-encompassing definition of “state secrets” law in HK, giving the CE authority to certify whether any materials involve state secrets.

It's a shame this country has to prop up a barely viable dying fascist party because our neighbours would use any serious transitional justice as a pretext for invasion

Our 里長 keeps organising Hakka cultural events in a li that has virtually no Hakkas and the last one featured only Hokkien songs and not a single Hakka

What a lovely morning to be greeted with a random depressive spiral

Journalists covering the US are about to realise what those of us covering China have always known: for laws and campaigns in authoritarian society, the ambiguity is the point. That’s why authorities here target “spiritual pollution,” “historical nihilism,” “picking quarrels,” and “soft resistance.”

At what point do repeated incursions into another country's territory count as likely intentional

Germany is fully committed to the genocide.

Interesting to see China packaging its Great Firewall to Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Myanmar, and others to assist with censorship and monitoring interseclab.org/research/the...

I imagine the supreme court will find a way to carve out an exception on this as they dismantle all other regulatory powers

can't wait for when american government institutions start to have city names in brackets after their names to know which authority they recognise

"many of the film’s worst fears have arguably now been realised, even if they’ve taken on a different shape or form in real life" - @laujessie.bsky.social On the 2015 film "Ten Years / 十年" which screened as part of the HK Film Festival.

Wild how much of the global right wing have just been consumed by petty grievance politics

For Americans who want a play-by-play of what an authoritarian transition looks like in the 2020s, I strongly recommend catching up on what’s been happening in national security-era Hong Kong. One of the first shots fired in the ongoing crackdown was cancelling a comedy show for “insulting police.”

Feeling confident, made it through the first round of faculty recruitment, which means I'm going to abysmally flop in the next round

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

I think the popularity of advertising books by social media-defined microgenres has really destroyed the classic good old fashioned art of the blurb

Literally zero excuse left for the minimum wage, let alone average wages, to be lower now. Taiwan is a wealthy, developed country with a government that sometimes acts like it's barely above subsistence focustaiwan.tw/business/202...