Joe Kent has resigned over disagreements on the Iran war. Joe Kent is not suddenly a good guy. He’s a straight up white nationalist. But there are fissures in the MAGA base

Spot the ROC Taiwan flags in Boston's Chinatown.

Oh look, China 🇨🇳 is bragging about the drones hitting Europe and Middle East countries. Don’t forget this is what China 🇨🇳 means “non-interference in other countries” politics.

Events related to struggles in Indonesia, Tibet, Thailand, Myanmar & more this week. Also ElevenFinger & RⱯPCON got a new 6 track EP coming out, SILPA got a new zine in the works & can now buy their 1st one online... Lots more in the mix too in the events 🧵 👇

In the AFC Asia Cup against Vietnam, fans were removed from the stadium for simply cheering "Go Taiwan (台灣加油)"! In the match against China, a Chinese lion dance team was allowed to perform, while a Taiwanese #Indigenous group was not. Host nation Australia made the call, citing "political issues."

😬👇 "When people tell me, “I love Bluesky, and I’m glad you’re involved,” I sometimes answer, “I love it too—and did you know that Bluesky is one app of many in a network called the Atmosphere?” This has gotten me 100% blank stares. But yes, it’s true."

I’ll be presenting at #ATScience to reveal a sneak peek of @skysquare.app before release later this spring. Skysquare is a browser extension that lets you see Bluesky conversations about a page directly on the page itself while you read. If you're at the conference, come see it in action 📑 👀

As an American who has lived in Taipei for several years—a place where having a car is unnecessary—I am happy to confirm that, until I moved abroad, it was entirely impossible to even contemplate that car-dependency was a problem, or to even be aware of what car-dependency meant to begin with.

"Americans prefer a car-dependent lifestyle." I can't tell you how much I hate this glib sentiment. The only way to determine someone's true, enduring preference is to give them full familiarity with their options. Americans have no familiarity with their options! They've only seen sprawl!

Small thread. This latest survey is is line with previous similar polls: - a wide majority of Taiwanese people identify as Taiwanese only (61%), - a wide majority (59%) say they would resist Chinese invasion even without US help, - a clear majority (54%) agrees with raising the defense budget. 1/3

The failure of the discourse in the contemporary context is that the political class of the status quo ante still believes that presidential communications be treated as a special class of speech act, while Trump sees speech from a marketer's perspective—as a malleable force untethered from truth.

This 👇

Toni is a wonderfully thoughtful and insightful exec, who has shown that you can build a real business around open software. Finding someone who can execute and who understands the vision of an open protocol at the same time is rare—Toni gets it. I'm excited to see what Toni and Jay build together.

i now have 43M reasons to work on Bluesky every day

It’s called Taiwan! Sorry, we don’t know what Chinese Taipei is. 台灣隊 加油👏🏼 #TeamTaiwan

A book review of Revolutionary #Taiwan by Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison laorencha.substack.com/p/book-revie...

How is the PRC using AI to profile individuals and predict & shape behavior at scale? Our team, with Athena Tong, analyzed leaked GoLaxy documents showing how PRC influence operations have shifted from bot farms to AI-driven systems that profile & target audiences with precision. dtl.tw/golaxy 🧵

Rally caps on! Let's go #TeamTaiwan!!

TEAM TAIWAN #TeamTaiwan ̶C̶h̶i̶n̶e̶s̶e̶ ̶T̶a̶i̶p̶e̶i̶ 👀👀😏

Oh shit the ATProto + [Insert Protocol] stacking continues. This is rad

Taiwan will "go to Miami, advancing beyond the group stage for the first time since 2013" is a prediction I am glad to read.

Friends around the world, Team Taiwan will play in the 2026 World Baseball Classic in a couple hours against Australia in the opener. This is a fun event for global baseball fans, but speaking as an American I don't think we truly understand how big of a deal this tournament is for Taiwan. Tune in!

The agenda for #ATScience is up! Check out the speaker list and full schedule below 👇 The range and quality of proposals we received really exceeded our expectations - thanks to everyone who submitted something! March 27, Vancouver - can't wait to see you there ✨ Sessions include >

There is now an open path to a different Iran, EU's Kallas says reut.rs/3Ozx9ET

Some cogent analysis of what's ruffling CCP feathers as they see a core ally take a hit.

Cheer for #TeamTaiwan at the 2026 World #Baseball Classic with Line stickers and watch parties at the #Taipei expo park 📣 ⚾ 2026baseball.landpress.line.me/eventpage/

Iran may yet endure this war, but the Islamic Republic as we have known it cannot survive unchanged | Sanam Vakil

APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — #Iran's chief of army staff, defense minister killed in airstrike on meeting of country's defense council, state TV says.

Taiwan is a Country. 🇹🇼

انقلاب پیروز میشه، تازه اولشه.

Ali Khamenei Is Dead, but Iran Is Not Yet Free His death closes one chapter of repression, but the Islamic Republic’s entrenched security, political, and economic power structure remains intact, and the fight for a truly free Iran is far from over. My Full Piece Here: bit.ly/46ukJEj

A lot of you know nothing about Iran and Iranians’ efforts to free themselves from the Islamic Republic of Iran, and it shows. Celebrating the death of the man who terrorized us is the most obvious thing to do. Please stop telling Iranians how we should react.

The leadership gaps would erode the effectiveness of the People's Liberation Army in the event of a major military campaign, such as an invasion of Beijing-claimed Taiwan. www.newsweek.com/china-purges...

Watching US politics as an American with progressive values living in Taiwan, one gains a daily thought experiment on what liberalism means as a universal principle versus liberalism as an identity system. These are related fields. In practice, they are not the same thing.

X as a website encourages people to do bigotry for likes and affirmation and this is the people who identify as left wing on there have decided it is morally acceptable to indulge in bsky.app/profile/bfis...

Iran confirms killings of IRGC chief Pakpour, Ali Shamkani - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-confirms-killings-irgc-chief-pakpour-ali-shamkani

First impression: This is regime change, lots of ways for it to go wrong, a few it could go right, but at huge risk: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Israeli strikes targeted Iran's supreme leader, president and armed forces chief of staff, sources tell CNN. Follow live updates:https://cnn.it/4cj70E7

🤔 Isn't the message here the exact opposite of this? "Try to get nukes and bombs will drop on your heads" I think is more the message coming through tonight...

Tankies neither understand the history of Taiwan nor imagine that Taiwanese are real people. Every time I see one, I wonder what kind of "Leftist" is allied to imperialism and dictatorship.

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana (Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

How many of the world’s top 100 coffee shops are in Taiwan? Four: 36th, 46th, 57th, and 78th Coffee Sind, KEEP Coffee Roastery, Tomorrow Coffee Roasters, and Coffee Stopover Black

To adopt the old meme: Hello, journalism expert here! This is not cute or funny, journalists only do this when extremely stressed!

@jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com — Is it too late in the protocol design to support expiring blocks? This might prevent permanent social fragmentation while preserving immediate safety. Curious whether something like that could be implemented without conflicting with the current moderation primitives.

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

It's worth reading Anthropic's blog post: www.anthropic.com/news/stateme... I want to underscore that even if you hate Anthropic and uses of Artificial Intelligence, it is important to ensure the lines that they're laying out in this doc are not crossed, regardless of the tooling.

This Al Jaz piece is trash. It cites well known PRC shill Arnaud Bertrand, who is simply a conduit for CCP noises, something the reporter should have made clear, and Einar Tangen, a more articulate version of the same thing. Obvious hit piece is obvious.

There are a lot of architectural bits, but if I had to pick one design feature it's Lexicons. Lexicons allow for new shared data types and structures in a way that are immediately available on network for any other service provider to adopt. Getting shared agreement in ActivityPub is hard.

This three-day weekend is the 228 Peace Memorial Holiday, which commemorates the February 28 Incident, a massacre against Taiwanese people by the KMT. In this guide, we will tell you the importance of this holiday, and how it is celebrated in Taiwan. taiwantravelblog.com/228-peace-me...

The claims of this article about the effects of tourism are mostly nonsensical. PRC tourism sucks for Taiwan in every way..... 🧵