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local journo dari nusantara 。uncivilized and far from angry enough 。
Filep Karma, a former Papuan political prisoner, was found dead in his diving suit on Base G beach, Jayapura, this morning. Filep is a master diver. He's a non-violent Papua independence activist jailed in 1998-1999 and 2004-2015 😢hrw.org/report/2010/06…
SOUTHEAST ASIAN MEN KILLING IT AT THE MISTER INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL COSTUME COMPETITION ...and then there's Singapore
got a "love letter" from a source I haven't spoken to in years cause he tried to sniff my hair. in it he "challenges" me to get to know him better and reminds me that my peak childbearing years are nearly over so I need to make him babies or I'm worthless. the audacity of men.
Big day in the UK. Many said it couldn't happen because of ingrained prejudice, but I never stopped believing that Brits are, at heart, a tolerant people.
Rishi Sunak will be the UK's first Prime Minister to have worked at a hedge fund. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Foreign media is like a Chinese banquet. Some spicy, some not. Some sweet, some sour. But lots of choices nonetheless. Chinese media is like American fast-food. All tastes the same. One size fits all. Choices limited. (Headlines from different PRC media)
it was stuff like "hearing a familiar voice" or "a bowl of fresh fruit" or "a hug from a person I love" -- all of it, monumental in impact & not entirely impossible to access. There is so much we can do for folks around us, simply by not further impeding their path to living well
early in the pandemic, I organized an email pen pal group, of sorts, made up of willing people who -- like me -- lived alone, and lived with anxiety and/or depression. Varying degrees of closeness with each other. Some of us knew each other well, others barely at all.
Korean workers are calling for a boycott of Paris Baguette due to an egregious history of labor violations, with the most recent being negligence around the crushing of a 23-year old woman by a factory machine. Don’t cross the picket line! #BoycottParisBaguette
🧵There’s a Korean bakery chain called Paris Baguette (PB) which is as ubiquitous as Starbucks in Korea. They have your café offerings like below-average coffee and mediocre French-style pastry ubiquitous with Korean bakeries. #1u
Britain now has an unelected Prime Minister who is two times richer than its unelected monarch. How democratic...
Sorry Indian Americans. It's no longer good enough to be CEO. You have to be prime minister of a former colonizer now. That's the new bar.
kaji, ritsuko, misato
🧵There’s a Korean bakery chain called Paris Baguette (PB) which is as ubiquitous as Starbucks in Korea. They have your café offerings like below-average coffee and mediocre French-style pastry ubiquitous with Korean bakeries. #1u
Kenyans are suing Britain for up to $200B in reparations for land theft and violent colonial abuses. With multinational corporations still occupying the land, former Chief Justice of Kenya Willy Mutunga explains how it's like "the British never left."
The British royals have an est. $34.3B in assets, with #KingCharles set to receive ~$500M without paying inheritance tax. At its peak, the British empire colonized parts of every continent but Antarctica and subjugated 1 out of 5 people on Earth. A 🧵on its destructive impact:
Photographer Joel Sartore captured this footage of a Horsfield’s tarsier at Taman Safari in Indonesia. It's a carnivorous, nocturnal species of tarsier living in Borneo and Sumatra [read more: buff.ly/30Ts8yg] [source: buff.ly/3EvElXW]