'An independent Local Peoples Defence Force (LPDF) based in Central Myanmar officially mandated ASF-IWA to conduct humanitarian fundraisers for 'Hero Warrior' food distribution program to displaced communities and healthcare infrastructure for the next 12 months.' asf-iwa.org.au/asf-iwa-fund...

ASF-IWA fundraiser for 'Hero Warrior' LPDF

On 22 July, 'Hero Warrior', an independent Local Peoples Defence Force (LPDF) based in Central Myanmar officially mandated ASF-IWA to conduct humanitarian fundraisers for 'Hero Warrior' food distribut...

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“Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city,” [says Jean-Louis Missika, Paris’s deputy mayor for urbanisation]. “They are parked 95% of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70kg. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is.” www.ft.com/content/882e...

How Paris beat the car

Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model

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For my latest article for Inquirer.net, I decided to talk about something light and fun and it is the daily puzzle game #Gerrymandle. Your aim in the game is to create electoral districts so that your political party wins more districts than other parties. technology.inquirer.net/148161/gerry...

Gerrymandle: A fun way to steal elections

MANILA, Philippines - Do you still play Wordle, that viral word game that came out in 2021 then got bought by The New York Times in 2022? I still solve Wordle every day—on hard mode!—and have

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the cold war's polarisation has created the most stupid long-term impressions of what communism is. are we talking abt an economic system? or is it an aesthetic? oftentimes it's the latter. for Vietnam's case, i wrote this very digestible article as an intro: reneshaf.wordpress.com/2023/04/30/v...

VIETNAM CONTAINS MULTITUDES

The struggle with narratives, media rhetoric, and linguistic oppression have sectioned Vietnam into multiple ways.  For a simple click on your search engine of choice, you can compare the results b…

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but then again, arguing about any non-west country to a bunch of westerners can be deeply frustrating. esp when the internet is so deeply American. and this has been the same problem in international newsroom for decades!!! reneshaf.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/d...

DIARY OF A THIRD WORLD POSTER

It feels major, or even a force of habit to always remind my audience that I’m not a Westerner, at least, legally. Culturally, I can somewhat bypass such social conducts via years of fusing m…

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I feel like at least 60% of Piker's gimmick is explained by his uncle spending ~15 years passing himself off as a former Republican turned anti-establishment progressive with a fundraising grift that pays a couple consultants about $70,000 per year to pretend they're doing a revolution.

Liking and supporting FNAF is in the same general ballpark as liking and supporting Harry Potter, IMO.

Very nice article about Mongolian Town and Central Asia Street in Seoul, with some great interviews and profiles of restaurant owners there, and images of the #LinguisticLandscape in this area. Super interesting! I want to read more! Also, great food there! v.daum.net/v/2026071607...

Gwanghui-dong's Central Asia Street: One neighborhood, many flavors

[About Town Global]: Gwanghui-dong's Central Asia Street Korea is no longer the homogeneous nation it once was. The country saw a record high 2.16 million foreign residents as of 2025, accounting

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Protesters in Kyiv called for the dismissal of Ukraine's commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's removal ​of a popular defence minister sparked outrage and demands for a more modern approach to warfare. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Ukrainians protest for second day, call to replace army chief

Mykhailo Fedorov, a 35-year-old tech wizard who has been partly credited with Ukraine's recent successes in the war with Russia, was not reappointed in a surprise government reshuffle.‌

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the kid on the right is objectively closer to the body shape and size of an ancient hoplite than Brad Pitt

The House of Pod@kavehmd.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’m sorry but the most expressive part of Mr. Pitt’s acting in this movie is his butt.

Hot take: if you don’t want to see the Andy Serkis Lord of the Rings movie because of Serkis’ rancid vibes; the animated LOTR: War of the Rohhirrim movie that nobody saw was actually good and textually about how women’s contributions to history are often erased to venerate men.

Mbappé is not a transphobe. Celebrities get to go to the Cannes film festival. It's one of the perks. If you are not a transphobe and a famous transgender model has a conversation with you? You don't run away. If you are not a transphobe and you are lifting women onto a yacht? You also lift her.

There is a common joke about how the Great Firewall isn’t so much to not let people out, but more to not let people in to see how unhinged the Chinese internet can be

Y-@@southjerseywyatt.bsky.social · 4w ago

I’ll add that there are indeed a lot of “culture wars” in China, they just usually aren’t spoken in English like you see in the West or India. China is probably not as bad as SK in terms of gender politics, but it’s getting there. And there are Han ethnic anxieties as stupid as white American ones.

This is why the Philosophy Tube episode on conversion therapy in Britain was so carefully worded and went through lawyers first! It’s difficult to educate the public on topics that rich and powerful groups do not want people to know about

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

There is more surveillance in the average American grocery store than there was on the inside of the Death Star. Our ancestors' most fevered imaginings of totalitarianism do not compare with the level of surveillance we are under every second of every day of our life Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Scott “bell beaker” Cave@hellabarnes.bsky.social · 3w ago

what is the reverse historical dorito? the thing from the past that would blow our minds in a positive way

In 2025, Myanmar and Sudan alone accounted for more than half of the projected total, but new conflicts are adding to the updated forecast myanmar-now.org/en/news/forc...

Forced displacements to soar by 4.2 million worldwide by 2027, aid group warns

In 2025, Myanmar and Sudan alone accounted for more than half of the projected total, but new conflicts are adding to the updated forecast

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The world must hear her voice. Listen to #ZahraTabari from 0:14. From inside Lakan Central Prison, 67-yr-old electrical engineer Zahra Shahbaz Tabari has sent a voice message to the world — an act of sheer courage & determination. wncri.org/2025/11/12/z...

Zahra Tabari, Sentenced to Death, Appeals for Global Solidarity

Zahra Tabari, a 67-year-old political prisoner currently held in Lakan Prison in Rasht, has issued a heartfelt message, urging the

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The most 1999 thing about the previous NBA Finals between the Knicks and the Spurs might be that the Spurs were playing StarCraft against each other in between games

Please note that you can protest in ways other than cancelling, which the union has not requested: medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

Thinking of cancelling your Wikipedia donation? Don’t. Read this first.

You’re right to be furious about the layoffs, but walking away sends exactly the wrong message.

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[Now that's public] I've cancelled my donations to Wikipedia after some of us found out this happened. Again, "benevolent" executives are the fucking problem.

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

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I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. medium.com/@jakeorlowit... #Wikipedia

Wikipedia Is Doing the Capitalist Thing

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

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This is the funniest reason for a character in a romance game to be non-romanceable

AUTOMATON WEST@automatonwest.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Upcoming Japanese dating sim Girlfailure Art Club puts you at the mercy of four quirky otaku high school girls automaton-media.com/en/news/upco...

We knew drones would be the future of warfare — I'd reported on it. And @badiucao.bsky.social and I imagined analog counterpoints / defenses to that in our book YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION. Didn't think a major plot point in the story would be this unnervingly relevant to the moment though.

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Ukraine seeks release of citizens arrested in India over alleged Myanmar drone activity - DVB

Ukraine has asked New ‌Delhi to release six of its citizens arrested in India last week for allegedly entering a restricted border state without permits, and crossing into neighbouring Myanmar to trai...

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Also, I know the angle changes, but it really looks like the bottle refills as he lets it down between 0:17 and 0:20.

It "worked" because we were fully prepared to legitimize the regime after getting Maduro as a trophy. Trump took advantage of a badly rotted and corrupt government with an unpopular figurehead. But that's not most countries.

remember when we refused to let the Ukrainians fire ATACMS over the border because destroying Russian aviation on the tarmac would be so humiliating for them it would risk nuclear war?

Evergreen Intel@vcdgf555.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Not great imagery out of Prince Sultan today. Sentinel seems to corroborate what pro-Iranian accounts are sharing.

I mean, we just saw Iraqi militants deploy fiber optic FPV drones completely unopposed to take out an American helicopter. It's like western militaries have completely ignored the last four years of rapid warfare evolution in Russia and Ukraine.

The Playstation 1 game also tried to stick close to the artstyle of the manga, including giving the Tachikoma's mouths. youtu.be/iTkOvNDhO_Y?...

PSX Ghost in the Shell Complete Cutscenes (HQ remastered)

YouTube video by Boulotaur2025

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In way it’s kinda full circle. At the time this tone/style was eh since most cyberpunk fans know blade runner and deus ex tone with that direction more popular. Now it’s reversed for either good or bad reasons for cyberpunk genre.