Abdul El-Sayed on track to be the first handsome senator.
Jesse Hession Grayman
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Social/medical anthropologist at Waipapa Taumata Rau - U of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Originally from Schenectady NY, USA. Research in Indonesia. Gardener. Home fermentation. Music nerd. Genre fiction. #AbolishICE 📚📝🎓🎧🆘🌱🪴🌶️🌌🪐🇺🇸🇮🇩🇳🇿🇦🇺🏳️🌈 He/Him
We're often told that capitalism and market liberalisation are closing the gap between rich and poor countries, and the old colonial inequalities are fading. Is it true? We explored this question in a new paper, just published in NPE. Buckle up for some interesting results! 🧵
The average human spends nearly 4% of their lifetime being Indonesian.
The UNHCR archives in Geneva are at risk; reading room already closed - and there's a much broader 'humanitarian archive emergency' ongoing with aid budget cuts. www.aretenews.com/unhcr-refuge...
As aid funds shrink, archivists warn of risks to the humanitarian record
UNHCR's archives are a test case for humanitarians struggling to preserve institutional memory in an era of retrenchment.
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And we're off, with MOVIE NO. 20 in our chronological tour through the American movies of the 1980s! We're in March 1980, and we've hit, perhaps, the year's first prestige picture: it's Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones in the Loretta Lynn biopic COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER!
Jeremy Dauber@jeremydauber.bsky.social · 4w agoAll right, here goes: in preparation for a book I'm writing, I'm going to try something very ambitious/stupid. I am going to attempt to watch every single American movie produced in the 1980s. In chronological order of release. And to talk about them here in the process.
#Kaitiakitanga! It’s one of the first Te Reo words I learned when I moved to #Aotearoa. "Kaitiakitanga brings together everything that makes a word extraordinary: a distinctive sound, a profound meaning, and a concept that has no direct equivalent in many other languages."
RNZ News (Unofficial)@radionz.nzcow.com · 3w ago📢 A Māori word describing the responsibility to care for the natural world has been named the world's most beautiful word by language-learning platform Babbel.
The push for authoritarian influence across Southeast Asia is well underway
Human Rights Watch@hrw.org · 3w agoChina is pressuring Thai authorities to turn over Chinese dissidents living in Thailand as Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul visits China this week. Concerned governments should press the Thai authorities to protect the rights of people seeking safety in Thailand.
🙃. Find it baffling that none of the govt's messaging on this mentions risks to native manu. Yes, the human health issue is particularly important, but going from that to worrying about poultry farms with nary a mention of our precious, precarious species is revealing of govt's priorities.
Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿@notjustdna.bsky.social · 3w ago🦠🦅 Seabird found on Wellington beach tests positive for H5 bird flu – single brown skua on Petone beach in Wellington www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
Trent Reznor uncovers a government plot to seed the atmosphere with aerosols that turn industrial rock fans into obedient globalists: Nine Inch Chemtrails.
Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒@marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 3w agoTrent Reznor making model ships: Nine Inch Sails.
The American academy, as it exists, depends on being recognized as a beacon of scholarship (manifested by citations, English as lingua Franca, desirability of degrees, etc) by the rest of the world. It is at immanent risk of losing that.
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
This is tragic, Sam was not just a great actor, but a great human being www.1news.co.nz/2026/07/13/k... Crossposted with @openvibe.social
Kiwi screen legend Sam Neill dies, aged 78
News of the Jurassic Park star's death was confirmed on social media today.
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Ja'afar Hassan - They Taught Me [Iraq, Psychedelic Folk Rock] (Unknown Year) https://redd.it/fm65ug https://youtu.be/LQQM5YALkoE
Ja'afar Hassan - They Taught Me [Iraq, Psychedelic Folk Rock] (Unknown Year)
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Marini - Buka Pintu [Singapore – Garage Rock, Psych Pop] (1969) Killer uptempo garage beat stomper from 1969, boasting a funky fuzz guitar, some sleazy drum breaks, a nasty psych organ and a bracing Yeye streak by Indonesian https://redd.it/p83h3b https://youtu.be/daBtynvHVQ0
Marini - Buka Pintu [Singapore – Garage Rock, Psych Pop] (1969) Killer uptempo garage beat stomper from 1969, boasting a funky fuzz guitar, some sleazy drum breaks, a nasty psych organ and a bracing Yeye streak by Indonesian singer Marini.
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the young Hillary Clinton got into trouble as new First Lady for asking 'don't Palestinians deserve a state?' - She also asked a friend, 'Can you be a successful politician if you don't like people?' The sociopathy won out
Shibley Telhami@stelhami.bsky.social · last mo.I missed this from Hillary Clinton when it came out but a comment just sent me to it. It's amazing how decades of accumulated political baggage can so transform a young, talented, defiant, idealist into what this is. Reading it on 4th of July, 'no alternative' bites most. www.ft.com/content/2472...
1/200 Media@1of200.bsky.social · last mo.1/200 Campaign Season E10 - Candidate Interview: Tāmaki Electorate w/ Max Harris 1/200 chats with Labour’s Tāmaki candidate about the challenges ahead, what the team is hearing on the doorstep & opportunities for organising around progressive issues w @l11p.bsky.social @kyledchurch.bsky.social
Not PJ Harvey scratching my persistent retro sci fi itch! 🌌🪐 music.apple.com/us/album/voy...
Voyager by PJ Harvey on Apple Music
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