If you’re working on MNVE, PMVE, TCC, or youth subcultures that lead to real world violence, Munira Mustaffa’s new piece on the 2023 Siam Paragon attack is a must read.

GNET@gnetresearch.bsky.social · last mo.

In a retrospective analysis of the Siam Paragon shooting, Munira Mustaffa situates the attack within a wave of emerging regional incidents involving underage perpetrators, interrogating the role of digital platforms and drawing out lessons for more appropriate responses and countermeasures.

In a retrospective analysis of the Siam Paragon shooting, Munira Mustaffa situates the attack within a wave of emerging regional incidents involving underage perpetrators, interrogating the role of digital platforms and drawing out lessons for more appropriate responses and countermeasures.

Emerging Extremism Frameworks: Reexamining the 2023 Siam Paragon Attack in Context - GNET

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I just read the dumbest op-ed in a Major US Newspaper about how the u.s. is just two weeks from a decisive victory in iran

Oh my god.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4mo ago

Beyond proud to announce that we've won a Webby Award for our coverage of ICE's Minneapolis takeover. Between January 7 and February 3, we deployed reporters to Minneapolis and brought back indelible footage. 🧵

I argue that debates over democratic backsliding and competitive authoritarianism in South Asia, while still important, need to be complemented by a renewed focus on how militaries exercise power and influence in Pakistan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and even Nepal: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

The Shadow of the Military in Modern South Asia

Military rule is now a defining political factor in South Asia. Here’s how analysts can understand and account for it.

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Julie Chernov Hwang is trash. She knew she had to cite my work because no one else broke Ulu Tiram down the way I did yet still found a way to keep me nameless. Compare her entry of my work with all the others. Also note the sneaky way she inserted her shitty Brief on NVE/TCC into the citation list.

It turns out that banks allowing him to walk away (really, how do you fail at a business where the house always wins) consequence free from multiple bankruptcies , taught the president that his failures are always someone else’s problem.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4mo ago

He started a war with no reason and no plan, sending the world into a crisis solely of his own creation, and now he's angrily bitching that other countries need to clean up his mess.

Italy, France and Spain now denying US air space for its war crimes. The world has changed. Alliances are dead. The US is a global pariah. I hope @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social and @australianlabor.bsky.social are paying attention.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Israel’s holocaust of Palestinians reached a horrific new low today. No different than trains heading to gas chambers. Shame on everyone silent about this.

Iranians call Isfahan “nesf-e-jahan,” or half the world, due to its beauty and cultural heritage. More than two million people live there. The videos from Isfahan tonight look apocalyptic. They’re painful to watch.

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Video of US strikes in Isfahan tonight

Spain has taken another step in rejecting the US-Israeli war on Iran, denying US warplanes the use of its airspace to conduct any war-related operations.

It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain. This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region. aje.news/64yl8m?updat...

Israel bombs Tehran oil depots; Bahrain says Iran hit desalination plant

Kuwait and Saudi Arabia report more attacks as Trump says the war will only end when Iran's leaders 'cry uncle'.

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elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The US bombing of a desalination plant could be the most catastrophically consequential action so far. I really hope Iran does not respond in the same way. bsky.app/profile/sanh...

They'll cheer on the war then complain about the refugees it'll create.

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

the UK right *really* wants Starmer to join the Iran War. have they all gone mad, or?

Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.

The US is a genocidal regime...

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Never forget.

DakotaVAdams@toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

You gotta at least Remove Repost if you're going to plagiarize someone else's work.

People who believe this are basically aliens to me. You cannot divorce reasoning from humanity, even when it’s weakly simulated in a chatbot. If you can’t compare two different texts, you should not be a scholar. If you have no personal approach to your work, then you shouldn’t take credit for it.

Bart Penders@penders.bsky.social · 5mo ago

More uniformity, some argue, creates better comparability. Academic writing should offer no room for personal styles, and is not supposed to read well; it should only communicate facts and discoveries swiftly and efficiently. 7/

shitlibs doing sinophobia but "woke"-ly. truly enthralling midterm electoral campaigning

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Alysa Liu just became the first woman to win the free skate gold medal for the US since 2002. She refused to compete for China. And she's woke. 🇺🇸

Tell me you know nothing about the Philippines and its geopolitical position without saying you know nothing about the Philippines and its geopolitical position.

AndrewK@andrewkey.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Victims? I don’t think so. They had all the info to not do it

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I mercenari dal Sudest-Asiatico nel conflitto russo-ucraino

Il reclutamento di mercenari dal Sudest Asiatico avviene con pratiche di inganno simili a quelle usate nelle truffe in Cambogia e Myanmar

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@munira.bsky.social my translation here

Terresottovento@terresottovento.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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How Indonesia's Islamic authorities determine when Ramadan begins is so so fascinating to me. This is a very handy explainer from Tempo and, assuming this year is the same is every other, Antara will have a really cool post on Instagram in the morning.

Tempo.co@tempo-poster.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Indonesia to Hold Isbat Session This Afternoon to Determine Ramadan - https://en.tempo.co/read/2087631/indonesia-to-hold-isbat-session-this-afternoon-to-determine-ramadan

Just so y'all know I was in Jakarta last week at a conference which also included Thai authorities, and I can tell you Julie Chernov Hwang definitely lied. You can tag this with Rude or whatever to justify theft. It won't change the fact that Julie plagiarised from me. How very America.

M@munira.bsky.social · 8mo ago

She claimed that she had spoken directly with the Bangkok police herself, but did not clarify if this was before or after reading my work. This is easily verifiable: do you think I don't have police contacts in the region myself, Julie?

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...