They sure do love testing the tsunami warning sirens in Suva with no heads up. Maybe today is the day that Poseidon comes for me
Sean Gleeson
@seanjgleeson.bsky.social
Fiji 🇫🇯. Previously New Delhi, Hong Kong, Yangon, Phnom Penh and Melbourne.
Someone chucked a contraband package over the fence and into Suva prison containing joints, dried tobacco, methamphetamine, burner phones... and a block of Cadbury Dairy Milk for a yummy little treat 😋 www.facebook.com/FijiCorrecti...
I wrote for @mekongreview.com about the time Air India gifted Dali a baby elephant, which the artist pledged to ride across the Alps like Hannibal, a plan that was almost immediately abandoned when he realised that owning an elephant sucks mekongreview.com/takeoff-and-...
Transphobia is the greatest lodestone for today's far-right, because it embodies the far-right desire to claim all identities are natural and biological. Today's fascists hate trans people for the same reason interwar fascists hated diasporic Jews - because they hate fluidity and border crossing.
Elad Nehorai@eladn.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe people you can most reliably track as "anti-Zionist who is also antisemitic" are the folks who have also been openly transphobic. Kasparian, Greenwald, Carlson. Left and right, this is the common thread for many.
"I typically have great sympathy for Falstaffian types possessed of enormous if messy appetites for pleasure and experience – but only for those who aren’t, as a rule, cruel, boring or self-obsessed." 🤌 martinmckenziemurray.substack.com/p/boy-genius
Boy Genius
The myth of Tiger Woods
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"Many of these gig workers are paid very little. Some are from countries that have faced attacks from US armed forces. None were told by Appen that they may have been working for the US military." www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
Gig workers in Africa have been helping the US military. They had no…
Appen hires workers around the world to do obscure tasks with little explanation. It has also held $17m in military contracts
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"Hannah Arendt wrote that if the fundamental problem of postwar intellectual life after 1918 was death, then after 1945 it was evil. Today, the fundamental problem is complicity: reckoning with our acquiescence to a political system that suddenly appears criminal." www.equator.org/articles/aft...
After the Earthquakes • EQUATOR
The fundamental problem of the present is complicity
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"What I’m really worried about is less an active plot than the terminal erosion of those habits of mind and cultural practices that sustain a mass democracy." publiccomment.blog/p/you-ll-nev...
You'll Never Think Alone
On chatbot totalitarianism
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"There is a very real frustration and disillusionment among young people that needs to be addressed and engaged with. Ignoring the monarchists or belittling and dismissing them outright will only allow this movement to grow unfettered." kalamweekly.substack.com/p/what-attra...
What attracts Nepali youths to the monarchy?
On the young people who support the pro-monarchy movement
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it’s extremely funny to show up somewhere with a black eye and then say that you were punched by a baby
Nikki McCann Ramírez@nikkimcr.bsky.social · last yr.Elon says he has a black eye because he asked his five-year-old son X Æ A-12 to punch him in the face.
Need to befriend a Canadian so I have someone to talk to about how good Shoresy is www.youtube.com/watch?v=cREp...
Shoresy crying scenes
YouTube video by Vex2.0
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I had probably too much fun editing this story on a city I love dearly: "The city's skewed demographics prompted its pre-eminent novelist to once quip that while Delhi was for seeking power and Mumbai was for chasing riches, Kolkata was for visiting one's parents." www.france24.com/en/live-news...
End of the road for Kolkata's beloved yellow taxis
Kolkata locals cherish their city's past, which is why many in the one-time Indian capital are mourning a vanishing emblem of its faded grandeur: a hulking and noisy fleet of stately yellow taxis.
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"She could only have successfully pivoted into a position where she has a lot of money and a chance at permanent fame because of A) the rapid decay of traditional media, and B) the relatively modern phenomenon of the wide acceptance and praise of bag-chasing nihilism." defector.com/the-hawk-tua...
The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector
I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “...
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