Yang Jun-Dah
@yangjundah.bsky.social
破土雜誌 / 破曉咖啡 志工 New Bloom Contributing Writer DAYBREAK Volunteer 台北 台灣 Taipei TAIWAN 💚🧋🌻🪺 https://newbloom.substack.com https://newbloommag.net https://nomanisanis.land @newbloommag.net
Join us for Pen Club next Tuesday! Pen Club is an open invite for artists, illustrators, or anyone to sketch and hang over a drink. You can arrive any time, we will usually start a game around 8, participation optional www.facebook.com/events/90746...
Dance Club also returns next Tuesday! This week we will learn circle moves in the partner dance + interesting stories behind swing dance. Are you curious how, when, and where swing dance started? www.facebook.com/events/17791...
Just two days left to claim your Meshtastic node-building kit ahead of the workshop next week! Register before the deadline on Friday--now only 1,000 NT! www.facebook.com/events/10834...
I'm looking forward to this event! Come and join us to discuss the challenges and opportunities for corals in Taiwan.
Ben Young Landis@younglandis.bsky.social · last wk.Our next #TaipeiScienceCafe #台北科普咖啡 will dive into one of my favorite topics—coral reefs!! Our talk on August 19 will be "Doom, Gloom, and Hope for Corals in a Changing Climate" featuring @crystaljmcrae.bsky.social of National Sun Yat-sen University: www.facebook.com/events/10351... #Taiwan #台灣 🧪
"In Response to Food Oil Scandal, Chiang Wan-an Calls for Expediting Legislative Elections" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
In Response to Food Oil Scandal, Chiang Wan-an Calls for Expediting Legislative Elections | New Bloom Magazine
The KMT rallied for food safety last weekend, lashing out at the Lai administration over a food oil safety scandal after accusations of cooking oil adulteration by Central Oil Corporation.
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The meshtastic decentralized network spreads from Yilan to Chiayi, and operates without powerlines or cell towers. But how do you get on? This workshop provides each participant with a meshtastic node and the know-how to use it in time for the outage drill on August 13th. Price is now only 1000 NT!
Want to be ready when the internet cuts out? Interested in joining the largest offline digital network in Taipei? Want to message your friends, activists, and hobbyists without the government oversight? www.facebook.com/events/10834...
Join us on Wednesday night for the latest Creatives Networking Night--a meetup to pitch your talents and find future collaborators! Our talk this time will be "Understanding Policymaker Mindsets Through Dungeons and Dragons" by Ben www.facebook.com/events/14867...
The convergence of human greed and the political paranoia of that era guaranteed a death sentence for the unwary 30-year-old Huan-er, whose 68 letters in 19 months revealed nothing but persistent faith in justice and a deep yearning to resume family life. wordsfromtaiwan.medium.com/portraits-of...
Moreover, the financial incentives for convicting spies meant intelligence workers spun tangential evidence to sell their cases in military court. Huan-er was falsely accused of joining a communist cell in Tainan (a completely fictitious group) and recruiting people to infiltrate the postal system.
Of the 30 players on the Taiwanese roster for WBC 2026, 18 are descendants of Indigenous Formosans. Paiwanese athlete Giljegiljaw Kungkuan notably dropped his Han Chinese name Chu Li-jen at the age of 24. He became the first MLB player from Taiwan to wear a jersey sporting his Indigenous name.
Stuart Fairchild 費仔, a Taiwanese American baseball player with the Seattle Mariners who scored Team Taiwan's third-ever WBC grand slam earlier this year, shares a video celebrating Taiwan's Indigenous heritage. His maternal grandmother is an Indigenous Amis from Hualien on the Taiwanese east coast.
Yang Jun-Dah@yangjundah.bsky.social · 2w agoStuart Fairchild pitching Indigenous People's Day in Taiwan and 30th anniversary of Council of Indigenous Peoples 原住民族委員會: www.facebook.com/share/r/1BhB...
The Nationalist regime was already looking for an angle to crack down on Taiwanese postal workers for daring to demand for labor rights and equal pay, including a thousand-strong street protest just two years after the 228 Massacre of 1947, while airing their grievances in the "Wild Grass" magazine.
Huan-er was also busted for hiding her brother Shih Chih-cheng, a wanted communist sympathizer, in the ceiling of her employee lodgings for 2.5 years. Disappearing down Zongshan North Road after his sister's arrest, the 25-year-old was never seen again. wordsfromtaiwan.medium.com/portraits-of...
Portraits of White Terror: Shih Shui-huan (Part I)
For 2.5 years, Shih Shui-huan’s (施水環) morning routine consisted of making 2 bento boxes replete with the flavors of her hometown, Tainan…
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From Taipei, Taiwan: New Bloom Newsletter July 29, 2026
DAYBREAK Party! • newsletter handover • spying accusations • extraterritorial violence • diaspora traditions • budget cuts, again? • COVID surges • The Dull-Ice Flower
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This will be the first event in a series of programming that New Bloom intends to hold in the near future on civil defense.
On August 13th, the first-ever Internet disruption drill will take place in Taipei. To prepare for future scenarios in which communication is disrupted in Taiwan, New Bloom will be holding a meshtastic workshop on the night of August 12th! Join us! www.facebook.com/events/10834...
But the language programs she signed up for turned out to be run by two actual communist spies from Shanghai. So not only did she become implicated in the postal office espionage case of 1954, in which 51 of the book club members and contributors to the postal union's magazine were rounded up...
Chinese employees made up to 60~70% more than their Taiwanese counterparts; the latter had to pursue odd jobs after work to make ends meet under post-war inflation. So Huan-er signed up for reading clubs and even submitted practice essays about her mother in Mandarin to the postal union's magazine.
Well, they blocked me for a while, but now it's unblocked. Idk. I missed you all. Headed back to Taiwan tomorrow! Also Taiwan has decided green 乖乖 are too powerful to export; Austin only had yellow and red.
Graham Oliver@grahammoliver.bsky.social · 3w agoAlso Texas won't let me use BlueSky on my laptop without verifying my age, which I'm not going to do, but for some reason my cellphone is fine. If the cellphone gets blocked I'll see you all next month
From Taipei, Taiwan: @newbloommag.net newsletter for July 29, 2026: newbloom.substack.com/p/from-taipe... DAYBREAK Party! • newsletter handover • spying accusations • extraterritorial violence • diaspora traditions • budget cuts, again? • COVID surges • The Dull-Ice Flower #台灣新聞 #台灣政治 #破土雜誌 #破曉咖啡 🧋
Sunday! Join us and For Peace Taiwan for a bilingual digital security workshop! www.instagram.com/p/DbTRNp4lK_n/
幸運的是，我們可以依靠一些其他的技術方法——例如 Meshtastic，最近常被公民科技和民防團體推廣。 破土8月12日晚上舉辦入門Meshtastic工作坊。我們歡迎愛好者和新手來分享他們的經驗，和學習怎麼開始用Meshtastic。
8月13日將是台北首次斷網降速演習會。畢竟中國對台的軍事威脅變得越來越嚴重，如果戰爭爆發的話，解放軍可能會採取行動破壞台灣的通訊網路，透過切斷海底電纜。同時，任何災難也可能會破壞通訊網路。 我們應該怎麼準備這種情況呢？ www.facebook.com/events/10834...
Her original motivation to learn the so-called Beijing tongue stemmed from disparity in wages for non-Mandarin speakers of the postal and telecommunications network, her employer, especially after the use of Japanese and Taiwanese were effectively banned by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime.
Born in 1925 and raised during the last two decades of Japan-ruled Taiwan, she graduated from a girls' vocational school for home economics (today's National Tainan Chia-Chi Senior High) in 1942, or Year 17 in the Shōwa era, meaning she was born a bilingual speaker of both Taiwanese and Japanese.
When some people around us think that unification [with China] would be fine, that means giving up a pursuit that has lasted more than a hundred years. That's what worries me: we have the right to vote, but we use that right to bury our own freedoms. Full interview: www.npr.org/2026/07/29/g...
![When some people around us think that unification [with China] would be fine, that means giving up a pursuit that has lasted more than a hundred years. That's what worries me: we have the right to vote, but we use that right to bury our own freedoms.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ql6xoc2ldggspigh5uscs65/bafkreigiwynn6tr6ymaziguqzcmksojg7ggu3o55cwm3hhkves3caop7xm)
Know a few people this could impact. This is fucked up. Fuck ICE.
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 7d agoINBOX: There are reports circulating that multiple Hong Kong residents legally in the United States on Deferred Enforced Departure status have been detained by ICE agents while boarding domestic flights www.uscis.gov/humanitarian...
Yang: My biggest worry is that Taiwanese people will give up on our current way of life and the pursuit of democracy, equality, and freedom that lasted more than a century. We only gained the right to choose who governs us directly thirty years ago. Are we really going to give that up so quickly?
NPR@npr.org · last wk.The author and translator of Taiwan Travelogue, the winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize, discuss identity and history amid the debate over Taiwan's colonial ties to Japan and escalating geopolitical pressure from China. n.pr/4x7x783
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the memorial poster on its left half: a large snapshot of a small
brown-and-white long-haired dog looking at the camera with its mouth open and
tongue out, green leaves behind it. Below the snapshot, handwritten-style text
on the billboard. A BBC News watermark is faintly visible at the bottom. The
lower half darkens to black beneath cream text, a thin orange rule beside the
quotation.
Text: "This week on Kerim's Triptych — Item 1". "Stray Dog". "Ordinary Chinese
people paid for these displays, one small donation at a time – all to mourn a
stray dog." "https://triptych.oxus.net/". On the billboard, partly obscured: "In
Memeory of our Wangwang" [sic].
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