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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 3h

Same over here in Taiwan, still 35 every day when it should be in the high 20s by now

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Ai-Men Lau 劉羿雯 @aimenlau.bsky.social · 1d

"For Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples, natural disasters have long carried a slower cultural cost. After previous forced relocations in the past years, Indigenous residents experienced isolation, depression, and even suicide."

Taiwan’s Barrier Lake Disaster Intersects With Its Troubled Indigenous Policy

The Fata’an tribal community wants to remain in its ancestral home during the rebuilding process.

thediplomat.com

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 20h

you know I was kinda hoping she'd make it to the end of her term with a record low approval rating while also *not* being impeached by impeachment-happy peru

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 20h

Can't believe I missed the end to the lowest approval rating speedrun any% the other day
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Peru's President Dina Boluarte removed from office amid soaring crime

The ousting of President Dina Boluarte follows a string of scandals and growing outrage over crime in Peru.

www.bbc.com

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely kind of funny how many people argued that criticizing US corporations playing ball with the PRC's censorship requirements to get access to that market was sinophobia when that turned out to be the blueprint for how they'd react to authoritarianism here

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 1d

Steam forums are great for finding the most stupid people alive

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 1d

Saw a comment in the steam forums for one game where several people were checking whether it was really true that there was one short mission where you played as a woman, and declaring they would never get it as a result

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

It is self soothing to say that if only Palestinians accepted Israel then everything would be unlocked and peace would be possible. OK well that already happened, more than once, and what did it result in? When will people seriously grapple with the idea that perhaps Israel is a lot like Russia?

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

PLO recognized Israel in 1988 and 1993 and then what happened is a question nobody seems to answer on here

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

PLO recognized Israel in 1988 and 1993 and then what happened is a question nobody seems to answer on here

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 2d

Contract renewal was approved by all relevant levels of management except none of them told the person who's meant to prepare and send it to me

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure if I'm employed right now because I'm on (approved) annual leave but also my contract expired and the secretary apparently wasn't told about the renewal in time to send the new one before I left

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 2d

I think having elected bodies/officials decide and manage their own elections is also just openly inviting trouble

Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 3d

(wrong C_C)

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 4d

I love how every party is just determined to decimate the one industry in the country that still holds international prestige

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 4d

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 4d

Always stands out to me that the Myanmar junta doesn't seem to even have some self-declared raison d'etre or vision other than simply being in power

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 4d

This is one of the truly evil regimes that the big three fascist powers in the world are choosing to support and normalise
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Myanmar: At least 24 killed as army paraglider bombs Buddhist festival

Locals tell the BBC the carnage has made it hard to identify victims of the military attack.

www.bbc.com

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 4d

This is a country that requires you to include the entire official map including 9 dash line even if you're talking about ancient geology

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 4d

If you don't think China has the same pathetic "freedom fries" style nationalism America has as a world power

RazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social · 4d

Chinese person on social media gets outraged by image of potato chip that resembles outline of Taiwan.

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 5d

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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 5d

"This is beyond politics; this is about care. Some say that medical societies must remain apolitical. However, ignoring political issues that affect health means ignoring real barriers to care. Staying silent while pretending to be neutral is, in effect, a form of complicity." - @thelancet.com

Gaza's healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent

The catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with the apparent deliberate targeting of health-care infrastructure and personnel, has highlighted a profound challenge to the global medical community. ...

www.thelancet.com

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 5d

I think "called for decapitations" undersells it a bit too. He was outright promoting invasion

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 5d

600 euro????

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 5d

the secret ingredient may be fascism

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 5d

everything coming out of america is great for impostor syndrome until i realise these people are somehow getting somewhere and i'm not

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