Nash Tysmans
@nashtysmans.bsky.social
Writer, lover of trees, words, stories, & the open road. Occasional cloud watcher & fruit sniffer. Organizer for Streetnet International in Asia. Labor rights for workers in the informal economy! ❤️✊🏽 Brussels-based Filipina. 🍉
Americas greatest export…
War on Drugs. War on Terror. War on Antifa. Americans love fighting wars they can’t win.
September 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Americas greatest export…
Oh no, not cool. This guy is so anti-poor. Please Nepal. You can do better.
Frontrunner to be Nepal’s new Prime Minister after the anti-corruption protests that rocked the country: Balendra Shah, a rapper whose lyrics skewered inequality and corruption.
September 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Oh no, not cool. This guy is so anti-poor. Please Nepal. You can do better.
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Lesser reported, Min Aung Hlaing met with both Modi and Xi (via Frontier Myanmar which you better be reading!!)
September 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Lesser reported, Min Aung Hlaing met with both Modi and Xi (via Frontier Myanmar which you better be reading!!)
“I know the Virgo moon whether I want to or not.” - @davidnaimon.bsky.social making me laugh so hard while listening to Between the Covers. Still savoring the delight of the Macfarlane episode & now giggling over this other fabulous Rob.
July 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“I know the Virgo moon whether I want to or not.” - @davidnaimon.bsky.social making me laugh so hard while listening to Between the Covers. Still savoring the delight of the Macfarlane episode & now giggling over this other fabulous Rob.
The joy of bookworm adulthood is the power to create your own required reading list. The agony is in being a poly reader and not knowing how to take notes in accordance with your madness.
July 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The joy of bookworm adulthood is the power to create your own required reading list. The agony is in being a poly reader and not knowing how to take notes in accordance with your madness.
Going to Bosnia next week and trying to make sense of what it is I want to experience while I’m there. Do you have any tips and readings? @genta.bsky.social @a-d-n.bsky.social
This was a searing & important read: bylinetimes.com/2025/07/10/f...
This was a searing & important read: bylinetimes.com/2025/07/10/f...
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July 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Going to Bosnia next week and trying to make sense of what it is I want to experience while I’m there. Do you have any tips and readings? @genta.bsky.social @a-d-n.bsky.social
This was a searing & important read: bylinetimes.com/2025/07/10/f...
This was a searing & important read: bylinetimes.com/2025/07/10/f...
This is the mutual admiration club. :) Got the chance to recommend some books to the ALR readership. Check these titles out and get your hands on Ben Tausig’s books, too!
“Bangkok after Dark” recc’ed today by the wonderful author and organizer Nash Tysmans, in Asian Labour Review:
labourreview.org/monsoon-reads/
labourreview.org/monsoon-reads/
Monsoon Reads
The monsoon season is a great time for reading (and watching and listening). We have asked a few of our authors to share their recommendations on books, podcasts, shows/movies with our readers in our ...
labourreview.org
July 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This is the mutual admiration club. :) Got the chance to recommend some books to the ALR readership. Check these titles out and get your hands on Ben Tausig’s books, too!
Finally finding time to read this, slowly and deliberately. I’m surprised by the lines that make me laugh out loud, irreverent and searing. Love, love this book.
July 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Finally finding time to read this, slowly and deliberately. I’m surprised by the lines that make me laugh out loud, irreverent and searing. Love, love this book.
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notes from this, a thread >>
- it is time for a rejection of any global space of ideas that excludes palestine
- there is a need to resist how the state actively recruits writers for cultural export (on the capital-driven frankfurt book fair as a whole)
- it is time for a rejection of any global space of ideas that excludes palestine
- there is a need to resist how the state actively recruits writers for cultural export (on the capital-driven frankfurt book fair as a whole)
TONIGHT!! #BoycottIsrael and boycott the complicit Frankfurt Book Fair. (9 p.m. if you are on JST with me)
April 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
notes from this, a thread >>
- it is time for a rejection of any global space of ideas that excludes palestine
- there is a need to resist how the state actively recruits writers for cultural export (on the capital-driven frankfurt book fair as a whole)
- it is time for a rejection of any global space of ideas that excludes palestine
- there is a need to resist how the state actively recruits writers for cultural export (on the capital-driven frankfurt book fair as a whole)
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"My detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation."
"It is students who steer us toward truth and justice."
"It is students who steer us toward truth and justice."
My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner
A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.
inthesetimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"My detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation."
"It is students who steer us toward truth and justice."
"It is students who steer us toward truth and justice."
I feel like booking a ticket to The Hague just to be where the action is. What a surreal day.
March 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I feel like booking a ticket to The Hague just to be where the action is. What a surreal day.
Ooof! Election season in the Philippines and the eyesore politicians’ faces are out again. But the people are still wonderful & the food is still mouth watering! ❤️ Happy to be home.
February 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Ooof! Election season in the Philippines and the eyesore politicians’ faces are out again. But the people are still wonderful & the food is still mouth watering! ❤️ Happy to be home.
"The struggle against capital & for socialism is a struggle for democracy in all realms of life, from work to school to health to housing. It emerges from immiseration but must be fueled by possibility." @amnaakbar.bsky.social for @nplusonemag.com
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Malm and Mangione | Amna A. Akbar
You can almost hear the chattering class’s chattering teeth as they balance the need to generate clicks with their sanctimonious shock at the public’s hatred for Brian Thompson, the company he ran, an...
www.nplusonemag.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"The struggle against capital & for socialism is a struggle for democracy in all realms of life, from work to school to health to housing. It emerges from immiseration but must be fueled by possibility." @amnaakbar.bsky.social for @nplusonemag.com
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Just goes to show you that in Philippine politics, it's really about who's in charge and not party or personal loyalty per se.
'More than two-thirds of the representatives of Mindanao’s congressional districts signed in favor of the impeachment of their fellow Mindanaoan, Vice President Sara Duterte' www.rappler.com/philippines/...
Sara Duterte impeachment: Nearly 70% of Mindanao’s lawmakers on board
Sara Duterte’s impeachment won the support of a substantial majority of Mindanao's representatives, indicative of the Duterte family's weakened political influence over Mindanao's lawmakers
www.rappler.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Just goes to show you that in Philippine politics, it's really about who's in charge and not party or personal loyalty per se.
The fee to apply for Belgian nationality has gone from 150 euros to 1,000 euros as part of this new government's plan to have the strictest migration policies in Europe.
This while spending less on social services and more on defense capability in the guise of keeping people safe. Same bullshit.
This while spending less on social services and more on defense capability in the guise of keeping people safe. Same bullshit.
February 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The fee to apply for Belgian nationality has gone from 150 euros to 1,000 euros as part of this new government's plan to have the strictest migration policies in Europe.
This while spending less on social services and more on defense capability in the guise of keeping people safe. Same bullshit.
This while spending less on social services and more on defense capability in the guise of keeping people safe. Same bullshit.
This. For everything. Just keep drawing the line and connecting the dots.
It’s all a part of the same continuum. Genocide & ethnic cleansing from Gaza to the West Bank, silencing of Palestinians & their allies, resegregation, incarceration, and deportation, erasure of trans people. That’s why those who resist have to draw the line at every single moment—no exceptions.
February 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
This. For everything. Just keep drawing the line and connecting the dots.
Necessary read. The pit in my stomach gets deeper as a new government is formed in Belgium and their priorities are far from social welfare.
Last week, while waiting for the train home, I saw someone shooting up in Trône metro station.
How has the city come to this point?
READ: "Brussels Notes #85: Undignified City - On dignity, or the lack of it for Brussels' most vulnerable citizens" open.substack.com/pub/brussels...
How has the city come to this point?
READ: "Brussels Notes #85: Undignified City - On dignity, or the lack of it for Brussels' most vulnerable citizens" open.substack.com/pub/brussels...
#85: Undignified City
On dignity, or the lack of it for Brussels' most vulnerable citizens
open.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Necessary read. The pit in my stomach gets deeper as a new government is formed in Belgium and their priorities are far from social welfare.
James Bridle writing for @artreview.bsky.social about genocide denial, ecocide that is genocide, and the responsibilities of art institutions. Finally digging into his Ways of Being. It's coming to me at the perfect time as I'm musing on climate finance.
artreview.com/james-bridle...
artreview.com/james-bridle...
James Bridle: ‘The Denial of Genocide Is on the March Everywhere’
The artist addresses the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’
artreview.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
James Bridle writing for @artreview.bsky.social about genocide denial, ecocide that is genocide, and the responsibilities of art institutions. Finally digging into his Ways of Being. It's coming to me at the perfect time as I'm musing on climate finance.
artreview.com/james-bridle...
artreview.com/james-bridle...
This is horrible on so many levels.
The entirety of the USAID work force got recalled globally 5.30 this morning CMT. With a paragraph email. 10K people. And many have worked so long at the agency they have no homes in the US to go to. No information about how to transporteur belongings or even who covers it.
February 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
This is horrible on so many levels.
Soup, sunshine, & good coffee. I’m training my brain to concentrate again. Reading, writing—making sense & breaking bread with friends.
February 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Soup, sunshine, & good coffee. I’m training my brain to concentrate again. Reading, writing—making sense & breaking bread with friends.
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One of my dearest friends, and sister of my heart, Padma L. Perez (@lotusbearer.bsky.social) is new on Bluesky. 🦋
She also has a new Substack (link below). 🎉 This is a beautiful and tender meditation on pilgrimage, trees, place, and home. Please give it a read. 🪷
open.substack.com/pub/gentlesu...
She also has a new Substack (link below). 🎉 This is a beautiful and tender meditation on pilgrimage, trees, place, and home. Please give it a read. 🪷
open.substack.com/pub/gentlesu...
So I call myself a tree pilgrim.
Dispatch from India
open.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
One of my dearest friends, and sister of my heart, Padma L. Perez (@lotusbearer.bsky.social) is new on Bluesky. 🦋
She also has a new Substack (link below). 🎉 This is a beautiful and tender meditation on pilgrimage, trees, place, and home. Please give it a read. 🪷
open.substack.com/pub/gentlesu...
She also has a new Substack (link below). 🎉 This is a beautiful and tender meditation on pilgrimage, trees, place, and home. Please give it a read. 🪷
open.substack.com/pub/gentlesu...
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The #GMO amendment of the Aarhus Convention on public participation in decision-making & access to justice on GMOs will now enter into force: unece.org/environment/...
(H/T @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social)
(H/T @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social)
February 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The #GMO amendment of the Aarhus Convention on public participation in decision-making & access to justice on GMOs will now enter into force: unece.org/environment/...
(H/T @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social)
(H/T @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social)
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How's everyone doing? I wrote this for 100 Days of Resistance, hoping we can help each other find the balance between personal calm and political activism: mailchi.mp/547b1aa20c02...
February 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
How's everyone doing? I wrote this for 100 Days of Resistance, hoping we can help each other find the balance between personal calm and political activism: mailchi.mp/547b1aa20c02...
Learning to be on my phone less and less and it feels great ❤️ I’m still reliant on it for work but just the absence of unnecessary urgency feels refreshing.
January 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Learning to be on my phone less and less and it feels great ❤️ I’m still reliant on it for work but just the absence of unnecessary urgency feels refreshing.