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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 2h

"Countless Yingzhis live among us, while the Zitaos of China are fading away with time. The tears of Chinese women, if unleashed, could drown a nation."
For @chinabooksreview.com, I write about gendered violence and illusions of liberation through two novels by Fang Fang (tr @bairuiwen.bsky.social):

No Country for a Woman | China Books Review

Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...

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Murk @ginkgogoes.bsky.social · 2d

Sumi-e drawing: a nightheron standing on one leg, looking up at the sky where the full moon is. A red stamp is in the bottom right corner.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2h

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 7h

Among the people who lost eyes and eyesight due to being shot in the eye by Hong Kong police in 2019 were a pro-democracy protestor-teacher, a first aider and an Indonesian journalist.

Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 7h

The people who lost eyes and eyesight due to popo violence get nothing, right?

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 1d

A HK court has ordered a former protester to pay a police officer more than HK$150,000 in damages for breaking the officer’s finger during a demonstration in 2019. In full: buff.ly/HXrGhFp

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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 5h

A fascinating and enraging scandal. What the article neglects to mention is that it’s normally very difficult to obtain Malaysian citizenship - even for people with Malaysian mothers. But here ‘discretion’ was gleefully used, while the government pretends that the system is fair and reasonable

CNA @channelnewsasia.bsky.social · 5h

Malaysia vs FIFA: Minister defends naturalisation for foreign-born players, but fans want more answers

Malaysia’s Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail told parliament that the government had followed the law and naturalised the seven players based on a provision in Malaysia’s constitution.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 22h

Link's ban is wrong and should be reversed.

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un bastille after another @anem0ne.net · 9h

this is like saying you're banning mercury compounds because they're toxic *except for* dimethylmercury, which you think is just fine

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 15h

4chan unlikely to be included in Australia’s under-16s social media ban, eSafety commissioner says

Julie Inman Grant says message board will need to comply with other codes which will also include age assurance for sites hosting violent and adult content * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The eSafety commissioner is not expected to block children from accessing 4chan as part of the under-16s social media ban, despite it being labelled one of the “darker” places on the internet. The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, was asked by independent senator Fatima Payman in Senate estimates on Wednesday night whether 4chan, the message board often referred to as the engine room of the internet, would be considered one of the sites required to prevent under-16s when the social media ban comes into effect from 10 December. Continue reading...

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 10h

Personally I don't donate to them or major INGOs for inside Myanmar, as they have access issues to large swathes of the country as the Junta doesn't allow them access at all...

More on that matter here:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2023...

Myanmar’s neglected crisis demands a different response

Opinion | Humanitarian access is difficult in Myanmar, but there’s more than one way to reach people who need aid.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org

Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 10h

Good questions, honestly not easy to give a sufficient answer:

I know that I can't fill the need but think that a donation not just practical help but also is encouragement that someone cares

On who to donate to, read up on each group. See whose work you like. &/or take recs from folks you trust.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 12h

Nothing says ‘interesting film’ than the HK government banning it for national security reasons

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 1d

A total of 50 films have been required to be edited, and 13 titles have not been approved for screening on national security grounds since HK amended the Film Censorship Ordinance in 2021, according to authorities. In full: buff.ly/roPWvdO

HK bars 13 films from screening on nat. sec grounds since 2021 censorship law

A total of 50 films have been required to be edited, and 13 titles have not been approved for screening on national security grounds since HK amended the Film Censorship Ordinance in 2021, according to...

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 12h

And yet, no one from the police ever faced any consequences for what they did in 2019. Wonder why.

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 1d

A HK court has ordered a former protester to pay a police officer more than HK$150,000 in damages for breaking the officer’s finger during a demonstration in 2019. In full: buff.ly/HXrGhFp

HK court orders ex-protester who broke cop's finger to pay HK$150K in damages

A HK court has ordered a former protester to pay a police officer more than HK$150,000 in damages for breaking the officer’s finger during a demonstration in 2019.

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 23h

New from me in @foreignpolicy.com: how the US has gone from leading a global push against transnational repression, to proactively supporting it:

foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/08/t...

Trump Is Supporting Transnational Repression

Instead of sheltering pro-democracy dissidents, America is now returning them for arrest.

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RazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social · 1d

Local outlet The Collective confirms that 89 year old democracy activist "Grandpa Ng", arrested on October 1st on China's National Day has been officially charged with "acting with seditious intention" by appearing at a subway station in that day.

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 21h

“I lost my son because of the funding cuts,” he says. “And it is not only me — many more children in other camps have also died helplessly from hunger, malnutrition and no medical treatment.” Taher - on the Thai-Myanmar border

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 1d

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We’re still going!

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#ConnectingGaza

Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza

Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza Two years, what the fuck. It really has been two years to the day since Israel’s heightened and prolonged genocide against the…

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 21h

CC @jamesstout.bsky.social @yellowperiltac.bsky.social

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 21h

This week is a solidarity week for Myanmar Resistance to mark the founding of AIF Myanmar.
It's been 4 years 8 months of struggle & as outlined in the quoted thread... grim.
There are also other places that can be donated to in the thread that are more focused on humanitarian aid.

Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously fuck the Myanmar Junta, attacking a vigil during a festival (and not for the 1st time) in Bon To Village, killing 32 & injuring 50.

The Junta needs to be removed root & branch from Myanmar & the people's of Myanmar desperately need help as the attacks escalate & even more get displaced.

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 21h

To mark a year since the formation of AIF Myanmar, AIF are doing another fundraising round to support their fight against the Junta in Myanmar.

AIF operate in Chin state alongside the Chin Resistance groups.

Details of the fundraiser:
www.instagram.com/p/DPjNJshD-aA/

Picrtured two AIF patches on in green and black the other in red yellow and black
The green one is $25 donation or $15 per month on Kofi
the red is $20 donation or $10 month on Kofi
Both is $40 or $20 month on Kofi

AIF Myanmar is donation address for paypal, cashapp, venmo

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Justice For Myanmar @justiceformyanmar.org · 1d

International action against cyber scams and human trafficking cannot succeed without targeting the root cause — the Myanmar military, which needs funds to continue its campaign of terror against the people.

China Sentences 16 Members of Myanmar Crime Syndicate to Death Over Cyber Scams

The Ming family ran “scam parks” from a Myanmar town near the Chinese border that fueled billion-dollar fraud and other crimes, where those who tried to escape were beaten or killed.

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 1d

release kim ah-hyun cowards

S. Korea urges swift release of activist detained in Israeli seizure of Gaza aid flotilla - The Korea Times

The foreign ministry said Wednesday it has requested Israel to promptly release a ship carrying a South Korean activist that was seized by the Isra...

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 1d

I hadn't till now noticed the duel acronym use of DSA... and read your post in a very different way till I saw what you had quoted. 😅

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

i think bluesky search is broken

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 1d

Certainly looks that way.

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DVB English News @dvbenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Myanmar Women in Media, the Burmese Women’s Union, and Sisters 2 Sisters, issued a joint statement on Oct. 3 urging regime authorities and armed groups in Myanmar to respect freedom of expression and the safety of media workers
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

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Myanmar women’s groups call for protection of journalists in Rakhine State - DVB

Myanmar Women in Media (MWiM), the Burmese Women’s Union (BWU), and Sisters 2 Sisters, issued a joint statement on Oct. 3 urging regime authorities and armed groups in Myanmar to respect freedom of ex...

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 1d

Thirty years after the 1995 Beijing Women’s Conference, the Chinese government is once again calling on women to serve the nation, this time in science and technology. In this essay, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social revisits a century of women in science in China, tracing their struggles and achievements.

Beyond Representation: On Being a Woman in Science in China | Made in China Journal

In the autumn of 1995, Ye Shuhua made a speech. During the NGO Forum at the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, the 68-year-old astronomer took to the microphone and cal...

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