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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明

@tzemingdynasty.bsky.social

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🏴 Race nerd, rights bore, writer (various). Read something here: www.tzemingmok.com Opinions only my own, you can't have them Auckland, City of Fails

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · Nov 13

hi new American followers, I'm a NZ-born SEAsian Chinese writer of a bunch of forms with a bunch of specialisms incl. sociology of race & racism, comparative regime transition, human rights, Asian diaspora tings, research methods... and firmly in the NZ politics shitpost cluster, sorry not sorry.

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 3h

Ventus Lau turned 32 today. He's been behind bars since Feb 2021. He was sentenced to prison for 4 years, 5 months for taking part in democratic primaries. He also was sentenced to 54 months and 20 days imprisonment for taking part in the July 1, 2019, Storming of the Legislative Council Complex.

CHRD人权捍卫者 @chrdnet.bsky.social · 4h

今天是 #刘颖匡（Ventus Lau Wing-hong）32岁生日🎂
wqw2010.blogspot.com/2025/04/45.h...

2024年11月19日， #香港47人案中他被以串谋颠覆国家政权罪判刑4年5个月。

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 3h

I do not think my Muslim mother-in-law wants to sing Jerusalem you ning-nong.

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 3h

A big chunk of my heart still belongs to London and the ideal of that immigrant city, but that chunk just gets minced more with every passing day of the UK's rapid decline into its post-imperial racist flop era.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 3h

My parents' generation went to London if they wanted status or a global platform. If they wanted democracy, peace, and racial harmony, they went to New Zealand. Facts.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 3h

WORLD HISTORICAL, my man, chill. Sure, the liberal democratic ideal is great but colonised populations go to the imperial centre for proximity to power, wealth & opportunity, and are often pretty realistic about this racially stratified society created by the elites that subjugated our homelands.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 4h

We also have them in New Zealand, the automatically-ejaculating sausage.

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 4h

is the coloniser ok

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 7h

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 23h

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social · 4h

All brought to you by the same group that in a previous episode staged a riot inside the national capital to disrupt and prevent the legal transfer of power to their political rivals after losing an election

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 15h

I know it’s easy to get inured to this stuff but imagine a podcast ep where @mikeduncan.bsky.social is telling you about this happening in some other country at the same time that a crisis in parliament has shut down the national budget.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17h

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 4h

Good god is it too much to ask that big name Political Philosophers famous for being wrong about the Forever Age of Democracy would have at least read The Origins of Totalitarianism in the meantime

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 10h

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 1d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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ALTSEAN-Burma @altsean.bsky.social · 9h

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💡 Passionate about human rights & democracy in Burma/Myanmar? This is your chance to make real impact.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 8h

Three slices in, trying desperately to save the last piece for my friend but it's absolutely breaking me rn

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ardrigh @ardrigh.bsky.social · 13h

At a time the government is cutting support for the most vulnerable in our country, never forget this munter was arguing he was entitled to claim $52K extra in subsidies to live in his own apartment #nzpol

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

'It's a distraction': PM’s swift U-turn, will pay back $13k in accommodation allowance

Labour says PM 'treating hard-working Kiwis like a bottomless ATM'.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 12h

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit

The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Lilith Grace Toitū Te Tiriti @lilithgrace.bsky.social · 12h

Fark, I didn’t realise they were going to be THIS cruel and stupid #NZPol

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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 10h

We're on a roll with prohibited music! Today, @garethshute.bsky.social digs out music videos that went a step too far - including a HLAH video which was banned, but not for the obvious reasons...
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/ban...

Banned! Ten videos and songs “with issues” - Article | AudioCulture

Ten New Zealand videos or songs from 1970 to 2008 which have been banned from television or radio play, locally or overseas. Who could take offence at Steve Allen’s utopian theme ‘Join Together’? Clue...

www.audioculture.co.nz

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 10h

My mum considers it a slight disability, OTOH maybe it is also a gift?

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 15h

You are all the unfortunate recipients of my inner monologue

Hylobatidae @waninggibbons.bsky.social · 16h

I don't trust anyone who doesn't have an inner monologue. What the fuck do you mean you go through life without an oversight committee.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, it’s a thing. Popped up in The Discourse and even The News a few years ago, which is how I found out why my mother really just cannot keep her thoughts on my personal failings on the inside lololol

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 16h

When I found out that my mum doesn’t have one, it explained a lot.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 1d

Like NWA said, Fuck la Policía

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 1d

Is this guy real omg

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 1d

When I get back to Auckland I'm gonna have to not eat Southeast Asian food for a while because too sad.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 1d

We are kind of staying in the middle of nowhere but as is usually the case in Singapore, you just gotta find the nearest HDB cluster and elite hawker food will present itself like hiiiiiiii eat me

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 1d

I am back at work - but remotely, from Singapore, so I can catch my buddy Kah Bee who is in from Sweden setting up for the Biennale (National affiliations: Sweden, Malaysia, Mt Roskill). Am doing spreadsheet stuff while in the midst of a deep, deep, fishball and Bengawan Solo binge.

Teocheow Fish soup with fish slice and an epic hunk of fishball with the spring onions in that is so handmade and so Q and just fucking incredible and the shape of a whale with thick bee hoon

Bengawan Solo pandan chiffon cake, green green from highest quality fresh cold pressed pandan juice not sad freezer section of Lim Chhour

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