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Eliza Anyangwe

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Editor-in-Chief at The Fuller Project: journalism that catalyses change for women & gender minorities | Care deeply about stories: telling new ones, how we tell them, who gets to tell them, how they connect to, inform and serve audiences.

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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
What can media in western democracies learn from Hungary as we witness backsliding? @fullerproject.org CEO Zsuzsanna Lippai has worked in both Hungary and the US giving her an invaluable perspective. Watch her @journalismfestival.com session live now www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20...
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Thank you for coming, Bob!
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Ahead of today’s elections in Hungary, @floragaramvolgyi.bsky.social looked at Viktor Orbán’s record rolling back women’s & LGBTQ+ rights and asks: will anything change for these groups even if the opposition wins? www.fullerproject.org/editions/far...
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
EVENT, March 25: Who’s cashing in on the maternal body? luma.com/glxp8dft?cou... @fullerproject.org's new edition on Motherhood launched yesterday and at the end of the month we'll be hosting an exciting event. Sign up above and explore the edition here: www.fullerproject.org/editions/mot...
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From IVF to egg freezing: Who’s cashing in on the maternal body? · Luma
The global fertility industry is projected to double over the next decade, from roughly $35 billion to over $70 billion. Surrogacy. IVF. Egg freezing.…
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
thanks Jacquie. What did you make of it?
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
What are you reading this weekend? How about @fullerproject.org’s first edition, Revolutions? Discover @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social’s big idea; read what impact uprisings in Nepal and Bangladesh had on women; listen to a playlist of Sudanese revolutionary chants www.fullerproject.org/editions/rev...
Screenshot of landing page of Revolutions edition from the newsroom, Fuller. It shows a picture of a veiled woman showing with her fist in the air, and cut out of the word “revolutions” above her head
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New from @fullerproject.org Today, as Bangladesh swears in new PM, we speak to garment workers who risked their lives in the student-led uprising but say because of gender & class they've been are sidelined and dismissed. Story part of our Revolutions edition www.fullerproject.org/editions/rev...
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Garment workers left out of Bangladesh’s July Revolution
They risked their lives in the student uprising, yet despite a new government, the future of women in Bangladesh’s garment sector remains uncertain
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
@moiradonegan.bsky.social Hi Moira, do you take freelance commissions?
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
@chasestrangio.bsky.social hi Chase, what would be the best way to get in touch with you, with a media event request? Thanks!
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 16/12/2025
@elizatalks.bsky.social: "In times of abundance and relative safety, it’s hard to know what motivates you to do the work. Crisis is clarifying." www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/a-ti...
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Do I need another place to sink my time?! Let’s find out 😅
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Intriguing to hear Beninois men (only men call) on RFI discuss attempted coup. Struck by: 1. Changing perception of Ecowas 2. Justification of coup while also condemning it 3. Journo’s insistence despite all evidence to contrary that elections= democratic participation www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Benin coup thwarted by loyalist troops, President Talon tells nation - BBC News
Patrice Talon says the situation is "totally under control" not long after explosions were heard in Cotonou.
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I was such a Twitter girlier and haven’t fully caught on here so catching up! Thank you for your thoughtful comments! Glad you enjoyed the event!
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
On Dec 3, I'll be in conversation with two incredible thinkers, writers, humans and I'd love for you to be there Join me, French writer and filmmaker @rokhayadiallo.bsky.social and British author of ‘The Patriarchs’ Angela Saini, for a look back at 2025. Registration link: luma.com/7zjnt0xw
Poster with three women (Eliza Anyangwe, Angela Saini and Rokhaya Diallo) to promote an event on Dec 3, exploring the events of 2025
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
New from @fullerproject.org "Digital rights experts say posts that are safe and provide genuine educational value regularly get swept up by systems ostensibly designed to catch harmful content, especially when those systems are driven by algorithms." fullerproject.org/story/these-...
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These creators help millions of people talk about bodies, sex and sexuality. Their content is being removed because of it
A Dutch artist’s page is suddenly removed, an Indian influencer tries to stay ahead of the algorithm and a pan-African sex-positive account slowly rebuilds its following. Online sex ed content creator...
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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‘It’s become the norm.’ Sexual violence in women’s sport and the silence that accompanies it
60% of sportswomen in East Africa have either experienced or witnessed sexual and gender-based violence. A culture of silence, the power of male coaches and difficulty getting justice explain why the ...
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Opened up four roles at @fullerproject.org! Are you our new health correspondent, tech correspondent, multimedia editor or head of community and audience development? Applicants from Global South encouraged. Come help us build an audience-centred impact focused newsroom! fullerproject.org/careers/
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Careers The Fuller Project is an award-winning global newsroom dedicated to publishing groundbreaking reporting that catalyzes positive change for women. Since 2015, our reporting has helped end life-...
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This week I announced changes The Fuller Project that will see some members of staff leave the organisation. I wrote about why this was necessary, and what comes next, in my latest newsletter: us7.campaign-archive.com?u=cf2634ffd1...
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Announcing changes to our newsroom
The next step in The Fuller Project's transformation is, in the coming weeks, to open and advertise new editorial roles, such as a Head of Community and correspondent posts, with further roles that al...
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Do you subscribe to the @fullerproject.org newsletter or follow our work? Please take our survey. It takes no more than two minutes to complete. What we will learn from you will shape our work at this critical time. us7.list-manage.com/survey?u=cf2...
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Stawisha Pwani a $47m project, funded by USAID, providing reproductive, maternal & child healthcare, basic nutrition, and treatment for HIV/AIDS. That's all stopped. Local health officials are scrambling, healthworkers don't know if they'll be paid Read the story fullerproject.org/story/urgent...
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‘Urgent action is needed to safeguard the lives of women and children’
Kenya received more than 60% of its aid for family planning and reproductive health care from the U.S. Cuts to USAID risk not only lives. They threaten to unravel the entire health-care system
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Kenya received more than 60% of its aid for family planning and reproductive health care from the U.S. Allan connected IATI data to human consequences on the ground, traveling to the Kenyan coast to meet women, community health workers & local policymakers
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Loss of life is bad, only made worse by 30-year rollback in access to health due to US cuts & Europeans moving money to defense. This presents a challenge & opportunity for countries, but who will step up? @allanolingo.bsky.social wrote a complementary story looking at Kenya.
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
19 African countries received more than half of their family-planning aid from the U.S. This means, while not uniquely so, women and girls around the world - and specifically in Africa - will be particularly hard hit by the aid freeze.
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In the first of two stories, we report that when it comes to family planning and reproductive healthcare, the United States was unparalleled in its funding: US contributed more than half (54%) of aid provided by all countries for family planning & 45% of total for reproductive healthcare in 2023
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
New from @fullerproject.org❗ @claireprovost.bsky.social worked with @allanolingo.bsky.social Jodi Enda & others to reveal from the data the gendered impact of USAID freeze. US provided 1/4 of all global aid but much more in 2 key sectors primarily affecting women fullerproject.org/story/the-u-...
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The U.S. aid freeze: Counting the global cost of chaos
As the end date of the Trump administration’s foreign aid ‘stop-work’ order approaches, just how dependent were women and girls around the world on the U.S.? The Fuller Project dives into the data to ...
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Still at #CSW69? Join me @ @woman_kind’s 12:30 ET event for a lively reflection on Beijing+30*! *For those who don’t know their feminist history, 14K people attended 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. It was there the concept of ‘human rights’ was applied to women
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Tony Roberts @phatcontroller.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Israeli surveillance of Palestinian civilians' private communication used to build 100 billion-word data set to train AI model for military targeting, found to be “invasive and incompatible with human rights”, by Human Rights Watch @hrw.org #DigitalRights www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data
The powerful new AI model is designed to analyze intercepted communications – but experts say such systems can exacerbate biases and are prone to making mistakes
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Thinking about EJ Win, the Zimbabwean feminist and champion of social justice, who died on 9 March & is being sent off today. One of the things I loved about Twitter was being able to connect with heroes like EJ who validated me by calling “sister” Get to know her: m.youtube.com/watch?v=QoLe...
Black woman with long dreadlocks, silver hoop earrings and a silver necklace, stands against black background, smiling for cameraMessages written in Jan 2023 by Everjoice Win, describing her body as “rebellious.”
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 15/03/2025
Often these women journalists were among those covering the annual March 8 campaigns organized in the capital Baku. This year, they won't be in attendance, nor covering the protests.
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Nine women journalists will spend International Women's Day behind bars in Azerbaijan
Often these women journalists were among those covering the annual March 8 campaigns organized in the capital Baku. This year, they won't be in attendance, nor covering the protests.
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"CSW69 is happening [in] context of dwindling funding [&] rise of anti-rights movements. There is a need for strategy, solidarity & solutions" On Monday, the UN's annual meeting on women's rights, #CSW69, began. @fullerproject.org spoke to leaders about their expectations mailchi.mp/fullerprojec...
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
“Despite every attempt to block our voices our stories will always live….” @jamiaawilson.bsky.social speaking about the growing trend of book bannings in the US. On screen: recently banned Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim Event: @themeteor.bsky.social’s Meet The Moment
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
“You can’t imagine the cyberarmy of the Islamic Republic’s attacks on me. Oh my god, I receive lots of hate.” Iran’s female diaspora are being subjected to deepfakes, AI, and digital tools to silence them abroad. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/ho...
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How Iran Targets Women Dissidents Abroad
From deepfake pornography to relentless online harassment, activists are facing a new form of state repression — one that transcends borders
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The world is a shit show and because of it (or inspite of it) I refuse to sit on how delighted I am to be in conversation with @roxanegay.bsky.social at @debalie.bsky.social on March 8 If you don't live in Amsterdam or can't be there, the event will also be livestreamed debalie.nl/programma/ba....
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(Bad) Feminism with Roxane Gay
Few writers have redefined the boundaries of modern feminist discourse as Roxane Gay. Together with the auteur of internationally acclaimed books as Bad Feminist and Hunger we dissect the intersection...
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
So sad to hear about the passing of your mom, @roxanegay.bsky.social. Was just reading this interview you did with her in 2013 medium.com/the-hairpin/... We're so grateful for the way she helped nurture your voice and views. May she rest well.
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Interview With My Mom, One Who Stayed Home
My parents have been married for 40 years, and what they modeled for my brothers and me has shaped so much of who I am. My mom, Nicole, is one of the smartest people I know. She’s also very funny. It…
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
From maternal deaths to job losses for frontline health workers, as the effects of the 90-day suspension of US development assistance continue to be felt, @fullerproject.org's Allan Olingo outlines five ways women will be "profoundly affected". Read the latest newsletter mailchi.mp/fullerprojec...
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Trump’s funding freeze puts women’s lives at risk
In particular, Trump’s USAID funding freeze could have devastating implications for the sexual and reproductive health of African women.
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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 14/01/2025
Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi, shot in Gaza in October 2024, has been denied medical evacuation despite pleas from press and human rights organizations (Thaslima Begum/The Guardian) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Not only are these comments from Thailand’s ruling party’s “de facto leader” racist, they show a questionable understanding of biology. But from Trump to Thaksin, does it ever cost anyone politically to crap on Africans? www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/pol...
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Thaksin under fire for racist jibe
Pheu Thai
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I reckon it’s not too late to say: Happy New Year everyone! May we choose to stay loving in these hateful times; to cultivate joy in these depressing times…curious and engaged in the face of all that is overwhelming or presumably final/beyond our capacity to change. The world can still be remade.
Walter Suskinbrug, a double drawbridge in Amsterdam, outlined with lights on a grey winter’s day
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Khartoum Aid Kitchen has nearly reached its fundraising target. Help it get there because while a meal can’t make right what has gone so devastatingly wrong in Sudan, it can keep hunger from getting much worse. gofund.me/efae8175
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Donate to Fight Hunger in Sudan: The Khartoum Kitchen appeal, organized by Mustafa Ibrahim
The War in Sudan has created the World’s largest Humanitarian cris… Mustafa Ibrahim needs your support for Fight Hunger in Sudan: The Khartoum Kitchen appeal
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
My take on all the Trump genuflection: Once you have convinced yourself you can stay silent on a genocide unfolding live on your phone, you can stay silent/make peace with pretty much anything. Israel has blown a massive hole in our moral universe and now pretty anything can drive through it.
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Emperor Macron says to *French citizens* angry at slow post-cyclone relief: “You are happy to be in France. If this wasn’t France, you’d be in a bath of shit 10,000 times worse. There is no other place in the Indian Ocean where people are helped as much” 😒 www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Macron swears amid furious exchange with cyclone-hit Mayotte islanders
French president makes remark when confronted by residents still without water after huge storm last week
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Marie Colvin comes up in discussion about theatre that is western war reporting. I have her collected writings. Flip it open and land on this. Colvin writing in 1996: Palestinian politicians “grimly concurred” that “the surprise election of Binyamin Netanhayu…could prove a mortal blow to peace.”
Photograph of passage from Marie Colvin essay in which she says Palestinian politicians “grimly concurred” that “the surprise election of Binyamin Netanhayu…could prove a mortal blow to peace.”
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 15/12/2024
⏰ UK MPs don't know where facial recognition is being used or how it is (or isn't) governed by law. But the government wants to spend £20 million on police facial recognition systems anyway: privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5477/uk-government-announces-tender-live-facial-recognition-technology
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UK government announces tender for live facial recognition technology
The UK government has published a £20 million procurement for tech companies to provide live facial recognition technology (FRT) to police forces across the UK.
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
What the hell?! Thoughts are with you, other staff and students
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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
NYU Campus Security and Administration is totally out of control. On Wednesday - I filmed a peaceful protest in Bobst library for two hours. Yesterday at 2pm while at home, I received an email explaining that I’ve been designated “persona non grata” and banned from several buildings on campus.
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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
NYU Administrators have once again chosen to arrest New Yorkers for peaceful protest including faculty members. Please share. Protest is ongoing
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 12/12/2024
will the horrors never cease
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Death feels imminent for 96% of children in Gaza, study finds
Needs assessment by NGO reveals the huge psychological impact of the war with Israel on young people
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Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Thanks, Tina. I will start in the new year and one of the things I’d like to do is organise virtual sessions for journalists to get to know Fuller and what we look for in a story. Do drop me an email if you’d like to be sent details: Eliza(at)fullerproject(dot)org
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The Gender Beat @genderbeat.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
It’s been nearly a week since the end of #AWIDForum2024 in Bangkok and Team @genderbeat.bsky.social is still processing all the conversations had and connections made!
AWID signWat Arun, a temple in Bangkok
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