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In Indonesia, after human rights violator Prabowo was elected as president, I saw Ibu Maria Sumarsih, the activist who lost her son in the 1998 violence, simply continued with her weekly Kamisan protest. That’s also when I thought: this is not game over, this is game on.

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In Australia, news organisations and universities have retreated into their safe zones. Ones that have supported calls for social justice in the past became silent on Gaza. Ones that have profited from employing migrants and international education fell silent in the face of racism and xenophobia.

This is what I have learnt: when the world is divided, choose compassion and courage over the corrupt c*nts.

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Bishop Mariann Budde reminds me of the compassionate and courageous Muslim teachers I had when I was young who steered me away from the world of deep hate to one that is open, kind & loving. Trump is like the hateful Muslim ‘leaders’ who wanted to recruit me to their cause for their personal glory.

Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

We’re getting a DNA test for this beautiful old dog, Nina Van Horn (15 years old). We have no clue about her mix. We know one highly possible breed but the rest is a mystery. Result will be available in 2 weeks. Does anyone want to play a game and guess her mix? Will post result when it’s done!

Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

It is when it’s bloody 40 degrees outside

Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Also, I have the privilege of a decent full time job to be able to afford the rent. If I ever have kids they’ll also have the privilege of a safe and comfortable home.

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Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I like to joke that people living in Melbourne like to talk about the weather but refuse to talk about the climate. But it’s good that there are good developers, architects, engineers etc who are doing the right things.

Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I just moved to a well-built concrete apartment building in Melbourne and guess what: in consecutive 40 degree days, no air conditioning was required. The apartment remained cool, around 25-30. This is in a north-facing apartment with floor-to-ceiling glass sliding doors that get afternoon lights.

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Before you share, repost, do, or call something 'journalism', ask: What verification was done? What context is missing? What voices weren't heard? Training yourself to ask these questions is a step towards being a more informed digital citizen and creating better, safer spaces on the internet.

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And in the world today where people are being bombarded with information from many sides about many things, basic journalism skills should be owned by everyone, not just professional journalists. This is what I teach - not just specific skills for journos, but also how to face dis/misinformation.

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Eg: a person livestreaming in front of a burnt shop isn't journalism. It's just broadcasting what they see. Journalism happens when they've interviewed the shop owner, residents, emergency services, checked police reports, and verified when/how the fire started - THEN tell and publish the story.

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Journalism at its best is a discipline of verification and truth-seeking. It’s a set of skills that require training to develop and polish, and require many hours of work that often end up being invisible once we get to the stage of publishing and storytelling.

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Good journalism is important but we often confuse the acts of publishing, storytelling and journalism. Journalism is not the same as publishing or storytelling. Most people have access to publish information. Many can tell stories convincingly. Neither requires journalism.

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"Given the frame of our inquiry - decolonising knowledge for development - these experiences and observations suggested to us that story-telling is a particularly appropriate method to use in this case." @idsglobaldev.bsky.social's PeterTaylor in our latest blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2096

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Story-Telling: A Method to Support Decolonising Knowledge for Development

By Peter Taylor I have recently been working closely with a group of EADI members reflecting on the importance of “decolonising knowledge for development”. This is in response to our acknowledgemen…

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Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

One of these White Australian Olympians is unlike the others: Steven Bradbury, Peter Norman, Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn.

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Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

do i really want to read these and why is it that Apple news is trying to push these to me

Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Imagine if there was a professional sport worth billions of dollars where the game can just stop because it rains

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14/12/2024

BREAKING: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been impeached by the country’s National Assembly over his attempt to impose martial law, a move that plunged the country into political turmoil aje.io/mdyo2e

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Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I don’t know why but a website called ‘Nangwizard’ providing a page about how to make fresh whipped cream is really really funny

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Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Sharing my little exchange from the other website. I've only just written it, and I don't have the space to deal with trolls today, so I'll log off. But it's so bloody annoying and hypocritical that people like Babet are asking others to be polite and quiet when it comes to accusations of racism.

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Seems very odd someone can be found by a federal court to have acted in a racist manner, yet it remains "unparliamentary" to refer to them as a racist. Even more absurd when that somebody is the leader of far-right political party. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

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‘Vindictive, mean, nasty’: Fatima Payman attacks Pauline Hanson in Senate furore

Independent senator Lidia Thorpe backed Payman and appeared to throw papers at Hanson before storming out of the Senate with her middle finger raised.

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Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The Canadian writer Madeleine Thien just donated the entirety of her $25,000 Writers’ Trust of Canada award to charities, including to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and the Lebanese Red Cross. I have not read her books but will now buy every single one. www.instagram.com/reel/DCsIuQL...

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Also, this is why the Haka at the NZ Parliament, started by Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, WAS SO EFFING POWERFUL

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This is not me playing the race card or jumping on the diversity bus. This is me realising the biggest challenges we are facing today have roots in colonial and capitalist power structures and the key to engaging effectively with these structures is in listening to minorities and Indigenous people.

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But the challenge that I am taking on right now is in embracing how to be a minority and to find power and solidarity in it. I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to adapt to White spaces in Australia (my background as an ultra-hegemonic Javanese Muslim Straight guy in Indonesia helps!).

Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I'm a board member of the Melbourne Press Club. Last year I was VP. This is to say: as a brown man, I know how to navigate the White spaces of Australian journalism. To an extent. I also know where the brick walls are, where Whiteness are maintained; and I also know where the good folks are.

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Hello! Yes I’m now here but I’m also still on Twitter. I’ll be there until all the lights go out. Most of the warm gathering places there are gone but there are still some of us warming our hands on the embers of good memories, hiding under bridges while trolling some of the annoying people there.

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So just take my word for it - that we have amazing, talented young journos coming up in the world who do good, ethical, illuminating work (and please support and subscribe to good, ethical news publishers so they have the money to hire these awesome new journos!).

Unfortunately we can’t publish them in the student publication because they skirt around possibly illegal activities and we don’t have a budget for lawyering up or to protect our sources.

They wrote beautiful stories that reflect the realities of living in Australia today, including a story of supermarket workers who ‘never’ saw anyone stealing 🤘🏽 and an old woman who runs a covert operation to steal lemons from her neighbour’s tree 😂

Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

This year, three of my journalism students in Australia separately pitched stories exploring ‘ethical stealing’ in a time when living costs are soaring so high that people are stealing from supermarkets that have been making so much profit.

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❤️ my swirly son. Also his swirly back is from his gentle lazy beautiful golden retriever mum which is his temperament 90% of the time. The rest of him is an unknown energetic protective barky zoomy athletic farm dog dad which is him when he hears someone knocking on the door.

The back of a black half-golden retriever dog lying on the bed with visible swirls on his back. He is lying on a bed with a gentle sunlight shining on it.

BlueShiftNZ @blueshiftnz.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

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That would explain a lot...

Four images of cats sitting in damaged areas that make them appear to be very heavy.

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Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Then when they hit 40 they either act 15 or 65. This is how it works.

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Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

I might be naive but my experience of reddit as a general, mostly passive user, has also been pretty nice. But maybe, to your point about buttressing, it’s because the subreddits I go to are moderated well.

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Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

Many Australians are experiencing food insecurity for the 1st time. Meanwhile, corporate profits (including supermarkets’) are hitting record-highs. I’m not an economist but it’s clear a large amount of money has been shifted from workers to corporations. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

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Food insecurity is 'absolutely everywhere' in Australia. Most are feeling it for the first time

Foodbank Australia has highlighted a "food security crisis," after new data revealed a staggering increase in the number of people struggling to put food on the table.

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Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Just had a nice lunch with extended members of my Australian family who hold various ideological persuasions. Just want to send out a warning to those preparing for Christmas gatherings: yes, be ready for your uncles aunties and cousins. They WANT TO and WILL talk about politics.

Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

omg just used Descript to edit a podcast episode and it’s bloody awesome 👏🏽 never realised how good it is to be able to see the words as I edit

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Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Which culture in the world do you think encourages its people to think too much about food on a daily basis? Happy to hear what you think but the only correct answer is Indonesian.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/10/2023

Katalin Karikó was the daughter of a butcher. She wanted to be a scientist, although she had never met one. She immigrated to the US in her 20s, but for decades never found a permanent position, receiving little support from the scientific establishment. Now she’s a Nobel winner!

Katalin Karikó on the phone receiving news about winning the Nobel Prize

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Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

My first iphone was an iPhone 3 and I’ve been hating its autocorrect function for a long time but it’s only now, on an iPhone 13, that I turned it off. It feels weird. Kind of freeing. No scribbly interlocutor following my words, judging and fixing my words like a little busy bee protecting its nest

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Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Recently realised that most young people today don’t know the pleasure of disappearing for a few hours after school; no one knows where you are, just you, your mind, your deep feelings and the wide streets and the big world.

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Tito Ambyo @arsisto.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

‘I’ll sit outside, get a bit of sun’ - me, realising I am now a White Australian and no longer an Indonesian

Sunny day in Melbourne, a table on the foreground and white market tents on the background. A sign that says Market Lane Coffee.