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@jinxremoving.bsky.social
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Still yelling about Malaysia | supporting refugees on a shoestring | lizard apologist | tear down the borders | relevant flags: 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇲🇾 🇲🇹 🏳️‍🌈 🏴

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 17h
Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My very smart friend @blot.city, on the evolution and enclosure of the internet: covering.substack.com/p/33
covering.substack.com
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Anti-hedgerow action
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hadn’t been especially planning to watch Primetime but now that it’s been banned in Malaysia I guess I should give it a go
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Which museum was that? 😬
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A beautifully written tribute to Karpe. I wish I had made it to one of their shows, but even just the live footage of them performing paf.no makes me cry every time brownhistory.substack.com/p/norway-is-...
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Norway Is Losing Its Mind Over a Retiring Gujarati-Egyptian Rap Duo... And The Rest of the World Has No Idea
They made immigrant identity the most popular thing in Norway.
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yep. And on top of that, some even have the toxic belief that refugees are 'cowards' because they should just stay and fight (and die).
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Alas yes. If the genocide in Gaza was committed by anyone other than Jews, it's hard to imagine many Malaysians would take an interest.
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But every time, you get the trolls or bots or just fervent patriots who lack critical thinking. Whataboutery abounds. They’re happy to regurgitate genocidal talking points and they’re sometimes even pro-Palestine. Guna otak can or not.
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ihsan has no place in Malaysia’s actions towards refugees. If it did, they’d be able to work & study. Healthcare would be affordable. They wouldn’t be easy prey for corrupt police. They wouldn’t be at risk of detention (for stateless Rohingya, indefinite) for no crime greater than lacking documents.
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
About 5 years ago Malaysia Twitter was all “We’ve been so kind to them but this is how we’re repaid 🥺!” because Malaysia was, again, deservedly, under criticism for its treatment of refugees. Can’t remember if the issue that time was the mass detentions or the mass COVID infections in detention.
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This week Malaysia sent a gift to the Myanmar military junta: over a thousand refugees who had sought protection from it. But criticise this action and many Malaysians will act like they’re the ones harmed.
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
DRONE TARGETS JOURNALISTS These images from the @afp.com show the aftermath of an Ethiopian drone strike today, on the headquarter TV station of the local Tigrai TV network in the Tigrayan city of Mekele, as war rages on. No info on casualties, Tigrai TV has been off air since the attack.
AFP photo showing the destruction caused to the headquarter building of Tigrai TV in the city of MekeleAFP photo showing the destruction caused to the headquarter building of Tigrai TV in the city of Mekele
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“If you go out, go out for something important”: an article on life for trans Muslims in Kelantan www.scmp.com/week-asia/pe...
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In Malaysia, a mother’s love offers her trans daughter refuge
For transgender Muslims in Kelantan, quiet family acceptance at home contrasts with growing fear of sharia crackdowns.
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Where the hell is Derry Girls. I have been successfully ragebaited
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
More than 450 organisations around the world - including mine, Garabtaag - have signed on to @kadinininsanhaklari.org's urgent call to stop the criminalisation of the LGBTIQ+ movement in Türkiye. Wish we could do more for our Turkish friends 💔 wwhr.org/a-joint-inte...
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Idk, if you’re truly concerned about racism in Malaysia then I encourage you to notice that its government is poised to deport thousands of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar’s junta. But if your main thing is just guessing how much time Malaysians spend thinking about the US then carry on I guess
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Converse discourse is wild because a non-zero amount of Americans concerned about racism are making some pretty racist assumptions about Malaysia/Korea/Asia as a whole
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh god Americans on here are having another round of Let’s Make Assumptions About Malaysia
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wild that a paper as big as the Times of India published this tripe (and still hasn’t responded let alone removed it). With such unprofessional standards it’s presumably not an isolated incident
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Love that film! And Pam Ferris and the Irish Mob deserve a special mention
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
But is it fascism? Do they really yearn for apocalypse? Isn't that polarizing? Shouldn't we be nice to them? We made a short video so folks can hear the end timers in their own words and judge for themselves: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...
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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Are you quite sure your reference is to Malaysia here?
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
HAYAT does amazing work not only in advocating decarceration, drug policy reform and death penalty abolition but also to support those impacted by the current prison system. Learn more about them! www.hayat-life.org
hayat-life.org
HAYAT: Towards Rehabilitative & Restorative Justice in Malaysia
A Malaysian 🇲🇾 human rights organization committed to advocating for rehabilitative and restorative justice, with a focus on decarceration, drug policy reform, and the total abolition of the death pen...
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I love a good online investigation. Here's one into a network of shady websites promoting UAE-friendly messaging about Sudan: marcowenjones.substack.com/p/from-north...
marcowenjones.substack.com
An AI-Powered, Coordinated Paid Campaign on Sudan's War, Disguised as Four Independent News Sites
Investigation reveals info op involving a Hong Kong company, three North Macedonians, 558 ads across LinkedIn & Meta, reaching 5 million accounts in the EU alone — all pushing one side of Sudan’s war
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I clicked through to find out who Prince George is since I don’t think I’d heard of him before 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s fucked up beyond measure that any of this is accepted. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Feliz cumpleaños!
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A brilliant piece of writing on a train journey across Canada, by Soraya Roberts, who recently passed away www.geist.com/fact/silver-...
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Silver & Blue - Geist.com
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I hope yougaiz won't be hit with this additional wait and can just get on with it
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At least you have a headstart, my husband and I tried moving to Ireland four years ago but didn’t last long due to the lack of housing and gender-affirming healthcare. It would have been helpful if the government took an interest in fixing those instead
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The USS Abraham Lincoln in Pattaya was a non-event for sex workers. Except for those who were arrested in the pre-arrival crackdown. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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After nine months at sea, a muted stay in Thailand for crew of USS Abraham Lincoln
The aircraft carrier’s record-long Iran war deployment, which some of the crew described as a grueling odyssey, is winding down at last.
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
[watching Silo episode one] imagine she gets out and it’s, like, Telawi
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
OMG I need to do this for the Garabtaag handbook actually, thank you for crystallising this for me
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My organisation, Garabtaag, also endorsed this statement ⬇️
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
One of the most horrific stories I’ve ever reported was published this weekend. Please, everyone privileged in this world, read it and really think about what it means not to have freedom of travel. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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‘It was day 13 or 14 when people started dying’: More than 200 set sail for Europe. Only 36 survived
A harrowing story of death and survival on the Atlantic migration route from west Africa, ‘the deadliest in the world’
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
And in the Netherlands
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
You all might be interested in this book which I highly recommend: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/research-sub... Missing from my review was that the book also addressed Ashkenazi privilege, disenfranchisement of Mizrahim, and how class tensions were exploited and redirected towards newcomers
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
Book Review: The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I’ve known a few refugees who gave up on Malaysia and went to Thailand because they hoped to be safer there 😓
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Awww please give him my best!
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh noooo
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“Malaysia made me feel like I was asking for too much when I was only asking for the bare minimum: a roof over my head, a bank account, & the ability to move around without being harassed.” My friend Al Ibrahim on being a Black migrant, first in KL, now in Berlin: garage.madebyal.net/2026/08/blac...
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B(l)ack in Berlin – The Garage
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is one hell of a read. Pussy Riot member Rita Flores has left Russia after being pressured by the security service to inform on her peers. She and her lawyer have advice for other coerced informants. theins.press/en/news/296386
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Ex-Pussy Riot member Rita Flores says she cooperated with the FSB for nearly three years before escaping Russia
Former Pussy Riot member Rita Flores has stated that in February 2023, officers from the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) coerced her into cooperating…
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My friend's parents recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. They spent their honeymoon in Kabul. In her latest newsletter, Holly looks at what happened there since then hollyedwards80.substack.com/p/fifty-year...
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Fifty Years in Afghanistan
A Tragedy in Five Decades
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Do you ever confuse, like, idk, maybe a distant lawnmower with some particularly atmospheric drone music? Because I think I’m getting that right now
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
For @womeninmigration.bsky.social & Efecto Colibrí, I wrote about the state of migration today: efectocolibri.com/en/pushing-b...
This violence is ever present for certain populations: refugees, Global South migrants, holders of ‘weak’ passports, low-income workers. It becomes normalized, even as other populations easily breeze past it. The violence that Amir experienced is not over yet: “I am in a complete security crisis. A person can survive poverty, but no one can survive without safety. If I work, I risk going to prison. If I don’t work, I face starvation. If I go outside, I live in fear of being caught.”
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
*Myanmar
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In honour of yesterday’s event I reread this 1979 account by Annie Dillard. It’s so good, so haunting pioneerworks.org/broadcast/to...
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Annie Dillard: Total Eclipse | Broadcast
The great writer on the best minutes of her lifetime.
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Exemplary alt text for the first one, thank you
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Partial eclipse time in the Netherlands and it is indeed still and silent outside. Complete absence of birdsong
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Nine @jinxremoving.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Well that sent me down a rabbit hole 😐
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