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Katharine Khamhaengwong

@katharinegk.bsky.social
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senior editor @bindinghook.bsky.social / freelance editor & writer (eater, eurasianet, moscow times, oc media, oxford analytica, saveur, etc) based in oegstgeest also: birds, bikes, georgian, snacks, trains

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 10h
ICE is deporting parents without their children. The Atlantic follows a 2-year-old in Mobile, Alabama, left behind when his parents were sent to Venezuela. 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 9h
In 2018, Annalinda Martinez and her daughters became homeless. She went to Georgia's child welfare agency looking for help finding housing. Instead, the state took her children. Then DFCS began charging her for their foster care. Those bills eventually left her $13,000 in debt.
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Georgia removed her kids because she was homeless. The state is charging her $13,000 for foster care
Georgia is among several states that have moved away from charging parents for their kids' time in foster care. But parents who already owe money for past cases are still on the hook.
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 13h
any clue what nos. means in this context
GANFA
SINCE 1996
شن ما
PILAU MASALA

Meat (Beef/Mutton/Chicken)
1/2 kg
1.
•2.
1/2 kg
3.
Rice
Oil / Ghee
1/2 cup

1/2 cup

4. Yoghurt
5. Tomatoes chopped
2-3 Nos.

6. Onions finely chopped
2.3 Nos.
7
Ginger Crushed
2" long piece

8. Garlic crushed

9. Sanfaz Pilau Masala
40g
Ingredients:
one medium pod
Procedure:
• Thoroughly wash and soak rice in water for 1/2 hour.
• Take 5-6 glass of tap water in a pan. add 2 tablespoon of cooking salt and soaked rice. Boil on high flame till rice is nearly cooked.
• Sieve the boiled rice and keep aside.
• Now heat oil/ghee in a pan.
• Fry onions in hot oil/ghee till golden brown. Now add ginger, garlic, tomatoes.meat, yoghurt and SANFAZ PILAU MASALA and fry for 5-10 minutes.
• Now add 2 glass of tap water and cook on medium flame till meat becomes tender and a little gravy remained.
• Lower the flame, spread boiled rice over cooked meat and simmer.
Mix together rice and meat.
• Delicious Pilau is ready Serve with salad and raita
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 16h
weird to walk into the library and the first thing you see is mein kampf front and center of the banned books display
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 19h
tfw you have beautiful, detailed, online field notes for most days from 17 february 2022 to 19 may 2022 but you happen to need the week +/- 13 may, which is absolutely, totally empty
A screenshot of a google doc that is just a list of useless dates
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 21h
between the not being able to read, the increasing homophobia, and now this, seems like the dutch youth are thriving
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 21h
once upon a time i had a great premise for a story having to do in some way with nematodes but unfortunately the note i made to remind myself of it says only “nematode story”
A screenshot of a very empty notes app reading only “Nematode story”
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Kiripost @kiripost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Photographer Yann Bigant's bloodied image of chopped-up yellow bitterns in a Cambodian wet market won Bird Photographer of the Year, but its real power lies in what it reveals: a vast, under-the-radar hunting trade quietly emptying the Kingdom's wetlands and rice fields of common and rare birds w...
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A Picture of Dead Birds That Won a Prize, and the Silent Crisis It Exposes
Photographer Yann Bigant's bloodied image of chopped-up yellow bitterns in a Cambodian wet market won Bird Photographer of the Year, but its real power lies in what it reveals: a vast, under-the-radar hunting trade quietly emptying the Kingdom's wetlands and rice fields of common and rare birds w...
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i personally think if you publish a book intended to help people learn a language it should not be riddled with errors in said language but unfortunately once again no one asked me
A Dutch textbook page talking about “identiteibewijzen”Another photo showing “openbaar vervoer“ and “Openbaar Vervoer”
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
old favorites and new highlights from kunstroute leiden today: floris olivier, eva de visser, marjan waanders, robin akkerman, johan scherft, masoud besharaty, view from a lovely studio, a man living life
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
someday i will be able to write an article without first writing 1,000 words on the origin of the nation in question and then having to delete them but not today i'm afraid
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i rather doubt thailand is doing that
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a detail wild enough that the poor reading populace wouldn’t mind a link 🥲
Mediterranean. At first the main entry point was the minuscule nation of Guinea-Bissau. By 2006 so much cocaine was passing through that fishermen took to whitewashing their houses with it.
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
not usually a huge memoir/travelogue person but quite enjoyed this one, nice balance of history and journey, a bit funny, generally a good pre-peru read
A hand holding a copy of Cochineal Red: Travels Thrpugh Ancient Peru by Hugh Thomson
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
nothing to distract you from the day’s plans like a 12-page pdf of belarusian bird community beef, conveniently translated into english, french, and russian for maximum reach (the english section is 12 pages)
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
whom amongst us has not suffered from a bit of malnutrition due to overconsumption of tortilla chips really
“There is a lot of malnutrition going on in these raccoons due to a diet that is very, very high in tortilla chips,” said Nessie O’Neil, a raccoon biologist and lead author of the study.
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
always nice to see my lovely, peaceful, and temperate hometown in the news
A screenshot of an article titled 'AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California'
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OC Media @ocmedia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Imprisoned Azerbaijani activist and researcher Bahruz Samadov attempted to harm himself with a sharp object during a Supreme Court hearing on Friday, his lawyer Zibeyda Sadigova confirmed to OC Media.
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
biannual reminder of all the fun things you get to vote on if you happen to be a taxpayer in the beautiful state of california
A photo of an online ballot with the following text: ‘More
Governor
LT Gov
SOS
Controller
Treas
Contest: 7 of 42
VOTER-NOMINATED OFFICES
STATE
Insurance Commissioner
Vote for One
BEN ALLEN
Party Preference: Democratic
California State Senator
JANE KIM
Party Preference: Democratic Attorney/Consumer Advocate’
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
actually home for seawatch season this year~
A group of people in the morning light, staring out at the sea
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 24/09/2026
Botanists in Thailand have discovered Thismia daemona, a new "fairy lantern" species with a devil-like appearance. The non-photosynthetic plant lives hidden beneath leaf litter and feeds on fungi. Found at a single site, fewer than 50 individuals exist, making it critically endangered.
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A ‘devil-like’ flower from Thailand is new to science — and critically endangered
Botanists in Thailand have identified a new-to-science species of “fairy lantern” — plants that live almost entirely buried under leaf litter, emerging aboveground only occasionally to flower.…
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the existence of the 11-page non-paper got me thinking maybe the eu should actually be abolished
A screenshot of something titled “Non-paper with an EU…” cut off (it’s 11 pages long)
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
might not launch a thousand ships but did convince me to bike 60 km with 15 kg of gear
A bad photo of a small pale shorebird with a long thin bill next to a duck
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21/09/2026
US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z
Airport staff and officials attend to a plane carrying migrants deported from the US at the Roberts International Airport in Harbel, some 56 km outside of Liberia's capital of Monrovia, on August 20, 2026
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Civil.ge @civil.ge · 22/09/2026
Giorgi Kvitsaridze, who was reportedly behind the leak of footage showing police abuse of detainees, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison on serious drug charges, in what the family and lawyers allege is the result of drug planting and pressure.
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Man Behind Police Violence Footage Leaks Jailed for 17 Years on Drug Charges - Civil Georgia
Georgian IT worker Giorgi Kvitsaridze, who was reportedly behind the leak of footage showing police
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
figured out why my bag was so heavy
A pile of books on a scale, showing a weight of 5064kilos
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
somehow managed to make the eurostar journey from london to leiden (~325km if i had wings) take nine hours (door-to-door, a half hour delay, including a bit of biking, but still! an impressive feat!)
A red pointy train on platform
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
should’ve gone into archaeology 😪
S to
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го.
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communications and access had made it more lawless.
That night we were all on a high. We expected that the next day would find us back at 'Bingham's Llactapata'. We broke open the vodka. By tradition we had a 'vodka mule' with us, loaded with a crate of Stolichnaya from the Gross Keys pub in Cuzco - for this trip, given the numbers, we had indulgently made it two crates, telling ourselves this would not then unbalance the mule. Given that we had seventeen explorers, eight muleteers and twelve horses with us, we already needed twenty-five mules to carry the other field supplies.
rowdled into the fieldtent were British contingent of six,
Fre Amaricans who had.
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
nothing like a cheap raw beef sandwich on the platform while you wait for a delayed train that if you were a bit smarter you would never have had to take
A baguette with boiled egg and filet americain , yellow and blue train in the background
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John Washington @jwashing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
More than 1,050 people died within range of border surveillance towers between 2015 and early 2026. www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/21/1...
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The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
Surveillance towers, increasingly powered by AI, promised faster responses to crossings. Our investigation of deaths near the towers found they are failing to deliver.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"briefly detained" a process that required hospitalization afterward
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
me after like two minutes in the v&a cast courts
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a delightful spot of lichening at the ancient stone circles of avebury
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Jelger Groeneveld @jelgerg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The certification fee for small wineries in Georgia will be abolished again after it went into effect three weeks ago. The minister said this was done after consultations with the sector - which indeed upon introduction complained it would be detrimental. bm.ge/news/mtavrob...
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მთავრობა, მცირე მარნებისთვის, 1 სექტემბერს ამოქმედებულ სერტიფიცირების საფასურს აუქმებს
მთავრობა, მცირე მარნებისთვის 1 სექტემბერს ამოქმედებულ სერტიფიცირების საფასურს აუქმებს - ინფორმაციას...
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
one day you’re in the midst of a pandemic moving your georgian conversation group online because what else are you going to do, next thing you know you’re on vacation in swindon
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
don’t love encountering the grocery store cashier wearing a body cam
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OC Media @ocmedia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Georgian and the Pacific micro-state of Nauru will establish diplomatic relations. 🔺The move comes after a surprise announcement in July that Nauru revoked its recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a policy first established in 2009.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Great detailed analysis here of recently exposed digital transnational repression targeting the Tibetan diaspora, and how it both builds on growing capacity in China and feeds that capacity for other forms of surveillance, domestic and transnational turquoiseroof.org/spyware-as-a...
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Spyware-as-a-Service
Spyware-as-a-Service: What the i-Soon files reveal about China’s targeting of the Tibetan diaspora
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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In this month’s Hooked!, Binding Hook editor @katharinegk.bsky.social arinegk looks at what the recent landslide disaster in Nepal and Tibet tells us about Chinese information controls and suggests some further reading: bindinghook.com/hooked-18-ho...
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Hooked! #18: Horrific flooding and just a trickle of information
What does the landslide on the Nepal-Tibet border tell us about China’s information controls?
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Ayla Albayrak @aylushka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
European Federation of Journalists (EFJ): On 13 September, journalist Tuğba Tekerek was detained and transferred to Ankara over an article she had published in 2024 concerning the LGBTI+ movement in Georgia. europeanjournalists.org/blog/2026/09...
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Turkey: Judicial harassment of journalists intensifies amid crackdown on LGBTI+ community
On 13 September, journalist Tuğba Tekerek was detained and transferred to Ankara over an article she had published in 2024 concerning the LGBTI+ ...
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
had several goals for london (besides attending work functions) and accomplished them all very efficiently
A Japanese snow cone with a cherry on topA jar full of molesA handful of english-language booksA full breakfast
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
reporting live from a real city
A group of pigeons on the road eating what looks to be some rather mediocre pizza
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Ayla Albayrak @aylushka.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Turkish journalist, our friend Tuğba Tekerek has been detained together with others as part of the anti-LGBTI+ crackdown. The operations have lasted for days, launched with absurd slogan "My Family is Safe" -- nobody is, of course
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
bluesky’s policy of labelling and covering any and all nudity — including michelangelo paintings — as adult content really feels like a culture war loss
A meme showing a dog receiving snack above Adam and god touching hands in the Sistine chapel
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
meanwhile, trying to use the wifi at a belgian train station
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Welcome,
The website is currently down for maintenance.
Our technical teams make every effort to put it online as soon as possible.
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ugh always delays with the dutch trains
A screenshot showing the 9:27 Eurostar to Paris-Nord is delayed from 9:27 to 9:27
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🙅no decorative artillery shell vases on the train🙅
A screenshot of the Eurostar website showing some mysterious metal objects and text saying all forms of military shell and cartridge are banned
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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
More than 100 camera-trap records of Sand Cats in Qatar have provided the first systematic evidence of the elusive desert felid in the country and raised the possibility that a previously overlooked population could be larger than expected:
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Hidden Sand Cat population revealed by camera traps in Qatar
A first systematic survey provides new evidence of Sand Cat in Qatar, with camera-trap records suggesting the country could support a sizeable population.
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Civil.ge @civil.ge · 15/09/2026
Small neighborhood grocery stores have been closing in Tbilisi, taking with them the spark of loyalty and care, accidental interactions, and the infrastructure of trust in a lifestyle increasingly governed by doubt. Read the photo essay by Gvantsa Lomaia:
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PhotoEssay | Dimming Lights of Tbilisi’s Neighborhood Shops - Civil Georgia
Author: Gvantsa Lomaia. *All photographs by the author I only go to a small neighborhood grocery sto
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