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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1) ‘The Han and Tibetan peoples have been neighbours for millennia. We drink from the same rivers and our futures are intertwined’ (=very true; they are brothers and sisters; a state ideology can only divide them for a limited time, as can divisive surveillance and administrative

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Margaux Boeraeve @margauxboeraeve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dendrocollybia racemosa, a weird little mushroom that grows on the sporocarps of a.o. Russula nigricans. It's only the third time ever I have found this species since it's pretty rare and rather inconspicuous. 🍄 #FungiFriends

Small mushrooms that are basically just branched stipes without a hat, appearing between litter and moss on the forest floor

Fruiting bodies of Dendrocollybia racemosa with in the background the much larger fruiting body of Russula nigricans

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this ➡️ ‚than trying to build “superintelligences”, fantasy…‘ Breathe in this sentence mentally and then come back down to earth, don’t let it take over you completely! Thank you @robinreed.bsky.social and @cosmoecology.bsky.social 🙏☸️

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

via @shahitbiz / X The word "underground" is misleading here. Xinjiang's ~60 prisons (google.com/maps/d/u/0/emb…) and 100-200 pre-trial detention centers (blog.shahit.biz/2025/03/18/a-r��), where 100000s remain incarcerated, are hardly "underground", literally or figuratively.

The word "underground" is misleading here.

Xinjiang's ~60 prisons (google.com/maps/d/u/0/emb…) and 100-200 pre-trial detention centers (blog.shahit.biz/2025/03/18/a-r…), where 100000s remain incarcerated, are hardly "underground", literally or figuratively.

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Greg @jamyang.net · 24/09/2026

Next week: @c4ads.org *Monitoring the Frontier* on China's #surveillance in Tibet, the Uyghur region, Inner Mongolia, & Hong Kong, and my new Tibet Watch piece on UAVs in Tibet. Sanctioned firms' kit still reaches police via domestic distributors. Turquoise Roof's previous report on this 👇

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China’s digital repression model in Tibet

Recent procurement documents reveal that a Chinese state-owned digital forensics firm, will provide an offensive cyber operations training environment and digital forensic laboratory to the Tibet Poli...

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Whilst, for example, ཕག་རི is now virtually inaccessible, efforts are being made at a rapid pace to expand all infrastructure in order to subsequently ‘pacify’ all neighbouring countries even more effectively.

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wealth, power and academic titles do not necessarily lead to all-encompassing competence or to an #AI of the same kind. And the sooner one begins, for example, to clearly recognise the risks associated with Palantir – rather than

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

‘Snow Lion’ from the album *Yeshi Dolma* arranged by Katherine Philp, a long-time friend and collaborator of 🪷Tenzin Choegial ☸️ and principal cellist of the Camerata. #Tibet youtu.be/EB7IjDPFsFc?...

‘Snow Lion’ from the album *Yeshi is Dolma*
arranged by Katherine Philp, a long-time friend and collaborator of Tenzin Choegial and principal cellist of the Camerata.

https://youtu.be/EB7IjDPFsFc?si=6XmoYLFmFZl2P-A5

Although the snow lion has no wings and therefore cannot actually fly, it is said that its feet never touch the ground. The existence of snow lions is described as a playful continuum (Tib.: rgyud), in which they leap from mountain peak to mountain peak.

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Researchers at Stanford University have, for the first time, constructed a virtual model of a pharmaceutical research organisation based on artificial intelligence (AI) and used it to successfully test hypotheses in drug discovery across three use cases.

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The Virtual Biotech: A multi-agent AI framework for therapeutic discovery and development

Drug development requires evidence integration across biological scales and modalities, but relevant tools are fragmented. We introduce the Virtual Biotech, an organization of artificial intelligence ...

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The ‘power of beautiful images’ is crumbling: (It seems that many people have a selective auditory perception; it is a characteristic of the species Homo sapiens to react in an extremely complex manner when emotionally unsettled? #Tibet #Hongkong

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

➡️ accusé de « collusion avec des forces étrangères » Hong Kong était autrefois libre. Libre de penser, libre de s'exprimer et d'écrire. Il ne faut pas oublier Joshua Wong, Jimmy Lay et tous les autres. L'Asie risque de devoir suivre, pas à pas, le chemin du Tibet.

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They will call for the release of the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, and other Tibetan political prisoners. They will also demand the resumption of dialogue between Chinese leaders and Tibetan representatives.

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the only way to escape extinction: speaking your own native language +preserving your culture. When they take your language away, they are trying to rob you of your intellectual+emotional roots. They want you to feel lost without the warmth of your homeland+your culture. #Kashag #Tibet

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From homes to schools, Tibetan govt-in-exile calls for language preservation

The guidelines, recently adopted by the exile government’s Kashag (Cabinet), outline the responsibilities of families, schools, officials and the wider exile community. They were issued as part of the...

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#AI, or now labelled ASI: it MAY be useful in certain areas, but the point is that AI – just like those who wish to push it forward for competitive reasons – apparently fails to recognise that AI is NOT geared towards a kind of middle way in the #Buddhist sense,

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A fable from the Tibetan Plateau: Hello everyone, this is a snow leopard from Gerze County in Tibet speaking. You can see me here because a Chinese drone has spotted me. Everything that triggers thermal imaging cameras, motion sensors and the like is meticulously

A fable from the Tibetan Plateau:
Hello everyone,
this is a Tibetan snow leopard from Gerze County in Tibet speaking. You can see me here because a Chinese drone has spotted me.

Everything that triggers thermal imaging cameras, motion sensors and the like is meticulously recorded, relayed and digitally processed in accordance with its creators’ intentions.

My every breath, my prey, my struggle for survival – for my hunger is rarely satisfied.

They’re watching me, so to speak, as I’m forced onto a diet.

Due to the ‘modernising’ dismantling of the traditionally developed, rotational grazing system involving yaks (and other grazing animals) in the Tibetan highlands, they can no longer break up and renew the grass cover.

The pastures of the Tibetan plateau are thus withering away, the vegetation cover is becoming even thinner and the soil is eroding.

Wildlife therefore finds food less frequently in an environment that, the higher up one goes, offers hardly any plant growth to begin with.

The plateau’s sensitive ecosystem is thus knowingly??? thrown out of its natural balance.

Fences block the natural migration routes of wild animals, such as Tibetan antelopes and wild asses, and become deadly barriers.

In eastern Tibet, for example, the nomadic Golok people are being resettled in guarded satellite towns under the pretext of environmental protection.

Because the uninhabited grasslands are consequently becoming increasingly ecologically degraded, this is used to justify the massive expansion of surveillance technology, drones, AI cameras, etc., in order to digitally monitor and manage the ‘ecosystem that has been endangered by human activity over recent decades’.

But I still exist, the wild and vibrant snow leopard, folks!

PS They also call it: ‘Closeness without stress – more film and more data’ (our Chinese Sapiens brothers).

https://nydus.org/news/136323-deep-robotics-setzt-lynx-m20-zur-beobachtung-tibetischer-antilopen-ein.html

Occasionally, I watch m…

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Robin Reed @robinreed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Xi Jinping! Return the 11th Panchen Lama!

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Robin Reed @robinreed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Panchen Lama is Tibetan Buddhism’s second-highest spiritual leader, after the Dalai Lama. In 1995, the 14th Dalai Lama recognized 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th Panchen Lama. Three days later, Chinese authorities abducted him and his family. They have never been heard from since.

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

སྟོད་ལྷོ་བྱང་དང་མངའ་རིས་སྐོར་གསུམ་ཁུལ་དུ་དགོན་སྡེ་སོགས་རིག་གནས་གསར་བརྗེའི་སྐབས་སུ་རྩ་གཏོར་བཏང་པ་རྣམས་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཀྱི་དེབ་ཐེར་དུ་བཀོད་པ། Remembering Tibet’s lost monasteries: Documenting a history of destruction in Southwestern Tibet. via @rfatibet

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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 21/09/2026

Excellent analysis of China’s hydraulic transformation of #Tibet. The real risk isn't simplistic “water weaponisation”: Medog is advancing while the data & governance needed to distinguish dam impacts from accelerating climate change lag badly behind.

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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 21/09/2026

@savetibet.bsky.social : Nine months after #Tibetan Buddhist leader Choktrul Dorje Ten Rinpoche was detained, his whereabouts remain unknown. His family and students have filed 7 formal appeal, with no response. Authorities have also shut institutions he founded. savetibet.org/nine-months-...

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Nine months after his detention, prominent Tibetan Buddhist leader Choktrul Dorje Ten's whereabouts, well-being remain unknown

September 21, 2026 Family members and students of the detained

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Good point – it’s the same story all over the world

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If, for example, ‘dry-stacking’ technology fails, dust containing heavy metals escapes from the basins. Primary toxins: lead (Pb), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), manganese (Mn) and arsenic (As) When the surfaces of the basins dry out, the strong Tibetan winds carry

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

ལུང་སྔོན་དགོན།

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Gender moderates the link between gender identity centrality&multiple socio-political beliefs Given the different socio-political implications associated with identifying with a structurally advantaged (vs. disadvantaged) group, the current study hypothesized that gender would moderate the

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Gender moderates the link between gender identity centrality and multiple socio-political beliefs

Given that men and women respectively occupy structurally advantaged and disadvantaged positions in society, identifying with one’s gender should have diverging associations with important socio-po...

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Exile: The Journey of the Uyghur Diaspora” by Hsiao-Hung Pai—A Review First-generation diaspora never loses the pain of exile, and their children are torn between two worlds. “Exile” is a devastating, meticulously documented account

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“Exile: The Journey of the Uyghur Diaspora” by Hsiao-Hung Pai—A Review

A meticulously documented account of how cultural erasure, mass internment, and long-arm transnational repression made Uyghur identity a fragile treasure.

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Le candidat d’extrême droite Éric Zemmour veut remplacer les immigrés qui travaillent par « des robots couplés à l’IA ». ⬇️ Les discours sur la technologie de l'IA sont aujourd'hui chargés d'une forte dimension émotionnelle. Ils exploitent la peur et l'incertitude et

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CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @chrdnet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

中国法律明令禁止酷刑，但酷刑为何仍持续发生？ CHRD新报告分析了2016至2025年间209起良心犯涉嫌遭受酷刑和其他虐待的个案，揭示酷刑背后长期存在的调查与问责缺失。 📖《欲盖弥彰：中国政府杜绝酷刑的制度性失败》 www.nchrd.org/wp-content/u...

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

སྲིད་འཛིན་ཊོམཔ་མཆོག་ལ་ཞི་དང་ལྷན་དུ་༸པཎ་ཆེན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་གློད་བཀྲོལ་དགོས་པའི་གནད་དོན་གླེང་སློང་གནང་དགོས་པའི་འབོད་སྐུལ། US Religious Freedom Body Urges Trump to Seek Release of Panchen Lama and Family From China

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sera Monastery nearby Lhasa lives now, in this very moment

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Bhuchung K. Tsering @bhuchung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Live Now! Hearing on why #humanrights should be addressed during the visit to #WashingtonDC by Chinese President #XiJinping . House China Select Committee Ranking Member Ro Khanna and CECC Ranking Member Jim McGovern www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNK_...

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Shadow Hearing | The Void in China Policy: Why Human Rights Must Be on Trump’s Agenda with Xi

YouTube video by Select Committee on the CCP Democrats

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just as the rocking motions of ships, sometimes as far as a hundred metres from the shore, affect the sediments at the shoreline of lakes to a depth of at least 1 metre, causing aquatic plants to become covered in stirred-up

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

比較的最近、ある人物たちが、世界中の傑出したコンピュータ科学者たちを自国へ呼び戻した。歴史的な比較：唐 —> 唐手 15th century: the southern islands 計略 ⬇️

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Why it might have been a „Pyrrhic victory“ to believe that it was a victory (to stop the supply of #DNA kits) As H.H. the 14. Dalai Lama has already stated on other opportunities in connection with acitivities of certain people: „They will not stop!“

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MGI Tech First-Half Revenue Rose 19 Percent, Led by Multiomics Growth

The Chinese sequencing and life sciences technology company posted revenue of 1.37 billion yuan in the first half of 2026.

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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 13/09/2026

China’s readout of the Modi–Xi meeting says Modi reaffirmed India’s #Tibet policy and pledged to bar “anti-China activities”. India’s readout mentions neither. The Tibet assurance is attributed to Modi by Beijing, without confirmation in India’s statement. 🇮🇳 archive.is/v56AA 🇨🇳 archive.is/kRrsH

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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 13/09/2026

Invited to China for an academic workshop, U.S. citizen Min Zin was detained on arrival. Three months later, he remains held without charge & incommunicado. China alleges espionage; his family and the U.S. deny it. Washington calls him wrongfully detained www.wsj.com/world/china/... #Myanmar

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Exclusive | A U.S. Scholar Was Invited to China. Then He Vanished.

Min Zin and other detainees in China are expected to be on the shortlist of issues President Trump will raise with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this month.

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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 13/09/2026

བོད་སྨྱུག་དང་བོད་ཁྱིམ་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གྱི་དཔེ་དེབ་གླེང་མོལ། | TibetWrites in collaboration with TCV School. A Book Discussion with author Amy Yee in conversation with Bhuchung D Sonam 📡 Live Stream: www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...

བོད་སྨྱུག་དང་བོད་ཁྱིམ་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གྱི་དཔེ་དེབ་གླེང་མོལ།

TibetWrites in collaboration with TCV School
Book Discussion

Author Amy Yee
in conversation with
Bhuchung D Sonam

FAR FROM THE ROOFTOP OF THE WORLD
TRAVELS AMONG TIBETAN REFUGEES ON FOUR CONTINENTS
Amy Yee
FOREWORD BY HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA

The Other Space
Jogiwara Road | Dharamsala
Sunday | 13th September | 6:30 p.m.

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Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com · 11/09/2026

The Chinese government relies on dancing ethnic minorities to project normalcy. Last year, it brought dancing #Uyghurs to #Japan. For the wonderful @mekongreview.com, I unpack the bizarre propaganda of 'Xinjiang Week' mekongreview.com/xinjiang-week/

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Xinjiang week - Mekong Review

Uyghur dance performances are invariably showcased by Chinese officials in an attempt to show that everything in Xinjiang is ‘normal’. It’s a move that, through its absurdity, creates even more unease...

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Robin Reed @robinreed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The light of the world comes and goes, it’s unstable. The Light that is eternal can never be extinguished. By this Light you behold the outer light and everything in the universe. Whatever appears to you in the universe is due solely to that great Light within you. ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Eternal Light youtu.be/qTdqFqVX0cM?... youtu.be/ZwVW1ttVhuQ?... It is not the case that two different cultures cannot understand one another completely.

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#Tibet [Lhasa]: What if children do not conform as they should and display ‘difficulties in adapting’ to a political system? ⬇️ Sleep problem profiles, hyperactivity-inattention, and psychosocial health among high-altitude preschool children | BMC Pediatrics | Springer Nature Link

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Sleep problem profiles, hyperactivity-inattention, and psychosocial health among high-altitude preschool children - BMC Pediatrics

Background Sleep is closely related to children’s behavioral regulation and psychosocial functioning, yet preschool sleep is multidimensional and may vary substantially between children. High-altitude...

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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization | Science | AAAS Not all researchers agree with Rick’s sweeping interpretation. Verónica Lema, an archaeologist at Argentina’s Museum of Anthropology who participated in

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Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization

Hallucinogens and other psychoactive substances influenced everything from architecture to political power

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