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undisciplined academic, all things South East Asian -and more, my eyes are bigger than my stomach. Lives in Canada - has been a rootless cosmopolitan (and is grateful for that). Woke af.

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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 1h
Sublime album - the genius of Caroline Shaw m.youtube.com/watch?v=yHA5...
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The Trees of Green-Wood
YouTube video by Caroline Shaw - Topic
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fall
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Devastating
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Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
The bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst U.S. war crimes since Vietnam. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, and witnesses. This is their story.
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As ever, thankful to @equatormag.bsky.social What an interview. Looking forward to the book by Akbar Shahid Ahmed
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Guilty Men • EQUATOR
A new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I honestly have to pause nowadays as I read, research, teach about colonial extraction and Cold War insurgencies.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don’t know who designed the Canadian Common CV for research grant applications but they must really hate academics
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I wish Ed Sheeran the best Vegas Residency he will have performing to people who deserve his music. Especially when he loses his “laddish” looks in his old age.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
He cooked Ed Sheeran on IG
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Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words
"Free Palestine" and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, "I don't take sides."
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
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"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Labour has banned peaceful protest for Palestine. It should not be hard for Andy Burnham to condemn thugs.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 06/09/2026
🇵🇸 More than 70 children are among 100 Palestinians being laid to rest in Gaza today after their bodies were recovered from beneath their homes’ rubble, Dr. Muneer al-Bursh, dir. gen. of Gaza’s Health Ministry writes on X. Families waited 2 years, some longer, to bury them. More than 8,000 people...
🇵🇸 More than 70 children are among 100 Palestinians being laid to rest in Gaza today after their bodies were recovered from beneath their homes’ rubble, Dr. Muneer al-Bursh, director general of Gaza’s Health Ministry writes on X. Families waited two years, some longer, to bury them.

More than 8,000 people remain missing under the rubble, he says. Israel continues blocking heavy machinery needed to recover bodies, according to civil defense teams. Al-Bursh called for Israel to stop blocking rescue equipment, forensic supplies, and DNA testing to identify the dead.

He also accused Israel of mixing human remains with rubble, warning that this risks destroying evidence. In the southern city of Rafah, he said, bones have become mingled with debris. He urged action before Israel could conceal evidence of its crimes.

“Every set of remains bears a name, and every name a family that waits.”
Dr.Muneer Alboursh د.منيرالبرش
@Dr_Muneer1
Translated from Arabic
Seventy Children in One Funeral… This Is What Genocide Looks Like

Today, Gaza lays one hundred martyrs to rest, more than seventy of them children, whose bodies were pulled from beneath the rubble of their homes after years.

These children should have been carrying their schoolbags to school, playing and growing and dreaming… not being carried from beneath the rubble to their graves.

They were not numbers; they were names and faces and little dreams, and mothers and fathers who waited far too long to bid their children farewell.

When children form the majority of a funeral of this size, the question becomes agonizing:

If this is not one of the faces of genocide, then what does genocide look like?

Gaza today is not only burying its children…
It is burying dreams that should have grown.
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There’s a word for all of this
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It’s LAKE ONTARl’IO (Haudenosaunee)
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ah f**k….
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 26/08/2026
Kind of hard for a professional organization to argue that history is integral to democracy when it goes to lengths to quash democracy within its own membership. And this isn't what I want my members dues to be used for. I suspect many will feel the same. 🗃️
If the AHA leadership continues to heed that advice, its members can expect further silencing of their voices within the organization. In addition to recommending that the AHA frame the historical profession as an arm of the “national security” apparatus, Thorn Run has told its leadership that it should reroute “all future requests for public statements,” “all member concerns regarding conflict zones,” and “all concerns regarding historians in conflict zones” to a leadership committee, so that it can contain and control “out-of-scope debates.” The aim, in other words, is to “utilize the January 2026 veto as a safe harbor precedent to prevent future mission-creep” by shifting from vetoes to a place where institutional silence ensures that there is nothing to veto.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Fifth Annual Alchemy Lecture. ScALE. October 29, 2026 www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 25/08/2026
Two paths diverged in the woods and America took the psychopath.
Paychopath
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The great and good are leaving us.
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Allyship @allyship.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Amazon started as a company that sold books; now it's a company that destroys them. 🖕
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I love you Hannah Einbinder
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Say it with me: ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Two Canadian Scientists Develop an Inhaled Vaccine Mist That Delivers Immunity Directly to the Lungs, Right Where Viruses Enter Two scientists, Fiona Smaill and Zhou Xing, developed AeroVax, an inhaled vaccine mist designed to reach the lungs in just 2 minutes.
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Such a necessary read - brilliant book
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal. We have been pragmatic, patient, and persistent. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame.
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Habibi Funk and Audible Beauty - May this label thrive
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Get those cocktail shakers going - Alfonso Soliano - babak Jazz Malaysia daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the...
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Alfonso Soliano, “Tiga Trombone”
Habibi Funk’s new sublabel launches with a masterpiece of Malaysian jazz.
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hebat Jazz Dari Johari Salleh. Getting the recognition he deserves faroutmagazine.co.uk/johari-salle...
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Johari Salleh - ‘Jazz Dari Angkasapuri’ album review
Audible Beauty, a new sister-label to Germany's Habibi Funk, has unleashed an incredible collection of recordings from Malaysian jazz master Johari Salleh.
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Love Star City - it’s the Russian soul of Pushkin, Pasternak, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Sholokov as science fiction. So that’s how Irina started her career, and that’s who Sergei Nikulov is (spoilers for For All Mankind fans)
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
shrlnk.ca
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ShrLNK
Shorten links, share files, and send encrypted self-destructing notes — free to use.
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The scourge of ignorant consultants (but friends of university board members and govs) used by universities all over the Anglo world has been happening for some time. Talking to them is frustrating- they know nothing about higher ed and don’t want to.
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Anyone who comments on how much they love Massive Attack but they should leave their politics behind definitely does not know MA’s music and performance at all
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Is Raspail’s Camp of the Saints is the inspiration of the “Ceuta invasion”?
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The EU will not hold together.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Queen!
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 27/07/2026
Pioneering L.A. assemblage artist Betye Saar, who ‘liberated’ Aunt Jemima, dies days before her 100th birthday www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/… 
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Exclusive: UK told Karim Khan it would not back him as ICC prosecutor before removal vote - www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-told-…
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Exclusive: UK told Karim Khan it would not back him as ICC prosecutor before removal vote
The British government declined Khan's request to meet ministers before ICC member states voted to remove him as prosecutor, sources say
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Notice the colour of the fireworks after the World Cup presentation of the trophy? They were ready for an Argentina win.
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Critical Criminology @critcrim.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
FIFA Get Fckd Seen in Vancouver. #FuckFIFA #WorldCup
Graffiti on wood panel wall.
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Hey America, go rake your forests ok?
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The final is going to be boring after this.
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
My boy, Saka. What a game.
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Forest experts deployed now on social media!
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This!
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We need him back www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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How and why I became Canada’s Minister of the Environment — and why I left
After joining Justin Trudeau’s government on the promise of real environmental commitment, I left Mark Carney’s cabinet over substantive disagreements about policy.
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Relic. Eff you Brexiters
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