Reposted by skeeter boyJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 02/08/2026more good content! imagine publishing content that's just nice! reveals a little bit about having fun on the internet! people just doing things because they can and the internet was nice! 636083
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026This is what it feels like to be a tourist in Beijing 000
Reposted by skeeter boyAlison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 29/05/2026NEW: China's campaign of oppression in Xinjiang has entered a pernicious new phase - and FT analysis shows that the region still has the highest detention capacity in the world, relative to its population. as.ft.com/r/a4b72955-5...as.ft.comHow China is breaking apart a people and its cultureThe campaign of repression against the Uyghurs has entered a new phase 04634
Reposted by skeeter boyKory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 29/04/2026A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n 432141626
Reposted by skeeter boySorrel @sorrelish.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics. 5577972103
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 14/03/2026What did y'all think Just Stop Oil meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers. 000
Reposted by skeeter boyAlison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 13/12/2025In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...wsj.comICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur CampsHeng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group. 4124571489
Reposted by skeeter boyBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13/11/2025More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves. 111773377
Reposted by skeeter boy🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 19/06/2023Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better? 161581417
Reposted by skeeter boyJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 03/09/2025The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but it’s also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are “Heritage Americans”. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team 331671316
Reposted by skeeter boySarah, manic pixie dream MILF @goatsarah.org · 29/08/2025I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13) 6455953319
Reposted by skeeter boyDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2025This is evil -- the kind of evil you read about in history books, the kind of evil you would never mistake for a single second if you saw it in another country. When you ask, of historical evils, "how could they let that happen?" That's us. We're letting this happen. 61574297
Reposted by skeeter boyPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 14/08/2025This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC... 22395742531
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 13/08/2025It appears there were casualties after the collision between the Chinese destroyer and Coast Guard vessel judging by the movement of Chinese ships afterward x.com/GordianKnotR... 0150
Reposted by skeeter boyAubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Not sure how I’m going to get through these next four years without becoming a crazed street preacher going, “Repent! Repent! You will meet God one day!” 725246
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Xiang gang? Yeah, that's what I call my friends in Hunan 000
Reposted by skeeter boyAnthony Breznican @brezwrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2025The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before? That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators. My how times change ... 10791953991
Reposted by skeeter boyThe Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 05/07/2025There was an elite consensus against transphobia so strong Texas’ Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus refused to pass a transphobic law, the public broadly agreed, and then a few elite liberals took it upon themselves to make transphobia popular and more or less succeeded. 8158481091
Reposted by skeeter boyone dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 04/07/2025“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda” 365324159288
Reposted by skeeter boyMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/06/2025i just want people with an avatar that’s an animal or a cartoon or a famous person to know that that’s still what i think you look like 2611923151
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 28/06/2025WSJ, three years ago: Flight data indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed a China Eastern jet www.wsj.com/world/china/...wsj.comWSJ News Exclusive | China Eastern Black Box Points to Intentional NosediveFlight data suggests that someone in the cockpit of the Boeing 737-800 that crashed in March put the aircraft into a near-vertical descent, according to a preliminary U.S. assessment. 130
Reposted by skeeter boylastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Every time someone responds to an obviously normative-aspirational claim ("this not who we are", "this is not America", etc) with some I'm-very-radical descriptive rebuttal ("er actually America has always done <similar bad stuff>") an angel dies. Like, no joke, dead. Direct causal result of this. 1022117245
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Are they roasting Trump's military parade on Weibo? 010
Reposted by skeeter boyAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 10/06/2025www.wnep.com/article/news... 3873291
Reposted by skeeter boyHayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 05/06/2025this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it. 409277153229
Reposted by skeeter boyFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/05/2025I had no idea samurai in feudal Japan were that dedicated to troubleshooting Flash 441937396
Reposted by skeeter boyChhiū-ông-kong 樹王公 @shuwanggong.bsky.social · 25/04/2025This applies to Australia too: 'Taiwan’s democracy is both shield and target. Its openness enables resistance but also allows infiltration. This contradiction must be acknowledged – not as a failure of the system, but as a feature that requires constant attention.' newbloommag.net/2025/04/20/r...newbloommag.netThe CCP’s Reunification Trap: Coercion Over Goodwill in Taiwan | New Bloom MagazineBeijing insists that reunification with Taiwan is inevitable. It presents the project as a peaceful return to a shared destiny, a family reuniting after decades apart. This language is polished and… 1149
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Literally worse than China. China doesn't ask for this and I've never heard of people being rejected from entering China only for online activity, unlike America now. 000
Reposted by skeeter boyNiao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 15/04/2025A rare public protest in Chengdu "Without political reform there can be no national rejuvenation" "The people do not want a party with unbound power" "China does not need someone to dictate her path, because democracy is the way" 49340
Reposted by skeeter boyweeporklyman.bsky.social @weeporklyman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025The only truly consistent working theory of how helicopters fly is that there is a god, and both they and the devil consider helicopters to be abominations. They fly only because neither the god above nor the devil below will accept them 0452
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I haven't gotten over the fact Evangelicals helped elect the most Darwinian US government ever 110
Reposted by skeeter boyReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 20/02/2025I guess it's sorta ironic that the "cosmopolitan elites have no principles or values" has turned out to be true but for basically every conservative 641358
Reposted by skeeter boySansa Sandisk @cheatlines.co · 19/01/2024the "DEI pilots" thing is not only untrue, but the opposite of true. The piloting profession in the late 20th century was so dominated by one Guy Type that they had to invent a new kind of training that forced pilots to listen to their first officers so they would stop flying planes into the ground 603263605
Reposted by skeeter boy你法我笑的Dictator Yang📄🏳️🌈🌻🍉🐚 #pray4jade @y-wenli.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Translated this now censored post by a queer Chinese netizen calling out their non-queer counterparts for whitewashing the #LGBTQ situation in #China in front Western #tiktokrefugees (see alt text) People outside China should see this scathing post too imo, so please share! 7205109
Reposted by skeeter boyChenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 24/01/2025rarely I find something fun on the other site that has to be shared with language nerds Japanese and Chinese speakers finding a new way to communicate that completely makes sense :))) 1355
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025This controversy over centralized procurement of drugs has contributed to Luigi's popularity in China 000
Reposted by skeeter boyRyan North @ryannorth.ca · 17/01/2025Imagine if diamonds really were your best friend, how sad. Imagine if it really was raining men, how terrible. I think songs are just awful 2736873959
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025This is one of the funniest thing I've seen on Tiktok refugee Xiaohongshu. Some rich guy showing off his "rural China" house, and Americans not realising this is a conspicuous consumption app. 110
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Top three Xiaohongshu posts for me today are a dual English/Chinese "I'm deleting this and going back to TikTok", an English "I'm deleting this because us Americans are doing more harm than good", and a Chinese-only "why does everyone not like Jews?" 011
![I'm really fed up with TikTok Refugees asking about the current situation of the LGBTQ in China, and then hundreds & thousands of cishet men & women rushing up to say "We don't care about sexual orientation", "We treat everyone equally", "no discrimination no promotion", "We're inclusive as long as you don't promote [LGBTQ ideology]."
Who says [we queer Chinese] belong to the same "we" as you guys?
If you really cared about the rights of sexual minorities, you wouldn’t say lightly such things as "Sexual minorities are not discriminated against here, we‘re all ordinary folks." Saying such words shows that the plight and suffering of sexual minorities are completely invisible to you. You think that "neither support or oppose" is a charity to minorities, and you even add "don’t [display your queerness] in public places" and "don't affect children." You‘re even proud of yourself for how tolerant you are. "We don't care", the world is now at peace [invoking Confucian term sarcastically].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:drrr6ze2djslmfocuwdlnipz/bafkreig2w4v36olkclaby5cryxaayyhz5dd36d4nr56pbqihpm4ztbeihq)
![Yes, you don't care at all. You don’t care about the bullying sexual minority teenagers face at school; you don’t care about the difficulties transgender people face when job hunting; you don’t care about all those [LGBTQ] public welfare [social media] accounts that have been nuked; you don’t care about all those [LGBTQ] clubs that have been cancelled; you don’t care about all those [queer] characters on screen that have disappeared; you don’t care about the [queer-themed] books that have been removed from the shelves overnight; you don’t care about the rampant internet violence of [anti-LGBTQ] hate groups; you don’t care about the marginalization, fetishization, and stigmatization of sexual minorities; you don’t care about all the [queer] voices that have been silenced; and you don’t care at all about all the [queer] lives that have passed away. You are the principal who [temporarily] changes [his students' grueling] class schedule and greets his superiors with an [ingratiating] smile when they come to inspect [the school]; the domestic abuser who pretends to be affectionate [to his wife] in front of colleagues, relatives and friends; the "loving"[read: abusive] parents who put on another face when guests come over. All you care about is your mianzi [face].
“No discrimination no promotion” is a complete joke. I've seen how forcefully “no promotion” is enforced, but where is the enforcement of “no discrimination”? Cishets saying that LGBTQ people are already treated equally is like a man saying that we've long achieved gender equality, or an able-bodied person saying that people with disabilities already enjoy very convenient lives in China. Let the sexual minorities themselves determine whether or not they're discriminated against. You are a fish in the mainstream; you don't realize that you live in water. [yes, pun intended]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:drrr6ze2djslmfocuwdlnipz/bafkreifsg4kklcbno6nm3iw7sryofqazi3laf5d2gpwb2sd3vbn7zr6xgi)
