skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The stereotype in China is basically that Uyghurs tend to be backwards extremists, except for some (generally women) who are instead very hot 030
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It's missing all the major newspapers, both of Fairfax (SMH, The Age etc.) and News Corp (The Australian, Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun etc.) 011
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026> Donald Trump spoke to a journalist in the White House in 2021 about his desire to acquire Greenland: “I love maps. And I always said, ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive, and that should be part of the United States.’” www.afr.com/world/europe...afr.comThe trouble with maps: Greenland’s allure for Trump is based on an illusionGreenland’s position in the northern latitudes means the nation’s size and shape is prone to enormous variations in how it is portrayed on global maps. 000
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Most American Jews are Ashkenazi/have Ashkenazi descent (which is more-or-less "European-looking Jew") 000
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is beside the point, and race/ethnicity isn't really about genetics, but Elon is also very wrong on the genetics as Ashkenazi Jews do have rather distinctive DNA 120
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Also, World Boxing cleared her earlier this year to compete as a woman following mandatory sex tests 110
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The $38 shoes are his strongest argument against it overall. If they last at least one third of the life of the sole of a higher quality shoe, you'll be financially better off in the long run with cheap shoes. 1260
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026"Vimes Boot Theory is a nice little theory that makes people think they're unfairly getting duped by the system. But it's simply not true. I think most people don't know how much it costs to buy and maintain well-made things." Threads: x.com/dieworkwear/... x.com/dieworkwear/...x.com 1581
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 · 01/08/2026What a strange coincidence, this is exactly what neo-Nazis in Australia look like 010
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026This is what it feels like to be a tourist in Beijing 000
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Not surprising, there's a pattern in recent centuries where those who already mistrust the authorities are radicalised when authorities try to handle epidemics. Healthcare workers were murdered during an ebola outbreak a decade ago. 010
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026There's also this rather curious bit from a guy who some might say resembles a hulking great troll observer.co.uk/culture/inte... 1130
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
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026My habit of reading the inner posts first meant I did not read "pennies" correctly 010
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
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026You have to mention Breaker Morant in the article if you're going to write that summary 000
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 02/04/2026This is News Corp trying to make Albo look bad. Article says "The current SAS crew deployed to the Middle East were expected to focus on emergency rescues of diplomats who remained in the region after Australia closed its embassies in Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv and its consulate in Dubai." 2267
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
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I wonder if they've noticed one of their gold medal winners, Su Yiming, has a Japanese coach 040
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 22/02/2026The pictures didn't work for me, but Yahoo ran the same piece and that all worked for me ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/alysa-l...ca.sports.yahoo.comAlysa Liu's father shares conflicting emotions after Olympic gold | ExclusiveAlysa Liu's father, Arthur Liu, shares conflicting emotions after his daughter won the Olympic gold medal in women's figure skating. 110
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026 Please stop imperiling the butterfly @ashishval.bsky.social 110
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 31/01/2026As a technical note, the = stuff comes from printing encoded characters. = is a new line and =XX encodes a particular character. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-...en.wikipedia.orgQuoted-printable - Wikipedia 1581
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 26/01/2026As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free 130
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 16/12/2025It also makes sense that it appeared in Chinese media first because it was also posted on Chinese social media first 010
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
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025That's just what the government wants you to think 000
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
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 08/11/2025In a big win for nominative determinism, it's actually her real name 1450
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Its name on my phone changed from Rednote to 小红书 a little while back, which I took to mean it was becoming less welcoming for foreigners 010
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
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Australia's third prime minister wasn't even a citizen but he was white enough that nobody paid too much attention 030
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025A fresh version of that chart shows it's now stable at about half the peak 110
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025This puts into words why I find it hard to imagine Vance as his successor 150
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025It's more from the community around the game, such as their subreddit, where they often call their enemies fascists (ironically, since they're playing on the fascist side in the game) and reference the hellbomb code 070
skeeter boy @skeeterboy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025I think a stronger take can be justified: The horrors of the Sino-Japanese War are only integrated into its history is because it serves as one of the founding wars in CCP historiography. It took a number of decades before the CCP cared about what happened in Nanjing. 010
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
