Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴

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UK based, mixed diaspora lad,
Remnant of #MilkTeaAlliance
Yelling into a new void.
My views are mine
Has some dumb feeds & a couple of good ones.

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This is a really good time if you're not already connected to local groups and organizations organizing around particular issues to find ones in your communities that could use your talents and skills.

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Today, Lingua Sinica launched the first edition of INTERSECTIONS, our new monthly bulletin dedicated to coverage of women’s issues and feminism in the Chinese-language media space. Read it here: linguasinica.substack.com/p/intersecti... and subscribe to our Substack for more in the future.

INTERSECTIONS/ July 15, 2024linguasinica.substack.com A rundown of issues, analysis, and must-read stories about women and female representation in the Sinophone landscape.

Junta in Myanmar has added @signal.bsky.social to its Internet "block" list... Hasn't worked though. Cause signals own proxy settings bypass the block... also VPNs have been sourced. 😏

Went out for my morning smoke to see this scene. The cat has not yet jumped nor has the bird flown away. Not sure it can, looks to be a fledgling. Can't reach it easily either. 😥

Found my other pair of glasses that I had mislaid for over a year... Random win.

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Time for a news round-up. Specifically, short fiction, since the second half of this year will see a whole lot of new stories I’ve written coming out with different publishers. #Booksky Full details on the blog. Signal boosts very much appreciated. www.julietemckenna.com/a-slew-of-my...

A slew of my shorter fiction coming your waywww.julietemckenna.com With one of those quirks of timing the book trade comes up with, the second half of this year will see a whole lot of new short stories I’ve written coming out with different publishers. First up, …

Best birthday cake ever... 😂

Tonight’s #hellfood is Siumai birthday cake. Now the bigger question, is it with pork (based) or fish (bad). 🤔

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If these drugs remain available for the treatment of cis gender children, but are banned for trans kids, this has nothing to do with either patient safety or ethical medicine.

www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Puberty blockers ban motivated by ex-minister’s personal view, UK court toldwww.theguardian.com High court told emergency order banning drugs for young people with gender dysphoria not backed by evidence

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police inspector general resigned this afternoon. wow.

these are the police Kenya sent to Haiti, BTW. the ones blocking medical care and bragging about killing more protesters. this is who the US govt supports and wants all over the world.

Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome resignswww.citizen.digital Japhet Koome has resigned as the Inspector General of the National Police Service.

Too many protesters in Kenya being found dead... 9 more bodies found in quarry. This is grim. thekenyatimes.com/latest-kenya...

Questions as Nine Bodies Are Discovered in Nairobi Quarrythekenyatimes.com Residents of Mukuru kwa Njenga, a slum in Nairobi, are in shock after area youth found nine unidentified bodies dumped

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They found even more bodies today 💔

they left his body out in public to be discovered. The president is trying to play nice while he's secretly having young people tortured and killed.

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Myanmar in June. Junta continued to increase airstrikes, women getting conscripted, ceasefire in north Shan broke down, arrests of protesters, Anti-Junta forces made gains, VPN ban & more Worth reading the Altsean - Burma coup watch briefer #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar drive.google.com/file/d/1kBwp...

More about Thai banks being the ones to facilitate money transfers to the Junta. MFP MPs including Pita spoke strongly on the matter at a parliamentary committee meeting at which the UN Special Rapporteur presented his damming report on Thailand's complicity www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-IK...

กมธ.ความมั่นคงเรียกธนาคารไทยแจง เหตุระบบแบงค์ไทยถูกใช้หนุนสงครามในเมียนมาwww.youtube.com YouTube video by พรรคก้าวไกล - Move Forward Party

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Since the Patriot Act, telecoms, social media sites, and email services profit by charging the govt fees to comply with info requests. Often enough they don't even ask for a warrant. All that facial recognition AI? Including to unlock your phone? Dev'd & sold as Uyghur genocide tools for China .

Oh great, we’ve entered the stage where corporations have joined in on the fascism. Ya I know Twitter got there first, but this is next level.

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A reminder again that no matter how you feel about Palestinians posting links to GFMs in your mentions there is a difference between SPAM and SCAM.

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🚨Apple has sent another round of notifications to iPhone users to inform them that they are being targeted by "mercenary spyware attacks". Here's what this means and what you can do if you're a member of civil society + received an alert 👇 securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/...

Apple threat notifications: What they mean and what you can do - Amnesty International Security Labsecuritylab.amnesty.org What are the Apple threat notifications and how you can protect yourself

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HOLY SHIT HE DISSOLVED THE CABINET

Kenyan President Ruto to address the nation later on Thursday

Kenyan President Ruto to address the nation later on Thursdaywww.reuters.com Kenya's President William Ruto will address the nation on Thursday at 2 p.m. local time (1100 GMT), his spokesperson said.

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I've also watched Sudanese people literally save their own and their families' lives on Twitter. we shouldn't tell people to leave life-saving connections when they're in a war zone and call them Nazis for not doing so.

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I know a lot of white Americans keep calling Twitter the Nazi bar and lament people still on the app, but Twitter has been integral to the current Kenyan protests. the individualist approach of leaving and judging everyone who remains doesn't do anything.

Check this from Rolling Stone. At this point, I enjoy rap as an art form a lot, but am not heavily invested in pop culture, but I'm handing Kendrick the victory on this. He dethroned the abuser Drake successfully, & his music is inspiring Kenyan popular resistance. @wagatwe.com

How Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Helped Young Kenyans Lead a Successful Protest in Their Countrywww.rollingstone.com Young Kenyans protested a proposed tax hike in their country by using a hashtag and a rap song that sampled Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us.'

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Microsoft killed my online life after I called Gaza Palestinians calling home to Gaza on Skype have had their digital lives destroyed, after Microsoft closed their email accounts without warning. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Microsoft destroyed my online life after I called home to Gazawww.bbc.com Palestinians calling home to Gaza on Skype are being blocked and banned from using Microsoft products.

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media & politics is so far to the right that they think "far left" is e.g. haggling over taxation rates & childcare subsidies and not, for example, nationalising industry & expropriating the unjustly hoarded wealth of the bourgeoisie

very tired of majority positions being described by mainstream media as 'far-left', 'radical' etc

AI tax returns... what could go wrong? Immense cluster fuck incoming.

Keep in mind when reading this story: "I relied upon the software to do my taxes for me and it calculated them incorrectly" is not automatically a defense to an IRS investigation and you will be liable for any penalties... unless you pay for TurboTax's "audit protection" service

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One of my biggest pet peeves is seeing people complain on main about “tipping culture is out of control” and put it on servers who are just trying to fucking eat. If you punish your server rather than pay towards them taking home a living wage within an exploitative system…I hope you get diarrhea.

Friends of the activists from Mother Nature Cambodia have started a go fund me to support the jailed activists. Funds collected will be used to assist the group and the family members of the jailed activists with expenses such as family visits, food and other costs in jail, legal fees etc.

10 environmental activists from Mother Nature Cambodia were convicted today to between 6-8 years jail, on charges of 'plotting against the government' & 'insulting the King'. Govt's gonna hammer activists with whatever bullshit charges to jail them... Solidarity with Cambodian friends.

Phnom Penh Court Issues Six to Eight Years Jail Sentence On Mother Nature Activists, Four Arrested Outside | CamboJA Newscambojanews.com Breaking: On Tuesday morning, four out of 10 Mother Nature activists were arrested shortly after the Phnom Penh Municipal Court dropped its verdict on them for insulting the King and plotting to overt...

Support Mother Nature Cambodia's Imprisoned Heroes!!, organized by Alejandro Gonzalez Davidsonwww.gofundme.com On July 2, five brave members of the award-winning environmen… Alejandro Gonzalez Davidson needs your support for Support Mother Nature Cambodia's Imprisoned Heroes!!

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the logics of capitalism never ceases to provoke complete contempt and disgust from anyone that values basic humanity

It's bad enough that our immigration system in the UK is fucked, inhumane & downright heartless... The fact that some absolute piece of shit is also profiteering off it, is no surprise but infuriating nonetheless.

The asylum kingwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk How one man has made millions from Britain’s broken immigration system. A joint investigation by Liberty Investigates and Prospect

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It took me maybe twenty minutes to find this stuff, and I did it WHILE supervising an energetic toddler and a baby just learning to crawl. The NYT knows exactly who they are platforming. They are just openly, happily amplifying far right pseudoscience enthusiasts at this point.

Oh look, the "defund the police is a luxury belief" guy platformed by the @nytimes.com Opinion section today is a transphobe eugenicist who quotes Jordan Peterson on IQ and retweets literal phrenologist Claire Lehmann. NYT is a far right rag, part nine million

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Unlike covid-19, generative AI actually might go away if everyone just ignores it.

The National Samsung Electronics Union in South Korea declares INDEFINITE STRIKE ✊ www.dw.com/en/samsung-u...

Samsung union in South Korea declares indefinite strikewww.dw.com The union said management did not seem willing to discuss workers' demands, including a 3.5% pay rise to reflect inflation. Samsung has insisted that the labor action would not cause disruptions in pr...