But really embracing all this would involve having to reckon with the settler past and Indigenous justice, so it may be a while yet

Taiwan has a long maritime history, both of Indigenous Austronesian connections and of settlers, and a large maritime economy in shipbuilding and fishing, all relatively neglected culturally and politically after decades of KMT military paranoia and active disregard for Taiwan's own cultures

Notes from Central Taiwan: Taiwan missing the boat on maritime tourism - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

It's not just about yachts, I've long said that Taiwan is a maritime nation in denial about being a maritime nation www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

this is to make sure certain defendants just don't get lawyers right

except one course apparently everyone needs for credits and about 4/50 are actually interested, fuck that class

Scared away all the indifferent students and now left with the ones who actually want to be there 🙏

I missed a flight once and I've never been later than 3 hours before a flight since. What is he talking about

The thing about the photo of the IDF soldier beheading a statue of Jesus in south Lebanon is that the Israeli military has an effectively near 0% conviction rate for its soldiers and so this will just keep happening over and over and over and over. This is simply what unlimited impunity breeds.

KMT voices concern over migrant worker plan - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

KMT legislators holding signs saying "Against Indian Workers Coming to Taiwan"

Looks pretty racist!

Dismissing China’s repression in Xinjiang Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak recently defended China’s policy toward ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang. David Brophy exposes the weakness of their case.

He could have gone for cheap shots (there were plenty of opportunities) but David took the time to write a thoughtful and super informative rebuttal to the drivel in Monthly Review.

Worth a read even if you didn't see the original

Unfortunate that New Taipei City authorities invited a pro-junta singer to perform at Thingyan in Taipei’s “Myanmar Street”

Already lost my hanko, things are going well

What do you mean you don't have a name with a fully japanese format, I ask the foreigner at the foreigner office

Need local registration to get a local phone number, need a local phone number to complete local registration.

And that's just the basic bureaucracy. We're not even getting to the racism everyone less privileged experiences so much more at every single turn!!

Moving abroad several times, it's always really fun (a nightmare) how many offices meant for dealing with foreign residents are wholly unprepared for dealing with foreign residents

Thankfully he doesn't know anything else about us so the blocks should be ok!!

Fantuan, Chowbus and HungryPanda are the three most heavily used delivery apps for the Chinese American community in NY and a big source of income for gig workers. These companies are global and have a ton of money

It's insane he's posting things with captions as if they had both confessed feelings. Publicly! This man is married!

Kuwait Is Stripping Its People of Citizenship at an Unprecedented Rate Behind the language of legality, the new emir has pushed a political project to narrow national identity and roll back decades of democratic reform

NEW: Legal changes in Kuwait are stripping its people of their citizenship, with 1 in 5 Kuwaitis potentially set to lose their current status. Fatimah Muhammed and Sultan Amer report from the ground on the efforts to undo decades of reform @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/kuwai...

hilarious part is that you can see me cropped out of every photo too

can men be Normal about women being friendly to them please

So we tried to keep in touch with one of our safari guides because we had such a crazy experience there and got along well and uhhhhh now he's making fancams of my partner on his tiktok?

Korea moves to raise minimum salary for foreign workers to protect Korean wages - The Korea Times Korea is moving to introduce what would function as a higher minimum wage floor for many foreign workers, by writing “reasonable” wage requirements...

South Korea is going to set a higher minimum wage for low‑paid migrant workers like shipbuilding workers, to push up foreign worker wages in order to protect the wage levels of South Korean workers. Taiwan should do the same to protect Taiwan's workers.

www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/g...

Last year I noticed a lot more promotion of Baishatun as a unique Taiwanese tourist experience too. I wonder if there are more foreign visitors aside from Taiwanese?

No reason except pure racism to claim the presence of 1000 Indian migrant workers will cause "social problems". More than 1000 Indians visit Taiwan every month already without a single issue.

I ran out of space and then realised in the context of the task someone might actually talk about turkey and put it up there

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

(some liberties taken by having run out of space very quickly but you get the vision)

Despicable fucking government.

Pro teaching tip: just draw the world map on the board from memory to get students to pay attention