This kind of shit reminds me of the idiot white guyt who traveked to Cambodia under the KR to disprove the rumors that were coming out about the horrors only to immediately prove them all correct by being murdered by the state.

Flowery Water Monitor, from the day I spent in Bangkok last month!

6yr old Hind Rajab's emergency call from Gaza drew global calls for investigation of her death. IDF deny they were there. The Washington Post finds:
- IDF vehicles present.
- Gunfire as girls begged for help + damage to ambulance = consistent w/ IDF weapons.
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AA chief is sharing a heavily unsubstantiated report by an Indian media outlet that is based purely on a SINGLE ANONYMOUS source & can aggravate anti-Rohingya sentiments in Rakhine State.

Quite unfortunate. Rakhine needs more unity, less divisions now.

The Rohingya and Burmese Muslim community welcomed the decision of the National Unity Consultative Council to abolish the 1982 Citizenship Law. The NUCC convened a second People’s Assembly from April 4-9. #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar

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Honiara election scenes. Pics by the excellent Adam Kennedy

TAKE PHOTOS OF THE MAPS NOT FROM THE MAPS DIUUUU

I spent the day making my new Burmese basemap, and annotating some mud-map notes. It'll take a long time before there's anything nationwide I'm confident ins haring, but thought a quick update would be appreciated. Please reach out if you have any info that can help here!

Kazakhs rally in New York, Amsterdam, Milan over domestic violence amid trial of ex-minister accused of murdering his wife, but not in #Kazakhstan , where getting permission to rally is tough. Feminists were refused permission to march on 8 March this year tengrinews.kz/curious/nyu-yo…

What's the first thing that visitors to #HK see as they enter the airport baggage hall from immigration? A welcoming display of tourist info? Nope, a wall of NatSec Police bounty posters for people who will never set foot here again. Totally at odds with efforts to relaunch HK.

niche question - everyone else ignore. If im making a leaflet map with a custom raster basemap, can i serve it dynamically using mbtiles so that the client doesnt need to download the whole mbtiles dataset but only the tiles they zoom to?

1. In Sydney, a mother & child were stabbed by a mentally ill white man, Joel Cauchi

2. When a brave security guard, Faraz Tahir, a Muslim refugee, stepped in to save them, Cauchi killed him

3. Top British media figures blamed the deaths on Muslims

4. Their tweets are still up

Interestingly, Global Times deleted its tweet celebrating the Iranian attack

The Guanxiang mosque on the right has had the tops removed from its minarets. The Youlewu mosque to the left has been part-demolished and is now a car park. What remains of its gate is entombed in cement panels. Where they’ve crumbled the original tiled columns may be seen 9/

China puts a lot of work into covering up repression in Xinjiang, wheeling out party-approved imams and diplomats from Iran, Russia and other allies to declare that Islam is flourishing. Here’s some on the ground reporting from Xinjiang this week 1/ economist.com/china/2024/04/…

This should absolutely be a line of inquiry and thoroughly investigated. However, absent information on a history of violence against women, speculating purely based on the gender of victims is unhelpful - there's a 10% chance of completely random 50/50 choices being 5/6 women.

The first (and so far only) reported casualty of Iran's retaliatory strike on Israel is a 10-year-old Bedouin child from the Negev

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“Taiwanese people are our compatriots, which is why we have made and published this animation of their homes getting obliterated.”

No one say how long the regime will hang on, how much more suffering it will cause, nor should anyone underestimate how complex and difficult new nation building will be, but future historians will recognise the widespread bravery and heroism of Burma’s many peoples.