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Thomas Batchelor
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important emails i could've missed in the spam inbox
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Thomas Batchelor@tobbinatorscw.bsky.social |
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Linguistics PhD at Uni Köln Linguistics (Creoles, Australia, Asia-Pacific, morphosyntax, policy, endangerment), politics (Syria, Taiwan, Australia in particular ig), history and other ramblings Anarchist at heart @tobbinatorscw in most places
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Thomas Batchelor
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important emails i could've missed in the spam inbox
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Sense Hofstede
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China’s gig workers becoming new normal, but ‘inevitable trend’ comes with a burden – SCMP: ‘The number of gig workers stood at around 200 million over the past three years, representing about 23 per cent of China’s working population, according to the [NBS].’
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Thomas Batchelor
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Oh apparently Canada's deputy PM has Ukrainian ancestry too so sorry Justin Tkachenko, you're second place
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Thomas Batchelor
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Australian guy born to Ukrainian parents who moved to PNG for a job in horticulture at the National Botanic Gardens and somehow rose the ranks to foreign minister
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Thomas Batchelor
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I think the highest ranking ethnic Ukrainian politician outside Ukraine might be the foreign minister of, of all places, Papua New Guinea?
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Thomas Batchelor
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Reminding me of Yoon's brilliant proposed plan to raise birthrates by increasing the working hours to 69 a week
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Thomas Batchelor
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The most baffling part of the discourse is centrists in both countries thinking they were the big brain masterminds of it all Labour got a win by default, and in France Macron caused this mess to begin with and *lost* seats
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Thomas Batchelor
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No other way really to do it. RE seems to have learnt their lesson in blocking RN so far, at least
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Thomas Batchelor
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Having a bit of discourse whiplash between "35% is a defeat really, labour has no mandate" and "25% is a stunning victory, vive le premier ministre éternel Mélenchon" in just a couple of days
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Thomas Batchelor
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Hollande PM Macron president in a hostile cohabitation would be an extremely funny possible outcome of this
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Thomas Batchelor
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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social stats
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Thomas Batchelor
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This is a man whose flagship post-coup reforms inspired a world-record lowest 11% turnout in the first "elections". Several seats literally had no one to run in them and remain vacant. This is not a man who would win any kind of serious popular vote.
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Thomas Batchelor
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When you concentrate literally all power into the president, you really can't have any room for "mistakes" to happen that could mean anyone else winning
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Thomas Batchelor
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Entirely unsurprising this is how Saied cements his second dictatorial term, a true classic
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Matthew Sheffield
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Taraji P. Henson did a huge public service calling out Project 2025. Earlier today, Kevin Roberts, chair of Project 2025, threatened violence: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be." It's Christofascism. Make no mistake.
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China Digital Times
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Quote of the Day: “Sixty-six Counties Misused 1.951 Billion Yuan of School Meal Subsidies to Repay Local Government Debt”
chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/07/quot...
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China Media Project
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In the wake of a tragic attack on a Japanese woman and her child in Suzhou, Chinese social media platforms have pledged to clear up rabid nationalism online.
But at the same time, PRC state media continue to pour fuel on the fire of anti-Japanese sentiment.
chinamediaproject.org/2024/07/02/c...
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Gerald Roche
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Submission to Victoria’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry calls for university to cut ties over first governor’s role in colonisation
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Thomas Batchelor
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No more need for shady backroom plotting, now even if you keep everything in a tidy minutes you can be sure it's immune from prosecution in the US
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Thomas Batchelor
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Meanwhile the other professors in the department happily wrote me some letters after some polite exchanges. In a week and not a month and a half.
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Thomas Batchelor
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"send me a list of your tasks and work" excuse me i directly worked under you for 5 years and we interacted on a near daily basis, our office had ~5 people in it
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Thomas Batchelor
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jfc why is it so hard getting anything from my own (former) supervisor, it's like pulling teeth just getting a basic reference letter from them. They just saw me through a whole PhD!
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Thomas Batchelor
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The answer is Manx, Tok Pisin, Seselwa, Morisyen and Tamazight btw
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Thomas Batchelor
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Google translate launching 110 new languages is also fun because I get to see which ones are every linguist's pet favourites from which ones they highlight when posting about it
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nabelew
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Hey, some 🐦🐦 linguisticsposting that ISN'T about a notable death! That's right, folks: it's that time of year where I ask all good people to donate to the amazing Iyasa Language Summer Camp in Ebodje, Cameroon! 🇨🇲🌊 This camp is an AMAZING initiative for language & culture revitalization: (1/)
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Thomas Batchelor
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can't believe i just stumbled across a linguist named Prof. Babel
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Thomas Batchelor
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Surely "we are going to give you a death penalty as soon as we can" will convince people in Taiwan, especially the ones in power, that they're better off joining China
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
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Whenever someone tells me that there is apartheid, but only in the occupied West Bank, I invite them to learn about the more than sixty discriminatory laws which impact not just Palestinians in the occupied territories but also the Palestinian citizens within the 48 territories.
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Thomas Batchelor
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feeling good about this WIP paper submission (check in again in 12 hours)
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Thomas Batchelor
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Furthest I've ever been. N: Trondheim, Norway E: Rotorua, NZ S: Bluff, NZ W: New York, USA
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Thomas Batchelor
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Yeah, the stonehenge stunt did get everyone talking, that part worked But I think they wanted people to talk about oil, not the protection of cultural heritage and landmarks, which frankly I don't think the wealthy fundamentally care that much about either
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@samuelwade.bsky.social
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“Though members of Congress denounce imported goods made with prison labor in places like Xinjiang, the offices of many government agencies are stocked with furniture and supplies made by prisoners in this country. In fact, federal agencies are mandated to purchase goods from federal prisons.”
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩
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"Today, a majority of the 1.2 million Americans locked up in state and federal prisons work under duress in jobs that cover the entire spectrum, from cellblock cleaning to skilled manufacturing, for wages as low as a few cents per hour or, in several states, for nothing at all." #juneteenth
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Thomas Batchelor
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the most stressful part of the phd is writing the final acknowledgements copy
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Director, Basque Space Program
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“The Russian government is charging Ukrainian servicemen and military officials with crimes in absentia as part of its efforts to enforce Russian federal law outside of its jurisdiction and insinuate that Ukraine should not exist as an independent state”
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Michel Nivard
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New Dutch hard right wing government taking a hammer to higher ed… It looks like an up to 1 billion euro (8/10%?) budget cut across science and education side of the business. Most onerous is the direct reversal of a program that’s just put 1200 talented scientists in a permanent jobs.
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Gerald Roche
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"For Deaf Palestinians, these barriers [of ableism] are compounded by their multilayered experience of colonisation, racism and audism. Yet they too, like all Palestinians, have the right to live with dignity, free from apartheid, colonisation and genocide."
overland.org.au/2024/06/what...
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Thomas Batchelor
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Can't have anyone speaking those backward tongues, only the modern Common Tongue(tm) here
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Thomas Batchelor
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Where many countries are (if very slowly) reckoning with their colonial past and persuing name rectification and dual naming policies, China goes in the exact opposite direction to justify and consolidate Han ethnic domination
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Thomas Batchelor
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I also find it pretty funny that one of the official justifications is to remove "duplicate" and "repetitive" names when half their new names are variations of "harmony", "happiness" and "red flag/star"
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Thomas Batchelor
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A lot of these will ofc be "translated" back into Uyghur by just transliterating the Mandarin into the Perso-Arabic script, as in Urumqi's metro, so any visitors who only see the surface think the languages are still equal
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Thomas Batchelor
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Want to also note from this report that many of these aren't even being changed to sanitised Uyghur language names, they're being totally mandarinised, even in areas with marginal Han settler populations
www.hrw.org/news/2024/06...
shahit.biz/eng/#village
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Thomas Batchelor
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farewells are so much easier knowing that the long distance relationship won't be distance any more in only two months :)) this is also to announce i am leaving sydney again soon so i better get meeting up with local friends before i go
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Matt Knight
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Thomas Batchelor
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what a convenient amendment from the people that used to run a party-state where everything that belonged to the state also belonged to the party
www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...
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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴
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“Democracy in Thailand is backsliding, not only due to a military coup, but also through dubious interpretations of laws employed to target opposition politicians. If the Move Forward Party is banned, like the Future Forward Party in 2019, millions of people will be disenfranchised"
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Thomas Batchelor
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academic journals need a "little neat thing i noticed" section for those thoughts that you can't muster a paper out of
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Thomas Batchelor
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when you're so "everything is resources" brained you twist yourself into a 19th century coal baron
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Thomas Batchelor
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coal????? am i in the right century
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Jürgen Zimmerer
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😱Das BMBF liess nach dem offenen Brief Berliner Kolleg*innen prüfen, ob man Förderentscheide an sie aufheben können, bezweifelte, dass sie auf dem Boden der FDGO stünden. Mir erscheint dies als unglaublicher Eingriff in den Freiheit, gerade aus der FDP
daserste.ndr.de/panorama/Als...
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