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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭

@ajaanmark.bsky.social

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From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand. Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism. He/Him

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Reluctant Antagonist (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 1h

I need podcasts or YouTube videos that do deep dives into who techbros are. Also any mixing of politics and religion in the United States. I’ve listened to a fair number of behind the bastards, including all the way back ones, there’s just not a lot out there with good commentators.

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 1h

Wasn't there an Irish one too? The Virgin appearing. Around the same era.

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Dr Juliette McIntyre ☯︎🩷💚 🏳️‍🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · 1h

it's like owning a semi-sentient potato

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Mina Li (she/her) @codenameminali.bsky.social · 1h

God bless the frogs.

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Yup!

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It's for the kind of Catholic who fixates on Miraculous Medals, special devotions for the holy souls in Purgatory etc ie not me. Consequently I have forgotten the secret. I do remember it was banal.

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 1h

Zionism is a dozen different political concepts in a trenchcoat and almost nobody bothers to be clear which one they're using at any moment

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 1h

Ambiguous list of possibilities suggests no one in the SMH knows Western Sydney. It could be read as suggesting Lakemba is the inner West.

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 3h

The great thing about having a well-established news outlet is that you can just keep recycling the same bullshit for decades.

“Where does western Sydney really start?” www.smh.com.au/national/nsw... ($)

Fuck ’em. Read it at archive.md/8QRSb.

Where does western Sydney really start?

Lakemba? Burwood? Sydney Olympic Park? Or further west, at Parramatta? Vote on where you would draw the line.

www.smh.com.au

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 2h

"Where, and indeed whether, to begin..."

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 1h

"There's no there, there"

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 1h

Well, yes, Zionism is not a race. See: Christian Zionism.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

University of Sydney argues academic’s article not racist against Jewish people as ‘Zionism is a political concept’

Case taken by academics against two colleagues and the university is considered a major test case for hate speech in Australia

www.theguardian.com

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China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social · 2h

Brendan: When Thiel lectured theologians at Innsbruck their conclusion was: “Nicht genügend” (roughly not even sufficient to be submitted for academic consideration). To use one of my favourite academic putdowns, I’d translate that as: “You’re not even wrong.”

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Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 2h

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2h

My prediction: Their workaround is that Trump 1.0 will be long dead so it will be simply be an AI hologram Trump sockpuppet who runs (and wins) in 2028

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 1h

But did you hear about the secret secrets? A priest told me one once (I suspect he was mad though. They used to post some of the ones they couldn't find a parish for at the Cathedral but it turned out not to be the best idea.)

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Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social · 2h

it’s blended synchronous learning

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 2h

Race, ethnicity, and any other ostensibly immutable social groups are made up; they're series of words

Any attempt to make definitive rules for them will collapse upon contact with reality

Down that road lies madness and genocide

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 2h

You can purchase up to TWELVE colors of Polychromos

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 2h

YAY 😁

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 3h

I'm at the bitter end 😔 Yeah yeah 👍💪

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 3h

No worries!!

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Very hard to understand. Like oncologists study cancer to stop people dying of cancer.

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Caro Mersi @drcaromers.bsky.social · 4h

Tawny Frogger update. Little known fact - Tawny camouflage is so effective it interferes with phone camera focus. This is the watch frogger, the other frogger is on the nest with two baby fluff muppets just visible beneath him/her #WildOz #Birds #TawnyFrogmouth #BirdOfTheYear #Birdlife

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 3h

It me too! 🥱 #Solidarity

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