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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明

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🏴 Race nerd, rights bore, writer (various). Read something here: www.tzemingmok.com Opinions only my own, you can't have them Auckland, City of Fails

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · Nov 13

hi new American followers, I'm a NZ-born SEAsian Chinese writer of a bunch of forms with a bunch of specialisms incl. sociology of race & racism, comparative regime transition, human rights, Asian diaspora tings, research methods... and firmly in the NZ politics shitpost cluster, sorry not sorry.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 1d

How many people died at Costco for this

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

People who act confused by Hamas' desire to free Barghoti are bizarre to me, Hamas wants him out even though he isn't Hamas affiliated because they believe he is one of the few, or maybe even the only, individuals who can unite the whole of Palestinian factions under the PLO

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Ed Hyde @edhyde.bsky.social · 1d

Generally mild-mannered @clrenney.bsky.social ripping the government a new one 🔥

Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 6d

#nzpol Sometimes a policy is so stupid it makes you question the very fabric of reality. Decisions so fabulously, almost wantonly dumb, you wonder if we actually live in a simulation. Welcome to the world of removing Jobseeker Support for 18 & 19-year-olds. craigrenney.substack.com/p/a-small-wr...

A small wrinkle in the Jobseeker policy

The government’s recent changes to benefits feel like this: the house is on fire, and this policy is them turning off the smoke alarm and saying it’s fixed

craigrenney.substack.com

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 1d

@samuelwa.de can a huge number of Chinese people no longer use their actual names on the internet anymore due to too much similarity to other Chinese people whose names are 'sensitive'

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 1d

mute/block and be freeeeeeeeee (or at least cut yourself a break)

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, well everyone speaks English pretty much. Chinese of my generation will mostly have studied Mandarin in school to some degree, but main ancestral dialects are Hokkien, Teocheow, Hakka, Cantonese. My mum's family was the only Yunnanese family on the island when they arrived in the 50s.

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 2d

I had to look up where this was, like a true Aucklander

Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 2d

Well fuck - Selwyn has elected a majority of Council with links to VFF, Act, and Trump fans. Maybe put that on the no fly list for the next three years

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 2d

"we are just people. have you tried being fucking normal."

a unifying battle cry for everyone who is not a straight cis white man honestly, it reminds me of some calligraphy I just got off my uncle that says 'the Dao it is very simple actually'

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 2d

English and Mandarin (and some French and Te Reo Māori) and about three phrases in Cantonese (all swears) and about three more phrases in Yunnanese which just sounds like Mandarin with only three tones.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 2d

After Baling he was used by the British as an expert on Communist tunnels, so I am assuming they mainly used him in tactical roles given he spoke no English or dialect (I don't think) other than Mandarin and Yunnanese - jungle security and intelligence support makes the most sense.

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 2d

Reading between the lines of the Chin Peng autobiography, I'm guessing he was either on the wires spying from the other room at Baling, or the SPAD of the terrible Singaporean governor, or one of the security squad for the British officer trying to set up back-channels in the jungle before/after.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 2d

Lololol

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 2d

The Olive green areas are councils where citizens voted down Māori wards (the little blue blob in the middle is Kirikiriroa, which voted by a whisker to retain theirs).
Coincidentally those Olive green areas also pretty accurately represent land confiscated by the crown after the Waikato wars.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 2d

Self-fulfilling Betteridge’s Law example

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2d

Before you all yell at me, my answer can be summed up as "fuck, no".

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 2d

lmao bought a basic smartwatch with a decent strap after losing one in long grass in Akl, & the PRC-based app wouldn't accept my name as a user ID due to 'sensitive words' specifically t*ZE MIN*g. I guess they are still blocking discourse on Jiang Zemin? Eventually they will run out of names.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 2d

My suitcase is already too full of peanuts and ikan bilis

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 2d

Visiting my ancestral temple in Singapore

Sim Lim Square, hallowed electronics mall

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 2d

Dompost Pundit voice: this result will mean the new mayor will need to reach across the aisle, at some risk of angering his base, in order to really build the legacy that the city so dearly needs and deserves

Joel MacManus @joelmacmanus.bsky.social · 2d

The new Wellington City Council will include 5 Labour councillors and 4 Green councillors, plus Andrew Little, giving the two party "coalition" an increased governing majority - 10 out of 16 votes, compared to 8 under the previous council.

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 2d

To ask a pakeha majority to remove representation of an indigenous minority is ongoing white supremacist colonisation. #nzpol

TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 2d

Preliminary results of the 2025 Māori wards referendums

#nzpol

Map showing preliminary margin of support by council for the 2025 Māori ward referendums

CC BY 4.0 TheLoyalOrder

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 2d

Oh shit that pile of rice could feed three of me

Rice, bhendi, beans, sambar, assam fish, teh ais

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 2d

So close to Wellington envy rn, but saved by me being really warm in Singapore right now and about to eat a banana leaf set

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 2d

Was my maternal grandfather some kind of postcolonial Zelig or was he as much of a compulsive liar as my paternal grandfather? An intergenerational mystery.

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 2d

I really wanna find some description of him by a third party to triangulate against the mythos of my family stories, which surely have got to be self-aggrandising, like surely LKY would not have asked a guy with such bad English to be his Minister of Propaganda

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 2d

Oh shit yeah that makes more sense timeline-wise. This is all just second-hand from my aunty at this point so I gotta do more research!