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mostly things related to history / sejarah (Asia Timur)
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(I troll too!)

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

@TripIt is a horrible travel platform! Even though I use international SIM-card/e-Sim/VPN to try to login.
I still cannot access account to get my itineraries when traveling in China!
What da fuzz!

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

@KseniiaBaziian What I can’t stand in the West is the symphony of nasal excavation at the dinner table. Nothing says 'bon appétit' like hearing someone power-wash their sinuses into a tissue while I’m chewing 😵‍💫

Just why, people, why?

[毛丹青 @maodanqing]

AIが復元した「清明上河図」に言葉を失う。確かに、AI特有の「滑らかすぎる質感」に違和感を覚える瞬間もある。だが、張択端が描こうとした千年前の喧騒が、圧倒的な解像度で迫ってくるのも事実だから、これは模写ではない。AIという異質なフィルターを通すことで、われわれは初めて「大宋」の熱気に触れる。賛否はあろうが、この没入感だけは否定できないかもしれない。

[寺師貴憲 @tera_shi_ta]

生徒たちよ

講義中に話していた清明上河図のAI動画がこれだ

ぜひ楽しんで

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

@pioneertaku84 and most people probably never heard of the Mandor Massacre (Pontianak Incidents) ...

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

@MJTruthUltra but but... Peter Mandelson is Friends of Dorothy, no? 🤫

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

@mhall3333 @tongbingxue Not Malaysian, she used a fake Indonesian pasport to enter Japan!

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

"Chinesea language written in one thousand or two thousand years ago.
Is still understandable today"

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

@jdevere74 @Kathleen_Tyson_ Napoleon Bonaparte!

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

@klustout @grok This reporter stated that sedation & collusion with foreign governments are very serious crimes in Hong Kong. In which country are sedation and collusion with foreign governments not considered serious crimes?

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

@UniofOxford @thorogoodchris1 @brin_indonesia Good on fellow Indonesians who won't let another Mount Everest moment to repeat!

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

@BowesChay How Von Der Leyen didn't make it there? 😂

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

@Alex_Oloyede2 How Von Der Leyen didn't make it there? 😂

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

@AngelicaOung but words from some of my Malaysian friends who visited Taipei though "Taipei feels like stepping back into KL in the 80s" 🤔

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

@AngelicaOung https://t.co/bNtzrvWCbS

[Ibrakowalsky @bRamkowaLsky]

Thread.
Peristiwa Pembantaian Mandor 28 Juni 1944

Hari ini tepat pada tanggal 28 Juni, kami masyarakat Borneo Barat memperingati Peristiwa Mandor.

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

@AngelicaOung People only heard of Nanjing Massacre but there were equally brutal atrocities committed by the Japanese Imperial Armies during the WWII, in SE-Asia. "Mandor Massacre" in West Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia. Victims, incl. the Sultan of Pontianak, bayoneted and burried alive.

[Ibrakowalsky @bRamkowaLsky]

Thread.
Peristiwa Pembantaian Mandor 28 Juni 1944

Hari ini tepat pada tanggal 28 Juni, kami masyarakat Borneo Barat memperingati Peristiwa Mandor.

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

https://t.co/X6FpZ7uJso

[Grok @grok]

Imperial Japan perpetrated massacres primarily in China (Nanjing Massacre, killing 200,000+ civilians), the Philippines (Manila Massacre, ~100,000 deaths), Indonesia (Mandor Affair and forced labor deaths totaling millions), Singapore (Sook Ching, 50,000+ Chinese executed), and Malaya. Atrocities extended to Korea (civilian suppression), Vietnam (famine-induced deaths of 1-2 million), Burma (railway labor camps), East Timor (rapes and killings), and Pacific islands like New Guinea. These acts spanned the 1930s-1940s invasions, documented in war crimes trials.

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

Yep, little known massacre took place in Western Borneo too... The Mandor Massacre 😭
Never mentioned by any news these days though it seemed The Washington Post did run a story back then.
Sadly, most Indonesians outside of West Borneo are not aware of this atrocity.

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

https://t.co/awjuIbqVs9

[Grok @grok]

The Mandor Massacre, part of the broader Pontianak Incidents, occurred in 1943-1944 during Japan's occupation of Dutch East Indies in West Kalimantan (Borneo). Japanese military forces, fearing uprisings, executed over 21,000 people—including local elites, intellectuals, ethnic Chinese, and suspected dissidents—in a purge against perceived threats. Victims were slaughtered and buried in mass graves near Mandor village, representing one of WWII's lesser-known atrocities by Imperial Japan in Southeast Asia.

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

@elonmusk https://t.co/3gPZiCma4h

[B.R. @BoenRoed]

@trussliz Totally agreed, the BBC would not carry this kind of news if it were not for X.

https://t.co/481HclM2kJ