Tian Lloyd

Anti-war, pro-refugees, anti-racism and anti-colonialism

[Amelia @Amelia181672271]

民進黨和青鳥特別害怕這個問題。

藍白幫他們問了，藍白問MetaAI：那個國家殖民台灣，屠殺台灣人最多？

MetaAI的回答：是日本，日本人殖民台灣後，屠殺的原住民比漢人還多

[Iggie🚁 @Kenntnis22]

《南方人物周刊》报道的今年发生的真实事件：

做公务员的父亲和做老师的母亲，联合戒网瘾机构的人员，将自己品学兼优的21岁女儿骗进戒网瘾机构，非法拘禁11天。

原因是父母觉得原本乖巧的女儿不听话，还交了一个他们不认可的男朋友。

现在戒网瘾学校把魔爪伸向了成年人……在这么多悲剧面前，这种学校仍没被取缔，非法拘禁仍然逍遥法外。

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is actually huge.

I keep hearing the narrative that many people in China don't have social insurance: that's not true, virtually everyone in China does, BUT - up until now - you were only covered in your Hukou, your official hometown on paper, even if you hadn't lived there in decades.

Which was a big issue for the 357 million migrant workers in China who - if they had a health issue - either had to go back home to get their healthcare covered or pay out of pocket where they lived.

This is now over 👇: China's State Council just announced that workers can now enroll in social insurance wherever they work, regardless of their hukou. 357 million people just got healthcare where they actually live.

It's also huge with respect to what this means for the Hukou system overall: every reform like this chips away at it further. The direction is now unmistakable: the hukou is being dismantled, one benefit at a time.

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

Flotilla participants are arriving at Istanbul airport. This is what Israel military and prison personnel did to them.

[Samar D Jarrah @SamarDJarrah]

A young technician came to install a dishwasher today.
He asked me where I was from. I said: Palestine where Jesus was born.

Then he asked quietly: “What do you think about what’s happening?”

I told him it was horrific.

What happened next stunned me.

He became visibly emotional… angry even. He said:

“We know the truth now. Before, people only knew what the media told them. Now we see everything ourselves. They are killing babies. They are killing children. Entire neighborhoods are being erased. They say it’s to get one man, one ‘terrorist’ — but they level whole cities.”

This wasn’t an activist.
Not a professor.
Not a politician.

Just a young American worker installing a dishwasher.

For decades, many Americans only heard one narrative.
Now millions are watching raw videos, doctors, journalists, parents, and children documenting reality in real time.

Something is changing in America.

[Sharing Travel @TripInChina]

Anti-drug publicity video by Guangzhou police in China.😆😆
There are behind-the-scenes stories inside, which are very interesting. The female police officer is always amused by the male supporting role.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Let's start with what's always the highlight of the report: the actual ranking of countries based on democracy perception by their own people.

Which, this year, as a French man, is utterly depressing: France is now, according to the French people themselves, one of the least democratic countries in the world, alongside countries like Kazakhstan, Yemen or Zimbabwe. It's insane but sadly unsurprising given the fact that Macron made a complete mockery of the results of the previous elections, and altogether only has utter contempt for his people.

Also fascinating, like every single year, is the fact that China is - according to the Chinese people themselves - one of the most democratic countries in the world. According to the ranking, the world's most democratic countries are: Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, Ghana, Sri Lanka, India and... China!

Every year I get the same argument back so let me preempt it: no it's not because the Chinese people would be "afraid" to express their opinion.

If that were the case you'd see the same dynamic in other presumed "authoritarian" countries. But Russia scores -21, Belarus -9, Kazakhstan -31. If "fear of the regime" explained China's +14, why aren't Russians and Belarusians equally "afraid"?

Professor Jason Hickel - an economic anthropologist - also wrote a fascinating article on exactly this topic titled "Support for government in China: is the data accurate?" (https://t.co/5yQ9egO9yi) in which he systematically dismantles the "fear bias" argument by examining studies that used anonymized and implicit methodologies. The verdict: across every methodology tested, Chinese people mean what they say.

So, for better or worse, as far as people's perceptions are concerned, we now live in a world where China is one of the most democratic countries in the world and France one of the least.

How does the US fare? Not great, far below China (although better than France): its ranking is "neutral" meaning there's roughly an equal amount of U.S. citizens who think they're a democracy as those who don't.

For the self-proclaimed "leader of the free world," that's not exactly a ringing endorsement...

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

She was sold to a brothel at fourteen. By thirty, she had become the first woman in Chinese history to win a scholarship to study art in Paris. By forty, her nude paintings were scandalizing both Shanghai and the Seine—too bold for Mao's China, too foreign for the purists, yet too brilliant to ignore. Her name was Pan Yuliang, and for most of the 20th century, she was a ghost: erased from Chinese textbooks, stored in Parisian archives under "unknown artists," and buried in an attic in suburban Montparnasse with four thousand paintings stacked around her coffin. Today, art historians are finally whispering what they should have said decades ago: she was China's own Matisse.

But here's the thing about Pan Yuliang—she didn't just paint nudes. She painted from the nude. From a place of intimate knowledge that no male artist, East or West, could fake. Having survived the brothels of Wuhu, she understood vulnerability as power, the female body not as object but as sanctuary. Her women lounge and stretch and gaze back at you, unashamed, painted in a wild fusion of impressionist color and traditional ink brushwork. Critics called her work obscene. She called it truth. And when China turned its back on her in 1937, she chose exile in Paris over erasure at home, teaching at Beaux-Arts for half a man's salary and quietly outliving every one of her tormentors.

We desperately wanted to feature her stunning paintings in this post—but most of Pan Yuliang's surviving masterpieces are nudes, and social media platforms simply won't allow us to share them. So instead, we leave you with this: a woman who painted her way from a brothel to the Beaux-Arts, who died whispering to return her work to China, and whose spirit—as one art historian put it—still waits in a cold museum storage room, calling us to finally see her.

© Women In World History

#archaeohistories

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Another Chinese W.

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

Israeli occupation navy attacked and kidnapped participants of the freedom flotilla which had been heading to break Israeli siege on Gaza.. This happened in the waters of a European country..
They beat them and stole their money..

[WW2 The Eastern Front @ShoahUkraine]

A Chinese baby cries as he burns after a firebombing by Japan. Battle of Shanghai, 28 August 1937.

[あおい @waterpear121873]

海外の皆さんへ
これが、10歳で実の兄からレイプされた女性に対して、日本人が浴びせる言葉です

[Amelia @Amelia181672271]

1944年9月7日、雲南松山会戦終結後、中国軍は占拠した日本軍陣地内より、拘束されていた朝鮮人慰安婦らを救出した。

戦闘は極めて熾烈を極め、守備に就いていた日本軍将兵約1300名のうち、1290名が戦死。現地にいた12名の慰安婦は自ら命を絶った。

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

China just unveiled a direct coal fuel cell that can generate electricity without conventional combustion — and capture the CO₂ produced in the process for conversion into chemical feedstocks or mineralized compounds.

This is why China’s energy strategy is so hard to understand through Western slogans.

It is not simply “coal bad, solar good.”
It is:
Use coal more cleanly.
Build more nuclear.
Dominate solar.
Scale wind.
Expand ultra-high-voltage grids.
Develop batteries.
Electrify transport.
Prepare the power base for AI, robotics, and advanced manufacturing.

China is not treating energy as a moral performance.
It is treating energy as civilization infrastructure.

The future will not be built by countries that only know how to shame old energy while failing to scale new energy.
It will be built by those who can turn even yesterday’s fuel into tomorrow’s system.

[The Sirius Report @thesiriusreport]

Never forget this:

Spanish virologists have found traces of the novel coronavirus in a sample of Barcelona waste water collected in March 2019, nine months before the COVID-19 disease was identified in China, the University of Barcelona said on Friday.

https://t.co/5VlYh9Wzs4

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Luxembourg has become the first country in the world to make all standard public transport completely free, covering buses, trams, and trains nationwide.

Funded through taxes instead of fares, the policy aims to ease heavy traffic and cut emissions by encouraging people to leave their cars behind. By removing ticket costs and barriers, public transport is treated more like an essential public service, simple, accessible, and open to everyone, including visitors and cross-border commuters.

The results have been noticeable: more people are using public transport, roads are less congested, and urban air quality has improved. While premium first-class rail still requires payment, everyday travel is now seamless, just get on and go.

This bold approach has positioned Luxembourg as a global example of how making transport free can help shift habits toward greener, more sustainable travel.

[James Li @5149jamesli]

Florida college student was arrested for making a Netanyahu joke in a Whatsapp group chat.

WTF are we doing here guys?! 😑

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

A new poll just came out showing that 74% of Gen Z sympathizes more with Palestinians than with Israelis.

SEVENTY FOUR PERCENT.

They had mainstream media, government backing, billion dollar lobbying. And still lost this generation.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

7 News reports that Israeli forces have destroyed 146 Australian World War I graves in Gaza. A total of 818 Commonwealth graves have been damaged or destroyed

[Sharing Travel @TripInChina]

Breaking news: A gunfight broke out between police and children on the streets of Yunnan, China😆😆.