David Webster

@dwebster.bsky.social

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Historian: Canada, Quebec, Asia, Timor-Leste, human rights, development. Latest book Challenge the Strong Wind https://www.ubcpress.ca/challenge-the-strong-wind . On unceded Abenaki land, maintenant connu sous le nom Estrie/Eastern Townships. .. more

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 27d

Now available in print

EVERYDAY DIPLOMATS
The Global Solidarity Movement for Timor-Leste, 1975-99

Edited by Hannah Loney, Zelia Pereira, David Webster & Rui Graca Feijo

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Everyday Diplomats

Around the world, movements in support of East Timor (Timor-Leste) during the 24-year Indonesian occupation made a diplomatic difference. This book tells some of their stories.

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 11h

yeah ok

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 1d

This is what Montreal's La Presse did. Washington should try it.

Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 2d

You can tell that these wealthy a-holes don't actually care about journalism or informing the public at all. It's not what motivates them

If it were, they can could snap their fingers and create an endowment that would allow an operation like the Post to run in perpetuity, perhaps even free to read

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 1d

They will need that 4th dimension to fit in all the workers

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 1d

Training on these planes right now in the USA is *highly* political. A ridiculous headline.

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 2d

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 2d

Of couse it's genAI, how could anyone think someone can pee with this level of accuracy!

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 3d

"There is widespread recognition among the racialized faculty that the core problem is not so much interpersonal relationships w colleagues, students & administrators nor inadequate grievance procedures, but rather the dominant hegemonic culture of the University."
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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 4d

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 4d

OK my kid just texted me the single word "bruh."

It begins.

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 5d

Canada has ALWAYS approached aid with a profit motive, as documents going back to the 1950s show.

Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 5d

Canada is now approaching foreign aid with an explicit profit motive. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... tx @markkersten.bsky.social

Ottawa to focus foreign aid efforts on building ‘mutual prosperity’ with trading partners, MP says

Comments come as the federal government moves to slash $2.7-billion from the foreign aid budget over four years

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 5d

Canada is now approaching foreign aid with an explicit profit motive. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... tx @markkersten.bsky.social

Ottawa to focus foreign aid efforts on building ‘mutual prosperity’ with trading partners, MP says

Comments come as the federal government moves to slash $2.7-billion from the foreign aid budget over four years

www.theglobeandmail.com

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 5d

FFS

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe "British, Australian and other allied" countries will actually DO something now? Or will it be another strongly-worded letter as Commonwealth war dead are plowed under? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Revealed: Israel bulldozed part of Gaza war cemetery containing allied graves

Satellite images and witness testimony show destruction as IDF claims it was forced to take defensive measures

www.theguardian.com

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 7d

So the Documentary Heritage Community Programme is axed. A serious blow to #cdnhist from the Carney Cuts.

RIP, it did good work.

But I guess we need more American fighter jets instead.

www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

About the program - Canada.ca

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 8d

Great advice for academic writers!

Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 8d

I just found this list of affirmations I wrote while trying to finish my book manuscript. I thought I’d post it for anyone working on any writing that they feel nervous about putting into the world. You can (and should) do it! #amwriting

A looseleaf sheet of paper with the following writing:
“Reminders.
1. You could spend forever working on this book and it would still not be perfect.
2. You will not please everyone and those people who aren’t pleased will probably never be pleased no matter what you do with this manuscript.
3. There are people who will read this work with interest. Write for those people.
4. You invested a lot of time in this work and it deserves to be read; the story deserves to be told.
5. You can finish a first draft of this manuscript.
6. The reviewers will ask for changes so you will have to revisit it anyway. So it is okay if it is not written as tightly as you would like.”

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Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 8d

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 8d

Leutonia?

a group of people are playing instruments in a dark room .

ALT: a group of people are playing instruments in a dark room .

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 9d

Is it wrong to be right? A CBC deep dive.

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 10d

RIP Akira Iriye, one of the great historians, forerunner of the international turn, mentor to so many. mainichi.jp/english/arti...