Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭
@ajaanmark.bsky.social
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
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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The legal assessment of the US intervention is not, in fact, complex
Let me sum up the reaction of the German government:
International law applies when our enemies violate it, it’s that simple.
International law applies when our enemies violate it, it’s that simple.
January 3, 2026 at 8:59 PM
The legal assessment of the US intervention is not, in fact, complex
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EU citizens - especially those in Greenland - deserve a clear answer to the question of how EU leaders would react to attempts of the US to annex Greenland. Will there be a clear political and economic response? Or is it also going to be a "complex situation" to be "closely monitored"?
January 4, 2026 at 9:52 AM
EU citizens - especially those in Greenland - deserve a clear answer to the question of how EU leaders would react to attempts of the US to annex Greenland. Will there be a clear political and economic response? Or is it also going to be a "complex situation" to be "closely monitored"?
So this looks like the US Playbook at any rate.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/w...
How Trump Fixed On a Maduro Loyalist as Venezuela’s New Leader
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:52 AM
So this looks like the US Playbook at any rate.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/w...
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The world must condemn this outrage, but it does seem that much of the American outrage we're seeing on Bluesky is ahistorical & selective. Imperialism & colonisation are what the US does, and some of us have been railing against it since the overthrow of Allende in Chile.
This stuff is textbook.
This stuff is textbook.
January 4, 2026 at 9:32 AM
The world must condemn this outrage, but it does seem that much of the American outrage we're seeing on Bluesky is ahistorical & selective. Imperialism & colonisation are what the US does, and some of us have been railing against it since the overthrow of Allende in Chile.
This stuff is textbook.
This stuff is textbook.
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Putin has been famously reticient about targeting Zelensky or breaking international law till now of course.
What a great day for Vladimir Putin! I can picture him in the Kremlin, watching the EU & the UK play dumb while Trump trashes Int. Law, their media reporting Maduro's abduction as an 'arrest'. I bet he's thinking: Should I also detain Zelensky and subject him to Russian justice?
January 4, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Putin has been famously reticient about targeting Zelensky or breaking international law till now of course.
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Wolf supermoon across the world – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Wolf supermoon across the world – in pictures
According to Nasa, a supermoon occurs when the moon, due to its proximity to Earth, appears up to 15% larger and 30% brighter than a regular full moon
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Wolf supermoon across the world – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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The full-faced Moon shimmers in the sky on this chill and frozen morn ....
January 4, 2026 at 8:19 AM
The full-faced Moon shimmers in the sky on this chill and frozen morn ....
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This morning 🌅 a solitary bird sings ....
January 4, 2026 at 8:27 AM
This morning 🌅 a solitary bird sings ....
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Live and Let Live :D
January 4, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Live and Let Live :D
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Weird how this, a fairly boilerplate statement, is kinda radical seeming compared to everything else I've read today
January 4, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Weird how this, a fairly boilerplate statement, is kinda radical seeming compared to everything else I've read today
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Here be some swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) action over the holidays break, including a joey. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_w...
Unedited video 2m18s at drive.google.com/file/d/1X2z6...
Unedited video 2m18s at drive.google.com/file/d/1X2z6...
January 4, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Here be some swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) action over the holidays break, including a joey. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_w...
Unedited video 2m18s at drive.google.com/file/d/1X2z6...
Unedited video 2m18s at drive.google.com/file/d/1X2z6...
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the US Military requires a trillion $ a year, the combined budget of the next 9 top spenders in the world, because the maintenance of the USA's system of violence against the world requires immense concerted power and is actually really easy to defang and dismantle if politicians actually wanted to.
U.S. Federal Budget
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu
January 4, 2026 at 8:52 AM
the US Military requires a trillion $ a year, the combined budget of the next 9 top spenders in the world, because the maintenance of the USA's system of violence against the world requires immense concerted power and is actually really easy to defang and dismantle if politicians actually wanted to.
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me everytime i read fafo: fly and fly out
January 4, 2026 at 8:54 AM
me everytime i read fafo: fly and fly out
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Minor point but when he said it was the "Donroe Doctrine" you just knew that's because he'd realised he had no idea how to pronounce "Trump Corollary".
Trump's plan appears to be for Venezuela to remain under the day-to-day rule of a senior chavista, with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations. It's a scheme worthy of a mob boss. www.economist.com/the-americas...
Donald Trump wants to run Venezuela, and dominate the western hemisphere
Snatching Nicolás Maduro and attempting to take control of Venezuela and its oil is an extraordinary display of the new “Donroe doctrine”
www.economist.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Minor point but when he said it was the "Donroe Doctrine" you just knew that's because he'd realised he had no idea how to pronounce "Trump Corollary".
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I think they'll just take Greenland and basically nobody will say anything.
January 4, 2026 at 9:07 AM
I think they'll just take Greenland and basically nobody will say anything.
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Now this is an RC demand I can get behind
January 4, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Now this is an RC demand I can get behind
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Also a reminder that Vietnam follows a different calendar 🥰
Just a reminder it's still the Year Of The Snake. Lunar New Year starts on the 17th of February. So that's when the Horse arrives.
January 4, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Also a reminder that Vietnam follows a different calendar 🥰
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The reactionary mind tends to view all opposition through the lens of conspiracy theory: get the "bad guy" and it all melts away. This is the counterpart of crude lefty rhetoric that views resistance as inevitable, almost like Newtonian physics (action->reaction)...
January 4, 2026 at 7:39 AM
The reactionary mind tends to view all opposition through the lens of conspiracy theory: get the "bad guy" and it all melts away. This is the counterpart of crude lefty rhetoric that views resistance as inevitable, almost like Newtonian physics (action->reaction)...
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It's the age of p.e.a.c.e.
January 4, 2026 at 7:39 AM
It's the age of p.e.a.c.e.
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we are living in a world where the “sensible” solutions being peddled amount to
“leopard deterrent (for facial application)”
“leopard deterrent (for facial application)”
January 4, 2026 at 7:42 AM
we are living in a world where the “sensible” solutions being peddled amount to
“leopard deterrent (for facial application)”
“leopard deterrent (for facial application)”
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Was thinking of days gone by.
Here's one of those Aussie shortened words, which you don't hear much these days.
Milkie: Person who delivers milk to your home in the morning.
Here's one of those Aussie shortened words, which you don't hear much these days.
Milkie: Person who delivers milk to your home in the morning.
January 4, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Was thinking of days gone by.
Here's one of those Aussie shortened words, which you don't hear much these days.
Milkie: Person who delivers milk to your home in the morning.
Here's one of those Aussie shortened words, which you don't hear much these days.
Milkie: Person who delivers milk to your home in the morning.
One thing about the EU*/UK/CA/AUS reaction to the abduction of Maduro and his wife I haven't seen comment on is that they may not like him or his government and may not consider it/him legitimate, but it's not their call to make. Venezuela is a sovereign state.
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January 4, 2026 at 7:42 AM
One thing about the EU*/UK/CA/AUS reaction to the abduction of Maduro and his wife I haven't seen comment on is that they may not like him or his government and may not consider it/him legitimate, but it's not their call to make. Venezuela is a sovereign state.
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