Brian Ng
@aspiringboy.bsky.social
Semicolons are life.
He/him. Paris-based Kiwi writer.
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He/him. Paris-based Kiwi writer.
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SCOOP: Some of the DOGE staffers are drawing salaries from the agencies they are cutting. We got some new details: www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
www.wired.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
SCOOP: Some of the DOGE staffers are drawing salaries from the agencies they are cutting. We got some new details: www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
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An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.
DOGE's savings page fixed old mistakes — and added new ones
An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.
www.npr.org
March 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.
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Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza because Israel has broken the Ceasefire treaty and refused to start withdrawing their troops from Gaza.
Blocking Humanitarian Aid and starving people is a War Crime, but you won't hear any of the Media reporting it.
Blocking Humanitarian Aid and starving people is a War Crime, but you won't hear any of the Media reporting it.
March 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza because Israel has broken the Ceasefire treaty and refused to start withdrawing their troops from Gaza.
Blocking Humanitarian Aid and starving people is a War Crime, but you won't hear any of the Media reporting it.
Blocking Humanitarian Aid and starving people is a War Crime, but you won't hear any of the Media reporting it.
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For the millionth time, stop using this meme. The original context was Norm Macdonald joking about the brutal rape and murder of Brandon Teena, a trans man. It was depraved to say it at the time and it's worse that people continue to share this.
March 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
For the millionth time, stop using this meme. The original context was Norm Macdonald joking about the brutal rape and murder of Brandon Teena, a trans man. It was depraved to say it at the time and it's worse that people continue to share this.
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he's really so stupid and I can't stand it. if you warmed up mars and melted the water, the water would evaporate into space. Mars can't have a habitable atmosphere in its current state bc it has no magnetic field. solar winds strip away everything that isn't stuck to the surface.
February 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
he's really so stupid and I can't stand it. if you warmed up mars and melted the water, the water would evaporate into space. Mars can't have a habitable atmosphere in its current state bc it has no magnetic field. solar winds strip away everything that isn't stuck to the surface.
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Meta could have solely funded the ENTIRE WORLD'S 2022 CLIMATE FINANCE GOAL instead of this
February 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Meta could have solely funded the ENTIRE WORLD'S 2022 CLIMATE FINANCE GOAL instead of this
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1. You don't pay inheritance tax you're dead, the people who inherit it do.
2. Never going to inherit £1m+ from anybody?
Then like 96% of people you won't pay any inheritance tax.
3. If you get rid of inheritance tax for millionaires and billionaires, your taxes will go up.
2. Never going to inherit £1m+ from anybody?
Then like 96% of people you won't pay any inheritance tax.
3. If you get rid of inheritance tax for millionaires and billionaires, your taxes will go up.
February 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
1. You don't pay inheritance tax you're dead, the people who inherit it do.
2. Never going to inherit £1m+ from anybody?
Then like 96% of people you won't pay any inheritance tax.
3. If you get rid of inheritance tax for millionaires and billionaires, your taxes will go up.
2. Never going to inherit £1m+ from anybody?
Then like 96% of people you won't pay any inheritance tax.
3. If you get rid of inheritance tax for millionaires and billionaires, your taxes will go up.
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Is the news media going to address the facts that Sam Kerr & Kristie Mewis felt unsafe that night: first bc of the actions of the cab driver. Then bc a white policeman ignored the couple's complaint against the cab driver? Both #sexism & #racism here. Yet the whole focus is on Kerr's words. #justice
February 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Is the news media going to address the facts that Sam Kerr & Kristie Mewis felt unsafe that night: first bc of the actions of the cab driver. Then bc a white policeman ignored the couple's complaint against the cab driver? Both #sexism & #racism here. Yet the whole focus is on Kerr's words. #justice
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lmao sorry this is so fucked up??? I was using they/them pronouns when I started at the NYT in 2021 and when I left in 2022.
lmao sorry this is so fucked up??? I was using they/them pronouns when I started at the NYT in 2021 and when I left in 2022.
February 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
lmao sorry this is so fucked up??? I was using they/them pronouns when I started at the NYT in 2021 and when I left in 2022.
lmao sorry this is so fucked up??? I was using they/them pronouns when I started at the NYT in 2021 and when I left in 2022.
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Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement. Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes. There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus. 🧵 1/11
January 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement. Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes. There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus. 🧵 1/11
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Another obvious tell is the awkward inclusion of the specific term "transgenderism" (a rightwing shibboleth) into the policy language itself.
TL;DR - the fact checking drama is mostly a distraction from a much more grim set of changes. 🧵 11/11
TL;DR - the fact checking drama is mostly a distraction from a much more grim set of changes. 🧵 11/11
January 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Another obvious tell is the awkward inclusion of the specific term "transgenderism" (a rightwing shibboleth) into the policy language itself.
TL;DR - the fact checking drama is mostly a distraction from a much more grim set of changes. 🧵 11/11
TL;DR - the fact checking drama is mostly a distraction from a much more grim set of changes. 🧵 11/11
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During the Holocaust, the Nazis and their collaborators paid bounties for every Jew they turned in.
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The Missouri GOP is proposing SB 72, which includes a "certified bounty hunter program" to pay private citizens to track down undocumented immigrants.
It also mandates involuntary DNA collection and the creation of anonymous tiplines with paid rewards per arrest.
www.senate.mo.gov/25info/pdf-b...
It also mandates involuntary DNA collection and the creation of anonymous tiplines with paid rewards per arrest.
www.senate.mo.gov/25info/pdf-b...
January 7, 2025 at 6:13 AM
During the Holocaust, the Nazis and their collaborators paid bounties for every Jew they turned in.
academic.oup.com/ehr/article-...
academic.oup.com/ehr/article-...
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All these goobers posting airplanes and stars thinking they’re drones made me realize that if there was social media 500 years ago, a bunch of people would have been sharing pictures labeled “omg a mermaid” with community notes like “that’s a rock” and “manatee.”
December 18, 2024 at 2:31 AM
All these goobers posting airplanes and stars thinking they’re drones made me realize that if there was social media 500 years ago, a bunch of people would have been sharing pictures labeled “omg a mermaid” with community notes like “that’s a rock” and “manatee.”
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winter night walks are great for freaks like me who enjoy a desolate wasteland with no one around and nothing but howling frost wind belting your face freezing you half to death. it’s refreshing
December 11, 2024 at 12:06 AM
winter night walks are great for freaks like me who enjoy a desolate wasteland with no one around and nothing but howling frost wind belting your face freezing you half to death. it’s refreshing
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Elmo hates this photo. Share it far and wide around social media.
December 7, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Elmo hates this photo. Share it far and wide around social media.
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yeremi colino, a teenager stabbed to death in NYC last night by a group of men after he told them he didn’t speak english, deserves as much attention as the healthcare CEO, if not more. let’s give it to him. www.amny.com/new-york/man...
Of course, this story doesn't get the front page coverage that a CEO's murder does.
December 6, 2024 at 8:36 PM
yeremi colino, a teenager stabbed to death in NYC last night by a group of men after he told them he didn’t speak english, deserves as much attention as the healthcare CEO, if not more. let’s give it to him. www.amny.com/new-york/man...
AOTEAROAAAAAA
It’s interesting that the emojis show the earth from three angles 🌎 🌍 🌏 but not the fourth.
Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like.
People underestimate the Pacific.
Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like.
People underestimate the Pacific.
December 6, 2024 at 6:02 PM
AOTEAROAAAAAA
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I keep getting media requests but tbqh I don't think I'm the right person to have on shows. If you're a lawyer, academic, journalist, closely following SK politics, present in Seoul, and fluent in English, please reply to this post with your creds so I can forward them to people who keep asking me.
December 4, 2024 at 2:47 PM
I keep getting media requests but tbqh I don't think I'm the right person to have on shows. If you're a lawyer, academic, journalist, closely following SK politics, present in Seoul, and fluent in English, please reply to this post with your creds so I can forward them to people who keep asking me.
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🫡 heading out to see what I can clumsily report on the declaration of martial law in south korea
December 3, 2024 at 2:45 PM
🫡 heading out to see what I can clumsily report on the declaration of martial law in south korea
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I'm fucking blasted and hanging out in the weirdest scene because history happened at a deeply inconvenient hour. so it goes.
December 3, 2024 at 4:24 PM
I'm fucking blasted and hanging out in the weirdest scene because history happened at a deeply inconvenient hour. so it goes.
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Sitting on my hand until it goes numb so it feels like someone else is doing the dishes.
December 1, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Sitting on my hand until it goes numb so it feels like someone else is doing the dishes.
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it’s interesting that they’re trying to ban trans people from the military. from what i’ve heard they’re super soldiers who are too good at sports and athleticism
November 27, 2024 at 4:14 PM
it’s interesting that they’re trying to ban trans people from the military. from what i’ve heard they’re super soldiers who are too good at sports and athleticism
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We want Bluesky to be a great home for journalists, publishers, and creators. Unlike other platforms, we don't de-promote your links. Post all the links you want — Bluesky is a lobby to the open web.
Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads
In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵
In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵
November 27, 2024 at 3:08 PM
We want Bluesky to be a great home for journalists, publishers, and creators. Unlike other platforms, we don't de-promote your links. Post all the links you want — Bluesky is a lobby to the open web.