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Dhevarajan Devadas
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Historian 🇸🇬 | History MA @ NUS | History BA (Hons) @ Unimelb | Producer of Historyogi Podcast & TikTok on Singapore history & heritage
34 years ago on 26 March 1991, Singapore Airlines flight SQ117 was hijacked by four Pakistani terrorists. After 9.5 hours, SAF commandos killed the hijackers & freed the hostages.

In 1997, Singapore revealed the commandos involved in the rescue belonged to the elite Special Operations Force (SOF).
March 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Good morning from Bangkok, where today Marriage Equality has become a reality in Thailand. The first couples have registered their unions, like here at a pop-up at Siam Paragon Mall. #LGBTQ #สมรมเท่าเทียม
January 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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This deep dive on Netflix purposely turning movies into barely distinguishable forgettable slop is so insightful, researched & brutally hilarious. A must read if you want to really know what’s happening to the business AND culture of movies.
Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
www.nplusonemag.com
December 28, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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Say what you will about Ebenezer Scrooge but his pajama game was on another level. You can hate the man, but you can't hate that nightgown/cap/slippers/candle combo. Straight-up cozy.
December 23, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Social media has become so clogged with clickbait, AI generated images and text, unsightly ads and trolling that sometimes it's more tempting to just unplug from the mess for some peace and quiet.
December 23, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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When Israel ordered citizens to evacuate border regions more than a year ago, it allowed poor migrant farmworkers, most of them from Thailand, to stay put — to water crops, prune trees and harvest fruit as rockets fell around them. Six have died this year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
Asian farmworkers are being killed in Israel’s embattled border regions
Despite repeated protests from their countries, Israel has continued to let migrant laborers work in high-risk military zones.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 9, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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I came onto Bluesky an hour ago, and the first two things I saw were posts providing useful context for understanding the imposition of martial law in South Korea—the exact kind of thing that Twitter used to be so useful for in a developing crisis.
December 3, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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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🧵
November 27, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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Mexican President Sheinbaum fires back at Trump in a statement: "Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs...
November 26, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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The Singaporeans are giving out free beer made from recycled toilet water at the COP29 climate summit. “At first their eyes widen,” one of the leaders of Singapore’s youth delegation said. “Then we reassure them. They’re usually coming back the next day for another.”
At COP29, ‘Sewage Beer’ Is Just Fine
The hoppy pilsner from Singapore, where freshwater is scarce, is part of an effort to promote recycling solutions.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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This, to me, is the funniest sort of reaction to the ICC warrants for two Israeli leaders. There's a crop of Western elites for whom the shabby tentpoles of their moral universe simply collapse when you suggest Churchill was guilty of war crimes. But, yes, he was, as is the US in the Middle East
November 23, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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November 20, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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Buying a book and actually reading it are two very different hobbies.
November 18, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
November 19, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Students looking at their PSLE results as they are handwritten on the blackboard at River Valley English School in Singapore, Nov 16, 1967.

📸: Photonico
November 20, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Hello Bluesky! I'm Dhev, a historian from Singapore. I run the Historyogi Podcast, which features academic and popular histories of Singapore and Malaya. I also run the Historyogi TikTok which features archival content and heritage posts. Do follow my content here :)

linktr.ee/historyogi
November 15, 2024 at 3:56 AM