Febriana Isnaini

Currently in Shibuya where a BIG anti-genocide demo is about to take place. Protest is set to start in 20 minutes, but there are already easily 100~200 (maybe more?) people gathered here.

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Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.

I think everyone should read this atm: azhdarchid.com/jay-graber-c...

per @brunodias.bsky.social: But for that 'buffet' style of social media to actually exist, there has to be a damn buffet! Right now there's a sad salad bar with maybe two or three niche options, one large bowl of soup that 99% of diners are eating from, and one smaller bowl of much more niche soup.

I joined Bluesky with invite code waiting list and distributed those to my friends because I believe(d) in its potentials. I've also seen you in the early days I got here. Right now I am sharing the same frustration with the skeptics as well 🫠

Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.

I was Bluesky user #308, and have been a major booster of this platform since the beginning, but I'm starting to think that the skeptics were right.

It isn't too late to fix things, but I'm doubtful the team will take this excellent advice from @brunodias.bsky.social to heart:

If you take a look at "Cakrawala Indonesia" feed, there are quite a lot of Indonesians posting there. It's still not in the same scale of Twitter or Threads, though.

yeah and those are also rough to watch IMO. That and excessive (understandably) angry comments from the US have started to make me feel uncomfortable being here

It’s a very US-centric app and news from the Middle East or Asia either you need to specifically look for or get moderated into oblivion due to the fact that it’s considered too violent. Which I can understand but I also find ICE raids violent and those don’t get censored.

I've also been unable to see posts from non-Americans. My thinking is that it's a chicken and egg problem, but it has been a while since I joined (I was one of invite code users) and there hasn't been any improvement

Bluesky wasn't very good in relaying or providing news about recent protests in Indonesia despite fairly big Indonesian user base + active efforts from existing users to cross posts info from various sources

they were overshadowed with whatever happened in the US

wow I just learned about Link's ban today. This made me think that there's little to no benefits in using Bluesky

These are actions that will affect Bluesky’s future. You gained a following because this place offered a safe haven for many oppressed minorities after Twitter went to hell. You need to be more honest with your users, and yourself. You know what you are doing, and you know it’s not right. /6

We have seen in recent days that users who critiqued or even made light of the death of Charlie Kirk get suspensions or bans. You allowed people to harass your mods to take that action, including banning people who didn’t violate any of the TOS. You caved to that mob. We have seen that. /4

You have said that harassing mods to ban people has never worked, but that is demonstrably untrue. We have seen Palestinian users, some here since the first days of Bluesky, banned for sharing fundraisers. Those users were harassed and mass-reported, and you capitulated to the harassers. /3

One of my Portuguese teacher in the past had a great comeback, though. She'd say, "If you have issues with the Portuguese grammar, please give your complaints to Instituto Camões. I am just a teacher here." lol

Like, what's the point of it?

Surely the teachers won't make up rules just to mess with us. Also, since they don't make the rules, what's the point of directing the frustrations to them?

I get that learning a foreign language can feel frustrating, especially if it's grammatically different to your first language. I've been frustrated, too.

But debating a native speaker - especially if they're professionally trained to teach the language is so odd to me?

Okay, so I've been attending Portuguese class for about three years now and I noticed something peculiar: some of my male classmates tend to debate the teacher on what's grammatically correct/not even though the teachers are native speakers 🤔

I still lurk on computer though

uninstalled Bluesky on my phone, and I must say I don't miss it 😬

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Activists are on their way to block Webb Dock in Port Melbourne in solidarity with Palestine, the Sumud Flotilla, and the six Australians abducted illegally by Israel. "Block everything".

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information:

gizmodo.com/apple-sells-...

Peaceful Action of the Voice of Indonesian Mothers in Yogyakarta a couple days ago regarding MBG(free nutritious food) government program that have caused thousands of food poisoning in schools throughout Indonesia

Indonesia’s Mass Killings 60 Years on Still Demand Justice The 1965-66 massacres were among the darkest days in Indonesian history. Marxism and communism remain banned in the country and continue to be applied to target critics of the government.

Successive Indonesian governments made vague promises that they failed to keep. Bedjo Untung of the 1965 Murder Victims Research Foundation said, “Not a single 1965 survivor or family could get a court decision to document what they had suffered” www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Judgement at Nuremberg - David Low's cartoon in the Evening Standard #OnThisDay 1946

The stories of Indo (Dutch-Indonesian) people are still rarely told in Indonesia, unfortunately, so you've got to read Chris' account on his family here.

For me it's a powerful yet poignant story, but sadly for many people it's a reality that they must live in.

Caught Between States as an Empire Dissolved A Dutch-Indonesian family’s documents from the mid-20th century reveal a painful story of separation and an administrative nightmare that prefigures today’s xenophobic politics

When my grandfather died in 2004, I was 11. At his home in Nijmegen I found a battered briefcase, unopened for years. Inside: photos, consular forms and letters — a history of falling empire, colonial decoupling and rising nationalism that marked those who lived it.

newlinesmag.com/first-person...

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