Dhevarajan Devadas

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).

Business Proposal is so cute!!

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

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...

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.

It's quite good too! I had BBQ in Berlin and they served Tiger Beer lolol

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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...

Nope, but I'll add it to my list!

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.

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.”

One more book before I hit my reading goal. Been finishing a lot of romance novels this year.

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

Two people frown at a phone. One says to the other, “Bluesky seems to be the app where you post about being on Bluesky.”

Are we doing it right? #NewYorkerCartoons
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Buying a book and actually reading it are two very different hobbies.

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

Students looking at their PSLE results as they are handwritten on the blackboard at River Valley English School in Singapore, Nov 16, 1967.

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Ohh I see. My unit was called up through Covid so we're on track.

Is this your final ICT?

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 :)

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