Finally finished “How to Stand Up to a Dictator” by Filipino (“Uy, Pilipins!!”) Nobel Peace Prize laureate @maria_ressa from @rappler . Scary and essential reading.
Ressa guides the reader along the tightrope that is social media – the good and the very, very bad. She traces our collective journey from bright-eyed world wide websters to the angry mobs flooding today’s digital landscape. And sadly, she knows this world intimately as she herself receives daily death threats for her work. Yet she has persevered, continuing to speak truth to power. That tenacity earned her a Nobel Peace Prize (back when that still meant something, and wasn’t just a f*ckin’ trinket being passed around among the right-wing wannabe dictators of the world).
This book should be required reading for anyone on social media. Because it gets to the heart of the modern dilemma we all face: how do you stay on the socials while making peace with what they’ve become?
Kuwait was a trip 4 real. Six hours after touchdown, we were in the middle of a war. A long weekend turned into almost two weeks.
Missiles overhead. Drone strikes. Still, we never felt unsafe. What’s missing from Western newsfeeds is the nuance: people still went to work, bought groceries, picked up their kids, and muscled through Ramadan. As this dude told us: “Welcome to life in the Middle East.”
All said, it was weird, but dope. Deserted streets by day, Iftar gatherings by night. From Kuwait City through the desert to Riyadh. The food was exceptional. People were open and welcoming. It felt like we were the only tourists in town - and we probably were.
Shukran, Kuwait 🇰🇼 U were awesome 🙌🏽
Very little book full of very revolutionary quotes from the late greats Fred Hampton and Assata Shakur. Not at all a full picture of the two, but a nice little collection of them slanging truths. “My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and I wanted to dance.” -Assata Shakur (R.I.P.)
Cambodia hit me hard, yo. Beauty and tragedy halo halo’d up like nowhere else - from Angkor Wat to the Killing Fields. Somehow, though, the place is full of life and smiles and laughter and frickin’ good vibes!
I finally got to hang out with my brother @djnikoyu again and met the awesome gang of people he’s surrounded himself with (looking at you, @djmoto_irie and @dainitialg and the rest of the bunch). You golden, bro 😎
I got to perform with Alliancen again, went to some fancy galla event, watched barangs get high on laughing gas, and witnessed a gang of ladyboys dance their hearts out. Madness and magic all vacay long.
អរគុណច្រើនប្រទេសកម្ពុជា។ នឹងជួបគ្នាឆាប់ៗនេះ! ❤️🇰🇭
I min familie skriver vi. Jeg skriver små raps og digte. Min fætter skriver bøger – og han er blandt landets absolut allerbedste. Den ukronede konge af dansk fantasy og nu også manden, der har givet tegneserien Valhalla nyt liv i bogform.
Gudernes Land, første bind, føles som at blive suget tilbage i tiden og genforenet med gamle venner: Thor, Odin, Loke – og selvfølgelig Tjalfe, Røskva og Quark. Jeg anede ikke, hvor meget jeg havde savnet dem, før jeg stod midt i universet igen.
Fra Den Ældre og Yngre Edda og Saxo til Peter Madsen – og nu fætter Kenneth.
@kenneth_b_andersen – kæmpe tak for den oplevelse.
