How do I love trade in LDCs? Let me count the ways. I love trade from Kiribati to Haiti, Stretching over seas, very weighty. I love trade in gum arabic and in shea, Traveling as cargo, to Norway? From Ethiopia, Angola, Sudan and Bhutan, Happy #TradeValentines, join in our plans!

One of the most painful lessons of this crisis is the extent to which America cannot or will not identify with Chinese pain. Every horror that is happening here happened first in Wuhan. We covered it. Many people did not care.

Really laughed a lot researching this story: bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-new…

this is very very good

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'Ghosts' scare Indonesians indoors and away from coronavirus reut.rs/3ej2AfO

this is it - exactly. nytimes.com/2020/06/24/mov…

I of course love this use of facial recognition on orangutans, and then reference to data security concerns :) bit.ly/3dG03vx

Ida's forgotten victims: Nearly all storm's basement deaths were Asian residents, obscured by climate injustice nbcnews.com/news/asian-ame… via NBC News

so like none of the people who made Red Notice on Netflix has ever been to Bali, clearly 🤦

A boulder inscribed with Chinese characters, which was found on the Indonesian island of Serutu, records Kublai Khan’s failed invasion of the Singhasari Kingdom on Java in A.D. 1293. archaeology.org/issues/459-220…

The youth of today! Visiting the Temple of Confucius in Qufu, China, this lout just slouched around with his shirt hanging out. Not like in the good old days. Oh, hang on, this was taken 110 years ago. They *were* the old days! (an original colour photo from 1913, not colourised)

Another entry for Ape-ril: Orangutan clothing. In the wild, orangutans will create hats and umbrellas from leaves to protect them from rain. When they have access to human cloth they will readily use it to make blankets and ponchos.

It’s true: at the 71st & Continental train station in Forest Hills, remnants of a poster for the 1986 Kevin Bacon film, QUICKSILVER, have been unearthed…

never been better vibes than this

quick update from the annual french stretchy cheese competition — they're reaching absolutely ridiculous levels of stretch

this is the cutest video ever

A blast from the past: A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. #thread

Orangutan seen treating wound with medicinal herb in first for wild animals theguardian.com/science/articl…