Chris Brummitt

A flock of Straw-Headed Bulbul followed by this wonderful Oriental Darter at Hindhede Quarry this morning photos by @RobertBirsel

@stanleywidianto this is great, and well written too. what no car-free day callout?

"Jakarta is both gleaming in opulence and dimmed by stark inequality" - I wrote a little guide to Jakarta and its small little pockets that keep me sane. Check it out for some bakmi, bar, and pasar recs reuters.com/city-memo/jaka…

@RoughTrade a) King Creosote b)Yes and c) Yes

Wrapped 2025... a) Top artist? b) Did you buy their music on vinyl/CD/tape in 2025? c) Did you see them live in 2025?

@Birdyword @FT @dealbook im going to read this, looks interesting Mike. Well done

It is now just a week (1 week!) until the launch of THE LAND TRAP, my debut book. Very excited for a bunch of podcast appearances soon, and with the coverage in @FT and @dealbook so far. If you're interested, pre-orders are available now in the US, UK and overseas!

@rideox4 I worked for Our Price when it was released. Can remember playing it loud and often to sometimes bemused shoppers looking for best of Status Quo double album and other gems of the era

Today marks 35 years since Nowhere was released. It was the start of everything for us. Thanks for keeping it alive all these years. Here’s to 35 years of Nowhere 🥳🎸 #Ride #Shoegaze #Nowhere

🚨 Sam Altman’s Worldcoin got caught in a $1.5B China-linked scam network fleecing Americans—unwittingly tied to criminals. Brazen’s bombshell scoop: #Worldcoin #CryptoScams 👇1/6

@lewisgeldeard @BOBindieband got one of me?

Reading 1990 @BOBindieband

@IncNaturalist me neither but same thing happened in Sulawesi recently with me

I didn’t expect to find my first Rufous-collared Kingfisher snoozing in a Malaysian rainforest at 10pm

@mhuseinali It might be that regular media and TV is not very interesting and poor quality (and indeed getting worse) rather an issue with 'trust' per se. And the price influencers can charge reflect the crazy amount of time that young Indonesians on Instagram and TT

Funfact: Rata2 KOL (influencer) di Indonesia harganya termahal di Asia. Tau gak kenapa? Karena desentralisasi informasi. Kepercayaan kita sangat rendah terhadap otoritas media dan TV. Kita lebih percaya sama orang-orang biasa di sosmed. Ini hasil obrolanku sama klien Jepang:

@ConnellyAL @nuicemedia please

@nuicemedia Malaysia fast, but Indonesia faster

Malaysia starts fasting on Sunday, Indonesia starts tomorrow

Ukraine peace plan latest The new Private Eye is out now

@brahma_dba @suilee Sumbawa to Lombok NYE 24

@suilee "An Indonesian man" hey I know that guy lol. Amazing article Ms. Sui-Lee

I finally wrote about Michael Learns To Rock and its enduring popularity in Asia. nytimes.com/2024/11/19/wor…

@ConnellyAL I couldn't watch to the end. It made me uncomfortable

Surprised that Prabowo posted this. It does not reflect particularly well on either Prabowo or Trump.

@robcrilly Missing UK popsters because of last minute travel is a chronic problem with you it seems

I have two tickets for Billy Bragg at the 9:30 club in DC for Sunday night which I can't use as I'm out of town. I'd like them to go to a good home. DM me if you can use them.

@ElizabethPisani i especially like the section on the way these kinds of issues make it into the media. The JP article also excellent. 'Are vitamin injections even a thing in grown up hospitals?'

@ElizabethPisani Thanks for this dash of sense

Kenapa pemerintah dan pers Indonesia dengan keras kepala mengulang-ulang naratif "Mahalnya obat di Indonesia"? (Looking at you, @korantempo!) Pilihan gengsi (alias mahal) ada memang, tapi untuk kebanyakan obat, juga ada pilihan yg terjangkau . indonesiaetc.com/the-overpriced….

Britain’s Private Eye magazine has a typically unsparing take

@Non_rights ha! thanks

@cjbrummitt Oops, no.. that’s going on now ! Think Indonesia beat Vietnam 3-0

Almost packed house at #Rajamangala to see #SonHeungMin and SouthKorea take on Thailand in Bangkok

@louistheroux @mrkocnnll @walterkirn @JohnSafran Just ordered them all, thanks LT

For those interested in literary true crime may I recommend A Thread of Violence by @mrkocnnll - which earns a place alongside The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrere and Blood Will Out by @walterkirn, and @JohnSafran’s Murder in Mississippi… gripping and dark and appropriately burdened with self doubt.

@Birdyword Are we sure that the British Conservative Party didn't lift the logo from the nature reserve?

Fun discovery of the day is that there's a nature reserve in Laos using the 2006 British Conservative Party tree logo