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China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social · 10h

What does journalism education look like when the profession exists to maintain regime stability rather than hold power accountable? China's latest national journalism forum reveals a system designed to ensure Party control flows seamlessly from classroom to newsroom. bit.ly/474nY4D

Molding the Message - China Media Project

A forum held at a leading university in Beijing over the weekend shows how China's leadership keeps tight control over journalism — from the classroom to the newsroom.

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 18h

New event
📆18th Oct
🕑2pm Thailand time

Join Golden Land Solidarity & inky fingers Printshop in Chiang Mai for "Chiang Mai Zine Club" series. This week with a workshop on the history of zines while learning about different zine styles!
at 4seas Nimman

Details:
www.instagram.com/p/DPx9zHOkgwU

18th oct 14:00 at 4 seas Nimman chiang mai

Chiang mai Zine club workshop with golden land solidarity and inky fingers printshop

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe all those LegCo folks are just trying to run for this. It’s all make believe anyway.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 11h

I’ll try to find the HK pamphlets from 2019 on what to do when pets are affected by tear gas. Again, let’s not think too much about why that information had to be compiled in the first place.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 11h

Similarly, if you’re worried about your upholstery when it rains tear gas in your neighbourhood, worry no more, because you will probably have to throw it all out

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · Jun 7

"

- Use aqueous/ oil-based detergent to repeatedly scrub clean furniture and aircon filter
- It's hard to get rid of chemicals from upholstered furniture. If there's a need, dispose of contaminated furniture"

Source: Telegram (Aug 2019)

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 11h

I forget we have some very very very specific advice from the HK 2019 protest pamphlets when it comes to tear gas. Under normal circumstances, no one should really need to ask what happens to the food if tear gas gets into your fridge, but then again, what normal circumstances

Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · Jun 7

"...

- If there are no suitable respirators on hand, use wet towels to cover mouth and nose to prevent exposure
- Food that's been contaminated must be thrown out. If you open the fridge when tear gas has seeped into the home, all food in the fridge must be disposed of"

Source: Telegram (Aug 2019)

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · Jun 7

"What to do if tear gas spreads into the home

🙊First, use a wet towel to cover mouth and nose, keep calm, breathe; use nose to breathe in and out 👃

🏙️Close the windows immediately, stay inside. If the windows won't close, use a fan facing outside to repel tear gas ...

Source: Telegram (Aug 2019)

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · Jun 7

'Wash Away These Tears. (And Also Pepper Spray)'

A thread of HK protests pamphlets on dealing with tear gas and pepper spay exposure, in rough chronological order,

NB: Not an FA so I can't vouch for any of this, please jump in where the material/ my translation is off

Source: Telegram (Aug 2019)

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · Nov 27

"The most effective method for neutralizing tear gas

Fill a rolltop waterproof bag 1/3 with water. Use heat-resistant gloves to pick up the canister, throw it into the bag, and then immediately shake"

Source: TG (Oct 2019)

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · Nov 27

"Waterproof bag
Rating: *****/*****

a. Use a waterproof bag, fill it about 1/3 full of water

b. Pick up the canister with heat-resistant gloves or tongs and throw it into the bag. Roll up the top so that it doesn't leak, and then shake it like mad until extinguished "

Source: TG (Oct 2019)

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

But hey, it’s all ok because Xi must have a cardiac age of someone 14 years younger 😬

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

The question of age limit is tricky for Lee because Xi is 72…

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 1d

Hong Kong leader John Lee has dodged questions about an age limit for running in the "patriots-only" legislative elections, after several septuagenarian lawmakers announced they would not seek another term. In full: buff.ly/lHsjeBK

HK leader dodges questions on age limit for running in 'patriots-only' LegCo race

Hong Kong leader John Lee has dodged questions about an age limit for running in the "patriots-only" legislative elections, after several septuagenarian lawmakers announced they would not seek another...

buff.ly

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

At this point where ‘China’ is interchangeable with ‘US’ in tariff-related headlines

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

The White Terror is over in Taiwan, but the age of banned books, banned art, banned speech elsewhere is not. To be able to freely look back at a painful past as history and learn from it - wouldn't that be nice?

人，不是應該生而自由嗎？

"Aren't people supposed to be born free?"

Source : Telegram (Apr 2020)

Calligraphy of the words from a line on the Taiwanese movie Detention -
人，不是應該生而自由嗎？

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

The horror in 返校 resonated, not so much the supernatural but the *human* horror of authoritarianism, and the price that needs to be paid to come out the other side...

總得有人活下去，記得這一切有多得來不易

"Someone has to survive this, and remember how none of it was easy."

Source: Insta - everyblue99 (Apr 2020)

Image of two people sitting on the floor of a prison, one with an arm on the other person as if speaking to them and assuring them. Above them are the words "總得有人活下去，記得這一切有多得來不易"

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

The idea comes up again in the below from late 2020, when it was clear NSL has eroded academic freedom in HK. Schools are now a shade of bloody red, nothing but a theatre for "love your country, love your Party", a graveyard of free thought.

Source: Telegram/ Insta - sei3.zeoi6 (Sep 2020)

A school assembly hall drenched in red, with empty seats and a noose hanging on the stage. On top of the stage are the words "love your country, love your party" in simplified chinese

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

Here we have Xi - as a malevolent spirit haunting our education institutions - dismantling HKU with an axe. Instead of 返校, it says 党校 - School of the Party. When education becomes reeducation...something has gone terribly wrong.

Source: Telegram

A silhouette of Xi Jiping standing in a darkened corridor holding an axe, with the school crest of the HK University broken at his feet.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

The one below hints at the horrors at San Uk Ling Holding Centre, the notorious detention centre where the police allegedly assaulted protesters. There are rumours some met their deaths here.

你是忘記了，還是害怕想起來? - "Have you forgotten? Or are you afraid to remember?"

Source: Telegram (Sep/ Oct 2019)

Image that's based on a poster for the Taiwanese film 'Detention'. with a woman in a mask holding a candle in the middle, a woman in a mask splattered in blood, all in a dimly lit corridor with a ghostly aura. It's spooky, and Chinese text all over it which is also all spooky. The main gist from the image is that whoever made it thinks the HK government sucks.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

返校 (Detention) is a 2017 horror game from the Taiwanese studio Red Candle Games, and a movie adaptation was released in September 2019. The timing, and the subject matter of the White Terror, meant Detention featured quite a bit in HK protest art.

A small thread.

gail 💖 🔜 GATEway FATE 🌱✨ @notgodzilla.bsky.social · 3d

oh btw if you guys liked Silent Hill f may I suggest Detention. It's by the same studio that made Devotion. It takes place during White Terror in Taiwan and has some really great horror elements from Taiwanese mythology.

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Gabriel Corsetti @gabrielcorsetti.bsky.social · 2d

Chinese authorities detain the leaders of the underground Christian "Zion Church", and idiot shills and Chinese ultranationalists on Twitter celebrate China cracking down on Zionism because the church had the word Zion in its name. Couldn't make it up.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been spending more time than I’d like to admit thinking about what other manga/anime series Thiel is into

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 2d

You sometimes get the feeling HKers are just ATMs for the UK...

Screenshot of a Guardian article with text "Immigration and asylum
Permanent residency for Hongkongers may be worth £4bn to UK economy, says thinktank

Analysis finds value of moved pensions savings could raise similar revenue by 2029 as a year’s air passenger duty"

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 2d

This: bsky.app/profile/samu...

samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 2d

Still, good thing we've deftly navigated history without accruing moral duties toward anyone but Hong Kongers! Right, Anakin?

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 2d

It also means the welcome is conditional and can be taken away at any time. If the UK wants to kick HKers out, they can also just as easily and suddenly decide we are not productive or educated enough, and what then?

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