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Hildegard Feng

@seito.bsky.social

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MA History @UofT (Late Qing/Republican China, Gender & Sexuality). Official Anglo-Catholic (TEC) parish void cat. Book hoarder, FFXIV player, unserious contents generator. 🏳️‍🌈 and Faithful. Opinions mine and none others. She/her/她/佢

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Hildegard Feng @seito.bsky.social · Jun 12

This is how I feel every time somebody disagrees with me on this platform:

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Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 7d

After two weeks of escalating threats and harassment and no statement forthcoming from the university decrying them, the department voted and approved the following statement. We were pleased and surprised to see President Tate’s article in NJ.com the next day. #Rutgers

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Hildegard Feng @seito.bsky.social · 12d

Make Sanxingdui Great Again
#SanxingduiMuseum

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Kreepy Kira (No. 10 ranked Vanderbilt) @kmaustinyoung.bsky.social · Jun 14

No king but Christ.

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · Jun 13

This, by the way, is why you should never RSVP to a protest that wants your name & address.

WIRED @wired.com · Jun 13

SCOOP: Details about Saturday’s “No Kings” protest are under watch by domestic intelligence centers, where analysts regularly distribute speculative threat assessments among federal, state, and local agencies, according to an internal alert obtained by WIRED.

UNPAYWALLED:

'No Kings' Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings

Army intelligence analysts are monitoring civilian-made ICE tracking tools, treating them as potential threats, as immigration protests spread nationwide.

www.wired.com

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Jun 13

If you're in the US, there's an event near you tomorrow. www.nokings.org#map

No Kings

On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

www.nokings.org

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · Jun 13

The driver of the pickup truck involved in the accident was placed in a stretcher and left in an ambulance.

“Now you’re clogging up the street and people have to work,” one of the remaining bystanders can be heard to say during the stream. “How is this making America great again?”

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · Jun 13

NEW: 12 masked armed men try to enter a homeless shelter without saying who they are. ICE agents park outside an elementary school, sparking fear and a car accident. Local police respond to a call about a possible assault, only to find ICE.

Inside one day on LI:

theintercept.com/2025/06/13/i...

ICE Agent Fled From Angry Residents Outside New York School — and Got in a Car Crash

Masked and unidentified ICE agents lurking near schools sparked fear, confusion, and a car crash in Latino-heavy New York suburbs.

theintercept.com

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · Jun 13

it's here! a very colorful and enchanting experience - a printable and colorable ebook featuring 15 fun little poorly drawn cats.

sharpen your pencils, your quest awaits!

poorlycatdraw.gumroad.com/l/medievalcats

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SharXIII @sharxiii.bsky.social · Mar 19

A radical skeleton telling you "Just start. You don't need permission. Art, craft, 2nd book, cake, writing, that show, any new skill, making friends. If it sucks, ask for help. The time will pass anyway"

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · Jun 13

“The platforms were no longer social, in any meaningful sense of the word, but rather centralized and exercising constant (algorithmic) editorial discretion.”

Thought this piece was quite astute 👇

New York Magazine @nymag.com · Jun 12

Since the early 2010s, social media has been identified with protesters. In the early days, social media was an effective tool for activists to organize and communicate with one another and directly with the public, providing counternarratives to the ones laid out in popular coverage.

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Michael Röllinghoff @roellinghoff.bsky.social · Jun 12

Just in the news: UTokyo, UKyoto, and the National Science Museum of Japan return the stolen remains of 20 Indigenous people taken from lands occupied by Australia and the US.

東大、京大、科博が米豪の先住民遺骨20体を初返還 | 毎日新聞

東京大と京都大、国立科学博物館（科博）は11日、学術研究の目的で収集・保管してきたオーストラリア先住民の遺骨10体を豪側に返還した。昨年11月には東大が米ハワイの先住民遺骨10体を返還していたことも新たに判明。日本の教育研究機関から海外への初の返還例とみられる。

mainichi.jp

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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · Jun 10

Same racist authoritarian data collection they've been doing in Xinjiang for years. Fight it everywhere

WIRED @wired.com · May 29

NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

www.wired.com

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Hildegard Feng @seito.bsky.social · Jun 12

It would be seen as odd because a Chinese rendering of the Creed is already considered as formal written language.

Here is a sung version of the Creed in Cantonese: youtu.be/1Xxl31kO9V4?...

尼西亞信經中文合一版（廣東話）

YouTube video by Aki Production and Ministry

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Hildegard Feng @seito.bsky.social · Jun 12

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · Jun 12

Eels were everywhere in pre-modern England. So if you wanted to explain something, you might put it in eel terms!

Were the Apostles naturally gifted speakers? No! said Richard Whitlock in 1654. Before they met Jesus, they were "fitter to catch Eeles than Soules."

Aposteels, yo.
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Meme. Medieval-looking painting of Jesus talking to Saints Peter and Andrew. Jesus is standing on the shore, extending a hand towards the the other men. His cloak is substantial and he has long, pulled-back hair. If you saw him on the street you'd assume he was panhandling or peddling chakra-enhancing chewables.

Peter and Andrew are identified here as saints, but of course they were only fishermen & sailors at that point. So...probably pretty rowdy. They are pulling a net into their small boat. Peter is wearing blue, and Andrew is wearing a sort of salmon color (these are the 2 basic colors or Christ's ensemble). Andrew looks skeptical, & is likely hoping that the weirdo on the shore will leave them alone. Peter has his hand up, palm towards Jesus, as if to say, "Not today. I don't have any change on me."

Neither man knows what's in store for them. This is a picture of late innocence.

Meme text reads:
"I will make you fishers of men
But bring some eels for the road.
I'm hungry."

NB: I know eels aren't kosher. But the eels don't know that, I'm not trying to be the one to break it to them.

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Hildegard Feng @seito.bsky.social · Jun 12

For me it is the distinction between colloquial speech (口頭語) and formal-style language (書面語).

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Hildegard Feng @seito.bsky.social · Jun 12

Because spoken colloquial Cantonese is usually considered less formal and, therefore, less "serious", with dialect-specific characters like 嘅 in place of 的 (even though you can pronounce 的 as 嘅). Cantonese is perfectly capable of pronouncing the same written Chinese text just like Mandarin, anyway.

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Hildegard Feng @seito.bsky.social · Jun 12

Personally I like this one from the bilingual BCP the best!

Hildegard Feng @seito.bsky.social · Jun 12

平身

Hildegard Feng @seito.bsky.social · Jun 12

This is how I feel every time somebody disagrees with me on this platform:

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Hildegard Feng @seito.bsky.social · Jun 12

I went to a cat-themed Japanese stationery store in East Village yesterday.

Hildegard Feng @seito.bsky.social · Jun 12

……我們信聖靈，是主，是賜生命者，從聖父、聖子而出，與聖父、聖子同受敬拜，同享尊榮。他曾藉眾先知傳言。我們信使徒所傳惟一聖而公的教會。我們承認因為赦罪而設立的獨一洗禮。我們盼望死後的復活，並來世的永生。阿們。

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Hildegard Feng @seito.bsky.social · Jun 12

A transcript from the English-Chinese bilingual BCP:

尼吉亞信經

我們信獨一的上帝，全能的聖父，是創造天地，並一切有形無形萬物的主。我們信獨一的主，耶穌基督，上帝的獨生聖子，在萬世之前為父所生，從上帝所出的上帝，從光所出的光，從真上帝所出的真上帝，是生，非造，是與聖父同體。萬物都是藉著主受造。主為要拯救世人，從天降臨：因聖靈的大能，道成肉身，為童貞女馬利亞所生，成為人身。在本丢彼拉多手下，為我們釘十字架，被害、埋葬。照聖經所說，第三天復活，升天，坐在聖父的右邊。將來必榮耀再臨，審判活人、死人。他的國無窮無盡。……

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Hildegard Feng @seito.bsky.social · Jun 12

Nicene Creed from the English-Chinese bilingual BCP published by the Episcopal Asiamerica Ministry. It is from the Holy Eucharist: Rite Two. It is the version used by St. George's Episcopal Church, Flushing in their Chinese service.

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Hildegard Feng @seito.bsky.social · Jun 12

Simplified Chinese if you are more used to it:

cn.sjccm.com/daily-prayer...

尼西亚信经 Nicene Creed | San Jose Chinese Catholic Mission尼西亞信經 Nicene Creed – San Jose Chinese Catholic Mission

聖荷西華人天主堂 San Jose Chinese Catholic Mission

cn.sjccm.com