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I'm going to start collecting threads on HK protest art in one place. Easier to walk down memory lane, even if they be filled with tears and teargas.
Having these in many places mean the images are harder to erase. And harder to forget.
Having these in many places mean the images are harder to erase. And harder to forget.
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2 #HongKong organizations secretly transported the Lady Liberty Hong Kong statue to #Germany . This statue was subsequently exhibited in many German cities. It was sent to the #Sutton Cinema in the #UK for display in Sep.,2025. It has now moved to the Konger Cafe in #Manchester .
December 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
2 #HongKong organizations secretly transported the Lady Liberty Hong Kong statue to #Germany . This statue was subsequently exhibited in many German cities. It was sent to the #Sutton Cinema in the #UK for display in Sep.,2025. It has now moved to the Konger Cafe in #Manchester .
Hey! It's @ilariamariasala.bsky.social!
Two weeks after the devastating fire in Tai Po, it’s clear the fault lies beyond Hong Kong’s iconic plant artreview.com/on-bamboo-bl...
On Bamboo, Blame and Wang Fuk Court
Two weeks after the devastating fire in Tai Po, it’s clear the fault lies beyond Hong Kong’s iconic plant
artreview.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Hey! It's @ilariamariasala.bsky.social!
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400 attend vigil for Tai Po fire victims in Melbourne, Australia.
From Dec 5 to 7, vigils were also held in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Gold Coast, Adelaide and Canberra.
From Dec 5 to 7, vigils were also held in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Gold Coast, Adelaide and Canberra.
December 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
400 attend vigil for Tai Po fire victims in Melbourne, Australia.
From Dec 5 to 7, vigils were also held in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Gold Coast, Adelaide and Canberra.
From Dec 5 to 7, vigils were also held in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Gold Coast, Adelaide and Canberra.
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This is about Hong Kong, but if you're interested its a good discussion about building solidarities across/against US and Chinese imperialism, with obviously implications for Taiwan.
Non-sovereign revolutions: Thinking across Puerto Rico and Hong Kong | Lausan Collective
YouTube video by Lausan Collective
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December 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This is about Hong Kong, but if you're interested its a good discussion about building solidarities across/against US and Chinese imperialism, with obviously implications for Taiwan.
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⌛️ #HumanRightsDay Countdown: #HongKong law professor #BennyTai — co-founder of #OccupyCentral and organizer of an unofficial primary election — received a 10-year prison sentence, the harshest imposed under HK’s #NationalSecurityLaw to date.
🗞️ tenchu.org/pocd/public/...
🗞️ tenchu.org/pocd/public/...
December 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
⌛️ #HumanRightsDay Countdown: #HongKong law professor #BennyTai — co-founder of #OccupyCentral and organizer of an unofficial primary election — received a 10-year prison sentence, the harshest imposed under HK’s #NationalSecurityLaw to date.
🗞️ tenchu.org/pocd/public/...
🗞️ tenchu.org/pocd/public/...
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In this piece originally published in @initiummedia.bsky.social and translated by Yiwen Liu, Lee Wai Kwan describes how, in the wake of the HK fire, strangers came together through grassroots relief efforts to contribute their time and talents, before the authorities imposed their own bureaucracy.
The Fire of the Century | Made in China Journal
Editors’ introduction: The following piece, written by Lee Wai Kwan and translated by Yiwen Liu, originally appeared in Initium Media on 28 November 2025. In republishing it here in the Made in China ...
madeinchinajournal.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
In this piece originally published in @initiummedia.bsky.social and translated by Yiwen Liu, Lee Wai Kwan describes how, in the wake of the HK fire, strangers came together through grassroots relief efforts to contribute their time and talents, before the authorities imposed their own bureaucracy.
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Work year limit is bad for workers and honestly doesn't serve anyone's interest
Taipei rally voices migrant workers' anger over work-year limit - Focus Taiwan
Around 1,000 people attended a Migrant Workers Rally in Taipei on Sunday to appeal for an end to the work-year limit that will be soon sending some of them home and to question the working conditions ...
focustaiwan.tw
December 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Work year limit is bad for workers and honestly doesn't serve anyone's interest
Apparently their definition of ‘high quality democracy’ is just unbridled executive power where pushback from political parties don’t exist, because political parties outside of CCP functionally don’t exist. I am not joking.
"Having all seats contested in [the LegCo] election and the resulting strong performance by independent candidates signal emerging political diversity within Hong Kong’s reformed electoral system, political analysts have said."
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
‘High-quality democracy’: what does Beijing’s new phrase for Hong Kong mean?
Beijing seeks orderly form of politics with executive-led government working closely with lawmakers not in confrontation with each other, analysts say.
www.scmp.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Apparently their definition of ‘high quality democracy’ is just unbridled executive power where pushback from political parties don’t exist, because political parties outside of CCP functionally don’t exist. I am not joking.
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#ArtAdventCalendar
Dec. 8
They are common across North America, but are also shy and rarely seen.
This Sora was hunting bugs in the marsh grasses when it decided to take a quick peek!
#Birds #photography #wildlife
🪶
Dec. 8
They are common across North America, but are also shy and rarely seen.
This Sora was hunting bugs in the marsh grasses when it decided to take a quick peek!
#Birds #photography #wildlife
🪶
December 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar
Dec. 8
They are common across North America, but are also shy and rarely seen.
This Sora was hunting bugs in the marsh grasses when it decided to take a quick peek!
#Birds #photography #wildlife
🪶
Dec. 8
They are common across North America, but are also shy and rarely seen.
This Sora was hunting bugs in the marsh grasses when it decided to take a quick peek!
#Birds #photography #wildlife
🪶
See? The election *is* record-breaking. The government should just point to that as its achievement
Hong Kong has recorded over 40,000 invalid ballots - or 3.12% of all votes cast in the geographical constituencies - during Sunday's "patriots only" legislative elections, a new high since the 1997 Handover. In full: buff.ly/oPVat5v
3.12% invalid votes in 'all patriots' direct legislative polls, new high since 1997
Hong Kong has recorded over 40,000 invalid ballots - or 3.12% of all votes cast in the geographical constituencies - during Sunday's "patriots only" legislative elections, a new high since the 1997 Handover.
buff.ly
December 9, 2025 at 5:39 AM
See? The election *is* record-breaking. The government should just point to that as its achievement
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This year’s LegCo election saw an unprecedented jump in the number of invalid ballots cast. The percentage was even higher in functional constituencies like Social Welfare (9.78%) and Education, which leaned pro-democracy before the 2021 overhaul.
More via Ming Pao: news.mingpao.com/pns/%e8%a6%8...
More via Ming Pao: news.mingpao.com/pns/%e8%a6%8...
December 9, 2025 at 5:11 AM
This year’s LegCo election saw an unprecedented jump in the number of invalid ballots cast. The percentage was even higher in functional constituencies like Social Welfare (9.78%) and Education, which leaned pro-democracy before the 2021 overhaul.
More via Ming Pao: news.mingpao.com/pns/%e8%a6%8...
More via Ming Pao: news.mingpao.com/pns/%e8%a6%8...
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looking down the levels
📍airside, Kai tak, hong kong
📍airside, Kai tak, hong kong
December 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
looking down the levels
📍airside, Kai tak, hong kong
📍airside, Kai tak, hong kong
Oh hey! It's @antd.bsky.social ! (He really needs to come visit Bluesky more often)
www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
Silenced by China, Hong Kong struggles to voice its grief over the Tai Po fire disaster | Antony Dapiran
The pain is visceral, but civil society, media and the creative community have been in retreat since the 2019 pro-democracy protests, says author Antony Dapiran
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Oh hey! It's @antd.bsky.social ! (He really needs to come visit Bluesky more often)
www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
As a comparison, we saw 1 million go on a peaceful march in 2019 followed by 2 million just a week after. Nearly 3 million voted in the *local district* election a few months later for councillors who have no legislative powers. 1 million is voting is nothing.
The turnout rate for Sunday's "patriots only" Legislative Council election stands at 31.9 per cent, slightly surpassing the record low of 30.2 per cent in the last poll in 2021.
In full: buff.ly/SBCMgRb
Graphic: HKFP.
In full: buff.ly/SBCMgRb
Graphic: HKFP.
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
As a comparison, we saw 1 million go on a peaceful march in 2019 followed by 2 million just a week after. Nearly 3 million voted in the *local district* election a few months later for councillors who have no legislative powers. 1 million is voting is nothing.
One of the incredibly telling thing after 2019 was when UK commentaries suggested the country should welcome HK migrants trying to leave a repressive regime because we have money
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 AM
One of the incredibly telling thing after 2019 was when UK commentaries suggested the country should welcome HK migrants trying to leave a repressive regime because we have money
The HK government trying to spin this “er, hmm, it just shows that 70% of citizens has such rock-solid faith in our selection of patriot candidates they know they don’t need to vote”
The turnout rate for Sunday's "patriots only" Legislative Council election stands at 31.9 per cent, slightly surpassing the record low of 30.2 per cent in the last poll in 2021.
In full: buff.ly/SBCMgRb
Graphic: HKFP.
In full: buff.ly/SBCMgRb
Graphic: HKFP.
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The HK government trying to spin this “er, hmm, it just shows that 70% of citizens has such rock-solid faith in our selection of patriot candidates they know they don’t need to vote”
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The latest episode of the FCC’s podcast The Correspondent – Reporting on the Tai Po Fires
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The latest episode of the FCC’s podcast The Correspondent – Reporting on the Tai Po Fires
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Hongkongers wrote handwritten notes and fold paper cranes during a memorial earlier this week to mark the traditional seventh day ritual for the 159 people who died in the massive fire at Wang Fuk Court: buff.ly/PGTV3ry Video: AFP. In full: buff.ly/iQPZDTM
December 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Hongkongers wrote handwritten notes and fold paper cranes during a memorial earlier this week to mark the traditional seventh day ritual for the 159 people who died in the massive fire at Wang Fuk Court: buff.ly/PGTV3ry Video: AFP. In full: buff.ly/iQPZDTM
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This is weirder when you consider how the writer works (worked?) at Straits Times and seems to be Singaporean
December 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is weirder when you consider how the writer works (worked?) at Straits Times and seems to be Singaporean
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when you thought you'd seen the wildest racial discourse online and there's always something more. saw this on X and FB today.
so it's saying - racism depends on perceived attractiveness or lack thereof
- physiognomy of imaginary subgroups of Han Chinese,
so it's saying - racism depends on perceived attractiveness or lack thereof
- physiognomy of imaginary subgroups of Han Chinese,
December 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
when you thought you'd seen the wildest racial discourse online and there's always something more. saw this on X and FB today.
so it's saying - racism depends on perceived attractiveness or lack thereof
- physiognomy of imaginary subgroups of Han Chinese,
so it's saying - racism depends on perceived attractiveness or lack thereof
- physiognomy of imaginary subgroups of Han Chinese,
For those wondering, the older generation was active during 2019, so an anti-government 71 year old is not a surprise. It’s also not a surprise when you realize this generation spent their 30s scarred by Tiananmen and in their 40s saw HK change from a colony to a Chinese city
A 71-year old man was arrested by national security police for posting comments suggesting the central government and Hong Kong government were the ones causing chaos, and that Beijing’s disaster assistance was merely “performative”
news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/comp...
news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/comp...
宏福苑五級火｜國安處拘71歲男子涉發表煽動言論及披露助查內容 - RTHK
一名71歲男子涉嫌在社交平台公開協助調查後的內容，及發放涉及大埔宏福苑火災的煽動言論，被警方國安處拘捕。 國安處總警司李桂華表示，星期二邀請涉案男子到旺角警署就一宗危害國家安全的案件協助調查，發現他翌日在社交平台「肆無忌憚」將部分內容公開，...
news.rthk.hk
December 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
For those wondering, the older generation was active during 2019, so an anti-government 71 year old is not a surprise. It’s also not a surprise when you realize this generation spent their 30s scarred by Tiananmen and in their 40s saw HK change from a colony to a Chinese city
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South Callipers Morning Phrenology
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
South Callipers Morning Phrenology
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FWIW, The Office for Safeguarding National Security is not "Hong Kong authorities". This was a summons by a mainland authority based in Hong Kong, and answers to Beijing directly.
Hong Kong authorities summoned international news organizations to a rare meeting on Saturday to warn against “false information and smear campaigns” surrounding the city’s deadliest fire in nearly eight decades and upcoming legislative elections.
Hong Kong Summons International News Outlets for Rare Warning
Hong Kong authorities summoned international news organizations to a rare meeting on Saturday to warn against “false information and smear campaigns” surrounding the city’s deadliest fire in nearly ei...
www.bloomberg.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
FWIW, The Office for Safeguarding National Security is not "Hong Kong authorities". This was a summons by a mainland authority based in Hong Kong, and answers to Beijing directly.
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A 71-year old man was arrested by national security police for posting comments suggesting the central government and Hong Kong government were the ones causing chaos, and that Beijing’s disaster assistance was merely “performative”
news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/comp...
news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/comp...
宏福苑五級火｜國安處拘71歲男子涉發表煽動言論及披露助查內容 - RTHK
一名71歲男子涉嫌在社交平台公開協助調查後的內容，及發放涉及大埔宏福苑火災的煽動言論，被警方國安處拘捕。 國安處總警司李桂華表示，星期二邀請涉案男子到旺角警署就一宗危害國家安全的案件協助調查，發現他翌日在社交平台「肆無忌憚」將部分內容公開，...
news.rthk.hk
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A 71-year old man was arrested by national security police for posting comments suggesting the central government and Hong Kong government were the ones causing chaos, and that Beijing’s disaster assistance was merely “performative”
news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/comp...
news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/comp...