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They want us to go back to theaters but do they offer us even one super-epic with a cast of Hungarians in beaded headdresses in dreams within dreams within dreams? They do not.
December 7, 2025 at 3:07 AM
They want us to go back to theaters but do they offer us even one super-epic with a cast of Hungarians in beaded headdresses in dreams within dreams within dreams? They do not.
Casablanca, that beloved franchise.
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Casablanca, that beloved franchise.
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Kris Cheng was interviewed by the Politlcs #UK on the politics of fear that runs #HongKong after the massive fire was extinguished.
“That is exactly what the government wants. People are allowed to be sad, but they cannot be angry publicly.”
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“That is exactly what the government wants. People are allowed to be sad, but they cannot be angry publicly.”
politicsuk.com/first-the-fi...
First the Fire, then the Fear: Hong Kong Government Crack...
After the Fire at Tai Po, Hong Kongers demand answers. But the government cracks down on dissent harder than ever.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Kris Cheng was interviewed by the Politlcs #UK on the politics of fear that runs #HongKong after the massive fire was extinguished.
“That is exactly what the government wants. People are allowed to be sad, but they cannot be angry publicly.”
politicsuk.com/first-the-fi...
“That is exactly what the government wants. People are allowed to be sad, but they cannot be angry publicly.”
politicsuk.com/first-the-fi...
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We all know what happened based on the vocabulary, "foreign forces" "destabilizing society" are common tropes used by the HK & Chinese government when they see someone saying something they don't like.
December 4, 2025 at 5:23 AM
We all know what happened based on the vocabulary, "foreign forces" "destabilizing society" are common tropes used by the HK & Chinese government when they see someone saying something they don't like.
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Hailey Cheng, creator of the HK Fire document database has posted that she received "accurate reports" that has convinced her to cease posting about the Tai Po fire. In more recent posts, she states that the government is concerned her posts would be "misinterpreted" by "foreign forces".
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Hailey Cheng, creator of the HK Fire document database has posted that she received "accurate reports" that has convinced her to cease posting about the Tai Po fire. In more recent posts, she states that the government is concerned her posts would be "misinterpreted" by "foreign forces".
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The voices that have publicly sought to challenge the government narratives on what caused or contributed to the Tai Po fire are being silenced "for obvious reasons".
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The voices that have publicly sought to challenge the government narratives on what caused or contributed to the Tai Po fire are being silenced "for obvious reasons".
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42.0% of Hong Kong's total prison population have not been convicted of a crime — a new record high, according to Webb-site.com.
Breaking: remand prisoners in HK reach new record high
Only 54.5% of HK prisoners are convicted
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December 3, 2025 at 5:51 AM
42.0% of Hong Kong's total prison population have not been convicted of a crime — a new record high, according to Webb-site.com.
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just saw an ad for “astrology for work” and no thanks they already have meyers-briggs
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 AM
just saw an ad for “astrology for work” and no thanks they already have meyers-briggs
I asked Perplexity to program a film festival based on my Letterboxd activity and... yeah, okay. Not exactly what I'd do but not bad.
That final day is a bit of a marathon, mind.
That final day is a bit of a marathon, mind.
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I asked Perplexity to program a film festival based on my Letterboxd activity and... yeah, okay. Not exactly what I'd do but not bad.
That final day is a bit of a marathon, mind.
That final day is a bit of a marathon, mind.
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Digging up and reporting on local corruption scandals was a specialty of Apple Daily before it was shut down by Hong Kong authorities following China’s imposition of a national security law in 2020. Its founder and proprietor Jimmy Lai is in prison.
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Digging up and reporting on local corruption scandals was a specialty of Apple Daily before it was shut down by Hong Kong authorities following China’s imposition of a national security law in 2020. Its founder and proprietor Jimmy Lai is in prison.
The answer is too long to include here, but it amounts to 'no'.
AFP question to Chief Executive John Lee:
"Over the past few years, you have spoken about leading Hong Kong from chaos to order and from order to prosperity. And yet this prosperous society allowed 151 people to burn to death. Can you tell us why you deserve to keep your job?"
"Over the past few years, you have spoken about leading Hong Kong from chaos to order and from order to prosperity. And yet this prosperous society allowed 151 people to burn to death. Can you tell us why you deserve to keep your job?"
December 2, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The answer is too long to include here, but it amounts to 'no'.
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this just makes the fact that they've arrested someone for sedition because they petitioned for an inquiry all the more absurd
Hong Kong chief executive John Lee says "he will be in touch with the judiciary to have a judge to chair the committee, which will conduct its work in “high efficiency”" to ascertain the cause of the deadly fire in Tai Po which has so far claimed 151 lives. sc.mp/48ckf?utm_so...
Breaking | John Lee orders judge-led committee to uncover truth behind Hong Kong fire
The committee will be chaired by a judge and will investigate the cause of the deadly fire in Tai Po which claimed 151 lives.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
this just makes the fact that they've arrested someone for sedition because they petitioned for an inquiry all the more absurd
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"The bamboo scaffolding is not the problem. The system is the problem."
Source: Telegram
Source: Telegram
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
"The bamboo scaffolding is not the problem. The system is the problem."
Source: Telegram
Source: Telegram
"Around 10 p.m. on Wednesday...Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing urged an "all-out effort" to extinguish the fire and to minimise casualties and losses, according to state media reports."
Thank goodness for the core leader, otherwise the firefighters might not have thought to do that.
Thank goodness for the core leader, otherwise the firefighters might not have thought to do that.
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
"Around 10 p.m. on Wednesday...Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing urged an "all-out effort" to extinguish the fire and to minimise casualties and losses, according to state media reports."
Thank goodness for the core leader, otherwise the firefighters might not have thought to do that.
Thank goodness for the core leader, otherwise the firefighters might not have thought to do that.
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the amount of coherent contiguous pedestrian routes in the uk that aren't at this moment blocked by skips, vans, weird subsidence or insane curb elevation is less than 5 miles. all of these will fall into holes and be kicked into shrapnel by saturday night pint goblins.
Being launched in Sheffield. I predict it will be launched into a canal shortly after
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Uber Eats will use Starship sidewalk robots to deliver food in the UK | TechCrunch
The two companies will start in the UK this year, before expanding to other European cities in 2026 and the U.S. in 2027.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
the amount of coherent contiguous pedestrian routes in the uk that aren't at this moment blocked by skips, vans, weird subsidence or insane curb elevation is less than 5 miles. all of these will fall into holes and be kicked into shrapnel by saturday night pint goblins.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
"In an internal note reported by Wired, Amodei conceded, “This is a real downside... but ‘no bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a difficult principle to run a business on.”"
Oh, well if it's difficult I guess better not even try.
Oh, well if it's difficult I guess better not even try.
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"In an internal note reported by Wired, Amodei conceded, “This is a real downside... but ‘no bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a difficult principle to run a business on.”"
Oh, well if it's difficult I guess better not even try.
Oh, well if it's difficult I guess better not even try.
... we feel like we're constantly being watched because we *are*.
“The undercover [minibus seat belt] operation seemed to be about prompting immediate compliance. Yet, when minor infractions are policed this way, people may feel they are constantly being watched and trust between the community and authorities risks being eroded.”
www.scmp.com/opinion/hong...
www.scmp.com/opinion/hong...
Opinion | Hong Kong’s road safety laws must be enforced with clarity and care
Safety is non-negotiable, but for long-term adherence to the city’s new rules, people must feel supported rather than policed.
www.scmp.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
... we feel like we're constantly being watched because we *are*.
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#China: It has been two years since Minnie Chan, a defence reporter at the #SCMP, disappeared during a trip to Beijing after covering a military conference. As the general indifference surrounding her case raises fears of state repression, RSF urges the Chinese regime to disclose her whereabouts.
Disappearance of Hong Kong journalist in China deeply concerning
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is greatly concerned over the disappearance of Minnie Chan, a reporter for Hong Kong daily South China Morning Post, who went missing in China in late October after she...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Now that Roisin Agnew's doc "The Ban" is up on The New Yorker's website, here's a piece I wrote about it, and the broadcasting ban itself, on the 30th anniversary of its lifting last year, and which involved me quizzing Chris Morris about *that* sketch.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
November 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Now that Roisin Agnew's doc "The Ban" is up on The New Yorker's website, here's a piece I wrote about it, and the broadcasting ban itself, on the 30th anniversary of its lifting last year, and which involved me quizzing Chris Morris about *that* sketch.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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Pretty extraordinary story here
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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Pretty extraordinary story here
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
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Despite it supposedly being the "good" Special Administrative Region (SAR) which, unlike Hong Kong, doesn't/didn't have "rioters" (pro-Beijing parlance for pro-democracy protestors), Macau is still repressed pretty badly/strictly too.
Independent outlet All About Macau Media ends its print publication, citing growing restrictions since Oct 2024: reporters barred from events, denied legislative access, and three journalists now facing charges. Its publishing license was revoked in October.
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10月30日，创刊15年的澳门独立媒体《论尽媒体》宣布停刊，并将于12月20日起暂停更新网站及社交平台内容。 aamacau.com/end-of-chapt...
“自去年（2024）10月起，部分官方活动限制《论尽》记者入场采访。今年4月，本媒体再次被拒绝进入立法会采访，目前本媒体3名记者因该事件被指涉嫌刑事罪行，或将面临刑事检控。新闻局亦于10月通知本媒体，依据《出版法》，本媒体‘已不具备法定条件从事相关活动’，且《论尽》月刊登记编号已被取消。”
“虽然此刻暂别，但本媒体仍诚挚呼吁读者继续以行动守护公民社会，推动本地多元价值与自主言论，并为重要议题发声。”
“自去年（2024）10月起，部分官方活动限制《论尽》记者入场采访。今年4月，本媒体再次被拒绝进入立法会采访，目前本媒体3名记者因该事件被指涉嫌刑事罪行，或将面临刑事检控。新闻局亦于10月通知本媒体，依据《出版法》，本媒体‘已不具备法定条件从事相关活动’，且《论尽》月刊登记编号已被取消。”
“虽然此刻暂别，但本媒体仍诚挚呼吁读者继续以行动守护公民社会，推动本地多元价值与自主言论，并为重要议题发声。”
November 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Despite it supposedly being the "good" Special Administrative Region (SAR) which, unlike Hong Kong, doesn't/didn't have "rioters" (pro-Beijing parlance for pro-democracy protestors), Macau is still repressed pretty badly/strictly too.
@hjdoom.bsky.social lovely punchline re the UK government response to kaiju. I saw it coming (which means it's accurate) and I laughed anyway (which means it's good!).
October 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
@hjdoom.bsky.social lovely punchline re the UK government response to kaiju. I saw it coming (which means it's accurate) and I laughed anyway (which means it's good!).
Gang, in this age of "it takes 3 seasons to get good" I am less than 3 eps into a random rewatch of the X-Files and it takes zero prisoners.
October 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Gang, in this age of "it takes 3 seasons to get good" I am less than 3 eps into a random rewatch of the X-Files and it takes zero prisoners.