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A photo like this in 2025 will take on extremely different meaning than when Luffy was floating around last time and I for one can’t wait for it
Photo of a large Macy’s parade balloon of Luffy from One Piece - a figure wearing a straw hat, with his right arm making a fist, looking like he’s about to punch a cop in the foreground
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Oh-oh-oh, up, up, up with our voices
영원히 깨질 수 없는
Gonna be, gonna be golden
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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I mean, no one should be doing this in general, but doing this in the current environment in the US once again shows Beijing truly does not give a shit about its own nationals or diaspora
"One of the festival’s venues received an anonymous letter claiming to be from a group of Chinese students living in New York who wanted the screening to be cancelled, Zhu said."
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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“Higher proportion marks significant increase from 2021 poll and reflects growing prominence of mainland capital in Hong Kong’s economy”… yeah, sure, “prominence”

www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
Exclusive | 30% of 161 Hong Kong Legco election candidates linked to mainland Chinese firms Higher proportion marks significant increase from 2021 poll and reflects growing prominence of mainland capital in Hong Kong’s economy
November 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
niaocollective.bsky.social
Ahem
Celine Dion on the phone, looking concerned and worried and maybe unamused. Under her are the words "je telephone a edward said"
October 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Did you know, the folks who own China Times also make
Package of want want rice crackers
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Because... hello (kitty)?
Rice cooker hot water dispenser
October 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I totally thought FT is saying everyone's hot in HK, just not in the 'need-AC' way

www.ft.com/content/ff44...
"Everybody's hot in Hong Kong. It's the great equaliser"
October 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
niaocollective.bsky.social
Heh
“Residents should have more choices under the new electoral system,” Chan said, referring to the electoral overhaul in 2021 to ensure only patriots can take office in the legislature.
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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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？
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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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"
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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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
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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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.
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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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.
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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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"
October 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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I raise you this scene from Hong Kong in 2019:
Photo of a bear with red cheeks holding a lightsaber, facing off police wearing helmets
October 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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At the end of the Umbrella Movement in 2014, HKers created this banner: We’ll be back

Maybe it was just dreamers talking, but… we kept that promise.
Banner saying “we’ll be back” laid out on a road, held down by traffic cones as people walked by and looked on. In the background are tents. Photo taken during Umbrella Movement in 2014
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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This makes it sound like he's almost normal. By this site's standards anyway.
Now it is primarily Mr. Kim’s health, not his hold on power, that is in question. He is about 5 feet 7 inches and weighs about 310 pounds, according to South Korean intelligence officials. They added that he had unhealthy habits, including chain-smoking, heavy wining and dining, and frequently staying up into the early morning to surf the internet, where he likes to browse weapons sites.
August 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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This detail is wild
Ju-ae’s birth and name were first revealed to the outside world by the retired N.B.A. star Dennis Rodman, who met the Kim family during a visit to North Korea in 2013.
August 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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"So-called peace and prosperity,
Is just the reality white-washed.
If you are willing to be bound
You will never be able to fly."

Source: Telegram (Mar 2020)
Illustration of a wall with tape marking a rectangle where words have wiped clean, a person stands in front, staring at it
August 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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But it's not normal. Maybe it never was before. Maybe the Old Normal was the problem. But at least we can all still remember through art there's a moment in time when there was hope we could have a say in what 'normality' could look like

"Pretend it's a normal society."

Source: Telegram (Feb 2020)
Illustraition of a wall with tape marking a rectangle where words have been painted over, as a person wearing a mask walks by
August 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Leung's project speaks to the dissonance HKers feel, living in a traumatized city, in a middle of a global pandemic, with a government that's insisting everything's normal.

"Work: Disappeared Posters #2
2020 Jan"

"Work: Disappeared Statue
2019 Dec"

Source: Telegram (Mar 2020)
August 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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It's notable the installations started around Feb 2020, when Wuhan was in full lockdown after their government tried to cover up a pandemic. The HK government was still in denial a pandemic was happening because it had to, politically. Everything was just fiiiiiiiiine.

Source: Telegram (Mar 2020)
Photo of a wall with tape marking a rectangle where words have been wiped clean A piece of paper taped on a floor which describes the artwork as if it were a piece in an art museum
August 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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'Paper Over The Cracks' also highlighted the scars the city and its people bear, and the difficulties to truly heal. Painting over graffitied walls do little to address the underlying issues of an unrepresentative, undemocratic government. The cracks remain.

Source: TW (Feb 2020)
Photo of a floor with tape marking a rectangle where words have been painted over
August 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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It was clear HKer's stories would be erased even before NSL. 粉飾太平香港 was a forerunner to the archival exercise we saw for the deleted RTHK videos - when you're told something never happened or existed, remembering it did is a kind of defiance

Source: LIHKG (Feb 2020)
Photo of a wall with tape marking a rectangle around bollards with a piece of white cardboard next to it Photo tape marking a rectangle around bollards with a piece of white cardboard next to it. Next to it is a car and 3 people staring
August 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM