Latest Essay: This is the Hong Kong story that the Hong Kong Government doesn't want you to read konggirlsocialist.ghost.io/untitled/

😮‍💨🫩 I hate living in a dystopia.

The National Security Bureau released a statement emphasising how the "anti-regime consipirators" have been spreading misinformation about the fire to destabilise Hong Kong.

This fire is going to be a headache for Beijing in Hong Kong because: 1. Some loyalists politicians in Hong Kong are involved in the building renovation scandal leading to this disaster. 2. Beijing still does not have the ability to fully control the narrative, at least not on the social media.

UPDATE: The Fire Services Department raised the alert for the deadly Tai Po blaze to a No. 5 alarm - the highest - at 6:22pm. As of 6pm, five people are dead, three are in a critical condition, one in a serious condition and one in a stable condition. Full updates: buff.ly/bOBvAng Photo: Kyle Lam.

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

BREAKING Bangladeshi court finds ex-PM Hasina guilty of crimes against humanity

Labour leaders seem perfectly capable of creativity as long as it involves cruelty. Ask them to adopt a fraction of this to help fix this country and they are suddenly out of ideas.

A MUST SEE There are people who voted for Donald Trump because he promised to expose the Epstein files. Now there is real voter remorse. Epstein survivor Haley Robson is one of them, and if she could speak to Trump today, she would say, “Who owns you?”

This is exactly what I think about the Taiwanese and Hong Kong MAGAs over the past few days.

I am not familiar with US enough to assert anything about the elections, but still I am happy for my friends there having a moment of joy today.

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You know the conservative Chinese diaspora in the West are completely detached from the reality of China, when this country has been infamous for its poor labour conditions, yet they still insist "China has socialism that makes everyone lazy!!!"

What shows are you snuggling up with lately? 🛋️ 📺

I mean so what if bluesky is a retirement home for people who’ve been online too long, we get our little bingo nights & whatever popping.

Slap a coat of red paint and some slogans, some propaganda, and stone cold capitalism and its logics can be rebranded as socialism or whatever word you want 🫠🫠🫠 critical thinking need not apply.

Actual socialism is when 9-9-6 work culture embraced among tech startups in the west.

You know autumn is coming in Hong Kong when r/HongKong and those English language meme accounts on instagram start making fun of locals wearing puff jackets.

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Doomsday bunkers are the most pointless purchase for the billionaires, even if they could manage to reach their bunkers as the society collapses, what could they do next? There would not be anyone or anything left for them to exploit.

Mid-Autumn Festival is coming so I am reposting this meme of mine from Twitter.

Now they are putting unskippable ads on YouTube to convince everyone that enterprise grade softwares can be built with only prompts😮‍💨🫩

I want to stay relevant to the activism of Hong Kong diaspora, but it has been full of dramas recently and it is very annoying to me.

A proposed bill in Indonesia will expand censorship of LGBT+ content online. It expands the authority of the Broadcasting Commission to censor digital platforms It threatens freedom of expression and will futher suppress an already marginalized community.

guess which group of leopard lovers are getting their faces eaten today

Maoism with American Characteristics

my idea is (unfortunately) slowly manifesting in this reality, can the AI bubble please burst now

Indonesian authorities are still detaining 1000s of people following the protests amongst them hundreds of children (who under law shouldn't be detained for more than a day). Reports of police abuses against detained children widespread as well. #FreeOurFriends

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Stay strong Nepal 🇳🇵 ✊

Kirk called the civil rights act "a huge mistake" and referenced the bit in Leviticus about executing gay people as "God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters." So maybe folks could condemn political violence without whitewashing his god-awful politics.

US political violence overwhelmingly comes from the right - the side that calls for, glorifies, & literally pardons it

Once you realise most of the right leaning people are giant infants thinking empathy is their privilege, you could understand the way they react to everything.

The fact that Apple has to edit their banner ad to avoid enraging male customers in South Korea reflects how ridiculously bad the misogyny is in South Korea.

The HK government's proposed bill to recognise same-sex partnerships has failed to pass in the Legislative Council (LegCo), with just 14 out of 86 lawmakers voting in favour. In full: buff.ly/WjX1Xeg

If someone with large platform of any type, I’m talking hundreds of thousands or millions of people listen to them (not that there can’t be impact at lower amounts), has said nothing about the genocide in the last almost two years, what true worth is their platform? It probably doesn’t matter for

worth saying it again but the mass adoption of AI is a destructive political propaganda the way it attacks our creative control & ability. instead of aiming it for specialisation, it's targeted to the mainstream consumers & use it as an excuse to erode every single cultural institutions out there.

lmfao he opened a "diner" to serve techbro happy meals

Some might find this hilarious, but for me it's a sign the national security bureau has completely wiped out the opposition, and now they have to justify their own existence by nitpicking every details of our daily life.

More than 100 NGOs warn 'mass starvation' spreading across Gaza u.afp.com/SgJo

I have nostalgia for the pre-AI internet where I could simply enjoy nice photographs and drawings without thinking "is this AI generated?"

Imagine supporting a Japanese war crime apologist in an election while proclaiming to be "anti authoritarian" or "pro self-determination".

Ever wondered who does the Chinese party-state hate more - women or foreigners? it’s women. The Chinese society hates women.

"Thirty-two percent of Koreans born between 1981 and 1986 still live with their parents... the figure [in the greater Seoul area] is 41.1 percent." One of the grimmest stats I've read in a while

My maybe unpopular opinion on Hong Kong's economic crisis is that it has more to do with its way of growth being unsustainable. The implosion is inevitable, the protests in 2019, Covid and the National Security Law are merely the catalysts.

Belarus has supplied the #Myanmar junta with equipment including: MADOC air defence command system Vostok 3D radar (V3D) Kvadrat-M surface-to-air missiles Belarus is deepening its complicity in junta’s atrocities. More sanctions are needed to target Belarus-Myanmar military links. buff.ly/CsdQXHc

Different twitter handle, but same pfp and username; no wonder I was getting deja vu

Made the mistake of seeing replies to the latest report into China's residential schools in Tibet and being unfortunately reminded that a lot of nominally left people are actually fine with a broad range of genocidal actions if it makes people they don't like upset

One of Hong Kong's last pro-democracy groups, the League of Social Democrats (LSD), announced its disbandment on Sunday after 19 years. It came on the eve of the 5th anniversary of the 2020 Beijing-imposed security law, with the left-wing group citing "tremendous political pressure." buff.ly/rFXVxtI

Another group disbands under the weight & threats of suppression in Hong Kong. One by one civil society orgs, unions, parties are being driven to disband or subjected to lawfare so that they are closed Yet it should not be forgotten there are many people who still persist as seen on 6.4 & 6.15 煲底之約