Hong Kongers express their solidarity with the victims of the Tai Po fire by writing words of encouragement and sympathy on Post-It notes. An act that disappeared since 2019 but apparently remain unforgotten since then.

"I wanted to take everything, but I could take nothing... Instead, I stood quietly, looking around the wreckage, as if saying a final farewell to this home," Tai Po's Wang Fuk Court resident Lim ALim, who escaped the deadly blaze, wrote. In full: buff.ly/RSWd85s

Painting of Tai Po's Tolo Harbor from last time I was back. With all my heart I wish for peace and justice to the victims of the fire. My hometown and my people ❤️

A grassroots relief effort has sprung to life across Tai Po, and online, as Hongkongers rally to volunteer, offer food, shelter and clothing to the victims of the Tai Po fire tragedy. In full: buff.ly/nzDkM3C

As Hong Kong grapples with the worst fire in the city for more than 60 years, hundreds of its residents have stepped up to try and help the displaced victims.

Folks often forget the fight for democracy in HK isn’t a “Beijing vs us” thing in matters of human rights - I mean that matters too - but also the fight for local representation so that problems like these don’t get swept under the rug

The HK pro-democracy camp recognised what the Chinese Communist Party ironically did not want to admit publicly - livelihood issues *are* political

youtu.be/_iU6sZoTOLo?... //祈求風和雨吹我返故鄉的某處 異國沒法消除我睏倦 但為什麼終於 返到故鄉鞋也未轉 卻很想離去我的屋邨 但為什麼終於 穿過海灣來到老遠 卻很想返回我的屋邨// 屋邨 is so untranslatably a core part of our identity.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOuz... is that for me (& is also what i am listening to at present, yet again).

it's heartwarming for a few moments until you realize again the scale of the disaster, how many fuckups had to happen & be ignored/suppressed to get here, & fully anticipating HKgov to somehow make *everything worse, somehow* in the wake of this & at that point you are, again, livid.

Having all the live news feeds open and feeling restless and helpless is both nostalgic and triggering.

LRT I don't have any expertise in any of the million things involved but I think a common sentiment is that any policy changes made after this would not be of the interests of HKers,

好多人睇唔過眼嘅位係媒體將a factor呈現成the factor。

"Highrise inferno" but to us that is just regular height housing estate.

We may not know our neighbours' names or socialise with them but Hongkongers will help complete strangers when the need arises. I've seen it time and time again. Including in 2019.

I have ash in my hair, I have ash on my clothes, I just had dinner 30 minutes ago and I'm tired. I'm going to bed. Hopefully the fire is extinguished tomorrow. Have a final picture of some flowers left behind in the memory of the lives lost in the Tai Po fire.

Why is John Green on the Daily and Hank Cortex it is both exciting and upsetting when worlds collide

凍醃茶葉蛋

I hate it cold. I also hate it warm. Okay I'm realising that I'm just a pain in the ass.

Expedition 33 is nice but the fanbase (derogatory) reminds me a lot of white people discovering Asian food in the form of California Rolls and Special Fried Rices

What is this urge to fold a piece of A4 paper neatly in half as soon as you touch one

web.archive.org/web/20240911... //Lunch break at a British university, 2019. My parents said on Whatsapp that these Hong Kongers were doing too much in 2014, but now? It was ridiculous, and the cops were right to tear gas them. I closed the app and scrolled through Twitter, only to see...

But I think yeah there is a sense that single player story driven and indie experimental titles are "art' and multiplayer games are junk food. Mirroring when video games as a whole were not considered culture vs other media.

Why is nostalgia always melancholic and why is it so often a vague memory of being alone in the middle of the night thinking about a piece of music a piece of art of being obsessed about an indecribable emotion. Okay I think I know it's because I have no friends.

6 years this week:

I wish there were trigger warnings for family trauma

Ex-district councillor and activist Kenneth Cheung has revealed that cleaners at a apartment complex called The Sherwood in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong have gone on strike over owed wages, saying that they haven't been paid since May.

Today marks the 6th year since the passing of Alex Chow Tsz-lok. A lot has changed since his passing, but may he rest in peace knowing that his memory and his struggle lives on.

Accidentally left my earphones at the PC's exhaust so they were like exactly excited body part temperature when I put them in and I felt strangely slightly a little bit violated maybe perhaps

Personally when I die I don't want people to define and remember me by decisions I made as a teenager.

Set out to find whatever isekai this season to watch because that's my comfort food and was surprised to find every one of them so far actually interesting

鼻敏感永不會遲到, 也永不會缺席

How we used to have big family dinners and after the plates were cleared away we'd have this little gongfu cha ritual and I'd get told to grab a tiny teacup before my aunts and cousins and that bitterness and warmth.

伯切光頭更俊一步

Out of the loop why is Taylor Swift the villain now

I was kind of hoping that My Dress-up Darling would go on forever in that slice of life way but I'm happy with how it ended too.

I dream of Hong Kong becoming a freer place than the freest country on earth but not like this.

Every night I think should I start Andor season two or should I go to bed and think nah it's too late and go on to somehow stay awake for another hour.

God I hope my panic spraying the entire kitchen when the giant ass cockroach showed when I was making my 2AM noodles won't kill the gecko.

I want to open an outdoor gear company and name it ASUKA, and the tag line will be "it's not like that I want you to choose me over REI, baka!"

Watching Murderbot and I so very much share that cringe when humans start sharing their feelings out of fucking nowhere like at what point did I seem socially emotionally able at all

Ok I learned that I cannot tell the difference between a strand of hair and an ant on my arm.

Mrs. Green Apple in J-rock mixes makes even less sense than Taylor Swift in Country

Did they learn their English from reading Hong Kong government statements?

When I feel worthless I go to r/translator and look at people's tattoos in Japanese and Chinese.

Closing arguments for the Jimmy Lai trial that were postponed yesterday began today, but adjourned rather quickly due to unaddressed concerns for Lai's health. Lai, who looked visibly thinner since his last appearance months ago apparently has a heart condition in addition to blood pressure issues.

The US-centrism of tech reporters' outcry over Tim Cook bending over for the US dictator vs the 'meh that's what it is' the Chinese one

Listened to Dear Hank & John and learned that the human tongue is a tentacle without consenting to it. But also now tentacles hentai makes so much sense.

Ok my next hit anime idea is Gemma-san can only communicate using Gemini (it's a post-apocalypse horror anime and the twist is that it's actually not just Gemma-san but the entire remaining population).

對懸案好有興趣但唔想聽youtube同屋企嗰啲KOL