Actually, the plural is bigs-foot.

A Chinese citizen journalist who served a prison term over her coverage of the initial Covid-19 response has been sentenced to four years in jail, a rights group and activists said. In full: buff.ly/PEU461W

What movie do you consider perfect?

Some people might like www.dwmalone.net/warlock.pdf It is the connection graph for the sections in Warlock of Firetop Mountain. (Solid/dotted arrows show in-text/hidden links.) I've been working on graphs for a few FF books with the help of one of the kids. @hjdoom.bsky.social @niallm.bsky.social

I have tried my very hardest to make this read about Indonesia's last 48 hours as accessible and easy to digest as possible. The goal here is that there is NO assumed knowledge (except for Jokowi, i think I always assume him sorry) darimulut.substack.com/p/indonesia-...

"Au’s arrest ... exposes the strategic calculus behind Beijing’s crackdown: Macau’s democratic movement may be smaller and less visible, but it is no less threatening to the narrative of total control." bitterwinter.org/macaus-silen...

The trial of #JimmyLai finally resumes for closing arguments on 15/08/2025. People waiting to enter said they felt uneasy, helpless & pessimistic but hopeful. “It’s so unfair on him. I hope he’ll be released & reunited with family.” Some foreign consulate staff entered the court.

Wayne Wong captures so effectively what the new pieces by Amy Hawkins and Kris Cheng, specially written for the 2025 @brixtonink.bsky.social updated edition of Vigil add to the book, and he does it with poetic turns of phrase

"the street finds its own uses for things" @greatdismal.bsky.social, Burning Chrome (1982) "This gives you an AI-generated mock driving licence for your MP based on public data." #cyberpunk use-their-id.com

"There is no greater challenge for the human rights movement than China. ... Yet my decades of experience addressing the issue show that even the Chinese government feels the heat from pressure to respect human rights. That is reason to persist." www.chinafile.com/library/exce...

Macao legislator Au Kam San has been arrested for "colluding with foreign forces" 😫

Don't forget what has happened 6 years ago! RTHK Hong Kong Connection: 7.21 Yuen Long Dark Night investigation. youtu.be/4rImPpE3p2U #HongKong #721YuenLong #721YuenLongAttack #721YueongTerroristAttack

"the Gen Z stare reflects a broader challenge with face-to-face communication and soft skills, which are critical in customer-facing roles" Counterpoint: no, it doesn't matter because you'll be dead sooner.

"A long list of Jokowi-era policies ... were revised, delayed, or scrapped entirely after facing intense online backlash. What started as occasional policy reversals under Jokowi has now become a more consistent and embedded mode of governance under Prabowo." www.newmandala.org/indonesias-d...

"It is, if you will, the backyard furnace (土法炼钢) approach to external propaganda" chinamediaproject.org/2025/07/15/b...

The Dark Crystal tie-in computer game, and the film's original pre-dubbing soundtrack. Interesting stuff. bluerenga.blog/2025/07/01/t...

Backyard Furnaces of Propaganda: A communication initiative in the wealthy southern province of Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong, plans to make propaganda resources of local creators as well as foreign expats. Will CCP leaders ever learn? Likely not. chinamediaproject.org/2025/07/15/b...

If the PRC were running Lexus, every Lexus would have a massive Toyota badge on it.

'The murder charge that Rolfe faced and was found not guilty of more than four years ago centred on 3.1 seconds between when he shot Walker the first time and when he shot him twice more. But [Coroner] Armitage was working in centuries, tracing back the impacts of colonisation on the Warlpiri.'

Countries & territories less free than China in 2024, per Freedom House. www.visualcapitalist.com/the-state-of...

This organza dress from Iris Van Herpen’s couture show yesterday is amazing Video via Vanessa Friedman at the NYT (Twitter handle VVFriedman)

I only found out about space oil because of HKgov's advertising, which makes it sound great. "This drug is popular because it's cheap and the high is short, so you can conveniently use it in a lunch break! Watch out!" Don't threaten me with a good time.

Hansplaining

Not having kids, eh? What if we were to offer you *barely any money*... ?

It seems that the "patriots only" (i.e., empty of pro-democracy politicians) Legislative Council is STILL not considered patriotic enough for the government's liking.

"the street finds its own uses for things" @greatdismal.bsky.social, Burning Chrome (1982) 'An interactive video training for getting into nightclubs', specifically Berlin's (in)famous techno club Berghain. Uses face recognition and your computer's mic. #cyberpunk berghaintrainer.com

Americans should give the "Let's just try any old nonsense and pretend that the failures didn't happen" approach some time... it works in China. For certain definitions of 'works'.

Look, it's all going back in to the economy, right

the good news is that *at least* half of that ICE funding is going to be stolen. like, do you have a magical dowsing box you want to sell? now's your time. maybe it detects 'illegals' by using AI!

From Bloomberg report on NWD $11bn refinancing deal. Perhaps part of the problem is that NWD's assets are *not* "worth a 10th of HK GDP" because they are actually just a bunch of concrete boxes?

"Don't wear them glasses too long. Starts to feel like a knife turnin' in your skull." THEY LIVE (1988) #cyberpunk sidequestvr.com/app/43239/re...

In the Bloomberg: Hong Kong Edition, Stella Ko visits the cruise ship Star Voyager which is based in Hong Kong. “If you are expecting a luxury experience…, expect less.” “[The palace suite] reminded me of hotel quarantine during Covid, except my quarantine room was bigger.”

Kinda funny to see people who spent years saying the US should adopt the China model now complaining that America is run by kleptocratic mafia types.

On the National Security Law's 5th anniversary, @thecfhk.bsky.social's @chloecheung.bsky.social joins the “Everything is fine in #HongKong” silent protest exposing the absurdity of the regime's “everything is fine” propaganda as countless injustices go ignored & #HongKongers suffer in silence. 💪

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

I fanslated Lodoss, Ghost Hunter, Double Moon, and many other games and scenarios. They are all in this folder. Occasionally I update the files or add new ones. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Normally you'd look at this kind of opaque rule-breaking exception and think corruption, but that's obviously not the case here because uh Exclusive: China fashion retailer Shein to file confidentially for Hong Kong IPO in rare move, sources say - www.reuters.com/business/ret...

You can't make a historical Frost/Nixon style movie out of just anythi- youtu.be/u2DrUDmZwUs?...

Hong Kong remains the most expensive city to buy an apartment, despite prices having fallen by 20% in the past five years, according to Deutsche Bank. As for rentals, Hong Kong is the 7th most expensive for a 3-bedroom apartment, down from 3rd in 2020

The League of Social Democrats to disband. It's strange to think that Hong Kong had a thriving, diverse multi-party ecosystem just a few years ago. Now all that's left are sycophants differentiating themselves by the color of their name tags.

HK’s Environment Protection Dep’t says the wastewater will be too diluted by the time it hits HK to cause damage, so that is reassuring. But if you followed all the official hysteria and state media fear-mongering around the release of treated wastewater from Fukushima, it is also extremely ironic.

Shocked to realize that Tom Stoppard used ChatGPT to write Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead before travelling back in time to publish it.

Wow YouTube auto dubbing is annoying. Is there a way to just generally turn it off as a viewer?

""If you're expressing views with the intent of wishing [govt] to do better, or making...criticism with good intentions, the law states in black & white that these do not amount to [the crime of] seditious intention." ... He also said the law does not require proof of intention to incite violence."

🌎 Jun 23, 2025 🌍 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6.79 ⬜🟩 = 2 First guess was over 13,000 km off, too, so I am happy with this result.

congrats Mac and Me (1988), you are more popular than war with Iran

This is a heck of a way to find out, after googling the size of a pickleball court, that the average US driveway is at least twice the size of the average Hong Kong family apartment.

If you attack a civilian population, technically everyone you shoot at is using themselves as a human shield, which makes *them* the bad guy. Anyway, don't look at that, woo look over there at Iran.

God almighty. Interesting to see the mid 20th C communist style is still current in propaganda lyrics from our benevolent occupiers.