This is the greatest parade coverage ever. 10/10 no notes

HK's LGBTQ community facing increasing challenges and an uncertain future. A good reminder that authoritarianism hurts all forms of civil society, not just the explicitly political.

The wolf warrior press release for this gonna be lit. State of the art, compliant with LEED and international standards, slander, malicious, jealous, so-called blibbety blobbety, etc.

"The government proposed that the subsidiary legislation would be enacted through a 'negative vetting' procedure, allowing it to be gazetted before being tabled at LegCo for scrutiny." Well of course they have. Not hard to imagine how John Lee will use this, and who he will target.

This will either be very impressive or an awkward debacle. There is no middle ground.

The management would like to apologise for the following joke: Cum launching ceremony, you say?

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Yourself but as a cartoon

Give me the most 80s song you can think of. For my money, this is the most 80s song and the most 80s music video and I will die upon this hill. #MusicSky

The original is brilliant, but this Citizen Bravo cover (for an Ivor Cutler tribute album) is a cracker. #MusicSky

Better yet:

Lawd a mighty

Old enough to remember when Republicans were obsessed with Hunter Biden.

I've read 28 of them, if you care, which is way more than the list compiled by authors and critics. Make of that what you will.

Many people are asking questions about the President's use of the DOJ to punish his enemies that are answered by the huge banner of the President's menacing mug hanging over the entrance of the DOJ.

IKEA didn't build renewable generation to power 1.47 million homes because politicians told them to. They did it because the economics stacked up. With much of the investment already paid off, savings of over half a billion USD per year on electricity costs, the fundamentals become hard to ignore.

It's true, he really said this...at a celebration of a critical battle leading to two of the most diverse countries in the world, the USSR and USA - the latter of which is a country of immigrants - defeated a racially exclusionary regime that was committed to the cause Hegseth just promoted.

TFW you're asked to give a short talk about an important topic but what you REALLY want to talk about has nothing to do with the assigned topic because it's both irrelevant and in bad taste, but you're determined to shoehorn it in anyway, no matter how awkward it may sound.

Funeral held for baby shot dead by Israeli troops in Occupied West Bank

Episcopal clergy in the #UnitedStates, who were supporting protesters outside a detention centre in New Jersey, were affected by pepper spray used by #immigration agents clearing a path through the demonstration. #ICE #EpiscopalChurch

This is something I struggle with. I appreciate that men want models of how to be. But when we try to populate “positive masculinity” with traits — strong, smart, kind — they are all equally available to women. Masculinity and femininity are empty concepts, absent gender hierarchy.

AI writing detectors look at emdashes, triads and words and be like :

Photographer Akash Pamarthy has documented the Sikh religious community in Ohio over several years. His photos tell a story. n.pr/4g1mxKn

Support for same-sex marriage in Taiwan has risen to 54.3%, up 12 percentage points from 7 years ago, when it became legalized, according to a survey by a non-profit civic group.

The British embassy in Beijing has confirmed to HKFP that it did not remove a tribute to the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown dead from Weibo on Thursday. Rather, it was quickly removed by the Chinese social media platform. "This also happened to other posts by other foreign missions," a spokesperson said.

Reframe the question and it becomes very clear. If you hire a manager to run your estate can that manager burn down the buildings on your estate or chop it and sell it off in parcels? Pretty obviously not. The president doesn't own the country. He's hired to administer it for four years.

THERE WILL BE NO ACQUITTALS.

I can't prove this, but my guess is they were released without charge because (1) they didn't say/do anything that amounts to sedition or disorder that would hold up even in our current courts and (2) the objective was mainly to let everyone know the police are watching us very closely.

This is a key point for me. I'm not opposed to data centres – we need them for digital comms, with or without AI. I'm also not opposed to AI for certain use cases. But both should be (and can be) run ethically with no adverse socio-environmental impact. Tech bros are doing the opposite of that. 1/2

念念不忘，必有迴響，有燈就有人。 And of course, the light can never be snuffed out.

Yes, it was all chaos and disorder with those disrupters carrying string, balloons and flowers and wearing t shirts and whatnot. Thank goodness the police (disguised as civilians) stepped in to stop the mayhem. You wouldn't think just seven ppl could cause so much disorder.

The landmark trial of Tiananmen vigil activists neared its conclusion in May. The government allocated more money to the national security fund and lashed out at Reporters Without Borders (RSF) after the NGO once again placed Hong Kong low on its annual press freedom index.

From Teacher Li on Twitter, a large number of Chinese netizens created memes commemorating the Tiananmen Square Massacre with photos of fast food chicken nuggets, French fries, and ketchup from KFC and McDonald’s

To be fair, if you've lived here less than five years and you get your local news from TVB Pearl, The Standard or SCMP, you really would have no idea.

As someone who regularly criticizes crime reporting, I want to highlight the good stuff when it happens. Like this. No equivocating in the post. Headline is clear. First paragraph blunt. Doesn’t quote the admin until paras 12-13, and explicitly notes that it’s evidence-free blather.

Framed #1546 🎥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf Just rewatched this recently. It still holds up.

never forget #TAM37 #六四37

Worth emphasising that (AFAIK) none of the ppl taken away by police yesterday and today ever once explicitly mentioned June 4, Tiananmen, massacrees ,the CCP or any slogans associated with the vigils. The police stopped them anyway.

Very sedition, so terror wow

RIP Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)

Something I appreciate about Marjane Satrapi is that she didn’t let them pigeonhole her into a career of nothing but autobio comics. She did so many things that were like “Really??? The Persepolis artist???” She directed a a serial killer horror comedy starring Ryan Reynolds!

If you reduced all French TV pop performances of 1978 down to a rich sauce, this would be the result.

Technically only one host has "differences" with the others that will wreck the World Cup. And no, he can't.

How did I not know this existed until now?

"Civil terrorism": new terminology for an old anti-protest trope. From 1966: We have tried negotiations And the token picket line Mr. Charlie didn't see us And he might as well be blind When we deal with men of ice You can't deal in ways so nice But if that is freedom's price We don't mind

The other 30 members of LegCo have some explaining to do, perhaps.

Gosh.

阿塗’s cartoon today: 不准追憶，不許發問，唯有微光，靜默於心 Don’t recall, don’t ask questions, only a faint light, silent in the heart. #8964 #896437 #TiananmenSquareMassacre

I am sorry to hear that the writer Gao Xingjian 高行健 has passed away - marking the passing of a generation. Sharing a slightly goofy memory of a day spent being Gao's interpreter shortly after he won the Nobel - and navigating an awkward encounter w Saul Bellow: lareviewofbooks.org/blog/chinabl...

It's an old trope, of course, and one that perhaps is making poorly informed assumptions about how many fascists currently consume porn daily.