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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 5h

This week, a media report revealed that 13 films were barred from screening over national security concerns. Meanwhile, a high-ranking Beijing official told local media to “have the nation in your heart and mind" and “be responsible in your writing.” In full: buff.ly/tHi6Ece

Hong Kong's film censorship red lines; Beijing's reminders to local media

This week, a media report revealed that 13 films were barred from screening over national security concerns. Meanwhile, a high-ranking Beijing official told local media to “have the nation in your heart...

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 2h

For #SquittleDay (squid and cuttlefish day!): 🦑
Bakufu Ohno (Japan, 1888-1976)
#Cuttlefish (Mongo-ika), 1940
From Familiar Fishes of Nippon (Dai Nihon gyorui hanga-in)
Oban, 40.3 x 28.4 cm
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#JapaneseArt #CephalopodWeek

vintage Japanese color woodblock print in landscape orientation, illustration of an inking cuttlefish (light brown & light blue body, black ink), with seals and signatures on lower left

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 8h

Throwback Friday.
So, I was reminded that this happened six years ago.

Screenshot of an FB post that reads: S is teaching her classmate, C Cantonese
C: Yeah, man
Teacher: why are you saying Yeah, man?
C: It means evening in Chinese

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 14h

"Generations of Chinese women have been rendered voiceless by the patriarchy. Their stories refuse soft burials."
So honored to have a review essay out in Banned Books Week @chinabooksreview.com on two of Fang Fang's most acclaimed novels, Soft Burial & The Running Flame, tr. @bairuiwen.bsky.social:

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Mark Crilley @markcrilley.bsky.social · 1d

These two pictures from LOST IN TAIWAN show the same location at two different times of day: noon vs. very late afternoon. You can see how I altered the colors to convey the two lighting situations.

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Elizabeth🜆 @elizajoku.bsky.social · 1d

I hope don't mind me adding this:
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‘Difficult to earn a living with dignity’: China cracks down on blow-up frogs

Mainland social media has reacted with anger to a video which shows officials in Shanghai moving on a man dressed in a frog costume selling baby versions of ‘himself’ on the street.

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 1d

"Countless Yingzhis live among us, while the Zitaos of China are fading away with time. The tears of Chinese women, if unleashed, could drown a nation."
For @chinabooksreview.com, I write about gendered violence and illusions of liberation through two novels by Fang Fang (tr @bairuiwen.bsky.social):

No Country for a Woman | China Books Review

Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 2d

And yet, no one from the police ever faced any consequences for what they did in 2019. Wonder why.

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 2d

A HK court has ordered a former protester to pay a police officer more than HK$150,000 in damages for breaking the officer’s finger during a demonstration in 2019. In full: buff.ly/HXrGhFp

HK court orders ex-protester who broke cop's finger to pay HK$150K in damages

A HK court has ordered a former protester to pay a police officer more than HK$150,000 in damages for breaking the officer’s finger during a demonstration in 2019.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 2d

Wouldn’t it be funny if the censors thought Paddington threatens national security

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing says ‘interesting film’ than the HK government banning it for national security reasons

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 2d

A total of 50 films have been required to be edited, and 13 titles have not been approved for screening on national security grounds since HK amended the Film Censorship Ordinance in 2021, according to authorities. In full: buff.ly/roPWvdO

HK bars 13 films from screening on nat. sec grounds since 2021 censorship law

A total of 50 films have been required to be edited, and 13 titles have not been approved for screening on national security grounds since HK amended the Film Censorship Ordinance in 2021, according to...

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 3d

Although you also have to wonder whether Hu means US cannot prevent a China invasion if Taiwan because Chinese military has grown stronger, or because the US military leadership has become an embarrassment

Whipling @seanhaines.bsky.social · 3d

In a rare tweet, former Global Times chief Hu Xijin says: “The US cannot prevent China’s reunification with Taiwan by military means.” 🧐

It’s just one month since state media bent over backwards to describe Beijing's mammoth military parade as a not a show of force, but a "show of peace”.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sure we’ll see more contenders for photos of ‘silliest costumes facing off silliest police’ but that’s probably not something to celebrate

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 3d

I would have reminded everyone around Halloween anyway. But this is just me expressing solidarity with the person in the frog costume in the US. I get it.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 3d

This has to be a bit, right?

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Breanna Randall @breannarandall.bsky.social · 3d

#MilkTeaAlliance friends -- if you're passing through ChiangMai, do feel free to visit 4Seas Nimman and check out our humble poster exhibit about protests in Myanmar.

It also highlights artisans working to generate livelihood through these hard days. The exhibit will be open thru Nov 6th.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 3d

We also had *two* Captain Americas, a few Spidermans, and all those Guy Fawkes. It was a truly wild time.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 3d

You have to fight absurd with absurd. When a violence-prone police force becomes the norm, you just have to dress up as a bear to remind people none of it should be.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 3d

What's with the inflatable duck? you may ask...

Well for that we suggest checking out @mtamuseum.bsky.social website milkteaalliance.art which has a little bit of explanation but also lots of pictures of why the inflatable rubber duck is a thing.

opening screen of the milk tea alliance dot art website showing a rubber duck with the text:

Hong Kong had umbrellas. Now, Thailand has ducks.

Protesters in Thailand have deployed an army of inflatable rubber ducks against police water cannons, in what has now become the new symbol of the #ThaiProtests.|

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 4d

That American Robin stance
#birds

A brown bird with rufous breast is standing in a shallow bird bath. With feet spread wide, it is glaring into the camera creating a formidable pyramid of attitude.

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 5d

Some thoughts on Zhongyuan Mandarin - from someone growing up internalizing the stigma associated with our native dialect chenchenzhang.net/2025/10/05/s...

Some thoughts on Zhongyuan Mandarin

On why re-examining our “dialects” is about resisting hierarchies, opposing discrimination, and pursuing linguistic justice, rather than cultural “orthodoxy”.

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 6d

i love new york

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 9d

Hmmmmmmm

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9d

Taiwan has been buying millions of tonnes of oil product naphtha from Russia since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, raising concerns that China could lean on Moscow to choke off supplies and threaten Taipei’s economic security. Monthly imports of the hydrocarbon liquid have surged.

Taiwan becomes largest importer of Russian naphtha

Surge in purchases of oil product for tech manufacturing raise economic security fears

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 9d

[From 2024] Umbrella Movement anniversary: Where are the leaders of Hong Kong’s 2014 protest movement now?

10 years on, where are the leaders of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement now?

Saturday marks the 10th anniversary of the start of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, which saw protesters occupy major thoroughfares in key districts to call for the right to elect their own le…

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