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Cindy Wan

@cindywan.bsky.social

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Angry girl heartbreakingly watching history unfold in my little hometown of Hong Kong.

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · Feb 6

“Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.”

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
historian, philosopher, political theorist.

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 21m

…and tomorrow is October 10…!

Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 24m

LOL!

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 26m

Clearly it’s not the numbers per se, but that they’re not the type that bring suitcases full of cash and disposable income…

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 12h

One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 33m

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 35m

This Ridley Scott classic

a picture of a woman with a flower in her hair is displayed on a wall

Alt: A signature shot of Ridley Scott’s 1982 movie “Blade Runner” shows a police Spinner flying by a skyscraper whose façade shows an advertisement featuring a Geisha…

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 42m

“Andor” was good but not the Earth-shattering and climax-inducing masterpiece its fans think it was…

Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 44m

As a designer, the amount of AI “art” just for likes I encounter online every day is offensive

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 10h

See for yourself.

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 48m

Strands #585
“Just in case”
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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 59m

Framed - One Frame Challenge #311
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Framed - One Frame Challenge

Guess the movie from a single frame. Every guess reveals more of the frame. Come back each day to see if you can guess the movie!

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 59m

Framed #1308
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Framed - The daily movie guessing game

Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed!

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1h

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1h

Your friend should try Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong too…

Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1h

Is Singapore still being used as THE example of a “benevolent dictatorship”, because I have an old friend who keeps using that phrase with 21st century China?

Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1h

If their landlord raises their rent tomorrow, the cocktails and drinks will all cost even more

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 17h

The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1h

This explains a lot.

Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1h

Surely not the first time

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lando kardashian @adamsideas.bsky.social · 8h

earnestly believe that the 2036 working group trying to bring the olympics to hk should be treated as an organisation colluding with hostile foreign forces

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1h

To enhance cross-border, aka HKSAR-GBA, connections, they want the GBA to have an Olympiad?!
Madness…
…but the IOC will of course be happy with the financial incentives…

Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 8h

If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
• Both authors are members of "2036 Working Group" whose purpose is pretty obvious
• What part of "Hell, no" do these people not understand?

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(SCMP headline) Opinion | Greater Bay Area must seize the chance to ignite the Olympic flame

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14h

Oh this is not great

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1h

WTF?!

kate conger @kateconger.com · 18h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 18h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

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