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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · Oct 19

I'm going to start collecting threads on HK protest art in one place. Easier to walk down memory lane, even if they be filled with tears and teargas.

Having these in many places mean the images are harder to erase. And harder to forget.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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

Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 21h

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.

Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 21h

This has to be a bit, right?

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Breanna Randall @breannarandall.bsky.social · 1d

#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 · 21h

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

Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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”.

chenchenzhang.net

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 4d

i love new york

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 7d

Hmmmmmmm

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7d

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

www.ft.com

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 7d

[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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Manya Koetse @manyapan.bsky.social · 8d

China is facing a serious donkey shortage. And the headline “We have cows and horses, but no donkeys” (“牛马有的是，就缺驴”) is sparking viral discussion online, not just because of the actual donkey crisis but due to wordplay in Chinese of having too many obedient workers in the workplace vs stubborn ones.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 8d

Listen to the latest episode of my new @issuesinst.bsky.social podcast, NOT NOW BUT SOON, in which I talk to @thinink.bsky.social about global food systems, the authoritarian takeover of Myanmar, and other disasters. Search "The Ongoing Transformation" wherever you get your podcasts!

Not Now, But Soon: The Food System is Rigged

Thin Lei Win discusses growing up in Myanmar, and how that has shaped how she sees the intersection between food, climate, and disasters.

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 8d

11 years on: For 79 days in 2014, a pro-democracy civil disobedience campaign that came to be known as the Umbrella Movement brought parts of Hong Kong to a standstill. hongkongfp.com/2025/09/30/h...

HKFP Lens: Scenes from Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella Movement

The protest that would become Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, a largely peaceful 79-day pro-democracy civil disobedience campaign, began with class boycotts on September 22, 2014. A protester …

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 10d

remember when trump was gonna be tough on china? lol. lmao, even.

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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · 10d

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law is denied entry to Singapore – FT: ‘after he arrived in the city state on Saturday to attend a conference.’

Pro-democracy activist Nathan Law is denied entry to Singapore

Hong Kong has issued a bounty for the arrest of former student leader of the Umbrella Movement protest group

www.ft.com

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 10d

I think half of it is naïveté as you mentioned in your thread, maybe mixed with a slight inability to see things from a different POV. I feel like the ones we often drag on here are not actually naive but just want to sell something

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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 23d

Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears.

From our fall issue, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social on living through authoritarianism:

www.dissentmagazine.org/article/to-o...

To Outlive Tyranny - Dissent Magazine

Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 10d

Is there a template or something because I swear useful idiots say exactly the same things about China

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10d

fuck off, james

Russia is great. You’re not going to believe me, obviously, but the streets are clean and safe, with no danger of London-style stabbings or mobile-phone jackings; public transport works (and the Moscow Underground, with its beautiful, if not un-Stalinist, themed stations is the best in the world); there are covered markets selling delicious organic produce (from raw milk to fresh fish, pomegranates to wild mushrooms); the people are reserved but polite, thoughtful and often deeply cultured; and, judging by the bustle in the many excellent restaurants along the Arbat and Bolshaya Nikitskaya, the shape of the economy isn’t half as bad as we’ve been led to believe. Perhaps the 13 per cent tax rate for the vast majority of the population has something to do with this. Or maybe it’s that, being an oil and gas producer, Russia doesn’t have much time for net zero, so it’s not waging war on motorists, air travellers or affordable heating.

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 10d

Two elderly activists marking the 11th anniversary of the Umbrella Movement in Admiralty on Sunday were told by police to leave.

Photos: Kyle Lam/HKFP.

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vmlinuz @vmlinuz.org · 10d

Taken December 9th 2014.

A long yellow banner is spread on a city street - it has Chinese writing at the top and "WE'LL BE BACK" in English at the bottom. In the background are some skyscrapers, and between the skyscrapers and the banner are a collection of tents, the last physical remnants of Hong Kong's 2014 protest camp.

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