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Father of pro-democracy activist Anna Kwok first to be convicted under Hong Kong national security law Officials arrested Kwok Yin-sang after he tried to end his daughter’s insurance policy and withdraw the funds

The conviction of Anna Kwok's father under the NSL is a new low for the Hong Kong police state.

UK expands Hong Kong visa scheme in wake of Jimmy Lai’s prison sentence Exclusive: Home Office ruling means thousands more Hongkongers will be eligible to come to the UK over next five years

This is a Good change but should have been done from the start.
And shouldn't of had to wait for this set of convictions.
There are also other gaps / barriers that mean many HKers cant access this route.

without getting into all of it the British immigration regime sucks shit & is cruel & inhumane

Photo from Douban of three people in PPE, one of them bowing respectfully at a door.

The government knew the news of Li's death would lead to an uproar. So they did one of the most shameful things ever. They would not announce his death. They pretended he was still alive. State media statements that Li had passed away were wiped. But this photo was posted. And then we all knew.

If Doctors Without Borders and other NGOs are forced to stop water activities in #Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people will lose access to drinking water.

Paula Navaro, our Water and Sanitation Coordinator, updates:

Catalan editions of REAPER MAN, MEN AT ARMS and WYRD SISTERS

Catalan editions of THE COLOUR OF MAGIC, EQUAL RITES and MORT

Catalan editions of NATION, THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED STUDENTS, and GUARDS! GUARDS!

These Catalan editions of Terry Pratchett are gorgeous

How Hollywood’s obsession with the ‘Dry Look’ harms men and boys - Healthy Debate Increasingly distorted male beauty standards have come to celebrate visible dehydration as a physical ideal.

NEW: I wrote about the physical and psychological harms of Hollywood male beauty standards that idealize dehydration.

sure the us is sliding into authoritarianism but on the other hand, south korea is completely paralyzed by dubai chocolate fever. in a couple of weeks they went from dubai chocolate chewy cookie to dubai chocolate raw amberjack fish to dubai chocolate grilled short ribs

I’ll have been in country for ten years in August, & should have been eligible for ILR, then citizenship the day after we get married in November. I have paid in the range of £15k in visa fees since arriving, and have been in work nonstop, paying tax.

This fascist dumbass is stealing that.

you know, laying off staff in the middle of a war zone while enduring a ukraine winter without power makes laying off ppl during the holidays look downright humanitarian.

billionaires shouldn’t exist.

I think people often wonder this, and it's a great question, so let me explain the advantages of 3D printing whistles. There are many.

The 3D printing effort started from one of our organizers who started by sourcing mass-produced whistles.

I agree. Might be easier to think of it this email: we got Epstein’s emails (not even all of them.) Imagine if we had the correspondence of other powerful people. We’d see similar things.

We live in a system that has created these people, and Epstein wasn’t unique in that regard.

A bunch of people on this site want to cosplay like it’s Hong Kong in 2019 without understanding that as many as 25% of Hong Kong residents attended a single march and the government was worried about losing an election where popular opinion had to be nearly 80% in opposition to the government.

Louise, an archaeologist and digital creator (who's here at @louisearchaeology.bsky.social), contacted the British Museum and asked them what had happened on social media. (I think it was on Instagram.) "Instead of responding, they unfollowed me".

Not the main point but reading some of these Epstein emails really makes you realise why so many of these guys love ChatGPT

I guess "white wealthy British and American grooming gangs" doesn't have the same ring to it

The fear that Beijing is going to kill off Cantonese was/is part of the many concerns behind the HK pro-democracy protests.

"Cantonese is my mother tongue"

Source: Telegram (Sep 2019)

An entire political movement founded on uncovering hidden messages in documents to discover the powerful secret pedophiles and meanwhile the powerful pedophiles out here sending gmails saying "Hi fellow pedophile when are we meeting to do pedophilia again"

More than 200 killed in coltan mine collapse in eastern DRC, officials say Rubaya mine produces about 15% of the world’s coltan, which is processed into tantalum, used in mobile phones

200. I have no words

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Great guide from @sarahjeong.bsky.social, and also fully co-sign this point: being teargassed sucks so much the first time but it's amazing how quickly you get used to it, hence massively diminishing returns for law enforcement as a crowd control method.

www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Still from Star Trek Voyager episode Threshold depicting two amphibious creatures with catfish barbels in a tropical environment

On 29th January 1996, "Threshold", the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant space newts and had babies first aired. Since it's #ThresholdDay we aim to answer a burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck?

Private Eye have, incidentally, never apologized to anywhere near the extent necessary for their role in promoting this.

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

the government paid £4 million for a website that simply links out to AI training courses from other companies rather than using that money to make something actually bespoke

which I guess is actually a pretty accurate representation of this whole damn thing 🥲

The difference between an expat and an immigrant is an immigrant actually contributes to the community they become a part of

my paranoia about the Chinese govt potentially spying on & censoring my Tiktok means I had no Tiktok, so now the US govt can't spy on & censor my Tiktok so I win paranoia double-jeopardy

BREAKING NEWS: UK loses its #measles elimination status

@benk-d.bsky.social highlights failure to reach 95% measles #vaccine coverage target in UK

+ need for secure funding for vaccine outreach efforts & joined-up #PublicHealth response

Read more: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

Rectifying Names, Erasing Mongols: The Unmaking of Mongolian Education in China On a clear October morning in 2025, two massive cranes rolled up to a middle school in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Workers prised off the large Chinese and Mongolian signs running along the ...

It's been slowly happening for a few years now but China's official multiculturalism is functionally dead, living on only on banknotes and some shells of ethnic state offices dominated and now mostly staffed by Han madeinchinajournal.com/2026/01/20/r...

This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.

A screenshot of WhatsApp: Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question. Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know Ash: Are jaguar soft? Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.