A thread on the AIF in Myanmar which will be very useful to many folks here who haven't been Aware of their existence.

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As an aside, none of the pro-democracy COVID slogans used 港人治港 or 港人自治, both of which would have been great puns. But the former is a direct reference to 1C2S which HKers know was effectively dead, and the latter an indirect reference, and it's also more loaded since it suggests HK independence

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It's not a pro-Holmes poster. The poster says 港人自救 抗疫抗暴 (HKers must rescue ourselves, Fighting against the pandemic and police brutality) and 康復香港 時代抗疫 (Recover HK, Pandemic of Our Times) which has the same tone in Cantonese as 光復香港 時代革命 (Liberate HK, Revolution of Our Times). Chinese is a dense.

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In honour of our US friends getting to watch You Can See Everything, may I show you a piece of HK protest art from 2020 which I suspect is based on Elizabeth Holmes

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Today marks 11 years since Gui Minhai, a Hong Kong bookseller was abducted in Thailand by the Chinese State. He now is imprisoned in China on bullshit charges. Each year Swedish publishers commission a new portrait of him to highlight his case. Here is this years by Stina Wirsén. #FreeGuiMinhai

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