tricialing

Aspire to be a good person. #standwithHongKong 好人一生平安

[Galileo Cheng @galileocheng]

The bamboo scaffolding withstood 14 hours of the #HongKongFire, while videos from Threads showed non-compliant, non-fire-retardant construction netting burning fiercely, dripping, and spreading in seconds.

Video from Threads user @striking_biking, first pic from the Internet

[Meduza in English @meduza_en]

The WSJ reported today that Western security officials believe a covert Russian operation shipped two incendiary devices via DHL as part of a plot to “start fires aboard cargo or passenger aircraft flying to the U.S. and Canada.” https://t.co/lWpnOdpuMA

[HK Gov News Translator / 棟篤笑政府新聞網 @HKGTranslator]

🔥🔥🔥We are meeting because we are Prime Ministers🔥🔥🔥 🇫🇮🇳🇿

[Christian Selig @ChristianSelig]

Okay y'all, I think I found the best idea for the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro. I added a cat that lives up there like a tamagotchi and just hangs out and does cute stuff as you browse Reddit in my app (Apollo).

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Shuttered Hong Kong democracy paper wins press freedom award.

Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and the staff of his now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper have been awarded a prestigious press freedom prize by the World Association of News Publishers

https://t.co/zXwO3hn4ix

[tricialing @tricialing]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[Andrea Lo 盧敏敏 @andreas_lo]

Sign of the times

[Jerome Cohen 孔傑榮/柯恩 (1930–2025) @jeromeacohen]

This story is worth reading. It highlights the dilemma of the Mayer Brown int'l law firm, which reportedly has a distinguished civil rights record in the US but was asked by its valued HKU client to execute what would inevitably become a...1/n
https://t.co/S0uNvPIwsX

[Leung Kai Chi 梁啟智 @LeungKaiChiHK]

I spent a year visiting all 254 public housing estates in Hong Kong. Here are my reflections:

https://t.co/Yc8K8K4Eqv via @matterslab

[Shibani Mahtani @ShibaniMahtani]

Hong Kong has lost so much in the past year -- but perhaps most of all, some of its bravest advocates for not just democracy but all progressive causes. From behind bars, some are remarkably continuing to speak out:
https://t.co/wAPxiQwZAn

[Galileo Cheng @galileocheng]

@appledaily_hk A1 , June 23 2021.
All done by court reporters, and they would be gone next week.

[Galileo Cheng @galileocheng]

The New World Tower Newsstand.

Owner still saddened and told everyone buying paper - “@appledaily_hk last day on Saturday! Fixed! Saturday!”

[Chung Ching Kwong 鄺頌晴 @chungchingkwong]

HK Charter 2021 is being blocked by local ISP under the national security law. It cannot be accessed without a VPN in HK right now.
After the website was taken down and restored by the Israeli company, Wix, it’s now blocked in HK locally.

[Galileo Cheng @galileocheng]

The scene was -
Senior Superintendent asking "Who owns the candle?"

A moment later, he shouted out "If no one claims it, I will blow them off for sake of fire hazard!"

[European Union Office to Hong Kong and Macao @EUinHKandMO]

Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the #Tiananmen Square crackdown that took place on 4 June 1989.

The European Union upholds universal human rights at home and calls for their respect across the world.

[tricialing @tricialing]

I don’t have enough toes & fingers for all the months he has to be in jail. 🦵🦶 🖐☝️ https://t.co/FRR274aTh6