@jelle_simons @SethAbramson @kurteichenwald The warden putting a gun to his head was exactly the picture I had as I read this thread. 😂🙏🏼
Notes
My baby hears me for the first time and is almost moved to tears! https://youtu.be/-_Q5kO4YXFs OMG Dis the most precious thing ever yay science!!
First time hearing about Baltimore’s Great Blacks in Wax Museum, & the story of the lynching of Mary Turner. https://overcast.fm/+E24AounDI/18:13
😮HO Lee Fuk! Read the thread. #NigerAmbush https://x.com/laurasessions10/status/921114375234179072
“Hi I’m Isis James Cons, I’m 16 years old. My pronouns are she, her & her’s, and I identify sexually as bi-sexual.” https://overcast.fm/+FA4waaMfg/43:05
Meet Royce & Jessica James, who raised their daughter in a gender-neutral way. Hidden Brain. #bethechange https://overcast.fm/+FA4waaMfg
“We want to be Japanese, it’s the Japanese government that’s telling us not to be one.” Similar to HKers sentiment. Where we all gonna move? https://x.com/divayoshiko/status/919848293705818113
For all the “how rich Hong Kong is”, it really hasn’t improved the lives of a large and growing) population of its citizens. End 13/13
16 years away was “Life don’t seem to have gotten better here.” Why are there still old grandmas pushing carts of cardboard for a living?!
But back to the question if older people thought HK would turn out like this. I remember my first reaction when coming back to HK after… 11/
“China ruined Hong Kong.” /end taxi driver rant. So! The question “Why you HK people so proud of HK?” is still sensitive to older HKers 10/
“Compare to the Japanese and Taiwanese, we HK guys are the most gentlemen to the ladies! You kids don’t know! It’s only b’coz of China…” 9/
“Everything was growing! We all jumped from job to job, getting higher pay! And the PARTIES! The ladies all loved guy’s from HK!”… 8/
At this point the taxi driver just HAD to speak up! “Kids! You don’t know! HK in the 80’s and 90’s was really awesome!!” … 7/
where everyone normally would see the most important world news every day. That question really made me think! What were we so proud of? 6/
To me, I didn’t find the “how rich we are” something to be proud of. I was more proud of HK being a multi-cultural, world city, 5/
Or the world’s 1st RFID transit card Octopus, someone wrote about HK inventing some form of new & better asphalt… 4/
That was apparently very insulting for many HKers. People wrote about how rich HK was, how it had the highest Mercedes per capita, 3/
I told her my story of growing up in the 80’s proud, but later in college someone from China asked “What r u HK people so proud of?” 2/