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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 23h

There are literally comedy reels on FBgram mocking this kind of thing.

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 23h

"Some of you will die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make," etc.

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 23h

Sounds like what Trump was gonna rename the CIA before he randomly decided to rename AI as sooper intelligence.

John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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From the scream scream scream of the babies To the retch retch retch of the youth From the lie lie lie of the righteous To the lost lost lost way I feel Corruption corruption corruption Rules my bones Corruption corruption corruption Chills my bones Corruption corruption corruption Rules my soul

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Iggy Pop - Corruption

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

3 Tiananmen vigil activists sentenced Joshua Wong convicted (again) Two autistic men convicted More sedition arrests, including an independent journalist Top officials continue to warn about “soft resistance” and condemn “foreign forces” for interfering in Hong Kong affairs And that's not all

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have been clean shaven for two workplace environments: (1) the army, and (2) pizza delivery. Other than that, it's been a full beard for me. For me, the point of a beard is to save me the work of shaving every morning. That's it, really.

Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 04/10/2026

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A little something about the current trends of mainland tourist spending in Hong Kong. The magnitude of the decrease over the past few years may still surprise you www.kjoules.org/a/3mwv7dstgy...

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Mainland Tourist Spending | The Numberwang | Offprint

Getting more tourists is not as great as it seems. Numberwang 11

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If anything, I imagine they'd be more open to cutting all geographical constituency seats, which are directly elected. But then they need those to maintain the fiction that HK is a genuine democracy. Anyway I don't think they mind paying extra to preserve the status quo for another 20 years. 2/2

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If we take this suggestion even remotely seriously, they could cut the Election Committee constituency from 40 seats to 10 without damaging the unfair power balance GovHK wants to maintain. But I suspect GovHK enjoys having at least 40 guaranteed seats under its direct control. 1/2

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This one always sticks out in my mind as a great example of their surreal genius. It's also why I often have "Allouette" playing in a loop in my head.

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The Kids - Trapper

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Harsh. Very harsh ‘Bedtime Rhymes’ (1946) Writer: Geoffrey Lapage Artist: George Brook

Little girl dressed in a red dress is crying. Near her a nurse dressed in old-fashioned uniform stands nearby, protectively but smiling.

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...

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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks

A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have, and that's not what I got. Pretty standard URTI, which I tend to get once or twice a year.

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Your sacrifice will be honoured throughout the ages. Bless you sir. 🫡

John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Far be it from me to kink-shame, and what Yonden wants to do with Starry Lee is his own business, but maybe Yonden needs to keep his private life out of his columns.

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Charles Mok @charlesmok.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My new Substack: Why Did Hong Kong Ban Tom Cruise’s “Digger”? The new movie was removed from the lineup of this week’s new theatrical releases in Hong Kong and Macau, originally set on October 1, allegedly because of “sensitive dialogues.” charlesmok.substack.com/p/why-did-ho...

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Why Did Hong Kong Ban Tom Cruise’s “Digger”?

The new movie was removed from the lineup of this week’s new theatrical releases in Hong Kong and Macau, originally set on October 1, allegedly because of “sensitive dialogues.”

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Someone recently told me: at least you can criticize your government. Can I? I’m not so sure.

John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Since I moved to Hong Kong, it's been shopping as needed, not a major weekly haul. Even now that we live in the countryside, where the closest supermarket is a 25 minute walk away, it's also now limited to what I can fit in two bicycle baskets.

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is so simplistic. There's so much more to American culture than that. For example, there's also beer, boob jobs, Botox, pro wrestling, reality television and televangelism, for starters.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 01/10/2026

A more accurate headline would be John Lee’s entire speech was about Hong Kong’s Five-Year Plan

Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Christa Pike, who was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, is still alive after the state tried and failed to execute her on Wednesday. TDOC officials refused to comment after the state’s second failed execution this year. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/30/c...

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Christa Pike survives botched lethal injection attempt - Nashville Banner

Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for a 1995 murder, but the lethal injection failed. Pike survives and was moved to a medical facility.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I did in fact know that Vincent Price had a cooking show, but I didn't know any of the episodes were on the YouTubes. Now I do and I am totally here for it.

John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

GovHK: The so-called '831 incident' has been proven without factual basis. Ppl: It has? When exactly did – GovHK: I JUST SAID IT WAS WITHOUT FACTUAL BASIS, WHAT MORE PROOF DO YOU WANT

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 01/10/2026

Hong Kong police arrested two people on Wednesday for allegedly acting "with seditious intent", authorities said, with local media identifying the pair as an independent journalist and an activist. In full: hongkongfp.com/2026/10/01/h... Photo: Tang Ho-wing/YouTube & Kyle Lam/HKFP.

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When you claim that nothing happened on a given date, the best way to make your case is to threaten to jail anyone who even looks like they might be about to publicly express a differing account. Apparently.

John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Name a film with a female director: The Decline of Western Civilization (1981), a documentary about the Los Angeles punk rock scene, directed by Penelope Spheeris.

The Decline of Western Civilization (1981), a documentary about the Los Angeles punk rock scene, directed by Penelope Spheeris.

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Glossary (based on John Lee's previous remarks): "Truth" = whatever GovHK tells you it is, and nothing else, for we never lie. "Objectively" = support our side exclusively. If you can't do that, just write down what we say. Don't analyse, critique or comment on it. Good journalism is stenography.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Chris Tang, going to arrest the Strait of Taiwan for separating Taiwan and China

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

GovHK will arrest you for doing something it's literally impossible for you or your 12 friends on FB to do except verbally.* *I jest, ofc. When Chris Tang says "separate Taiwan from China", he specifically means verbally. Which sounds insane, I know, but paranoia is a hell of a drug.** **Humour

John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This may seem silly now, but I promise you will get even sillier, especially since everyone else in the world will carry on and continue to call it AI (just like everyone else still calls it the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario and Twitter).

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My guess: the prosecution will focus less on the accuracy of the story and more on its potential impact (inciting hatred of police, govt, etc) regardless of defendant's intention, which has already been established as legit dangers in previous NSL cases. Will watch with continuing interest. 6/6

John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Probably, but how does that qualify as fake news? Will they argue that referring to the "8/31 incident" is fake news because (according to GovHK) there was no incident? If so, how will GovHK refer to it without breaking their own law? "So-called", I guess? Not that it matters too much. 5/6

John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If the other reports on this are accurate, the "fake news" in question is related to 8/31 memorials at PE, where several ppl were arrested under the NSL. So is it GovHK's position that giving such activities news coverage is illegal? Is acknowledging the existence of such memorials a crime? 4/6

John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's also notable that their first target happens to be a small indie outlet that doesn't have deep pockets to fight back -- someone they can make an example of to put all other media on notice: Don't contradict us, or else. 3/6

John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

GovHK has complained about "fake news" for years (esp. regarding online media), but we already have laws for publishing false info -- libel, slander, etc. So eventually we were going to see a prosecution that serves the govt's national security trip by reframing it as an NSL issue. 2/6