The Matrix is not real.
Only love is real.
But it's so hard to see.
I love you.
Rest well.
Stay warm and dry.
Look out for your elderly, please.
And please be nice to each other.
Blessings.
Woof
She posted in the parenting thread Sunday about her mothers day and sounded in fine fettle.Would people please check with ice is forming? And in the Drug forums too.
I’m concerned about icey.
Thank you.
Woof
The song – associated with the 2019 protests and unrest – dominated the Apple iTunes charts last week after the government sought legal injunctions to ban “unlawful acts” relating to the song, its melody, lyrics and all derivations.
A search for “Glory to Hong Kong” in Chinese on Apple Music on Wednesday showed only a version of the song in Hokkien by The Chairman – a Taiwanese rock band. An English-language search only showed a Vietnamese rendition, whilst the search result for the original song’s creator – “Thomas DGX YHL” – yielded a blank page.
Entries for the song on Spotify were unplayable on Wednesday, though it is unclear if the two streaming platforms – or the composer – pulled the song.
When artists Lumli and Lumlong fled Hong Kong in 2021 they didn’t tell a soul for fear of being reported and arrested before they could leave.
Two years later in London the couple still feel threatened by the long arm of Beijing, like many other Hong Kongers exiled in the UK.
In their small London apartment, Lumli and Lumlong, both 43, who go by the one word names they use professionally, keep their artworks depicting the violence inflicted on the pro-democracy demonstrators.
It was after an exhibition in Hong Kong in May 2021 that they realised that they would have to leave.
“We were accused by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the newspaper of violating the Hong Kong National Security Law because of our painting,” Lumlong said.
“The police even came to our studio to frighten us.”
The visit left both feeling they would be arrested “sooner or later” if they didn’t flee, added Lumli.
Their visa took two weeks to come through but it was only after they actually landed in London that they told their family.
Even now, on the other side of the world, “we are not totally safe here”, Lumlong said. “There are so many informants in the UK.”
The couple say journalists working for pro-Beijing media came incognito to one of their exhibitions in London last year.
The pair were then accused by the same media of “coalition with foreign forces”, they said.
A few days later, they said, their social media accounts were hacked.
“It was scary. The hackers changed our picture into (the) ISIS flag,” Lumlong said.
He said they were grateful to the UK for giving them sanctuary but warned that London had to resist pressure from Beijing.