Cindy Wan

@cindywan.bsky.social

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Angry girl heartbreakingly watching history unfold in my little hometown of Hong Kong. Fuck GovHK! Fuck the CCP! Fuck billionaires! Fuck MAGAs!

A grey Zeekr EV with the number plate “WHY NOT”
Kowloon, Victoria Harbour, and the northern side of Hong Kong Island seen from an HK Express airliner as it flies to Japan.
A very telling tweet by E1on Mu2k from 31 July 2025 says: “The path to solving hunger, disease and poverty is Al and robotics”
A Passion Times photo taken on Halloween 2019 shows a HongKonger dressed/disguised as then HKSAR Chief Executive Carrie Lam, by wearing a paper cutout mask of Lam’s face decorated with ghostly red circles on her cheeks, while holding a large Winnie the Pooh doll decorated with five yellow stars and a sign reading “404 Not Found” covering its eyes
Meryl Streep in 2006’s “The Devil Wears Prada”
A white Mercedes Benz EQB250 with the number plate “PIGY”
This Hong Kong Observatory 2-hour radar timelapse (03:48-05:42) captures the moment Severe Typhoon Noul 紅霞 made landfall near Huizhou City, 100 km NE of the territory, around 03:50.
This is wind speed visualisation of Severe Typhoon Noul 紅霞, packing 155 kph winds, made landfall 100 km NE of Hong Kong, near Huizhou City, a few minutes before 04:00. From earth.nullschool.net
At 21:20, Typhoon Noul 紅霞 was packing 140 kph winds and moving northward fast, in this HKO radar 2-hour timelapse (from 19:18-21:12).
Nighttime aerial view of the western New Territories, western Kowloon, and northern Hong Kong, captured from an airliner on the way to Hong Kong International Airport, on 24 July 2026
A black Toyota van with the number plate “HONEY ONE”
A Himawari-8 satellite picture shows Typhoon Bavi off the northern coast of Taiwan at 14:30 of 11 July 2026
A colourised Himawari-8 satellite image shows the location of Super Typhoon Bavi, east of the Philippines, at 15:00 of Wednesday, 8 July 2026.
A light grey BMW with the number plate “O BEAN”
A white BMW with the number plate “ADIDAS”
Netflix’s “The American Experiment” is a 5-episode docuseries about the birth of the United States of America, from 1753 until 1797, warts and all, and how decisions made over 200 years ago still affect the USA Today, when democracy appears to be a failed experiment.
A screenshot with the text “EUROPE” that shows the location at the beginning of Director Uwe Boll’s 2026 movie “Citizen Vigilante”, a movie about a racist vigilante killing indiscriminately immigrants and police in an Eastern European country (actually Croatia)
In the 8th episode of season 1 of “The Testaments”, Aunt Vidala (Mabel Li) is in charge of teaching Copulation, using one crudely simplified drawing of a uterus on a chalkboard, calling it “God’s sacred vessel”, and not teaching about sex at all, except telling the class to do what their husbands want…
In Mel Brooks’ 1987 “Spaceballs”, the bad guys mistakenly capture the stunt doubles of the main characters they have been pursuing
A black BMW iX with the number plate “SKIES”
Caricatura política del artista alemán Oliver Schopf, sobre la ironía de los esfuerzos para el rescate de los millonarios que pagaron para visitar el Titanic en el fondo del Atlántico mientras refugiados mueren a diario cruzando océanos para escapar dictaduras, junio 2023 (versión en inglés sin crédito)
In a scene from “The Season”, a show set in Hong Kong, a black Maserati has the number plate “ET-74663”, which is an incorrect format for a Hong Kong number plate.
The poster for “The Season”, a 6-episode drama series set in Hong Kong
“I want Al to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for Al to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.” Part of a post by author and videogame enthusiast Joanna Maciejewska made in late March 2024 on Twitter
A white and black Mini with the number plate “CAMEL S”
A white Tesla with the number plate “TORTOISE”
A black Tesla with the number plate “JUNE 16”
A grey Mercedes Benz with the number plate “SOLD OUT”
A screenshot of Google Translate from mid-June 2019 shows the phrase “so sad to see Hong Kong become a part of China” translated to Chinese as “很高興看到香港成為中國的一部”, which has the exact opposite meaning: Very happy to see Hong Kong become part of China.
Natalie Oxford’s photo of Grenfell Tower shows it completely still engulfed in flames at 04:43…
A dark grey BYD (?) with the number plate “YAUKWONG”
R2-D2 en el lecho de un río seco del planeta Tatooine
Mike Smith April 2025 cartoon for the Las Vegas Sun shows a couple of women passing by the White House, depicted as a place that is shaking and collapsing, with many obscenities coming from inside. One of the woman says, “I miss boring”.
Allied soldiers, vehicles and equipment swarm onto the French shore during the Normandy landings, June 1944. Source: Regional Council of Basse-Normandie/US National Archives
A Hong Kong Observatory map with the maximum temperatures recorded for the territory on 5 June 2026, with Yuen Long and Sheung Shui both having a high of 36.9° Centigrade.
A photo collage by The Collective shows the many candlelight vigils held by HongKongers in Victoria Park to commemorate the June 4 Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989, with photos from 1990 until 2022. The commemorations were banned and made illegal by the government in 2020.
The Goddess of Democracy statue made by art students protesting at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, taken at dusk, photo by Peter Turnley
Cartoonist 阿塗 ah-To’s cartoon for today, 4 June 2026, the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, is a 4-panel cartoon: 1- a mourning candle lights the inside of a heart, with “8 9 6 4” in Chinese characters 2- the year “2019” is added inside the heart 3- the name of the fire-ravaged housing estate “Hang Fook” is added inside the heart 4- zooming out, a crying person is seen holding the lone candle in front of their broken heart
A subway passenger is seen wearing a bulky air-cooled vest to deal with Hong Kong’s hot summer days
Two similarly-themed number plates: Left: a white Mercedes Benz with the number plate “EGG TART” (taken today) Right: a metallic blue Mini with the number plate “E99TART” (taken 27 April)
The statue of the Goddess of Democracy, seen in this photo taken by Peter Turnley at dusk. The statue was created by protesting art students and erected on 30 May 1989. It would be destroyed on the early hours of 4 June 1989, during the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
A white BMW iX3 with the number plate “8 SIX 8”
A new MTR Q-train leaves the station as a much older Metro-Cammell MTR train arrives on the opposite side of the platform of Kwai Hing Station
A small grey and white Suzuki with the number plate “DAN DAN”
A cream white Hyundai Inster with the number plate “LOKEI” next to a dark grey Tesla with the number plate “C AND B”
A white Avatr 07 EV with the number plate “VERY WELL”
Star Trek TOS Episode title: “Moonbase Alpha”
The building at the corner of Castle Peak Road and Fat Tseung Street in Shamshuipo
A black BMW i8 with the number plate “NEW RICH”
A white Mercedes-Benz with the number plate “THKS GOD”
Panoramic view of Hong Kong’s Central district seen during the main titles of 1973’s “Enter the Dragon”, the last movie Bruce Lee completed. Lee died 5 days before the movie was released.
A silver Mercedes-Benz with the number plate “ZOLA”
A matte black Lamborghini with the number plate “SEEE U”
Pollock filet breakfast options at Hong Kong McDonald’s restaurants in April-May 2026
Cartoonist 阿塗’s latest is a four panel cartoon 1- Photo of UFO shows a star-shaped mysterious shape 2- Mysterious star-shaped object looks similar to yellow star in famous flag 3- Glorious Leader Winnie shows UFO photo next to Chinese flag, saying, “Proof the Universe…” 4- “…since ancient times…” continues Winnie in front of a couple of worried grey aliens…
Vawongsir 2-part cartoon for Green Bean Media: A policeman stands by the water as a person, whose hand sticks out of the water, is very obviously drowning… The police asks: 1- “Are you needing help? Did you call the police?” 2- “If the line is busy, you can send us a photo!”
A black Mercedes Benz GLE with the number plate “CHAI SIU”
Cartoon by vawongsir shows a uniformed popo making bombs 4 different ways: 1- mixing soda powder and vinegar in a beaker 2- adding Mentos into a large Coca-Cola plastic bottle 3- putting an inside a microwave oven 4- wrapping numerous rubber bands around a watermelon
A white (brand unknown) car with the number plate “K Y 3” and a black Mercedes-Benz with the number plate “BAZINGA”
The southern tip of Kowloon, with West Kowloon left and Tsimshatsui centre and right, seen from the Wanchai waterfront, late afternoon, 28 April 2026.