Hong Kong, where you can enjoy your latest read inside a nice cool Japanese tunnel, then after you've cooled off go down a lush mountain to take a tram home

World’s greatest 90+ asset-trader strikes again. As a CK shareholder, it’s as juicy as selling ports, The Center, etc. (HK is done, move on.) As a consumer, a duopoly becomes a monopoly. Half the supermarkets in town consolidate/shut down.
Is there a HK govt antitrust apparatus?

Black-and-white photo of seven uniformed soldiers seated closely together on the floor inside a metal-walled interior, wearing helmets and military gear. In the foreground sits Sgt. Gander, a large black dog facing the camera with a collar visible. The soldiers rest their arms on each other’s shoulders and knees, some looking toward the camera, with bags and equipment placed around their feet.

On April 15, 1935, Sgt. Gander was born in Newfoundland.
He eventually became the mascot of the Royal Rifles of Canada and went with them to Hong Kong.
At the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941, he gave his life to save his comrades and died a hero.
This is his story.

🧵 1/10

If you're a regular consumer of Taiwanese news media, you've probably noticed how they cannot run a weather story without featuring photos creepily focused on some young woman just walking down the street in the sun or rain.

I guess they're just using AI for that now, and it's still creepy as hell.

Old tweet Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."

With the exception of people who convert basically to facilitate marrying somebody, adult converts definitely have A Reputation in the Catholic Church. This old tweet is being sarcastic, but there is a kernel of truth there 😎

I cannot post enough "you fucked around and found out" laughing gifs

Did you know one person can absolutely overthrow an entire country by shitposting about the govt on Facebook?

I didn't either.

(me lighting the gas stove) the Emperor's light is the only light. The Emperor's light is the only light ...

Wife just yelled from the other room for me to come quickly because someone is talking about Warhammer 40K on Top Chef.

Also containing an appearance by Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien

Anybody doing SFP ONT/ONU for Netvigator in Hong Kong? Alternatively, HKBN or HGC?

My provided ONT is only GBE and also a flaky POS which annoys me. I'd grab my own and go rogue but I'm not sure what they're doing for auth.

/cc @waterstarrunner.bsky.social @goofrider.bsky.social

Steamed Hams But Every Scene is a Different Animation Style YouTube video by lotusbandicoot

So much inspiration from this scene

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One Foot In The Grave Victor Meldrew Honda Song YouTube video by AmzaPlayer

I laughed so hard I cried when I first saw this bit

youtu.be/W4icMkZkAeQ?...

There are still a couple of shops around town who put up their 年初四 signs and then just … never opened again.

30 years ago today, Principal Skinner purchased fast food to disguise as his own cooking at an unforgettable luncheon with Superintendent Chalmers.

#TheSimpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” first aired April 14, 1996.

Trying to track down this alleged letter from Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun to the White House. Doesn't appear in any Chinese official sources, and it seems to be fake. No clarification yet from Chinese authorities. First mention I can find is this post on X:

This will go over well

Image shows a busy street somewhere in HK circa 1967/8

For a bit of fun, who can guess where this is? I'll post the answer tomorrow.

They should do this because every single one of those schools will be absolutely destroyed by the finances of “planting” schools in Hong Kong’s declining student base.

Screen cap from a 1968 Shaw Bros movie called The Angel Strikes Again. It shows Cornwall Street in Kowloon Tong with an old heavy draw-off fire hydrant that was part of the emergency infrastructure in case of a crash landing along the Kai Tak airport approach. In the background is the (recently demolished) original block (A) of the Baptist Hospital.

The only thing left in this image (bar the road) is the fire hydrant.
- screencap from The Angel Strikes Again (1968)

Hahaha nooooo I'm not falling for THAT one

It’s the kind of boring, correct take that gets certain people Big Mad about it

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You know I got it

Sophia Chan receiving a Royal College of Nursing honorary fellowship

Sophia Chan, the Food and Health Secretary during the period in which Hong Kong had the worst recorded Covid-19 death rate in the world after vaccines were widely available, was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk

www.rcn.org.uk/Get-Involved...

On this day in 1945, Canadian troops liberated 876 people from Camp Westerbork in the Netherlands.
A transit camp, it was used as a staging area before the concentration camps.
Anne Frank was in Westerbork in 1944 before she was sent to Auschwitz.

Passive-aggressively send the Dunning-Kruger effect link to *that* coworker. You know the one ...

Dear Trump, can you please wait until I have some fucking money before you crash the futures market to bargain basement prices again? Also please die, tia

Learned the word slough from this book and also women with red paper in the window might be whores

lmao