A cartoon-style drawing shows two cats sitting in front of a pet carrier. One cat says: “I go in, and when I come out I’m at the vet… then I go back in, and when I come out I’m home…” The other cat responds: “Could it be? A wormhole!”
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This little park in Beijing's CBD has what the kids would call aura
La Chine… 🤔
Régulièrement, je vois passer des vidéos postées par des étrangers qui glorifient la Chine et tout ce que l’on peut y trouver. Il y a indéniablement beaucoup de bon côté, mais il y a aussi des comportements comme ceux-là.
Ces images sont issues d’une caméra de surveillance…
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Exclusive: Sweden has intelligence indicating Russia's systematically manipulating data to fool Ukraine’s western allies into believing its economy has withstood the strain of its war spending & western sanctions, Thomas Nilsson, head of Sweden Military Intelligence, told me & @maxseddon.bsky.social
Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.
Striking statement from China’s foreign press club, explicitly making clear its condemnation of China revoking visas, China detaining journos over coverage, not associated w/any media outlet. Media orgs - powerful ones - are not speaking up, and they should. fccchina.org/2026/04/20/f...
over 5 million primary school aged children in China can't live with their migrant parents because they can't get a school place in their parents' city, a group called "left-behind children".
but now cities actually have more school places than needed bc of declining birth rates...
"The baseline pension for retirees who lacked formal employment—a category that includes almost all farmers—is 163 yuan ($24) per month."
Endless billions for AI and robotics while the generation that built the miracle is forced to toil until their last breath
*Revolutionary Natures* is now in print. @eastasiascitech.bsky.social @uwapress.uw.edu
Lüshun Museum is seriously underrated. It’s a beautiful piece of architecture, built by the Japanese in 1917, and has a very impressive collection of bronzes and other artifacts
To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.
Illustration of a person in a blue headscarf touching ancient script on a wall. The text reads, "Games & Gaming - Classics & Archaeology from Cambridge," on a purple background.
🎲💻🕹️ Download free-access research on #games & #gaming, from #Cambridge's #Classics and #Archaeology journals.
🔗➡️ https://cup.org/4tj9nfe
Access is free (where not already OA) until 31 May. #archaeogaming @saa-aap.bsky.social @antiquity.ac.uk @classicalassociation.org @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social
"The police say more than 10,000 foreign workers have been repatriated. "
www.bbc.com/news/article...
one of the richest women in China, Chen Lihua died a few days ago. She owned one of the largest commercial property developers in Beijing. Her real estate empire emerged out of China's laissez-faire capitalism era...
finance.ifeng.com/c/8s7xex3bI4x
The poplars (Populus tomentosa) that produce these seed clusters were planted in the 1960s and 70s when Beijing suffered from such severe dust storms the city was on the brink of desertification.
The female trees (which vastly outnumber the male) produce about a kilogram of this white fluff.
hmmm looks like 1 way ticket price, not round trip...
#China #filmphotography #photography
Photographs from the @gblee.bsky.social archive
'Beef noodle soup stall'
Beijing, 1987
They oversaw a very important social media influence operation for the Kremlin, got caught, fled. And now they're not just back, they're guests at Donald & Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll at the White House.
"Update 6 April 2026: launch postponed due to a technical issue occurred on a subsystem component production line after VV29 launcher integration, new launch date to be confirmed at a later date"
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
The Capitalist Hellscape AMAZON SPENT MORE THAN $26 MILLION ON ANTI-UNION CONSULTANTS IN 2025 SOURCE: US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR @AWKWORDISTHIS
Unprecedented: Amazon spent $26+ million on anti-union consultants in 2025. This expenditure marks a new record, surpassing the company’s previous high, and is believed to be the largest such amount spent by a US employer on anti-union consultants in a single year.
[source: US Department of Labor]
if these Ru-speakers were so close to Russia, and convinced that "the West" was really at fault for the war, why are they in Riga and not in Novgorod? In Warsaw instead of Moscow? In Lviv instead of Sotchi?
Coiled chambred structure
Straight ribbed arrow in a pavement clock
Fossil "hunting" in Zhangjiajie
If you take a look at your feet while exploring various natural beauties of UNESCO Geoparks in Zhangjiajie, you'll see calcified, coiled or straight & ribbed structures. They are so common, the quarried rock they are part of is dubbed "Chinese hornstone" 🧵
Is there a recording available somewhere?
At the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) last month #Beijing
Witchcraft.
Polacy na Dalekim Wschodzie, Grochowski, Kazimierz, Harbin 1928
This flag symbolized the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER), a joint Sino-Russian venture established under the 1896 Li–Lobanov Treaty, which granted Russia a concession to build a railway through Manchuria. Adopted in 1897, it served as the official emblem for the Russian-managed company, displaying its authority at railway stations and facilities like those in Harbin.
Cossacks guard the CER bridge over the Sungari River in Harbin during the Russo-Japanese War (1905)
A thread 🧵 on Polish palaeontologists in Harbin
There used to be (~30k strong) Polish population in the city of Harbin (哈尔滨), during Russian occupation of North China & partition of Poland. The population was composed of Socialist Poles who were banished as punishment for anti-Tsarist uprisings.
Polish community in North China, concentrated in Harbin, was composed of wealthy, educated migrants and political exiles. Creating a perfect mix of resourced, educated, nationalist diaspora. With Polish schools, chruch, press and theatre, which'd been otherwise "illegal" in Russian Empire proper.
