The typhoon here in Hong Kong is slowly stripping the nylon mesh off the buildings under repair. Just hope the scaffolding doesn’t go next! Lots of debris flying through the air - leaves, paper, mesh strips - but so far no loose pipes of bamboo!

Calling all Inner West Sydney pub folk - if you're a fan of the Henson Hotel being pokie free, turn up to the Henson tomorrow and protest their sneaky decision to bring back poker machines - seriously guys? Albo's favourite local pub advertised as 'proudly pokie free' for how many years now??

Sunset on Lamma

Yung Shue Wan - so nice in the afternoon

Worse places to be than Lamma Island 😊

Mong Kok markets today in HK - feels like it could be the last or the future

Interesting.👇 Social Ties More Effective Than Shared Politics in Garnering Engagement With Online Corrections www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... @cameronmartel.bsky.social From study: "...users who post false news more likely to engage with corrections they receive, particularly from co-partisans."

She local kids just pulled this out of the Shing Mun River. Creating quite a stir

For a more nuanced take, do read NOMAD CENTURY. We do not live in an egalitarian world inhabited by the “average person”, but we do still have choices about how we make our future world www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good to have a moment by the river to think - crossroads sign seems apt for general life and times right now

www.everywritersresource.com/literarymaga... New market, submit your work!

VerseFest Ottawa: an exquisite mix of poetry & society. love for all the readers/performers/ organizers & all the folk who i had meaningful conversations with over libations or simply standing in the venues together, awkwardly early, chatting & trying not to get in the way. i love you poets.

Good bit of analysis here. Trump's chaotic approach to introducing, repealing, and reintroducing tariffs may undermine exactly the business confidence needed for big US auto to invest in re-shoring - and bring on a recession instead of creating jobs www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sha Tin Looks like a post card this morning

Keane is saying what I, & others, hve been saying forever The lib party is dead. In between Abbott & Dutton they’ve lurched so far to the right that it is not implausible to think that Spud wld not try implementing many of his Trumpian fetishes if he got the chance www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/19/p...

Wow. I wonder if I should risk visiting America in the next four years or not? Have these border denials and arrests really become as common as the news suggests? Does anyone else have a story to share about getting stopped at the airprort? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Bywords.ca - Submissions Web: www.bywords.ca Monthly online magazine featuring current & former emerging/established Ottawa poets. Please submit poems and events by the 15th of each month. previously unpublished poetry to [email protected] Read guidelines on site.

The HK urban form is uniquely devoted to elevated walkway to get across the streets - though I’m not sure what this does. World’s longest elevated lawn bowls strip?

I wonder what they're hiding? The judge here noted DOGE's work is shrouded in secrecy by: - use of an outside server, - its employees refusal to identify themselves to career officials and - their use of the encrypted app Signal to communicate. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

🚨🚨 An ECF workshop is going to be hosted at Newcastle University on 21 March 2025: "Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’?" Hope to see you there! 🚨🚨 www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Source: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

You may already have seen this, but if you haven't, you should. This sums up the corrupt things that have been happening in the last 6 weeks in the US - and this is clearly just the beginning. The vector of corruption is staggering youtu.be/hycoCYenXls?...

Bwaah 🤣 boom maggots 💥

At some point the opposition needs to say what is happening here: Donald Trump is a tyrant in the full sense of the term, an American fascist dictator who believes the law flows directly from his command. And he is also a deeply unwell, unfit, and criminal man with nonsensical whims

This👇🏼is like opening the door to the Chicken coop, and leaving it, ignoring the hungry fox that’s sitting outside in plain siight🤦🏼‍♂️ The Russians must think Christmas came early with Trump and his cronies in power 🤷🏼‍♂️

Why am I not surprised? #Russia #Trump #Hegseth #Putin #hacking #cybersecurity #resist #resistance #teamblue #bluecrew

Fascinating Atlantic article on patrimonialism as Trump's style of authoritarianism: "running the state as if it were the leader’s personal property or family business." Vulnerabilities: incompetence and corruption--this is a message Dems should hit back with.

This excellent article demonstrates the great relevance of classic sociological thinkers to contemporary social and political issues. Go Max Weber!! #sociology @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social @isa-sociology.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

With climate change & growing housing needs, the UK government is seeking a better way to use its land. What’s your take on land for food, energy, and nature? Have your say before 25 April. @oscarwoofs.bsky.social reports on #LandUseFramework public consultation

Looks like it should be a beautiful dawn, but it’s the prelude to a big increase in humidity and heat. Last week I had the heater on, now I’m sweating in a t-shirt! What happened to spring, HK??? And now for 6 months of air con 😞

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

"The Carnival of Viareggio" (Carnevale di Viareggio: Italy) Heyy!! There's a giant Witch-King in this carnival and he looks really great 🤍

Our first cab off the 49.1 rank - Zong and Bisenieks explore dark humour as a crucial storytelling technique in addressing Australia's eco-social challenges. #EnvironmentalStudies #environment #humour #HumourStudies #OzStudies #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/5n6pjzvt

❄️ Writers, it’s time! Submit your winter-inspired short stories to our global anthology. From gothic chills to speculative twists—show us what winter means to you. Info: shorturl.at/e3Qwr #SootAndBoots #Festive #ShortFiction #SubmissionWindow

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words…

The war on social science advances in the US - what was that line from the Simpsons? “Let’s all go burn down the observatory to make sure this never happens again”! www.science.org/content/arti...

Watching the clouds creep over the hills and seep into Sha Tin this afternoon like a slow white river, very pleasant

#Australia home battery plan setting up competing policies to spark a household electrification revolution to slash power bills while cutting greenhouse gas emissions. #auspol #auspol25 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“Why don’t you wear a suit?”

Well said. He's a follower at heart, not a leader.

Whenever Labor make an announcement or a commitment.. Me-Too Dutton tries to match it -which exposes his shortcomings & his serious lack of real commitment by not releasing costings b4 the election. At best Dutton is unelectable. At worst he is a sociopathic opportunist theaimn.net/what-a-way-t...

Albanese bought a house for $4 million and that was a scandal according to #Insiders back then. But Dutton buying bank shares just before the govt announced a bank buy out is, well, the same ? Yeah nah #Insiders