Not not sure why, but a sampling of Lunar New Year’s banquet ads, 2026 #culturalstudies

分享给中文读者和观众们，我和《中华吞噬》恐悬选集的参与作者范舟(清醒梦）于科幻巴别塔的论坛回顾。 mp.weixin.qq.com/s/wADHnv9c64...

Who says independent theaters can’t survive? Taichung’s Chin Chin Cinema (親親影城) has been in business since 1986.

So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume

The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is known as the DSM-5. What will the next version be called? That's one of several open questions as the "Bible of psychiatry" goes online.

Meanwhile, triads in HK terrorize population and collude with government www.bbc.com/news/article...

Damn bear tax… youtu.be/v81b0XllvgI

He developed these ideas in an under-appreciated but great book, “The Meaning of Anxiety” youtu.be/9RskrC16nNg

Rock climber Alex Honnold scales Taiwan skyscraper without ropes

Only a future of general strikes involving large-scale disruptions has the chance of stopping Trump’s forces.

Someone wrote the character 夢 (dream) in beautiful white paint

Condensed culture on these city center street walls…graffiti…鐵路便當…中元普渡…locksmiths

I wish someone would explain to me why scooter mudflaps now have mysterious portraits like this (though usually w/just one guy) on them.

the 3 black swans at our local park

#TaiwanArchives: The SHIN SHENG THEATER opens in #Taipei in 1956 as a six-story building crowned with a 1,600-seat #cinema and a "Miracle Mirror" CinemaScope screen. The first movie to be shown here was the American musical comedy "The Court Jester."

Cuban oregano is looking sad, probably due to Sec of State Rubio’s imperialist rhetoric

I don’t use it very often but Taiwan Instagram has at least one great language learning account—學台語 (very professionally done site, makes you wonder why the MOE couldn’t come up with something like this) ✍️

A society where sexual images have become part of daily life demands a more comprehensive sex education to mitigate against gender and sexual stereotypes.

Lately been thinking a lot about this essay by Umberto Eco on fascism www.nybooks.com/articles/199...

Here’s how 🇨🇳 and 🇹🇼 view the ongoing military drill. Despite sharing Han ethnicity, Taiwanese have vastly different perspectives, mindsets, and approaches, which is why they don’t identify as Chinese.

This is an excellent article about Taiwan’s nuclear power dilemma www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6272787

U.S. deploys 2 aircraft carriers amid China’s live-fire blockade drills around Taiwan USS Abraham Lincoln operating in the Western Pacific USS George Washington active from Yokosuka/Japan area Amphibious ship USS Tripoli also reported nearby

"Internal documents from a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company indicated that China has been using the technology to intervene in foreign elections, including propaganda targeting Taiwan’s local elections next year and presidential elections in 2028" www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...

This sign is cool

The syllabus is a personal creative work, so I don’t see why it should be put out there for 4chan Republicans and Charlie Kirk types (not to mention AI bots) to abuse. #higherdead

Poet, journalist, and documentary maker Moharaj Sharma is a leading figure in Nepal’s literary and media landscape. Widely respected for his cultural insight and integrity, he is known for poetry that reflects on identity, social change, and the human experience.

If only one of the deals included a Minuteman III (or 2) all our problems would be solved. Nukes are the only viable long-term solution for Taiwan, but we’re not Israel so I guess we’re not getting any. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Commuting by bicycle in Belgium pays off as employees earn compensation for every km they ride. 1 in 6 employees commute by bike and get a bicycle allowance of €0.28/km. People cycling to work in 2024 earned an average of around €460 net per year (some as high as €810), up 20% over the past year.

DeepSeek can’t answer all sorts of basic questions about Liu Cixin’s world famous novel.

Repost for my own reference.

US and Russian officials participated in a coordinated attack on Europe which saw thousands of bots spread disinformation and terroristic rhetoric against the European Union.

Among the fern eating Amis people in Taiwan www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXsO...

Mirror Media with series on how Taiwan gangsters are being used by the CCP to work on Ryukyu (Okinawa) "independence". www.mirrormedia.mg/story/202512...

神子一体 #art #photo #photography #nightphotography #temple ©️skinskin

street textures, Taichung

Looks like Left-Handed Girl is getting some critical attention internationally focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...

Found this little diaphanous Chrysopa on my office wall #insects

Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️ That's what I call great ambassador

The Tai Po blaze of 2025 will be remembered as one of Hong Kong's deadliest, but the territory has a grim history of fire-related tragedies, many of which prompted reform. In full: buff.ly/Ge0Z525

“The question is the story itself, and whether or not it means something is not for the story to tell.” -Paul Auster, “City of Glass”

In Taiwan, Audible user = Audible loser.

“A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine: who sweeps a room as for Thy laws, makes that and th' action fine.” -George Herbert, “The Elixir”

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

4. Paul Auster x.com/timhwang/sta...

3. Don DeLillo perival.com/delillo/ddbi...

2. Thomas Pynchon commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

The pomo novelist yearbook portraits that must be shared… 1. Cormac McCarthy www.themccarthyist.com/the-voluntee...