So, I got this book last week and today I come across rice cooker discourse on Bluesky.

Good lord. The people in the audience chuckling and nodding ...

馬小玲 (yes, in honour of THE 馬小玲)

What should I name him?

Now is the season of ... a new Regina Ip qipao post every day 🙈

人在異鄉冇得收爐， 但在此預祝大家喺新嘅一年身心健康，快樂， 盡可能活在真理， 指馬為馬！🐎✅🦌🚫

🎯🎯🎯 short response article from Dr Nicola Boyd (formerly on Twitter as @DrNick4126) Rapid response to: Why covid-19 is a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Today I finally found time to go get New Year flowers and sweets, then realised it was totally the wrong day to get flower and sweets. Sigh, and bah humbug!

Expelled CUHK student tells Green Bean Media that he's not surprised by the decision but is disgusted by the actions of the decision-making panel: "they're quite disgusting, these people are supposed to be scholars, supposed to uphold truth, knowledge and rigour."

Thank you @ericyhlai.bsky.social for a fascinating talk about the struggle for the rule of law in Hong Kong at @cityjournalism.bsky.social today.

A Chinese University of Hong Kong student who launched a now-removed petition calling for government accountability following November’s deadly Tai Po fire has said he has been expelled. hongkongfp.com/2026/02/13/s... @hongkongfp.com

These people are so predictable, so 🥱 and so dangerous

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Wow, what a photo.

The arc of the grift is long and it bends towards racism

FDA refuses to start a review of Moderna's application for its experimental flu shot — another sign of the Trump administration's influence on tightening vaccine regulation in the US. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/moder...

The risks of SARS-CoV-2 and other airborne pathogens can be severe, but the media continues to stigmatize Olympians taking precautions as "worried" and "extreme". We know #LongCOVID can affect anyone, even elite athletes. In the @thesicktimes.org today 😷🦠 thesicktimes.org/2026/02/10/w...

Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years, six senior journalists and news executives sentenced between 6yrs 9mths and 10yrs. All bad enough. And then there are the little details tucked away (but still being reported) in local media that hit really hard like the story of one woman ... 1/

Key distinction number two: journalism vs. the media (vs. the press) I think of the media as the attention business, an industry whose product is audiences. Journalism is a social practice, the purpose of which is to keep publics informed and hold power to account. 7/

Well ...

In other words, we took it down, but it's fine, racism is fine. Nothing to see here, move along.

Have written about a week where the hypocrisy of much of the media was laid bare (and address mine). I also write about the truth Starmer cannot say: he appointed Mandelson to the court of Trump not in spite of the Epstein connection but in a sense, because of it. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Reminder: This Will Lewis www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

And what are some of the factors that might contribute to higher incidences of pneumonia? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40560542/

Unconscionable.

Feel the burn.

From @theguardian.com: "Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, also accused Starmer of dealing with the Chinese from a position of weakness." Well he is, as would any UK PM right now. Trump and Brexit have seen to that.

Apropos of nothing. I remember interviewing the late Tony Banks MP before the general election in 1997 and him joking that if he was ever found hanging under a bridge in London, it was Peter Mandelson who'd done it.

Heartbreaking and infuriating. Have we learned nothing from the inquest into Maeve Boothby O'Neil's death?

Found this crumpled old Beijing bus ticket in a coat pocket. Must be around 20 years old!

Neil Young gives complete musical catalogue to Greenland for free - while removing all his music from Amazon www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/neil-y...

This isn't fair to Javert or Killmonger.

“The divide between Zhang and Xi no longer centered on debate or planning and instead shifted to execution and direct noncompliance. This problem was clearly visible across the PLA, and it posed a serious threat to Xi’s authority.” jamestown.org/zhang-youxia...

爛船都有三斤釘, or a broken ship has three catties worth of nails. Unfortunately, even this may not hold for much longer ...

The jokes write themselves.

仁者仁也

I'll say it again: Minneapolis will be their Gettysburg

Warming Friday night one-pot veg in fermented red bean curd, cos it's grey and chilly and the news is bad.

And please be reminded that Wessely has now been appointed by Streeting to investigate the 'overdiagnosis' of mental illness.

OK, this thread earns a follow.

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social @davetuller1.bsky.social An academic has been intimidated into downplaying her views on CBT and GET by Wessely threatening to sue. The book is out in the world and will influence readers. We need this story to be more widely known. Can you help? #LongCovid #ME

Wah!!! Blake's 7 reboot ...

善有善報 惡有惡報 若然不報 時辰未到

Another blow for civil society, forwards for GONGOs Only 2 of the 5 groups receiving funding under a govt scheme for projects on sexual minorities have worked on LGBTQ+ issues, and one is the HK Psychosexual Education Assn, a Christian grp promoting conversion therapy and non-affirmative practices.

Colleen Rooney working for Ukrainian intel? #wagathachristie

2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America? 2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America? 2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?

Yeah, and also as a Hongkonger, this is all kinds of annoying.

The only one of these films I've seen is Vital Signs and it's inoffensive to the point of utter blandness.

Hongkongers have to shangfang 上訪 now ...

I've had students write "half a decade", or they would describe an interviewee as being "half a century old".