Wow. Never knew there was such opposition in Canada against universal healthcare!

Sigh

Uh oh. Some kind of accident at Wong Chuk Hang depot? Don't think I've ever seen the Command Unit before.

I feel like it’s time for the first ‘Santa’s Grotto is Really in Shenzhen’ (or variant of) story in the UK press - awaiting with bated breath…

Last night the Didi car that I rode back to the hotel smelled terrible because of driver's BO. I was suffering in silence and then the Didi app that was giving navigation suddenly switched and said something like "Driver, open the windows and allow air to circulate." 1/3

Fun fact: in the Canadian Dungeons & Dragons setting, wood elves have maple syrup for blood. Players must roll a DC 10 Apology saving throw or risk going into diabetic shock (unless they have chosen Banting's Brigade as a Snow Cleric subclass)

hahaha what the fuck

go protest, bae (高示威俾)

two thing that annoys me about Lee Kuan Yew worship is that nobody who does it seems to care about *modern* singaporean politicians and American right-wingers who do it would never accept LKY's policies of, e.g., massive public housing projects in a country that makes posting racism illegal

Chinese person on social media gets outraged by image of potato chip that resembles outline of Taiwan.

I think people's brains have been addled by watching too many costume dramas and these old men who were asking the questions were imagining that if they lived during the 18th century, they'd be the heads of important families, not farmers eking out an existence in some rural area. 3/3

I am a third-generation of the Third Front Movement. There’s a saying that captures the experience of families like ours: “First we devote our youth, then we devote our whole lives — in the end, even the futures of our children and grandchildren are tied to the cause.”

Mid-Autumn Festival is coming so I am reposting this meme of mine from Twitter.

This is pretty good. I like the narrative structure. youtu.be/wn5cSPoKBZg?...

The problem, of course is that I'm no longer certain if this is real or just made by an AI.

Desperate customers seeking to withdraw funds from a bank in Shanghai on the eve of the communist takeover of the city, 1949

Correct attitude

I can answer that! 沪 (Hù) - the simplified version of 滬, an archaic word meaning roughly "fishing net/fence." In th 4th-5th c. the mouth of Suzhou Creek was called 沪渎 (Hù Dú), meaning basically "fishing ditch." Well, guess what megacity grew up all around ol' Fishin' Ditch?

Fanfic where Chiang Kai Shek gets killed in an air raid in Chungking in 1941 so Zhang Xueliang takes over

Straight up getting porn mags in my mailbox now

Not many people know this, but these pillars in the Urban Council garden in TST once belonged to the old KCR Terminus (demolished 1978).

a metaphor:

A viral video has surfaced in Hong Kong of a (very patient and friendly) waiter who approaches an all-you-can-eat hotpot customer that has attempted to steal raw meat and seafood out of a restaurant by putting it in a plastic bag www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

🍚 rice

Just dropped in to see the Colours.

I'm still registered, but the only people I would vote for aren't on the ballot ...

Nothing brings out Hong Kong ingenuity quite like a typhoon.

hko found poem #2

Book extract: Riding out Typhoon Rose in Hong Kong Riding Out Typhoon Rose by Iain Ward Typhoon Rose was one of the worst storms to hit Hong Kong in the last fifty years. Winds gusted between 130 knots (150 mph) and 150 knots (172 mph) and some 12 inches of rain fell during the storm. Over 150…

This remains one of the best depictions of what it was like to be a white guy in Asia in the early 2010s

Hong Kong TVB's greatest-ever live report of a typhoon: 🌀 Molave ▲8, July 19, 2009 1:00 a.m. He appears at 0:32. And for the first time, English-translation subtitles!

Harry Harrison has an idea of the real reason Hong Kong people buy all that masking tape before a typhoon: today's cartoon

Sure glad my kids stayed home from school so they didn't have to deal with a slight breeze

hko found poetry

Photographs of Super Typhoon #Ragasa shared by JAXA astronaut YUI Kamiya aboard the ISS. Original post: xcancel.com/Astro_Kimiya... #NandoPH #台風18号

Unless you can trace patrilineal ancestry back through the first born sons to a boat that landed in Essex during the years 425 to 700, you're not English and have to leave.* * Os gallwch chi, yna Almaenwr ydych chi. Hwyl fawr.

Tolkien asked her to wait for him and then had no contact with her for five years; on his 21st birthday he wrote to her asking her to marry him and she immediately broke off her engagement with someone else and agreed.

I really, really hate rattan. Still, goes to show why proper headgear is essential

"They lie, we know they are lying, they know that we know, and yet they continue to lie"

so many people thinking the Yanks bombed Hong Kong in WWII for the fun of it or to strike against ... China

American sanctions were basically "we won't sell you oil unless you promise to be like 10% less horrific about your imperialism" and the Japanese militarist government responded with "you will pry this five-year-old chinese girl from my cold dead genitals"

"American oil sanctions forces Japan into Pearl Harbor" is true and seems like a compelling argument until you learn literally anything about why America put those oil sanctions in place

Time to batten down the hatches

Maybe it's different in the American context, but in Hong Kong the desire for anonymity was driven by "we are going to arrest anyone who attends these protests we declared illegal and also pressure your workplace to fire you, or maybe just punish your workplace for employing you. Then your family."

Correct, Hong Kong rejects him

When a Hongkonger becomes Roman Emperor

Visitors to Japan for August 2025 increased by 16.9% year-on-year • Visitors from Hong Kong decreased by 8.3%; only HK and SG showed a y-o-y decrease • For 2025, Hong Kong visitors decreased 7.1%, the only region in the red, because Hongkongers will believe anything no matter how stupid

Wednesday's gonna be interesting

Classical Chinese for Portents: 天既訖我殷命，假人元龜，無敢知吉...今我民罔不欲喪，曰『天曷不降威，大命胡不至』？ Heaven has revoked its Mandate. No diviner dares read good omens in the plastrons...There is not one commoner who doesn't long for your ruin. They say "Why doesn't Heaven send down its might? Why hasn't its Mandate come?"