Mountain stream and pool, Hong Kong Island

Hong Kong, where you can enjoy your latest read inside a nice cool Japanese tunnel, then after you've cooled off go down a lush mountain to take a tram home

World’s greatest 90+ asset-trader strikes again. As a CK shareholder, it’s as juicy as selling ports, The Center, etc. (HK is done, move on.) As a consumer, a duopoly becomes a monopoly. Half the supermarkets in town consolidate/shut down. Is there a HK govt antitrust apparatus?

On April 15, 1935, Sgt. Gander was born in Newfoundland. He eventually became the mascot of the Royal Rifles of Canada and went with them to Hong Kong. At the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941, he gave his life to save his comrades and died a hero. This is his story. 🧵 1/10

If you're a regular consumer of Taiwanese news media, you've probably noticed how they cannot run a weather story without featuring photos creepily focused on some young woman just walking down the street in the sun or rain. I guess they're just using AI for that now, and it's still creepy as hell.

With the exception of people who convert basically to facilitate marrying somebody, adult converts definitely have A Reputation in the Catholic Church. This old tweet is being sarcastic, but there is a kernel of truth there 😎

I cannot post enough "you fucked around and found out" laughing gifs

Did you know one person can absolutely overthrow an entire country by shitposting about the govt on Facebook? I didn't either.

Wife just yelled from the other room for me to come quickly because someone is talking about Warhammer 40K on Top Chef.

Also containing an appearance by Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien

Anybody doing SFP ONT/ONU for Netvigator in Hong Kong? Alternatively, HKBN or HGC? My provided ONT is only GBE and also a flaky POS which annoys me. I'd grab my own and go rogue but I'm not sure what they're doing for auth. /cc @waterstarrunner.bsky.social @goofrider.bsky.social

There are still a couple of shops around town who put up their 年初四 signs and then just … never opened again.

30 years ago today, Principal Skinner purchased fast food to disguise as his own cooking at an unforgettable luncheon with Superintendent Chalmers. #TheSimpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” first aired April 14, 1996.

Trying to track down this alleged letter from Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun to the White House. Doesn't appear in any Chinese official sources, and it seems to be fake. No clarification yet from Chinese authorities. First mention I can find is this post on X:

This will go over well

For a bit of fun, who can guess where this is? I'll post the answer tomorrow.

They should do this because every single one of those schools will be absolutely destroyed by the finances of “planting” schools in Hong Kong’s declining student base.

The only thing left in this image (bar the road) is the fire hydrant. - screencap from The Angel Strikes Again (1968)

Hahaha nooooo I'm not falling for THAT one

It’s the kind of boring, correct take that gets certain people Big Mad about it bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

You know I got it

Sophia Chan, the Food and Health Secretary during the period in which Hong Kong had the worst recorded Covid-19 death rate in the world after vaccines were widely available, was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk www.rcn.org.uk/Get-Involved...

On this day in 1945, Canadian troops liberated 876 people from Camp Westerbork in the Netherlands. A transit camp, it was used as a staging area before the concentration camps. Anne Frank was in Westerbork in 1944 before she was sent to Auschwitz.

Passive-aggressively send the Dunning-Kruger effect link to *that* coworker. You know the one ...

Dear Trump, can you please wait until I have some fucking money before you crash the futures market to bargain basement prices again? Also please die, tia

Learned the word slough from this book and also women with red paper in the window might be whores

lmao

The National Museum of Modern Art in Osaka has a box of Instant Sperm, just add water I really do not want to know what the dried out interior is, but I like the font on the label

AKIYAMA Yutoku-taishi was an art prof who ran in the Tokyo Governorship election in 1975 against ISHIHARA Shintaro. Remembering how Ishihara ran Tokyo in his final years before retirement, I would've voted for him based on his excellent use of the bowler hat.

For a little while, postwar Japan was really, really leftist.

In this picture of Shibuya from 1991 there's a Home Alone advert with Macaulay Culkin saying "What am I gonna do?"

More of this kind of architecture please

Boy, someone really wants attention. If there’s anyone in the world who you precisely do not want to put in dangerous situations, since he’s likely to put YOU in dangerous situations, it’s him

DRINK WITH HANDSOME GUYS english available chinese too, on xiaohongshu

In the Minions universe there must be a Canadian supervillain

Amateur hour. In my day you'd have drunk expats riding through the Aberdeen Tunnel on the roof of a double decker bus

Night lanterns of Miyajima

When walking around Miyajima, we found ... a tunnel!

Nury "Gelatine Brain" Vittachi, who has the writing skill of Camus six months after decomposition has set in

In the Japanese hotel I'm staying at, there's a Filipina maid doing laundry for a Hong Kong family because of course. Useless twats

Thanks to my Irish, Welsh, Scottish and French ancestors I now own most of Western Europe and possibly Italy

Beware of pigeon poo!

An American tourist in Japan unwittingly wearing a baseball cap with the naval jack proclaiming KAMIKAZE because he can't read the kanji will never not be funny

Oh this shop carries American sizes

Another probably decent example would be (much like MU/TH/UR is the shipboard computers of Federation starships, such as the Enterprise. They're able to listen and understand naturalistically, but are mostly background processes that just carry out important commands such as

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 05,1945

My right-wing mum would be livid to see this

We have Miyajima at home