Some really great local history here showing how 'wild west' Han settlement of Taiwan was. www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

Slaughterhouse Designed by Chen Renhe, a Kaohsiung-based architect of Modernism. 📷: DJI Mini 4 Pro, Hasselblad 907& CFV II 50C

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

this may be a new record in 'Nobel Peace Prize winner to helping instigate a war,' right?

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

I can't believe the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize would do this.

'While surging attention on Taiwan’s organized crime has prompted concerns that gangs could support PRC fifth column activities, the rank-and-file Taiwanese gangsters are neither trained nor ideologically-primed to take part in these operations. ' globaltaiwan.org/2025/12/taiw...

Spectral Codex just surpassed 5,000 mapped locations, most of them here in #Taiwan. Historical sites, abandoned places, photo hotspots, and more. Hundreds already include photos and field notes; many others are still simple stubs, awaiting further documentation. 👁️ spectralcodex.com

Mong Tong's Taiwan Mystery II features a montage of unusual architecture and occult phenomena from around the country. It was released along with an art book featuring photos and imagery from many of these sites. The music is also really great; dreamy instrumental psychrock. youtu.be/kwHcZaPLl58?...

It's been one month since floodwaters equating to 6,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools crashed into an #Indigenous #Taiwanese township due to a mountainous barrier lake caused by typhoons and landslides. My A–Z guide to the 2025 Matai’an barrier lake flood: wordsfromtaiwan.medium.com/2025-mataian...

Taichung from the rooftop of one of the tallest buildings on Taiwan Boulevard 🏙️

Taiwan is a terminal society, one that is doing far too little to avert the coming demographic collapse. David Chang, founder of Crossroads, brings receipts and makes the case for more serious efforts at internationalization in this Commonwealth Magazine op-ed. english.cw.com.tw/article/arti...

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless

Shining a light on an old 1950s vintage theater in Hunei, right on the border between Kaohsiung and Tainan in southern Taiwan. Only the facade remains... but it tells an interesting tale. #TheaterHunt spectralcodex.com/hunei-wenxia...

Racers kidnapped with giant nets and ransomed. Others smuggled on to high-speed trains to get to the finish line faster. Performance enhancing drugs. Millions in alleged gambling. Our story on the wild world of Taiwan's pigeon racing, with pics by An Rong Xu www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

A pretty interesting hockey card.

The recall movement has old roots in spontaneous local resistance www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

Honestly, quite outraging to hear that cases of abuse, untreated injuries, and death continue to occur for migrant fishermen in Taiwan’s fishing fleet edition.cnn.com/2025/07/12/a...

Before tea, indigo. 'During the town’s heyday in the late 1800s, more than 80 ships traversed these waters [from Sanxia to Bangka), transporting not just indigo but local tea, camphor, timber, furniture, coal and rice noodles.' www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

#TaiwanSensibility: 'The hashtag is often attached to shots of walkup apartment buildings built at least 40 or 50 years ago, or lush greenery, or colorful neon signage...They say that this kind of urban scenery is charming, retro, and relaxing.' www.taiwan-panorama.com/en/Articles/...

After a speech by Lai in which he stated that the "CCP has never controlled Taiwan", Lu Shiow-yen responds to him by stating that it's "Only his personal historical viewpoint." Er, but it's true the CCP has never controlled Taiwan? news.ltn.com.tw/news/politic...

On the scene at a surprise discovery in the back alleys of Taichung. Just yesterday demolition workers revealed this old Zen Buddhist structure previously hidden behind metal sheeting. Some pretty intense public interest here this morning; city councilors are inspecting, media reporting.

Collection of old maps and illustrations of Taiwan. archive.org/details/imba...

Cemetery of Zhenghai Army 甲仙鎮海軍墓 Graves of soldiers sent (mostly Hubei Province ) to guard and "open up" this area of Kaohsiung in the mid 1880s.

We reach for the sky Neither does civilization Scooters used to cool

The "From Edo to Modern Times - Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Ukiyo-e Collection Exhibition" A cool art thing ends Sunday in Kaohsiung Location 台灣創價學會 創價美術館

This is such an excellent article: 'Your Convenience, My Overwork', how Taiwan's ubiquitous and justly famed convenience stores replaced traditional ga-ma-diam (柑仔店) in a form of gentrification, and the advent of foreign national clerks--normal in Japan but still a radical idea in Taiwan.

"The Cost of Convenience: Precarity in Taiwanese Franchise Markets" by @brianhioe.bsky.social

Nice Biking Taiwan video. Even with all the rain youtu.be/6ciMLC8-z8E?...

That sound you hear is a few thousand nerds constantly hitting refresh on the Carleton riding results

View of Vedai Wutai 霧台 in Pingtung County.

Guys, JD Vance did NOT kill the Pope and it’s stupid and immature to imply he did. The Pope killed himself after meeting JD Vance.

"Anything I ever did wrong," #Hollywood icon #SteveMcQueen once said, "I paid for in #Taiwan. I just hope something good comes out of it." All about the 1966 war #epic that garnered McQueen his only Oscar nomination in his career, The Sand Pebbles 聖保羅砲艇" — wordsfromtaiwan.medium.com/from-the-arc...

This dilapidated entertainment complex was destroyed years ago but these photos preserve something of the memory of what transpired there over the decades... come take a tour of an abandoned karaoke club, movie theater, and adults-only cabaret in Zhongli, Taiwan. spectralcodex.com/zhongli-guob...

Absolutely essential reading for these dark days.

My site now has a search feature! You can also filter by region or theme to narrow results. Technical details: this is a Pagefind implementation, completely static, using the astro-pagefind integration. Overriding parts of the default UI with Tailwind feels like a bit of a kludge but hey, it works.

This is the best reporting I have seen in Chinese or English on the effects of US tariffs in Taiwan. It is focused on 'traditional' manufacturers of lathes, plumbing hardware, cutting tools, and bicycle parts who export directly or indirectly to US. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/w...

Linfengying Station (林鳳營車站), an eighty-two year old train station in northern Tainan that dates back to the early years of the Japanese-era, and amazingly still remains in operation today. www.goteamjosh.com/blog/rinhoei

Alexander the Great and the Fates, by Bernardino Mei, 1667, 📸 by Sarah Stier

Abolish April Fool’s day. Society has moved past the need for April Fool’s day

All hail God-Emperor Lai!

Some fascinating artwork for the latest PRC military exercise around Taiwan by the Eastern Theater Command. The one on the left superimposes the word "Pressure-- in the sense of closing in--over a map of Taiwan. Ships surround Taiwan while aircraft point at Yilan and Kaohsiung.

ELBOWS UP, CANADA. 💪 WE DID IT. 💥 #CANMNT 🇨🇦 DEFEATS #USMNT 🇺🇸

Sunday

A few photos and a brief report from the "buried" temple on the floodplains just outside of Beigang in southern Taiwan. It went viral around 2016 and many people visited to take photos of the illusion of a small temple seemingly lost beneath the shifting sands... spectralcodex.com/liujiao-wufu...