lando kardashian

mad respect to the person who wrote a letter to the editor extolling the virtues of poon choi

ngl, the subway has never been more relatable

ryan ‘pretty fucking’ grim

that’s craig t. nelson

maybe when rubio talked about unleashing chiang, he was referring to taiwan’s shortstop

watching taiwan vs. australia in japanese on netflix while at work AS THE FRAMERS INTENDED

The ‘Jesse, what the hell are you talking about meme?’ from BREAKING BAD, but Jesse is saying, “Like a spirited overture to a harbourfront concert, the nightly ritual of synchronised laser beams and music across Hong Kong's world-renowned skyline has become a cherished collective memory for Hongkongers over the past 22 years.”

SCMP Editorial Editorial | 'Symphony of Lights' bowing out clears stage for new attractions Ending the 22-year run of Hong Kong's iconic light show underscores the city's push to refresh its tourism appeal

Like a spirited overture to a harbourfront concert, the nightly ritual of synchronised laser beams and music across Hong Kong's world-renowned skyline has become a cherished collective memory for Hongkongers over the past 22 years. However, as attractions emphasising immersive and interactive experiences gradually take centre stage in the tourism world, it is time for the spectacle to draw the curtain.

increasingly convinced that no one on the editorial board has seen this thing in at least a decade or ever spoken to anyone about it

"One clause says that only the state has the right to promote “a system of symbols of Chinese civilisation”"
civilisational discourse in action: as I've been saying, it's about claiming difference internationally and erasing difference internally.

People who are confident they know what will happen in five years are exactly the people who'd buy into generative AI as the research tool of the future.

Health & Wellness 75-year-old Hongkonger works over 70 hours a week. Why is he still so happy?

i mean....

Critical support to this guy as he tries to become the first true air combat ace in decades

they all look like enemy shootdowns in the boxscore

The jungle has a distinctive demographic. Birds, dogs, even bats may visit, but stray cats dwell. One evening, I witnessed a conference of cats. I counted thirteen! They gathered and scattered sporadically in the "clearing" beyond the jungle; they weren't only waiting there for folks to come to feed them, but also crouching to catch a breeze. Like the jungle, the vacant lot was surrounded by residential buildings, first and ground floors within easy reach. Although an Animal Control roundup was just a phone call away, those cats weren't afraid; they held their ground, so to speak, in their concrete demesne, with unshakable aplomb.

from its solitary perch high above, as a lean cat padded toward the jungle's edge, dragging a long shadow behind it. No doubt about it, the clowder was a clan. Almost every month brought new members-tiny, fluffy kittens with alternating grey and black stripes, rolling around their mothers. If the newborns were lucky enough to survive, then they would briefly thrive. They could bask in the sun and loaf in the moonlight. But on the whole it would be a life of struggle, for food, turf, and freedom. They're in a race, I thought, against complainants, volunteers, and time itself, to make what they can of an all-too-brief span. They'd certainly made the best of it. That cat colony had founded a tiny, tenacious empire, glowing in the shadows in an urban jungle in my backyard like a latter-day Maya. (Published in 2012)

From Cheung Yuen-man’s ‘The “Meow-ya” Civilisation’, translated by Lam Man In with Darryl Sterk

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‘wow, so it’s disqualifying to go on a popular vet podcast now!’

search that man’s podcatcher

Find and replace Find: q Replace with: n

Fuck, they’re going to put Riley Gaines in charge.

seeking investors for a new farm-to-table fine dining concept coming to kennedy town in 2027, ‘liver and the cheap cuts’

Btw since this dipshit set of takes by hasan it has surfaced that Chinese cops have been taking calls from a food delivery platform and threatening overseas delivery drivers trying to organize in Australia www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Checkup. Yi Wan Road. 10 a.m. Following the map May had drawn in my notebook and her di-rections, I arrived at the hospital and saw that the building was on the slope of a hill. Like the harbor, which used to be wide, the hills around here had started disappearing one by one. We weren't completely unaware of the constant excavation and reclamation work, but it was only when we saw straight, flat roads stretching endlessly before us that the void left by all that was lost became truly palpable. A newspaper article predicted that we would no longer see any mountain peaks, seas, or adult bodies that were whole in twenty years. We had grown accustomed to these horrifying specula-tions, the same way we read about faraway countries with long and foreign-sounding names wrecked by war, earthquakes, storms, and massacres. There would be a moment when we fell into wordless grief, but with the turn of a page, we would get inundated by job and real-estate listings and restaurant advertisements again. People weren't indifferent; it was just that, for those of us who lived here, the future always felt so surreal.

From Hon Lai-chu’s MENDING BODIES, translated by @jacqlyy.bsky.social:

Screen grab of the NYT website at 10:45pm PT. Helene Cooper reporting "A U.S. official said American military strikes on Iran are underway."

The U.S. is now attacking Iran.

the scmp has a little alarm in its offices that goes off whenever a landlord for subdivided flats needs to complain about basic regulations

this is exactly right. "life finds a way" is completely true for the life of cultural expression, and history bears this out again and again and again.

An inverted Kombucha Girl meme, where she looks like her interest is piqued at a chrome search bar showing the text "taco.gov.hk", but then disgusted at the logo for HK's Tobacco and Alcohol Control Office.

spoke too soon
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there's a contrast to be noted between tam accepting this appointment and the only current scmp journalist i've ever seen publicly acknowledge the disappearance of minnie chan deleting the posts he made about it some weeks ago

Everything you need to know about the SCMP in one headline. It's the Washington Post of the Far East

Chow Yun-fat in THE KILLER wearing sunglasses and a fake mustache

me showing up to work with a mustache after a two week holiday