Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Mountain stream and pool, Hong Kong Island 1162
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Hong 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 092
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)HK Hemlock @hkbiglychee.bsky.social · 17/04/2026World’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? 152
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 15/04/2026On 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 316654
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue · 15/04/2026If 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. 2132
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 03/04/2026With 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 😎 1161
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 15/04/2026I cannot post enough "you fucked around and found out" laughing gifsmedia.tenor.coma cartoon of homer simpson pointing at marge and lisa simpsonALT: a cartoon of homer simpson pointing at marge and lisa simpson 021
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Did you know one person can absolutely overthrow an entire country by shitposting about the govt on Facebook? I didn't either. 142
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Wife just yelled from the other room for me to come quickly because someone is talking about Warhammer 40K on Top Chef. 7585
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Also containing an appearance by Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien 000
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 12/04/2026Anybody 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 211
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 14/04/2026There are still a couple of shops around town who put up their 年初四 signs and then just … never opened again. 121
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 14/04/202630 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. 5447962382
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)Austin Ramzy @austinramzy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Trying 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: 74318
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)HK Movie Locations @hkmovielocations.bsky.social · 14/04/2026For a bit of fun, who can guess where this is? I'll post the answer tomorrow. 782
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 14/04/2026They 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. 122
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)HK Movie Locations @hkmovielocations.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The only thing left in this image (bar the road) is the fire hydrant. - screencap from The Angel Strikes Again (1968) 2102
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Hahaha nooooo I'm not falling for THAT one 1110
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 12/04/2026It’s the kind of boring, correct take that gets certain people Big Mad about it bsky.app/profile/mtsw... 051
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)The Rybo @thatryboguy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026You know I got it 31114503
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 12/04/2026Sophia 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... 399
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 12/04/2026On 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. 16219
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 12/04/2026Passive-aggressively send the Dunning-Kruger effect link to *that* coworker. You know the one ... 0494
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Dear 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 110
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Learned the word slough from this book and also women with red paper in the window might be whores 000
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 12/04/2026The 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 131
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 11/04/2026AKIYAMA 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. 010
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 11/04/2026For a little while, postwar Japan was really, really leftist. 100
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 11/04/2026In this picture of Shibuya from 1991 there's a Home Alone advert with Macaulay Culkin saying "What am I gonna do?" 030
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 11/04/2026More of this kind of architecture please 082
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Boy, 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 071
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 09/04/2026DRINK WITH HANDSOME GUYS english available chinese too, on xiaohongshu 260
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 09/04/2026In the Minions universe there must be a Canadian supervillain 020
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Amateur hour. In my day you'd have drunk expats riding through the Aberdeen Tunnel on the roof of a double decker bus 140
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 08/04/2026When walking around Miyajima, we found ... a tunnel! 110
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Nury "Gelatine Brain" Vittachi, who has the writing skill of Camus six months after decomposition has set in 132
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 06/04/2026In the Japanese hotel I'm staying at, there's a Filipina maid doing laundry for a Hong Kong family because of course. Useless twats 110
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Thanks to my Irish, Welsh, Scottish and French ancestors I now own most of Western Europe and possibly Italy 130
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 06/04/2026An 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 050
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Another 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 asmedia.tenor.coma man in a red shirt is standing in a doorway and the word tea is on the screenALT: a man in a red shirt is standing in a doorway and the word tea is on the screen 171
Reposted by Old China Bland (香港)NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 05,1945 1238622
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 04/04/2026My right-wing mum would be livid to see this 040
