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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Sgt-Major Osborn's cairn has been nicely updated

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This plastic rubbish has been here so long its telephone number starts with an H ...

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

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

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HK Hemlock @hkbiglychee.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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?

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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

Black-and-white photo of seven uniformed soldiers seated closely together on the floor inside a metal-walled interior, wearing helmets and military gear. In the foreground sits Sgt. Gander, a large black dog facing the camera with a collar visible. The soldiers rest their arms on each other’s shoulders and knees, some looking toward the camera, with bags and equipment placed around their feet.

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Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue · 15/04/2026

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.

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Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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 😎

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Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."

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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

(me lighting the gas stove) the Emperor's light is the only light. The Emperor's light is the only light ...

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Also containing an appearance by Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 12/04/2026

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

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 14/04/2026

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

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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.

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Austin Ramzy @austinramzy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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:

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HK Movie Locations @hkmovielocations.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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

Image shows a busy street somewhere in HK circa 1967/8

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 14/04/2026

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.

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HK Movie Locations @hkmovielocations.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

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

Screen cap from a 1968 Shaw Bros movie called The Angel Strikes Again. It shows Cornwall Street in Kowloon Tong with an old heavy draw-off fire hydrant that was part of the emergency infrastructure in case of a crash landing along the Kai Tak airport approach. In the background is the (recently demolished) original block (A) of the Baptist Hospital.

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Hahaha nooooo I'm not falling for THAT one

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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

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The Rybo @thatryboguy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

You know I got it

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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 12/04/2026

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...

Sophia Chan receiving a Royal College of Nursing honorary fellowship

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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.

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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 12/04/2026

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

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

There's a new library in what I think is the jade market place.

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

"are we the baddies" becomes "are we the boomers"

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

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.

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

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

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

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

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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

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

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

DRINK WITH HANDSOME GUYS english available chinese too, on xiaohongshu

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

In the Minions universe there must be a Canadian supervillain

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

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

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Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Going further around the beach, I found the exit ... an inaccessible three metres up! What on earth had this been built for? Oh yeah, and I also explored the lower cave. Perfect place for a slow execution when the tide comes in ...

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