Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Mainland film haul, including a roll of that new Lucky 200 color film. Also, three 110 film cartridges which, at CNY 88 a pop, certainly isn’t cheap. 000
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I’m surprised that Hongkong Post still sells aerograms. 000
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026A touching tribute to two heroes of space, Yuri Gagarin and Laika the dog, on display at the Shanghai Astronomy Museum. 042
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 08/02/2026China must be the only country that still circulates paper fractional currency. Called the jiao, it is 1/10th of a yuan. 010
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 01/01/2026This particular payphone model would have been a familiar sight to Pinoys of a certain age. Before I forget, a Happy New Year to you and yours! 120
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Haha, I was just advised by the LRA eSerbisyo portal help desk to use a Windows machine and a non-Safari browser to access it. 010
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025It's a good thing that some government websites are now requiring users to TOTP-based 2FA to completely access its resources. It's a bad thing, however, for them not to implement a backup method should that one fail. 000
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025There’s a two-part documentary on Henry Kissinger, part of its American Experience series, that you may want to watch on @pbs.org 000
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025I'm surprised that some government offices still continue to deliver online services to the public from private, ie. not gov.ph, domains. 000
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 12/10/2025media.tenor.coma cartoon penguin is holding a credit card in its handALT: a cartoon penguin is holding a credit card in its hand 020
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Eighty years ago today, Imperial Japanese Army general Tomoyuki Yamashita formally surrendered the remaining Japanese forces in the Philippines to the Allies. He and his men were captured the day before, in Kiangan, Ifugao. 011
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025A pair of cats hanging out on the Melchior Hall steps. 010
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 30/08/2025This moderation comment by Bluesky on a reposted Far Side cartoon is worthy of one in itself. 000
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 03/08/2025I haven’t been as excited with digital cameras of late as I have with the new Fujifilm X half. #xhalf 130
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 19/07/2025A Shanghai doggo guarding an art supplies store on Fuzhou Road. 000
Reposted by UnlawyerRom @rom.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Awesome news! More #SlowHorses seasons #AppleTV+ 9to5mac.com/2025/07/0…9to5mac.comSlow Horses gets season 7 renewal, three new seasons coming to Apple TV+Slow Horses has been renewed for season 7 on Apple TV+, bringing the total number of new upcoming seasons to three. 001
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Are you going to travel by air within or out of China now? Chinese airport security agents will confiscate powerbanks that aren't granted a China Compulsory Certificate (CCC) and aren't labeled with the CCC mark, like so: 000
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025The Victoria & Albert Museum @V_and_A identifies this 1914 autochrome photo as of a building in India. This image, however, strongly resembles that of the Manila Cathedral. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O144374...collections.vam.ac.uk| Messinger Murdoch, Helen | V&A Explore The CollectionsPhotograph by Helen Messinger Murdoch, Building, India, 1914, autochrome 100
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Interesting that Cardinal Tagle, a popular papal prospect, never figured as one in the voting that mattered. 030
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025This was the only time I got to see Pope Francis in the flesh, purely by chance and not long after he was elected by the papal conclave of 2013. 000
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025The Cat Distribution System at work. Say hello to our seventh cat. 020
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025It looks like BBC Sounds - the app that delivers BBC national and regional radio services to audiences worldwide - will be limited to listeners in the UK this year.bbc.comQ&A: Why is BBC Sounds going to be unavailable in Ireland?The change means BBC Sounds will be available exclusively to UK audiences "which will offer better value for UK listeners", the BBC says. 110
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025We are now home to seven cats, up from the five at the beginning of the year. The latest kitten - a tuxedo - sneaked its way in Thursday night. 030
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Which brings me to ask: has anyone challenged the OMB's expansive definition of what "optical media" is? 000
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025I just found out that the import of USB security keys require a permit from the Optical Media Board because it probably thinks they are mass storage devices that are covered by the term "optical media" in RA 9239. 010
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025"Gigil" and 41 other borrowed, untranslatable words made it to the Oxford English Dictionary. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/s...nytimes.comOxford Dictionary Adds New Words, Including ‘Gigil’ for Extreme CutenessThe Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable. 020
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025I made it to Bonnie's Tailoring today and I hope I get a well-fitting suit in the end. 010
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Notwithstanding last year's closure of the Baguio Midland Courier, it seems other papers are alive and well in that highland city. 010
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025The Voice of America transmitter site in Tinang, Concepcion, Tarlac is visble even at night from the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway, thanks to its tower anti-collision lights. 000
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Typewriters for sale, a couple of Olympias and an electric Smith-Corona. 000
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025The closure of the Voice of America will also mean the closure of its transmitters in the Philippines. I know of two, one in Tinang, Concepcion, Tarlac. The other is in Poro Point, San Fernando, La Union. 113
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025It's going to be chilly up there in The Hague tomorrow. Mr. Weatherman says expect highs of 7 °C and lows of 3 °C. 010
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Today marks the 80th anniversary of the Tokyo Great Air Raid of 1945. US bombers, striking at low altitude, unleashed a hail of incendiary weapons on this city, killing at least 100,000 residents, injuring hundreds of thousands more, and destroying 41 square kilometers of Tokyo. 100
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025What's the baseball bat in the background for, to keep unruly litigants at bay? 010
Unlawyer @unlawyer.bsky.social · 23/02/2025An example of DVD disk rot: pinprick holes that pierce the data-bearing media. 000
