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@childofthecave.bsky.social

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Just a random guy who used to live in Hong Kong - former user of twitter to follow news and international politics.

Screenshot from a Lords of Midnight fan site (who would have thought that such a thing still existed?) showing, categorically and without doubt, that Lord Blood had a courage stat of 80, higher than almost all of the other characters.)
Crudely annotated screenshot illustrating where the poster thinks a shower cubicle could be fitted with fairly minor changes and a loss of what seems to be storage space.
The 52 volume of the "Joy of Knowledge", a late 80s Encyclopedia-Britannica-a-like
On the bed in bedroom 2: an illustrated book of knives.
Slightly blurred photo taken through an aircraft window of an island with what appears to be a quarry in the middle of it, where stone has been removed in tiers leaving a lake... or possibly a lagoon.
Sign with text in Thai and English: "Do not hug the Buddha". Above the text is a graphic of a nefarious silhouette reaching out to embrace a seated Buddha, within a red circle with diagonal stripe indicating "No!"
"Elon Musk is such an arsehole" in the style of the TMNT logo
Screenshot of RTHK English tweet from 28th April 2021. Text reads: "Calls for an end to one-party rule in China could breach #HongKong's national security law, or then again they might not, but in any case, there is no one-party rule, says former justice secretary Elsie Leung. Still, it's best not to oppose it, she warns."
Quote from article: "I left the hospital, went to my credit union, picked up my check for the Cybertruck, drove directly to FedEx, and overnighted the check to Tesla. Two days later, I was picking up my Cybertruck."
Screenshot from the FT game showing 50bn+ of headroom and elimination of budget deficit by a reckless person who thinks public opinion should be ignored if spending is so obviously required in the UK.
Cover of "The Towers of the Sunset" by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Cover of "To Live" by Yu Hua (English translation)
Cover of "Usborne Illustrated World History: Early Civilization"
Cover of "The End of Eternity" by Isaac Asimov
Cover of "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber
Cover of "Pereira Declares" by Antonio Tabucchi ("Sostiene Pereira" in the original).
Cover of "Hong Kong Landscapes: Shaping the Barren Rock" by Bernie Owen and Raynor Shaw
Cover of "Lord of Light" by Roger Zelazny
Cover of "Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities" by Alain Bertaud
Cover of "Ishi in two worlds" by Theodora Kroeber
Cover of "Earth Abides" by George R. Stewart
Cover of "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman
Cover of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Cover of "Mad about the Mekong" by John Keay
Cover of "Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks" by Ben Aaronovitch.
Cover of "Umbrella Uprising" by Jeffrey Choy
Cover of "Small Gods" by Terry Pratchett
Cover of "Watching the English" by Kate Fox
Cover of "The Chrysalids" by John Wyndham
Cover of the book "Dataclysm" by Christian Rudder
Screenshot of the reform site, showing the link to Leaflet.js, a JavaScript utility for map rendering