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glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

yeah，figured by now it would have been demolished and a new building. Maybe just untouchable because it was a hospital

surprised it's still there

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless

Hoffman loves giving up solo homeruns to lose games. Classic Hoffman

luckily for you, our bullpen sucks

counterpoint. Do it again! haha

Hunei Wenxian Theater (湖內文賢戲院) - Spectral Codex A small town theater built in the early 1950s. It operated until 1973 after which it was converted into a factory and migrant worker dormitory. Most of what remained of the structure was dismantled in...

Shining a light on an old 1950s vintage theater in Hunei, right on the border between Kaohsiung and Tainan in southern Taiwan. Only the facade remains... but it tells an interesting tale. #TheaterHunt
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Drugs, smuggling and abductions: inside the fast and furious world of pigeon racing in Taiwan Low regulation and high stakes mean Taiwanese pigeon racing is awash with cheating – but efforts are afoot to clean up the sport

Racers kidnapped with giant nets and ransomed. Others smuggled on to high-speed trains to get to the finish line faster. Performance enhancing drugs. Millions in alleged gambling.

Our story on the wild world of Taiwan's pigeon racing, with pics by An Rong Xu www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

the town I work at will be back to one (in the town) elementary school soon enough. And it's one of Kaohsiung's ‘’growing districts‘’ Dashe 社

noticing these lately.
It's getting so hot

A pretty interesting hockey card.

Notes from Central Taiwan: Recall as resistance - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

The recall movement has old roots in spontaneous local resistance
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

Taiwan is held up as a bastion of liberal values. But migrant workers report abuse, injury and death in its fishing industry | CNN Silwanus Tangkotta was working aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat in the remote Pacific last year, when a heavy wave slammed a rolling metal door onto his hand, crushing his middle and ring fingers.

Honestly, quite outraging to hear that cases of abuse, untreated injuries, and death continue to occur for migrant fishermen in Taiwan’s fishing fleet

edition.cnn.com/2025/07/12/a...

Before tea, indigo.

'During the town’s heyday in the late 1800s, more than 80 ships traversed these waters [from Sanxia to Bangka), transporting not just indigo but local tea, camphor, timber, furniture, coal and rice noodles.'
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

they are extending the HSR to Pingtung, but by the time they're finished, there will be no one there that'll use it.

#Taiwan Sensibility: The Gritty, Retro Appeal of Taiwan’s Walkups Koreans traveling in Taiwan often post photographs of Taiwanese street scenes on social media with the hashtag #대만감성—Daeman gamseong or “Taiwan sensibility.” The hashtag is often att...

#TaiwanSensibility: 'The hashtag is often attached to shots of walkup apartment buildings built at least 40 or 50 years ago, or lush greenery, or colorful neon signage...They say that this kind of urban scenery is charming, retro, and relaxing.'
www.taiwan-panorama.com/en/Articles/...

賴清德強調「中共從未統治台灣」 盧秀燕稱「個人史觀」挨轟 - 政治 - 自由時報電子報 首次上稿 00:00更新時間 07:52相關新聞請見：

After a speech by Lai in which he stated that the "CCP has never controlled Taiwan", Lu Shiow-yen responds to him by stating that it's "Only his personal historical viewpoint." Er, but it's true the CCP has never controlled Taiwan?

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A mysterious reinforced concrete building recently unearthed in the back alleys of Taichung. It is square and minimalistic with a Buddhist swastika carved over the entrance. Debris is all around in the foreground.

A crowd of onlookers in the alleyway leading to a mysterious building in Taichung.

Taichung city councilors conferring outside a newly unearthed building.

The newly rediscovered structure from the nearby rooftops. A lone photographer is capturing the scene down below.

On the scene at a surprise discovery in the back alleys of Taichung. Just yesterday demolition workers revealed this old Zen Buddhist structure previously hidden behind metal sheeting. Some pretty intense public interest here this morning; city councilors are inspecting, media reporting.

Imbault Huart, Formose, Illustrations : Imbault-Huart, Cordier : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Detailed description to comeThis series of 51 pages, many with two photos on each, is a precious reminder of this set preserved at France BNF Estampes...

Collection of old maps and illustrations of Taiwan.
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headstones of Qing era soldiers among small grass with blue sky, clouds and mountains in the background

Cemetery of Zhenghai Army
甲仙鎮海軍墓

Graves of soldiers sent (mostly Hubei Province ) to guard and "open up" this area of Kaohsiung in the mid 1880s.

scooter slogan We reach for the sky Neither does civilization on a green red and black scooter

We reach for the sky
Neither does civilization

Scooters used to cool

The "From Edo to Modern Times - Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Ukiyo-e Collection Exhibition"

A cool art thing ends Sunday
in Kaohsiung

Location
台灣創價學會 創價美術館

This is such an excellent article: 'Your Convenience, My Overwork', how Taiwan's ubiquitous and justly famed convenience stores replaced traditional ga-ma-diam (柑仔店) in a form of gentrification, and the advent of foreign national clerks--normal in Japan but still a radical idea in Taiwan.

The Cost of Convenience: Precarity in Taiwanese Franchise Markets | New Bloom Magazine Employees at iconic Taiwanese diners work long hours for low pay. Major diner chains are run by large and powerful conglomerates with close ties to the government…

"The Cost of Convenience: Precarity in Taiwanese Franchise Markets" by @brianhioe.bsky.social

Please don't recall us powerplay

YouTube video by Global Cycling Network Riding The Length Of Taiwan Blew Our Minds

Nice Biking Taiwan video.
Even with all the rain

youtu.be/6ciMLC8-z8E?...

That sound you hear is a few thousand nerds constantly hitting refresh on the Carleton riding results