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Strands #952 “They don't make 'em like they used to” 💡🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵

In his National Day speech, Lai frames differences in backgrounds, political views, and generations as united by a responsibility to protect Taiwan and its future. Lai touts the 30th anniversary of direct elections in Taiwan, as showing Taiwan's bravery in the face of threats

If God is omnipotent, why does he need to own stocks using Ken Paxton as a proxy??

Lai largely played it safe. He did not lean into attacks on the KMT, attacks on China, or introduce any new major ideas. Why? Well, for one, local elections at the end of November are about local domestic issues

Naza es ese documental que no te va a descubrir nada que no hayan contado mil veces los palestinos. También es la cinta que tiene más posibilidades de ser vista porque sus directores son judíos y en Occidente su palabra tiene más oyentes. Y precisamente por eso es necesaria...

🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀

“Acting on their own”? Or acting as the companies programmed and trained them to do and now are pretending they are not legally responsible when their products cause harm

Musk is a menace to you and the health of the planet. He’s an unreconstructed Nazi with delusions of remaking society to match his juvenile fantasies

On Fox News, kids are "under-aged women" while Russian troops are just "kids."

The government of Macau has implemented new regulations for photographers in the city. Under the new rule, commercial photographers must register with the authorities ahead of time before offering their services. Tourists & non residents cannot offer paid photography services.

Explainer for non-Hongkongers: "CY step down" (CY下台) refers to then Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and is a demand that he resign. Variants include 689下台; with 689 being his nickname as he only got 689 votes to become Chief Executive. 64 = June 4th. The date of the Tianmen Square Massacre.

My regular Hong Kong summer(ish) hiking trifecta: seasonal waterfall (or waterfall in fuller flow than usual); lizard; protest graffiti. (Re the protest graffiti: I first noticed it in 2014/15. Then, "CY step down" was most popular. Since 2020, 64 is the most seen graffiti in the countryside.)