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YTSL

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I really f**king love Hong Kong, and Funassyi! Bluesky user #55,617 -- joined in May 2023! -- but am also "over there" too. Yes, I'm still straddling between Twitter and here (because there still are not enough Hongkongers and Funatomo here!).

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · Sep 20

Have decided to post daily re Hong Kong heroes & heroines. 1st up: Chow Hang-tung. Activist, barrister, former vice-chairman of the HK Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China that organised Hong Kong's (once) annual June 4th candlelight vigils, and current political prisoner.

Portrait of Chow Hang-tung with Hong Kong's Central District skyline and Victoria Peak in the background.

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 1h

By Tedorigawa, whose makers are the subject of "The Birth of Sake".

The Birth of Saké Offcial Trailer [Erik Shirai - Documentary] HD

YouTube video by 映画カルチュア FilmIsNow Japan

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 3h

Funassyi led a bus tour (of 5 buses full of Nashitomo (Pear Friends)) in Okayama today. This post is a RT of someone's chance spotting of the Pear (Fairy) in Okayama -- something I'd love for it to happen to me... 😅

55momotaro.bsky.social @55momotaro.bsky.social · 4h

RT @yuuki_cluster: ふなっしー、美観地区に！
お見かけできてうれしかった〜😺 https://x.com/yuuki_cluster/s...

月詠悠貴｜Yuuki TSUKUYOMI (@yuuki_cluster) on X

ふなっしー、美観地区に！お見かけできてうれしかった〜😺

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 3h

Must say that the buildings caught my eye more than the clouds and brilliant blue sky!

YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 4h

Isn't it so sad that there are sooooo many historical tales and original stories that are ripe for being made into movies, yet too many filmmakers keep on making remakes or parts 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. of tired sagas?

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 18h

This is one of those astonishing historical events I’m surprised I’ve never heard about and should be the subject of several Hollywood movies. Imagine being one of the guys who took the Middle Passage *back* and started again

The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 6d

“The presence of Black seamen was especially important for stowaways. Sailors were known to stack the heavy bales of cotton in a way that created spaces where slaves could fit and to provide them with food and water during the voyage.” —Eric Foner

The Underground Railroad’s Stealth Sailors | Eric Foner

The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom below deck were better than over land.

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 4h

Are we SURE she's going to become PM?

Also, every time I see "Lai", I think of Jimmy... (when, actually, Brian was writing about William). 😞

Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 7h

Incoming Japanese PM sends handwritten letter to Lai

www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...

Takaichi’s letter delivered to Lai: Japanese MP - Taipei Times

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

www.taipeitimes.com

YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 4h

PLEASE let the AI bubble burst!

Ravi 🇨🇦 @medical91.bsky.social · 7h

'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 4h

Can confirm from Hong Kong.

革命 (The Chinese characters for "Revolution") written on a brown surface. I think it dates from 2019 but could have been written later. In any case, it's still around in October 2025.

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ととろお (totoroo) @novelletten.bsky.social · 5h

3 October 2025, Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
#flowers

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 4h

That bee is beautiful!

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 8h

I couldn't believe it when I heard about this double feature but got confirmation of it in Toshio Suzuki's "Mixing Work with Pleasure: My Life at Studio Ghibli". And to this day, I can't figure out which would be a worse order for this double bill!

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 16h

So I took a Japanese History through Film and Fiction class in college, and we watched Grave of the Fireflies

One fact the professor shared is that it was shown in theaters as a double feature with Totoro, but depending on the theater the order varied

Picture watching Starving Kids after Totoro

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17h

except grave of the fireflies. good god, not grave of the fireflies

YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 8h

I HOPE it's sportsball. Honestly, I sometimes see (a series of) posts like this and freak out that something truly BAD has happened in the (non-sports) world!

Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 15h

Something, something, sportsball, I'm fairly certain. 😂

Three bluesky posts in the same minute that say Dammit, Holy shit, & holy shit

YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 8h

NOW they think of this? (Also, note: this past Golden Week was by no means the first time that Mainland Chinese tourists descended en masse onto the Hong Kong countryside and damaged parts of it!)

Aaron Busch @tripperhead.bsky.social · 14h

AFCD has urged mainland environmental bodies to promote messages on social media about avoiding disturbance to marine life.

"An area of approximately four square metres was identified where the tops of some corals showed signs of damage.”

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Damaged coral reefs in Hong Kong may take years to recover, green groups warn

Government investigation finds area of about four square metres has been damaged after tourists packed Sharp Island in Sai Kung.

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AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social · 10h

“We shouldn’t abandon people in the pain we caused them”

The Turkish state still denies the Armenian genocide and propagates a false narrative that Armenians willingly abandoned their ancestral homelands and that the massacres were limited in scale.

#bedamedia

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“We shouldn’t abandon people in the pain we caused them”

An anonymous activist from Turkey shares their thoughts on the Armenian genocide, Reconciliation, Turkish/Ottoman colonialism, and the ongoing genocide in Palestine in the interview by Armenian activi...

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah re leopard cats being rarely seen in the wild in Hong Kong. A friend who regularly hikes after dark has seen them in Tai Tam Country Park. Another friend saw a leopard cat one night in the Mid-Levels!

YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 8h

Yup.

Wild Monkeys of Hong Kong

Ecology & Habits The total population of wild monkeys in Hong Kong is about 2,000, they were distributed in 30 social troops. The existing species are the Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta), the Long-ta...

www.afcd.gov.hk

YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 8h

STRONG reaction!

YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, I think I've seen you share dog pics! 😅

YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 1d

Probably the country that Funassyi's visited the most (not counting Japan) is Taiwan. Here's a video covering a Pear (Fairy) Fan Meet in Taipei. (Note: there's also a Part 2. Also, that ふなっしー is known in Taiwan -- and to some in Hong Kong too -- as 船梨精 (pronounced: Chuan Li Jing).)

【我愛偶像】20160225 船梨精專訪 PART1

YouTube video by MTV 我愛偶像 Idols of Asia

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD in 1911 the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起義 began, the beginning of the end for the Qing Dynasty and the imperial system in China. #雙十節

The Hubei Military government building in Wuchang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuchang_Uprising#/media/File:Hubei_Military_Government.jpg

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 1d

He lost to a Venezuelan? Oh, that's not going to go over well. My condolences to the ketchup bottles at 1600 Pennsylvania.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

María Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key figure in unifying Venezuela's political opposition.

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 1d

They're the reason why I generally avoid hiking in Kam Shan, Shing Mun and even Lion Rock Country Parks!

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 1d

I like Sendai so much I've visited it twice, actually! The first time, I had dinner one night at the pretty old school Oden Sankichi. Ended up having a pleasant chat with the owner and his wife, and they even gifted me this 👇 -- maybe they were impressed by my sake as well as oden consumption! 😅

Masu box with carvings on its side held in my hand.

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 1d

NOT the monkeys in Hong Kong! (I wish this invasive species had never been introduced here. 😡)

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Jeppe Mulich @jmulich.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just the US that is shutting down foreign language programs and funding. We are dismantling the tower of babel with our own hands and replacing it with the broken toaster of automatic translation.

Chinese Universities Abandon English Departments Amid Policy Changes and AI Disruption – Chinascope

English departments, once among the most popular programs at Chinese universities, are facing widespread closures across the country. Multiple factors including government policies, AI advancement, an...

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