Escalating sonic aviation uptown Saturday night - ‘best album title songs’ 3/x
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Escalating sonic aviation uptown Saturday night - ‘best album title songs’ 3/x
Sonic aviating Saturday night - ‘best album title songs’ 2-x
My favourite cabal of vinyl lovers are gathering in Hong Kong - a welcome sonic solace from doom scrolling - tonight’s theme is ‘best title tracks of albums’… 1/x
Madman theory, illustrated with thanks to:
@rowecartoon.bsky.social
“Trump told Fox News Radio that he didn’t think the war “would be long.” But he suggested that only he will know when it will be over, saying the conflict will end “when I feel it, feel it in my bones.”
Further to Laura Tingle's forecast/prediction about Trump's March 31 deadline for sucess...
And thus we ask: who is writing this script where a madman starts a war with Iran, unleashes global economic chaos and expects to end it within a month... by April Fool's Day?
bsky.app/profile/usat...
As global economic chaos spreads, Laura Tingle on the Trump/Iran/Xi nexus:
“The US president is scheduled to fly to meet with… Xi Jinping on March 31 and it seems highly unlikely that he will want to head there without some story of great military success” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
I was today years old when I learned "In 2025 Australia imported about 32% of its jet fuel from China" and "As of mid-March 2026, the Department of Industry, Science and Resources confirmed Australia has approximately 29 to 32 days of jet fuel in reserve." theconversation.com/chinas-ban-o...
Loving the MadUSA series
58 years after journalist Peter Arnett reported the phrase "collateral damage" for how the US military referred to indiscriminately bombing civilians to save them, First Dog on the Moon drops a handy #cartoon guide to 2026 Newspeak for Australia: the nation is now "war adjacent"
Apropos of this being Friday the 13th... please join us now as one great Stevie covers another... featuring one of Mr Wonder's greatest ever cameos. Here, kitty-kitty... youtu.be/JL9eO4-aDMs?...
“Hong Kong’s fresh graduates are facing increasingly challenging career prospects, with 69% of job sectors recording their fewest vacancies in six years…”
We *do* remember what was happening this month in 2020, right?
Will we see/hear any ideas, hope, leadership?
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
We might not remember this in years to come… but I bet the robots will.
“Video circulating online shows the woman angrily confronting the robot before two officers arrive.”
Did the police check with Asimov’s Laws for ‘startling’… I wonder.
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
Canada: this is the age of disruption of the global order
China: "All orders are established only after humanity suffers unbearable disasters and losses. Therefore, we must be fully prepared mentally for the long‑term nature of establishing a new order.”
www.scmp.com/news/china/d...
The fabulous @rowecartoon.bsky.social taps an 1800s Romantic era classic for the Raft of the MadUSA... this 80s kid can't help but hear a 1986 pop classic playing in the background:
🎶"Save me, save me from tomorrow/ I don't want to sail with this ship of fools..."🎶
youtu.be/B2nCugGQZO0?...
* taps graph...
It's about the physics, not the law enforcement tech
In my experience of that drive... it ain't the straight forward direction, it's the velocity and the distance between vehicles... multiplied by this:
Bad morning to be driving to the Hong Kong airport... 10 car pile-up on the Tsing Ma Bridge (no fatalities, 10 injured), all lanes on the bridge heading towards the airport were closed to traffic after 9am www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
Harry Harrison with a random car stop in Hong Kong, six years after the Great Toilet Paper Panic: today's #cartoon
Iran is exporting more oil through the Strait of Hormuz than before the war, showing it is in control of a strategic waterway that it has closed off to the rest of the region’s oil producers.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
So the inquiry seems to have found that the Girls School in Iran was previously part of the IRGC compound, and US intelligence thought it still was.
Looking at freely available satellite images, you can see that there's been a wall separating the school from the IRGC base since at least 2016.
Israel, US, Gulf States & news media bans:
"Images of air defences intercepting incoming missiles had been a major part of the coverage at the start of the war & was a feature in coverage of the June 2025 war between Israel and Iran... this is now forbidden."
www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
On behalf of 50 years of ground-breaking and bone-breaking innovation and brilliance in stunt design from Hong Kong… wow, thanks Hollywood.
Better late than never?
Feel like this belongs here:
Chris Wright announcing and then retracting the claim US navy had already escorted an oil tanker through the Strait is another bizarre feature of the US war: financial manipulation. It's like they're saying whatever to bring markets into line, even as they short traders who step out of line.
You can’t promise “…the Military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before…” after the world watched the tonnage of bombs dropped and the genocide in Gaza. “Old man vows civilian slaughter will escalate” will suffice. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
How now, gaa yau? Harry Harrison with a global oil crisis update for Hong Kong: today’s #cartoon
Matt Golding with a #cartoon tribute to the strategic geniuses torching the global economy
Having unleashed global economic chaos, Trump has checked in with his handler…
the war “is very complete” and the US is “very far ahead” of the initial time frame. And what of Netanyahu’s plans for Greater Israel?
www.scmp.com/news/world/m...
The 2026 #IWD motto was "give to gain".
Minnie Chan is a Hong Kong-based reporter for SCMP who attended a conference in Beijing in November, 2023 and has not been seen or heard from since.
Perhaps if #journalists give attention to Minnie Chan her family might gain her return.
Hope persists.
There's other things China imports via the Straits of Hormuz...
"The escalating conflict in the Middle East is having a direct impact on China’s access to sulphur – a raw material for producing fertiliser – just as the country enters its vital spring planting season." www.scmp.com/economy/chin...