Andrew Kerslake
@erimjh.bsky.social
台-Curious
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Doing the right thing tomorrow is definitely not doing the easy thing.
September 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Doing the right thing tomorrow is definitely not doing the easy thing.
Apparently… dessert is a urinal cake.
August 30, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Apparently… dessert is a urinal cake.
Reposted by Andrew Kerslake
Not sure the message they are sending here with these desserts… a heart and a green hat 🤔
August 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Not sure the message they are sending here with these desserts… a heart and a green hat 🤔
Taichung still manages to surprise me. Walked into an art gallery… because it was there.
City of Culture?
City of Culture?
August 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Taichung still manages to surprise me. Walked into an art gallery… because it was there.
City of Culture?
City of Culture?
Reposted by Andrew Kerslake
Simulated propagation of tsunami generated by Kamchatka M8.8 earthquake. Generated by NCDR, Taiwan. 🧪⚒️⚛️
July 30, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Simulated propagation of tsunami generated by Kamchatka M8.8 earthquake. Generated by NCDR, Taiwan. 🧪⚒️⚛️
As I think about it for a while… it is not all dark. I think I see a rewiring of politics in Taiwan where people who have not always felt they shared interests connected.
It continues the trend that started with the sunflowers as the divisions were no longer ethnic, but class.
It continues the trend that started with the sunflowers as the divisions were no longer ethnic, but class.
July 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
As I think about it for a while… it is not all dark. I think I see a rewiring of politics in Taiwan where people who have not always felt they shared interests connected.
It continues the trend that started with the sunflowers as the divisions were no longer ethnic, but class.
It continues the trend that started with the sunflowers as the divisions were no longer ethnic, but class.
A little rain never hurt anyone, but a bad government has…
July 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
A little rain never hurt anyone, but a bad government has…
There is a lot to be said about traveling the wild hinterlands and backwaters of central Taiwan in search of the perfect pandan flavored dessert….
July 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
There is a lot to be said about traveling the wild hinterlands and backwaters of central Taiwan in search of the perfect pandan flavored dessert….
The Match Cafe in Taichung is not only a politically progressive workspace in the shadow of Taichung’s iconic Golden Jaguar… they also have a very fine and quite boozy tiramisu.
July 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
The Match Cafe in Taichung is not only a politically progressive workspace in the shadow of Taichung’s iconic Golden Jaguar… they also have a very fine and quite boozy tiramisu.
Five days of Taiwan cycling to avoid a nasty typhoon.
July 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Five days of Taiwan cycling to avoid a nasty typhoon.
You know it’s something really great when you get northern Vietnamese food like this for a casual outdoor lunch in Taichung.
July 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
You know it’s something really great when you get northern Vietnamese food like this for a casual outdoor lunch in Taichung.
The colonizing process fits the framework of a) Identifying the object as inferior and in need of transformation into something “better… and b) Improvable into something “better” through a state directed project.
"There is a sense in which Hong Kong has gone from being a colony within one empire to being a different sort of colony within a different sort of empire, albeit one whose metropole is much closer." 1.9.2020, interview Ross Perlin did w/me for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/arch...
City of Protest: On Hong Kong With Jeff Wasserstrom
The China scholar speaks to Ross Perlin about his new book, Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink.
www.thenation.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The colonizing process fits the framework of a) Identifying the object as inferior and in need of transformation into something “better… and b) Improvable into something “better” through a state directed project.
Neighborhood temples are often far more interesting that the larger and more famous temples. These are the everyday, low-key sites of private communion.
I’ve enjoyed a week of visiting my neighborhood sites of worship and paying more attention to these quiet focal points in the community.
I’ve enjoyed a week of visiting my neighborhood sites of worship and paying more attention to these quiet focal points in the community.
July 1, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Neighborhood temples are often far more interesting that the larger and more famous temples. These are the everyday, low-key sites of private communion.
I’ve enjoyed a week of visiting my neighborhood sites of worship and paying more attention to these quiet focal points in the community.
I’ve enjoyed a week of visiting my neighborhood sites of worship and paying more attention to these quiet focal points in the community.
While it’s not a total surprise…. The KMT has just committed to a tactical mistake in their opposition to the recall.
Rather than staying quiet and letting the public forget why a recall is so important… they are going to hold a “mass rally” on 7/25 to remind everyone to recall them.
Rather than staying quiet and letting the public forget why a recall is so important… they are going to hold a “mass rally” on 7/25 to remind everyone to recall them.
June 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
While it’s not a total surprise…. The KMT has just committed to a tactical mistake in their opposition to the recall.
Rather than staying quiet and letting the public forget why a recall is so important… they are going to hold a “mass rally” on 7/25 to remind everyone to recall them.
Rather than staying quiet and letting the public forget why a recall is so important… they are going to hold a “mass rally” on 7/25 to remind everyone to recall them.
Who’d have thought Tuesday would become such an anticipated day of the week.
June 24, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Who’d have thought Tuesday would become such an anticipated day of the week.
“Evil slaves bullying their masters”
Lo Ming-Tsai, son of Celestial Alliance godfather Lo Fu-chu says the quiet part out loud and betrays the longstanding viewpoint held by the KMT toward Taiwanese in describing the recall campaign.
This [Masters] is how they see themselves.
Lo Ming-Tsai, son of Celestial Alliance godfather Lo Fu-chu says the quiet part out loud and betrays the longstanding viewpoint held by the KMT toward Taiwanese in describing the recall campaign.
This [Masters] is how they see themselves.
June 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
“Evil slaves bullying their masters”
Lo Ming-Tsai, son of Celestial Alliance godfather Lo Fu-chu says the quiet part out loud and betrays the longstanding viewpoint held by the KMT toward Taiwanese in describing the recall campaign.
This [Masters] is how they see themselves.
Lo Ming-Tsai, son of Celestial Alliance godfather Lo Fu-chu says the quiet part out loud and betrays the longstanding viewpoint held by the KMT toward Taiwanese in describing the recall campaign.
This [Masters] is how they see themselves.
Puttin’ on the Ritz?
May 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Puttin’ on the Ritz?
Sometimes Taichung really surprises…
Discovered Miss Steak walking past and gave it a try last Friday. Just a single chef plying his culinary artistry. Everything was fresh and unique to the venue… even the cocktails were originals.
Not just black sesame seeds to signify “fancy”. Not overpriced.
Discovered Miss Steak walking past and gave it a try last Friday. Just a single chef plying his culinary artistry. Everything was fresh and unique to the venue… even the cocktails were originals.
Not just black sesame seeds to signify “fancy”. Not overpriced.
May 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Sometimes Taichung really surprises…
Discovered Miss Steak walking past and gave it a try last Friday. Just a single chef plying his culinary artistry. Everything was fresh and unique to the venue… even the cocktails were originals.
Not just black sesame seeds to signify “fancy”. Not overpriced.
Discovered Miss Steak walking past and gave it a try last Friday. Just a single chef plying his culinary artistry. Everything was fresh and unique to the venue… even the cocktails were originals.
Not just black sesame seeds to signify “fancy”. Not overpriced.
Donald Trump should be very proud of himself.
We have not seen a leader leverage such massive power against a single school… since the Battle of Hogwarts.
We have not seen a leader leverage such massive power against a single school… since the Battle of Hogwarts.
May 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Donald Trump should be very proud of himself.
We have not seen a leader leverage such massive power against a single school… since the Battle of Hogwarts.
We have not seen a leader leverage such massive power against a single school… since the Battle of Hogwarts.
Reposted by Andrew Kerslake
The Executive Yuan's 2025 'Gender at a Glance' report shows that married women in Taiwan do 4.41 unpaid hours of domestic and care work each day while their spouses do just 1.48 hours of such work.
udn.com/news/story/7...
udn.com/news/story/7...
母親永遠下不了班…已婚者每日家務 女比男多近3小時 | 聯合新聞網
許多媽媽昨日歡慶母親節，但婚姻、育兒、母職教養等勞務讓眾多婦女喘不過氣。最新「性別圖像」數據顯示，有配偶的女性平均每日無...
udn.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The Executive Yuan's 2025 'Gender at a Glance' report shows that married women in Taiwan do 4.41 unpaid hours of domestic and care work each day while their spouses do just 1.48 hours of such work.
udn.com/news/story/7...
udn.com/news/story/7...
Taichung recall volunteers are reporting all KMT representatives from six districts have crossed the threshold for recall.
Monday morning at 10:00am the signatures will be delivered. 🎉
Monday morning at 10:00am the signatures will be delivered. 🎉
May 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Taichung recall volunteers are reporting all KMT representatives from six districts have crossed the threshold for recall.
Monday morning at 10:00am the signatures will be delivered. 🎉
Monday morning at 10:00am the signatures will be delivered. 🎉
This illustrates the KMT’s authoritarian core and how party functionaries conducted White Terror. When party leadership demands favorable results to justify their actions for holding power, subordinating cadres ensure those demands are met by any means possible.
www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...
www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...
Two Taichung KMT staff detained amid signature scandal - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
www.taipeitimes.com
May 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
This illustrates the KMT’s authoritarian core and how party functionaries conducted White Terror. When party leadership demands favorable results to justify their actions for holding power, subordinating cadres ensure those demands are met by any means possible.
www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...
www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...
Reposted by Andrew Kerslake
I just kinda wrote this thing on the KMT's insane take on freedom of speech in #Taiwan for fun with no editing process, but I hope you like it
laorencha.blogspot.com/2025/05/kmt-...
laorencha.blogspot.com/2025/05/kmt-...
KMT holds massive rally, insists the DPP stifles dissent
Travel, books, politics, history and opinionating on life in Taiwan.
laorencha.blogspot.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I just kinda wrote this thing on the KMT's insane take on freedom of speech in #Taiwan for fun with no editing process, but I hope you like it
laorencha.blogspot.com/2025/05/kmt-...
laorencha.blogspot.com/2025/05/kmt-...
Reposted by Andrew Kerslake
Mirror media on how the PRC has developed a comprehensive system for using gangs in Taiwan must read
滲透黑幫1／驚人情資曝光！ 中國收買台灣幫派當攻台內應
www.mirrordaily.news/story/896
滲透黑幫2／中國密謀武裝黑幫奪台 盤點台灣幫派火力開價碼
www.mirrordaily.news/story/926
滲透黑幫3／全台警政系統都被標記 兩岸專家：7萬警力抗30萬角頭小弟
www.mirrordaily.news/story/927
滲透黑幫1／驚人情資曝光！ 中國收買台灣幫派當攻台內應
www.mirrordaily.news/story/896
滲透黑幫2／中國密謀武裝黑幫奪台 盤點台灣幫派火力開價碼
www.mirrordaily.news/story/926
滲透黑幫3／全台警政系統都被標記 兩岸專家：7萬警力抗30萬角頭小弟
www.mirrordaily.news/story/927
滲透黑幫1／驚人情資曝光！ 中國收買台灣幫派當攻台內應 - 鏡報
別懷疑，這不是遊戲地圖！
www.mirrordaily.news
May 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Mirror media on how the PRC has developed a comprehensive system for using gangs in Taiwan must read
滲透黑幫1／驚人情資曝光！ 中國收買台灣幫派當攻台內應
www.mirrordaily.news/story/896
滲透黑幫2／中國密謀武裝黑幫奪台 盤點台灣幫派火力開價碼
www.mirrordaily.news/story/926
滲透黑幫3／全台警政系統都被標記 兩岸專家：7萬警力抗30萬角頭小弟
www.mirrordaily.news/story/927
滲透黑幫1／驚人情資曝光！ 中國收買台灣幫派當攻台內應
www.mirrordaily.news/story/896
滲透黑幫2／中國密謀武裝黑幫奪台 盤點台灣幫派火力開價碼
www.mirrordaily.news/story/926
滲透黑幫3／全台警政系統都被標記 兩岸專家：7萬警力抗30萬角頭小弟
www.mirrordaily.news/story/927