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Still a smart low-tech invention, the dumpster. #waste #vietnam #streetphotography
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Conducting. And an update on my recent blog post featuring repair, air purity, and a bit of Taiwan. ✨ stefanlaser.net/2024/01/1… #photography #trains #landscape #vietnam
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A link dump featuring: Public decay

Picture me as A Person Who Stares At Infrastructures, focusing on anything to do with repair, a lot of tech, low-carbon experiments, and a bias towards Asia-Pacific. #linkdump #vietnam #taiwan #Asia #tech #sts 👇🏼 Let me know what you think of such a dump. I’m sitting in front of a screen in the capital of Vietnam, and we’ve seen some curious trouble recently. We, meaning: the caste of expats. There have been rumours of the most important man, the general secretary of the CPV, being sick.

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In the shadows. Increasing the shutter speed at night and playing with digital filters. Why not? #Vietnam #Pagoda #photography #streetphotography
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Sunday is badminton day. Since we will only get sun from March onwards, it’s time to play with shutter speed. #Vietnam #Hanoi #streetphotography
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The #Taiwan election finishes with a call for stability, in a way. “It may be that the DPP managed to retain power because it is still viewed as the party that defends Taiwanese sovereignty, with backlash against its inability to resolve socioeconomic inequality in Taiwan still not managing to oust it from the presidency.” It comes at a cost, as outlined by @brian_hioe@mastodon.online of New Bloom magazine. Kicking out youth progressives.
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Premium living. #ciputra #Hanoi #photography #urbanphotography
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Disturbing news. #Vietnam fires 21-gun salute to welcome the Indonesian President, but more salutes of other kinds may follow. The most important man in the country, General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng, is not doing well. He might have surpassed that state 13 hours ago. Twitter speculates. Wikipedia declared him deceased a few hours ago, only to reverse the status. Phú Trọng has changed the country drastically in the past 10 years.