Cheung Chau (長洲) is an island of Hong Kong. You can only get there exclusively by ferry (or helicopter for emergencies,) making it not a focus of development compared to the rest of Hong Kong.

Here are some more photos:

View from a sidewalk

Distant ships seen from the island

Sandy beach and buildings

Boats of the island

Photographer: Wolfgang Moroder

CC BY-SA 3.0

Women's World Cup race at the 2018/19 Luge World Cup in Innsbruck-Igls

Photographer: Sandro Halank

CC BY-SA 4.0

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The BL 60-pounder gun was a British 5-inch (127 mm) heavy field gun designed in 1903–1905 to provide a new capability that had been partially met by the interim QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) gun. It was designed for both horse draft and mechanical traction, and served throughout the First World War in the main theatres. It remained in service with British and Commonwealth forces in the inter-war period and in frontline service with British and South African batteries until 1942, being superseded by the BL 4.5-inch (110 mm) medium gun. Shortly after the Armistice of 1918, some 60-pounders were donated to the United States to resolve outstanding contractual obligations, although most were never used, eventually going to scrap drives in the Second World War or put on display as memorials. This 1915 photograph, taken by Ernest Brooks, shows a British Army artillery unit with a 60-pounder Mk I gun in action on a cliff top at Cape Helles, during the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War. The gun has the inscription "Annie" painted on the barrel.

Photograph credit: Ernest Brooks

Photographer: Charles J. Sharp

CC BY-SA 4.0

Photographer: Granada

CC BY-SA 4.0

First day at the cabin. The lake is completely frozen. Went skiing with the kids, took a few pictures, went back to sit in front of the fireplace and drink hot chocolate. Spring will be nice, but only after a few wintry winter vacation days.

crossposted from: https://piefed.social/c/theasiandiaspora/p/1785433/oc-my-lunar-new-year-in-usa-chinese-american-edition-philadelphia-pa

So this is like a table my parent put right by the door, then they get the fake money stuff and hold it in between the palm of their hands, do some prayer thing, then burn the "fake money", so the ancestors in the heavens can... checks notes ...get money to spend? Idk I'm so confused, as a 1.5 gen I don't even understand my own heritage either.

(Also why is Heaven run under capitalism? lmfao, but hey, at least we can relate to our "ancestors in the heavens", money struggles both in coporeal and non-corporeal forms 😆 (meant as a joke, pls don't bring the seriousness of politics here lol))

Honestly idk if I'd even do this stuff with my future chosen-family... I'm just very leaning towards atheism and, no offense to my ancestors, but this just seems kinda silly to me IMO.

I feel too Americanized already and doing this now makes me feel like I'm a "phoney" (as if I'm a "pretender to Chinese Culture"... like idk my mind doesn't feel very "Chinese" exactly... I haven't participated in the prayer thing ever since like teenage years and I read about atheism)

Also now its new years and I'm not allowed to mention "bad words" like... "death" and like no yelling allowed

Oh yea mom maybe can you do the "no scolding your children" thing 365 days a year? thanks xD

Bonus:

So anyways: Enjoy your Lunar New Years! (enjoy the few days of being immune from getting a scolding xD cuz it's bad luck to scold your children on New Years apparantly)

Some amazing engineer built a drone that can lift its own weight using only the electric power that it gets from an on-board solar panel and nothing else (no battery).

Video: I Built a Solar Powered Drone and it WORKS by Luke Maximo Bell

Photographer: Dllu

CC BY-SA 4.0

Gangabal Lake is a high-altitude glacial lake situated at the foot of Harmukh, a mountain in the Himalayas in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The lake is called Gangabal, meaning 'place of Ganga' in the Kashmiri language, and is considered to be sacred in Hinduism as an abode of Shiva. The lake has been described as a place of pilgrimage in several ancient Hindu texts such as the Mahabharata, the Nilamata Purana and the Vishnu Smriti, and an annual Hindu pilgrimage to the lake starts from the nearby 8th-century Wangath temple complex. Kashmiri Hindus perform their ancestral rites at the lake and immerse the ashes of the dead into the lake after cremation. This photograph depicts a shrine dedicated to Shiva carved into a boulder at the shore of Gangabal Lake.

Photographer: UnpetitproleX

CC BY-SA 4.0

Source: SligPants on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fimbriated_fold_of_tongue

I recommend checking yours by curiosity, people have more or less long ones.

Lots of treats and grooming. :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43052932