Pacific Standard 🚜🌻☂️
@pacstandardtw
An American perspective at the western frontier of liberal democracy, framed and focused through the lens of life in Taiwan. #LiberalHawk #NeoIdealist #TaiwanIsACountry
Summer 2018, my wife and I were in Paris for the World Cup final. Mbappé's debut on the international stage and Aya Nakamura's arrival on the airwaves. France just beginning to ride a wave now cresting...
This is easily the hardest @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social graduation photo I have ever seen. 💪💪💪 🎲🔛🫵🐻
Letting senators and representatives use government aircraft and other government resources should be an accepted perk of high office. If you're entrusted with helping govern the most powerful country on Earth, the tools should match the job.
The fact that it's 2026 and you have an article published in The Atlantic but you don't know the difference between anecdotes and antidotes is peak expertisery TBH...
Taiwan without pink tiles will be a completely different place...
A translated version that tries to stay true to the aesthetic, courtesy of nano bana:
"Does K.M.T. secretly stand for "Kill Me in Taiwan?" Is it the "Kill Me in Taiwan" Party?" h/t @atimc.bsky.social
"There has never been a Super Bowl with zero touchdowns scored by both teams in the history of the NFL."
This dude is about to get paid. "He becomes an unrestricted free agent in March 2026..."