Writer/editor based in Hong Kong, working for a wide variety of traditional and new media around the world.
Joined February 2011
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Ed Peters retweeted
Mar 7
It's not hoarding if it's books
(art: Sue Macartney-Snape)
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Ed Peters retweeted
Mar 6
I could not stop watching this. In China they make denim from Abaca banana stalks from the Philippines.
Whole Process was mesmerizing! 😳
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AI generated video, can see package randomly disappear at 2:48
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Feb 26
RIP
Feb 26
Maj Gordon Corrigan, who died this morning, was a great Ulsterman, accomplished historian & author,
who was the epitome of the highest standards of the Brigade of #Gurkhas. The very best of company, he was a dear friend. “For God and for valour he rode through the land.” RIP.
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Ed Peters retweeted
Feb 10
This is a brilliant evisceration by @JonathanPieNews of Keir Starmer, Peter Mandelson & the hollowed out husk that is the Labour Party - who have grotesquely morphed into a party for the corporate donors and a total betrayal of what they once stood for.
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Feb 3
Dear Ex Prince
We thee implore
To go away
And sin no more.
Or if the effort be too great
To go away at any rate.
RIP Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1768-1821)
Anybody else sick to death of this grubby little man and his retinue?
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Ed Peters retweeted
Every foreigner thinking of coming to the United States needs to watch this video. I wouldn’t step foot in a country as lawless as this, as dangerous as this. And I’ve been to the Soviet Union, and Colombia at the height of the drug cartels.
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2 Oct 2025
My friend Natasha Peters is fundraising for The Shark Trust. Check out their @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/fundraising/N…
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Ed Peters retweeted
9 Sep 2024
This is quite possibly the first cover of @TheAtlantic magazine ever (in 167 years!) to be published without a headline or typography describing the stories inside. Here is The Atlantic's October cover:
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MTR System Maps: 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, today
ALT MTR System Map on the back of a magnetic ticket, which was the correct map in 1994. Only three lines existed: the Tsuen Wan line, the Kwun Tong line, and the Island line. Photo: @sgcty12/Carousell
ALT MTR System Map, valid for 2004 (Source: gakei.com) The Tung Chung and Airport Express lines were added, along with the Tseung Kwan O line which led to a realignment of the Kwun Tong line
ALT MTR System Map, as of October 2014. By then, the MTR had taken over all KCR operations, adding the West Rail, East Rail, and Ma On Shan lines to the system map. Also added: the Disneyland Resort line, the LOHAS Park spur line, and the Airport Express extension to AsiaWorld-Expo. The South Island line would later open in December 2014 (MTR via Wayback Machine)
ALT The current 2024 MTR System Map, which added the South Island line, the Kwun Tong line extension to Whampoa, the Island line extension to Kennedy Town, and connected the West Rail and Ma On Shan lines to form the Tuen Ma line. Also, West Kowloon Station and the high speed rail entered service
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Ed Peters retweeted
15 Aug 2024
Don’t worry about your A-level exam results, in 20 years’ time you’ll be more worried about:
1. Not being able to move your neck for half a day because you slept a bit funny
2. Hoping any event you attend has adequate seating
3. Staying in for parcels with a delivery window of “between 6am and 10pm” (and they might not come at all)
4. Something silly and embarrassing that you said 20 years ago
5. All your teaspoons going missing. Where do they go?!
6. Trying to kick a ball back to a random young person in the park without falling over
7. Finding it exciting to look at sheds at the garden centre
8. Searching for the perfect hoover
9. Hairs: grey ones/ones now growing from your ears/receding ones
10. The fact you can’t bend down without making a loud groaning noise
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Ed Peters retweeted
13 Aug 2024
We just dropped in on Liz Truss’s pro-Trump speaking tour with a remote-controlled lettuce banner. She didn’t find it funny. 🥬
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Ed Peters retweeted
12 Aug 2024
A photographer has captured the incredible sight of the Perseid meteor shower over Stonehenge.
Josh Dury, 26, was able to document the scene at the Wiltshire prehistoric structure by taking multiple images.
The Compton Martin-based astrophotographer says: "This image was taken over three and a half hours on Friday (9 Aug) night from 10:30pm."
Josh used camera techniques to combine 43 images of the meteors that fell during his time there.
He says: "The composite creating a visual narrative of shooting stars ‘raining’ down on Stonehenge."
The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle that are usually visible from mid-July to late-August.
ALT Stonehenge
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10 Aug 2024
Bearded chap scratches his ear, carries on reading.
10 Aug 2024
A handful of protesters from group "A Force For Good" arrive at George Square in Glasgow with a sign saying, "asylum frauds out." They're quickly met with chants of "nazi scum off our streets" from hundreds of anti-racism campaigners @STVNews
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Ed Peters retweeted
7 Aug 2024
“I woke up and saw the boats arrive with migrants and thought to myself- “I need to head into town and steal sandals in the full view of the Internet and that’ll teach the Moslems for being woke”
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Ed Peters retweeted
6 Aug 2024
After eleven years, it's time to update my London Underground concentric-circles-and-spokes map. Completely redrawn from centre to edges, it's so much better than before, and more geographically accurate than the official map.
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