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Manages posting for @BarleyDog Ongoing projects include: #BulletinBoardNonsense #music squares #unabridged thoughts Seasonal projects include: #A Feast For Janus #The Carnival Of The Animals #Look Sharp! #Poisson d'Avril #Up Springs A Forest #Yonders Wild #There Is Only One City nothing for October, too #scary #Night Orb November #Red Ember December Illustration by Hitomi Terasawa (寺澤 一美), from Kowloon City: An Illustrated Guide (大図解九龍城) (1997), by the Kowloon City Exploration Team, supervised by Hiroaki Kani (可児 弘明). Learning about the strange and extraordinary story of Kowloon Walled City feels like it was a rite of passage for my particular flavor of Internet nerd during the late oughts. It lurks in various footnotes as a trivia item, but these fail to convey its truly staggering scope. At its height, its roughly 35,000 inhabitants lived in what is almost certainly the most densely populated living arrangement that human beings have ever experienced in all our history, with about

Manages posting for @BarleyDog Ongoing projects include: #BulletinBoardNonsense #music squares #unabridged thoughts Seasonal projects include: #A Feast For Janus #The Carnival Of The Animals #Look Sharp! #Poisson d'Avril #Up Springs A Forest #Yonders Wild #There Is Only One City nothing for October, too #scary #Night Orb November #Red Ember December Illustration by Hitomi Terasawa (寺澤 一美), from Kowloon City: An Illustrated Guide (大図解九龍城) (1997), by the Kowloon City Exploration Team, supervised by Hiroaki Kani (可児 弘明). Learning about the strange and extraordinary story of Kowloon Walled City fe

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