Inca Lama

[Inca Lama @Incalama_lamb]

@TrollFootball2 That’s Hong Kong 🇭🇰 not China 🇨🇳.

[Inca Lama @Incalama_lamb]

3. Eyes on the corruption, and we may have justice. Eyes on the bamboo, the personale accountable for the fire will never be convicted for the crime.

[Inca Lama @Incalama_lamb]

#HongKongFire
Quick facts that international media missed:
1. It’s the non-compliant flammable mesh, not the bamboo. Carbon steel melt at about 1450–1520°C and aluminum alloy at around 580–660°C. There were blue flames spotted during the fire, estimated to be up to 2500 °C.

[Inca Lama @Incalama_lamb]

The bamboo scaffolding is still mostly intact. Alloy or steel would do no difference in this man-made disaster, if not more devastating.
2. The fire alarm had never rang. Former security manager reported that to the management and was ignored. The manager resigned accordingly.

[Inca Lama @Incalama_lamb]

@CovidNoGood @newera2096 @zmx8067 The problem is on the flammable mesh not the bamboo. If we track the mesh we may be able to find out the corruption in the system . But if we blame the bamboo, the victims of the fire will never get justice.

[Inca Lama @Incalama_lamb]

#HongKongFire #bamboo #scaffolding

Carbon steel
Melting point: about 1450–1520°C
At 400–500°C: The carrying capacity is greatly reduced

Aluminum alloy
Melting point: 580–660°C
At 250–300°C: Rapid loss of carrying capacity

Bamboo: still intact after a day of fire

[Inca Lama @Incalama_lamb]

@ABC Clarification: The fire is caused by the flammable mesh used by the non-compliant contractors not the bamboo. Steel scaffolding will caused more destruction with the heat it traps.

[Chung Ching Kwong 鄺頌晴 @chungchingkwong]

.@adamwithnall's piece does something deeply irresponsible: it takes a tragedy and uses it to push a simplistic conclusion--“the bamboo has to go” without evidence, without understanding HK’s construction practice, and with a clear cultural bias. It is Orientalism.

Anyone who has watched even one video knows the white plastic/fabric netting ignited first. It is highly flammable. It burns fast and drips fire.
The bamboo, by contrast, is still standing on multiple blocks even after the blaze. If bamboo were the problem, it would have collapsed.
Claiming bamboo “spread the fire” is simply false.

Bamboo isn’t a quaint “quirky throwback.”
It is a highly skilled, engineered system honed across decades, one that works specifically well because Hong Kong’s dense, humid, high-rise environment. If bamboo scaffolding were as unsafe as the article implies, Hong Kong would have had constant large-scale fires. We haven’t. This was the first Level 5 fire in 17 years.

Blaming bamboo because it “looks traditional” is lazy and prejudiced reporting.

Calling bamboo “quirky,” a “throwback,” and suggesting that Hongkongers should fear the sight of scaffolding the next morning is pure Orientalism. This is a textbook Western lens:
Western methods = modern, safe
Local methods = outdated, dangerous
Hong Kong uses bamboo because it works, not because the city is nostalgic or backward.

[Inca Lama @Incalama_lamb]

The #HongKongFire has nothing to do with the bamboo.
It’s the illegal flammable mesh that used by the non-compliant contractors that caused the fire spread fast.

Stop blaming the bamboo. Steel scaffolding would have been much more devastating as it can trap much more heat.

[Повернись живим @BackAndAlive]

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[Hong Kong Democracy Council @hkdc_us]

Jimmy Lai, guilty.
Martin Lee, guilty.
Ho Chun Yan, guilty.
Margaret Ng, guilty.
Cyd Ho, guilty.
"Long Hair" Leung Kwok Hung, guilty.
Leung Yiu Chung, guilty.
Au Nok Hin, guilty.
Lee Cheuk Yan, guilty.

Peaceful protest is not a crime.
Demanding democracy is not a crime.

[Inca Lama @Incalama_lamb]

@_xrael @AgeOfEmpires Check Debbie’s Twitter. Also, some questioned OdetteD‘s elo was not high enough to be invited while there are other similar ELO streamers got invited without being questioned.

[Inca Lama @Incalama_lamb]

This is absurd but predictable....

[Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 @joshuawongcf]

[No one should be left out of the team for his words for justice]

1. I am deeply disappointed by @Arsenal's decision to take @MesutOzil1088 out of #PremierLeague squad, just because he has spoken out for #Uyghurs now detained in hundreds of internment camps in #Xinjiang.

[Lin @Pasajingmailco1]

我求你們，幫我轉個推特，為了沒誰被殺

[Inca Lama @Incalama_lamb]

"Why would we need to force people [to wear a mask]? What kind of childish nation would that make us?" Do you know you sound like a kid crying I'm not childish, dear Dutch PM? #mondkapjes #masks #covidnl
https://t.co/XCUNxOgBwL

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

#BREAKING: Chinese Embassy, New Delhi issues diktat letter to Indian media about reporting the National Day of Taiwan on Oct 10th. Says, ‘Taiwan is inalienable part of China’s territory.’ Is this an indirect threat to Indian media who cover Taiwan? @MOFA_Taiwan @digidiploTaiwan

[Inca Lama @Incalama_lamb]

@BeWaterHKG Umm you love your country not because of how others think right... And it’s OKAY you love your country but not the communist party, buddy🥴

[Blair Brandt @BlairBrandt]

The Chinese Communist Party has biologically attacked our President.

[心寒 @Samhon852]

世界上無一個城市的警察可以不穿制服、蒙面、不配帶任何證件而使用槍械，連北京和北韓都不可以，香港警察卻做到了。

[Dongguan Boy @DongguanBoy]

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