I found a Polly Pocket gacha machine in downtown Hiroshima. I didn’t even know Polly Pockets were ever in Japan in the 90s!

All the fuss about Ryan Gosling's sweater in Project Hail Mary has reignited a decades-long obsession of mine re: Mary Maxim sweater patterns You see, Mary Maxim was founded in Manitoba, in a small town called Sifton, which is where my great-grandmother Stella Sawchyn was living at the time. 🧵

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Uhhh anyone want to just give me $500 so I can get this for my husband? shop.clamp-fans.com/shop/g/g4580...

DUDE, GO VOTE FOR AGGRETSUKO

Alrighty so NASA (and me and a lot of other people) had a little goof. But I think it’s a great opportunity to remind people that sometimes mistakes can actually be pretty cool and lead to a lot of new perspectives and understanding! 🧪🔭

If anyone else loves cryptids, @dyemadyarns.bsky.social has a great cryptid-themed collection with inspired yarns, notions, and patterns, including this here Loveland Frogman: dyemadyarns.com/collections/...

AAAAAAH HOW DID I MISS THIS UPDATE FOR OVER A WEEK?!?!?!

Five meetings in one day is ridiculous.

Spent the day on Miyajima! Phone photos for now.

I think a 20 minute session of doing an expressionist painting of Bert was the break down I needed to have today.

I’m on a boat

What is a Shinto shrine maiden’s favorite beverage? #japan #dadjokes

On the eve of the pink full moon, we would just like to say 🗣️ THE MOON IS TRANS 🌝 Happy Trans Day of Visibility!🏳️‍⚧️⚧️💫

Haven’t posted my cat sweater WIP! Loving how the cats came out. 🧶

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn’t Indiana Jones

The US Postal Servyce will indeed lose moneye because it ys a service. Not everythinge ys a ponzi scheme, consultantbrains.

Bc wtf do you mean we get 4 seasons in 48 hours on top of a METEOR STRIKE???

just watched a youtube video which said, I quote, "I'm bad at knitting but good at spending money on yarn" and I feel that in my soul

I see all of my 8th grade classes one last time on Wednesday, except one. They gave me a lovely gift at the end of today’s class with thank yous from all 40 students written on it. I’ve been at this school for 13 years and this is the first group to do this for me!

Happy St Paddy’s birthday to Freya! She made it to 17 today!

Missing my best friend today. Today marks 27 years without this goofy girl in my life. I would not be who I am today if I had never met her. Last time I was home, I found this photo from our 6th grade computer club trip to Baltimore and D.C.

woo all my scores for the term are on the grade network file!

Not even 10 minutes in to the last day of finals and a kid is already dead asleep. He has one answer written.

Damn anyone who still supports this pedophile.

What's My JND? 0.0064 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

I have successfully changed the battery in my Super Cub 50cc moped by myself! And it turns on and runs still! Please clap.

Looking at some radio data hot off the MeerKAT telescope today! MeerKAT is a South African radio telescope with a huge field of view for astro. I'm calling this one "Radio Starry Night" bc a calibration error off that bright source has made a lovely swirly van Gogh sky if I may say so myself. 🔭🧪

Y’all, I keep knitting through my bandaid. I am the craftiest. ಠ_ಠ 🧶

Well done to whoever wrote the headline below.

Was expecting to have to make a separate appointment for the ophthalmologist to laser off my secondary cataract but nope! He just did it tonight!

My status of residence extension application has been approved! I'll get my new magical gaijin card in a week or two from my company's head office.

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Oof. Woke up with even worse eyesight in my left eye than last night. Hopefully my surgeon can fit me in for a consultation when he's open Friday evening.

At the eye doc because I woke up with my left eye blurry as if I was looking through wax paper. Guessing I’ve got a secondary cataract forming but we’ll see.

Woke up at 3:30am and couldn’t fall asleep so I finished knitting the second sleeve cap for this cardigan 🧶 Also grafted the shoulders together before picking up and knitting the collar. Need to block after work so I can seam the sides and sew on the sleeve caps.

Working on my poncho again. Wool/Silk blend lace weight held double. I’m at 492 stitches around. 12 rows of plain garter, then 2x2rib with increases until I run out of yarn!

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I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens

Yarn to celebrate my passing N1 on the JLPT has arrived! 🧶

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

Age verification? I used my mom’s typewriter for school papers when the IBM-compatible computer broke.

Had a group of sign language interpreters come to give a talk to our 8th graders today. The main lady signs Japanese Sign Language, ASL, and International Sign. I wish I had the chance to ask where I can learn JSL in Hiroshima, as that would be cool to learn now that I have N1.

Would you like to build a snowman with me? 一緒に雪だるま作りしませんかっ？☆

There’s so much snow on our side of Hiroshima I’ll have to walk to work in the morning. Not taking my scooter out in this.

Just spent 5.5 hours at a clinic while my husband got a full health check and a cancer screening for intestinal cancer. Half a day of doctors and nurses and I don’t even have to pay $300 because of Japanese health insurance. If we had just gotten the regular yearly check, it would’ve just been $20.

Found out my school gets the Japanese edition of Scientific American, so of course I had to ask if they had the issue with @whereisyvette.bsky.social's burping black hole article. And they did! I've got a scan of it now, so I get to study a lot of astronomy terms in Japanese!