If you have ever struggled to get digital copies of research material from the NDL while NOT in Japan, this is the survey you want to participate in! ⬇️

I came across this post while looking for alternate language to use when talking about "invasive species." If you have any other suggestions or sources to share, I'd love to hear them!

She loves sunshine and soft things.

Delivery workers are less likely to run red lights, ride on sidewalks and ride without helmets than their recreational counterparts — defying claims that they sow street chaos, according to a new observational study of more than 1,700 cyclists.

I love when my translators have questions. The splendid Mikael Cabon in France needs to know if a river in Written on the Dark flows into the sea or into another river: his word choice will be different. When translators are careful it is a gift to an author AND a reminder to protect them from AI.

🫘👋DRIVING OUT DEMONS👹💨 It is time to gather your lucky beans, 'fukumame' (福豆), for Setsubun and the first day of lunar spring is almost here! Let's drive away misfortune for another year! 🫘👹🚪➡️ "Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!" 🍀➡️🚪😊 "Devils out! Fortune in!" (鬼は外! 福は内!)

Beans. Once you try Rancho Gordo it’s like you’ve been eating beans in black and white up to that point, but now you know what they’re like in technicolor. Plus, the Rancho Gordo people seem like good folks.

Really hoping for one of these moments soon

Imagine being the equivalent of 90 years old, and clearly seeing your reflection for the first time. Tory is mesmerized. Chickens, it turns out, can recognize themselves in a mirror.

Recently, Tory (our elderly house chicken) has decided that the bed is an ideal place to lay her eggs. She spends the entire morning arranging her nest, which lately includes a lavender-scented stuffed animal.

New year, new you, new writing, new etc. Just trying to make it easier for you...

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

She put the stuffed animal there herself

If you’d like to watch something sweet and quirky about finding/making family and home in all sorts of surprising forms: “Chosen Home“ on Netflix

Japan’s sacred #sake songs by @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social

Your mind is a marvel. Embrace that. It is not difficult to ascertain when students are using AI because the writing is bad. If your goal is to get a good grade, you want to put your best writing forward. I prefer flawed, human writing to mediocre machine writing.

I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?

@samsanders.bsky.social do you watch any Korean television? I know y’all were talking about friendship in American pop culture, but there are some great depictions of friendship in Korean tv. “Thirty-Nine” and “Reply 1988” and “Our Blues” come to mind. www.kcrw.com/culture/show...

Lap dogs are great, but have you tried a desk chicken?

Her name is Tory (after Tory’s whiskey), she’s 10 years old (ancient for a chicken) and having outlived her flock is now enjoying her golden years inside a Brooklyn apartment. She wears couture diapers and insists on salad and yogurt for breakfast.

What’s that quote you love, @winkworthbklyn.bsky.social, something like “It’s not how good I make it, it’s how I make it good”

10/10 recommend a chicken on your desk

Watch my video and subscribe to my YouTube channel where I'm covering the Democrats and Republicans ongoing campaign to censor the internet under the guise of "protecting kids online"!!!!! www.youtube.com/@TaylorLorenz

I always seem to have avian companions during large creative projects. Currently, an elderly hen is getting me through writing a book. Once it was a discarded racing pigeon. And I’m often visited by a family of crows (in a different location).

If anyone I know on here is a member of The Center for Fiction in Downtown Brooklyn, would you be willing to bring me as a guest one day?

I love seeing process

Very good and correct thread!!

I eat ice cream every day for my emotional health

In honor of World Eel Day, here's this piece I wrote 5 (?) years ago www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“Both options will allow publishers to choose from more than 100 AI-generated voices across English, Spanish, French and Italian to narrate their books. AI translation of audiobooks is expected to be available later in the year.” 😩

There’s the heat, but there’s also a strategic reserve that the government uses to control prices, and decades of policy reducing the amount of land used to grow rice.

the man next to me on my flight is reading a novel. in hardcover. i feel like he's from the future.

normally my suitcase just sits half-unpacked for weeks

Just a few days left to apply (and the application is easy)!

This looks lovely!

I got home before sunset from a 4-hour drive (in a kei truck) at the end of a 2-week work trip, did all the laundry and started packing for my next trip. Please give me an award.

But that’s my emotional support em dash—

Concentrations of PFAS, potentially carcinogenic chemicals, in groundwater and river water exceeded Japan's provisional standard at 242 locations in 22 of the country's 47 prefectures in fiscal 2023

We now have a scholarship spot thanks to a generous individual, and we've extended the application deadline to April 30! #foodwriting #recipes #japanesefood #writingretreat #writingworkshop #recipewriting #creativewriting

Is there a podcast app that lets you sort your subscriptions into separate feeds? For example, I want one for news and politics, one for cultural criticism, and one for Japanese language. #podcast #podcasts

I’m having so much fun reading the applications so far, and can’t wait to meet this group in the fall! @dearclarissa.bsky.social

Recipes can archive part of a disappearing or rapidly changing culture, tell a story about a person or place, allow people to connect with a broader world, or help them get food on the table with available resources. Come explore all these functions with me and @dearclarissa.bsky.social!

Recipes can archive part of a disappearing or rapidly changing culture, tell a story about a person or place, allow people to connect with a broader world, or help them get food on the table with available resources. Come explore all these functions with me and @dearclarissa.bsky.social!

Are you interested in the ethics and craft food writing? life in rural Japan? spending time surrounded by nature in the open-air kitchen of a 100-year old farmhouse? This retreat might be for you! www.mokkei-yamanaka.com/workshops/wh...

Why include a novelist in a recipe-writing workshop? Not only does Bryan Washington also write recipes, his fiction shows us how a recipe can help define a character or relationship, set a scene, or indicate membership in a community. Recipes are not only for teaching people how to cook.

I’m having so much fun reading the applications so far, and can’t wait to meet this group in the fall! @dearclarissa.bsky.social

This retreat is in September, but applications are due April 15! We have just 8 spots.

"The Osaka High Court on Tuesday ruled that law provisions that do not allow same-sex marriage are unconstitutional, overturning a lower court judgment. (...) It follows similar judgments made by the Sapporo, Tokyo, Fukuoka and Nagoya high courts."

As an Asian recipe developer for whom sesame oil is a cherished pantry staple, I feel attacked by the anti-seed oil rhetoric. 😵‍💫

Applications are due April 15 (and the application process should be quick and easy) so if you want to come, apply now!