Susu is ready for that weather to be over. #caturday #heatwave edition

There are 2 types of people: yellow-coloured hand emoji and flesh-coloured hand emoji. I'm not sure i fully trust the latter.

Today, we learn a very costly lesson in not underestimating gravity. 😕

Been brainstorming on a new concept(*) of "social network" based on ego graphs: Everyone has their own "bubble": a network that they control through who they add/remove as friends (and who these friends add, and so on). If someone is in your bubble, you're in their bubble.

Lowkey obsessed with the album cover art of obscure 70s Japanese folk singer Sai Yoshiko… #japan #folk #music

For someone commonly depicted as loathing the West, it's funny how strongly Mishima emulated British aristocracy: drawn to the arts, ragingly homosexual, and keen on fascism.

Went to see Grace Pervades yesterday. Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Raison were both excellent in the lead roles. Couldn't help feel slightly bad for Ellen Terry's son Edward Craig: depicted throughout as an utter and unredeemable twat (to be fair, he probably was).

It’s wild and depressing that in the space of 20 years, we went from: “I can now share my furry fanfic or my penis puppetry show with the entire world without worrying about any government or tv channel censoring or gatekeeping me out.” To:

Chili, Colombia, and now Peru… Things are not looking great for South America… 😞

The fact that the Terminator models go from T2 to T1000, implies that the all-powerful AI waging war on humanity is going with the kind of stupid marketing naming scheme a Microsoft exec would come up with… which frankly checks out with the current state of AI.

Good morning! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t83XjF04r80

Evergreen meme just got even more evergreen…

"Nothing so gives the illusion of intelligence as personal association with large sums of money" JK Galbraith wrote this in 1987, but this might as well be carved on the epitaph of our soon-to-implode world economy. https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/87jan/parallel.htm

Found out that my electric adjustable desk now only works *down* (up button doesn't do anything. Had I realised it was truly broken and unable to go back up, I may have avoided cranking it all the way down while fiddling with it… 😑 How's *your* Tuesday morning going?

People are joking that #starmer barely outlasted the string of equally useless people who had the job before him, and that he will leave no legacy whatsoever.

Ladies and gentlemen: the likely future Prime Minister of Great Britain… 😂 #countBinface #ukpol

Do I know anyone who dabbles in secure decentralised/p2p protocols (MLS, hypercore… hell even activitypub)… Someone who would potentially be willing to entertain a few stupid questions from a noob… #p2p #secure #decentralization #mls #hypercore

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116766875505739917

Major update to the Online version of KanjiBox: kanjibox.net This version follows the same layouts as the tablet version of KanjiBox and is completely FREE. Just create an account and sign in to start using it. #kanjibox #japanese #nihongo #kanji #jlpt

In an irony way too subtle for our times, this might make Trump's Iran deal, only the *second* worse peace treaty ever signed in Versailles… #trump #iran #history

Always a winning combo…

Can papico ice cream that's been thawed and refrozen be safely consumed? Asking for a friend. That friend is me. And he likes papico.

RE: https://retro.pizza/@madcollector/116747377110819828 I know I have finally made it north, when random shopkeepers and bar staff starts calling me "love"…

CW: Dead bird You know, I was just thinking that my Sunday morning could do with more dead birds on my balcony… 😑

RE: https://retro.pizza/@madcollector/116742603773618136 All ballet choreographies could be vastly improved with the addition of a random cat…

Randomly bumping into people I used to serve drinks to, as a Roppongi bartender, 25 years ago, does say something about the enduring permanence of the Tokyo expat world.

These popular black-clad constructions are gonna be so oshare in the 40C Tokyo summer…

Currently trying to see if I can cross-reference 1990s NTT TownPage scans with modern data sources, to find abandoned countryside Love Hotels. No, I don't have too much time on my hands, why'd you ask?

Was gonna stop by Takaragawa onsen on a day trip to Gunma, but turns out they transitioned their 混浴温泉 to a "mandatory swimsuit" onsen, "to avoid shocking foreign visitors"… Fucking tourists.

My yearly "make a 6-figure income* from the comfort of your home" recruiting ad for #tokyo /#Japan mastopeeps: Are you (or know someone who is): 1️⃣ based in Japan (not too far from Tokyo) 2️⃣ looking for a way to convert this plentiful free time of yours into hard cold ¥

Shut up and take my money! Tanuki eco-bag where the balls grow with content

Through a set of very specific circumstances, I am in possession of a frankly ridiculous amount of Tokyo Disneyland paraphernalia…

You guys like Jungle? Video: https://mastodon.social/@deivudesu/116689808700269288

Japanese expiration dates are such a fun little guessing game. 😑

Happy #Tokyo #typhoon everybody! No better time to get back on the kanji bandwagon, with the best iOS/Android Nihongo learning app out there 😉 https://bsky.app/profile/kanjibox.bsky.social #Japan #japanese #nihongo #kanji

KanjiBox has finally been released on the Android Play Store: play.google.com/store/apps/d... 🎊🎊🎊 Time to get serious with kanji learning! To keep seeing more updates for Android, please support us with a rating and a review! 🙏 #japanese #kanji #language #nihongo

What would be a good Mastodon instance to host KanjiBox's account? Something either Japanese or App-related…?

Them: what’s your type? Me:

Broke Tokyo slut survival rule #1: always pack a pair of sunnies, no matter how dark it is when you’re leaving the house…

Recently a friend asked me how much I was charing for KanjiBox, when I said it went for $4.99 or equivalent, she seemed surprised: "that's quite a lot, for a study app"… Took us a minute to realise she thought I meant *as a monthly subscription*… 😂

RE: https://mastodon.social/@deivudesu/114779888191950192 I might have to repost that one every few months…

Today, the algorithm decided to serve me back a timeless classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLVmybhXqtU (Yes, it's casually racist, but the 20th century was a different time)

Today, I spent 2 whole hours out of my very finite existence on earth, trying [unsuccessfully] to sync back my 2 bluetooth earbuds together. AMA.

CW: 🐀🐀🐀 Kabukicho: where you can cross path with Euro tourists slaloming around Nigerian touts with their baby pram, while a rat colony watches on… Video: https://mastodon.social/@deivudesu/116623487186595225

Reading up on Kabuki lore, with a mention of the Shiraito falls "in Shizuoka"… but distinctly remembering visiting the Shiraito falls in *Nagano* last month… Turns out there's basically a billion 白糸の滝 falls in Japan. 😐

Thanks for the reminder, Google… Maybe it's time to let go… 😢

Latest Business News Someone has been a very naughty boy…

A guest kindly gifted us(*) this set of… “desert vinegar”, meant to be consumed as a drink, diluted in water, and… why you gotta be so weird japan. 😐 (*) pretty sure he had no idea this was vinegar and just assumed it was some sort of fancy juice or something

Map of ALL stations on all transit lines overlapping with Tokyo's 23 ku. 🚃 tbh, I thought it'd be much more of a mess. #tokyo #transit #train #subway #map #dataviz #東京 #電車

Saizeria App Designer: "So for the app, I thought we'd use Green and Red buttons" "Great idea! Having clear colour-coding of actions should really make the UX clear to users" "What? no! I just thought it'd be cool to stick with the Italian theme!