Economy starting to feel like I need a harem of old men

"I unequivocally reject identity politics" i scream, right before selecting my five gallon cowboy hat for my Fox Business interview.

"Use of prostitution by foreign tourists is rampant" I swear Japan has entered a groove where it can't address ANY social issue unless it can SOMEHOW blame it on foreigners

I'm very excited to announce I'm one of the four members of Tokyo Review's new editorial team! I especially look forward to platforming promising fellow early-career scholars, and contributing to a much-needed increase in in-depth English-language analysis on Japanese society and politics.

Mamdani won but just as importantly Cuomo lost and I love that for all of us

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

Chose the closest Anytime as my home gym and it’s been fine but just went to another nearby Anytime and now I’m like wow my home gym sucks 😭

Eh. Her polling currently is high - her cabinet has the third-highest incoming polls of any incoming cabinet in recent history. Predictably, she's trying to buttress that by tacking right & cracking down on foreign residents (which is not nearly Japan's biggest problem but, ya know)

Lettuce head watch?

Finally some positive news

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

I love hugging bisexual & gay men, no weird A frame bullshit just dick to dick like god intended

Got the whole thing written actually 😅 Been in my head for a while. Going to grab photos tonight and plan to publish tomorrow am JST

TIL that when Trump backs off of an obviously stupid threat, Japanese social media users say he’s TACOる (“TACO-ing”) and I think that’s great

My latest for subscribers (thank you!), in which I look at some interesting poll numbers and a clear gender gap in support for Japan's first female PM, with more men than women gravitating towards the conservative leader. unseen-japan.com/takaichi-san...

Me: Gotta edit and publish this piece for UJ quickly Me getting ADHD-distracted and noticing an hour later I've written over 1K words for my maid cafe vs. con cafe vs. girls' bar piece: Oops

Read four Japanese books last month, averaging 34 pages read/day. Spending less time on social media is paying off 👍

Oh man I hope we have enough

Every good expat should be allowed to legally fight one shitty expat every year. I'll buy the popcorn for everyone who wants to watch someone fight that garbage witch.

Daily #1843 - Waaaaaaa

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Gold Ball (oka)Run 👀👁️

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Great news! We finally figured out a solution to “this mech causes the pilot physical pain whenever they pilot it” problem! (We put a girl inside the mech to withstand the pain for you)

I actually love hearing other languages. There are so many of them and they’re beautiful. Getting mad about it is a skill issue. And to be clear, that skill is empathy.

Another quote that had it come from any other president would have been a weeks-long scandal. Instead, it's just Wednesday.

Just gonna start blocking influencers outright who spread misinformation about Japan. Clickbait, yeah you sure did, baited me into clicking that block button lol I blocked transphobes on the reg on twitter, baby, this is nothing. Insta, you're next, bitches lol

"Dress for the job you want, not the job you have"

always reading shit that makes me go "china is so old and insane in scale" like "the oldest extant canal is chinese, 1400 years old, and also longer than the entire length of new zealand"

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Thinking about when We filled a shopping bag from the McDonalds soda taps in high school and knowing that I have no place in Japanese society.

Brace for another wave of x refuges

The Overton Window has shifted from "Nazis are bad" to "some people have a problem with Nazis" www.mlive.com/news/2025/10...

You know what Tai Lopez loves more than material things? Securities fraud, apparently! youtu.be/kEP-i0-vvFM?...

Be glad you didn’t do the opposite, you could’ve been deported unseen-japan.com/combini-coff...

【最新研究】ソフトドリンクを飲むと、女性のうつ病リスクが増加するのはなぜか？...「腸内細菌」に独研究チームが注目 ＜うつ病と清涼飲料水の関係に注目が集まる中、腸内細菌「エガセラ」の関与が指摘されている＞ www.newsweekjapan.jp/stories/life...

Backing up my WordPress db before mass deleting users, I've really grown as a person in the past few years

@gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social Japan student suicides hit record high in 2024 despite overall decline barrierfreejapan.com/2025/10/25/j...

This “Oriental Pearl” thing makes it clear we’ve learned zilch about how people game social media for attention and profit

Me: Maybe I should check Bluesky Me 10 seconds into checking Bluesky: Welp that's enough for today

The jihanki have hot drinks, it’s officially winter in Japan (I don’t make the rules)

Stop what you're doing and (re-)watch the world's greatest video youtu.be/HrBJDvPZf2g

Mighty need www.fashionsnap.com/article/2025...

Took reading four yuri novels in a row but finally got to one where they actually kiss

Village cop in Japan doesn't understand basic Japanese law, thinks foreign residents need to carry their passports mainichi.jp/english/arti...

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

TIL the word タイパ (time/performance, efficacy of spent time), which is the time version of コスパ (cost/performance, i.e., value). So a bar, e.g., is タイパ if it's close to where you work

自衛隊批判は「差別」なのか 沖縄県議会が「風潮を改める」決議 www.chunichi.co.jp/article/1149...

浅草を巡る！ハラールラーメンと楽しむ東京観光 matcha-jp.com/jp/26019