A top 10 human feeling is windows open, chilly fall morning air, hot shower

Being away from America for two weeks will have you craving the craziest things when you return. Tell me why I’m insatiably in search of a hamburger steak with mashed potatoes like it’s 1953 and I want to try one of those newfangled TV dinners

I think this Leo fellow might just have "the juice," as the youth say. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Accidentally fell asleep at 9:30 last night, so my body was ready to go at 6:45 today. Did you all know there’s a thing called “morning”? When you can observe something called a “sunrise” on a “chilly fall day” with a cup of “coffee”? I thought it was fake all these years but is apparently real.

People think it’s silly or odd when I talk about coming out to myself and then coming out to God — but when you’ve been praying to be fixed for 4-5 years and realizing it’s not going to happen and that’s even better, it’s a major shift!

Jacob’s thread is great. I wasn’t given a book per se, but seriously considered going to Grove City College because Warren Throckmorton was there. I was *very* bought in to the mindset behind conversion therapy.

There are many reasons late-night convenience store runs don’t hit the same in America as they do in Japan, but chief among them is that they cost $20 rather than $4

The way heterosexual businessmen talk in airport lounges when they assume no one is listening is wild.

I always forget how big Alaska is. Especially post-2022 a pretty substantial portion of flying to/from Japan is just trying to get through Alaska

I am on the most unhinged flight. There was an attendant yelling at the forward economy cabin about how the bags were too large; there’s a child in front of me who keeps threatening to harm her caregivers if she doesn’t get her way; someone keeps yelling for an FA to show her how to use the lavatory

It is a fascinating piece of human psychology that every train station in the world has signs that say “don’t walk on the escalator it’s dangerous and means we can fit less people on” and yet those same cities all have unwritten codes about where to stand on the escalator so people can walk

Obligatory trash can photo for @tannerman.tannerworld.com

I am so excited for my friend The Rev. Kirsten Guidero to begin serving our Church in this role. I’ve seen firsthand her commitment to building relationships across difference and I know she’ll be a gift to the Church. mailchi.mp/episcopalchu...

Because I am, at the end of the day, still fundamentally from the Midwestern United States, I’ve been walking around Japan for the last week almost bumping into people and going “Ope! Uh… sumimasen”

Upsides of being in Japan: numerous Downsides of being in Japan: no way to resolve the craving for Texas Roadhouse rolls that just hit me

One thing about me is I’m not gonna wait for people to take their little influencer pictures at tourist sites. Sweetie there are 20 million people here who all want the perfect photo and that’s nice but there isn’t time. I’m a’comin’ through

Japanese emergency vehicle sirens are less “wee woo wee woo” like American and European ones, and more “woooooooo” like an American tornado siren, which traumatizes my Midwestern nerves every time

I know we all know the tariffs are stupid as hell, but I’ve really been feeling them on this trip to Japan. The advice always used to be to box up your souvenirs and ship them home, but since the de minimis exemption was eliminated, shipping is either impossible or tariffed.

My opinionated opinion is that Santal 33 smells bad and men should stop wearing it

Adventures in Google Translate

every world heritage city is like “here is our most famous street. it is the smallest road you have ever been on and there are 10 million tourists and 10000 terrible, tiny stores selling the worst things” and we all go to these terrible streets anyways

Went into a Starbucks in Kyoto that’s in an old tea house and got this pear caramel Frappuccino and matching tea cake, and I’ve got to say: why can’t we have nice things in America? This is DELICIOUS

The one downside of the default Bluesky timeline being chronological is it means you’re all missing out on my skeets because of something called “Japan Standard Time”

If you think you’re having a bad day, you can at least give thanks you’re not the delivery person I just watched tip over three milk crates of brand new ceramics

Cruel of Nintendo to put their only Tokyo store in Shibuya, the overpopulated unholy love child of New York’s Times Square, London’s Oxford Street, and Seoul’s Itaewon

Was I lured away from my mission to find sushi by the siren song of cheese fries? Yes. But it paid off in that 1) I got cheese fries and 2) got to see this fun lil Mario-themed Shake Shack mural

If you ever get a chance to go to the Art Gallery of Ontario, I highly recommend. It’s art like this as far as the eye can see.

Can someone explain to me how a Japanese convenience store sells better fried chicken than any American fast food restaurant?

A fun thing is that since the number 7 in Japanese is “nana”, the Boeing 777 becomes the “Boeing nananananana”, which is just an all-around superior name

PITT HIVE RISE UP

What did humanity do to deserve cinnamon sugar toast? What a treat

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

I need someone to put more of Artemis Pebdani (Scandal’s Susan Ross) on my television

One of the downsides of being single and also a person who’s a little bit pathetic when feeling under the weather is that the only person around to annoy with my whining is me

smizing my way into convincing you to get your Covid and flu shots

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

I am happy to report that @governorwalz.mn.gov’s turkey trot hot dish is very good (and, important to expanding the electorate, incorporates products from at least 4 branches of animal husbandry)

Watching a 2012 episode of Scandal in which a father of a family of 4 gives his daughter a $20 bill to take to the pizza man at the front door and says “and give him a tip!” Oh for the halcyon days of 2 pizzas, delivery, AND a tip for $20

Nothing a gay guy on a coast loves more than a line drawing upper thigh tattoo of the Midwestern state they’re from

Some day the Canadians will pay for their crimes* *inventing, manufacturing, and continuing to service the Canadair CRJ200 aircraft

Some day maybe I will be the person the me who packs for work travel thinks I am. MULTIPLE books? Workout clothes? Who did I think I was?

"Jesus uses this metaphor on Bible Gateway" perfect work, google ai. no notes

I owe my life to the Proctor and Gamble scientists who invented the Tide To Go®️ brand instant stain remover product. It makes up for so many of my personal failings

Whomst decided hotel hallways do not need climate control? It is 90 degrees and 70° dew point in Indiana and the hallway is like walking through a zoo’s rainforest exhibit

Furthest I've ever been: N - Bergen, Norway S - Auckland, New Zealand E - ditto W - Vancouver, BC

Desperate to know whomst at Marriott International, Inc. decided my hotel room in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio should have a nautical theme

Currently exploring a surprisingly walkable suburb of Columbus, Ohio

Bishop Matt posted an update.

One of my most closely held personal beliefs is that streaming platforms should let you opt out of ads for horror movies

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...