new acquaintance: Tokyo Hibiya line, doesn't go everywhere but does go from our hotel directly to where we needed to be today, which I appreciate

Damn they weren't lying. Those Roppongi do be Hills

Old guy into surf rock. Owns a record store, has managed to stay in business for like 30 years by refusing to be precious about pricing things to actually sell and by catering broadly to a large clientele of refined gentlemen of a certain age (a lot of Blues, Jazz, Soul, Funk, RnB, Motown etc)

another weird culture shock thing: I knew about the bidets. Even the smallest, most remote public bathrooms have bidets on the toilets, think the only one that didn't was on the literal summit of Mt. Misen. and I knew about bringing your own handkerchief to dry your hands. but *no soap* in there??

gotta say I'm still repping my girl (the Kyoto Tozai line) unconditionally but so far Kyoto is way, way more of a Bus City. can't take the train a lot of places but half a dozen buses at every stop are probably going that way

highlight of the day was Nic saying "don't fall in the drain" and then less than once second later I fell in the drain

because I'm travelling with vegans I'm getting the very specific Vegan In Japan experience, which among other things involves a lot of listening to American pop-country and tolerating a lot of very poorly behaved European children to pay ¥1800 yen for a coffee and slice of cake in a crowded shop

by far the best value for your yen is Otagi Nenbutsuji temple. for 500¥ you get to see like 1200 little stone guys. thats more than 2 guys per yen

I am making steadfast friends and allies in Japan, such as the Tokyo Keiyo line, the Osaka Loop line, and the Kyoto Tozai line

A lot of y’all still don’t get it ESBL holders can use multiple antibiotics on a single species So if you have 1 monoculture and 3 antibiotics you can create 3 new beta lactamases This hospitalization is essentially a mint event for both Carbapenamase and Efflux pumps

Now, I am aware, intellectually, that I am in a country with much Much stricter food safety laws than my own country of origin. I am also, intellectually, aware that deep frying has been a method for preserving food to be safe to eat for hundreds or thousands of years. BUT

some in the Inner Circle have already heard me bitch about this but while it's not as much bulk as the jacket liner, turns out I'm at least getting back the space I allocated for COVID tests...

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I will say the only disappointing thing about Japan is that despite triple-checking the historic averages + accounting for global warming etc: It's Too Damn Hot. 70°F minimum every day. Can't wear half the clothes I packed. should've saved the suitcase space and not bothered bringing my jacket liner

A lot of people seem to think there will be a cure for them if they get Long COVID. There will not be. Mask up.

also some of you I've already run across one or more things for, but if anyone I know irl has souvenir requests I will keep a look out

per capita I've definitely seen Far more goths in Osaka than anywhere else we've been. I knew I had a feeling I'd like this town

I would also like credit where due for going Far out of my comfort zone and not bringing either my leather jacket or (as a result of no carrying capacity) my flo mask on our excursions today. Felt Bad! Would have felt worse hiking a damn mountain in 80° heat with them, though

I would just like it on the record, ever since we got to Japan excepting a few times there was public or hotel wifi, I have been doing everything I'm doing and posting everything I'm posting on exclusively 3G data

further Puroland dispatches. Hello kitty gay so what

Me when I'm waiting at a DDOT bus stop with zero amenities:

gazed into the abyss

while you're in the bath... you don't know how much fish I might eat

the strongest predictor of the quality of an anime dub is whether or not it has a SAG-AFTRA agreement; either they shelled out for the actors with the bargaining power required to demand better pay and working conditions, or they didn't

laundry traffic jam...

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when you as a household of 30something year olds go out to the vegan dyke night, you just end up adopting a 21 year old. It just happens

you leave nic alone with your phone for 2 minutes

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taylor swift this taylor swift that. You know who the real Girlpoet™ of our time is? Devi McCallion

since I keep a timer on my bluesky app and really mostly only check it for Friend Updates, you would think it would behoove me to just use the post notification option for their accounts. but I like the little scavenger hunt of going to their pages, it's like enrichment

I think they were just playing The Durutti Column in this Panera Bread

Matador - Abortion [Germany ; All-Female Darkwave] (1987) Featuring Manon P. Duursma & Gudron Gut from Malaria! and Beate Bartel from Liaisons Dangereuses. https://redd.it/u4a6w1 https://youtu.be/_gqDTvgTTJ8

this is straightforward to reconcile imo - we dont have slurs for oil rigs or factory farms. i think treating LLMs as things to *de*humanize anthropomorphizes them too much already, which is tech marketing's desire - that's the thing the "friend" ads were looking for people to react with

oh I'm so pissed off

Former CIA agent Elissa Slotkinn was hand-picked (by AIPAC) to be the perfect Democratic CONTROLLED OPPOSITION in supporting Republicans choices and ignore their horrific crimes And the tone-deaf Democratic leadership think she's the future

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spare a thought for your local org comrades who are going very quiet for some strange reason, despite their usual enthusiasm for starting slapfights over Lacan or the PMCs or w/e. something about the cops' slush budget freezing just takes the wind out of them. they simply have too much sportsmanship

the USA couldn't beat the viet-cong it couldn't beat the taliban and it won't beat "woke" either

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I'm 99% a functional adult in all things however... I just don't know if I have it in me, the fortitude to call and argue with an airline, even though I kind of really really need to

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EES Coke Battery on Zug Island switched to coke oven gas as its exclusive fuel source after damage to the facility was discovered around 2011 and 2012, according to federal court testimony. planetdetroit.org/2025/09/dte-...

I know my OT tells me every time I have to go back, "don't do Stupid Human Tricks. we both know you can do them, on account of the hypermobility, but you Shouldn't." however sometimes I do anyway, as a treat

does jd know that couches are getting tariffed?

overtaken by an otherworldly Craving after a particularly rough Stupid Little Jog For My Stupid Little Mental Health, I awake from my fugue 3 hours later in the kitchen, the last of 3 and a half chicken breasts in my mouth, perfectly spiced and perfectly cooked, the juices running down my jaw

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