What’s wild to me is that or all the courses I took on physics, political science and history, the one that’s been rendered the most obsolete has been Ancient Chinese Art.

Tell me five classes you took in college: US Nuclear Strategy Ancient Chinese Art Lives Ruined By Literature Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus Evolutionary Biology

Post a gif of your reaction to moderates ever again saying “you’re just overreacting“

At some point, the general assumption is going be that you're still on Twitter/X *because* of that content.

Finished the year with some dingus thinking I voted for Stein because I didn’t like how senior congressional democrats have rubber stamped Trump nominees and generally not stood up for anything.

Had just finished working out and was a bit brain-foggy from fatigue. Stepped heavily into the locker room and nearly crashed into the guy coming out. He stepped out of my way and I mumbled an apology. Realized after it was the wrestler Takayama.

Could be a useful leverage point to cudgel manufacturers and retailers into more responsible packaging.

Thinking about how we’ve been batting 1.000 with “every accusation is a confession,” has anyone checked with Vance’s neighbors about missing pets?

Make a Bond movie casual Goldcuddle

Not going to photograph people in the train, but the young lady in front of me has a bag with “EAT ME” printed all down the shoulder strap.

I still feel the internet hit a high water mark around 2010-12 before enshittification took over.

Sacrificing what little leftist cred I have to point out that this is the role of a valet, while a butler is more of a household manager. Jeeves was a valet, not a butler.

At no point since college have I had a career plan that went beyond “I guess that sounds interesting.” Retired last year. I’d like to think skillful investment or social choices were the key, but I have to admit to being obscenely lucky.

You, of all people, know where the door is.

I commend the Toyama basketball team on creating a suitably fierce logo, but have any of them actually seen a grouse?

I love that, for all their automation, communication, and remote detection and control systems, trains in Japan still include a slot in the dash panel for the driver to place their pocket watch.

Grapes actually sour, reports Fox.

You’re not making carbonara the proper way unless there’s someone standing behind you complaining that you’re not making carbonara the proper way.

Now that October is over, I will be reverting to my original name.

Damn, getting seriously gaijin seat-ed this morning on the Keihin Tohoku line. One got up to move away and one stopped while about to sit down.

Holy crap, Tabelog (食べログ) charges ¥900 to make reservations now!? I made the reservation at about 6pm, arriving at 7, so it’s not a cancellation or no-show charge.

Did my last wedding ceremony yesterday. Pretty fun actually, the ring-bearers were two dogs in wedding dresses.

Having free time after my semi-voluntary retirement, I reached out to the wedding company I worked with back in the 00s to see about going back to minister/performer work. After doing it for two months, I decided to quit.

Since it’s now October, I’ll be adding “Monster” to my name. Spooky!

And with Stephen King’s Needful Things, I’ve hit my 2025 reading goal of 100 books. 📚 app.thestorygraph.com/profile/subl...

My streaming service has/had an AI porn section, so I decided to check one out. Even for porn AI was too lifeless and unnatural to be watchable. It looked like someone using corpses as marionettes.

Because Japanese sentences can drop all specific information and nearly all parts of speech while remaining acceptably grammatical for everyday speech, the language is ideal for abuse through gaslighting. Especially by those working with non-native speakers. #GaijinConfessionFriday

Fuck Charlie Kirk, and all his fans

Wishing David Cameron well on this anniversary of his entry into manhood 🐷

Seeing lots of 3rd-tier RW trolls popping their heads up like “did I go up in the rankings?”

“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.” - Charlie Kirk 💰 👄

Just started reading Thomas Ligotti’s The Nightmare Factory and good christ, did this guy lose his virginity to a thesaurus? I’m about a quarter of the way through, does he stop writing like a Lovecraft / Bulwer-Lytton pastiche eventually?

Japan called on the private sector to invest more in Africa, at the ongoing Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development.

Kash Patel always looks like someone has just walked in as he’s balls-deep in something that can’t consent.

Imagine the world we’d live in today if someone told Sirhan Sirhan “down three feet and a bit to the left”.

This, but for people with medical devices that depend on supported software.

To the bank sending me emails every 8 hours asking why I haven’t signed the paperwork they sent: It’s because you sent me the forms at midnight Friday Tokyo time, and I can only sign them during US East Coast business hours! And that’s 100% because of your bumblefuck provincial system!

Had a hamburg set and red wine plus coffee at Saizeriya Wednesday, having the same at Aux Bacchanales today. Head to head comparison to follow. #サイゼリア #オーバカナル

TIL Horatio Alger and Alger Hiss were two very different people.

I was into golf briefly in the 00’s, and people then were saying if he holds the record on his own courses, then he’s blatantly cheating and/or his courses are so shit nobody worthwhile plays there,

So just to confirm, “Astronomer” is just the name of another generic software company, and the “Astronomer CEO” is just another useless techbro who doesn’t actually have any science-related skills? #StolenValor

The moment I leave the US all hell breaks loose

Walk like an obaachan

Beautiful binding work, but so much effort for such a piece of garbage?

Party Lines. Not the old-type phone exchanges (though those were also a thing) but phone-in chat rooms where people would just talk with random strangers. Classmate of mine ended up doing serious prison time for using those lines for some messed-up stuff.

I accept that kids are loud, and I’m fine with the fact that any restaurant where parents often bring their toddlers is going to be noisy. I draw the line at handing a 3-year-old a fucking pea whistle. At least after the first blast the parent decided it was time to pay the bill and get out.

A good video store carried what felt like *all* the movies. Not just films from one distributor, not just the new releases, not just a single genre. And they didn’t randomly remove videos from circulation for no reason.

Every meet-up in Japan involved hand-drawn maps

I know some folks I follow collect old-ish cameras. I have a 1994 Canon Eos Rebel S (US version of Eos Kiss?) film camera of unknown functionality, unused for 20+ years, with 35-70mm zoom lens. Cleaning house, so if you want it, it’s yours. Can hand over in Tokyo area.

There has never in history been a scientific discovery, a medical breakthrough, a work of art, a declaration of love, an act of courage, or a gesture of kindness that came about as a result of debate. Debate is the ultimate spiritual wank.