Recent cafe and bar hopping around Japan.

The only other Taylor Swift albums I have liked this completely and instantly were Reputation and Evermore. Life of a Show Girl really is so, so good. 🧡

I am so obsessed with Father Figure it’s already unhealthy. A top 3 album!!!!! 🧡✨

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

BREAKING The federal government has shut down for the first time in nearly seven years.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand who???

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts, authorities said Monday.

Track 5 being “Eldest Daughter” is taking me out I need it now!!!!

A weekend on Japan’s Izu Peninsula featuring: matcha ice cream, fireworks, the Jogasaki coastline, and Mount Omuro.

I cannot overstate how brutally hot it is in Japan 🥵

August is here.

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Imagine my annoyance at the person who just posted “it’s going to be a hot one today” (for Boston) and YES 96 is HOT but do you know what it’s going to be in 2 days?? 76 degrees. *screams in Japanese summer*

Oh, to be on Tumblr during this era!

Today I learned that the seats in premium taxis in Tokyo are full on recliners. Unfortunately, today I also learned that I was in fact made for the premium taxi life and I’m not sure I can go back.

Seeing posts for #DH2025 and honestly cannot believe #DH2024 was a year ago!

Random Bridget lore: I was the President of my high school’s Mock Trial team. My teacher nominated me for a few local awards and I won a scholarship from the Mass College of Law which was presented to me by the lawyer who prosecuted the shoe bomber (the reason we take our shoes off at airports).

📍 Seoul, South Korea

Still thinking about the Moon Jar display I saw at the National Museum of Korea a few days ago.

On this day, 75 years ago, North Korea invaded South Korea. I was lucky to visit The War Memorial of Korea yesterday, a phenomenal museum focused on Korea’s history of war with an emphasis on the 1950s conflict. I spent 3.5 hours exploring, learning, and engaging with this history. A 10/10 museum.

Are you kidding me I literally just finished breakfast

I still cannot believe this was the very first thing I saw upon entering Seoul.

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

Back to Japan I go - for only about 24 hours and then it’s off to South Korea for a week!!!

Time to get REAL justice for John O’Keefe and his family.

Breaking News: A jury found Karen Read not guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, a Boston police officer. nyti.ms/4kQu1zA

Aahhhh, Maine. 😌

One of my best friends lost her battle to breast cancer last week. She was 32, sunshine in human form, a dedicated mother, and so much more. I’ve been home for a week now to say goodbye and celebrate her life. I’ve never been sadder to be in Boston.

For my first @salonnewsroom.bsky.social piece, I wrote about how freaks for the em dash (me, and possibly you) will not stand by and cede our precious punctuation to AI www.salon.com/2025/06/11/a...

Watching the original cast of Hamilton on the Tony awards was a reminder of how revelatory and exciting and moving and new Hamilton was when it first appeared ten years ago. Thank you, Lin-Manuel Miranda—and everyone who created it.

Goodbye, Farewell and Amen.

This is VERY important to me!!!!

To the people hating on THE Cirie Fields playing Survivor again. Cirie Fields is a multi faceted reality tv show ICON. I respect her playing as many times as she wants, and as fans we are lucky to see her grace us with her charm, tenacity and mischievous giggle.

It is MAY and Japan is already 80+ degrees, with a UV index of at least 7, a minimum 80% humidity rate, regularly hitting over 100 for air quality and issuing heat stroke warnings and locals are still walking around in Canada Goose jackets on. Do they not feel like they’re going to pass away????

My book review for Careless People: I always thought “Lean In” seemed like a bunch of bs. Turns out I was right. Five stars. Read this if you work in or use social media in any way, especially Facebook.

The Library of Congress is a research library. The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress. Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research. NO children’s section. Even the general public has very limited access.

This is Nugget. She only met these new friends today, but they have already made her their leader. 13/10

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

The new Pope is Robert Francis Prevost, an American, Chicago-born, a member of the Augustinian order. At 69, he may hold the position for more than a quarter century. Sign up for our newsletter to read Paul Elie’s dispatch from Rome. nyer.cm/nbmYqig

Honestly really sad I haven’t seen any of the Conclave X Reality TV meme posts on this app yet. I feel like that is something that Bluesky would find entertaining and the kind of content it needs to keep thriving.

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

I need my shoulders to understand that I’m not the one who needs to be made aware of EDS during EDS Awareness Month 😩

What do you mean I have a local neighborhood scone shop that is currently playing Taylor Swift’s Midnights album downstairs and a jazzy instrumental version of O’Christmas Tree on repeat upstairs????

Tokyo Metro: 1 My autonomic dysfunction: 0

Hearing "This Boston based crew would like to be the very first to say welcome home" is the best thing to hear after landing.

“Humanities degrees are useless” is propaganda that’s had the effect of convincing a whole generation that reading and critical thinking skills were unimportant. Now we’re reaping the results with mass illiteracy and a public eager to embrace conspiracy theories and fascism.

The reenactment of the ride of Paul Revere commenced last night, on the anniversary of the midnight ride 250 years ago on April 18, 1775, to alert American colonial militia to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord. 📹: @brypepin