NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Witnessing this happening live as well and it's truly demoralizing.

I. Am. So. Tired.

As Danone’s Oikos is temporarily out of the market, Aeon’s Top Valu’s Greek Yogurt (the best alt. for fat/sugar free protein yogurt) is ALSO out of shelf for the same reason: the production is not matching the demand 🥲

There have already been reports that banks such as JP Bank can’t use the new cards online. Considering that in person (at least by me) is usually even less knowledgeable, it’s not looking good. I also read that with the combined card, you can’t get an extension on the MyNumber function while

What the FFFFFFF #earthquake

Most people seem to find acceptable things like horrible plane seats, on the basis that it's cheaper and therefore increases accessibility to normal people But to me that's like saying "allowing people to sell they kidneys increases accessibility to lunch money for the poor" youtu.be/Aa3vkKRCczg?...

Small one, yet I got the sound alarm from hell

My residence card expires at a very inconvenient time for me, so I called to ask if I could renew the card ahead of the 3 month period, and was told “oh you have PR so it’s OK if you let your card expire and apply at a later date”. Immigration Lady, are you drunk? Is this a trap?

I wonder whether the ID card in this case was one of the new combined residence/My Number cards. The reports might not wish to spell this out in case it deters foreign residents from selecting that option. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

President magazine interviews Ikeda. He reiterates that foreigners aren't stealing jobs from locals, as he doesn't get enough applications from Japanese nationals. president.jp/articles/-/1...

Whatever your plans for the weekend, the incoming W typhoon combo might derail them, or so said the news earlier today. Apparently this happened in 2011 and 2019 and created a bit of chaos all over the place.

First time ever to say I feel cold in June, meanwhile my family is boiling with the heat wave 😅

This was so much better than I expected. Not just mindless bashing of US delusions. Thoughtful fact based discussion of why US self perception is far removed from its perception from other nations (who also suffer from various self delusions through history) youtu.be/zHWZO3_82Cw?...

大人がやるからやぞ 外国ルーツ女児にいじめ、仙台　市教委が「重大事態」に認定 #47NEWS www.47news.jp/14494373.html

My mum sharing beautiful pictures taken at sea from her friend’s boat: the sea, the scenery, the sailing boat beautiful deck… Me: oh my gosh is that GOAT CHEESE I SEE ON THE DECK TABLE? #priority

New sign of the apocalypse spotted. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

This even got referenced on the the BBC news page! www.bbc.com/news/article...

I have no idea but _every_ mother I know of has been sharing it 💀

Fudge. That explains all the helicopters hovering. I hope they will all make it alright. Fire at an elementary school in Kita Ward Tokyo. news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/d82...

C’est quand même lamentable. Le Japon, pourtant pas réputé pour son traitement des femmes en général me semble quand même faire mieux. Ma seule expérience bof était avec… la seule référence française du coin 😅 www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

12 painful minutes of phone call and the matter should be solved… or almost cause how am I connecting the card with my bank now 🤣. I had to spell my name in English, then in Katakana, my French brain was scrambling.

Sometimes my son’s total lack of attention to what adults tell him is a powerful weapon. Like earlier today, when he got praised for walking to kindergarten and not taking his bicycle anymore. . . . We actually park his bicycle at the nearby supermarket’s parking lot and walk the last 50 meters💀

Finally reached the call center who told me "we'll call you back". Where's the pop corn? 😂

Holy moly. We were chilling on the bed.

I finally applied for a Rakuten credit card and got approved pretty fast except Sagawa denied the delivery because my full family name couldn't fit on the card/package and differ from my ID. Been trying to contact Rakuten's help center and chat services multiple times, but I'm fed up.

How to tell my in-laws that they’re very kind, but I don’t like honey? This is the 3rd birthday in a row that they send me fancy honey bins and well, I should be gracious, but seriously we still have last year’s one… 😅

My kid lost total interest in screens, and has not watched anything in the past month. He says it’s boring. I feel guilty when I compare with my own usage 😅. It’s probably temporary, but in parallel his imaginary play is blooming. Our recipe is truly to be strict and not have a TV.

This is the first time you’ll ever hear me praise a Japanese manual. What they came up with makes so much sense. I hope it gets applied nation wide: setting a lower water level, marking kids who struggle with a different color, and more adults around the pool youtu.be/stnA3AGNXss?...

Traffic accident fatalities are at the lowest since statistics were first compiled in 1948. Traffic Safety whitepaper also says more foreigners are involved in accidents, and the online reaction is predictable. www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/4945...

Musk is set to become a trillionaire today. 👀 Location near Tesla’s flagship London store, UK. 🎥 @everyonehateselon.bsky.social

When I think I was left to play around farms and fields, all summer days when I was a kid (＊it was another time, please don’t do that), and my child now needs to check a manual before playing in a random park 😂

In an interesting turn of events: they announced changing their policy following some online kerfuffle on X—the clinic apparently got some serious online heat.

Japan reforested with Japanese cedar (sugi) and cypress (hinoki) in the 1950s to rebuild post-war forests. Now the pollen gives 40%+ of its population hay fever. Climate change extends pollen seasons further. Today’s decisions shape tomorrow’s reality. Short-term fixes can become long-term crises.

If you’re missing Danone’s Oikos 18gr of protein, no longer wonder where they’ve gone. Danone halted production until this summer, unable to meet the demand (it’s very successful since its launch).

I’m not a huge fan but たまに we like to go by Mister Donuts. Lately, however, because of a time limited special donut series, the lines in front of the store are insane. Even their online order site is at capacity and I can never snatch a slot 😅.

I know this is a classic, but I am amazed at my kid’s ability to scream bloody murder as I force him to go in the shower, and then to equally scream bloody murder as I try to get him out 🫠

We are living the last hours of quiet and residential areas in our city. In a year, the land price jumped between 10% and 20%. This means heavier tax burden on owners and more preying from developers. Every week we get flyers asking us to sell.

« Three boys groomed, lured and attacked two girls aged 14 and 15 across two separate premeditated incidents in Hampshire. It was filmed. The footage was shared online. Judge Nicholas Rowland at Southampton Crown Court handed all three youth rehabilitation orders. They went home. » c.org/qjYPF8v9kN

My family found Japanese people to be very selfish on the trains (they’re elderly and never get to sit) and I can’t deny their point. A seat got free and a woman made space to let me sit with my child, but time for me to get there, a young woman just sir under my nose like no fuck given 🤷‍♀️💀

My family plans to take several ferries in the south of Japan early June pretty much when typhoon 6号 will land. I shared trajectory map, weather report & ferry companies’ sites to keep an eye on thing and they’re answering “we have no idea what you’re talking about the weather is great”

Ah...ah... Which is funny (or not...) as we're receiving more and more notifications related to the Immigration Bureau getting harder on language school student visa applicants, making it especially harder for applicants that are looking at manual & technical jobs.

Our kindergarten cautioned us because our kid rides his bike to school and apparently “we shouldn’t.” There’s no official rule against it—they probably just never had this case before. The funny part: two other kids do it too. They’re my son’s best friends, and all three are new this year 😂

"estimated that the finished project would cover about as many square miles as Washington, D.C., making it the largest data center on the planet, and that it could produce enough heat to spike nighttime temperatures by as much as 28 degrees Fahrenheit in the high-desert valley" 😰

I had a blood draw this morning and for the first time ever, I fainted spectacularly. I was able to tell the nurse I wasn't feeling well, and poof, next thing I know, I was in a psychedelic dream full of colors. When I opened my eyes I had 6 nurses surrounding me about to move me to a wheelchair 😅

When Musk announced plans to buy Twitter, billionaire friends rushed to say they’d throw money into the deal. Larry Ellison offered “a billion… or whatever you recommend.” Marc Andreessen offered $250 million: SpaceX’s IPO Filing Shows Elon’s Twitter ‘Business Genius’ Was A Fantasy

Nicola Willis's soundbite about the NZ public sector is that "we need to be more like Finland" Finland is roughly the same population and population density as NZ Willis wants to reduce our public sector employees to "under 60 000" Finland employs 74 635 in it's central gov vm.fi/en/central-g...

I love having my family here, but in the past few years, the same, exact conflict pops up every-single-time. We do not drink alcohol anymore (at all—a common decision we took many years ago). We don't like its taste, its effect, and don't see any value or positive aspect in drinking alcohol.

The average person doesn't realize how much science is built on trust. Of course there's always been fraudsters, because the system is extremely easy to game. But overall, most scientists did care about being a part of the enterprise of unearthing truth.

I was about to share how today’s earth scorching heat isn’t a good sign for this summer. Streets, playgrounds, everything is burning hot 🥵