Gotta prepare some food for tomorrow's 遠足, but I lack imagination and never liked bento (my husband neither, so there's solidarity at least... 😂). Will we look weird if we bring sandwiches and yogurt... or 😂

What an earthquake! We were at kindergarten and everyone was holding their breath 😳

Lawyer Koichi Kodama heavily criticizes new legislation which raises capital requirements for a foreign national to obtain a business visa from six million yen to thirty million yen. note.com/koichi_kodam...

If I had known 幼稚園 offered such a better life rhythm to the whole family, I’d have moved my kid last year, sparing us a whole year of daily sleep deprivation 🫠🫠🫠. Instead of his 8-9h of broken sleep, he sleeps up to 10h30 and he voluntarily goes to bed. Say what?!?!

They seemed to have become パパ友 in the blink of an eye and now are sending daily LINE messages to each other 😂

I guess they pretty much expected this outcome...

Boy did I walk into that 保護者会 unprepared 😂

"Le phosphore blanc ne doit jamais être utilisé dans des zones habitées. Lorsqu’il entre en contact avec la peau, il brûle les tissus en profondeur, jusqu’aux os, et continue à consumer la chair tant qu’il est exposé à l’oxygène." www.amnesty.fr/reperes/phos...

This is the one cycling rule I don‘t get. I view this as more dangerous. A cyclist should be able to give direction with their arms and turn like a car. This type of half baked rules (”be on the road but don’t behave like a vehicule”) is the cause of the chaos.

If you want a village, be a villager—not from me, but I'm glad I pushed my husband to exchange contact with a dad we knew from the park. Turns out his wife is hospitalized and he's been aワンオペ dad for the past months and now they're coming to our house for a playdate. Hoping he can catch a break!

Asahi report on how tighter business visa laws are pressuring ethnic restaurants. Higher food, labour and rent costs were already hurting, so finding the extra finance to maintain a visa is not worth it for some owners. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJBQ...

My husband broke (well, not really in the end) our kitchen’s inner screen door. After a lot of bickering we found the manual which indicated we needed to call the maker. I got majorly annoyed and thought that was absurd. It was, indeed, very much absurd, as I figured out how to set it back 🤷‍♀️.

"Is there a way to make smoking even unhealthier?" The 1950s: "I'm sure we can think of something!" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7757969/ www.asbestos.com/products/cig...

Movements to shut down or ban data centers are amassing power and notching victories. Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content in articles. Publishers and entertainment studios are being pushed to reject AI-produced content outright. In other words: It's open season for refusing AI.

I’ve said this before but I truly think that reading shit you’re not ready for is how you learn to sit with discomfort. By forbidding the next generation from pushing their boundaries, you’re doing them an immense disservice

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

Anthropic has stolen countless works, including mine, to help make machine translation software now used by companies like Orange to take away the income upon which books like mine are based. At the very least the Anthropic guy would either be in prison or out of a job if laws were enforced equally.

My in-laws and I have vastly different opinion on the matter, and my husband is the buffer understanding both sides. The next few months will be fun 😂https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUA031YQ0T00C26A4000000/

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

72h later, we’re kicking ourselves for not switching earlier. I cannot believe this is the same child?! The learning curve is tough for the parents, but this is the best environment ever 😳

That languages education is ultimately underfunded, under-supported, and the best educators are often stretched thin. Also, DuoLingo and genAI have been two of the most singularly destructive forces to the perceived legitimacy of language education in primarily English-speaking environments.

For the next few weeks, you’ll be flooded with random cherry blossoms pics.

I tried to watch this Japanese official bicycle safety video and did not survive 💀 Please watch at your own risk: youtu.be/4wSCp93c6s4?...

I know there’s a stereotype about Japanese people not liking to deep dive into political debate, but not 3 minutes into a call with grandma about her grandson’s kindergarten entrance, that they now shifted into talking about company taxes, workers’ conditions and current policies 😂

First day of 幼稚園 today and my kid cried so hard 😭😭😭😭 He was so looking forward to going to kindergarten, though... I also made him wear the uniform and was told it isn't until the 8th and why on Earth don't you tell parents that during the pre-entrance information session? Why? 😂

Peak Japan: the ground starts shaking, your phone screams an alert—and 0.1 seconds later, Sagawa is at the door with your package—no fudge given.

Spain invested heavily in clean energy over the last 6 years. Now, as gas prices rise, Spain has some of the lowest electricity costs on the continent. In August 2025, Spain used zero coal — just 10 years ago it powered 25% of the country. This is what energy independence actually looks like. 🌎

This is inhumane: Foster parents in Okinawa sued the prefecture to stop authorities from taking back a girl they raised more than 5 years since infancy, arguing the sudden removal by child services harms her well-being. www.qab.co.jp/news/2022022...

“WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit.”

Up until now I had not really grasped how young kids can fall from windows or balconies. But for several weeks now, our son keeps asking about how much it’d hurt falling from X or Y building, but what if he’d learn to fly, is it really high? etc etc. Truly super scary period to navigate 😅

Amidst reports of rising anti-foreign sentiment, a Kyodo survey of the 47 major administrative districts found 35 are budgeting for new outreach initiatives with foreigners, or increasing funding to existing schemes. www.47news.jp/14069075.html

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24h later he’s riding like a champ’ 😍 we need to go by the cycle shop to thank the owner who told us not to use training wheels.

He was arrested multiple times apparently. Honestly even if you’d thrown his ass in jail, if he’d kept the obsession that would not have stopped him, only delayed. And we cannot ask of the victims to pack up, move and hide.

We volunteered to be our neighbor’s association block’s representative for an extra year and that’s apparently unusual 😂 We just thought ‘why the hell not, it’ll give us extra credit to avoid more burdensome responsibilities later on’

Well, hello you 🌙

I see that for his 4th birthday my son got himself his own gift: he can ride a bicycle without my help! Okay, he keeps turning right but big step 😂

Harry Pro-terf. (On rappelle que donner de l'argent à Rowling, c'est donner de argent à des organisations transphobes. Ce n'est pas un raccourci, c'est un fait, elle s'en félicite elle-même)

And again, a stalked woman who had asked help from authorities got killed by her stalker, at work, right in middle of Ikebukuro’s sunshine city 🫠 www.asahi.com/sp/articles/...

Life got busy, but I’m finally ✨done✨ Would have liked a sewing machine to speed up the process, but it’s quite relaxing to sew 🧵

C’est tout frais et ça nous concerne tous : www.anses.fr/fr/content/c...

I hate having to use an app for everything and anything 😭

Side topic that always get me riled up: the reason for Otsu's long wait time for a daycare spot is the development of new apartment buildings VS the city not increasing services. I frequently rant about this issue because my district is being redeveloped and facing the same pressure.

Otsu’s ‘bold move’: lowering kindergarten teachers’ pay to daycare levels. In a city with the longest daycare waitlists. Instead of raising daycare salaries.

My stress limit is around the corner

⚫ L'ancien Premier ministre socialiste Lionel Jospin est décédé à l'âge de 88 ans, a annoncé lundi sa famille à l'AFP.

French General Richoux: "He wanted to invade Greenland and now he is begging for help from Europe" "He can go fuck himself." (📹@Tweet4AnnaNAFO)

I see I can no longer use my usual hiding spot for birthday gifts with a soon to be 4-year old 🫠

I have to look into the JR pass for my family and what the HELL is that horrible pas system? couldn’t the unify the whole thing under a unique pass? 😭 I’m dying trying to figure out which pass work with their itinerary.

"Face à une crise, les Japonais n'attendent pas un de Gaulle, ils n’ont pas le culte du chef" www.lexpress.fr/monde/asie/f...