Now is definitely giving The Day After Tomorrow vibe. Ragasa is now the strongest storm system on Earth in 2025. Just the eye is 3 times bigger than Hong Kong. Its big enough to hit Taiwan and Philippines at the same time. I am panicking and will meme to ease the stress 😬

Super Typhoon Ragasa, a T10 (highest possible typhoon warning) is wrecking Hong Kong at the moment. This is video from the Ocean Park Fullerton Hotel.

Beppu Bay Kyushu island, Oita, Japan #Japan #Nippon

Austerity dominates Canadian politics at the moment. The proposed spending cuts seem generational, transformative.

My tribute to Paul Cohen as historian & mentor to many www.asianstudies.org/in-memoriam-... cc @lmansley.bsky.social

I may be wrong about this, but didn't the Universal Ostrich Farm originally raise ostriches for... meat? vancouversun.com/news/two-arr...

"Top 5 hacks to find deleted websites, posts and secret changes" Guide to advanced use of the Internet Archive by Benjamin Strick: How to track changes made to websites How to view collections of archived sites How to search through TV News archives www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuX...

Reminds me of visiting Asuka, which has all sorts of cool stuff related to the Asuka period. Including a great museum, plus another museum devoted to the Man'yoshu

The thing with Japan is that the government *tried* for inflation for decades. It was a mainstream economic objective. And then when they finally got some the public was like “I don’t like this” foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/15/j...

best meme i ever made

In other news, I live a block from the Inner Harbour and the convention centre and a bunch of big hotels, and I was wondering why there were so many men wearing actual suits yesterday evening. Almost never see suits anymore in downtown Victoria. Very olde timey, 2000s vibe. Now I know why: UBCM.

Not often we use visual aids in philosophy class, but I did get to bust out the Cosmic Microwave Background beach ball.

Tylenol’s a hell of a drug 😜

The upcoming horticultural expo in Yokohama has nothing on Myaku-Myaku's mascot game.

Saudi Arabia will host the next (?) intl expo, after Osaka. I just like the juxtaposition of a dude wearing traditional dress and the extremely cool Myaku-Myaku variations.

This is kind of incredible (and shows what a great place NYC is). Spoiler: "Macron later appears to be allowed through on foot but not in his car. Still on his phone, he proceeds to stride off down the street, past shoppers and pedestrians."

Now playing (07:20 AM PST): "Lynch/Oz" (2023) By Alexandre O. Philippe Runtime: 108 min.

I learned this week that of the 5 stages of grief, the fifth is selling merchandise.

The joke here is that it’s a Pacific saury or sanma, 秋刀魚, very roughly translated as “autumn sword fish” (or fish that’s shaped like a sword that shows up each autumn).

The deer smell

I often think about how my cats express themselves without saying anything at all

> Hundreds of years ago, my kind was so plentiful that the Río Abajo Forest resounded with our voices. Now we’re almost gone. Soon this rainforest may be as silent as the rest of the universe.

Thought this was about Evan Soloman's art business but then read more closely.

Re-upping the free to use (if used responsibly) 400 images from Studio Ghibli, first announced in 2020. www.ghibli.jp/info/013344/...

Japanese men's fashion and culture magazine POPEYE began publishing in 1976, and now 49 years later, I helped the editors put together the first-ever all-English issue. This Tokyo guide is pure POPEYE: extremely deep recommendations and arguably the highest info-density of any magazine on the planet

Awaiting sweater weather #filmsky

Ephemera like postcards can show us fascinating glimpses of the past. 📮 If you’re interested in the early 20th century, check out Nichibunken’s database of Japanese art exhibition postcards from the 1900s to the 1930s! Check out their pre-war materials at: tenrankai.nichibun.ac.jp/il/meta_pub/...

youtu.be/Kw_4eZesY9I She was called “The Black Garbo.” Nina Mae McKinney dazzled Hollywood, Broadway, and beyond—yet her story was nearly erased. Watch as African American History Is AMERICAN History restores the legacy of this forgotten Black star.

One of the charming things about this movie is watching 28 year old Steve McQueen play a high school student.

What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it

Great movie. It’s too bad there aren’t any stills available online to share here. It’s a dreamlike movie making you wonder how they filmed it in 1960. From the director of the Red Balloon.

In case you wonder which platforms are here to help creators thrive and which are here to tell us to eat shit, here’s the breakdown of likes for crab, 15 hours after posting. Follower count in () for more useful comparison. TikTok(2k): 139 Instagram (22k): 719 Tumblr (13k): 12k Bsky (52k): 22k

> "This kind of political interference is unacceptable and risks setting a precedent that affects other national health issues, such as vaccination, reproductive health, medical assistance in dying, or even cancer or surgical care."

The final target for the Hayabusa2 mission is a tiny asteroid. We knew it was small, it turns out is much smaller than expected. Not much bigger than the spacecraft What's killing me is the size comparison with Ryugu, the first target of Hayabusa2! So wee! 🔭🧪 www.iflscience.com/hayabusa2s-t...

I was thinking about Juneteenth and the fact that we are always in the middle of history. That was 71 days after lee surrendered and 24 days after the disbanding of the confederate military. Just imagine what history you can be a part of creating and wake up to tomorrow.

It may be the first climate-driven bird hybrid found in nature.

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

As usual, an excellent movie from Shinoda Masahiro, in collaboration with his creative partner and muse Iwashita Shima. The premise is that in ancient times, rather than being a symbol of beauty, cherry trees were feared for instigating madness. The movie is gruesome, with lots of severed heads.

J.C. Chandor directed Redford in the excellent 2013 film, All is Lost. Among other things, the film could be interpreted as a man confronting the end of life.

Herzog's Nosferatu is just an amazing film. It is artfully shot, with beautiful, desolate landscapes that can only be found in Herzog films. And its ending is truly horrible, even more disquieting than the books and movies its based on.

One of those fall mornings where you feel you gotta experience it, this day will never come again.

urbanists have a lot of work to do

This started with tweens (now mid to late teens)before the pandemic, where my younger son’s classmates started using the vilest racial and sexual language. My sons are 7 years apart, the oldest born early 2000s. It’s striking how different their cultural worlds are.

(guy who has only read two books) this orwellian shit is starting to seem pretty dickensian to me

Noto Suzu City, Ishikawa, Japan #Japan #Nippon

Reminds me of a David Letterman quip from that era, “How do you know it’s springtime in New York? There’s a new Claus Von Bulow trial.” The funny thing about Reversal of Fortune is that Ron Silver makes Alan Dershowitz look charismatic and heroic.

Me, screaming in Saskatchewan queer, SOMETHING IS BEING DONE! The Supreme Court is going to rule on the notwithstanding clause soon, for the first time in 40 years. Shockingly the liberals seem to be on the right side of history here (unlike SK, AB, and ON). www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...