I am obsessed with tourists who ask whether they should cancel their trip to Japan after a largish but otherwise non-serious earthquake and my answer to them will always be yes. I get having some nerves if you've never experienced one before but an earthquake is *always* a possibility here.

Over a decade ago, famed Irish drag queen Panti Bliss gave a speech where she mentioned what a "funny trick" it is that homophobes respond to being accurately labeled as homophobic as if they're the ones who've been called a homophobic slur, and well...we're really in the thick of that culture now.

“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said

God bless @hankgreen.bsky.social Why is Everyone So Wrong About AI Water Use?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6...

“this won’t pass” “the impacts are minimal” you are the organizations a marginalized population relies on to advocate on our behalf, not play liberal wonkery politics around the edges to appease democratic partisans

this week, congress has agreed to ban trans participation in sports at military academies and the opening bid to fix aca subsidies bans trans care coverage on obamacare exchanges why does it feel like we’re not seeing a five alarm fire from the lgbtq+ advocacy groups yet

It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

I know "uniquely suited to win over Trump voters" is the Atlantic's spin, but also a reminder that a plurality of eligible voters DO NOT VOTE and are right there to be actually won instead...

This kind of abject bigotry makes me insane particularly because like that's her legal fucking name?? Like this isn't a matter of "disagreeing" with someone's transgender identity you're literally using the wrong name

If you made a movie out of this the audience would be cheering for the shooter by the end of the film

It's become normal now for high-level political figures to argue that an entire generation was brainwashed through fake videos into mass anti-Israel political mobilization by TikTok. Complete conspiracy thinking, rooted in zero evidence, based on nothing

I just registered my MyNumber at the doctor and it worked immediately with facial recognition even though I never set it up before that was wild!

Just learned the phrase 余計なお世話(かもしれませんが…) and what do you MEAN it can mean one thing or the exact opposite of that thing???? You're gonna give me a panic attack!

Oh so they're literally insane huh ¥300,000 (≈$2,000) for PR application, and ¥100,000 (≈$650) for every single PR renewal news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/2e8...

It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

I've been SAYING—the algorithmic internet is NOT. REAL. You are giving yourself brain damage by trying to make sense of the world via these platforms

i’m too stoned for this level of ventriloquy

since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.

Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?

Until the Democratic party takes a stand against this class of political operators things will continue to get worse. Before all else the vast money in politics has to be reigned in.

all his fans are waiting for him to threaten denaturalization and he's just like: oh boy! the mayor! talking to me!

I do honestly think trump is senile enough that the mayor of New York is sort of instinctively an impressive person to him that he wants to please, despite being the fucking president

TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den? MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes TRUMP: surely they ate him MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't TRUMP: Unbelievable

nostalgia is a scam invented by big new to sell more old

Hey so being a freak towards your students doesn't have to rise to the level of criminality for you to be unfit for the job

I don't know who I need to threaten to get an answer for this but riddle me this! Riddle me this!!!!

I think about this all the time—every "weird Japan" social problem is just a few years ahead of the curve

the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.

Like I wouldn't have been able to stifle a "woah!" even if I had advanced warning

Israel is engaged in genocide, it is a genocide materially assisted by the US, and AIPAC is the biggest lobby pushing for that material assistance to continue. AND. We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.

I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel. We have to be SHARP on the left right now.

Seems worth pointing out that, in Japan, there's an overwhelming expectation that companies provide extensive OJT to build up their pipeline of talent internally. Unwillingness to train workers in the US is significant, and "we can't find mechanics for high-paying jobs" just sounds like an excuse.

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

I know it’s fighting a losing battle, but I really do wish we could reclaim liberalism as a philosophical tradition and that people could just say “establishment Democrat” when they mean that.

i don’t think people realize how straight up delusional a solid proportion of democratic senators are regarding our politics. i don’t mean that as hyperbole. they are actually untethered from reality

What living in Japan with a feed full of Americans is like

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

JAYNE MANSFIELD IS MARISKA HARGITAY'S MOTHER?!?

Actually the person who has the "right" to live in a house is the person who buys it. Does this guy believe in markets or does he believe in Israeli-style settler colonialism? (don't answer that)

The Governnent of Jamaica has established a disaster relief portal that can be found at the URL below. It includes a comprehensive needs list of supplies and equipment, as well as information for sending monetary donations locally and from abroad. #HurricaneMelissa supportjamaica.gov.jm

All the Epstein emails are like On Tue, November 21, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Larry Summers wrote: Have you seen the latest news? Get the popcorn ready… On Tue, November 21, 2017 at 8:18 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote: Pop cofn taste good .