Meanwhile in San Francisco www.instagram.com/p/DT92cTeldB...

Well that's one way to live more sensibly, austerity plan ftw

Posting a stabilized version because this is important

San Leandro as "the whitest city west of the Mississippi." I don't reckon I knew archive.ph/6Ne5q

New ski run name: Common Sense

Evergreen blocks Suez Canal Evergreen blocks Hwy 24 abc7news.com/post/overtur...

Should be a quite short flight, about 7hrs

TACO Wednesday lol

Not fond of tourists using the word "hit" to mean they're visiting a place

Great visual page for railway timetables in China, seems to also work well in English and Japanese. I can get lost in here for days cnrail.geogv.org/zhcn/about

The first S4 solar radiation storm since October 2003 is impacting the Earth as of midday Monday January 19th, 2026. For the first time since last November, Aurora viewing opportunities will be possible into the Bay Area tonight. @nbcbayarea.com 1/19/2026

Bay Area fans of JPOP, Radwimps specifically: Open to all, free on Feb 8 (Drummer Satoshi Yamaguchi using tech to fight neurological condition) music.stanford.edu/events/lectu...

Realization: Maybe Waymo got its car fleet for free

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug - A BUSY, BUSY ICE ENFORCEMENT OPERATION with apologies to Richard Scarry - Brought to you by the rough and ready Inner Hive, including long-time member Brady Marsh and new member SquirrelSaver7. ( bit.ly/theInnerHive ) - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

brb incorporating Canadian entity apnews.com/article/chin...

Holy hell, what an obituary

The assholes of Tokyo Auto Salon week: Diago Santiago IG @diago.banzaicruise @banzaicruise.official

Following that State Audit Office Building collapse

YIKES www.berkeleyscanner.com/2026/01/14/c...

Did any of the Tokyo Auto Salon content creators have foresight to combo it annual mayhem of JP Adults Day last weekend

While I was away watching the Niners game what is even going on

Didn't realize Tokyo Auto Salon had merch that would cause overseas reseller chaos, is it Liberty Walk stuff? news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/d6c...

Holy crap the Subaru EG33 (SVX!) engine is baaaack! jp.motorsport.com/supergt/news...

Sobering projection: By 2050 about half of Tokyo's 23 wards will start losing population, even as Japan's dwindling population continues to concentrate there

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

Trending: Björk

I hear Street Fighter voice

Here's an oppty for a status-matching campaign, other hotel chains

Speaking of Venezuela what's this guy up to lately www.cnn.com/2013/10/01/s...

Did not expect to be so excited about Toyota tbh youtu.be/lYQW0-zWrCU?...

2023 data www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Apropos of nothing, here is Chinese PLA's training facility in Inner Mongolia. It's a replica of chief administrative buildings in Taipei www.sankei.com/article/2025...

Diabolically sobering because there are FOUR signs discussed in the article www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/w...

OK hear me out: Cirque du Shen Yun

ホンダ・アクティストリート220万円な時代 bringatrailer.com/listing/1991...

Had never really thought about the significance of elongated 「ー」「〜」sounds at the end of Japanese expressions to lend it a casual/friendly/childish emphasis, I think similar in Korean www.gentosha.jp/article/25170

Meanwhile in Seoul

東京、大人気🗼

Tornado Warning, Santa Cruz CA

Gift-giving there was much, but none drew the same gasp as when @tamerlaneblog.bsky.social delivered this with a Jonathan Pryce accent

リビングでバブル期ずっと流してる

Via Shing02 Go Bears shing02.com "The PDF file is there for FREE, I don't care what you do with it. Wear it on your chest if you want, we're here for you."

Junior varsity fascism www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

Comicup Hangzhou, China's largest comic-con, bans manga and anime and related cosplay. Much Cultural Revolution www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

Phase 2 of China-HK automotive integration, letting private mainland vehicles drive in HK. When RHD and LHD worlds meet news.tvb.com/tc/local/694...

This story is brought to you by Barbra Streisand youtu.be/F81WnOyDXD4?...

SF90 on Angeles Crest Highway

That stabbing attack in Taipei: A broader attack appears to have been foiled when one of the bystanders intervened and damaged a toolbox containing Molotov cocktails, subsequently killed by the assailant news.nextapple.com/local/202512...

This JP administration understands soft power

Bay Area friends, ordering is now open in Oakland for Japanese 年越しそば！ www.instagram.com/p/DSd6LgZFMz...