I don't understand the importance of specifying my own pronoun, so I keep it blank (because we can speak about someone without referring their gendered pronoun).

Tokimeki is a good client that allows us to specify our gender pronouns (and its Japanese translation is "呼び方" (how to be called)).

Pronounsフィールドを「呼びかた」と訳すのには若干の逡巡があったけど、こういうフィールドをグローバルなSNSに実装するからには英語の文法に囚われた he/him とかに限定するべきではないと思いました。 日本語話者は日本語で自由になにか便利な使い方を見出せばいいと思ってこういう訳にしました。

🌈 TOKIMEKI UPDATE!!! (Web) 🆕 プロフィールに「ウェブサイト」「呼びかた（英: Pronouns）」フィールドを追加 - システム上はちょっと前にBlueskyに追加されましたがいつまで経っても公式アプリに実装されないので、例によって実験的に先行することにしました。 - TOKIMEKIのプロフィール編集画面から入力できます。ウェブサイト欄は https ではじまる完全なURLでないと弾かれるので注意！ tokimeki.blue

Wondering about why the distinction exists between the sound difference which we Japanese can perceive despite the absence of any sounds in modern Japanese phonology (like /t̪u/ and /tsu/) and the sound difference which we can't perceive (like /l/ and /r/).

No one knows whether "o" of oden 🍢 is honorific or not (I saw 🍢 at a konbini today).

Recent news of Japanese political situation noticed me that the English name of 維新の会 was no longer Restoration Party.

Conceived a new retronym "eye OCR"

Listening to Arai Akino's the crystal radio set because I watched Ruri Rocks E12.

Chitose Is In the Ramune Bottle was a literally disgusting show and I thought the protagonist (or the author) might have considered to civilize the barbarians was their mission if they lived in the early 20C.

Observed an account deletion, so regretful.

Kawaii Kaiwai might be a masterpiece.

The TV in a restaurant said that Expo 2025 Ōsaka finished. Ōsaka residents seemingly got a lot, from my view, although we Tokyo residents got nothing from Tokyo 2021 Olympics...

We should pronounce English in a Japanised phonology, Tōkaidō shinkansen tells all.

Finished attending the typical Buddhist funeral ceremony, and I was wondering how many Muslim precepts would be violated if a Muslim were to be attend that.

Entering an art museum wearing mourning clothes

No action plan until the funeral ceremony (2nd day)

I don't know Japanese traditional mourning clothes (we wear western-styled ones)

Me today

Recently I learned that in the Age of Enlightenment, a missionary translated Confucius's ancient Chinese word "政者正也" into Latin "Regere est rectum facere". 政 and 正 are homophone, and regere (to rule) and rectum (the right) share the same etymology. Great work.

Summer Pockets Umi root might tell us that every parent-children relationship might be performance.

I tried to construct the tetra-display environment and it failed, so I disconnect the LCD tablet cable and the tri-display environment works well. Goodbye, sir LCD tablet...

I'm still trapped by summer anime, so I can't enter autumn anime

The difference between pikachu itself and a a representation of pikachu'

Returnin' to the fuckin' crowded city called Tokyo, sucks

Grand emperor Go-toba (13C) and Emperor Go-daigo (14C) temporarily stayed here, bukkoku temple. I visited here instead of Zatsu-tabi-chan's lighthouse.

Mizuki Shigeru road and museum vibe good.

Mihonoseki, the place where Zatsu-tabi-chan visited, but I won't go to the famous lighthouse, mainly due to time constraints. Because I'm not an otaku.

Goodbye Oki islands, the next island is called Honshū.

I can never remember how to read 小原好美, but Shiroha episodes of anime Summer Pockets were awesome (I'm watching isolated island anime because I'm in the isolated island now).

Oki soba, topped with mekabu (parts of seaworthy) and peel of yuzu (a kind of citrus). Not so bad.

Damn it!

遠島 (distant island), 流刑 (flow penalty), 配流 (distribution flow) ...etc. all the Japanese terms for penal transportation are good. My favorite might be 島流し (flow to an island), composed by yamato-kotoba.

Though "it's also written in the Kojiki" is popular due to Ninja Slayer, "written in the Izumo province Fudoki" is more persuasive, I think.

Boarding the ferry to the next island (takes only 12 minutes)

Takuhi shrine is embedded in the rock wall. A legend says that exiled grand emperor Go-toba was lead by fires of the god enshrined here. Legends in Oki tend to view Go-toba as a hero, and it's interesting.

Morning meal here

Because Oki islands were historically a place for exile, I think the Japanese word "流される", which is a common verb to mean "to be flowed", but also had a very specific meaning "to be exiled". However, I noticed that English "transport" is very similar, which can mean exile on a specific context.

Dinner in the Oki islands, the truth might be here

Hearing the sound of waves and I feel it's a real ASMR

On it (fast ferry, 高速船, maybe) now and movin' to the next island...

Now I'm in the Oki islands.

For the first time I realized that Ōsaka international airport is different from Kansai international airport.

In Ōsaka, all people speak a Kansai dialect. When I speak to a clerk, he or she start to speak standard Japanese (though in fact it's a Kantō dialect). I'm feeling so funny.

Heading to Osaka, but not to expo

The man with true freedom might not need alcohol, I felt. So I'm not drinking now, feeling freedom not to drink.

So many Sumō wrestlers at Ryōgoku

It's very cool so we can walk under the sun. Astounding.

Long ago, people had used a random number table for internet banking... (I found my old banking card and became nostalgic).

ATOK tells you that Google Japanese Input is truly dumb, its all functions cause stress.