-2°C (🇯🇵 JR2TTS | 🇺🇸 NI3B)

I like how pleasantly innocent 報道ステーション is that they think renting a camper and driving through deep-red MAGA country in Texas and interviewing the cowboy-hat-wearing populace will get a Japanese television news crew any straight answers about politics

US television right now: Democratic commercial: I aim to enact affordable healthcare and end corruption in government and make sure the mega-rich pay their fair share in taxes. Republican commercial: [30 SECONDS OF SS TROOPS IN FORMATION GOOSE-STEPPING PAST THE CAMERA] Polls: R 50.1%, D 49.9%

I suppose it's only appropriate that a team composed almost entirely of former #Orioles would be getting their collective asses pureed into a fondue like this. #WorldSeries

I long for the good old days where hacker crews were composed of teenagers with nicknames like "bl4ck dr4g0n" and whose goals were usually limited to turning your web site black with red blinking text, and maybe a dick pic here and there

I wrote this on Facebook nearly a decade and a half ago but nobody listened.

*SPIT TAKE* HOLY SHIT HE WON?!!?!?!?

Psssst: this is what the US midterms are going to be like, over and over again, so prepare yourselves

Rainy Monday morning commute. I just saw, on the subway station steps, literally a pile of shit. It was most definitely human. My office building is on a street littered with seedy pubs and escort clubs, so alcohol-induced fuckery like this is not unexpected, but still... ugh. Happy Monday.

Finger lickin' lorem ipsum barbecue

Hard-hitting journalism

"...and this way we can turn the collapse of the global environment into MORE MONEY!!!!!1!!111”

WHAT IN THE NAME OF

At this point I would only be taking this test for ego massage. I passed the アマチュア無線技士1級国家試験 which was hard enough and actually afforded me a tangible reward (a class 1 amateur radio operator license). What would I do with a JLPT in late middle age?

"Hand over the candy, old dude, or we egg your house back to the Stone Age!"

Oh it's totally easy to forget about any of the upcoming holidays when IT WAS 30°C YESTERDAY

Super Typhoon #Champi from my GK-2A wxsat receiver. This is one scary son of a bitch.

Attention all hams: EVE operation is here

Mine is always "In the final scene of _Apollo 13_, the captain of the rescue ship Tom Hanks (as Jim Lovell) shakes hands with is the real Jim Lovell, wearing his real Navy uniform".

I like how the promotional code in this Japanese UberEats advertisement is a valid amateur radio callsign. I wonder if anyone actually has it

More from the archives: A shot of Tokyo taken from the airplane window on climbout from Haneda on Jan. 4, 2023. The phone camera shutter noise *really* pissed off the bling-encrusted lady sitting in front of me, who turned around in her seat and admonished me to "STOP USING CAMERA". Yeesh.

I'm really getting tired of the file footage NHK always uses of hooded figures in silhouette banging on keyboards, and closeups of crude oil being poured out of plastic containers

From the archives: This is a stitched panorama of Gifu City made from images I took in June, 2006. Gifu Tower 43 (far left) is still under construction here. Two department stores, Melsa and Takashimaya, no longer exist.

Walking through the gate

Where's my Led Zeppelin album

And then I found this in a really old cafe today, still operational.

I like how at least six people I've seen who live in Tokyo have posted pictures of the blue autumn sky like it was a damn solar eclipse or something :D

HAPPY YOMIURI GIANTS ELIMINATION DAY!

And the White Sox end up dying like field mice under a lawnmower, proving once again that I should never bandwagon anyone

Adolf Kitler

秋晴

"THERE'S SOMETHING HOVERING OUTSIDE THE

It was 12°C this morning. Crisp! Thank goodness autumn is finally here.

Here's something I didn't know was a thing: here in Gifu yesterday, at the Memorial Center complex downtown, they had a polling place open for the Brazilian presidential election. There are *that* many Brazilian nationals in this pref.

They want to kill you.

God this shit was cool as fuck

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I ordered a replacement 3A power supply for a Raspberry PI 4b because it was constantly crashing due to undervoltage. I ordered it on Amazon.co.jp this morning at 7:55 am. It arrived at my door at 2:52 pm, which has to be some kind of a record.

Harry Potter universe headcanon: They're witches and wizards but they celebrate holidays like Christmas and Easter. Jesus performed miracles like feeding the multitudes, healing the sick, walking on water, etc. Was Jesus, in fact, a wizard who went rogue and outed himself to help muggles?

It's still a month from Halloween, yet I visited the cemetery this afternoon and saw multiple black cats.

My mother worked at IBM, so it meant we got first crack at the new IBM PC 5150 when it first came out. 16KB RAM and no graphics capability at all because Mom used it for word processing only.

As someone who's lived here for over three decades, I will point out that summers in Japan have *always* been raging steam locomotive fires, every single year. What's changed is, people are finally realizing that it's not particularly noble or smart to just stand there and take it.

You know, more than once I've seen guys in public restrooms scrolling intently on their phones WHILE AT THE URINAL, MID-PISS. Dude. You can't even put TikTok down for 22 seconds to aim?

9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."

Just because you're a family member of a 9/11 victim does not give you a free pass to be a bigot.