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This is a mirrored account: I rarely check replies here.

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It's as if having all internet traffic dependent on a handful of CDNs, wasn't a great idea…

#cloudfare #internetIsDown
December 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Our cat has rightfully identified me as the weakest link in the cordon sanitaire surrounding her bedroom access.

Partner being away on business, means I now get 3h of plaintive meowing at the door every night.
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
#Ikea website:

"Want to order spare parts to fix something? We <3 the planet and will make it super easy. Just click here to contact our customer service about it"



"Contact page for Ikea: looking for spare parts? Click here!"

November 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
it is hard to overstate how aggressively user-hostile the whole online Ikea experience is…

I guess this is what happens when you made your entire business around brick-and-mortar stores and are dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Soccer mums be like "keep those 5G microchip autism vaccines away from me"… meanwhile I'm busy getting every possible vaccines in one go, like an 80s adventure game character visiting the in-game supply store.
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
POV: you missed your Eurostar and have 2h to kill at a Belgian pub until the next one.
But you also forgot that a “pint” in Belgium pretty much means a bucket of beer.
November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Just saw a post advertising an upcoming event by "Green Software Brighton" where the main talk will discuss 'using AI to "superscale" images on the client side, reducing web page download sizes'…



I think I'm ready to just let the oceans swallow us all.
November 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"UK government set to make support for asylum seekers ‘discretionary’"

In its usual waffling non-committal style, the Guardian alludes to the real figures behind Starmers' latest attempt to cater to racists:
November 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Daddy’s home!
November 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Sunny Autumn mornings are the best…

Video: https://mastodon.social/@deivudesu/115510491217410556
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Funny coincidence that a couple weeks after seeing it in London, Schrader's Mishima was screened here at TIFF.
Friend of the show James Hadfield even got to interview Schrader for the JT:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/11/06/film/tokyo-international-film-festival-yukio-mishima-biopic/
A 40-year wait for ‘Mishima’ ends at TIFF
Paul Schrader’s 1985 biopic of the radical author Yukio Mishima finds its Japanese audience at last.
www.japantimes.co.jp
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
If you’ve always dreamt of going glamping in kabukicho, and complementing your glamping session with a chocolate fountain, do I have the love hotel for you…
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Since tradition dictates we burn at the stake a catholic with a weird-sounding name, does anyone know where Jacob Rees-Mogg might be?

#guyfawkes
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I know I’m an easy mark, but Loop Daddy doing Subway Takes is the crossover I had been waiting for my whole life…

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQmR0LxDj5Z/?igsh=MWNnNGxiMnE1cjBxZQ
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I so love that Tokyo weather, I wants to marry it and have its kids 😍
November 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Anyone wants to Letsu Beer Great?
Yours if you come pick up in central Tokyo
November 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
"I really should get back to serious Japanese studies for a while.
OK, I just need to update my kanji-studying app an start using it again.
Actually, I could make it so much better if I redid it from scratch. Can't be that complicated…"

And, this, is why I'm still level N1.8 after all these years…
November 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Having coffee with the only non-problematic political icon of the 90s.
November 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
In case you are wondering how deep tourist fatigue runs in Tokyo:

Pro-domme at the bar yesterday was complaining about her last session of the day, and how having to peg a large foreigner for over an hour had completely killed her hips.
October 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
It’s nice to know that it’s not just rightwing dickheads being a nuisance in the streets of Tokyo.
Sometimes Dickheads for Christ also join in on the fun…
October 29, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Maybe should have skipped this morning shower.

Drilling successful, might need deeper screws.

In other news, how can it be so difficult to find a Home Center *anywhere* inside the Yamanote?!?
October 29, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Few things summarise Japan politics better than walking by the kamogawa early morning, surrounded by peace and quiet, with the sole exception of a politician truck blaring about making foreigners respect the rules… 😐

Video: https://mastodon.social/@deivudesu/115443106898340606
October 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Nihongo-jozu’ed from saying ‘カードで’ , might be a new record
October 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Taking my heavily hungover visiting friends to Ikebukuro's Earthquake safety museum, where we've got a rezzie for the Earthquake simulator. This is gonna be… interesting.
October 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM