Jeff Daggett
@jmdaggett.bsky.social
Retail, brand and licensing entrepreneur with some experience and much left to learn
This year’s winner for ‘Truth in Permalinks and post slugs’ award. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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December 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This year’s winner for ‘Truth in Permalinks and post slugs’ award. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Camellias (椿)are up - this one was hiding at curb level on a Tokyo side street
December 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Camellias (椿)are up - this one was hiding at curb level on a Tokyo side street
Tokyo, early winter dry, clear blue skies, morning of December 4, 2025. Tokyo Tower is hiding behind ‘Mushroom Tower’ on the right.
December 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Tokyo, early winter dry, clear blue skies, morning of December 4, 2025. Tokyo Tower is hiding behind ‘Mushroom Tower’ on the right.
I have always admired great sports writing - the best writers bring keen powers of observation, wit, playfulness - it’s about play - but can cut right to the heart of a matter when it’s 4th and 1 (if you’ll forgive the Americanism). Here’s my entry for Best Sports Writing of 2025:
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
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December 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I have always admired great sports writing - the best writers bring keen powers of observation, wit, playfulness - it’s about play - but can cut right to the heart of a matter when it’s 4th and 1 (if you’ll forgive the Americanism). Here’s my entry for Best Sports Writing of 2025:
Fallen cherry tree leaves in Tokyo parking lot
November 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Fallen cherry tree leaves in Tokyo parking lot
Tokyo Ginko leaves are not yet full “Ghost of Yotei” golden, but they’ve started to turn at their edges.
October 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Tokyo Ginko leaves are not yet full “Ghost of Yotei” golden, but they’ve started to turn at their edges.
Hiroo Shrine from above, October 1, 2025. On the first of every month, the shrine priest drums in the new month at 5 am with an accelerating beat, then stops. Tsukinami-sai (月次祭) is intended to wake the gods - it wakes us up too - and is now part of the cadence of our life in Tokyo.
October 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Hiroo Shrine from above, October 1, 2025. On the first of every month, the shrine priest drums in the new month at 5 am with an accelerating beat, then stops. Tsukinami-sai (月次祭) is intended to wake the gods - it wakes us up too - and is now part of the cadence of our life in Tokyo.
A misty October morning
October 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A misty October morning
The danger here is actually to the right - once we replace rule of law with purity test politics, and establish that the end justifies the means, we create what we saw in early 20th century, where there is always a group of ‘more right’ folks willing to replace incumbents by force. Very dangerous.
September 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The danger here is actually to the right - once we replace rule of law with purity test politics, and establish that the end justifies the means, we create what we saw in early 20th century, where there is always a group of ‘more right’ folks willing to replace incumbents by force. Very dangerous.
Hibiscus blossom on a Tokyo back street in late summer
September 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Hibiscus blossom on a Tokyo back street in late summer
There is no reason to be on Fasci-stack in 2025. Publishing on it, or worse, soliciting subscriptions on it, perpetuates the amplification of deadly ideas. The freedom to shun is society’s necessary complement to the freedom of speech. Use it. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology
Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.
arstechnica.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
There is no reason to be on Fasci-stack in 2025. Publishing on it, or worse, soliciting subscriptions on it, perpetuates the amplification of deadly ideas. The freedom to shun is society’s necessary complement to the freedom of speech. Use it. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Glass Cleanse - Keyakizaka, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo
July 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Glass Cleanse - Keyakizaka, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo
A late Camellia blossom in Tokyo
March 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
A late Camellia blossom in Tokyo
An early cherry blossom has escaped bud containment at the lovely Aiiku Hospital stand of sakura trees. 2025 cherry blossom season is on!
March 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
An early cherry blossom has escaped bud containment at the lovely Aiiku Hospital stand of sakura trees. 2025 cherry blossom season is on!
Plum blossoms and fair weather Tokyo
March 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Plum blossoms and fair weather Tokyo
Time and circumstance prevented me from getting good pictures of Tokyo’s once-a-year-or-so snowfall yesterday, so here instead are more plum blossoms.
March 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Time and circumstance prevented me from getting good pictures of Tokyo’s once-a-year-or-so snowfall yesterday, so here instead are more plum blossoms.
February plum blossoms in Tokyo
March 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
February plum blossoms in Tokyo
Late fall in Arisugawa Memorial Park
December 20, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Late fall in Arisugawa Memorial Park
Fall colors in Hiroo, Tokyo
December 14, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Fall colors in Hiroo, Tokyo
Sunny Tokyo morning
November 18, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Sunny Tokyo morning
Rainy Tokyo, falling Ginko leaves
November 18, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Rainy Tokyo, falling Ginko leaves