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Hiding out in northern Japan. American by birth, but I’ve lived in Japan longer.
Busy running, hiking; tending to my plants and myself. Also games and politics.
ゆっくり、自分の方向歩いています!
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here’s the 60 Minutes CECOT segment, which is temporarily available in Canada

you all know what to do
December 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
HAPPY winter solstice!
The sun sets at 4:14 PM where I am so in honor of the shortest day of the year, I ran 4.14 km 😁
Every day after this will be getting a little longer, so I’d say things are looking up!
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A baby’s most primal emotion is to cling to their mother. If your child cuts ties with you can be sure there’s a reason.

www.issendai.com/psychology/e...
December 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
what if cool is what you like who cares about the rest?
free your mind and your ass will follow♪
In which writer @lukewinkie.bsky.social chronicles his favorite band becoming Dad Rock in real time. Take solace, Luke, it happens to us all, shit, I remember when U2 was the coolest fuckin' band in the world. Sooner or later, time comes for everything cool.

slate.com/culture/2025...
LCD Soundsystem Used to Be the Coolest Band In the World. How Did They Get So Cringe?
Watching the set at the Knockdown Center, I became aware that my favorite band had become unfathomably lame.
slate.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
misinformation, misinterpretation, decontextualization are not a western aberration 👎🏻

www.tokyoreview.net/2025/12/how-...
How online outrage undermines local inclusion efforts in Japan
A specter is haunting local governance in Japan—the specter of the attention economy. Municipal officials, whose daily work usually revolves around routine community services, now find themselves conf...
www.tokyoreview.net
December 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
December 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Surprised to find out that black lung disease has been on the rise over the last 5 years
December 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
you will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 5:41 AM
My hot take of the day - John Lennon was an abusive PoS and he illustrates how society is willing to put even the shittiest of men on a pedestal.
December 9, 2025 at 5:36 AM
hey didja know there’s a shrine with Godzilla in my city?
December 7, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Important and trenchant.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Most of Japan’s websites feel and run like the early aughts (^-^;笑
December 1, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Cannibal Corpse
George Clinton
Hum
Ani DiFranco
Belle and Sebastian
Introduce yourself with five concerts you attended

John Williams x 3
Shane MacGowan (he never showed up)
Wesley Willis (not the same night he crashed at my place)
The Go-Gos + The B52s
Anti-Flag/Don Cab/pretty much every punk band out of Pittsburgh/Ohio/etc in the 90s (not a fan, just with friends)
Introduce yourself with five concerts you attended

David Bowie
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
KT Tunstall/Barenaked Ladies
Elton John/Billy Joel
Sinead O'Connor
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A tiny, harmless (missing a leg!) stink bug flew in my class this morning (o_o)
October 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Hot Pot is back! Authentic jerk chicken and love ♡

#盛岡 #jerkchicken #hotpot
October 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Roasting beets and taking names, but mostly just roasting beets
September 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
more horns in pop please
Do you remember the 21st night of September? The first line of Earth, Wind & Fire's song was group leader Maurice White's due date for his son Kahbran.

#MusicSky

youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...
Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
youtu.be
September 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I think my mini monstera is getting into Russian literature (o_o)
#plantsky
September 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
check out this cool purple mushroom I found when I was hiking
#三石山 #fungifriends
September 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
me and Sparkles; our backs against the wall bravely facing the world
September 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The irony feels like a bullet to the neck
The insane choice by the city of West Hollywood to lower the LGBTQ PRIDE FLAG to half mast to mourn Charlie Kirk’s death, holy shit
September 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
let the baby cows have the colostrum!! 🤢😤🐄
September 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains
September 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
thank gosh it’s Friday
September 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM