Whenever I have traveled outside PNW I've been like why is it so dry and dusty smelling here. 😭😭

We're not Cloud Strifing enough
(full agree btw)

I mean when you use contractors to maintain a significant portion of your workforce, then you can lay them off without them being technically employees and then no one online gets mad at you. So... yeah Nintendo NA still lays people off, yall just do not hear about it.

:((((

Nice first post

NO :((

Another Kansai rec is Byodoin temple. It's the temple on the back of the 10-yen coin and really pretty in fall. It's not a "must see" but there are SO many places in Kyoto you can go that are outside the crowds.

Gioji is another great one for early or late fall. So mossy!

Also, get a suica card omg. Don't get a rail pass unless you are taking shinkansen constantly it's not worth it anymore. Suica you can put money on and just go and even works at stores and vending often.

I generally love to be outside of the city where things are a bit slower paced.

I'll always give a big rec to Shiga Prefecture. Hikone has one of the only castles in Japan that wasn't destroyed at that time period. Hikonyan is also cute and very popular.

Also in Shiga, Omihachiman! Less crowds than bigger spots in Kansai but lots of history.

If @kikidoodle.bsky.social had known another cat had died after eating Wild Coast Raw food, she would have “immediately” switched to canned food – a move she now recommends to all cat owners using raw food they bought or made on their own. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Also I hope the food transition is going well, my cat is (respectively) an awful little creature when it comes to her food and several times I've had to buy one of like 15 options and lay all of them out for her to choose. Between GI issues and preferences, it can be a real struggle 🫶❤️

In a way, I think the cancer maybe saved her life. I don't think we would have switched otherwise, and I'd been pretty absent online recently. I read about your beloved cats and wept for you all and wept again seeing two come home. Thank you for speaking on it despite how painful it must be.

My cat's health and coat saw huge benefits from her raw diet. She is over 13 years old and has as much energy as when she was 2 and I credit so much to the years she was on raw. I made the decision to switch because of chemo treatment / her immune system. I'm so sorry for all of this.

Up until my cat got cancer (remission 2 years!) she was so picky and would rather starve (literally!!) than eat anything but raw chicken. I bought Wild Coast following a different brand shuttering for years. Seeing this all unfold was so horrifying and it's cruel that people behave that way