Laotree
@laotree.bsky.social
Educator, artist, beatmaker. Immigrant, not expat; longterm resident of Japan (Kyoto).
https://laotree.bandcamp.com/
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https://laotree.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/laotree_j
Every time I see the stack of cookies on this box of cooking paper out of the corner of my eye, pareidolia turns it into a dang severed foot
October 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Every time I see the stack of cookies on this box of cooking paper out of the corner of my eye, pareidolia turns it into a dang severed foot
Haven’t been in since the rebrand but they look like this now
August 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Haven’t been in since the rebrand but they look like this now
I always find it interesting that on the border between Kyoto and Osaka Prefectures, the Katsura, Uji, and Kizu rivers converge to become the Yodo river. And further upstream, the Uji river starts out as Seta River, draining out of Lake Biwa.
August 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I always find it interesting that on the border between Kyoto and Osaka Prefectures, the Katsura, Uji, and Kizu rivers converge to become the Yodo river. And further upstream, the Uji river starts out as Seta River, draining out of Lake Biwa.
“Apartheid was socialist” is a hell of a take 🤦♂️
March 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“Apartheid was socialist” is a hell of a take 🤦♂️
Curtis Mayfield would follow those well
December 12, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Curtis Mayfield would follow those well
My submission for #dibiflipsessions15 , sample by Low Key 🫡 #koalasampler #koalagang #HipHopBeat #SampleBasedBeat #sampling #LoFiHipHop #sampling #flipchallenge #boombap #lofihiphop #dibiflipsessions
November 29, 2024 at 3:20 AM
My submission for #dibiflipsessions15 , sample by Low Key 🫡 #koalasampler #koalagang #HipHopBeat #SampleBasedBeat #sampling #LoFiHipHop #sampling #flipchallenge #boombap #lofihiphop #dibiflipsessions
Introduce yourself with 4 video games.
November 20, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Introduce yourself with 4 video games.
I was raised on these streets
November 18, 2024 at 8:28 AM
I was raised on these streets
Came to post this in meme form
December 31, 2023 at 2:00 AM
Came to post this in meme form
Asked chatGPT to explain how a government would (hypothetically…😒) use AI to generate target lists for bombing urban areas, and the results were interesting
December 7, 2023 at 8:27 AM
Asked chatGPT to explain how a government would (hypothetically…😒) use AI to generate target lists for bombing urban areas, and the results were interesting
And with guys like the Dulles bros at the levers of power, the US just slipped on those Hugo Boss designed SS boots and kept marching
November 12, 2023 at 2:43 AM
And with guys like the Dulles bros at the levers of power, the US just slipped on those Hugo Boss designed SS boots and kept marching
As a result of watching videos of rare 70s Japanese funk and soul, I’m getting ads for nursing homes 🤦♂️
November 9, 2023 at 11:00 PM
As a result of watching videos of rare 70s Japanese funk and soul, I’m getting ads for nursing homes 🤦♂️
One of the most unhinged and badass hazard labels I’ve ever seen. Peeled this off a drill in a gravel quarry around 1997, it’s been stuck to the back of my Casio sk-5 sampling keyboard ever since.
October 15, 2023 at 3:34 AM
One of the most unhinged and badass hazard labels I’ve ever seen. Peeled this off a drill in a gravel quarry around 1997, it’s been stuck to the back of my Casio sk-5 sampling keyboard ever since.
Gifu is the red circle on the right, Nagasaki on the left. Different islands, many hours by high speed rail
October 12, 2023 at 2:53 PM
Gifu is the red circle on the right, Nagasaki on the left. Different islands, many hours by high speed rail
初の日本語スキート。なぜか画面の右下に言語選択ができるけど、なんなためにあるかな？
My first post in Japanese. For some reason there’s a button on the lower right to select the language, but it doesn’t seem to effect anything.
My first post in Japanese. For some reason there’s a button on the lower right to select the language, but it doesn’t seem to effect anything.
October 12, 2023 at 7:48 AM
初の日本語スキート。なぜか画面の右下に言語選択ができるけど、なんなためにあるかな？
My first post in Japanese. For some reason there’s a button on the lower right to select the language, but it doesn’t seem to effect anything.
My first post in Japanese. For some reason there’s a button on the lower right to select the language, but it doesn’t seem to effect anything.
The longer I teach junior and senior high school students, the more I feel like a holdover from a dead century, a person from the 1900s (or in extreme cases a peat bog man)
October 5, 2023 at 4:00 AM
The longer I teach junior and senior high school students, the more I feel like a holdover from a dead century, a person from the 1900s (or in extreme cases a peat bog man)
