Mike
@mikeisawake.bsky.social
Twitter refugee. Lived in Tokyo 🌆🇯🇵, now back in Canada 🧑🏻🌾🇨🇦
I miss Japan! 🥲 Interests: renewables, climate, tech and politics. My goal is to make a tiny difference, instead of just being a consumer.
Mastodon: mikeisawake@famichiki.jp
I miss Japan! 🥲 Interests: renewables, climate, tech and politics. My goal is to make a tiny difference, instead of just being a consumer.
Mastodon: mikeisawake@famichiki.jp
Thinking of people in Burma and Thailand today. I experienced a lot of smaller earthquakes in Tokyo, but never as strong as M7.7. A lot of desperately poor people in Myanmar with a civil war ongoing. They need help more than ever.
March 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Thinking of people in Burma and Thailand today. I experienced a lot of smaller earthquakes in Tokyo, but never as strong as M7.7. A lot of desperately poor people in Myanmar with a civil war ongoing. They need help more than ever.
An unnamed telecom vendor is doing Oracle Cloud Fusion maintenance on a Friday afternoon, causing my job application to be lost as I was submitting it.
Have their IT people learned nothing? 😰 Maybe they like weekend work. 🥰
Have their IT people learned nothing? 😰 Maybe they like weekend work. 🥰
March 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
An unnamed telecom vendor is doing Oracle Cloud Fusion maintenance on a Friday afternoon, causing my job application to be lost as I was submitting it.
Have their IT people learned nothing? 😰 Maybe they like weekend work. 🥰
Have their IT people learned nothing? 😰 Maybe they like weekend work. 🥰
Studying a CompTIA course and found a direct copy-paste from Wikipedia. And I’m paying big bucks for this? You dicks. 😠
March 6, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Studying a CompTIA course and found a direct copy-paste from Wikipedia. And I’m paying big bucks for this? You dicks. 😠
Hard to not punch the TV right now, haha. I should change the channel. Fuck all the way off, Trump! 🙂
March 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Hard to not punch the TV right now, haha. I should change the channel. Fuck all the way off, Trump! 🙂
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"The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad news will eventually yield the final piece of a puzzle. But there is also such a thing as having enough information."
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
"The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad news will eventually yield the final piece of a puzzle. But there is also such a thing as having enough information."
If you post every hour around the clock, or you’ve never posted, I’m not gonna follow you back.
February 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
If you post every hour around the clock, or you’ve never posted, I’m not gonna follow you back.
Happy New Year everyone!
January 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Happy New Year everyone!
Taking a trip back to my home town by train. Already 3 hours late and we haven’t left the station. 😔 We’ve never been so good at rail. 🇨🇦
December 18, 2024 at 6:24 AM
Taking a trip back to my home town by train. Already 3 hours late and we haven’t left the station. 😔 We’ve never been so good at rail. 🇨🇦
I bought a CD long ago, ripped it to iTunes. Moved from Canada to Japan and back again and now I can’t play it because it’s “not available in my country”??
December 11, 2024 at 5:46 AM
I bought a CD long ago, ripped it to iTunes. Moved from Canada to Japan and back again and now I can’t play it because it’s “not available in my country”??
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EUREKA, Calif. (AP) — Powerful earthquake strikes off coast of Northern California; tsunami warning issued.
December 5, 2024 at 7:08 PM
EUREKA, Calif. (AP) — Powerful earthquake strikes off coast of Northern California; tsunami warning issued.
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A certain healthcare corporation who needs a new chief executive today once laid my dad off at 39.5 years of service so he wouldn’t be entitled to the 40 year pension. His team raised money themselves to give him a watch with “39.5 Years” engraved on it. I think about that watch A LOT.
December 4, 2024 at 5:59 PM
A certain healthcare corporation who needs a new chief executive today once laid my dad off at 39.5 years of service so he wouldn’t be entitled to the 40 year pension. His team raised money themselves to give him a watch with “39.5 Years” engraved on it. I think about that watch A LOT.
My eyes feel so worn out after I use my smartphone for an hour or more. I’m getting older, might be time to cut back on social media. 😅
November 29, 2024 at 2:04 AM
My eyes feel so worn out after I use my smartphone for an hour or more. I’m getting older, might be time to cut back on social media. 😅
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LOVE BLUESKY BUT HATE THE INTERFACE? Because Bluesky runs on ATProto, an open protocol, any software developer can build an alternative Bluesky app, some with features Bluesky doesn't yet have. Miss TweetDeck? Try deck.blue! Miss drafts and an iPad app? Try @skeetsapp.com! Lots more on @graysky.app!
October 23, 2024 at 5:42 PM
LOVE BLUESKY BUT HATE THE INTERFACE? Because Bluesky runs on ATProto, an open protocol, any software developer can build an alternative Bluesky app, some with features Bluesky doesn't yet have. Miss TweetDeck? Try deck.blue! Miss drafts and an iPad app? Try @skeetsapp.com! Lots more on @graysky.app!
Don’t forget the MAGA moderation list. Subscribe to it and then block it!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 22, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Don’t forget the MAGA moderation list. Subscribe to it and then block it!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.
November 15, 2024 at 5:22 PM
A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.
Started the process of deleting all my tweets on X before the TOS change tomorrow. I see there’s some app to import them into Bluesky from a Twitter archive. I hope it works! 😢😅
November 15, 2024 at 4:06 AM
Started the process of deleting all my tweets on X before the TOS change tomorrow. I see there’s some app to import them into Bluesky from a Twitter archive. I hope it works! 😢😅
Very impressed with using the Sky Follower Bridge plug-in for Chrome to find Twitter followers on Bluesky. Easy to use and lets you remember all the great people you followed back in the early days of Twitter!
bsky.app/profile/kawa...
bsky.app/profile/kawa...
Hi Bluesky community 🦋.
I just pushed the official website for Sky Follower Bridge 🚀
sky-follower-bridge-docs.vercel.app
I hope this tool helps with the transition from X to Bluesky.
I just pushed the official website for Sky Follower Bridge 🚀
sky-follower-bridge-docs.vercel.app
I hope this tool helps with the transition from X to Bluesky.
Sky Follower Bridge
Instantly find and follow the same users from your 𝕏 followers on Bluesky
sky-follower-bridge-docs.vercel.app
November 14, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Very impressed with using the Sky Follower Bridge plug-in for Chrome to find Twitter followers on Bluesky. Easy to use and lets you remember all the great people you followed back in the early days of Twitter!
bsky.app/profile/kawa...
bsky.app/profile/kawa...
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X has a new terms of service that goes into effect on November 15. It says that by using X, you agree that everything you post can be used to train their AI models.
November 12, 2024 at 12:29 AM
X has a new terms of service that goes into effect on November 15. It says that by using X, you agree that everything you post can be used to train their AI models.
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Canadians should read Project 2025, I did. It took me days to recover. Read it and remember Harper and Poilievre endorsed it.
November 11, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Canadians should read Project 2025, I did. It took me days to recover. Read it and remember Harper and Poilievre endorsed it.
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The pace of accounts coming over from Twitter is changing from a trickle to a torrent. If governments, companies and organizations start switching, Twitter will be like Truth Social in a year or so.
November 10, 2024 at 12:48 AM
The pace of accounts coming over from Twitter is changing from a trickle to a torrent. If governments, companies and organizations start switching, Twitter will be like Truth Social in a year or so.
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Election night coverage makes more sense when you realize it's the equivalent of watching a basketball game with all the made shots shown in random order
November 6, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Election night coverage makes more sense when you realize it's the equivalent of watching a basketball game with all the made shots shown in random order
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Refresh 4 browser tabs, refresh a few apps on my phone, take a sip of beer. Repeat…. I’ve never been as nervous about an election as this one. At least until Canada votes.
November 6, 2024 at 1:19 AM
Refresh 4 browser tabs, refresh a few apps on my phone, take a sip of beer. Repeat…. I’ve never been as nervous about an election as this one. At least until Canada votes.
Looking forward to day-drinking my way through watching the election results from our neighbors to the south. Good luck from the frozen North! 🙏🇨🇦❤️
November 5, 2024 at 4:10 AM
Looking forward to day-drinking my way through watching the election results from our neighbors to the south. Good luck from the frozen North! 🙏🇨🇦❤️