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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My kid killed me. We went to Tsukuba Expo center first thing this morning, and when he finally agreed to leave around lunchtime, he requested to go to an aquarium. So here we go to Sumida’s aquarium where despite complaining about the lack of shark, he got stuck 2h watching jelly fish 🪼

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I felt 100 years old yesterday using the hotel’s self-check-in counter. I had to squint at the screen just to enter our information because it felt so tiny and bright, and honestly, I just wanted to talk to an actual human 😭😂

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tsukuba‘s space center was a good experience. The guided visit is amazing, they let you take a peak at the control room live(!!!!), though definitely too tough for a 4-5 year old. But he didn’t make a sound or caused a scene which is mind blowing cause in his shoes I would have had a tantrum 😅

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We received the 運動会 program and they start with some ridiculous Disney gym choreography thingy and boy, would I love to have a talk about not promoting Disney stuff with them. My kid actually hates it, and we’ve been told he has refused to participate to pretty much every rehearsal.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

- Mum stop moving!!! - It’s not me. - Daaad, stop. - Uh? #quakestories

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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Isseki Nagae considers what would happen if all foreign workers left Japan. Among his conclusions: GDP shrinking 10% by the 5th year, stagflation, social security deficits, bankruptcies and a recession-induced crime wave. agora-web.jp/archives/260...

Graphic illustrates seven outcomes of foreign workers leaving Japan

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If I was a foreigner seated on the priority seat, leaving two pregnant women and a kid standing, you bet some rando would take a picture and complain about foreigners manners on SNS. But they’re all Japanese so, I guess no one bat an eye 🤷‍♀️

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怒るプンプンうさぎミミ

ALT: 怒るプンプンうさぎミミ

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is the last time I order on Yodobashi. I listened to my husband who wanted to avoid Amazon, which I get and I also want to avoid them. But Yodobashi messed up with our credit card (their system initiated payment request twice prompt the bank to suspect fraudulent payment).

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not thanking this morning quake. Getting myself back to sleep is one thing, the kid another 😭.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t know in which language to ask my company to schedule corporate events at better timing for parents. The past year, I believe I’ve sent comments at least 5 times, underlying that they need to take into account “commuting” to childcare facilities.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was agonizing over what to do until my brain finally woke up: my kid uses an iPad to watch content, which is great for minimum usage, but we were concerned about the screen size. We don't want a TV/permanent screen in our home, and I didn’t want to leave iOS cause parental controls are all set up.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I realize I've been working in Japan for over a decade now (where are my 20s?!) and I'm more tuned to Japan's working culture now than any other. The other day I was asked "why do you need to seek my permission" and I'm like ほうれんそう dude, and I'm not talking about the spinach.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Got a strategy 😂. Hubby will have an emergency at work late night / early morning (which is actually what happened this weekend 🫠), while I’ll have a scheduled interview (which is also plausible cause the people I’m planning to interview are working FT so I’ll work around their schedule)

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Went for a blood draw and daaaaamn same nurse as the time I fainted and she sucks 😭. Not her fault, I know it's a tough job, especially as they see so many people in one day. But the other nurse does it so I don't feel the needle at all. This one, however, I still feel the needle an hour after

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For the first time ever our son said what he’d like to do in the future, which is to work on rockets at the Tanegashima space center. Thanks god he didn’t say he wants to become an astronaut, my heart wouldn’t be able to take the stress 😂

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every morning: today, I will rest. I swear I will try to find time and shut my eyes for a minute. I need more sleep stat. . . . . . . Every afternoon, as I rush for kindergarten pick-up and my third shift of the day: WHY. WHERE DID MY TIME GO? LET ME SLEEP 😭

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Tired Office Worker: Current Status

ALT: Tired Office Worker: Current Status

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We have our trip to JAXA early October, the weather better not ruin the experience for my kid 😭. I double booked early October and late October, and wanted to cancel the second booking… But after second thoughts, I might keep it under my sleeve…

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Give me back hot as hell Japanese summer from May to October. I take the heat over this endlessly gloomy rainy weather anytime.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Well, since we’ll be wet anyway, might as well enjoy our neighborhood pool—a thought shared by a lot of families 😂. It wasn’t packed but 50% of the users were under 7.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I thought I’d be free after this horrible work week, but I see the next couple ones will be as terrible. Top that with having to do the 参加 at kindergarten which ofc confused my child (“why is mama here? Am I going home too 🤩”) and they had to rip him from me crying and snotty and screaming 帰りたい.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I had a very-corporate-week with journey-mapping, target setting, money counting, projection-ing with lots of big words that makes everyone feel like they’re in control when we’re just all BSing our way through capitalist hell. Of course I’m late on the important stuff now, AKA my actual work.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

My garden is always the most beautiful thing.

An extremely small Japanese moss garden with an old stone lantern, a water feature, a fern, a camellia tree, and rocks. The moss is almost neon green. There are plants and tiny fish in the water.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You want an earthquake on top of your rain?

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Child: doesn’t understand hide & seek, red light green light, or _any_ social game rules. Same child: recreates ISS with LEGO and perfectly repeats rocket launch steps ”ignition, liftoff, burn-out, faring, separation 1, ignition, separation 2, burn out!, separation 3, satellite deployed!” Why.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I‘m getting seriously depressed with this weather and I’m apparently not alone if I trust the news segment that said people are consulting clinics with a wide range of symptoms that can be attributed to the humidity and extreme rainy period we’re having 😩.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Videos taken from within the ISS are able to trigger my claustrophobia, acrophobia and infinity phobia all at once.

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Anxiety

ALT: Anxiety

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 13/09/2026

This is probably the most important step. But not just bike lanes. Protected bike lanes. It makes a major difference. And then start ticketing drivers for speeding and running stoplights.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Why the vast majority (not all, I love some very specific illustrators and support their work) of French kids´ books SUCK so much 😭. This is particularly the case with knowledge base books—when I see the level of quality from Japanese editors, I feel French publishers really dgaf.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is awful. I had two accidents commuting to work by bicycle, one with a cyclist who ran through a red light. The second with a taxi door opening on the bicycle lane in Roppongi. For some reason, call it instinct, I had slowed down enough that I didn’t fly over the door. youtu.be/nuZ5WbBdB1w?...

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明治通りで車のドアに自転車突っ込む　後続のタクシーにひかれ男性死亡　現場は駐車禁止区域　東京・渋谷区（2026年09月13日）

YouTube video by FNNプライムオンライン

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This pisses me off. Who made Kawagoe attractive to tourists? Who opened a lot of souvenirs, restaurants and food stalls FOR tourists? Who is promoting Kawagoe on Tokyo trains? And who DID NOT anticipate how crowded it could become and the lack of garbage disposal? Hmm? Hmm? youtu.be/30BGrcO7ziY?...

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「小江戸」川越で観光税を検討　オーバーツーリズムでマナー違反が横行　英語で違反防止の看板も（2026年09月12日）

YouTube video by フジテレビ報道【公式】

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Clueless Toshika @cluelesstoshika.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A splash of colour. No filters used.

Two illuminated yellow advertising boards amongst a sea of dull grey, brown or beige boxy buildings.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We saw that the (average) price of a new house in central Tokyo reached 1.3億円 and my husband was like “come on, surely it doesn’t exceed 1億 in our (historically poor and blue collar) district yet”. I proved him wrong within 5 minutes on SUUMO 😅.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Arg, I saw that there are 4 replacement days in the event the weather is bad—I’ll need to be savvy about our excuse and really pull out something at the last minute 😂 The pressure is real, next week the PTA expects parents to stay behind to make paper flowers for one hour or so after drop off.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Three notes: (1) this is not *just* marketing. These guys really do mean it. They are convinced they’ve built a vengeful digital god. (2) but also they’re a cult. They are not impartial scientific experts. (3) and one of the byproduct of their endless confidence is marketing hype.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

For the first year ever, I decided that no, we will not do the 運動会. For the past 3 years I fought to get everyone there on time, my kid crying, my husband still half asleep and me, mad as hell. No one spend a good time, we end up grumpy. I say NO. NOT THIS TIME SATAN.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I didn’t know that “I know what I’m talking about because I work for a company that is related to the Japanese government“ was a valid argument when saying something 100% wrong about Japan 😅

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So I have a theory. They wanted the buzz, and came up with the public vote, but JR being JR (AKA super rigid, control freak company) they wanted to control the outcome. I’m sure A IS the mascot they want, and they came up with the ugliest options (B & C) knowing A would win.

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Amelie In Tokyo ✨ @amelieintokyo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It is absolutely NOT the time to bring AI into our schools. We should absolutely and urgently stop replacing textbooks and hand written work with digital material and exercises, and go back to actually teaching reading skills 😭https://www.dw.com/en/pisa-2026-results-reading-math-scores/a-79147293

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PISA test reveals alarming drop in reading and math skills

The 2025 results from the influential global study show a downward trend in students' performance. Germany's 15-year-olds are faring worse than ever.

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