Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I rate this book as one of the best this year. It's an important book. Paraphrase because I need to: "Algebra came from Islamic scholars, who also named most of the stars we can see. But around 1400 CE, the same reaction vs secular thought we see in Christianity today doomed the Islamic world." 162
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If We Americans Are to Save Our Democracy, We Must Disenthrall Ourselves from Our Political Bondage to the 47th President and His MAGA Republican Party judgeluttig327269.substack.com/p/if-we-amer... Digest, if your stomach is strong. 140
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I eat your password for breakfast. Narrator: With plenty of time for desert. 121
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The more you know about these folks, the scarier they are. And the "Shia-Sunni" divide among evangelicals, is "Pre-Millennialism vs Post-Millennialism". Pictured: "Post-Millennialists". They think they should control human life (the "Golden Age"), and then Jesus will come in ~1K years. 020
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 25/09/202611 years, 1 clown and a fuck-ton of evil elves ago. 010
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Pretty clear. The dark blue to the left of the heavy rain is running right up Tokyo Bay. Chiba, pounded so often this month, is getting pounded again. Center movement is NE now. 000
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I brought my potted 9-month-old Japanese maple in from the rooftop, just in case. 🤪 But it seems we've dodged another one. 020
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Dear @cnn.com You haven't been paying attention the past several decades, have you. 011
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/o... Narrator: More dangerous than, you know, Evangelicals. 😱 000
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026New personal surveillance gear on the Keio line. Great name choice. 😛 020
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Oh, effing puh-lease. Lance Corporal bone spurs was undoubtedly trying to figure out if he could swim the Hudson, and whether any unsuccessful attempt of which would be covered exactly how, and in what media. Give. Me. A. Fucking. Break. 010
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 08/09/2026That time when your own Chief Scientist thinks you're going too fast. 020
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Jesus! I mean, really. We 𝒂𝒓𝒆 all going to lose our jobs. 🤪 Not sure how the AI companies make oodles of money out of this, because I don't think "first-past-the-post" wins. 010
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 08/09/2026@adagietto7.bsky.social The bubble continues for now. Softbank: 220
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Some don't know. We actually have two 'rainy seasons' in Japan. The first lasts about 6 weeks, as tropical air tries to push continental air out of the way. The one we're in now (秋雨), literally fall rain, only lasts about 9 days or so. Cuz the drier continental air is the driver. We're in it now. 190
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 02/09/2026But wait (as they say in the ad biz). There's 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆! 020
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Is there anything more obvious that 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔, proving that the dupe in the Oval is really a dupe, and that his 'buddy' Putin has been and is making him look like a chump? Or a chimp. 030
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Jesus, apparently a Scandinavian himself, seen here on Mormon stained glass visiting what appears to be somewhere in Denmark. 🤪 040
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 28/08/2026That would include of course, evangelicals, whose positions Trump 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 supported, until he realized, "These people are not very sharp; I'm getting older and I don't care about abortion so much anymore anyway, so 'Fuck, yeah!'". 000
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Last night at 2 am: Rock-a-bye, baby, in the treetop, When the earth moves the cradle will rock Could have been worse of course. I would say 3.5 on our scale where I live. I rode it out without getting up. Lasted "too long", but never got really scary other than duration. 050
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026A jury ... unanimously ... decided otherwise, Elon. Indirectly, that jury decided you're full of shit. 040
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Birthday boy's book a best seller? Your satire, however disguised, shines through. @kurtandersen.bsky.social 120
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Okinawa. Second time in 13 days; almost a duplicate path. 050
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 20/08/2026A bunch of somebodies may be wasting a fuck-ton of money. From News Items: 000
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Oh sure. This story is newsworthy. The secrecy and inside dealing in this US admin is massive, illegal, and unequalled. But the story likely has no legs. The corruption, the norm- and law-breaking, has simply gone too far. 130
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Really, Japan needs to have nukes. 'Whatever it takes'. 150
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 16/08/2026When you don't know that you're gonna need to flee in less than 5 months. 🤣 Between the two of them, they've killed gobs of innocents. 030
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 14/08/2026You don't suppose Trump might "know a guy who does steam", do ya? 🤡🤭 140
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Anyone else think the guy on the left is Donald Sutherland in 'Invasion of the Bodysnatchers'. 000
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Same place those thunderstorms developed yesterday, and then just did not move, resulting in serious flooding. This morning those areas had cleared. But this afternoon the storms have materialized again. youtu.be/N5_Ks1y2dO8?... 000
Yuki @foreignsubstance.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Oh dear. I think this is worse than superintelligence that manages to figure out how to become unaligned. 111