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This bento from Maruetsu is great. 561 calories, 33g protein. Had with a soft boiled egg and a spinach salad

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RustDesk + Tailscale is okay but I like the Parsec client experience better, even if Parsec is a bit overkill for writing/coding. Parsec's scaling and multimon support in particular are great

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Upgraded to Win11 Pro (bc Reasons) and decided to see if Tailscale+Win RDP was a better remote solution than Parsec. It's not lol

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Family Mart has duck skewers again so made my wife a quick kamo soba for lunch

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Been eating a spinach salad for lunch and dinner so made a Greek yogurt sesame dressing to go with it. Healthier and tastier than the store bought dressings

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In defense of the clear rule-breaking, I’ll say the official bike parking around Meguro Station is crap. There are only two parking areas and both are small. It’s not like Ebisu Station, which has a massive bike lot; no one there has any excuse to leave their bike on the road

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I’ve wondered what time limit the 放置 (abandonment) in 自転車放置禁止区域is. Answer: depending on the city, it can be anywhere from immediate to three days! Meguro at least makes it clear that even short term parking is 放置. Now if they only enforced it…

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She turns into a demon AND a raging hornball in the span of four pages, best yuri ever

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Gonna start using 厠 instead of お手洗い just to feel something

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Those label locations are ahhh interesting

NOW it's pouring down in midtown Tokyo. Landslide warning announcements are coming in over phone and the municipal loudspeaker systems. I hope everyone is home safe and sound or can get there very soon

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I haven’t watched anything in a few years so nothing recent but older ones I loved include DELE, Unnatural, Nigehaji, MIU 404, both seasons of Hanzawa Naoki, and Tarareba Musume. VIVANT is pretty good

I should really start watching Japanese dramas again

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You can push back on disinformation without driving traffic to bots, bad actors, and copypasta accounts that deliberately stoke outrage for profit. We can, and need, to do better (myself included)

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If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.

Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.

Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.

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Watching the rain in Tokyo and listening to the constant howl of sirens in the background. Stay safe, everyone, and stay home if you can

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Good! Doesn't look like it's gonna let up here, supposed to get stronger soon

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Running out for groceries for two days then gonna stay holed up in our nice high-up apartment

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rain already coming down hard in Tokyo, this typhoon is gonna be a doozy

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Buldak ramen with chicken thigh for lunch

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Having wifey set a screen time passcode on my phone so I can't use social media on my phone in the evening/early AM. If I wake up in the middle of the night (which I always do) and can't sleep, I'll just have to read JP books on my Kindle

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Why Effective Altruism and “Longtermism” Are Toxic Ideologies

Sent an email on this responding to your recent TPM post, but I think it's instructive to look at "effective altruism" as a way to reason about the future that allows you to be an asshole in the present. This discussion is illuminating: www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/05...

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Intellectual historian Émile P. Torres explains how Silicon Valley’s favorite ideas for changing the world for the better actually threaten to make it much, much worse.

There are sealed compactors that prevent that from happening. Several cities in Japan already use them

Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 18/09/2026

Simple Japan supermarket lunch of nishin (herring), udon with men tsuyu and onions, egg, and gobō kinpira

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A 24yo man in Tokyo charged with taking upskirt shots tried to argue that he committed a lesser crime in two cases because...wait for it...the victims wore inner shorts. The court wasn't impressed and sentenced him to three years for that and two counts of sexual indecency.

Screenshot of a Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun article dated September 14, 2026. The headline says a court ruled that inner shorts "count as underwear" in a voyeurism case, rejecting the defendant's argument. A photo shows the courthouse sign on the building that houses the Tokyo District and High Courts. The visible text says the 24-year-old defendant committed seven voyeurism offenses targeting up women's skirts in Tokyo between July 2024 and April 2025, and that two of the victims wore inner shorts under their skirts, so their underwear wasn't directly visible.

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It's bc municipalities are cheap and don't want to spend money on refuse collection, despite the data showing it's the most effective way to reduce littering

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Re: public garbage cans in Japan, studies from New York, Philly, Australia's NSW, and others all reached the same conclusion: more public bins = less litter. Yet some people still insist we all carry around our garbage bc they choose a smug moral superiority over clean streets.

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People when you say a city needs more garbage cans: Yeah sounds fair would probably help People when you say Japanese cities need more garbage cans: WHY DO YOU HATE JAPAN HAULING YOUR OWN TRASH IS AN ANCIENT JAPANESE CUSTOM* (*circa 1996)

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I hate stuff like this about Japan. It makes it sound like people are violating some mysterious, unknown rule dating back to the Nara Period when the people making headlines are idiots whose bad behavior wouldn’t be acceptable anywhere

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He should drop an お姫様 in there for extra effect

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As an aside, the girls and guys holding signs in Kabukicho or Ikebukuro? Legal. The law says you can street advertise if it doesn’t target specific individuals. Calling out to, approaching, or literally pulling a person into a bar? That’s the crime

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“If it’s illegal why do they keep doing it?” Because it’s highly profitable, stores have set it up in a way it’s hard for them to be held accountable, and cops are useless. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk

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Casual reminder that it’s illegal in nearly all cities in Japan for someone to try and coax you into a store (客引き, kyaku-hiki). If someone tries to pull you into an izakaya or “gentleman’s club,” ignore them - you’re about to get ripped off!

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