I swear what Dylan has written here is on the minds of pretty much every expat in Japan.
Read: 📰 Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?
Can’t break New Year’s resolutions if you forgot to make ‘em in the first place! 😉 👆🏾
Wouldn’t be a winter storm in Atlanta if the power didn’t damn go out. Good thing I gassed up the RV beforehand. Time for some driveway camping.
I lived in Los Angeles as a teenager through the 92 LA riots, Northridge earthquake and different flooding events from heavy rains. I can’t imagine a whole entire neighborhoods where 95% of every structure is burnt down and no war was involved. This is the climate crisis I’ve been telling you about.
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…and this is why I can’t live in St Louis anymore. I love my hometown but nawl, I’ll stay in the A until we can figure out some other spot.
Automation and distance working… the laboratory is Japan, believe me when I say I have seen the future.
Japan convenience store hires remote worker in Sweden for night shift - Nikkei Asia
🎍明けましておめでとうございます🌅 今年もよろしくお願いします🙇🏾
End of the year family RV trip down to Tallahassee to see some friends from Japan we haven’t seen since we moved back Stateside…
The Christmas 2024 gifts from my wife and kids. 🎄 💁♀️👧🧒👧
Winter shot of the Enoden crossing out of Kamakura station in Kanagawa, Japan back on 3 February 2012.
#tokyotrainnerd #trainporn #japan #shonan
“America is like a smoke & vape shop with all the bright ass LED lit bongs, some incense, and artisanal kettle fried potato chips for sale. Interesting at first but you wonder how that place is still in business”
— me discussing how we probably look to other countries with my mom just now.
Seen in my morning Reddit feed…
Messing with Loops, a soon-to-be federated short video posting app by @dansup@pixelfed.social.
Bitcoin along with other cryptocurrencies are on the move since the incoming administration is seen as friendly to legitimizing and codifying them as investments and currency exchanges.
If you haven’t already, it’s a good idea to learn how to leverage crypto in your portfolio.
MARTA service still suspended at some stations after train derails on bridge
…its a damn shame we’re squandering this literal gift of urbanity from the late 1970s like this. MARTA could be every bit as good as DC Metro, or better but all we do is complain when stuff like this happens, but use that to justify not fixing it. 🫤
Things I miss about my #japanlife part 4: Train melodies.
Before the doors close, the conductor hits a button on the platform and plays a short 5 second melody the lets you know the doors will be closing soon. Each platform of each station has its own song.
WOTD: ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
(h/t: 🦋 @thesgtjoker.bsky.social and this post)
Q: Why do you like trains?
A: yes.
#tokyo #trainnerd
Marcy had a very judgmental #catsgiving.
