旅烏 (tabigarasu・wayfaring stranger)🇯🇵

Took a ride around the Aichi reservoir for some light cardio this morning. The water level is pretty low as you can see. Thundershowers are nice and all, but we could really use a typhoon or two. #bikeTooter #Japan

Biking to Sakushima again today, I met a Kuroneko van at a blind corner near the ferry terminal that I approached too quickly. Stopped just fine, but I locked the back wheel and blew out a tire. I laughed and waved the all-clear to the driver, who seemed utterly disinterested and trundled on his way. A sew-up puncture sounds like a shot, and a couple came out of their house to see what was up. Had a nice chat with the husband while setting a spare, and made the ferry on time! #Japan #bikeTooter

@ai6yr That is insane. I knew it was non-obvious, but requiring specialized tools? Just … why? The best after-market fix would be to weld all the doors shut so no one can get inside.

Seeking matcha advice. I've pretty well shifted from espresso to strong black tea as morning brew, and I'd like to give matcha a try. For those who know, what paraphernalia and procedures are involved, not for the ceremony, but for ordinary consumption as a civilian? #matcha #Japan

@peter@thepit.social There do need to be consequences.

@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social A8: Southwest coast of Sado Island.

@xkcd Or I could pick it up used on Craigslist for five bucks.

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A1: Nagoya. Before lithium batteries came out, I was a fan of hub dynamos. I even have a wheel for my tubular-tire road bike strung to a Shimano generator hub. But the high capacity batteries have changed that. They save weight, they're simpler, they're less fragile, and there's not much trade-off against those advantages. #bikeNite

@partim@social.tchncs.de A companion curiosty from Japan: National Route 350 spans Sado Island, with car ferries carrying traffic to and from the island in both directions. (It may be common elsewhere, but it was new to me.)

@terribletowelie @Guillotine_Jones @Strandjunker There were 42 attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Trump is still a bit player in the worthy of ammunition sweepstakes.

@fetchezlavache An obvious theme for woman-in-the-street interviews too. The meme bridging the two is already out there. "Which is more dangerous … ?"

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social Pardon my French, but what a fucking mess.

@amiserabilist I first saw the word "hurdy-gurdy" in the Ambrose Bierce short, "My Favorite Murder." I had no idea what it meant, but from the context I assumed it was something vaguely obscene. It was many years later that I learned it was simply a musical instrument!

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @jalefkowit@vmst.io No spies detected.

@ScottishGreens If he has all those toys and hasn't been to outer space, undergone drastic cosmetic surgery, or sired dozens of children by women he's never met, what does that say about his capacity for creative leadership?

@pippa@famichiki.jp I get that the car is the simple solution, but on the topic of silly rules, I wonder … if you buy two tickets for yourself, can four kids ride free?

Marsupial goose retains internal value of future egg promise.

@sellathechemist In university negotiation competitions, teams receive points for reaching an agreement within the allotted time; but in the real world, parties negotiate with their best alternative to a negotiated agreement (BATNA) in mind, and there's no time limit. JD Vance is a university debate guy.

@randahl During the Cold War (in 1982), I backpacked from Japan to Western Europe through the Do Not Travel zone as a private tourist. Glad I was able to take advantage of travel opportunities then open to US passport holders.

@igb@mastodon.hccp.org Or simply consist of a series of ceasefire violations spanning multiple generations.

@QasimRashid The pro-boner party.

@SecureOwl ~"Ours is a forward-leaning vision for autonomous airline services driven by next-gen agentic AI. The many layers of spurious regulation covering the necessary technologies make it impossible to give a firm timeline for commercial deployment of our systems, which are already 200-250% safer than human-piloted aircraft in our own testing, but if things go well, within this year or early next."~ Add pauses and affected stutters as needed to convey a sense of underlying genius.

@jalefkowit If he smoked better weed, he'd realize that the whole reason they created the Emmys in the first place was to exclude him specifically. And that obviously calls for a spite fence. Made of weed.

@Amuamu @fetchezlavache Oh yes indeed! Morally perfect in every respect. Godlike, even.

@Amuamu @fetchezlavache I'm so glad you asked! It should be known that, in contrast to your backward nation, men in my country spring from the womb as saintly models of delicacy and proper behavior.

@GreenFire What's left of the military, after expending all of its missiles and feeding it on three small tacos a day.

@smyru @adapalmer Why not both?

@pizaman@famichiki.jp @lazysupper@famichiki.jp 5/6 attempts ⬜️⬜️🟦⬜️⬜️ ⬜️🟦🟦⬜️⬜️ 🟪🟦🟦⬜️⬜️ ⬜️🟦🟦🟦⬜️ 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦

@adub So … applying a critical path management framework, demanding that postal services—business communication itself—must turn a profit will involve constraints on the service, and that in turn will make business activity that it would have enabled vanish. You're literally shrinking the market. It's both anti-socialist and anti-capitalist at the same time.

@oclsc@mstdn.ca @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange If he doesn't have a million bucks to spare after 16 years in power, he'll need to go back to dictator school.

@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange I wonder if Orban has stashed away enough dough to join the Board of Peace as a private citizen.

@jbaty@social.lol I got your number 🎶

@moss Is Reveal still a thing?

@naefool@mastodon.scot This is ridiculous.

@gardiner_bryant@mastodon.online I always think of the old fart as most like the Gorgan acted by Melvin Belli in TOS "The Children Shall Lead."

It's time the Trump Administration abandon its self-imposed restraint and explore fresh options to break the stalemate over the Strait of Hormuz. Available measures are burnings in effigy, stabbing of pins into voodoo dolls, coordinated pulpit condemnations, particularly nasty gossip, emphatic stamping of feet and, as a measure held in reserve, hamburgers with special sauce hurled at the wall with overwhelming force. #USpol #humor

@pippa@famichiki.jp That begs the question which is correct?

@georgetakei@universeodon.com The British response that I learned for this kind of thing is: "Not good enough."

@WataruTenkawa_1 Always ten years behind the curve, we used to say.

@munchkinbear@mastodon.stickbear.me You've succeeded in holding my attention past the mid-point of one of these absurdly long novella posts that crop up from time to time. A first in the FediVerse. Congratulations. Also, it's a funny story, and well told. So more importantly congratulations for that as well. 👍

@mathewi@journa.host Looks pretty cramped in that stadium. Is tearing down the remainder of the White House to make more room an option? The 250th anniversary of the country and the 80th birthday of its supreme religious figure only come around once, it's okay to splurge a little.

@therightarticle@mas.to They may have been somehow misunderstanding the phrase "miserable fucker" all these years.

@jalefkowit Yeah, but what did it taste like.

@avilewis That's what seems to be happening here in Japan. The end result of sudden-onset rationing will be interesting to observe (as a cyclist).

@HakeemG @ErikUden The post at top of thread is not a "both sides are the same" post. It's an observation on legislative dynamics. Whether you're paid to post these replies or just have a bee in your bonnet, you should just sit down at this point and stop embarrassing yourself.

@clmerle@mstdn.social ‼️

@Haikyoneko @Amuamu @fetchezlavache Especially the ones with bucket loads of money. (As we're taught, there are grades of sheer perfection.)

@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer No one seems to bring up the argument by Harold Demsetz that putting everything under private ownership everywhere is the way to solve these problems. In terms of policy, that seems more like the spot where things started going off the rails? Demsetz' piece, which is also, shall we say, a product of its time, came out a year before Hardin's. H. Demsetz, "Toward a Theory of Property Rights," American Economic Review (1967).

@clmerle@mstdn.social I did see (but did not follow up on) a report that a flawed methodology was uncovered in studies showing high concentrations of plastic in brain, gonads, etc. (It seems that technicians handling samples with plastic gloves may have skewed results.)

@networker_365 On a different line (Hibiya-sen) my sister-in-law suffered a cracked collar bone like fifty years ago. It's crazy up there.