Dan Traylor

Kinda wanted to see Yamamoto get in there but ok fine we can wrap at 18 innings

more like Chancy Billups

Is there a job where you politely inform people who have their umbrellas open that it has stopped raining

Sometimes there’s an earthquake and we all feel it but we also collectively decide not to talk to each other about it on social media and I just think we should acknowledge our growth

U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’ "The most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there," said U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Tuesday.

Portland police made no arrests outside the ICE facility Sunday. Federal agents detained at least one person — a clarinetist with a protest band who has been held in Clark County jail, where a roster listed no charges Tuesday.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

I was born in America
but left
upon my return
who do i tip
and how much
in all situations

When a typhoon isn’t really a typhoon, I’ll be there to tell you about it The nomenclature and strict definition of what constitutes a typhoon are not as straightforward as most people might think.

I'm typecast. Typhoons again. Typhoons or beer. I should probably expand into a third topic. www.japantimes.co.jp/community/20...

Publish the prewrite obit!

Watching Dept Q and among my favorite things is how Carl parks his Ford in all manner of angles.

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

If we want more journalists to be on here, you should:

- follow them here
- repost and engage with their stories
- reply to their posts with “and you’re surprised??” 3x per week

The Objectively Objectionable Grammatical Pet Peeve A semi-attentive investigation into a confounding sentence type.

Identifying a style of writing that is common in my field, the article causes me to ponder my life choices. >> The Objectively Objectionable Grammatical Pet Peeve www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

Feels like a black and white sorta day. From Shibuya, earlier this month.

That looks solid ... love a porter, love smoked ...

Frosty face-off: Over 120 teams throw down in epic Japanese snowball tournament Teams of five players competed in two-minute matches between two teams on a field the size of a tennis court, with points awarded for direct hits with a snowball.

More than 120 teams battled it out in a snowball fight tournament in a mountainous Japanese city in what the local weather bureau called the coldest air this winter to sweep the country's northern snow belt.

I wasn’t home but this apparently shook our house pretty solidly despite being a wee one.

The Invasion of the Body Snatchers Jake Tapper's approach to Inauguration Day embodies a larger trend gripping the news media, which has tamped down its once aggressive posture toward Donald Trump.

Across the TV news landscape, coverage of Trump's inauguration was soft.

Networks almost entirely avoided using terms like "twice-impeached" or "convicted felon." On CNN, neither term was used a single time, per a search of closed captioning.

More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/the-invasi...

I realize you can check the balance in other ways like at the station but these cards were sitting dormant.

Never knew about the apps that let you scan your IC transit cards to check the balance. I found 5000 yen that was previously lost to time.

London calling: Sumo's U.K. trip brings back memories of 1991 Such was sumo’s popularity in the U.K. in the late '80s and early '90s that all five days at the 5,000-seat Royal Albert Hall sold out quickly.

Ahead of sumo’s return to the United Kingdom next year, we revisit its famous foray to London in 1991.

Busy news day? I decided to run for the hills.

Dropped my son off at the new Shogi Kaikan in Tokyo and now doing some exploring.

How do you say “woke” in Japanese? A slight linguistic difference illuminates big cultural ones

The Japanese media has long struggled with how to translate "woke." None of the proposed solutions capture the contentiousness of it in English. So I took a shot at it myself. blog.hirokoyoda.com/p/how-do-you...

Secretary of Defense Andrew Tate has betrayed the legacy of Pete Hegseth.

by David Brooks (2027)

This was pretty funny. Man burgles an office in Wakanai. Police follow his footprints in the fresh snow for 2km and arrest him.

Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease The study showed that Alzheimer's disease can be predicted by identifying the 'head-turning sign' in response to questions.

Japanese researchers have developed a technique to identify individuals who may have Alzheimer’s disease by asking simple questions and observing their behavior.

Real-life ‘Tokyo Swindlers’ ordered to pay ¥1 billion in damages The Tokyo District Court ruled that the defendants knew they were engaging in a fraudulent scheme in their dealings with Sekisui House.

In the real-life case that inspired the Netflix hit "Tokyo Swindlers," the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered five of the fraudsters involved to pay ¥1 billion in damages to Sekisui House after swindling the construction company of ¥5.5 billion in 2017.

www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11...

Japanification?

I’ve joined some proper Thanksgiving dinners in Japan, but this year it’s nabe.

FT article says: Having transformed the car business with his technical flair and his eye for logistics, the genius from the Bay Area tried the same in Washington. He had a record of supporting a different political party to that of the president who appointed him. But no matter. If the bloated state could adopt the efficient methods of this avant-garde industrialist, all would win. In the end, Robert McNamara, the Ford man turned Pentagon chief during the Vietnam war, was a tragic failure in government. His name is still a byword for the misapplication of cold reason to the messiness of public life. Will Elon Musk, in his quest to rationalise the state, do much better?

superb intro from Janan Ganesh: