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2026-09-09 06:54:06 CEST

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i think the attitude of those early UK companies still lives on in the Raspberry Pi initiative

2026-09-09 06:05:36 CEST

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okay our school had no computer room but there was an RM Nimbus in every classroom, save for the Reception years, which all shared one BBC Micro

2026-09-09 05:29:51 CEST

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now hands up if you had to overboil the egg yolks in the school science labs so you could replace all the mouse balls in the computer room

2026-09-09 02:01:15 CEST

Conspiracies were always something people ran to because they offered easy, digestible explanations of a complex world that lacks complete understanding.
Now they have a machine that says it knows everything. It's offering the same escape.
#AI #noAI

2026-08-26 01:08:38 CEST

i have books in my house from dolly parton's imagination library.
a friend of a friend, once an immigrant in the USA, received a huge number of books for their two children. extra help for a family whose first language was not english.
when they came back to japan many years later, they brought them with them. and those books made it to my house, and to my children. and i always thought how awesome that was. how awesome she was.
and will be forever.

2026-08-18 14:10:49 CEST

chicken in maitake mushroom gravy with cheese scones (biscuits)
cost per plate: 250 yen
cost without scones: 200 yen a plate
how's that for our first budget recipe from a #japanese supermarket? building the menu first, how tos are coming later!
https://cdn.famichiki.jp/media_attachments/files/117/116/436/454/072/236/original/d3228352541f5d34.jpg

2026-08-15 06:08:01 CEST

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great! what's flock of kittens having?

2026-07-22 07:12:50 CEST

chums, riddle me this.
is there such a thing as a summer hat for men that is not:
A: a baseball cap
B: a deeply embarrassing fedora or fedora-adjacent travesty
or
C: something you see old men who have given up wearing
please help i would like to both avoid sunstroke and look okay while doing it
(categories A through C may have some overlap)

2026-07-21 06:37:14 CEST

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i think imagining children as without any agency when it comes to participation in sports is part of the issue
sure, loads of kids are pushed into sports by parents. but loads are also willing participants because team sports have a particular appeal.
and yes, structured play can be achieved in plenty of ways that do not involve sports. but they usually need to involve rules and/or directions which are essential components of social development.

2026-07-21 06:21:40 CEST

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sure, i agree, people living vicariously through their kids achievements sucks and i really dislike the sports club systems with all the pressure and all the stress.
but structured play is also really good for kids, an essential part of growth, and is actually really, really good at helping some young people avoid negative outcomes in life.

2026-07-21 06:09:08 CEST

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i had a great time playing football on a sunday league team for kids but then again i did also quit when i turned 10 because i was fed up of losing. and our team always lost.
but we probably cannot blame the human tendency for competitiveness on adults. it's pretty sewn-in to our existence.

2026-07-13 07:32:35 CEST

six out of ten japanese people
will buy their clothes from muji
six out of ten japanese people
will buy the same コンビニ sandwich
six out of ten japanese people
will travel to tokyo disneyland
this summer break
six out of ten complaints
will say
"why did everyone else come here
how did they all have the same travel plans
as me"
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/13/japan/society/ai-summer-vacation-trips/

2026-06-07 05:58:27 CEST

select your sunday vibe
#poll

2026-06-05 03:21:29 CEST

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"trapped in a factory after attacking four people, Fukushima bear outwitted a city-led capture team by unlatching a window and slipping into the night"
https://cdn.famichiki.jp/media_attachments/files/116/694/875/182/705/285/original/70ff577b91ef2fc5.png

2026-06-05 03:18:02 CEST

you've seen a man from saitama
but now it's time for
FUKUSHIMA BEAR
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16618811

2026-06-05 02:49:17 CEST

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if you position the things you want to do as out of reach when you talk about yourself, then they will be. thinking things are impossible frees us from the burden of starting something.
short term goals are never impossible. so if you want things to change, they're the best way to go.
these and all the other things i trick my ADHD brain with.

2026-06-05 02:41:32 CEST

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i know that feeling, but it is never too late to find something you want and go for it.

2026-06-05 02:37:50 CEST

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you're not going to be that lucky, brother. things are going to be annoying and tedious for a long time yet.
there's always something else you can do. small gains towards it should be your immediate goal. and you're never alone. 🫂

2026-06-05 01:11:03 CEST

just got given six heads of garlic by a colleague from their vegetable patch
today is a good day indeed

2026-05-29 05:21:40 CEST

https://bsky.app/profile/duendeonfuego.bsky.social/post/3mmwy7aivgc2o
holy shit
"what this office is doing is taking the parts of federal government that touch you directly, your prescription, voter registration, passport, federal login, out of agencies that legally own them and rebuilding them on whitehouse infrastructure"
and this is all linked to "secondvote.gov"
⚠️ ⏰

2026-05-14 06:47:58 CEST

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you're correct and that is quite sad

2026-05-14 05:35:25 CEST

business visa applications are down at least 90%
actual tax-paying businesses are closing and their owners leaving
i wonder how many "paper companies" created to "game the immigration system" this has actually targeted
and i wonder how much less tax revenue the LDP are going to get as a result
mugs
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16560614

2026-04-22 01:02:01 CEST

the voice inside my head is saying "survive until golden week"

2026-03-19 03:51:27 CET

lmao just pay your fucking taxes you greedy little assholes
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/google-sergey-brin-california-billionaire-tax

2026-03-19 00:21:22 CET

spring mist
drifting through
cobwebs
#haiku #poetry

2026-03-18 07:38:57 CET

train guy seems to think that 3.30 on a wednesday is the best time to crack open a highball

2026-03-03 00:51:37 CET

last night i needed to vom
and i went to my bathroom
and as i got on my knees before the toilet bowl
my coworker bursts in through the window
pushing it out of the frame
glass everywhere
and began telling me that no
i could not be sick here
because construction work was scheduled to start in the next five minutes
i wish my dreams were better

2026-02-19 05:35:57 CET

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once i find out whether the honda icon can charge on a normal home setup i might go for it
if it needs a dedicated charging point i will have to keep searching

2026-02-19 05:27:34 CET

okay i am seriously looking at electric scooters as an option, especially if i am going to buy a new one

2026-02-13 01:07:28 CET

the webpage title: top 10 black chickpea recipes
the number of recipes: 6
to the gulag

2026-02-10 05:07:38 CET

i'm going to have an online meeting on thursday
cool
all the materials for the meeting have been supplied electronically
cool
i just received an email telling me i should print out all the materials for the meeting so i can "review" them with everyone else?
lmao not cool and totally not doing that

2026-02-09 05:23:46 CET

just got a call from a service offering a service whereby #AI will check my student's recordings of textbook readings and other materials for pronunciation, or will check their compositions for spelling mistakes
can you just fuck off and let me, a human, teach the kids in my class the joy of human communication, instead of turning everything over to synthetic brains in a fucking jar?

2026-02-04 00:38:10 CET

today's source of pleasure:
the colleague i've worked with for ages asking whether i will turn thirty this year
ladies and gentlemen, i am 38

2026-02-02 03:44:18 CET

thinking a lot today about the technofascist dystopia that so many siliconnaires seem to want
how lots of them name their shit after tolkien's thoughts
like the technology the elves made that humans didn't understand
because that's how they want to see themselves
and they always forget how brave little fat folk, insignificant, without shoes, were the ones to bring it all down
because they knew what was good and what wasn't
#resist

2026-01-30 04:41:57 CET

i'm looking to put together a cheap as all hell PC for my kids to use the internet with, but it has to look like an actual PC rather than a tablet (because i want them to actually learn how to use computers)
anyone have experience doing this?

2026-01-30 01:57:20 CET

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this was less aspic jelly and more the kind of jelly that members of a space crew wipe off their bodies in silent disgust as they emerge from cryosleep

2026-01-30 01:51:17 CET

the disappointment when you open a pack of "salad chicken" and discover that it's packed in jelly
dear god

2026-01-28 05:04:48 CET

words from a friend of mine, a friend i respect deeply for his heart, his head, and his hope
these are words those outside of america need to hear. not only europeans. but to all of us who want to #resist what is coming.
it's a global far-right power grab.
https://medium.com/@dotfuego/an-open-letter-to-europeans-6ef849ddc3e1

2026-01-21 04:37:54 CET

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will sea salt not suffice?
for the cooking, not for the bubble bath

2026-01-14 12:06:55 CET

okay there were no green beans so it's pork with sauce diane, roasted broccoli and garlic rice
my restaurant seats 4 and i need to work on my presentation
https://cdn.famichiki.jp/media_attachments/files/115/893/129/269/249/961/original/690e993b8d1bd66d.jpg

2025-12-15 08:54:49 CET

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3LLDDKK+3WIC+3SIC (sic)

2025-12-02 03:43:17 CET

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glen i do actually appreciate the information because in europe there are very, very few if any species of moth that retain their serae into adulthood
it's amazing actually: only on the japanese pages does it claim that the tussock moths are capable of causing stings into adulthood, while the english pages make no mention of it.

2025-12-02 01:44:36 CET

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thanks for your concern but i know the difference between a larvae bristling with venomous setae and a moth which isn't

2025-12-02 01:41:21 CET

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no i meant can you share which ones are actually toxic
lots of moths are potentially poisonous or possibly contain parasites hence the recommendation not to eat them. or if you do, cook them first at the very least.

2025-12-02 01:36:47 CET

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details
i do not ever recommend eating moths

2025-12-02 01:26:23 CET

there was a beautiful moth at work today. i know very little about them, but this was a fuzzy little fellow, orange, big fluffy eyebrows. i picked him up and set him free out the window and several colleagues acted like i had picked up a live munition by the way they ducked for cover.
moths are the teddy bears of the insect world. they are soft and fuzzy and cannot harm you even if they wanted to. peace be upon all moths.

2025-11-27 04:39:08 CET

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no it's fine i will go to his house and i will argue the science with his wife so he doesn't have to

2025-11-27 04:26:26 CET

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how does condensation happen without moisture in the air, mrs foc
please
explain

2025-11-17 06:56:52 CET

#japan is having a full-blown moral panic about bears right now
there have been some genuinely nasty bear attacks in the past year, but the media coverage of it is insane
companies are marketing bear-proof shelters made out of shipping containers
when 5-10 people still die daily on the road nationwide
the number of people killed by bears in japan this year was achieved about one week into january for road deaths
but we are still super fucking chill about everyone having a car

2025-11-05 05:43:33 CET

someone has microwaved fish in the office again

2025-10-24 05:38:38 CEST

nothing wakes you up quite like an ice cold washlet

2025-10-23 11:42:02 CEST

today's offering for hakodate is a mackerel salt #ramen and it's delightful
subtle seafood background with eggs to die for
https://cdn.famichiki.jp/media_attachments/files/115/422/822/505/246/863/original/a8444e6ca147a790.jpg

2025-10-23 03:58:31 CEST

but the story here is the same as small town rural JP: streets of stores with long histories and once vibrant interiors now sun-faded with "closed" signs hanging on the door. nothing moves inside.
one stop up the road, the starbucks next to the big tourist attraction bustles.

2025-10-23 03:40:35 CEST

2025 cities in japan will still have public transport where a 7km trip will cost you 260 yen aka £1.25 aka less than i paid for the 5km school bus journey in england in 2001

2025-10-23 01:03:18 CEST

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A review of last night's beers from right to left
good
average
putrid

2025-10-22 13:27:57 CEST

now we're at hakodate beer, which does what it says on the label. this beer tasting menu cost as much as the meal plus beer i just had. now to find out if it's all that much better.
#hakodate #beer #livetoot
https://cdn.famichiki.jp/media_attachments/files/115/417/576/572/651/212/original/b34710a06664a7d9.jpg

2025-10-22 13:06:52 CEST

Lucky Pierrot burgers: the most Japanese hamburger I've ever eaten, a fever dream within the Japanese imaginary of Americana, covered in meat and cheese sauce
it was average (meat wasn't great) but I'm about as full as you can get for 1400円 (including the beer)
#livetoot #japan #hakodate
https://cdn.famichiki.jp/media_attachments/files/115/417/493/544/450/174/original/3e727757c79d592c.jpg
https://cdn.famichiki.jp/media_attachments/files/115/417/494/215/730/771/original/64df9f6a6e1a41b9.jpg
https://cdn.famichiki.jp/media_attachments/files/115/417/494/717/220/524/original/21daf9cf56b05b18.jpg

2025-10-22 11:35:14 CEST

Shin-Hakodate station is like an airport. Bright, clean, everything new and polished with a floor buffer. The air outside is fresh, and a deeper cold. Within it rides a hint of the beckoning sea.
#livetoot

2025-10-15 05:15:07 CEST

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the average american not knowing what communism, socialism, or "the left" is has been a very stable currency for the republican party for the longest time huh

2025-10-07 02:10:20 CEST

the adhd habit of putting off a task for an anxiety-inducing month that took you *checks watch* 4 minutes and 27 seconds to complete

2025-10-06 05:08:02 CEST

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it's what made me learn to make bread
you too can have cold doughs fermenting in your fridge, waiting to become
after you learn that no bread dough requires kneading and can just be made by mixing it all together and leaving it for long enough, the annoying parts of breadmaking disappear

2025-09-30 09:41:19 CEST

CHIKIFAM
i might have a business trip to Hakodate
possible free evenings for a couple of nights
any Hokkaidofam who might manage it?
よろしくー

2025-09-29 07:20:38 CEST

every time i see a livestreamer or youtuber doing something stupid for money i think of the science fiction author jeff noon who in 1997 imagined a future where anyone could buy a fly that they could program to buzz around the neighbourhood either filming everyone for dirt or shouting personal advertisements in tiny genetically modified voices
i remember thinking in 2008 that it seemed kind of dumb
now i realise i am kind of dumb
#socialmedia

2025-09-17 04:39:40 CEST

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i have a huge amount of respect for you, man. that you are able to keep your head about this after so much suffering has been caused to your daughter by a vaccine. i hope things continue to get better.
as far as safety goes, i always just remind myself that the likelihood of dying in a car crash is something like 1% for anyone who regularly gets in a car but we all seem to be content with that risk.

2025-07-25 05:48:14 CEST

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no you guys are just reading it wrong
it's Al surveillance
Al the security guard
he's a bit old, quite advanced in years
if he sees you he will call the front counter okay
do not cross him

2025-07-01 01:14:56 CEST

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basic things the police could implement:
- threat assessment standards
- collaboration with mental health professionals
- changing the law so that a mere threat to kill is an arrestable offense
- proper implementation of restraining orders
see how easy that is? make me the new national police commissioner.

2025-07-01 01:03:22 CEST

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no great solutions except for doing our jobs

2025-06-26 00:58:54 CEST

every time i see a proposal to "roll out #AI " for schools i feel like i need to remind people that non calculator tests still exist for mathematics for a reason

2025-05-16 04:36:47 CEST

fuck yeah i get to teach about hegel and descartes today
although as if a textbook thought that one paragraph about them both was enough
one paragraph
about HEGEL

2025-05-15 09:33:13 CEST

that there's an AI which has been reprogrammed to spout fascist talking points about "white genocide" should tell you two things
the first is that you can never trust an AI to be truthful. ever.
the second is that white supremacists think they have found their moment to reverse all progress made since the second world war
the time is going to come to stand up, and it is going to come soon. i am glad that i shall be standing with all of you.
#AI #resist

2025-05-09 01:47:13 CEST

in today's farce
i must make a summary copy of all the electronic documents i submitted last week
print it out
and put it into a folder no one will ever look inside
for what reason, i shall not be told

2025-05-08 04:46:22 CEST

i think my favourite part of today so far was five minutes after i told the entire staff that alcohol is not an effective disinfectant against norovirus, i see bottles of alcohol being distributed to "clean" the toilets
guess i am not using the toilet here for a week

2025-05-02 04:34:39 CEST

so charcoal ice cream with honey peanuts (and a bit of せんべい) is really bloody nice
https://cdn.famichiki.jp/media_attachments/files/114/435/901/171/045/200/original/df5aab77f70a2257.jpg

2025-04-03 03:04:35 CEST

it's only 10am and i feel like i have been here for 100 years

2025-03-18 03:52:09 CET

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would love a big bowl of weed for breakfast

2025-03-17 04:42:10 CET

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that would be nice, thank you
i just do not want an oven if it means paying 30万 for what is ５万 in the UK

2025-03-17 04:32:39 CET

can i have an actual oven in my japanese house
does anywhere even sell actual ovens
asking for someone who would like evenly cooked cakes and bread
me (the someone is me)

2025-03-05 08:13:31 CET

government publications about what to do in the aftermath of a natural disaster are one of the best ways to learn japanese
everything explained in the clearest possible language along with diagrams, and just about every kanji has furigana

2025-03-04 06:58:28 CET

' There is a sentence that I read as an undergraduate studying anthropology that has stuck with me for many years, though its author has left me: “an old man on his deathbed is a library on fire.” '
https://tonkatsuchronicles.weebly.com/blog/goodnight-sweet-katsuya
#japan #food

2025-02-28 04:29:53 CET

if japanese people put as much effort into their politics as they did putting chairs into a straight line for a graduation ceremony i reckon they'd have a utopia

2025-02-26 02:17:37 CET

one day i might understand why japan feels the need to have a ceremony for everything
but today is not that day

2025-02-22 01:50:09 CET

hospital
9.48am
there is a tv in the waiting area
man on japanese tv puts something into his mouth
looks surprised
declares it is delicious
this process is always available on at least one channel at any time of day
it is essential to the functioning of japanese society

2025-02-18 05:44:31 CET

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mainly because the majority of anthropological research has focused on our own genus in order to test evolutionary theories of mind/behavioural transmission, and the like
not to mention it is much harder to gain access to groups of marine mammals, be they in the wild or in captivity

2025-02-18 05:20:08 CET

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i still really, really hate richard dawkins

2025-02-18 05:15:25 CET

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sorry that was an overreaction but now you know how to annoy an anthropologist
to the question of "what is culture", answer "it is memes"

2025-02-18 05:13:29 CET

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no. absolutely not. memes are the idea you get when a pretentious geneticist thinks that a biological framework can be slapped on whatever the fuck you want, aka. richard bloody dawkins

2025-02-18 05:01:27 CET

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3. culture - the learned, shared, symbolic, patterned, adaptive, and constantly changing set of behaviours and signs that permit people to live in groups and is the primary means by which humans adapt to their environment or adapt their environment to themselves, which is often unique to particular groups of humans

2025-02-18 04:59:44 CET

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failed anthropologist here
three distinctions between humans and non-human primates:
1. the production and use of speech and text, that is to say, the human capacity for lexically and grammatically complex language
2. the use of tools to make tools: other primates use tools, but as of yet are not routinely documented to create one tool with the intention of using it to create another, which represents higher order thinking
3. culture - continued in next post

2025-02-05 04:04:31 CET

growing up
despite it all —
midtown oak
#haiku #senryu

2025-02-04 04:29:31 CET

so the short story i wrote in 2022 about a uk consumed by the far right isn't seeming all that far-fetched now huh
https://www.miserytourism.com/national-holiday/

2025-01-21 04:41:39 CET

if anyone wants to know what having ADHD is like, today i went to a follow up appointment approximately two years later than i should ha

2025-01-07 02:32:02 CET

if anyone wants to feel annoyed, just remember that a certain guy bought the US election for 250 million dollars which is about 0.05% of his net worth
for most people that's like buying a pair of shoes

2024-12-19 02:47:07 CET

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have a great time!

2024-12-03 08:56:45 CET

right, fuck it. applying for a teaching position in the uk starting september 2025.

2024-12-02 01:12:05 CET

lots of people on mastodon seem pretty pissed off that bluesky is seeing an increase in users

2024-11-27 00:14:07 CET

just installed extensions to remove AI results from my search engines and wow the internet is usable again

2024-11-07 10:10:13 CET

https://cdn.famichiki.jp/media_attachments/files/113/440/889/937/070/615/original/66a78c57cf48c326.png

2024-11-06 08:29:19 CET

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aaaand this is the gutpunch that keeps on returning
better hope you're not in Taiwan or Ukraine in the next four years

2024-10-31 02:29:55 CET

that feeling when you get to teach your first class on mental health to high school students only you find out that the textbook they have got to use is filled with complete inaccuracies

2024-10-29 09:48:58 CET

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There are loads of those around here. Hello, loophole!