AKA: Yuki/Trader Yuki/SetagayaGirl on Twitter; Tokyo, Japan; #humanist; #rationalist; #liberal AF but not insane; eclectic interests; #bisexual, #polyamory; #pilot; #markets; #shutterbug; higher ed: Tokyo, NYC, DC.
BG via my old (but once state of the art) Nikon D3. Shinjuku Gyoen. But the lenses—like me—still sexy.
#USPolitics, cuz US matters. Cubs fan. Acquired English at the requisite age in situ. French: acceptable, via Lisieux. Latin: better than yours? 😂
I ignore my own obv typos.
Bad news for folks in Huntsville, Alabama; Eugene and Medford, Oregon; Rockford, Illinois; Flint, Michigan; Honolulu — and a number of other cities with TV stations owned by Allen Media Group.
https://thedesk.net/2025/01/allen-media-laying-off-tv-forecasters/
Edit: Replacing link with one to what I hope is a better news outlet, although the original linked story seems to be accurate.
So important. Yet so below the radar of most.
https://bsky.app/profile/foreignsubstance.bsky.social/post/3lbqa7lop6d2k
How "lucky" can you be?
https://bsky.app/profile/foreignsubstance.bsky.social/post/3lbogdo6d4b2v
Oz is often called "the lucky country". But when an outdoors/guns-loving country sees one too many mass shootings, and bans assault guns, that's not luck. It's common sense. And now here we are with social media. Yeah, they just keep getting luckier and luckier. 😏 https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/23/australia/australia-debate-social-media-ban-intl-hnk-dst
@TexasTribune
Church & State on the @PBSNewsHour
I presume that this is what the state of Texas wantS to teach to its captive school children. Will they also be taught that "My gods are the only true ones; yours are mythological".
Someday, if we don't blow ourselves to bits first, perhaps. But Elon will never live to see it. The Polynesian voyages to Hawaii were epic. Comparatively, in supply-line terms, the Polynesians would be rowing to Svalbard. In winter.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/22/science/mars-human-settlement-elon-musk
Another area where NO regulation "seems necessary", and where the idiot MAGA cult will probably try to reduce what is already insufficient supervision:
"‘I have no money’: Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis"
No, really. No one thought that allowing sports gambling, and having commercial bookies sponsoring games, would lead to this. Right? Right??
Ex-Temple player under investigation for alleged point shaving: Report
Jeri Dansky
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