@kylebarrow.com
Kiwi in Tokyo. CTO at X-9. Owner of views. Can be found in Shibuya and occasionally Marlborough wine country. Like building things, growing things, photography, sci-fi, and rugby. Have seen Nirvana play live.
Four-panel using scenes from the TV series Kung Fu. Grasshopper asks, “Master, what is the path to happiness?” The master meditates silently. The next panel shows the Bluesky muted-words screen with “Trump” muted forever. Final shot shows the master walking away, implying the answer.
@reckless.bsky.social Break the YouTube hegemony and add video podcast support for even more flavour.
Worth opening on desktop and scrolling around:
Recently an elderly relative asked if I'd 'got the pedophile.'
Somewhat alarmed, I asked them to clarify.
They meant the PDF.
The F apparently means 'file'
Very impressive
We had something like it in NZ: grease proof paper better designed for cooking in tiny 10cm squares.
Could have got away with it if the lobsters were from NZ which at least look the same.
A photo of a house in the middle of airport tarmac, surrounded by a tall fence
Pretty good view of the house that refused to sell so they just built Narita Airport around it.
Exactly. Only ever saw meatball etc. purchases at Harajuku. Always thought how that could pay the rent.
Very nice!
For this article alone it’s worth subscribing.
Apart from the US, is there any other country where immigration officials do Call of Duty cosplay?
I will learn to play a new musical instrument this year. Expectations are low.
Also got it on Apple Books. I’ll probably end up getting the print version too and regretting nothing.
What is this, an aircraft carrier for ants?
Thetrusize.com, by James Talmage and Damon Maneice, is a website that lets you move a country or state around a Mercator projection map of the world so you can see how big or small a country really is.
[thetruesize.com]
Safari 26 is here!!! Anchor Positioning, Scroll-driven animations, High Dynamic Range images, the new HTML <model> element, the all-new Digital Credentials API, SVG icon support, WebGPU, WebKit in SwiftUI, every site can be a web app on iOS and iPadOS, and much more.
webkit.org/blog/17333/w...
I’m just reading the RNZ RSS feeds, as the account should.
❤️
I do get to enjoy some pretty awesome sunrises though…usually around 4am.
A photo of tall glass buildings reflecting the sunset.
My previous place in Shibuya faced west, so I often got front-row seats to Tokyo’s spectacular summer sunsets. Now we face east, great views over Tokyo, but sunsets only reach me as reflections in the towers Shibuya has pooped out over the years.
🎯
Luckily the US is only a tiny slice of our overseas orders, but this must be brutal for many.
Japan Post (along with many other countries) has halted most shipping to the US so it's come to this.
Thanks for reporting this. It looks like RNZ was having some server issues earlier (also caused article images to not load) but resolved now. All links should work as expected.
The nod at the hardware store when you see another whose child painted their toenails
A group of handdrawn fish.
Why I 🧡 the web.
drawafish.com
Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟
Ecommerce checkout screen with the message "一部の国では、追加の税金や輸入関税が発生する場合があります。これらは受取人のご負担となります。関税は輸入関税の一種です。 Additional taxes or import duties may apply in some countries. These are the responsibility of the recipient. Tariffs are a type of import duty."
Adding a tariff message to our ecommerce site because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No probs. @rnzrss.bsky.social can only post what RNZ puts in their feeds.
The Japanese government's latest Mynaportal app update allows you to add your My Number card to your iPhone's Apple Wallet. Servers were a little busy but it works as advertised.