For our last night in #Japan we went down to Nanba. Ate dinner at Kani Dōraku HQ and watched the crowds on Ebisu bridge taking photos of Glico Man. Then down Dotombori to a shrine where you pour water on completely mossed up Buddhist statues #Osaka #mosstodon #lichensubscribe

Dotonbori canal on a bright day under a blue sky Dotonbori Shopping street at night, crowded, with amazing 3D signage including a giant double serving of gyoza sticking out from one storefrontCat sits on a stone lantern. Behind him is a statue of Fudō Myoō completely covered in mossA hand holding a ladle pours water over a moss-covered statue

SÖT Roastery has been on my “to go” coffee list for a while ☕️

A coffee cup with the words “Life is SÖT”. A Mario beaker has 90mL more of coffee to the right. To the left is a cup with a large ice cube for making ice coffee. A paper label describes the roast as Ethiopian. On the tray is a package of nougat and some Biscoff cookies

After a long hard move, time for some rest and relaxation at the onsen ♨️

Chad in a yukata about to chow down on a giant tempura bowl

Last night in Sakuranomiya. The shippers took our luggage to the airport. Tomorrow the junkers come to take away the rest of our stuff. We go to the hotel tomorrow. This was a great neighbourhood, and this apartment gave us a ton of epic sunsets. 😍 #Osaka #sunset

Orange sunset with striated clouds and an airplanePink sunsetDusk with a nearly clear blue sky, a couple clouds on the horizon Brilliant orange and blue sunset with feathery clouds

Okay here is a full album of pics from all over southern Osaka. Includes occultists, wishing shrines, pagodas, ripped devas, and cute 3 legged crows!

Abe-no-seimei in Osaka, Horikoshi Jinja, Shitenno-ji, Mitsudera

Couple more holy spots here in the Nanba area: Mitsudera has a hotel built OVERTOP of it. This wooden temple survived the WW2 bombings so they are protecting it. Then of course you have his worship the Glico Man and some excellent takoyaki signage 😉 #Japan #Osaka

A hotel building. The bottom left section of the building, about 3 floors worth, has a cut out with a temple inside UNDER the building. Mitsudera with the roof of the Candeo hotel aboveChad selfie at the Glico sign at Nanba bridge Giant 3D octopus on the side of a takoyaki shop. In the background is another sign with a dragon looking like it is wending its way in and out of a ramen shop

Getting in a last temple visit: Horikoshi Jinja ⛩️ (where your 1 wish will be granted) and Shitenno-ji ☸️ which is Japan’s first temple originally constructed in 593 by Emperor Shotoku Taishi #Japan #Osaka #Buddhism

Chad selfie with the Horikoshi shrine signChad at the gate of Shitenno-ji where the sign claims it is Japan’s first templeMain hall of Shitenno-jiChad selfie with the famous 5 layer pagoda and the main building of Shitenno-ji

Currently reading: Buddhism by Dalai Lama 📚

Needed some easy, non-fiction reading that I can put on while packing and riding planes and the like over the next week.

Cover of the audiobook

Quizzing my daughter about football. The only thing she knows she learned from the Blue Lock anime, and she showing big attitude:

Me: “Explain the Offside Trap”

Her: “That’s the little cage at the side of the field, right?”

Me: 💀 💀 💀

#football #footie

“The world needs a community powered browser engine free of corporate interests and focussed on putting people first”

Announcement for the Ladybird Browser Initiative, a 501c3 building a new browser engine from scratch

Nice! All the vids are up for the #localfirst conf in #berlin in May!

Check the trailer:

Full playlist here →

open-internet-governance.org/letter

some proposals for the Global Digital Compact (GDC) can be read to mandate more centralized governance. … we believe it will be detrimental to not only the Internet and the Web, but also to the world’s economies and societies

RT ✊ #InternetGovernance

My final monthly personal note from Japan just went out.

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#quote

Quote from Insight Timer&10;“If you're not making mistakes, then you're not making decisions.”&10;Catherine Cook

Lovely final day in #Kyoto. Went to temple ☸️ visited the family grave 📿 got some new chopsticks in Gion 🥢 walked Shinkyogoku 🛍 and met with family for a last supper 🐎🍣

We moved away from Kyoto to Osaka last year, but it still feels sad to say goodbye … this time for real 👋 🥹

Chad selfie in front of Yasaka Jinja

Today is Jiji’s 命日 so we came up for a ceremony and one last visit to the cemetery in Kyoto before going to Canada in a week 🙏 📿

Panorama of Kyoto from Otani Sobyo. Manet grave stones in the foreground and city buildings in the back

Started listening to “Throne of Jade”by Naomi Novik 📚

Heard a podcast about Master & Commander which put me in the mood for Napoleonic wars… with dragons! 🐉

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Been a while since I posted a #truelove quote 💁‍♂️

Her: “Ever since you cut your hair short you look like a pineapple face.”

Me: “Je ne suis pas un ananas”

The Ananas puppet from Telefrançais

Chinowa #Japan #Shrine ⛩️

Black and white image of a chinowa in front of a shrine. A chinowa is a large ring made out of grasses that you walk through to gain the protection of the kami

Panelists from the Atlantic Council give a primer on #internetgovernance history, how things changed with the Snowden revelations, the recent push for multilateralism, and how China sees the Global Digital Compact as a way to gain more leverage.

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