Cate Smyth

思うんだけどさ、せっかく日本に住んでるのに日本語を学ぼうともせず、日本人と交流しようともせず、「母国ではこうだから！」と自分の国の習慣を押し通す外国人って 何のために日本に来たの？

@skanayaneko Kaki furai? I miss fried oysters! 🥲

妻さん作、牡蠣フライ、皆さん何つけて食べますか❓

@pasmal0220 Where I live, I would classify that as s "drought tomato"; the flavor is intense and concentrated.

こんばんは。新潟のトマト農家です。 日本には「フルーツトマト」という独自のカテゴリーがあります。 品種ではなく栽培方法によって生まれるトマトです。水を減らしストレスを与えることで、果実に糖や旨味を凝縮させます。 その結果、実は小さくなり収量は半減しますが、糖度は倍以上になります。価格も倍以上です。 左：フルーツトマト 右：一般的なトマト どちらも同じ品種です。

Javier Milei: “I thought being on the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refused to accept it.” “But what I discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy, hatred, resentment, and unequal treatment under the law. They are very violent, and since they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.”

@yukapy Now that I am getting grey hair, I am finally getting the hair I always wanted - I am enjoying it 😊

昔は、 白髪になるのが怖かったんです。 音楽をやっているので 年齢を重ねることも、 どこかで“マイナス”だと思っていました。 だから隠したり、 無理に若く見せようとしたり。 でも、ある時ふと 「このままでいいのかな」と思って 白髪を活かしてみようと決めました。 最初は正直、 自信なんて全然ありませんでした。 それでも少しずつ 自分の好きな服を着て、 そのままの自分を投稿していくうちに 気づいたら、 お仕事までいただけるようになっていました。 今は思います。 無理に変わろうとするより、 自分を受け入れた方が ずっと楽で、ずっと自由だと。 あの時、やめなくてよかったです。 (写真左は約10年前 54歳の私です)

@ankoromochuu They are entitled and spoiled; angry and bored. Full of envy and hate.

なぜこの人たちはこんなことをするのですか？ 日本人はこの行動を不思議に思っています。 私には、彼女たちがとても教養がないように見えます。 素晴らしい絵画を台無しにすることで、自分が芸術家にでもなったつもりなのですか？ これで環境がよくなると本気で思ってるの？ 絵が可哀想😢

@GN011HALHAL413 The human experience is multilingual and universal; we're all in this together, and none of us get out alive. Consciousness is precious. 🌌

英語喋れるようになりたいな 外国人となにを喋るんだ？と思ってたけどあいつら言葉違うだけだわ

@SamaHoole This may be true, but when I lived there, I encountered so many folks that were over 80 that were still active and thriving; working, driving, socializing, etc. The numbers may have been skewed, but there was definitely something different happening there. 🙂

The Blue Zones concept is brilliant marketing. Take regions with: - Pension fraud - Poor record-keeping - Unusual social structures - Low stress lifestyles - Physical activity - Tight communities - No access to processed food (poverty, not choice) Then attribute everything to diet while ignoring the other variables. Package it in a Netflix documentary. Sell books. Partner with meal kit companies. Launch "Blue Zones lifestyle" corporate wellness programs. Revenue: Millions. Actual evidence: Sketchy at best, fraudulent at worst. But people want to believe you can live forever eating lentils, so they ignore the fraud and buy the books. The centenarians are probably dead. The diets weren't that plant-based. The ages are often fiction. But the truth doesn't sell meal kits.

There is a village in Okinawa that stopped being notable in roughly 2004. Before 2004, Okinawa was one of the most studied populations in longevity research. The Okinawan elderly had some of the highest concentrations of centenarians on earth. Researchers arrived in numbers. Books were written. The "Okinawan diet" became a wellness industry staple. The traditional diet was high in sweet potato, pork, and pork fat. The pork was nose-to-tail. The fat was rendered pork fat, called lard, used for cooking everything. The elderly Okinawans ate substantial quantities of it, and had done their entire lives. The researchers noted the pork. The researchers noted the lard. The researchers noted the sweet potato more prominently. The books described a plant-rich diet with moderate animal protein. This was accurate in the sense that sweet potato was the primary caloric staple. It was less accurate in the sense that the animal fat, in a traditional diet with minimal other processed fat sources, was doing considerable nutritional work. Then the younger generation of Okinawans switched to a Western diet. Fast food. Processed foods. Seed oils. Less sweet potato. Less pork fat. By 2004, Okinawa had some of the highest obesity rates in Japan. The longevity researchers stopped visiting. The wellness industry had already extracted the part of the story it wanted. The lard did not make the summary. The lard never makes the summary.

@nippleointment @The_Salish_Sea @SamaHoole I miss goya chanpuru! 🥲

@The_Salish_Sea @SamaHoole SPAM is still popular here, as the umami-flavoring ingredient in chanpurū (=stirred vegetables with eggs+ SPAM, it is distinctly bitter because one main ingredient is bitter gourd). Also SPAM-containing onigiri. Okinawans eat more fish than in the past, thanks to fish farming

@pasmal0220 Kawaii!! 😍

世界の皆さんこんにちは。新潟のトマト農家です。 面白い形の野菜を共有できたら嬉しいです。 私からは挨拶するトマトです。HI！

@lambkinwool @SecRollins @SecKennedy @calleymeans @WhiteHouse @POTUS @USDA @HHSResponse @HHSGov You should try to avoid as much as possible, yes; especially if you're in the middle of a flare-up. The iteration we've had since the 60s, was modified to grow in egg based cultures, etc. Eggs will encourage viral expression; I've also tested it on myself.

@CSmyth1472 @SecRollins @SecKennedy @calleymeans @WhiteHouse @POTUS @USDA @HHSResponse @HHSGov No eggs with EBV?

Back to basics. Back to real food. 🥚🇺🇸 Eggs are one of the most nutrient-dense foods we have — and exactly the kind of food we should be prioritizing for our kids and families. Great to be with @SecKennedy and @calleymeans ahead of the egg Super Bowl (Easter!!!) talking about what it means to Make America Healthy Again.

@SecKennedy @SecRollins For kids, they're a better choice than cereal, so a lesser evil. As long as you don't have EBV or HSV-1/2, they're still okay. But there needs to be more awareness re: how many people actually have one (or both) of those, and how eggs should then be avoided.

To Make America Healthy Again, we need to Eat Real Food. Eggs are a great place to start. Great work, @SecRollins!

@shocker2delta @MUKIDEZA2 I am American, but maybe you are right; I could simply be fatigued of "rude" in general 🙄 I think that opinion must reveal my age 😏

@CSmyth1472 @MUKIDEZA2 I found the Chinese tourists far more rude there, but I get what you're saying. They come in all stripes everywhere I go, and I would argue that most Americans aren't as rude as they're made out to be, in my experience.

伝統を見たいなら京都 未来を見たいなら東京 大量の雪を見たいなら北海道 活気と美味しいもの食べたいなら大阪 時間があるなら全部

【速報】金属なのに布のように曲がるチタン製素材が3Dプリントで実現した。レーザー焼結で微細な金属リンクを連鎖させるこの技術は航空宇宙や防護装備への応用が期待される軽量かつ高耐久の素材だ。SFの世界にあった金属の布が現実になった。

"It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world—that CO₂, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison." Astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon quotes atmospheric physicist Dr. Richard Lindzen. "What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO₂ from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin."

@MUKIDEZA2 @shocker2delta I lived in Okinawa for 4 years 😉 I was going to reply, "if you miss random rude American tourists, then go to Okinawa", 😅 Even I did not want to be around Americans when I left my house! 😂🤣 There are many things I miss about Okinawa, also. 💜🍣🍙🍘🍚🍜

@shocker2delta そうですね！沖縄もいいですね！

Why do they always trash talk going to space as wasting resources that could feed the poor. Not once do I ever hear “imagine all the poor people who could've been fed with the money spent on the No Kings protests or welfare fraud”

Erythritol is in nearly every keto-friendly, sugar-free product on the market. Halo Top, Truvia, Quest bars, Monster Energy, Swerve, and ChocZero all use it. The FDA approved it in 2001. Sixty countries signed off on it. It tastes sweet, has zero calories, and doesn't spike blood sugar. Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder just published findings that complicate that picture considerably. The study exposed human brain microvascular endothelial cells, the cells that line blood vessels in the brain and maintain the blood-brain barrier, to erythritol at the concentration you'd get from a single sweetened beverage. Three hours later, those cells showed a 75% increase in oxidative stress. Nitric oxide production, which keeps blood vessels relaxed and blood flowing, was impaired. The cells pumped out 30% more endothelin-1, a peptide that constricts blood vessels. And when researchers tested the cells' ability to dissolve blood clots, the erythritol-treated cells showed no response at all, compared to a 25% boost in untreated cells. Constricted vessels, oxidative stress, compromised barrier integrity, and blunted clot-dissolving capacity - That combination is associated with ischemic stroke, the kind where a clot blocks blood flow and brain tissue begins to die. This was one dose. The equivalent of one beverage. Most people consuming erythritol are stacking it across multiple products throughout the day. The article is a thorough breakdown of the science, what it means, and why the "natural sweetener" framing obscures more than it reveals. If you or anyone you know reaches for the sugar-free option assuming it's the safer choice, read this. Full article by @ChelleWards and @tracybeanz linked below 👇 bit.ly/Erythritol_Blo…

Banger 😂