Niran

Cute cars

@writerofscratch I hate overnight buses they’re so inconvenient 😭 (Unless it’s those comfy seats from willer express, those are okay)

Good morning! I arrived back in Tokyo. The bus journey ended up taking 10 hours and I slept during most of it.

@writerofscratch Do you have any recommended itineraries for Tohoku?

Even a Tokyo girl like me--no, especially a Tokyo girl like me--needs to go to the Tohoku region every now and then to breathe in the fresh air and remember what the color "green" looks like.

@inomana_chan Engineering stage was still just a backdrop tho

五月祭委員には不満9割くらいだけど、残りの1割としては、これまで図書館前ステージが背景を立てただけでステージって言い張ってたのが、ちゃんとしたステージになってたのがめちゃくちゃ良かった！ 階段の建て付けが悪かったりまだ不十分なところもあるけど、やっぱり地べたじゃないって嬉しい🎶

音楽をおかずに飯を食えってDJしながら白飯売ってる模擬店あってさすがに笑ったwww #五月祭

genuinely hate that I can no longer use "—" in anything I write anymore

Mapo Paneer is the next chindian dish I want to make for my family.

Crazy 🥴

SHIBUYA maru-maru BOOKS, a "shared bookstore" where anyone can sell books for 4950 yen/month. Located on the 8th floor of Shibuya Hikarie.

@pydhtw Oh shit 🤡🤡🤡

This TWICE merch line in Japan is actually insane 😭 it’s only 6AM and the line is already this long and snaking everywhere… gotta be like 2,000+ people already 💀 y’all are on a whole different level fr

@firstadopter Maybe that’s where their models learn to gaslight us 😭

The most ridiculous part of this is that Anthropic employees were repeatedly in people's X mentions, gaslighting customers and telling them they were wrong.

@ClaudeDevs Bruh the reset was literally done hours before the regular scheduled time. This post does more harm than good.

Over the past month, some of you reported Claude Code's quality had slipped. We investigated, and published a post-mortem on the three issues we found. All are fixed in v2.1.116+ and we’ve reset usage limits for all subscribers.

My Claude Code token budget at work has been increased and is now higher than my gross total compensation

Been drinking pretty much only Diet Coke to save water for Claude

@writerofscratch That’s the fun part of adventures!

I've decided to head to Tohoku Town (東北町) today. No idea what there is to see there. I'll find out upon arrival.

I lived in Japan for a year. Most of my experiences were exhausting in ways I’d rather not get into, but this one still makes me laugh. I was on the train in Osaka, minding my own business, when I noticed a group of school kids a few seats down. They were whispering, glancing at me, then whispering again. They kept passing a folded piece of paper between them as if they were planning something top secret. I watched this go on for two stops. Finally, one of the kids was pushed forward by the others. He walked over to me slowly, like he was approaching a wild animal that might bite. He stopped right in front of me, bowed politely, and held out the folded paper with both hands. I opened it. Inside was a handwritten note in careful English: “Hello. We think you are a very cool person. We are practicing our English. We hope this note is correct. Please give us a score.” At the bottom, they had drawn a literal grading box, out of ten. I looked up. Seven pairs of eyes were staring at me as if their entire semester depended on my response. I pulled out a pen, wrote “10/10” in the box, and added a note: “Perfect English. Well done.” The boy carried it back to the group. They read it together… and absolutely lost their minds. High-fives, jumping, and one kid even pumped his fist in the air. Their teacher, who had been pretending not to watch from the end of the car, was biting her lip, trying hard not to smile. I rode the rest of the journey grinning to myself. That’s the Japan I always remember.

could be us

@writerofscratch I feel so comfortable doing the same outside Tokyo!

Everyone in Morioka is so happy when I greet them with an おはよう or a こんにちは or a head nod. Even a tiny kid too young to be able to talk waved at me from their stroller.

@writerofscratch Cashier wasn’t in their NPC mode 😆

I initially couldn't make out what the cashier at the Daily Yamazaki said, not because of issues with his or my Japanese, but because the phrase "do you need a plastic bag?" sounds so fundamentally different from the "レジ袋はご利用ですか?" that I expected to hear.

@writerofscratch I just buy a new set of pajamas at Uniqlo everyday. Easier than washing for sure 🦦

Life hack: out of clean socks? Just buy a new pair at the Family Mart. You can always do laundry later.