Wataru Tenkawa 天河航

@DerekJGrossman For everything gone bad in the world, we now say toranpu no sei (It's all Trump's fault); and most of the time it's true.

Now, fewer than 30 percent of Japanese citizens polled view the US favorably. Thanks, Trump. japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/1…

@natsuhonda8 吉祥寺アトレの成城石井の店内は妙に煙り臭かった

連日吉祥寺のニュース、心配です。

@RonBrownstein I do not understand the need for, or usefulness of, comments like this about a hypothetical situation that did not even occur.

If Cassidy had survived to the run off, based on his vote for RFK Jr, does anyone doubt he'd be lauding Trump's visionary, bold and courageous leadership?

@LAGoldenrod @JamesSurowiecki Like this one, maybe

@wataruen @JamesSurowiecki No, it does not. There is objectively a qualitative difference between cutting a pizza with a knife and cutting one with a pizza cutter.

Weird take. My pizza cutter not only cuts pizza exceptionally well, but it's honestly one of my favorite objects: it's simple, cheap, and incredibly effective.

@LAGoldenrod @JamesSurowiecki Depends on the knife, and the cutter

Tokyo’s expansion of defence exports is less a rupture with pacifism than the culmination of decades of incremental loosening, writes Corey Wallace. eastasiaforum.org/2026/04/26/the…

@GlennThrush Ignore the algorithm and curate your own timelines. It's still better than BlueSky, etc.

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@edmsedms3 歩きだね。車も自転車も持っていないし、守備範囲は数駅分

【人気投票シリーズ No.50】日常生活でよく使う交通手段は？ ① 鉄道 ② 自動車やバイク ③ バス ④ 自転車 *アンケートのトピックを募集中です。レス蘭にお願いします。 **リクエストより

@edmsedms3 簡単に答えられない。１日おきにはご飯と納豆、佃煮、梅干しなどにし、他の日はこの写真のようにします。

And here's where I've gone now that X-Pro has effectively been stolen from me mid-contract: @WataruTenkawa_1@vivaldi.net (a Mastodon account)

Tweetdeck (X-Pro) was arguably worth the 980 yen/month charge for X Premium. But having that feature pulled before the annual contract ends, and making it available only in the super-expensive Premium+? A breach of contract and a nonstarter. So long, Twitter! You just lost one of your strongest supporters.

@RobertAlanWard @GearoidReidy Hard to believe today that the former head of the Seibu Railway Group, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, was the wealthiest person in the world from 1987 to 1994

@GearoidReidy End of an era…

Yet another big change coming to Shibuya - the Sogo-Seibu department store is closing down in September nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO…

@edmsedms3 ごめん、ジェノベーゼが食べたい

【人気投票シリーズ】明日のお昼にスパゲティを食べるとしたら？どのスパゲティ ①ナポリタン ②カルボナーラ ③ボンゴレ ④ペペロンチーノ

The internet runs on a coincidence of atomic physics. Erbium emits light at exactly 1,550 nanometers. Silica glass fiber loses the least signal at exactly 1,550 nanometers. One is a quantum property of a rare earth element, the other is an optical property of melted sand. They have nothing to do with each other. It is pure luck. Before erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, every undersea signal had to be converted from light to electricity and back every 50 kilometers. Each conversion degraded the signal and capped bandwidth. Erbium removed that cap. An erbium amplifier sitting on the floor of the ocean boosts signals 1,000 times and runs for decades without maintenance. 99% of intercontinental data moves through glass strands no thicker than a human hair, amplified by a rare earth element that just so happens to emit at the right wavelength. And erbium isn't even the strangest one.

立川の個性と言ったらこのサンサンロードだよね。地場資本の立飛HDが素晴らしい開発をしてくれた。こんな街並み他ではないぞ。

@HackingButLegal Probably true but I avoid the comments for the most part. Threads and Bluesky are also heavily bot-infected

@wataruen There are more bots than people in many threads

I exposed them, so they hid 100% of replies under my tweet. x.com/HackingButLega…

@HackingButLegal But it's still the best shithole we've got

Tweets now loading again. This platform is a shithole

A brief thread on the Diego Garcia strike, in response to some of the more...creative interpretations going around:

Informative tweets like this are a good example of why Twitter is still a better source of real information than Bluesky or, heaven forbid, Threads