りお＠ズグロちゃん👪️💕🐤

I'm a fan of tiny scale miniatures who live in a tiny house.
I have a Caique parrot🐤💕😊英語圏のゲームのルールブックを読むのが趣味です。英語自体は勉強不足なので自動翻訳を使っています。いつもマイナーなものを選びがち。

[Samurai Shiba @SamuraiShibaJP]

I live in Japan.

Lately, I've started writing down things I overhear American tourists say.

Here are my favorites so far.

At Fushimi Inari, the mountain path with thousands of red gates:
"Babe. How many more gates? We passed the 'last one' an hour ago."

At a convenience store at midnight:
"Why is this egg sandwich better than the food at our wedding?"

In Nara, where the deer bow:
"That deer just bowed at me. Do I bow back? ...I'm bowing back. I'm already bowing back."

On a bullet train platform:
"It left at exactly 10:00. Not 10:01. I'm a little scared."

Coming out of a restroom:
"The toilet started playing music, so I panicked and pressed every button."

And then there's the one I didn't overhear. I just saw it.

At Tokyo Station, the bullet train cleaning crew was lined up on the platform, bowing as the train pulled in.

A little American girl, maybe six years old, stopped walking.

She put her hands at her sides and bowed back. A big, serious, very careful bow.

The whole crew smiled, and bowed to her again.

She looked up at her mom and whispered, "They're so nice."

I've lived here my whole life.

That was one of the best things I've ever seen at Tokyo Station.

[VGC @VGC_News]

Game designer Richard Garriott has confirmed he will soon regain the rights to the influential RPG series Ultima from Electronic Arts.

"It means I could re-release the earlier Ultimas, but it also means I could sequel them."

https://t.co/JX9NzSn1sP

[AdamG1304 @AdamG1304]

To my Japanese friends 🇯🇵
I thought I knew trains.
Then May. Tokyo Station.
My wife and I, two large suitcases, the first Shinkansen.
The train stopped where the mark was.
Not close. Exactly.
White gloves. The car clean before we sat down.
No one raised a voice.
Germany counts the minutes.
Poland waits on the platform.
Japan bowed to the time itself.
I still hear that door.
Arigatō.
We will return.
#Shinkansen #Japan

[内閣広報官（色々投稿試し中） @PressSec_JP]

高市総理とウクライナのゼレンスキー大統領との首脳会談が始まりました。

「日本はウクライナと共にあります。この方針は揺るぎません。」

[HobbySuperMarket.com @hobbysupermarkt]

If you painted one mini today, you're a painter. Doesn't matter how it came out. You did the thing most people only mean to get around to. 🖌️

#MiniaturePainting #Beginner

[Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love]

A stunning shot of a Ukrainian F-16 pilot looking back at a jet-powered Shahed he had just shot down over Kyiv with his onboard cannon.

[Oliver Habryka @ohabryka]

After Jacob Coxon's resignation and extinction warnings, a lot of people are asking 'how could AI possibly kill everyone?' and claiming AI safety researchers have no realistic answer.

This is false! Here are the 5 best scenarios I know of:

AI 2027: https://t.co/CaTNvafRI7 (I strongly recommend this one for being realistic, engaging, and if you dig into the appendices, highly detailed)

Paul Christiano's scenario (Former Head of Safety @ AISI, 2019): https://t.co/nkhTQJnjuS

Gwern Branwen's scenario (widely known independent AI researcher, 2022): https://t.co/WMmlDESf7g

Holden Karnofsky's high-level explanation (RSP Lead @ Anthropic, 2022): https://t.co/mAsLNdggQj

Joshua Clymer's scenario (ex-OpenAI, 2025): https://t.co/lJHJp6ErOx

(There's also the Sable story from https://t.co/JbZmSbog25, though you'll have to buy the book to read that one.)

Writing concrete, specific risk scenarios with enormous amounts of detail has been a major research project of many of the most prominent voices in the field! (With the current leaders in effort being https://t.co/YkSOj2urg4 and https://t.co/CaTNvafRI7)

[T-90K @T_90AK]

Even better photos of it.

[Gary Chalk @garychalkpics]

Someone has pasted a tweet suggesting that I use AI to create my illustrations. I don't. All my pictures are made by a human for other humans.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

- Mykhailo Drapatyi 🇺🇦:

“I won’t tell you that what lies ahead will be easy. I command an army that fights a hard battle every day. I know our fatigue. I know our losses. I know the price of the decisions that have to be made.

But I know the strength of the people who, after everything they’ve been through, continue doing their work.
There is still a hard fight ahead. But we know what we’re fighting for.
For an independent Ukraine.”

............

You can do it. I never doubted 🫡

[HerodotusWave @HerodotusWave]

A stunning 280-million-year-old fossil slab was uncovered in Western Australia, preserving ancient Permian crinoids (Jimbacrinus bostocki), better known as “sea lilies,” in remarkable detail.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

35 years of our independence. Thirty-five years since the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine was adopted. Ukrainians preserved the independence of their country. And we will certainly defend Ukraine’s independence. There is no doubt about that. Ukraine will always be independent.

Ukrainians will not be paving stones under the feet of tsars and rulers. Ukrainians will not be bargaining chips in disputes between capitals. Ukrainians will not submit to what they do not believe in, and they certainly will not abandon their dream – the dream of living, the dream of living independently.

On the occasion of our greatest national holiday, we are presenting Ukrainian state awards to those people without whom Ukraine would not exist, and to those whose destinies largely determine what kind of country Ukraine will be. Our warriors, our civilians – those who have done and continue to do everything so that Ukraine exists in this world, so that it is truly free, and so that the name of Ukraine is spoken with pride.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

Otto Carius destroyed something like 150 enemy tanks in the war, and one of his most famous days was July 22, 1944, when he and a single other Tiger knocked out 17 Soviet heavy tanks in a matter of minutes at a village called Malinava. He weighed barely 120 pounds, had been rejected at first for being too skinny, and became one of the deadliest tank commanders who ever lived.

Carius was a slight, unassuming young man who had to fight just to get into the panzer arm, turned down initially because recruiters thought he was too small and frail. He started the war as a loader in the cramped hull of a tank, worked his way up, and by 1944 he was commanding Tiger tanks with the 502nd Heavy Tank Battalion on the Eastern Front, in the brutal defensive fighting as the German line was driven back through the Baltic.

The Tiger was the reason a handful of men could do what he did. It had thick frontal armor that Soviet guns struggled to penetrate at range, and a long, superbly accurate 88 millimeter gun that could kill an enemy tank far beyond the distance at which it could hit back. Carius mastered the art of using that advantage, choosing his ground, picking off the lead and rear vehicles of a column to trap the rest, and working the kills methodically.

At Malinava in July 1944 he showed exactly what that looked like. A strong force of Soviet heavy tanks, including the big new Josef Stalin tanks, was advancing, and Carius took just two Tigers forward to meet them. In a short, sharp ambush, the two Tigers destroyed 17 Soviet tanks and shattered the attack, Carius picking them apart before they could react. It was the kind of lopsided action the Tiger and a cool commander could produce, and it helped stabilize a dangerous stretch of the front.

He was badly wounded more than once, shot up so severely at one point that he nearly died, and he became the youngest man to receive the Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross. He survived the war, and then did something wonderfully ordinary with the rest of his life. He studied pharmacy, opened a chemist's shop in a small German town, and named it the Tiger Apotheke, the Tiger Pharmacy, after the tank he had fought in. He ran that pharmacy for decades, wrote a memoir called Tigers in the Mud, and lived to 92. One of the great tank aces of the war, who spent his old age filling prescriptions behind a counter.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The patterns of trigonometry

[Airforce Geek @PrecisionLabs0]

Japan built one of the world's most capable seaplanes. 🇯🇵

Meet the ShinMaywa US-2, a remarkable amphibious aircraft designed to do what most airplanes simply can't.

Watch as its four turboprop engines power it across the water before it lifts off in a spectacular cloud of spray.

Engineered for Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) search-and-rescue missions, the US-2 can take off and land in seas with waves up to 3 meters (10 ft) thanks to its advanced boundary-layer control system, STOL design, and boat-shaped hull.

[Majakovsk @Majakovsk73]

Credi veramente che se ci fosse uno che gode di grande stima, allora ci sarebbero le file agli uffici di arruolamento?

Per me la risposta è no.

Sono passati 3 anni, gli entusiasti, i volontari, i coraggiosi, sono finiti o sono al fronte.

Resta chi (comprensibilmente) vuole evitare di morire nei campi del donbass.

Uno più rispettato non cambierebbe una virgola dei problemi della mobilitazione.

Senza contare che c'è da chidersi anche perchè Sirsky non sia rispettato.

Probabilmente non è televisivo, ma è quello che ha salvato l'ucraina ed è quello che ha progettato la più grande controffensiva ucraina di sucesso (il cui merito è stato dato inspiegabilmente a Zaluzhny).

Non solo, è quello che quando ha preso il posto nello general staff ha costruito moderne trincee. Una fitta rette di trincee, che nessuno prima (tantomeno l'osannato Zaluzhny che si è andato a sfracellare contro quelle russe), aveva pensato di costruire.

Ci sono unità con grandi perdite? ovvio, è la guerra. Unità speciali tappano buchi, puliscono fronte, hanno perdite maggiori.

Ci sono problemi di nepotismo, preferenze, prepotenze, vero, esacrabili, condannabili?

ma non c'è un esercito in guerra che non ce l'ha, e dubito che con un'altro cambierebbe perchè non cambi il middle-managment (per usare un termine aziendal), cambiando il vertice.

Credo che manchi un bagno di realtà.

La sbornia dei droni e gli importanti successi ucraini, hanno fatto perdere un pò alcuni fondamentali della scienza militare, che restano tali.

[Baggio @Baggio2345]

Top moment Dogs saved their owners from huge dangers 🐕 🔥

[りお＠ズグロちゃん👪️💕🐤 @Zugurochan]

@10000daysnet 優しいお言葉をありがとうございます😄輝かしくはありませんが、日々平穏に過ごせていることに感謝です。貴方もお幸せにね😌💕

[りお＠ズグロちゃん👪️💕🐤 @Zugurochan]

昨日、生誕20000日を越えたので、以降を余生と見立て、今日から新しい１日目がスタートした。優しいお年寄りになれるよう、穏やかに謙虚に生きよう。

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time.

The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more.

But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.