tim_hornyak

Words @TheAtlantic @nytimes @TIME @Nature @CNBC @AGU_Eos @kinfolkmag ; Author, Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots; Songwriter @rumdukes

[tim_hornyak @robotopia]

For @nytimes I wrote about a unique building in Tokyo (thanks to Hiroko Masuike for great pics). https://t.co/JrO9J5xvbD

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Why do foreigners fetishize konbini? I'm quoted in this @eliz_beattie article about how convenience stores are the karakuri mechanical dolls of logistics in Japan @japantimes https://t.co/5v0efGvDUD

[Saho@廃墟と街並み @urbex_34]

数多くの漫画雑誌が廃業当時のまま残され、まるで時が止まったかのような廃商店。

[CTV News @CTVNews]

Albertans support staying in Canada, oppose separation referendum, CTV News projects.

Follow for live updates: https://t.co/QmG1gYbTrv

[tim_hornyak @robotopia]

"Although experts say greater tree cover can help lower air temperatures, a University of #Tokyo study in 2024 showed the city lost canopy cover equivalent to three and a half times the size of New York's Central Park in under a decade."

[Rochelle Kopp / Japan Intercultural Consulting @JapanIntercult]

AFP's new article: "'Act before it's too late': Tokyo residents fight for more trees" Be sure to also read the comments - voices of many non-Japanese in Japan lamenting the lack of trees and over-pruning. https://t.co/mFVuYysvJX

[岡啓輔「蟻鱒鳶る！」ちくま文庫 @OkaDoken]

ホントはこの写真勝手にUPしちゃいけないんだろうけど、うれしくてさ。ドラゴンに乗って世界を面白くするぞ〜って、調子こいてる感じ。増池宏子さん撮影、撮影中も楽しかった！

[tim_hornyak @robotopia]

At the end of these comes a phonetic “ru” that both creates the word “biru,” or “building” in Japanese, and acts as a nod to Le Corbusier, which is rendered in Japanese as “Ru Korubyuje.” The name thus encompasses animals of land, sea and air as well as humans.

[tim_hornyak @robotopia]

For @nytimes I wrote about a unique building in Tokyo (thanks to Hiroko Masuike for great pics). https://t.co/JrO9J5xvbD

[tim_hornyak @robotopia]

However, it’s written with the kanji characters for ant, trout and kite (the raptor), an uncommon appellation that, if written by hand, requires no fewer than 58 strokes, an echo of its painstaking construction.

[Japan Station @JPNStation]

Today is Railway Day in Japan! 🎉🚂🚆 October 14 marks the official opening of Japan’s first railway in 1872, connecting Shimbashi in Tokyo with Yokohama.

Here are a few photos of railways around Japan to celebrate. 📷

[tim_hornyak @robotopia]

Trump threatens CEOs as tactic against allies, Canada’s ex-finance minister says https://t.co/dmeVJR53TX

[James D.J. Brown @JamesDJBrown]

Here is the video of the FSB’s arrest of the Hokkaido Shimbun’s Imai Yuki. He is accused of espionage on behalf of Japanese intelligence. The video shows his transfer from Sakhalin to Moscow, as well as the search of his accommodation & the newspaper’s office on Sakhalin.

[tim_hornyak @robotopia]

Does this work for bitcoin?

[eric ゑリｯ久 @shinobu_books]

Secret way to catch a thief

Make a talisman as shown and paste it on the door the thief fled from.

Within seven days the thief will return or the place the thief is hiding will become known to you.

Write the age of the thief and the Kanji 男 if it is a man. If a woman write 女

If nothing has happened after a week, chant “On kenbaya kenbaya sowaka “ a prayer/ curse invoking the deity Kojin 荒神and stab a pin into the navel of the doll.

Another way to curse a thief is by finding his footprints, scooping up some of the earth and burning it.

Rinse yourself with cold water 3x, morning and evening and burn the earth every day for a week. Then, bury the soil within the grounds of a shrine. The thief will soon be captured

[Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 @mrjeffu]

The Japanese media encountered Soai Kensō, one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry, as he was on his taking his bicycle to a local convenience store to pick up some food.

[tim_hornyak @robotopia]

For @thetimes I interviewed an elderly crypto thief who ended up in the country's largest prison for women
https://t.co/Req702BNnL

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@TheNightflyWJAZ No handles

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@dieworkwear I haven't seen a trench coat in Tokyo in decades