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The always thought-provoking Meditations for the Anxious Mind has just posted a short piece about Irish shame culture. youtu.be/ty3M5MRfQCk?...

I’m sorry.YouTube video by Meditations for the anxious mindyoutu.be

Filmed on Vancouver Island (but set in Vancouver)

Since the 2016 Fort MacMurray fire in Alberta, it seems that towns and cities are regularly burning to the ground. The new normal. Lytton in 2021. Enterprise NWT in 2023. Jasper in 2024. “What town will burn to the ground this summer?” 2026 is Spokane, just south of the border.

Also: "if you destroy nature, you destroy the core on which our economies depend. And that got people’s attention. This is not some kind of a flower-power, tree-hugging exercise. This is core economics. This is core financial stability, core price stability.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economywww.theguardian.com

> This appears to be the start of a sustained effort to undo not only Thatcherism, but the centralised British state that can be traced back to World War Two and the Attlee government,” he said, referring to the post-1945 Labour government that established the NHS. Cc @stateofthecity.bsky.social

Streaming RN on Criterion: The World, by Jia Zhangke. Set in a theme park in Beijing filled with miniature landmarks from around the world, it's a film made in 2004 that considers globalization from the perspective people can rarely, if ever, travel outside China (or even within China)...

I always remember that most of Japan's nuclear power plants were designed and built before plate tectonics was widely understood or accepted. So, a lot of them are built on active fault lines (not exactly connected, and also not generally something that could have been detected 60-70 years ago).

We used to have standards.

This long NYer article on the Biden WH's "Gaza policy" is a frustrating, harrowing read. Sullivan: “we’d get progress and backsliding, progress and backsliding, over and over again,” adding, “We should have found a way to get out of that constant push and pull.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and IranTop officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu.www.newyorker.com

It doesn’t any sense. If mottainai is so intrinsic to Japan, how come these kominka are abandoned in the first place? Article also doesn’t mention the collapse of the JPY vs the USD (lowest since 1988 at least), which is driving the general foreign obsession with buying cheap Japanese RE.

A favourite spot to capture silhouettes, but today I always seemed to miss each shot by about 10 seconds. #photography