Notices by Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)

@wilpercy Hope it doesn't trigger Mount Fuji, though Tokyo revised its eruption preparation plans last year.
https://www.fujisan-kouhai.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/en/top_en/

Big jolt felt here in Tokyo moments ago.
Epicentre seems to be in the Fuji-go-ko area in Yamanashi.
#quake #Yamanashi

Infection status
Released June 26, 2026.
- As of period from Jun 15 - Jun 21, 2026 -

No. of patients per medical facility (nationwide) 0.85
Change from prev. week +0.27
[Source: Health-Labor-Welfare Ministry weekly report]
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/001715426.pdf
🔸15th wave?
Saga at 1.21, Tokyo at 0.14, Akita at 0.24, Hokkaido at 0.13, Okinawa at 0.23
#Miyazaki at 6.36

#Influenza monitoring paused until Sept
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/001697528.pdf

#CovidIsNotOver
#Japan

Whilst watching an evening news show which picked up Ukraine's home-grown long-range drones starting to isolate Crimea, wife pondered what would happen to the people currently living there should Ukraine succeed in taking back the territory. To which I added what would happen to those living on the islands off Hokkaido seized by USSR if Japan managed to regain them as John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Imagine" started to play softly in the back of my head.

Is it feasible to live without fossil fuel use at scale?

Yes of course. Until about 300 years ago, nearly everyone did, and there are people alive today who live like that.

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Will hundreds of millions of people born this century *have* to do so? Yes. It won’t be optional.

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Is it possible for anything like our current hyper-mobile high consumption culture to work without fossil fuels at scale?

My answer is a near certain “No”.

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Why these questions?

Well… (continues)

Initially thought this morning wife had said we had missed "gesshoku (月食)" and sleep-befuddled brain slipping gears wondered "What lunar eclipse? When...?"
Wife repeats: We missed geshi (夏至: summer solstice).
Me: Ah yes. It's all downhill from here (silently noting that the worst of the Japanese summer has yet to come)😓

"An official at the town's education board said, ”While we of course hope to increase the number of students in the program, we also look forward to the day when a scientist who will thrive on the global stage will come from this town.” "
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260617/p2a/00m/0na/006000c
#Hayakawa #Yamanashi #Japan #LocalEducation

"Isabella Bird's 'Unbeaten Tracks in Japan': The struggle to find a competent guide (Pt. 3)"

"Most [candidates] had evidently imagined no more than the role of an interpreter for a pleasure tour. Yet Bird's purpose was altogether different -- a journey through the northeastern provinces and onward to Hokkaido, a venture that was, in no small measure, perilous and undertaken at the risk of her life."
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260604/p2a/00m/0et/037000c
#IsabellaBird #Meiji #Japan

AI is the death of all human culture.

Source:
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/06/16/did-ai-write-this-article
here's the no-paywall text... https://archive.ph/20260617035244/https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/06/16/did-ai-write-this-article

#AI #Capitalism #Dystopia

. . .
#JD20260619 #JDLinkBlog
https://todon.eu/@jd/tagged/JD20260619

…and out the other side. So much fun!

#Astrodon #AstroPhotography #Seattle

Infection status
Released June 19, 2026.
- As of period from Jun 8 - Jun 14, 2026 -

No. of patients per medical facility (nationwide) 0.58
Change from prev. week +0.16
[Source: Health-Labor-Welfare Ministry weekly report]
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/001713026.pdf
🔸15th wave?
Saga at 0.83, Tokyo at 0.13, Akita at 0.24, Hokkaido at 0.08, Okinawa at 0.14

#Miyazaki at 4.11

#Influenza monitoring paused until Sept
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/001697528.pdf

#CovidIsNotOver
#Japan

Visited Zoorasia in Yokohama last month mainly to see the Tsushima Leopard Cat (ツシマヤマネコ) after a blank of over two and a half years.
#Zoorasia #Yokohama #TsushimaLeopardCat #ツシマヤマネコ

There's a lot of sadness in the world. It's important to find some humour in things.

The President of the USA signing their surrender agreement on the Iran war which includes something akin to a War Guilt Clause and a base for reparations at.. THE ACTUAL PALACE OF VERSAILLES.

Comedy Peace Price to whoever suggested this.

Bonus #franponais
Spéciale dédicace aux catovien.nes 👋

Have also been musing when some bright spark might revisit the AR hype and suggest just printing a QR code on a largely blank snack bag which leads the customer to an image (static or animated) of the product in "glorious technicolor" since we know everyone and their cat/dog now has a smart-phone. /s

Found the local supermarket shelves stocked with the new monochrome "Kappa-ebisen" snack bags with the logo "石油原料 節約 パッケージ"(reduced use of petroleum derived materials package) .
Seems that colours are starting to drain out of everyday objects, but perhaps it's also a wake-up call re over-dependence on petroleum products.
#Calbee #KappaEbisen

Years ago, after we came across chilled Margherita pizzas in the local supermarket, it became hard to justify using pizza delivery places.
Eventually chilled pizzas also dropped off the shopping list as basic items increasingly became luxuries.😬
#RIPpizzahut #Tokyo

https://social.vivaldi.net/@ChaplinTokyo/116763730113741301
#ChocoMintBlackThunder

Maybe teenagers will rediscover IRC and make it great again 😈

A social media ban addresses the symptoms, not the cause of online harms.

Platforms rely on extensive data collection to target ads and keep users online for longer.

Algorithms prioritise content most likely to capture attention and drive interaction, spreading harmful, polarising and addictive content.

#socialmediaban #socialmedia #starmer #stopkillinginternet #ukpolitics #ukpol #onlinesafety #ageverification #digitalid #privacy #censorship