Investigative journalist in Japan, paladin, priest, 禅僧, drinker of coffee and donut consumer. One good deed a day is my low-bar motto. 一日一善 Follow me on substack https://tokyopaladin.substack.com
Artworks by Patrick Nagel

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Investigative journalist in Japan, paladin, priest, 禅僧, drinker of coffee and donut consumer. One good deed a day is my low-bar motto. 一日一善 Follow me on substack https://tokyopaladin.substack.com
Artworks by Patrick Nagel
Zen priest test Sunday, and my body is making it a literal pain in the ass 😏 Probable piriformis syndrome: a small buttock muscle pinching the sciatic nerve. Long seiza and some housework tipped it over. Taking a social media break to focus and heal.
Wish me luck! #帰家隠座 #福徳円満を祈る🙏
He says this on the land stolen from native Americans, and he’s the son of a German immigrant. Bribe-taking corrupt racist pedophiles working for Putin do not belong in America. They belong in Russia. Go back to Moscow, Donald
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
Yes, yes, the authoritarian president is leading a hate-filled rally in which he urges his followers to physically assault protesters but do NOT call any of these people Nazis or you will make David Brooks sad.
Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer bots. It’s pretty clear where those bots were."
And with that we have our first dead AI startup
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
Thank you very much! I’ve only won one prize for journalism, which was best podcast in Asia for the Evaporated and best podcast host along with Shoko Plambeck
Please do!
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Be easy on yourself
We are comrades in suffering.
"Are you into Spartans for the pederasty, the infanticide, or do you just have a kink for getting stomped on by Boeotians?"
Every October nobody asks me if I'm going to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. I find this to be quite depressing. Even though, of course, I have never written any great work of literature, I have read several Haruki Murakami novels, so I feel like I should at least be nominated. #harukimurakam
This is xenophobia as policy. Welcome to #Japan.
Spend money but don’t stay
tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/takaichi-j...
This is xenophobia as policy. Welcome to #Japan.
Spend money but don’t stay
tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/takaichi-j...
That seems to be the sad truth.
When rich get richer too fast and working classes getting squeezed, populism kicks in, the blaming game accelerate the raise of fascism spread everywhere i guess.