Samoht
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Japan
Cars, planes, engineering
Walks, canoeing, skiing, mountains
Programming
Japan
A fascinating story told in real depth and detail, a must-read for anyone interested in bubble Japan or quirky cars!
The #NissanBe1 is joy to look at, be in, and learn about. Read to hear all about its creation from ex-Nissan designer and Pike Car creator Yoshiro Kobata.
#WeirdCarBS
#WeirdCarBS
Nissan Be-1: The Timeless, Original Pike Car - Hagerty Media
Nissan's Pao and Figaro might be better known on this side of the Pacific, but the Be-1 kicked off the brand's small-car renaissance.
www.hagerty.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A fascinating story told in real depth and detail, a must-read for anyone interested in bubble Japan or quirky cars!
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I'm definitely not cool enough for Harajuku.
December 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I'm definitely not cool enough for Harajuku.
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Just walked past this car wrapped in Christmas lights outside Edinburgh College. The lovely guy who did it spent 3.5 hours painstakingly sticking them all on with sellotape, and drives round in the dark to cheer people up. 🤩
December 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Just walked past this car wrapped in Christmas lights outside Edinburgh College. The lovely guy who did it spent 3.5 hours painstakingly sticking them all on with sellotape, and drives round in the dark to cheer people up. 🤩
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Full day spent with this and all I can say is the world really needs more cars like it. Great fun at sensible speeds, still quick enough to be exciting, park it anywhere, doesn't use much fuel, doesn't take up the entire road, involving controls, makes silly but not obnoxious noises.
December 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Full day spent with this and all I can say is the world really needs more cars like it. Great fun at sensible speeds, still quick enough to be exciting, park it anywhere, doesn't use much fuel, doesn't take up the entire road, involving controls, makes silly but not obnoxious noises.
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The weird thing is that psychotic people accurately anticipated many aspects of our surveillance state several decades in advance. Our world has caught up to them.
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The weird thing is that psychotic people accurately anticipated many aspects of our surveillance state several decades in advance. Our world has caught up to them.
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#RadRide at auction today bonus feature! Here's a true legend of the #JDM world, and one that rightfully sits in the top 5 coolest classics from Japan: A 70 Mazda Cosmo Sport! A rotary engined coupe with iconic styling, desperately limited and now? It can be yours. DM for interest or to bid!
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Cropley on form here. “No one inside the business seemed to have the intestinal fortitude to take him on” www.autocar.co.uk/opinion/new-...
Abrupt departure of JLR's design boss is both shocking and long expected – but who will replace him? | Autocar
The British manufacturer has let go of its chief creative officer after 21 years
www.autocar.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Cropley on form here. “No one inside the business seemed to have the intestinal fortitude to take him on” www.autocar.co.uk/opinion/new-...
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This is off the top of my head.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is off the top of my head.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
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Today's steed. Nearly 300,000km on it, which might explain me getting stranded (at an Autobacs, so worse places) when it refused to start and then flooded itself. On the plus side, I now know how to un-flood an RX-8.
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Today's steed. Nearly 300,000km on it, which might explain me getting stranded (at an Autobacs, so worse places) when it refused to start and then flooded itself. On the plus side, I now know how to un-flood an RX-8.
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Inspired by @petrospect.blog post, here's a repost of my drawing of the BMW 3.0 CSL "Batmobile"
November 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Inspired by @petrospect.blog post, here's a repost of my drawing of the BMW 3.0 CSL "Batmobile"
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Commission illustration for author Andrea Stewart.
I wrongly assumed bamboos were easy to paint💀
I wrongly assumed bamboos were easy to paint💀
November 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Commission illustration for author Andrea Stewart.
I wrongly assumed bamboos were easy to paint💀
I wrongly assumed bamboos were easy to paint💀
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I recently wrote a review of the KGM Torres. Unfortunately, this isn't it because, once again, The Sunday Times's sub-editors decided to change all my words to make everything worse. www.thetimes.com/life-style/d...
KGM Torres review — suspension like a Jeep, tech like a knock-off iPad
I’m not sure why the SsangYong Motor Company changed it’s name to the KG Mobility Corporation. But it’s better than going back to the company’s original name of Dong-A Motor
www.thetimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I recently wrote a review of the KGM Torres. Unfortunately, this isn't it because, once again, The Sunday Times's sub-editors decided to change all my words to make everything worse. www.thetimes.com/life-style/d...
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Free digital version of The Art of KPop Demon Hunters!! theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Free digital version of The Art of KPop Demon Hunters!! theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
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The ancestor of "Charisma Man," seen in a letter in Time Magazine in 1959.
November 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The ancestor of "Charisma Man," seen in a letter in Time Magazine in 1959.
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Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
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Autumn Valley (2017)
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Autumn Valley (2017)
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
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I was just chatting with some people in the business about this. The scaffolding was lined with plastic net & workers illegally lined polystyrene board on the windows. The fire spread along those netting but bamboo is not that flammable. If it’s built fully traditionally it won’t spread this fast.
I remember first seeing bamboo scaffolding in Hong Kong in 1997, and thinking how cool it was to use a natural product for building like this. Shocked to see it spreading a fire throughout and across buildings like this ☹️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
At least 36 killed in Hong Kong fire with 279 still missing, authorities say
Hundreds of firefighters have spent hours tackling the blaze, which began in apartment blocks surrounded by bamboo scaffolding.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I was just chatting with some people in the business about this. The scaffolding was lined with plastic net & workers illegally lined polystyrene board on the windows. The fire spread along those netting but bamboo is not that flammable. If it’s built fully traditionally it won’t spread this fast.
I remember first seeing bamboo scaffolding in Hong Kong in 1997, and thinking how cool it was to use a natural product for building like this. Shocked to see it spreading a fire throughout and across buildings like this ☹️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
At least 36 killed in Hong Kong fire with 279 still missing, authorities say
Hundreds of firefighters have spent hours tackling the blaze, which began in apartment blocks surrounded by bamboo scaffolding.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I remember first seeing bamboo scaffolding in Hong Kong in 1997, and thinking how cool it was to use a natural product for building like this. Shocked to see it spreading a fire throughout and across buildings like this ☹️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
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idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
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these three photos were taken without leaving the car and all within about a quarter mile of road
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
these three photos were taken without leaving the car and all within about a quarter mile of road
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One off the "big" camera.
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
One off the "big" camera.