BREAKING: A tsunami warning — with the threat of waves of up to 3 meters — was issued on Monday for Iwate, Aomori and Hokkaido in northern Japan after a quake struck off the coast of Iwate Prefecture.
A major, 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Here's a map of the quake and aftershocks.
Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.
This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon
Don't really care for Coachella fest but love seeing clips of women joyfully owning the stage and musicians being explicitly political.
Public transportation home team pride. Sanfrecce Regina, the women's professional football team based in Hiroshima, on a Hiroden streetcar.
The AMOC collapsing could be among the worst news ever, but you wouldn't know it from our collective thoughts and actions right now. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A collab we need. Massive Attack x Tom Waits, Boots on the Ground. "Well we holler and we burn down cities" www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...
And then read @katewagner.wehwalt.net on the ICE detention warehouses as the true fascist architecture amid the news of grand ballrooms and triumphal arches. Logistics, war, carcerality, architecture, and global racial empire go hand in hand. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Please read @charmainechua.bsky.social on the warehouse as not so much a space of storage as it is a switch (turning off and on movement of capital and goods) and a trap (for low wage workers) and, now, a space of literal DHS incarceration. placesjournal.org/article/the-...
That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture — of markets, workers, and, now, people detained by immigration agents, as the federal government turns warehouses into million-square-foot concentration camps.
It is a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.
wrote about the most important architectural legacy of the Trump administration: the conversion of logistics warehouses into detention centers www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Every day is better when I get to walk across a river. Here the Tenmagawa in Hiroshima, one of the rivers monitored for flood risk. #japan #urbanlandscape
Every day is better when I get to walk across a river. Here the Tenmagawa in Hiroshima, one of the rivers monitored for flood risk. #japan #urbanlandscape
It is just absurd that headlines like this scroll by and we go about our day. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Damn. On top of the constant air pollution the Inland Empire already confronts we have this. The photos are incredible - fire lays bare the "pure" architecture of the warehouse. ktla.com/news/inland-...
The first really windy day of sakura means blossom petals collecting on the ground. #japan #urbanlandscape
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A few scenes from Osaka, a city with more verve than many cities would dare wish for. #japan #urbanlandscape
Needless to say, civilized and just people celebrate public infrastructure and don't threaten to destroy theirs or others'.
We're at a point when threats to commit crimes against humanity by the most powerful man in the world garners some headlines and rhetorical condemnation. Like, just another day. WTF
A few scenes from Osaka, a city with more verve than many cities would dare wish for. #japan #urbanlandscape
Like, it is not enough to rain death in wanton ways you also want to take away the means of societal formation and survival. Absolutely sick stuff.
So many of us in so-called developed and broadly wealthier countries have forgotten how incredible it is that we've built such public infrastructure. And not enough of us are thinking of just what a crime of world-historical proportions it is to destroy it for anyone.
Needless to say, civilized and just people celebrate public infrastructure and don't threaten to destroy theirs or others'.
Rules and norms about war crimes are a global public good. If you or anyone in your family is between 16 & 60, male, & walks, you have a direct personal interest in it not being legitimate for them to be assinated for walking within any undeclared 3km radius around any combatant.
So beautiful. I see in DC too!
Sakura from Ogonzan in Hiroshima. Wonderful. Really such a privilege to be here this time of year. #japan #urbanlandscape
First in-person photo of the Earth since the days of Blue Marble (1972). static01.nyt.com/images/2026/...
Just in these two photos you can see three generations!
One of the charming things about Hiroshima is the generations of streetcars in use in the Hiroden network. Some of these oldest ones survived the atomic bomb in 1945! Here a route 7 car heading to Hiroshima Port, along Rijo dori close to Hondori. #japan #urbanlandscape