Isao Harimoto, Japanese baseball's all-time hit king, has died. He was 86. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2026/09/10/baseball/japanese-baseball/isao-harimoto-dies-86/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #baseball #japanesebaseball #isaoharimoto #npb

@jon have any of the trains you've used so far been fully step free accessible?

@davidgerard

@quixoticgeek the broken toilet definitely does!

Unbelievable props to whoever's been leaving 3D printed blue plaques on my mum's road to celebrate local potholes

@jon aaand off it goes, into lands unknown*.

*Hamburg Hbf, platform 14

@Printdevil @zdl @Taskerland

...why not? 🧐

Seriously, I am trying to get people away from the notion that German folk tales are all "GrimmDark". Putting some silliness on the cover might help.

I mean, I plan to name one of my future collections:

"They Came From Venice!"

with lettering in the style of B-Movie posters.

hell yeah ladybird with 🤘 markings

@Fischblog Ich habe eben noch den Hinweis gelesen alle Phones, die nicht entdeckt werden dürfen, vorher auszuschalten.

Das ist schon deep. Sowohl in die eine, aber auch in die andere Richtung.

every few days there's a new high-minded article about how no-one reads books anymore and especially not the Youths, and none of them seem to be aware that the Youths are out here reading and writing one-million-word online fics that they simply don't talk to the adults about because the adults scorn them as not "real" books

@kapellosaur it's a white LED, full spectrum.

The Trump phone just got a $250 price hike
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/993242/trump-phone-t1-price-hike?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Swiss folk, check out Brigitte Jaggi's forthcoming workshop schedule, and her notification about discontinuing a couple of these, i.e. this is the last chance to take two of these classes:

https://www.brigittejaggi.ch/workshops

#SignPainting #Schriftenmaler #Switzerland

Oddio che bello, è tutto grigio e diluvia 💕

Great keynote by Marloes de Valk, setting the scene for the entire workshop!

#LOCO20206

@l03s That was a wonderful keynote, I loved every word of it! Thank you very much!

@tomchadwin @harry_wood agree, but people find it awkward when I walk around naked from the waist down. Shorts seems better.