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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 53m

It truly is a matter of top-down disincentivization from the ministry in charge of infrastructure. Thanks to graft from the aluminum industry you can get gov't subsidized triple-glazed aluminum sash windows, but even the newest building laws don't specify a minimum R-value for your walls -___-

Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 58m

A Thinge of Beauty
Need to pick up some foil tape for the seams and edges but it feels so good to not have the wind blowing up through the floor!

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 12h

Any decent insulation is outside of the norm though. The normal way of framing a wall doesn't leave room for more than 50mm of insulation and then they leave a big air gap between the framing and the drywall so it does ~n o t h i n g ~

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 12h

It's an expensive specialty product sold to the trades, doesn't even show up at the building supply surplus. I looked up the price of faced polyiso foam and it was over a hundred bucks per 3'x6' sheet @_@

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 12h

I'm so tired. My mother couldn't be assed to say goodbye in person or see me off at the airport when I emigrated and NOW she regrets it???

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 17h

Work continues on making the inside of my hovel separate from the outside.

They don't sell foil-faced insulation foam here so I've used my cosplay skills and made my own. Less foothold for bugs.

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 1d

Permanent residency protects me from the Japanese government denying me re-entry on the basis that gay marriage isn't legally recognized. It does nothing to protect me from the US government.

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to convince my parents to compromise on visiting each other in Montreal as a viable alternative to

"well I don't think of you as being transgender so just wear nice clothes I'm sure the ICE agents checking your ID won't mind that your ID doesn't match"

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 1d

I managed to do the whole project up until now without falling through the open floor joists, but tonight I got Too Sad beyond the operating parameters of my dissociation BIOS, and stepped out into empty air :/ I am black and blue and my vestibular system is messed up.

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 1d

Roses are in full flush and my underperforming "Apricotta" cosmos that have been creeping along since May finally look like something. I was introduced to this cultivar via the Kobe Nunobiki Herb Garden, as seen in the mass planting in the last pic.

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 1d

Back to the Toyama daily grind

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 2d

NO SCROLL BACK IT'S A *QUILT*!
closeups: museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t...

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 2d

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

lostcoastoutpost.com

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 2d

He did use one of the roses to shred something

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 2d

Got home and there was a shrike on the balcony watching cockatiel TV with the birds.

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 3d

Perhaps will also burn the house down so I don't have to work on it anymore.

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 3d

Happy families collecting their new documents and discussing their celebratory plans providing me with more evidence for why I need a fucking divorce.

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody to celebrate with, but I will surely enjoy washing my face when I get home!

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 3d

Get ready for the final immigration drag show, because my permanent residency was approved and once I pick up my new card today I never have to visually present myself as Tatsu's wife ever again!

Trans colors for spite.

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Ebil @ebil.bsky.social · 3d

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 3d

In other medical horror, the sentimental "oh look at this dead child you Have To Care Now" segment of the video was a kid cycling without a helmet getting hit by a truck, inconclusive x-rays, discharged and died at home hours later. Sounds like a PSA about *helmets* and *malpractice* to me.

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 3d

Not even an "if you know CPR" just "YEAH BRO IF THEY'RE NOT BREATHING JUST START WAILING ON THEIR RIB CAGE LIKE THIS, WHO CARES ABOUT THE SPINE OR LIVER!!! WE HAVE TO DEMONSTRATE OUR MODERNITY!!!!!!"

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 3d

Also they advise starting chest compressions if you hit someone with you car, which is! Sweet merciful christ!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 3d

Survived first-time driver's license renewal with no English support. Continue to be disgusted by attempts to make systemic safety issues (extreme elderly drivers; unrestrained child passengers; moped/bicycle curbside lane-splitting; dashboard TVs) all individual drivers' problems.

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Linden @kirindensetsu.bsky.social · 3d

Both of these poses have such soulful sighthound energy even without her doggy ears <3