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  • Authentic Sushi

    Someone on FB was asking, so I answered. Futomaki and inari (without complicated fillings), is the OG Japanese American sushi from the early 1900s to the 1980s. The other common one, which seems to be the main sushi at temple and church bazaars until the 1990s, was chirashizushi, which is more like a mixed rice…

  • DIY Dustpan or Daspan

    This is the best DIY dustpan video so far. He makes it from a canister, and cuts the canister in a way that will take advantage of the bends and corners already molded into the canister. He uses wood for the handle, and attaches it with screws; I hope he’s using washers. The design is…

  • Get in Touch

    Get in Touch

    If you’re coming over from social media, and want to read political books, join my Reading Group contact list. If you want to send me an email landofziploc at gmail. I can give you my Signal and phone through email, but we should chat on Signal first. My Bluesky link is above. Often, I’ll post…

  • Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower

    Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower

    This was a minor pain in the ass, and I’ll go into some detail about the problems I had. I’m complaining a lot in this post.

  • Getting Off of Big Tech

    Messaging Signal and Signal Groups Signal – a messaging app similar to Messenger, WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram, Line, KakaoTalk. Nonprofit based in the US. Telegram – business based in Russia. Others Matrix / Element – similar to Slack or Discord, but not as smooth. Alternatives to Google Docs CryptPad.fr – collaborative editing based in France Proton…

  • Crossword Puzzle Tool

    Crossword Puzzle Tool

    The world was just too depressing for a while, so I didn’t have time to curate the stories I was reading. I just posted a bunch to my bluesky account, @johnkawakami. Instead, I messed around with this crossword puzzle tool. Other Ones Black Reconstruction Racism

  • Incels and the Manosphere

    These are some notes and drafts of a post I was working on in 2025, but it just got out of hand. There’s a lot of stuff in here, but it isn’t all coherent. It’s also not that informed by readings about patriarchy. I decided to post this in March 2026. — jk Theories of…

  • WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6

    WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6

    I gave Meta AI a break, because I had to do most of the refactoring and debugging by hand. I lost track of time, but I’m guessing it was 4 or 5 hours work, because I had a typo that screwed me up for at least an hour.

  • Configuring Regolith i3xrocks

    I upgraded my MINT 20 install to MINT 22, and everything ended up a bit of a mess, because so many things were updated. Normally, it’s easy to figure out the situation, but I couldn’t find docs to get my Regolith + i3xrocks working right. So here’s what I’m doing. First, create .config/regolith3/i3xrocks/conf.d Then, copy…

  • History of the annoying PC “beep”. It’s called a “bell”.

    At 1:10, you can hear the bell. That’s a Teletype, a remote controlled typewriter from the 1930s. It has an actual bell inside! Originally, teletypes were used like telephones. Two teletypes were connected together, either by wire, or by radio signals (using an interface that communicated using something like Baudot codes). Teletypes existed long before…