dusty.ninja

Are your #prescription drugs unaffordable? Do you have a friend in #Japan? If you want real name-brand drugs for cheap they can be ordered in Japan and delivered to a Japanese address. Flights can be cheaper to Japan than the costs of medicine...

Can order months of medicine at a time and Japanese customs won't hold anything in international mail. You can take 3months of medicine across border back to US. I've never been stopped but you should have prescription handy just in case. Also keep receipt if they want to collect a tax.

I've done this for Jardiance and some other medications. Jardiance costs $1,800 for 3 month supply (with insurance!!) in the US. I can just order about 4months of pills for ~$80 in Japan (or Korea for $60 - but that is more complicated). Comes in same exact bottle as it is in US - made in Italy.

The websites in Japan just require a Japanese issued credit card and address (sometimes a visa gift card will work - but better to have a Japanese friend order).

Some of the websites: https://bestkenko.com https://osakadou.cool (they block non-japan IP and VPN subnets). More can be found online.

Reference on Reddit as well:
https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/s/BfY9iikz2F

Feel free to ask any questions or boost for others.

I think I still don't know the at-protocol as much as I should. Still prohibitory expensive for anyone to just own their own instance of bsky/at-protocol data repo. Processing the firehose of data will cost me $30/month but how much to store and query this data? Seems like this blog post really glosses over where this data is kept and at what expense.

https://overreacted.io/open-social/

Has anyone actually used a setup like this for casting? Is it just a gimmick or does it really help?
#fishing

Proof Coke Zero is part of a healthy diet.

From: @arstechnica
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115272861848372908

Finally got around to watching @TechConnectify video about Closed Captions on DVD's and now I'm super irritated. Seems like more lawyers need to get involved to force fix this problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSCOQ6vnLwU

Sometimes I wonder what the sad people responsible for the Novell IPX/IP Gateway are up to nowadays.

Well this was a sad and upsetting read. Here is a paywall bypass link:

https://archive.is/2025.09.25-083145/https://bismarcktribune.com/news/nation-world/crime-courts/article_48473d5c-5286-40fe-8b0a-195a5d93f097.html

From: @thezenlady
https://toot.community/@thezenlady/115263012641894401

House of Prime Rib owner died at 86.

What a great run. Dead at 86 eating such indulgent food. Worth it.

https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/24/san-francisco-joe-betz-owner-house-prime-rib-dies/

Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars
I'm a sucker for cooking shows and this one looks good. #AppleTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X23W_8uJHjk

Why do I love sleep so much but stay up as late as possible? I then wake up early and swear I’ll sleep earlier… only to stay up late again. 😵‍💫

If you enjoy science fiction I recommend a subscription.

From: @clarkesworld
https://mastodon.online/@clarkesworld/115255420071731873

@inverseatascii
Apple Passwords does this natively and doesn’t cost you anything.

https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud-windows/set-up-icloud-passwords-icw2babf5e03/icloud

I can’t believe how much lighter this Air feels compared to the 15 Pro Max it replaced. 🪶 Was prepping the old iPhone for giving to family and it was like holding a brick. 🧱
#iphoneair

new iPhone Air arrived. First step is update iOS? 😒

#appleiphone17

Just assembled furniture for the wife. I’m probably more tired than I should be.

For those curious it’s a shoe cabinet and she is now busy reorganizing shoes. 👠

for #gotosocial users that migrated from a mastodon account: Do you want your bookmark statuses uploaded to your #gts account? I wrote a python script to do that. #gotosocialhelp
https://codeberg.org/brybry/mastodon-bookmark-uploader/

Looks like #digitalocean finally has #Debian 13 #trixie available. Let the migration from #Ubuntu begin!

"My Life As a Homeless Man in America"
Less than a year ago this was published in Esquire. It's an excellent read and I think YOU should read it.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness-in-america/
https://apple.news/ABifej5dIQHyFKHn-bIJ1Bg

Ordered an iPhone Air. Still can’t decide which watch to get.

Well, I got the #Covid again. Second time since pandemic started. I went to a doctor’s office masked to get prescriptions for something unrelated… the waiting room was full of sick people (they made them masks, so that was good). My wife never got Covid yet, but we no longer live in a house with a spare room to isolate like last time. I hope she doesn’t get sick.

So annoying. Was planning on getting new shot end of September for travel in November/December. 😔

I’m currently at stage 4 in this video…
https://youtu.be/6IHhAKnCtKc