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alojapan.com/1235852/japan-tra Japan Travel App Adds New Safety Features for Tourists #Japan #JapanNews #navitime #news #Safety #travel Japan is, in general, a pretty safe place to travel. But disasters happen – and navigating them as a foreign tourist with little knowledge of the local language can be downright frightening. To bridge this gap, navigation app company NAVITIME has announced a new Safety feature for its popular multilingual app aimed at foreign visitors. …

For everyone worrying about how they’ll respond to the current US administration — and thinking they may need to flee their home, their state, the country — this is a thoughtful way of doing risk analysis and response. It was posted by @staffsre1138 for Trans Day of Visibility, but nothing about it is specific to the trans community — except those are some of the folks most at risk right now.

I really wish we didn’t need to have such concerns, but here we are.

sysadmin1138.net/mt/blog/2025/

sysadmin1138.netApplied risk managementI've been in the tech industry for an uncomfortable amount of time, but I've been doing resilience planning the whole time. You know, when and how often to take backups, segueing into worrying abou
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Make sure all in the group memorize the number and understand what to do if they're the person answering the call Also, share additional information with the group ahead of time. Things like emergency contacts, attorney info, etc may be helpful to the person answering the call. (perhaps via a shared cloud doc)

Stay safe and look out for each other

Ring groups wiki.voip.ms/article/Ring_Grou

Hunt groups wiki.voip.ms/article/Call_Hunt

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How: Get an inexpensive VoIP number that includes Ring or Hunt Groups. voip.ms/ is one example but there are others. A VoIP # there is literally less than a dollar a month and allows for 12 person ring groups or 8 person hunt groups. It also has voice-mail in the event no-one picks up. Share that number with your small, trusted group. In an emergency, anyone calling that single number should connect with another of the group who can then act accordingly.
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It's a good idea to have a shared, emergency phone number for your group. Why? Imagine a scenario where you don't have or perhaps don't want access to your phone, e.g. you've been in a accident and your phone is damaged or you've been detained by a state agent and unlocking your phone is a bad idea. In those cases, it's good to have a SINGLE, MEMORIZED # that you and your trusted peers can use to contact one another. It's simple and inexpensive to do.
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_The Evening Post_, 1 April 1925:
A DANGEROUS BUSINESS
That good housekeeping rule as to a place for everything and everything in its place is particularly applicable to the ancient art and sport of kite flying, and in general it may be said that the place for kite flying—at the present time in tremendous vogue—is out of town, and especially well away from overhead electric power cables. This, mere annoyance to linesmen who are called upon to waste time, and energy in clearing lines is one sufficient reason for the unpopularity of the sport, but parents should remember, if youngsters will not, that kite flying near cables carrying 3000 to 11,000 volts may be extremely dangerous; under certain conditions the child might receive a very severe shock.
A definite warning as to the danger which follows interference with power lines is given by notices placed on the Hutt River pipe bridge, but there the warning is given to fishers, who may, so run the notices, receive a fatal shock should a wet line be thrown across the high[?] power lines across the river.
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