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@frozenpandaman.bsky.social

rambunctious tomboy-wannabe; kid. MA in linguistics. ✨🦎i like rain, goats, playful media + games, public transit & juzo itami! 🌧️ 日本語OK。🌻 lucky me, lucky mud. 🌱 かわいいは、正義。 📍 名古屋 🔗 elifessler.com / 📝 japan.elifessler.com

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eli! 🐐@frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 8mo ago

i wrote about the trip i took down to saga prefecture last february to get two commemorative IC cards! and in the process, run into potters, dutch culture, crossbow bans, scalpers, kids cheating on homework… and of course ride some great coastal trains 🚋 japan.elifessler.com/2026/02/28/m...

Mini-trip #4: How do I keep finding myself in Saga?

No one likes Saga Prefecture for some reason. Except that I keep on ending up there, somehow, and it turns out I like it a lot! With the release of two IC cards on the horizon, I head down to Kyushu –...

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eli! 🐐@frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 8mo ago

i wrote about the trip i took down to saga prefecture last february to get two commemorative IC cards! and in the process, run into potters, dutch culture, crossbow bans, scalpers, kids cheating on homework… and of course ride some great coastal trains 🚋 japan.elifessler.com/2026/02/28/m...

Mini-trip #4: How do I keep finding myself in Saga?

No one likes Saga Prefecture for some reason. Except that I keep on ending up there, somehow, and it turns out I like it a lot! With the release of two IC cards on the horizon, I head down to Kyushu –...

japan.elifessler.com

eli! 🐐@frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 9mo ago

On a ticket where I start & end at the same station, I rode a bunch of local trains – including Japan's densest line with 94 stops – up to Nagano to snag a newly released IC card, then frolicked in the snow & looped back. A long weekend well-spent! 🍎🐻🚃 japan.elifessler.com/2026/01/30/n...

From Nagoya to Nagoya, riding the Iida Line and KURURUing through Nagano

On a ticket where I start and end at the same station, I ride a bunch of local trains – including Japan's densest line with 94 stops – up to Nagano to snag the newly-released bus-riding apple-bear-mas...

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Everest Pipkin@everest.bsky.social · last yr.

an actual gift of the internet age is how relatively easy it has become for non-wealthy people to maintain memory systems. both personal ones (photos, backups, searchable mail) and collective ones (wikis, archives, fan communities) the glee with which that is being destroyed right now floors me

The Journal@thejournal.ie · last yr.

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'. http://jrnl.ie/6788643

ibcf@ibcf.bsky.social · 2y ago

ryutaro nakamura’s very hard-to-see feature debut “tomcat's big adventure” is being screened at the texas theatre in dallas next month (april 14th)! first time in the USA and with full english subs! tickets on sale soon per the "wamano nights" instagram www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-03...

Tomcat's Big Adventure 1992 Anime Film Gets N. American Premiere Screening at Texas Theater on April 14

Serial Experiments Lain/Kino's Journey's Ryūtarō Nakamura directed film

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eli! 🐐@frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 2y ago

WHAT????? apparently some meitetsu express trains show a little graphic with the current speed & animation while they're traveling in between stops when there's no other information to display

eli! 🐐@frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 2y ago

first killing the seishun 18 kippu, then dwindling down unreserved shinkansen seats, and now this – ending the 10% discount on round-trip tickets, a benefit available on trips with > 600 km one-way distance since 1887. man, what the fuck is wrong with JR www.asahi.com/articles/ASS...

JR、往復乗車券の割引廃止へ　連続乗車券も　2026年3月から：朝日新聞デジタル

JR旅客6社は2日、往復乗車券と連続乗車券の発売を2026年3月に終了すると発表した。長距離だと運賃が1割引きになる「往復割引」も終了する。「Suica」など交通系ICカードやネット予約システムの普…

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eli! 🐐@frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 2y ago

finally finished my big blogpost about my obon week trip where i used the seishun 18 kippu (well sort of) to travel through the koshinetsu & tohoku regions of japan, ride for many hours on conventional/local lines, and grab 20 new IC cards! #交通系ICカード japan.elifessler.com/2024/11/26/s...

My "Seishun 18" Koshinetsu–Tohoku Obon adventure

I took a big trip on local railways over Obon week and got 20 new IC cards! A little worried going in that it might be *too* much sitting, traveling, or transit-ing, I'm now convinced that being on le...

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Joshferatu Scare@joshscherr.bsky.social · 2y ago

An addendum: another reason I dislike the word "content" is it turns art into something *pushed* on you rather than something you *seek out.* Acclaimed animator Don Hertzfeldt sums it up better than I can:

Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn’t the point. The point was to get out and to feel like you’re hunting, to feel like you’re living your life. I’m going to the movies, I’m going to this show. What streaming has done—it’s very convenient, but it’s taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we’re all just being fed. We’re all farm animals that are just being fed, and we’re being fed content. You can just stay home. Just stay home. We’ll just feed it to you. No wonder everyone’s depressed.
Joshferatu Scare@joshscherr.bsky.social · 2y ago

the reason I can't stand the word content in the context of entertainment is it reduces what could & should be considered art to a commodity; it tilts from something a creator makes for themselves to a product catered to a homogenous mass; former expands minds, latter ossifies them; more art pls