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Dee Dee Sharp - Mashed Potato Time

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D. Merrill @terebifunhouse.bsky.social · 4d ago

relive the 80s as we wade into the potato sludge of what anime looked like after it had been copied and copied and copied again onto cheap VHS tape and then screened over and over again at club meetings and in convention hotel rooms! Sunday August 9 is Potato Time! twitch.tv/terebifunhouse

Texas isn't a red state. It's a state held hostage by gerrymandering and voter suppression. Hell, earlier this week they announced they're shutting down half the voting centers in Tarrant County (that's Fort Worth, 2.2 million people) and kicked everyone out of the hearing who wanted to comment.

John DeVore@johndevore.bsky.social · 7h ago

This is a sentimental essay about politics, which I know isn't the fashion, and yet the editors at @newrepublic.com let me write something personal about the Lone Star State. Link in the replies.

Finished "Solo Camp for Two", a very sweet show, definitely not on most people's radar but I enjoyed it. Equal parts romance, slice of life and camping education.

High anxiety mode for me: When I'm approached or am approached by someone I know and like, but I'm not sure how to greet them. Do I know them well enough to hug them? Do I shake their hand? Is that too formal? Fist bump? Any physical interaction at all? Just a "hi" how are you doing?

It's me again! Back in your ear-holes to talk about #anime, #comics, and other things we shouldn't live without! There's talk about my upcoming documentary project, too! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Star Blazer: Tim Eldred

Podcast Episode · Galaxy One Radio · August 4 · 38m

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New Street Fighter girl Yasmin confirmed gay for Manon.

So JetBlue delayed my flight home the next day so my Otakon won't end yet, at the airport, hope to be home today.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

I should just do every napkin cartoon from here on out about how AI sucks and no one will want to use a regurgitated version lol

Now that Masters of the Universe is on Prime Video, you can freeze frame on the “blink and you miss it” stuff the set designers put in. Yep, that’s Grendizer, Getter Robo G, Reideen since someone knew to shout out Shogun Heroes/Force Five stuff of that era as well. There is even a Kinnikuman/MUSCLE:

Worst selling model kit, Ultraman from the Netflix series, sold one in like 4 years.

At the Gunpla Panel and the presenter is, rightfully, talking about how stupid the tariffs are and how it's ruining all hobbies.

Every time I read this sign at Otakon it just shows up in my head as yelled by Otaku Malcom X

At the Dark Horse panel: Dangan Ronpa 2 is in its 10th printing, Dangan Ronpa in general has sold 650,000 copies for Dark Horse

The YouTube chat of these things tends to be a massive flood of copy-pasta, emotes and such which is generally too fast for anyone to read and keep up with. Since I'm not at Otakon, you can join me for a watch-along over on the AWO Discord discord.gg/animeworldor... if you're a Patron, you can chat!

Discotek Media@discotekmedia.bsky.social · 5d ago

Our @otakon panel is tomorrow! Saturday, August 1, 2026 at 8:15pm in panel room 7! At the same time (5:15pm Pacific) we'll have a 'not quite live'stream w/ all the announcements & more! Lots to talk about! www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Z4...

Next up is an action/adventure OVA that has also been gone for a long time... Ruin Explorers - Fam & Ihrie!

All three seasons of You're Under Arrest TV are leaving Hidive next month. Oh, you didn't even know those were even legally available in English for the past decade or so? That's because Sentai never bothered to re-release the show physically.

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The Fandom Post@fandompost.com · 5d ago

#HIDIVE Sets Six #Anime Properties Departing Streaming Next Month

Keep up the bullying

VGC@videogameschronicle.com · 6d ago

"We’re going to cautiously move this forward" - Sony says it hears the PlayStation disc backlash but will continue its plans. CFO Lin Tao said its focus was on trying to "engage the gamers" in "the future digital ecosystem". www.videogameschronicle.com/news/were-go...

I can't believe how far Mecha Kaikan has fallen with allowing girls into the room this year.

My "Hentai of the 80's and 90's" panel is 12:15AM today (tonight) in panel 3. Anyone attending wants to be brave and cool and stream the panel?

Ribbons that I got at a ribbon swapping event, at least one of these is a lie.

For Anime World Order Show # 255 – I Still Have Eleven Childhood Friends Left That Need to Be Killed, we are the No-Brand Heroes as I review the 1986 shojo manga Here Is Greenwood along with its 1991 OAV anime adaptation. But first, we complained about Sony a bunch www.awopodcast.com/2026/07/anim...

Anime World Order Show # 255 – I Still Have Eleven Childhood Friends Left That Need to Be Killed

For this episode, Daryl looks back to his teenage days and endeavors to make No-Brand Heroes of you all as he reviews the 1991 OAV anime adaptation of Here Is Greenwood alongside its original 1986 …

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I've been going to Otakon and for a number of years in DC and even now there still isn't any go-to food place in the area. It feels like all of DC is entirely structured around either 80-year-old senators or people who are entertaining them.

If you're at Otakon this weekend and see me and want to be in the cool select group of people hit me up for a convention exclusive badge tag.

Hitoshi Doi's site is great, it's a shame he's not updating the anime side any more it looks like. We should also acknowledge that he was the first person to use "fan service" in English in the way we use it today, in an event about Dirty Pair Flash of all things.

unhinged eldritch abomination@rhymeswithk.bsky.social · 6d ago

i love that hitoshi doi's website is still up to this very day and also has his complete baseball stat sheet, apparently he was pitching until he was 49 and that's kinda wild www.usagi.org/doi/

Had my first experience with a poor employee at CVS who had to unlock a case so I could buy a $10 stick of deodorant and had to walk me to the front of the store so I could buy said deodorant. What an unbelievable waste of time and energy.

I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

Oh good, considering how much he screwed up FFXVI and made it one of the worst games in the series, I'd rather he not touch another main line FF game again. Go stay in FFXIV YoshiP, do your damage there.

VGC@videogameschronicle.com · last wk.

A Final Fantasy 6 remake is a difficult prospect because it would need four or five games to do the story justice, Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida says. "I understand the feelings of the players, but you’ve got to think about it," he says. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-final...

You know, every time I do a history of hentai panel I'm struck by how much yuri there was in older hentai and how it's basically just gone now. There were entire series made back then that were 100% yuri and most hentai had some scenes of yuri, now it's extremely rare sadly.

I lived through this and it was no fun.

Zero Utopia@zeroutopia.bsky.social · last wk.

Genuinely impossible to make people understand how much most the United States in the 90s hated and looked down on anime if they didn't live through it.