Japan's limiting my perscription! Fun!

Some days I'm like, aw yeah, I'm communicating in Japanese, I'm improving, I can totally do this. Some days I'm like, no fr what the hell am I doing

Most bored-looking dude on earth

Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.

The 60 largest planned data centers could produce the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions as 27 coal plants. Big Tech CEOs are polluting our planet and selling out our future to line their own pockets. We need a data center moratorium — now.

the entire Chinese internet has embraced what's basically a work of outsider art; a terribly animated film about a cow's dream made by a mother-son team and distributed by a former interior decoration company. It's now made millions at the box office.

Accented Cinema@accentedcinema.bsky.social · 4d ago

Niu Lai (lit. Cow Come) was released without a press kit. Movie theaters in China have begun making their own posters. Surprisingly, not an AI in sight, just ppl living in the mement.

You know what? FOX 2 Detroit ended their high school essay contest in 1995 because of me. I was the last winner. A (white) teacher at another HS accused me and my (white) AP English teacher of cheating. Essay was "too long." Previous winners read their essays on TV. I only got to visit the studio.

Racists are cowards

Fuck this guy

Jonathon Booth@jboothhistory.bsky.social · 4d ago

yikes

UPDATE: He was lovely, very reserved, and did a great job 😊

Marguerite Dabaie/مارغريت دباعي/ダバ-イ マルガリ-ト@mrrg.bsky.social · last wk.

I am going to a new hairstylist today because, while my previous one was a v adorable 20-something and she was great, she also got overly excited about working on a gaikokujin's hair and she cut it waaaayyyyyy too short 😅 This new person called me last night to ask if I spoke Japanese lol WE'LL SEE

I am going to a new hairstylist today because, while my previous one was a v adorable 20-something and she was great, she also got overly excited about working on a gaikokujin's hair and she cut it waaaayyyyyy too short 😅 This new person called me last night to ask if I spoke Japanese lol WE'LL SEE

dale cooper: “Diane,

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they gave me a breakfast which was pretty large and also alright. have had two coffees and two mimosas i am living the dream here. my knees dont touch the seat in front of me. i can use my tray table. i am not touching arms and legs with the guy next to me. how i wish i could do this evrey time

Look at this cat. Look at this.

I can't stress enough the importance of making shitty things. Shitty writing. Shitty art. Shitty paintings. Shitty films. Shitty songs. Shitty sculptures. Shitty is beautiful, because it's human. There's no glory without shitty. Get out there and shit things up.

There's a Google Maps phenomenon here where people will just take pics of the front of a place, which is useful in theory, but the pics almost always look like a crime scene photo.

I heard an Arabized version of this Ninja Gaiden song when I was young. Please! What is it?? 😭 #nes #ninjagaiden #arabicsong

gets incredible air here

Today's Kyoto Palestine demo, in (not exaggerating) 100-degree heat

"Gonna make laziness part of my persona"

Unseen Japan@unseenjapan.com · 2w ago

A tweet praised writer Pico Iyer for living in Japan over 25 years without learning much Japanese, to keep "a sense of mystery." One reply countered: imagine a journalist in the US or Canada refusing to learn English to "keep the mystery alive."

I am really starting to think there is some massive campaign on the English-speaking internet to spread the stupidest rumors about Japan. It seems like a lot of them want to keep "othering" Japan. I have theories.

Trump says Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and Iran convinced him to call off a planned attack on Iran, adding: “I think there’s a deal.” Reminder: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar all have business ties to the Trump family. Nothing about this is normal.

The awkwardness of someone suggesting a "pan-Arab" restaurant to me and then doing some sleuthing and finding out it's owned by Israelis

Cringe Awkward

ALT: Cringe Awkward

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Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3w ago

People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

It's 1997 again!

If anyone *happens* to come across any graphic design gigs either in the Kansai region or remote (full time/part time/freelance are all OK), please think of me! I've been working as a graphic designer at Bloomsbury Publishing since 2019! Thank you!

Thanks to my extensive video-game playing, I know a bunch of words and phrases I wouldn't otherwise know. Like the word for skeleton (gaikotsu/骸骨--nerd alert: in the game Clash at Demonhead, the big villain is skeleton dude named Tom Guycott).

I've actually been extremely disturbed by the amount of white supremacy foisted onto Japan re any sort of dissent, which there has been a decent amount of here. I don't even think a lot of em live in Japan and have a fantasy of Glorious Nippon. Anyone who doesn't fit their standards is "fake"

Actually seeing this in real time amongst ultra right-wing Europeans/Americans commenting on Japanese protests. Re Japanese ppl protesting in their own country: "Real Japanese would never do that, deport them." It's incredibly dangerous.

Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈@chimeracoder.bsky.social · 4w ago

I don't think people understand how thin the line between "deportation" and "extermination" really is - not just in Europe, but everywhere the topic comes up. Many people feel comfortable with the idea of deportation because it obscures the underlying violence that is necessarily implied.

I don't think people understand how thin the line between "deportation" and "extermination" really is - not just in Europe, but everywhere the topic comes up. Many people feel comfortable with the idea of deportation because it obscures the underlying violence that is necessarily implied.

Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈@chimeracoder.bsky.social · 4w ago

And to spell it out: when DHH says "deport Romani people", those are people who are citizens of the country they live in. Where would they be deported to? When the Nazis ran into this same question, they created extermination camps. bsky.app/profile/anil...