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I've grown to use it frequently and like it the past two years. It's more tolerable once you have a lot of mutuals and weed out the people who make career advancement their personality.

This is not a conspiracy theory, simply the truth, especially with regard to why the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The Occupation-led medical examinations of hibakusha (the ABCC exams) after the war were also a data-harvesting, not humanitarian, mission

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An underrated 21st century skill is knowing what level of digital friendship you should have with somebody. Getting that Instagram request and being able to say, "no, LinkedIn mutuals is right for us." Tough when you realize belatedly that you don't actually want to know what your gym trainer thinks

Literally translating the way the Japanese language uses quotation brackets makes everything sound sarcastic in English.

Ah okay, two separate things. Another interesting point to consider about anime is that some IS so graphic it does get blurred on JP TV. So there is a limit, all cartoons are not assumed to be child-friendly there.

How is Doctor Who controversial in terms of what’s appropriate for American kids?

Troy and Vanessa from High School Musical stand in a school hallway. He puts a necklace around her neck. She turns to him and says "T as in [THE WAR ON CARS]. He respons uncertain "Well, I...yeah." Tone: playful.

We're all in @thewaroncars.bsky.social together. 🎶

Same. And like the Vic case, I’ll just read the documents and lawyers’ explanations of what happened rather than having to actually listen to whiny, fibbing guy himself.

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

How does anyone move house in this godforsaken country?

Some men experience the riches of the earth only to be blind to their own wealth

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Time for a rewatch!

Checking out the first episode of Mao since I can’t ignore a story with a Taisho era setting, but is it just me, or is this series missing background music? Do modern anime have less background music than anime 20 years ago?

There’s no word for this in my language | E-Tangata “It’s unhelpful to think of Indigenous people as idealised, perfect creatures. To do so is to separate us from the flaws, and thus the humanity, that we share with all human beings.” — Nīkau Wi Neera.

One of the most persistent and frustrating phrases common among #Indigenous peoples of the west is something to the effect of: “There’s no word for ‘profit’ in our language.”
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Lavi and Kanda

Sometimes I feel unsure of myself, while other people go around in 2026 claiming to have invented the Afro

The hotdog burger with the name translated as “Unsuspecting tyrant double-decker beef fort”

It has a name, you know

NOT ONLY THE HEGEMONY OF DOUBLE CATTLE

a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

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smth i wrote on tumblr

Keanu Reeves holding a glass of whisky in the background of a scene.

Exactly one year ago today:

Just watched a TV Asahi news report on Youtube about the little boy in Kyoto with the worst AI translation *and* AI narration I’ve ever heard. It would be absolutely incomprehensible to someone who couldn’t read the on-screen Japanese text.

Vinaigrette Germany

Luffy’s the last person who needs to think about being skinnier.

Transphobes will need to up their “can always tell” game, then.