Nictos

nice!

Really lovely. I hope she loves them too and just doesn’t realise that other people might.

Are you kidding? It's assault with a deli weapon?

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween

おはよー！

Yep, he was definitely cool with the look

Peekipoo trying to steal donut from man

He can usually be found stealing donuts north of Tokyo

Rui sends his regards

The Supreme Dalek

Neighborhood I grew up in. Lots of cops and firefighters. Polish, Irish, Italian. Catholic. Hell, I might have gone to school with this guy.

Great interview with one of my favourite actors, Stellan Skarsgård.
Loved this macabre but touching anecdote about his father’s death.
www.vulture.com/article/stel...

No byline. SMH …

The State of Local News

Worth a look:
- compelling content
- excellent presentation of data

localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/sta...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

My feelings, exactly.

The 4K remastered edition of Seven Samurai is playing for just three weeks in theaters (in Japan). Don’t miss your chance to see it!

When Akebono made yokozuna in January 93, I was living in a roach-infested apartment above a Chinese restaurant in Korakuen. I shouted my joy to an indifferent city. Have loved sumo ever since. Thanks for sharing the photos.

I moved to Japan in 92 and made it to Ryogoku a few weeks later. This was the era of 和洋折衷, Akebono, Musashimaru and Konishiki vs Futagoyama Beya.

Back in 1990 I was sitting in a dusty office reading about Konishiki in Sports Illustrated and I swore that someday I would make it to Tokyo and watch sumo in person.

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Great thread

36 Years Later, DC Will Finally Publish a Controversial Canceled Comic Where Swamp Thing Meets Jesus Christ | NYCC 2025 - IGN In 1989, DC canceled a Swamp Thing comic that would have seen the noble hero meet Jesus Christ. Now, 36 years later, that controversial story will finally see the light of day.

well this sounds completely cuckoo and I cannot wait

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

Kōmeitō quits the coalition A guide for the perplexed

Japanese politics was rocked on Friday as the Kōmeitō announced it would leave its coalition with the LDP after twenty-six years. To understand why this happened and what it means, I wrote a guide for the perplexed.

open.substack.com/pub/observin...

Good god, what was this interviewer thinking?

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

If Mamdani is woke, then the DNC is Cuomo-tose

[ba-dump-bum]

I’m here all week, folks. Don’t forget to tip your waiter.