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God fucking damn it

Congrats! 🥳

“In every industry, AI is being used to replace all the creative things that bring us joy instead of the boring, tedious tasks we hate doing,” she says.

not to be a bitch but if you don't like a light novel series you don't HAVE to keep reading it

Yep! I got the bag this came with and it is SO nice!!

It's good to have a hobby

A photograph of Oshii Mamoru from the 1980s

Lum and Ataru seen reflected in a puddle in Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer (1984)

A girl with white hair billowing outwards in Angel's Egg (1985)

A mysterious #GhibliSpotlight topic today, as we have a little look at the unreleased project Anchor (アンカー). The film was planned to be directed by Oshii Mamoru, and was apparently discussed in 1985, around the time Studio Ghibli was founded. 🧵 [1/12]

So is this just... the original series but slightly shorter?

Wow, I saw this very sign not so long ago!

👀

At the expo, just a day :P but I was actually in Japan for 6-7 weeks! I go home in a few days

The bitch is back

Tbh I feel like there are quite a few gaijin (self-described) who were eagerly waiting for a sanseito to support

Why has Japan set up a task force to deal with foreigners? | CNN Japan has worked hard to attract foreigners to boost its sluggish economy but now the perception there are too many has prompted the creation of a new task force, as competition for votes heats up ahe...

I spoke to CNN about Japan's new Office for the Promotion of a Society of Harmonious Coexistence with Foreign Nationals and also the rise of Sanseito: "Why has Japan set up a task force to deal with foreigners?"
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This ワンマン電車 is demonstrably a スリーマン電車

I really liked this pavilion! There was something so fascinating about the conversation the two people had when I was there. (But I was out of the loop and hadn't heard about the controversy mentioned in the article :/ )

A deer on Mt Kurama turning away next to a maple tree

シカト

I even managed to get lunch which seemed for a moment like an impossible dream

Bluesky absolutely does NOT want me uploading a photo but I assure you I'm at Takarazuka Castlevania right now

This is their kingdom!

A booking confirmation for "Takarazuka Grand Theater(HYOGO) Jun.7-Jul.20 2025 'Castlevania Awakening in the Moonlight' 'I Love Revue!'"

yeah babyyy

What inspired you to choose The Shaggs as Hanna's parents' representative wacky record?

Slightly amended so I can fit this here: I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame! I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one. I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country. This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong. Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues. I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean? Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens.

This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way. You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position. Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces. What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly. The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy. Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed. Tanja Bueltmann

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

whoa-whoa-whoa woke marxist pope, &c

He chose a name that it seems to me/reminds me of popes Leo I to XIII

new pope, who dis

Starting the long awaited new season of Devil's Plan and can't get over how many contestants fit the mould of "high-IQ supernerd who was too hot to just remain at university with normies"

Thank you! 😊

I assumed they were written with the intention of matching a dubbed version

Wow I appreciate the shout-out! ...buuuut I have to admit approved lyrics were all supplied, and the few songs that I did have to make translations for had others added in later. (and I actually didn't love a lot of the phrasing in the supplied lyrics, lol)