Happy Thanksgiving to US folks!
In the office as usual, and weโll be doing the big meal on Sunday. But Iโve got the Mystery Science 3000 Turkey Day Marathon on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZJ7_QI4aAk
#MST3K
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Tokyo-based American working in the video game industry handling localization and international licensing. Occasional writer and goth/industrial music fan. Other [โฆ] ๐ bridged from โ https://mastodon.social/@RobinMarx, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Happy Thanksgiving to US folks!
In the office as usual, and weโll be doing the big meal on Sunday. But Iโve got the Mystery Science 3000 Turkey Day Marathon on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZJ7_QI4aAk
#MST3K
My 13-year-old daughter has added a new technique to the irritation toolbox: the dismissive thumbs-up.
Example usage:
โDinner is ready, come to the table.โ
Dismissive thumbs-up while refusing to look up from her phone. Doesnโt budge an inch otherwise.
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Like most Google projects, YouTube has mostly gotten worse over the years.
But that thing where if you bring up a bandโs page it automatically shows you their upcoming concert dates? Genius. Hope whoever came up with that got a big bonus.
#YouTube #Tech
#Mosstodon comes to the ISS and the CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/space-moss-9.6984791 #canCon #iss
20.11.2025 19:23 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Trying desperately to ward off sleepiness with some morning RevCo.
Shout out to the โbackup dancerโ who is falling out of her shirt and is visibly high as a kite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZhtYwjRFvE
#IndustrialMusic
Goth song of the day. (I donโt always share one, but you betta believe thereโs a goth song for every day.)
Itโs about literal vampires, but the lyrics are pretty applicable to politicians as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2wNL85rGr0
#gothic #darkwave
My daughter and wife are going to the Le Sserafim K-Pop concert at Tokyo Dome tonight.
Probably the most expensive tickets Iโve ever purchased in my life. Hope my kid has a good time.
#KPop
mastodon should fix the bug where typos are invisible in the editing box but obvious on the timeline
12.11.2025 10:13 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 118 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 3You know how everyone is catching the flu? Decided to buck the trend by coming down with my first case of Covid since 2022.
Finally down to normal human temperature levels after three days of abject miseryโฆ
#ThePandemicIsNotOver
Taito is offering a prize of 100,000 yen for information on the whereabouts of a Crown 602 crane game machine. The model was released 60 years ago, and Taito will give the prize to anyone who can lead them to an existing machine. www.yomiuri.co.jp/economy/2025...
10.11.2025 09:11 โ ๐ 70 ๐ 33 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 4A close-up, low-angle view of a carpet of fallen autumn leaves. The image is dominated by several large, star-shaped leaves that are vividly colored in the warm hues of the season. The colors transition dramatically, featuring bright red and deep crimson at the edges and centers, fading into rich yellow and golden orange.
LeafScrolling
#LeafScrolling #Autumn #Nature #Photography
Sometimes I think anime and pop culture give foreigners a weird perception of what life in Japan is like.
Other times I end up on the busโnowhere near Akihabaraโstanding next to what can only be described as a pink and white Hello Kitty maid.
JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN (๐ญ), my latest review went up at Grimdark Magazine. Joe R. Lansdale totally is your favorite horror writerโs favorite horror writer, and this is a solid retrospective.
(As always, boosts are appreciated!) [โฆ]
(Psst, on Japanese workplace Compliance tests, the longest of the multiple choice answers is usually the correct one.)
06.11.2025 02:22 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0One of my pet peeves is being in the office and seeing a coworker with one of those fever relief strips stuck to their forehead.
No one is impressed by your work ethic! Go home, Patient Zero!
A small cushion sewn in the shape of a molar, with a square pocket stitched on the front. The white satin has light orange stains in places.
The family tooth pillow. My mother made it out of satin fabric about 40 years ago. As kids my sister and I would put a baby tooth in the pocket and in the morning weโd wake up to a dollar from the Tooth Fairy.
My parents sent it to me, so my kids got to use [โฆ]
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A purple image with a number of cute Mastodon mascots in a series of poses (running, this is fine, waiting, waving, greeting, boosting, liking, and typing)
๐ข We've sat down with our artist @dopatwo and created a sticker pack for @signalapp. Now you can send cute elephants to your friends, and promote the #fediverse at the same time. We โค๏ธ Signal, too! [โฆ]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Kodansha, Kadokawa, Square Enix, Shogakukan, Akita Shoten, The Association of Japanese Animations and thirteen other co-signers released a joint statement denouncing Open AIโs Sora 2 for infringing on their copyright without permission/proper compensation
31.10.2025 16:39 โ ๐ 836 ๐ 329 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 37Happy Halloween! Took the day off as itโs a special occasion for my people (middle-aged goths).
My wife is on โpatrolโ with the PTA moms, keeping an eye out for the creepy (occasionally knife-wielding, according to rumor) clown that has appeared for the past several years.
Iโm listening to [โฆ]
Screenshot of an article headline "AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay" with "at lower pay" being highlighted
This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
My morning commute starts with a bus stop near the elementary school. PTA moms pass by with their kids, and this week I found out they report me to my wife if I seem grumpy or unenthusiastic when returning their morning greetings.
After the latest snitch message I told my wife โTELL THEM IโM [โฆ]
Lots of cops milling around downtown #Tokyo ahead of Trumpโs visit.
27.10.2025 08:29 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sweat pants are the popular thing in ladiesโ fashion right now, apparently.
I occasionally see guys wear them out and about, but itโs not for me. Iโm not amazingly dapper under the best of circumstances, but I donโt want to look like George Costanza having given up on life.
Roo reaction
[description: kangaroo checking out a Halloween display is scared by the cackling skeleton -- you can see the roo running away far down the street]
#kangaroo #roo #animal #halloween #humor #humour
An orange can of Kirin beer printed with Good Ale Premium Beer in gold text above an illustration of the mythical qilin creature.
The original proposed name was โGreat Ale,โbut in the end Japanese cultural expectations regarding humility won out.
#Beer
A square yellow plate holding a pile of baby back ribs slathered in barbecue sauce.
[Meat]
Made baby back ribs in the Instant Pot. Did a rub beforehand and made the barbecue sauce myself with bourbon, brown sugar, etc.
They were fall-off-the-bone tender, so it looks like a mess (didnโt hold together from pot to oven to plate), but they tasted fantastic.
American hot sauce: โPucker Butt. Satanโs Asshole. Xtreme Insanity.โ
Southeast Asian Sambals: โmy aunt Rudyโs Sambal (photo of old lady)โ (and it tastes better than Satanโs Asshole)
Now playing: Silent Hill but itโs a 1994 trip-hop album
Truth in advertising.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7pXpjc4Edg
#SilentHill #TripHop
A screenshot of a statistic titled โCrime: Mentions of suspects' origins by German mediaโ TV Reports mentioning origin in 2025: 5.4% Germans, 94.6% foreigners. Newspaper reports mentioning origin in 2025: 9.2% Germans, 90.8% foreigners. Police crime statistics in 2024: 65.7% Germans, 34.3% foreigners. Source: Thomas Hestermann, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences.
hm. i wonder what this may cause
21.10.2025 08:58 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 181 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 2Skytree and its reflection in Kita juken river, lit blue as it does battle with the rain clouds that try to smother its light.
wicked clouds last night
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