Scott Ma

Wait wtf takaichi isn’t seriously 64 how does she age so gracefully??? Her hair is black and shit

Ok but what if those Sino Japanese war dramas are just the PRC equivalent of Isekai

むずい！やだ！できん！ごめん！

“Ahhh but you have to appreciate the moment, slow reading! Slow reading!”

Yeah I do that for fiction. Absolutely not for academic work…

We are in 2026 the age of diminutive attention spans. You cannot seriously expect me to dig for your argument situated in the middle of paragraph six of section four

Only people too scared to organize their arguments into bullets write academic papers without section headings

I am spitting facts & you know who you are

Incompetence is the goal

When voters rejected the LDP last year because they wanted to send a message, I guess they only meant one (1) message

Japanese voters seriously ain’t loyal
As an American it’s always so weird to see huge voting swings in parliamentary democracies
Here parties only compete for “swing voters”, there half the population swings…

Fml I’m so useless

Indonesia wtf devalue that

Tbh I’d support a northeast corridor independence referendum just for the shits and giggles

Do I think we’d be better off? Probably not. Do I think it would be hilarious and send a message? Fuck yeah

I honestly really admire the European art of the vacation. I am so bad at that. But I am also not good at the American art of the Protestant work ethic or whatever

I’ve never actually worked wage labor for more than a week in my life because I hate the idea of having other people control my time but it’s not like I can control my time through any method other than sadism

The list of languages I have to practice/learn in terms of career necessity is so long that I just put all of them off and it’s soooo unhealthy. I have really no self control i only have two speeds which is overwork and slouching off

We can also have an international version and include American presidents of something

Ok hear me out umamusume except the girls are former prime ministers of Japan

It’s not but it’s extraordinarily awkward because people usually recommend books they themselves like and I have very peculiar tastes

YouTube video by おだまよ コンココンコンココンコンコン【轟はじめ/ReGLOSS】

Kon ko kon kon kon meme
Todoroki Hajime is such a comedic genius gotta say

youtu.be/oRdx3dYuUic?...

yet again pour a shot in the glass for “jeez i had no expectations for japan and yet you have surprised me with amusements i didn’t need”

in 2026 anime feels almost old school, sometimes it feels like the only people who are aniota are geezers like me. maybe this is the new generation

last few weeks i’ve been distracted by vtubers mainly hololive. i blame that kon ko kon kon kon meme. they have some very skilled talents and jeez it can be easy to get sucked into this world. high school me would have loved this, thankfully i have some self control now (do i??)

even more times when i just don’t bother reading but 言うまでもない

sometimes people recommend me reading material that’s supposed to be relevant to what i do and then i actually read it and realize it was a horrible waste of time and don’t know how to face the recommender ever again “sorry but your tastes in literature suck”??

Oh my god I have been so useless the last 1.5 weeks this needs to stop

気分転換にゲームするなんて気分転換の意義に反するものだ

研究難しいなあ
覚えていられないよ
時間足りない

ずつうー

the larger story is getting immigration court out of the DHS and into the, uh I don’t know, judiciary? Lol

公式なんだけど、総務省の

everyone younger than me is a child shush