Shinohara

Laura and the Boys (self-titled)

I’m pretty sure we have a specific word that describes that. Pretty sure we fought a war over it too.

Surely if we put enough money into horse breeding we’ll eventually end up with a unicorn.

My bigger issue at the moment is that I have 4 pills left and my pharmacy can’t seem to get more stock.

I feel like this is the third slide in a Gundam “birds and bees” educational film.

iOS 26.2 gives Freeform app brand new tables feature - 9to5Mac iOS 26.2 beta 1 arrived earlier today, and it gives Apple’s Freeform app support for tables for the first time.

Feels good to finally get this out into the world after all our hard work.

Does NYC need a dog catcher? I’m sure everyone would vote to watch him pick up shit.

It’s even better in your 40’s. I’ve spent it introducing my kids to all the great nerd shit.

I’m fond of their sustainable nippers as well. They’re my go to for my initial rough cutting out of parts since they work in tighter spaces than the typical cheap nippers and I can replace the blades when they eventually wear out.

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Those plamokojo containers are the best. I have half a dozen of them and have been tempted to get more.

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I have been excitedly anticipating the arrival of this kit. One of the first gunpla I ever built, well before I had even seen first Gundam, was an SD version.

No but think about it: without piracy there'd be no Crunchyroll and the industry would be in a much healthier place.

It’s even better when they don’t get appointed to the Supreme Court anyways.

Well if that isn’t a glaring metaphor for this presidency I’m not sure what is.

An edited image showing Columbo and a suspect standing in a gunpla hobby shop. Columbo is saying "Boy, a fella could go broke with a hobby like this."

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I love this article, in particular for perfectly phrasing my own view on “AI”.

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I watched the 00 movie tonight, completing the Gundam tripod.

I solved that by finally getting the backlog moved into my garage and out of the closet. Unfortunately the MGSD Aerial and Wing are both down there now begging to be worked on.

Now I have plenty of room to get a dedicated gunpla space setup in my office. As an added bonus it’ll now be much easier to get to my paint station.

Finally got enough cleaning done in the garage that I could set up some shelving and get my gunpla backlog out of my office.
It had grown to be… substantial.

For the people who have guessed that I and @chucktingle.bsky.social are the same person, here are the two of us in the same place at the same time. Two buckaroos proving love is real!

This is what you’d get if you made a Transformer out of the new orange iPhone.

just dudes being dudes

It also doesn’t help that I was group watching S2 raw without subs as it aired which made it a little harder to follow.

It’s very different watching Gundam 00 now vs when it first aired. At the time I had only seen some of seed, and most of the UC OVAs. I knew just enough to pick up that season 1 was kinda riffing on Wing, but completely missed the Zeta angle of Season 2.

Wrapped up the GQ Gelgood tonight. Next up, a P-Bandai from the backlog.