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Tokyo-based AI/NLP person. Japanese-English bilingual. Language nerd, synthesiser freak when time permits, objector to corporate tyranny. Moving at a measured pace and building things.
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The existence of Mothma implies the existence of Godzilma.

Join patreon.com/rangedtouch to hear us talk about 2011's BAG OF BONES, a truly terrible (and yet extremely weird) adaptation of the Stephen King novel. It has one of the funniest things I have ever seen in a tv movie - Pierce Brosnan getting electrocuted with tree powers so hard he pukes. Sound up

This is very petty and I am here for it 😂. Reads like the author had fun writing it. What Sam Altman’s cooking habit tell us about him being a CEO

I think we’d be fine substituting Andor S1/2 and Rogue One for the prequels.

Glad I’m not the only one who’s been thinking this recently

Vv important that Labour stop what they’re doing and listen

Upcoming US corporate financial statements: “We are changing our inventory method from FIFO to FAFO”

Recently I found myself on Antipope Instagram, where there are endless reels of the current Antipope of the Palmarian Catholic Church. This is, of course, extremely my jam, and I started reading up on them hoping to find some wild theology, but instead I found something WAY better...

Tbqh I’m 💯 on board with this and hope it catches on. www.ft.com/content/0820...

Apparently 1-in-3 Americans would have suffered fentanyl-related deaths in the last 100 days (from each taking one fifth of a pill) if not for the Attorney General's innumeracy.

ICE agents are lawless, sociopathic shitbirds. Treat every one you encounter accordingly.

Fuck right off. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I am so unbelievably tired of this cuntery. Burning fossil fuels is a stupid, suicidal idea that the human race needs to rid itself of.

Fascinating look at how a climate hazard (heatwave) layers on top of other developments (ag policies, increased tourism, panic buying) to create a food security crisis.

Goldman Sachs briefing on tariffs quotes Paul Krugman, GS chief economist Jan Hatzius, and then… This is both-sidesing in the sense of “let’s hear from some people who know about economics and trade…and from someone who doesn’t.” Ffs

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Speaking of smoke signals.... #raygun

Is it just me or is the “Katy Perry versus the elderly” framing a bit of a stretch www.forbes.com/sites/hughmc...

At long last someone has identified RFK Jr.'s support base: the 9% of people who have a favorable opinion of the Black Plague

Would it be churlish to call this an ensemble rather than an item? Perhaps, but that in no way dims its magnificence. I will however happily fight anyone who claims that introducing half a cooked tomato into this otherwise platonically ideal culinary symphony is somehow acceptable.

Japan's state broadcaster NHK just aired a documentary about evangelical Christianity's influence on US politics. Timely given recent comments here linking the Christian-right worldview with the Trump govt's anti-science agenda. (The title translates to "God's Country: The Other Face of America")

BREAKING: The Interior Dept just used a fake “energy emergency” to greenlight gas and mining projects on public lands. It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.

Japan rolls out a variant of “fuckwit” specifically for crack users:

📢A new study from @uniofbath.bsky.social shows London's low emissions zones have had major benefits for human health and the economy, with a 10.2% decrease in respiratory issues following LEZ implementation, an **18.5%** reduction in sick leave, and annual public health savings of over £37 million.

It’s funny how every time I look at MY’s feed intending to give him the benefit of the doubt before blocking him I see he’s posted a lot of very sensible opinions, but then once in a while he seems to unscrew the top of his head and fire his brain into the sky

Digital literacy actually refers to getting all your news from a YouTube channel run by a hairy middle-aged white man who communicates only in farts

Convex is the shape of the lens you look through Conclave is that thing that the Holy See do

Hegseth! is the sound of someone sneezing and convulsively hitting the Add to Chat button

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Have been rewatching the first season of Andor. Intervening developments in the world make the prison sequence hit considerably harder second time round

Unlike Somewhere One Could Name, Chinese EV makers are developing for their market: BYD’s going to make minivehicles for Japan. (Also, Japanese car manufacturers are so fucked.)

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

Just wholesale vandalism

I’m actually from a tiny (<2000) town in semi-rural PA where the biggest employer when I was growing up was the state prison. So I can speak to this one with a lot more authority than this author. It’s got almost *zero* to do with abstractions like their “ way of life”. I can tell you what they say…

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...

Bukele is an absolute reptile