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Owner of dormant blog Mutantfrog.com. Researched Japan colonial history at Kyoto U. Formerly lived in New Jersey, Kyoto, Taipei, Brooklyn. Love games. Now resident in Tokyo, working in a job unrelated to any of the above things I prefer to talk about.
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A Polish acquaintance went to British Museum specifically to see this tablet only to be cheated by Ea-nasir from beyond the grave

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

Big news: Japan is ending the weather report telephone hotline 天気予報サービス「177」、2025年3月末で終了へ　NTT東・西日本

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This looks like a robot which could be diabolically repurposed for more than cutting tree branches. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

I desperately need to speak with people outside the US with Special Needs children, especially Japan. If you know anyone please connect us.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I'd like to think that they lost specifically because his call freaked them out

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Gotta be one of the coolest shitty PCs ever

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Good to see this from my state rep. (Not surprised though!)

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I am deeply disappointed in my Congressional rep. He is failing this moment desperately. I expected so much better from a Bed-stuy man.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This a really fucking bizarre choice of program for Tang to appear on. Did she have any idea who she was speaking to?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

If you had told me five years ago that Amazon was going to make both a Lord of the Rings show and a Wheel of Time show, and that the Wheel of Time show would be the better one, I would have thought that every single word of that was the product of brain worms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk0D...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Truly democracy is in free fall around the world

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Russia-linked hackers have been phishing Ukrainian military with Signal QR codes that look like group invites but instead add a linked device that eavesdrops on messages. Update Signal now to get its fix for a tactic that’s likely to spread beyond Ukraine. www.wired.com/story/russia...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Move over Groundhog Day nypost.com/2025/02/18/l...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

submitted 6 days ago • 5973 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 6 days ago • 8253 comments

This would be a solid classroom exercise/syllabus structure for game history.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

👣KYŌTO'S BLOOD CEILINGS🩸 The rear portion of the ceiling in Genkō-an's (源光庵) main hall is stained with what at first glance looks like water damage... ...but soon a footprint emerges on the rust coloured wood, the shape of a doll, shadowy fingertips, the fold of a kimono! #Japan #Kyoto #血天井 #京都

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Official Taiwanese poster for "Nausicaa" (in cinemas there on March 6). www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fuR...

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

Best endorsement of Signal yet! www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musks...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

new from me: Elon Musk's X appears to be blocking links to directly contact users on Signal Signal, the encrypted messaging app, has recently become a major tool for government workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE

submitted 7 days ago • 163 comments

If you're on Medicare, probably makes sense to get what procedures you need done now. I know that sounds alarmist. But these are the people who administer Medicare getting the axe.

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

What are we doing here

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Political prisoner taiwannews.com.tw/news/6038195

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Doctor Strangelove is a classic

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Is this the first time in history that the US DOJ has actually admitted to making a prosecutorial judgement based on explicitly and purely politics reasons? wapo.st/3EQZaCE

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Casio ending development of new electronic dictionaries. I have one I bought not long ago when I had a points at a store only for that day, and I use it about 1% as often as I expected to. Yes it's better than Google or an app, but it also doesn't live in my phone. www.yomiuri.co.jp/economy/2025...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.

submitted 11 days ago • 135 comments

Just learned that Suetonius recorded hairstyles popular among the Roman elite, and the one that prevailed in the Claudian dynasty... was the mullet.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Tsuru for Solidarity had been working with the Pike Place Market on a Day of Remembrance event where they could apologize for kicking out the 70% of their workers who were Nikkei in 1942, while also committing to protect their vendors today. They informed us on Friday that they were cancelling on us

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

All hail

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I was yesterday years old when I learned that “condominium” is an 18th century word. It’s con-dominium (“shared dominion”) not condo-minium. You’re welcome!

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I want Taiwanese independence recognized as much as anyone, but for the US to unilaterally declare it (without Taiwan having even formally declared independence) seems like an invitation to China that it invade.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments