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Sign at the Toronto Marathon today.

submitted 15 hours ago • 28 comments

Revenue at Duolingo in 2024 was up 41% on 23 to $748M. Net income was up by 451% for same period and yet they're firing workers. We've long been at "insatiable greed" point of late stage capitalism. People may feel helpless but there's a very easy way to kick companies like this. Delete their apps.

submitted 23 hours ago • 66 comments

I wanna go back to Tokyo Tower 💕💕

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Tokyo Tower looking festive in its Golden Week light scheme vs. tall goth Mori JP Tower.

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It is deeply weird that only after a sustained years-long campaign to deprive trans people of every right enjoyed by cis people did the Guardian ask someone from a womens' refuge if they had ever had problems resulting from trans women using their services & got the reply 'Never, in fifteen years"

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

I recently wrote some lengthy criticism on fudanshi, be it straight or queer, and their participation in Shōwa era doujinshi and further cultural influences: On Fudanshi: Image, the Subversion of Mecha and Queerness in Post-War Japan retroanimechris.blogspot.com/2025/05/to-f...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

hi 🫶 #starterpacknoai

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Hikaru Utada is no stranger to controversy. The singer is once again using their fame to make a statement, this time coming out in support of repealing a law that prevents married Japanese women from keeping their maiden names. buff.ly/WfLwgRJ

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Stop! It's magnolia time motherfuckers #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport 🌱

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

listen. i put off transitioning for 2 years as i was told i was "taking on the mantle of the oppressor" and "turning my back on women." but i can be a guy and not be an absolute shitheel of a guy. love being a man. and it's not difficult to not be an awful one. just be respectful, and kind? idk

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

There’s already more shows than you can watch in a lifetime, don’t give your money to the witchbigot. Go watch One Piece or something, that’ll keep you occupied for a couple months

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

Vtuber fans are about to stage their own January 6th.

submitted 2 days ago • 93 comments

it's my birthday and i'm so excited to celebrate with this stunning cover art for the dragon next door! ✨ i love this book so much and can't wait to share it with you. pre-orders are open! books2read.com/u/bpVEQ6 #booksky #romancelandia #queerwriters 🌈 📚 💙 📚

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I love this. We need more translators sharing the weird stuff they have to research to normalize researching in translation.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The wild violets have been really pretty in my yard. Apparently their flowers and leaves are edible but since I’m renting and don’t know the property’s history with pesticides, I’m not going to munch anything in my yard. 😆

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Genuinely unbelievable how blatant the ongoing trans rights scandal is in the UK

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

bro they're laughing at you from behind their gloved hand on ojou-sama twitter

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

love when people get caught using LLMs for some important analytical task "to save time" and then they're like "don't worry we rigorously vetted the results." man....you either saved time OR rigorously vetted the results, but i promise you didn't do both

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Working on some Pride themed stars. Gonna do some pendants of these.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

#緑茶の日　🍵

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

amen. I had people literally saying "I got confused so I started skimming" about Frameshift and I'm just like well the answers to the questions you had were in the parts you skimmed over, have fun.

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Happy Rose of Versailles on Netflix day to all who celebrate 🌹

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

the cover reveal isn't until friday but OMFG LOOK AT THIS AMAZING CHARACTER ART by @ursulagray.bsky.social !!! it's tollar and bale from the dragon next door 😍

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

What could go wrong

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

ol' brain's firing on .5 cylinders today

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

to me, “you should create for yourself” and “you deserve to be acknowledged for what you make” are two statements that should coexist. chasing engagement will rot your soul, while being neglected will see your passion wither. loving what you make is a failsafe for when the engagement never comes.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

A plea. Misgendering unfortunately happens. I've done it. You might. "OH, crap, sorry" and moving on with proper pronouns is INFINETELY preferable to making your embarrassment my problem to assuage by apologizing 700 times. Be cool, my babies. Be cool. If I can let it go, you need to, too.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

I was going to post this article this weekend but Duolingo's recent doubling down on replacing humans with generative AI pushed me to get it out sooner. Here's a list of amazing apps for learning Japanese that DON'T use generative AI! #cancelDuolingo jtalkonline.com/japanese-stu...

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

Translation for language learning and translation for entertainment are two VERY different things. Removing linguists who are experts in writing for learners and replacing them with the slop machine is going to result in the quality dropping fast. 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Being an artist is like "when i finish this art project i am going to reward myself for working so hard by making this new art project" Over and over until you die.

submitted 5 days ago • 122 comments

you can get 100% of what duolingo offers with some flash cards that language-learning communities have almost undoubtedly already shared online, or just make your own (making them helps with retention anyway)

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Every day. I hope he drops dead every day.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Don't take this job! They will pay you peanuts to "edit" a TL that's so flavorless/confusing you'll have to TL the whole thing all over again from scratch bc machine TL can't deal with nuance, metaphor, idiom, personality, or any of the other many human elements that come together to make a story!

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Bridget explaining how she found herself

submitted 8 days ago • 25 comments

Bringing my house pony to the pet expo

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

11 comics to read during Lesbian Visibility Week www.comicsbeat.com/11-comics-to...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

What makes ChatGPT a problem is precisely because most of us won’t know when it’s wrong.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario

submitted 22 days ago • 367 comments

The ones who say “git gud” when we want an easy mode for souls-like games are the same who use AI-art cause they can’t be bothered to hold a pencil.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

little miss snoozybutt says goodnight ✨

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Four weeks 🙀 I spent all day tacking down lace by hand

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There are only 4 weeks to go until #AnimeNorth2025 – May 23 to 25 in Toronto! There is still time to order tickets to this year’s convention. Go to animenorth.com for details.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments