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Researcher specialising in Japanese LGBTQ+ politics. I post about Japan, poetry, politics, LGBTQ topics, DnD & more. 🏳️‍⚧️ 研究者。短歌大好き。元早稲ギャル
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Zohran Mamdani!

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Girlfriend opened the door to her apartment building with her laptop in hand because she didn't want to interrupt her game of online Mahjong. "We're taking the stairs, because the wifi connection is bad in the elevator."

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I must say, having a post that does numbers on Bluesky feels a lot more annoying than when it happens on Twitter.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Enjoying Pokémon Odyssey so much, I think I'll check out Etrian Odyssey and Made in Abyss, since the romhack is apparently a fan-made crossover between Pokémon and those two.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

You almost have to appreciate just how beautifully this illustrates the gerontocratic nature of American politics: the Ancient Umbrella is imbued with more experience simply because it existed longer.

submitted 1 day ago • 223 comments

Now that it looks like Mamdani stands a very real chance at beating Cuomo in the NYC primary, some people are suddenly very eager to convince others that ranked choice voting is somehow less democratic than first-past-the-post lol archive.ph/T98YU

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. boltsmag.org/how-vol...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Gastly's Pokédex entry from FireRed is doubly cursed for referencing both a real-world animal and a real-world geographic location.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Pokémon Odyssey has a quality-of-life feature that lets you run by default, but I'm so used to constantly holding the B-button in Pokémon games it doesn't really make a difference.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Shon Faye might just be the greatest thinker of our time.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

From a poem by Parnia Abbasi, who was killed in Israeli airstrikes on Iran: you and I will come to an end somewhere the most beautiful poem in the world falls quiet you begin somewhere to cry the murmur of life but I will end I burn I’ll be that extinguished star In your sky like smoke

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I can't help but picture Kim Jong Un smiling at his TV as he watches the footage of Trump's miserable military parade.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Increasingly convinced that some of the transphobes who go on and on about how they "would have been transed" had they been raised now, internally actually mourn the fact that they never ended up transitioning. They might not be aware of it, but they're lashing out from a place of insecurity.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

lmao @ the incredibly heteronormative logo of this Dutch wedding insurance company.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Peculiar quote from Israeli Defense Minister Katz: "Iran crossed red lines when it dared to fire missiles at civilian population centers in Israel."

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Vraag me toch altijd af of die Twitterende agenten eerst toestemming vragen voor ze de intens persoonlijke verhalen van mensen zo, hup, online gooien.

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So the CeX is closing its retail stores in the Netherlands after its 9 locations were targeted by more than 20 armed robberies in a one-year period, and I just can't help but wonder why the CeX, specifically, was targeted so often. Was their security just... *that* bad compared to other stores?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A growing number of same-sex parents are raising children in Hong Kong. They are a minority within a minority in the city, where same-sex marriage is not recognised and reproductive laws are restricted to married heterosexual couples. #PrideMonth

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Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments