NHK World just released a fascinating documentary about the 50 year history of Comiket. Definitely give it a watch before it is taken down on May 3rd.
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
My favorite part has to be the moment where they show a guy selling doujinshi about baseball umpires. Love that guy.
i wanna say 24h later i appreciate the amt of strangers/friends-of-friends that signed up, it means a lot!
the only thing i want for my birthday is the chance to give other people gifts and i feel like the Vibes of bsky have so far aligned with that goal :'3
friends, countrymen, gamers,
my birthday is in ONE WEEK and for the last 2 months I've been plotting, planning, testing, and scheming - and i'm happy to announce I'm gonna harming myself for content AND giving away 5 *free* video games to the luckiest among you
www.jotform.com/build/261023...
friends, countrymen, gamers,
my birthday is in ONE WEEK and for the last 2 months I've been plotting, planning, testing, and scheming - and i'm happy to announce I'm gonna harming myself for content AND giving away 5 *free* video games to the luckiest among you
www.jotform.com/build/261023...
Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
Japanese Politician cosplays as a Gundam character: Yamamoto Taro, leader of the left-wing populist Reiwa Shinsegumi party, dressed as Char Aznable to support the candidacy of Okamoto Maya, the voice actress who played the role of Emma Sheen in Zeta Gundam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr13...
GodDAMN this ruling against Apple in the Epic lawsuit is brutal. This is a judge who is outright furious at a company and it is not going well for them.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
My translation of a viral Japanese meme summarizing decades of U.S. complaints about Japan not buying enough American cars (while not making the kind of cars Japanese consumers actually want):
*whispering*
Lowtax... Lowtax...
*My voice rises*
Lowtax... Lowtax...
*I project from my diaphragm*
Lowtax. Lowtax.
*shouting now*
Lowtax! Lowtax!
*My voice crescendos, uplifted my many others like Goku perfoming a Spirit Bomb*
LOWTAX! LOWTAX!
Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
“I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist."
-Pedro Pascal
How do you link a government official to an anonymous social media account that asserts, among other things, that "America is a White nation?"
Like this.
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
This is a backdoor. Elon's coders are creating a backdoor into the US Treasury. This is incredibly dangerous both because of its intended use (by Elon and Trump) and the risk of other actors exploiting a major security vulnerability to cause a massive disruption to the US government.