Reposted by Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026Europeans never met a map they couldn’t fuck up even worsemastodon.social 3614
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026Chilly - For Your Love (1978) has everything. Here's a 3 min version (edited from the 11:50 song) filled with German space disco outfits, dancing and pouting: :fingerguns: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mftZFBbD45Q 000
Reposted by Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵Sebastiaan Ammerlaan 🇳🇱 @bammerlaan.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026"Social media algorithms amplify right-wing content against young users’ preference" www.bi.team/press-releases/social-m… I finally re-found this study I read a few months ago, that deserves a lot more […]mastodon.nlOriginal post on mastodon.nl 002
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026Last night I discovered that patterned toilet paper from Donki releases huge amounts of dye when wet. I doubt this is a good thing. Have had other similarly shocking encounters with cheap crap from 100 yen stores recently. I hate that humans are still making such junk with all the knowledge we […]famichiki.jpOriginal post on famichiki.jp 121
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026If you have a minute 1:11 to spare, listen to A Dream Of EU by Mioko Yamaguchi 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026The only amazing song on CII is School 000
Reposted by Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026It's a very silly country. Especially the bits with half hour timezones. That map is actually simplified, because it doesn't include Eucla time: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B08:45 1012
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026Anyway, Masato wants me to cook low carb high protein vegetarian for dinner but the recipe he sent calls for goat cheese, which obviously ain't happening... 010
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026It's Tofu Day in Japan (10 = "to", 2 = "fu") :bongo_cat: 022
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026TIL "In Japan, Ronald McDonald was known as "Donald McDonald" (ドナルド・マクドナルド, Donarudo Makudonarudo) due to a lack of a clear "r" sound in Japanese enunciation. This name was changed back to "Ronald McDonald" (ロナルド・マクドナルド, Ronarudo Makudonarudo) from October 1, 2026." HT @shilkytouch Having not […]famichiki.jpOriginal post on famichiki.jp 142
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026Did you pass notes in class in highschool? Friend and I (we had dinner last month) used to pass notes of Duran Duran lyrics, continuing where the other party had left off. The world spins so fast that I might fly off. 101
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026This DJ has some awesome disco and Hi NRG vinyl DJ sets on his MixCloud: www.mixcloud.com/captainspacecadet 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026It's hard to not be a product of your age - that's why I advocate dating across the generation gap :fingerguns: 100
Reposted by Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026Talked to someone who has been dabbling in translating fiction. This guy was horrified when I told him that if he uses machine translation for more than dictionary checks of individual words, he can't put his name on the translation and the work is ineligible under most standard publishing […]archaeo.socialOriginal post on archaeo.social 1626
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026Early morning Korean revision seems to be working - has recently become a habit. (Before I log in, check my schedule or emails and start tasks.) Helps that we live in such a quiet neighbourhood. Just 30 mins or so, but sitting down (I work standing) with text book, note book and pen/highlighter […]famichiki.jpOriginal post on famichiki.jp 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026Added to playlist: Hold Back The Rain - Duran Duran 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026In 1984, Robert Görl (of the German electronic band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft) recorded his first solo album Night Full of Tension (Mute Rec). The album featured Eurythmics singer Annie Lennox who sang a duet with Görl on the song Darling Don't Leave Me […]famichiki.jpOriginal post on famichiki.jp 101
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026Sent a friend a photo of a sign outside a noodle shop in Kobe. They asked AI "What does the above say?" The response (very wrong) was: "It says 焼き立て (yakitate) = cooked/baked/grilled + freshly/just-made So 焼き立て means freshly made, freshly cooked, or just out of […] [Original post on famichiki.jp] 100
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026Occurred to me recently that AI is a bit like that smart kid in school who was well-spoken and seemed to know everything and if you asked them something they didn't know they'd make something up rather than lose face and naturally we all believed them. 000
Reposted by Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026Ok last post stewing about this: I just looked more carefully and pretty much all of the citations are wrong in some strange way. But they're all clearly based on citations that I've used in writing. Don't use genAI for science, kids. 1624
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026I wish folk would put their microfiction hashtag at the start so I don't read half a long toot before thinking "Is this for real? 🤔" Maybe it's just me... 101
Reposted by Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026Don Dunstan's cookbook and our lost social ambition. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/…pearlsandirritations.comDon Dunstan’s cookbook and the lost ambition of social democracyOne hundred years ago Don Dunstan was born and 50 years ago, in October 1976, the then South Australian premier published a cookbook. It sounds like a charming eccentricity of the era. It was actually a small expression of a much larger political idea. 004
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026Japanese ppl be like "I'll ask Chappy" (Chat GPT I presume) Excuse me? Chat GPT is not your friend. Biggest marketing scam ever. 211
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026Travel Expo Japan day 2 🗼 🏯 🏔️🌸🏖️🏞️🐒🦦🍑🍆🍙🍢🍡🚄⛩️🏩🎌 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026Need a training mat that doesn't disintegrate in 6 months 🤔 Cheap shite. FFS 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026I cleverly added a task to my diary today "SDB" thinking at the time "There's no way I'll forget what it stands for" and now I have no idea what it stands for. What do you think? Wrong answers welcome! #SDB 100
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026Interesting review of an art exhibition currently at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum which relates to my mind to the art-article I quote-tooted earlier: www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16900125asahi.comVOX POPULI: Ueno exhibition explores ‘painter of the wayside’ Shigeo Egami | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and AnalysisTownspeople remembered how the painter would settle by the roadside, spread his materials on the ground and lose himself in his work, as though his mind had been emptied of everything else. 020
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026RE: theforkiverse.com/@flpm/11710248044… This was an excellent read (30 mins?)theforkiverse.com 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026TIL the Japanese word for spinach 🥬 "hourensou" apparently comes from Chinese and essentially means "plant from Nepal". Thanks for asking. ホウレンソウ/ほうれん草/菠薐草/法蓮草/ほうれんそう - 語源由来辞典 gogen-yurai.jp/hourensougogen-yurai.jpホウレンソウ/ほうれん草/菠薐草/法蓮草/ほうれんそう - 語源由来辞典ほうれん草の意味、語源、由来を解説。ヒユ科の一、ニ年草。中国名の「菠薐」からで、西城の「頗稜国」からこの野菜が渡来したことに由来。 001
Reposted by Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵Joekyo @gruff.4bear.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026When I mentioned I live next door, the woman who got me into the circle then introduced me to an older man who organizes monthly dance practices for this and said the details get posted on the bulletin boards around town. I kinda love that that's the only way to know when and where it is. 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026I want to read Numbers by John Rechy 001
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026I was today years old when I heard the original Gordon's Gin theme which The Human League covered on their album Travelogue. :bongo_cat: www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/record/… 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026It's that time of night when I yearn for Cointreau or similar but @SRDas left me with cacao nib infused mezcal and what could be better 😍 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026Back in Japan from 10 day trip to Australia. Lots to process. Listening to Back To Nature by Fad (not "Dad" thanks autocorrect) Gadget. Almost finished reading 500 page Listening To The Music The Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983 and quite enjoyed it. Ready to hold an 80s DJ […]famichiki.jpOriginal post on famichiki.jp 010
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026A friend Lindsey Sagar who illustrates children's books has made a downloadable advent calendar for Halloween and it's so cute and inexpensive I wanted to share it […]famichiki.jpOriginal post on famichiki.jp 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026Australia continues to annoy me. At the entrance too the airport bistro it says full table service which I don't want or need but staff ignored me so I asked, oh no, in this section you order at the counter. Not written anywhere I can find. No one bothered to tell me. Bad, overpriced food. Not […]famichiki.jpOriginal post on famichiki.jp 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026First time attending an Aussie Rules Footy game tonight 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026TiL "quixotic" /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/ (exceedingly idealistic) Derived from Spanish Quixote, the surname of Don Quixote, the title character in the novel by Miguel de Cervantes 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026Day 1 of IJET (the International Japanese-English Translation Conference) was interesting. Some very inspiring talks and lots of discussion about AI of course. Final day today. Wish you were here! 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026Melbourne has been fun :bongo_cat: 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026Woke up to a lovely message from my Dad in answer to the question if they want me to bring anything for them from Japan... 🤔 The best you could bring with you is your Husband, we love him 🧡❤️🩷 000
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026Got an ear work in the middle of the night of a track I haven't heard in years: Whisper To A Scream by The Icicle Works 000
Reposted by Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026📢 Japan peeps 🚨 Tomorrow is the last day to submit a comment about proposed changes to permanent residency requirements 🚨 If you have feelings, stories, stats, etc. let them know 🙌🏻 079
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026None of this IOT (Internet of Shit) should come as a surprise to me after 18 months transluting in-house at a consluting company whose every proposal was telling every client to quit selling things and switch to subscriptions. 100
Antho D 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026Evernote has gotten more useless over the years but now it has moving talking advertising interrupting during use. 000