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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵

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Aussie J>E translator in Kobe. Gay & buff (apparently) + married! Tea ceremony, kanji & language nerd! Queer. Pronouns: he/him/girlfriend. Trans rights are human rights. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ famichiki.jp/@AnthoDerv, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 6h
Hiroshima gay life 😲 wow
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Europeans never met a map they couldn’t fuck up even worse
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Chilly - 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
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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 […]
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Last 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 […]
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
If you have a minute 1:11 to spare, listen to A Dream Of EU by Mioko Yamaguchi
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
The only amazing song on CII is School
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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
It'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
A map, produced by ABC News, reminding people that Daylight Saving Time has begun in some parts of Australia, and showing the times in each state and territory as at 9 am AEDT.
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Anyway, 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...
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
It's Tofu Day in Japan (10 = "to", 2 = "fu") :bongo_cat:
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
TIL "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 […]
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Did 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.
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
This DJ has some awesome disco and Hi NRG vinyl DJ sets on his MixCloud: www.mixcloud.com/captainspacecadet
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
It's hard to not be a product of your age - that's why I advocate dating across the generation gap :fingerguns:
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Talked 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 […]
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Early 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 […]
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Fries again
Karaoke erroneous lyrics to Ultravox "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes"
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Added to playlist: Hold Back The Rain - Duran Duran
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Back to the 80s synthpop
My current queue: Visage, David Bowie, Human League, Heaven 17, Ultravox, China Crisis...
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Glen Malley @glen-malley.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026
A discarded mattress leans against a wall with "Nothing Really Mattress" spray-painted in large letters.
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
In 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 […]
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Sent 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]
Sent 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 the oven/grill
The bottom says 290 yen
So the sign is essentially advertising something freshly made for 290 yen"
(All BS: the sign simply reads "Udon, Soba, 290 yen")
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Occurred 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.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Ok 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.
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
I 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...
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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Don Dunstan's cookbook and our lost social ambition. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/…
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Don Dunstan’s cookbook and the lost ambition of social democracy
One 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.
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Japanese ppl be like "I'll ask Chappy" (Chat GPT I presume) Excuse me? Chat GPT is not your friend. Biggest marketing scam ever.
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Travel Expo Japan day 2 🗼 🏯 🏔️🌸🏖️🏞️🐒🦦🍑🍆🍙🍢🍡🚄⛩️🏩🎌
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Need a training mat that doesn't disintegrate in 6 months 🤔 Cheap shite. FFS
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
I 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
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Interesting 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/16900125
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VOX POPULI: Ueno exhibition explores ‘painter of the wayside’ Shigeo Egami | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
Townspeople 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.
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
RE: theforkiverse.com/@flpm/11710248044… This was an excellent read (30 mins?)
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
TIL 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/hourensou
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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。
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Joekyo @gruff.4bear.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
When 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.
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
I want to read Numbers by John Rechy
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
I 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/…
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
It'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 😍
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Back 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 […]
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
A 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 […]
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Australia 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 […]
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
First time attending an Aussie Rules Footy game tonight
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
TiL "quixotic" /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/ (exceedingly idealistic) Derived from Spanish Quixote, the surname of Don Quixote, the title character in the novel by Miguel de Cervantes
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
Three genders
Joey Ramone standing by signs “Men's Haircut $2.75, Ladies' Haircut $2.75, Punk Haircuts Any Style, $2.75.” (He's holding  Aretha Franklin on the cover of Long Island Pulse magazine & Grace Jones on the back in a Honda scooter ad!), New York City (possibly Astor Place?), c. 1983
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Day 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!
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Melbourne has been fun :bongo_cat:
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Woke 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 🧡❤️🩷
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Got 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
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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 🙌🏻
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
None 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.
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Antho D 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵 @anthoderv.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Evernote has gotten more useless over the years but now it has moving talking advertising interrupting during use.
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