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Your reminder that Sword of Paros will be the prettiest book you have ever owned and if you pre-order now, you'll get a signed shikishi and a classic tale of queer life, betrayal and love. store.mangamavericks.com/products/the...

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The Sword of Paros (Deluxe Edition)

This product is a pre-order. Orders containing this product are not guaranteed to ship until all items are in stock. Pre-orders from the Manga Mavericks Store also include an EXCLUSIVE shikishi board ...

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 21h

Can I urge that instead of using the formulation "[statement] (spoiler: [related statement])" or "[statement], but spoiler: [related statement]" we just…not? You may think using "spoiler:" contributes something, but spoiler: it doesn't and spoiler: it's overused and spoiler: no one will miss it.

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Chiaki Mitama 🐾🌭 @terrible.moe · 29/09/2026

It's Buchigire Reijou wa Houfuku wo Chikaimashita. Madousho no Chikara de Sokoku wo Tatakitsubushimasu you fucking peasants. You should be calling it Saikyō Degarashi Ouji no Anyaku Teii Arasoi: Munou wo Enjiru SS Rank Ouji wa Kooi Keishousen wo Kage kara Shihai suru you know-nothing flea bags.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026

Hey I don’t think it’s a good thing that Bernie Sanders keeps talking to this guy

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 28/09/2026

Just finished the Boston canned bread and I can see the appeal but as a foodstuff it is…odd

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Deb Aoki @debaoki.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A Broadway musical based on Moyoco Anno’s manga, « Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen » with music by Duncan Sheik is debuting this month in NYC! www.memoirsmusical.com You can read the manga that inspired this show on @omoi.com & @emaqi-official.bsky.social

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VLord Reads Too Much Manga @vlordgtz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Sword of Paros is by far the most ambitious project to date for @mangamavericks.bsky.social, and I’m really grateful to Igarashi-sensei and the JP publisher Fairbell for trusting us to source and restore the manga’s lost artwork.

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 23/09/2026

Oh great, hope you're happy, GAVIN

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 22/09/2026

So yeah, this EXACT thing is the plot of this manga I'm working on. Only difference is it's an earpiece instead of glasses.

Cover of the manga Myther 1 by Teki Yatsuda

2nd year of the Enka Period
Nippon Kokoku
THE SHINING NATION OF JAPAN
do you Want to become a new you?
DESIGN THE SOULMATE YOU'VE LONGED FOR WITH IDEVA'S LATEST break-through.
THE Myther BRINGS YOUR DREAMS TO LIFE.

awaken
the ideal you that sleeps deep inside…
…with your one and only friend in the world.

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 21/09/2026

Fellow NJ people, you can reach the office of the attorney general at 609-984-5828. Maybe ask why she is settling her lawsuit and allowing a Trumpist billionaire to take over CNN. www.njoag.gov/contact/offi...

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Office of Constituent Services - New Jersey Office of Attorney General

State of New Jersey | Department of Law & Public Safety

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 21/09/2026

What Widow's Bay Taught Me About Strategic Planning Amid Daily Disruption http :// Linkedin dot com slash benapplegate

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 21/09/2026

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Office of Constituent Services - New Jersey Office of Attorney General

State of New Jersey | Department of Law & Public Safety

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reading a gag manga called Say Hello to Mr. Wallaby about an Australian Quokka who immigrates to Japan to become a teacher, and I do enjoy the mom's conception of a hunky foreigner here.

A mother and daughter are discussing the daughter's new teacher. The daughter is discussing a Quokka in human clothes and says "He's super fuzzy and really cute, but he reads BUSHIDO and he loves Dango and Ketchup and Creamed Corn Soup!" to which the mom imagines a bear of a man in overalls and a polka dotted undershirt with a huge beard and large eyes with exaggerated lashes "So he's a Japanophile with a big appetite? Wild and cute, you say? Sounds like quite the hunk."

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 21/09/2026

Attach a speaker to Baudrillard's grave that just plays "I told you so" over and over

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 20/09/2026

Watching the special features in the 4k Ran set

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 19/09/2026

Another verified local NYC area fundraiser for the family of an ICE abductee. A father of two daughters, one of them six months old. Reportedly they're in danger of losing their housing. www.gofundme.com/f/help-reuni...

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Donate to Help Reunite Jhan Pierre with His Family, organized by VALERY PAOLA MUJICA ARTIAGA

My name is Valery, and I am reaching out to you for help regardi… VALERY PAOLA MUJICA ARTIAGA needs your support for Help Reunite Jhan Pierre with His Family

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

OKAY FINE YOU CAN HAVE A CHURU

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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コミックナタリー @comic.natalie.mu · 18/09/2026

「さよならララ」OP映像アナログパートの制作秘話を明かすインタビューを公開 natalie.mu/comic/news/690016?utm_so… #さよならララ #さよララ

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Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 16/09/2026

this is a really good question. In his commentary, Dezaki has called them 記念写真 - souvenir pictures. But you also frequently see them called "harmony" - Masao Maruyama uses this term in his interview on the Black Jack OVA blu-ray. They are similar, but not necessarily identical.

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 13/09/2026

This is the appalling truth at the foundation of American education. Allowing some school systems to spend more money per child than others based on wealth (property tax is a wealth tax) is not compatible with America's founding documents, full stop.

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 12/09/2026

No one understands what the word "journalism" means anymore, do they. Journalist is not a job you can do sitting at a computer. Show me an AI that will be the only member of the public at a planning meeting or call a source twice a week until they agree to talk or stake out the Senate elevators.

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 11/09/2026

New Richard Williams?? Heckuva Friday

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TheOASG @theoasg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Marume Goshika's Say Hello to Mr. Wallaby! Volume 1 is now available for purchase in print and digital format

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 10/09/2026

I predict a nonzero number of women will hear their idea said back to them a week later in a meeting by a man who uses this feature (but this time presented as the man's idea)

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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That's the first page of Man Machine Interface. They're going to do Ghost in the Shell 2.

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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Reflecting on The Ghost in the Shell, wondering where they might take the series next, then went onto the official account and got my brain fried with an attack barrier because it had posted this:

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cherry 🖤🏳️‍⚧️🦇 @staroddity.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Leafing through an animage magazine I got forever ago and how the fuck did i miss the Eddie Murphy fanart from Eguchi my first look through????

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Also, my major preoccupation these days is my unbridled rage at tech overlords who create their products by putting an underclass into the thresher of 'progress.' The coyote is driven by purpose, and his passion is exploited by egoists. The roadrunner is his art.

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Nate Goldman @ungoldman.com · 07/09/2026

It’s never a bad idea to log off

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 07/09/2026

Listen, it was a helluva year and you're not going to make me choose between my precious babies

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“‘Anyone can come up with a bunch of “interesting things that happen in sequence”. But if there's no emotional undercurrent, if there's nothing holding it up, it's just empty spectacle.’” 2/2 From The Q&A with @yogoldsmith.bsky.social: Andor S2 Q&A - Tom Bissell - Episodes 10-12, May 13, 2025

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Andor S2 Q&A - Tom Bissell - Episodes 10-12

Podcast Episode · The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith · May 14, 2025 · 1 sec

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2

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