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I bet if you tried to make native Japanese speakers refer to these things with long, indecipherable strings of Latin characters instead of kanji they'd use the fucking English titles instead too

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He should be speaking on behalf of the party. If he's practically retired, what's he doing on TV?

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It's remarkable how bad some of these politicians are at politics

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How hard is it to say "Voters, send me a Senate majority and I promise we'll sue"?

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I find him intolerably obnoxious

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As soon as I realized it was a just delivery vehicle for molasses I was on board. But I can see how it'd be divisive.

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

Love that you kept the misaligned inks

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

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Dang it, I should've sent you a PDF of the edited and prettied-up print version as soon as it was ready… 🥲

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Pair with B&M® Baked Beans for that great New England taste! Also available with raisins.

In case anyone has no idea what I'm talking about bmbeans.com/product/brow... It was 90% off the week the local supermarket was closing so we figured what the hell. Toasting it made it crisp on the outside and gooey on the inside, really it's a molasses cake or maybe a very dark soda bread

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Brown Bread Plain

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Searching for it on the internet has presented me with a photo of it sliced and covered in baked beans and franks which makes a ton of sense, though toasting and buttering it had good results

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

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

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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

Ha, well, if you think about how people with "smart" devices attached to their heads usually act, it's not far off

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

Another thing they have in common is that neither of them are gonna work out great in the long run

Why doesn’t anyone look at meeeee?!

AAH!
AAARGH!

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

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What they'll have is David Ellison's campaign donations

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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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