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👩🏾‍💻 freelance writer, editor and photojournalist scuttling between Tokyo and Kobe. All I talk about on here is games (board & video), music, tech and books.

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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you're into non alcoholic beverages in Japan, this one is a straight banger.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Justin Brown, a cofounder of the AI slop empire Brown Brothers Media, has deep ties to convicted sex criminal and Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell promoted Brown's failed social media platform Ideapod -- which is still a publisher in BBM's portfolio: futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Got an email for Christmas cake preorders and it makes me wonder what disaster will hit via poorly delivered cakes this year.
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Amagasaki city is a wild place 😂
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW: A Utah mother posted what she felt was an innocuous family video to IG/FB. Later, she noticed a Meta AI prompt encouraging her to investigate her own family -- and watched as the AI drew on years of social media posts to compile intelligence about her and her kids. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Mother Horrified When Meta's AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters
Kalie Robins shared a video of her and her daughter singing. Meta AI started prompting her to investigate information about her family.
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I think about this cartoon a lot 😂
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Is it just me or are there no rum raisin ice creams in combini anymore? 🤔
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I woke up because there was suddenly a blood curdling scream from outside. I thought I was dreaming but the neighbor's dog is barking now 🤨 can't wait to move.
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Honestly after that conversation with the recycle shop, I felt sad. Like damn, you won't even take my old TV because I'm a foreigner? Sometimes I wonder why I'm still here smhhh everybody giving me attitude because KAMI-SAMA FORBID I wanted to live in another country.
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Biglatto's Annoyed Eye Roll
ALT: Biglatto's Annoyed Eye Roll
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I contacted a recycle shop trying to get rid of some stuff and declutter my home. They said they can't do business with me because I haven't lived in Japan for at least 20 years. MIND YOU, this convo is happening in Japanese. 🤨
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's August 31st. Why am I getting Christmas tree ads?! 😭
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I genuinely wonder how many Yayoi Kusama obituaries will mention this: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Yayoi Kusama Expresses “Deep Regret” For Anti-Black Statements Ahead of Exhibition at SFMOMA
The artist issued the remarks just before an exhibition on her work opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Katav 🐺 g(r)ay wolf 🐏 bighorn(y) ram @katav.gay · 26/08/2026
everyone will remember Tim Curry for Rocky Horror, Clue, Muppet Treasure Island, etc., but we can't forget his most important cultural contribution
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Living here is like being in a relationship with someone that both needs you and hates your fucking guts. 🤨
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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
For @gamesradarplus.bsky.social: "In practice, it's rarely the random events in Sunless Sea that finish you off. As Odysseus finds, your undoing tends to be of your own making." www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/si...
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Singing sirens, angry gods and cannibalized crews: Sunless Sea is The Odyssey as an RPG
My lads would dream of being turned into pigs. That'd be a calm Tuesday for them
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Kansai people, we gotta quit smoking sooner rather than later. For one, smoking outside in this heat seems like torture. Two, y'all are stinking up the place.
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Sold by WHO?! 😭
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
As someone obsessed with data, having to track my macros is kinda fun 😂
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I love a Muscle Mami as much as the next person, but I feel like @tbskyen.com when I start to rant about Proxima the Broodseeker's (Mortal Shell II) design. Anyway people don't care about design anymore, its all about fanservice. 🥲
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Careless Whisper is 6 minutes long. Purple Rain is 8 MINUTES and 42 SECONDS. Most modern songs are 3 minutes or less. I hate it.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Bruh. Just trying to enjoy a little クロネージュ at Komeda in peace. Lady at the table next to us literally stared a hole into the side of my head. I understand when kids do it but WHY DO ADULTS?! 🥴🫠
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
To the white guy who was loudly talking about HAVING SEX in the train station but then suddenly decreased his volume when he saw my visibly foreign face: Some Japanese people also speak English. So just continue your conversation.
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Randall Eavesdropping with Headphones
ALT: Randall Eavesdropping with Headphones
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Better days are coming.
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I have come to the conclusion that many people are losing their rabbit ass minds. And we all know who the culprit is...
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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 31/07/2026
A clinic in Osaka bragged that it has removed its air conditioning bc they decided that heat stroke is "a concept created by TV" and labeled it "air-conditioner disease." Physician/author Chinen Mikito & others slammed the policy given Japan's grueling summer heat.
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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 01/08/2026
anyway
captain america "so you" meme, the caption reads so... you became addicted to chatgpt
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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026
Apparently he also said his wife and brother are worried about his relationship with LLMs. So Hank's got the old 'chosis. Truly unfortunate, but maybe now people will stop saying that it only happens to X or Y kind of people. I actually can happen to anyone who grows dependent on these things.
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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 27/07/2026
You might find a Japanese business selling for ¥0. Buying it's one thing; qualifying for the visa to run it is the real hurdle. In October 2025, the capital required for a Business Manager visa jumped from ¥5 million to ¥30 million, a 6x jump.
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Japan Influencer Fact Check: Is Japan Giving Away Businesses for Free?
Businesses in Japan are just waiting for someone to take them over. But as an old Japanese saying goes, nothing's more expensive than free.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
NEW: A survey found that about 1 in 5 teens have used AI to generate sexual content, or know someone who has; often, that AI content depicted someone they personally knew. About 40% of teens said that deepfakes are changing the way they use (or don't use) the internet. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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The Proliferation of Deepfakes Is Profoundly Changing the Way Teenagers Use the Internet
AI-generated sexual content, including nonconsensual deepfakes, is rapidly transforming teens' strange new world, a new survey emphasizes.
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
You mean to tell me it's hot as Satan's left nut out here because y'all insist on generating these ugly ass AI menus?!
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I want my dad to stop using a Hotmail email address. It's 2026, pops.
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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The horror!

代々木公園、公園に遠足か幼稚園児たちと引率の人達。でも聞くと園児たちの会話は英語で喧嘩も英語でしている。先生も園児も見た目は日本人(か少なくともアジア人だけど)。これが日本の現在地か。

Auto translation: Yoyogi Park, a field trip to the park with kindergarten kids and their chaperones. But when I listen, the kids' conversations are in English, and they're even arguing in English. The teachers and kids look Japanese (or at least Asian). Is this where Japan is at now?

https://x.com/nobi/status/2076469578960613536
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I'm "should I get a back scratcher?" years old.
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Pluto Rennie's essay titled The Perfect Cripple really hit me right in the feels. Still not ready to write about my own experience with chronic illness (especially in Japan) but this made me start thinking about it more. www.salient.org.nz/post/the-per...
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The Perfect Cripple: A User Guide to Being Palatable
Pluto RennieThere is a correct way to be disabled. No one tells you outright. There’s no handbook, no neat list of expectations. But people recognize it instinctively—and, more importantly, they recog...
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
July 4th: the first hollering of cicadas sound from outside. Summer is well and truly here. 😭
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
NEW: Workers across industries say that AI-obsessed bosses are creating deeply toxic and chaotic work environments, with some staffers sharing that they feel as though their manager or employer isn't living in reality anymore due to endless AI validation. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire
AI-obsessed executives and managers are creating a distinct new type of toxic work environment for the slop era, workers told us.
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It's 2am and my partner is suddenly violently hiccuping in his sleep ???? wtf?
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
These rice prices are insane 🫠
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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 22/06/2026
some of you clearly haven't been on PCpartpicker in the last month
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I recently fell down a rabbithole on people who are using a very illegal peptide injection called Melanotan to get "more tan". They have to buy it from websites that are the digital equivalent of a dude wearing a trenchcoat in a dark alley. wtf
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Genuinely surprised the market isn't saturated with blockers for AI. Like, there's money on the table fellas. The Ad Blocker people are eating good and you can too!
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Druski Shrug Reaction
ALT: Druski Shrug Reaction
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The worst part of going to a new doctor is filling out the damn medical questionnaire thing and having to explain my bizarre medical history all over again. 🫠
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Saw a guy on Tiktok who flew to China to get an accupressure treatment for his chronic pain (they kinda beat him up idk) and he gave it RAVE reviews. I obviously cannot fly to China since I can barely leave my house but now I want to try and find a similar place around here. 🤔
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david celis @davidcel.is · 27/05/2026
wow, these people are fucking ghouls www.linkedin.com/posts/markwi...
A LinkedIn post from Mark W., a laid off Webflow employee:

Hey Linda Tong I'm locked out of my Webflow laptop since 7am this morning. 

Rumor has it we've been laid off, but I don't have an email or any message to confirm anything, and I actually said 

"I don't think Linda would lay people off again without letting them know first, especially if they're on a closed work permit in a foreign country and it would mean relocating their whole family, I'm certain she would have the dignity to let folks know in a better way, given the debacle last time"

Tell me it's not true 😆 

My manager, Christopher Harrop, do you have any news? Do I have a job?
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I'm really into the Daihatsu コペン. Too bad they're discontinuing it this August. Womp womp. 🙁
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Kansai, I love you, but your people are delusional as fuck sometimes. 🥴
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A. @bigbreadfruit.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I really want a dog 😭
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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.
David Attenborough and one of his creations.
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