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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 21h

Tickets to the Zelda concert. I'm not going to get one am I

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 28/09/2026

No disembodied doll arms were harmed in the making of this picture

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 23/09/2026

Oh, you passed the Kanji Kentei level 1? What does this say

Screenshot from AI: The Somnium Files – Nirvana Initiative

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 21/09/2026

At least I can get up to this part. Might take a while yet. For some reason this has been my least successful extra stage so far, even though I have no issue in practice mode. I blame RNG

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 20/09/2026

I like Turkish coffee. I tolerate cardamom in my Turkish coffee. This thing? This is CARDAMOM JUICE. With a hint of coffee. Probably. Psychic damage may cause you to hallucinate coffee. اكثر من زيادة - "more than excess" YEAH BUT WHY

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 17/09/2026

Thank you furigana for making this 10x harder to read

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 16/09/2026

I know for a fact that Picasso would have LOVED the lip fang

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 15/09/2026

This story is narrated by a non-human so it's the humans who get the katakana treatment

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 14/09/2026

Unboxed for the special occasion. This was absolutely not worth the effort. I am such a time waster. 本体が健康だけど炎(？)の部分は少しべたべたにしまいました ._.

It's Touhou and her little sister, inside boxes

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 14/09/2026

４９５週間に家の下に閉じ込められたこの子たち、特別に娑婆に出されました ※何だか正確な数字

Title screen of Touhou Koumakyou: New Classic with my Scarlet sisters figures. They are in this game! Woo!

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 13/09/2026

There was a two year gap between reading the first half and the second half. It gets quite difficult, and I was driven mad by how hard it was to line up the two sides. I even started numbering paragraphs to try to follow along. The editor wasn't pretending it was ever going to be otherwise.

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 13/09/2026

My long-form Japanese reading journey started with this book. I've been meaning to toss it out, but not before reading it again, so I'm going to do that this week. It's a really, really dry read though. I've filled it with (now) embarrassing annotations all over. It's nice to see progress like this

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 09/09/2026

I've done nothing but play Silksong these past few weeks. The game was excellent. I had a few gripes but the sheer quantity of high quality boss fights more than makes up for it. I really liked the writing, too. I don't much care for the plot but the character dialogue is top-notch.

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 08/09/2026

Okay but can we talk about why the urn has a lid now? Can we no longer throw things into it? Are they removing secrets to make the game easier for the modern gamer?

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 08/09/2026

Zelda concert in Melbourne Zelda concert in Melbourne Zelda concert in Melbourne

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 06/09/2026

Can your induction stovetop do THIS? Yeah I didn't think so. Another win for fossil fuels.

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 02/09/2026

Wasted all my money on a useless bell house so now I need to fundraise so I can get fleeced again by bandits. This is what I came up with. 165 beads in 40 seconds with the thief hat. I think that's pretty good.

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 31/08/2026

That is a very well-plucked chicken indeed.

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 28/08/2026

Love getting おま国'd immediately after learning the word

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 27/08/2026

Walking up a giant fucking hill for the second time this morning because I took a wrong turn on the way down 🪾🌳🌲 At least I have 5G to keep me company

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 27/08/2026

Suspiciously sharp rock

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 22/08/2026

This is what they used to call me. Before they found a way to bottle it 😔

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 21/08/2026

Keep on winning. Like a real gamer.

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 19/08/2026

Claude the AI program: it's not a butthole you idiot 🙄. It's an abstract shape. It means ✨thinking✨. Japan 500 years ago: we have invented 菊座, the butthole shape.

Claude the butthole spore, infecting your screen

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 17/08/2026

The time has come to slice insects. Or sing to them. Idk I haven't played it yet.

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 17/08/2026

"Suspend Download Limit" gotta be one of the worst described user interface actions written into a computer

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 17/08/2026

I watched as this raven diligently stripped bark off a tree. It clearly wasn't too happy with my extended gawking.

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 17/08/2026

What are you looking at

Raven staring at you with a mouthful of stripped bark

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 16/08/2026

From other VNs I know my reading speed is around 3x native level but for this series: Episode 1: 7.3x Episode 2: 6.5x Episode 3: 7.1x Hard hard hard Very challenging read. Episode 3 at least lived up to the "economic thriller" tag which made it somewhat good. The first two were a joke.

howlongtobeat.com average playtime 10 hours

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 15/08/2026

Okay I am done. Game's 終わり. I am freeeeeeee. Perhaps you found the thread interesting. I certainly benefited from doing this and might do it again one day. (This graphic made me laugh. I don't know why they gave him that pose.)

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 15/08/2026

If you are bluesky years old you will be familiar with a series called 藍より青し. It turns out there's a longer expression where this originates from. 青は藍より出でて藍より青し blue dye comes from the indigo plant and is bluer than indigo In the same vein, it's used to allude to a student surpassing their teacher

https://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%9D%92%E3%81%AF%E8%97%8D%E3%82%88%E3%82%8A%E5%87%BA%E3%81%A7%E3%81%A6%E8%97%8D%E3%82%88%E3%82%8A%E9%9D%92%E3%81%97-422146#E7.B2.BE.E9.81.B8.E7.89.88.20.E6.97.A5.E6.9C.AC.E5.9B.BD.E8.AA.9E.E5.A4.A7.E8.BE.9E.E5.85.B8

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 15/08/2026

It's not an original joke but this still got a chuckle out of me (they're talking about literally plugging in the money printing machine to save the economy)

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 15/08/2026

泥縄式 - doing at the last moment While a mud rope ceremony sounds like a good time for all, this is just doing something in the style (式) of 泥縄, which is an abbreviated form of 泥棒を捕らえて縄を綯う - to start to do something after its result was needed (i.e., too late).

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 15/08/2026

10 million moonbux if you can write this kanji with correct stroke order on the first try. Spoiler: you can't. Spoiler 2: moonbux aren't real. 蠅 is the original form of 蝿. I've seen plenty of 蝿 but this is my first 蠅. I could not guess it correctly even though it looks kinda obvious now 😔

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 14/08/2026

This one is just bizarre. I didn't grab the context but these images are from the glossary. Here the author uses the word "undertaker". However, the first sentence of the definition is describing an "underwriter". The rest of the definition appears to be completely made up bullshit?

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 14/08/2026

Greenmail is a new concept to me. It's like blackmail, but...green. Because you buy things up. With money. Which is green. Seems to be legally patched out now.

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 14/08/2026

Thanks to @unseenjapan.com I had no trouble with this one unseen-japan.com/kansai-bread...

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 14/08/2026

The 泡 is a stand-in for 慌てる. Both sources claim they share the same origin but this second one is a bit dubious on how 泡 was chosen. Nevertheless, you can read 泡を食う as 慌てるを食う or "to incur a flustering". BTW, both of these sources (in ALT) look like really good resources to keep bookmarked.

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 14/08/2026

There are a lot of __を食う expressions with this meaning to be found in the dictionary. We have this same usage of "eat" in English. (And so does (my dialect of) Arabic for that matter). In the source below they use 肘鉄を食う as a great example because in English you can say "ate an elbow (to the face)"

https://imidas.jp/idiom/detail/X-05-X-01-A-0002.html

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 14/08/2026

I spent too much time on this one lol. 泡を食う - to (suddenly) become confused/flustered, usually followed by fleeing. I thought it was funny that the words "eat a bubble" have an equivalent English expression "lose one's head". There are two parts to this: 食う here means something akin to "incur"

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 14/08/2026

三つ巴 [みつどもえ] A design featuring a 3-comma shape. I'm certain I've seen all sorts of 巴 designs over the years but I'm only now learning about them. Wikipedia has good info. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoe It can also be used to refer to a three-way (or four-way, etc) fight, as it is used here.

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 13/08/2026

Sulphur-crested cockatoo overjoyed with his weeding activities

Sulphur-crested cockatoo elated with the single blade of grass he's selected from the endless of field of lesser grasses

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 12/08/2026

No screenshot but this came up: 金に糸目を付けない - sparing no expense If you don't attach a line to your kite, it will fly around freely without your ability to control it. Similarly, by choosing to not attach a line to your money, you are allowing it to drain away freely without imposing any limits on it

https://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%87%91%E3%81%AB%E7%B3%B8%E7%9B%AE%E3%82%92%E4%BB%98%E3%81%91%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84-465308#w-465308

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 12/08/2026

ザル審査 has the opposite meaning to what I would have initially guessed. A sieve is for sifting and sifting things in English typically means precision, like sifting through data. But here it's considered imprecise because the holes, presumably, are too big and let anything through.

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 12/08/2026

目論む -> 目論み -> 目論見 Sure, why not

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_myooooon @birdbrain.dev · 09/08/2026

I found variations of this on kotobank (傷持つ足, 脛疵) but this one for 脛に傷持てば笹原走る from the ことわざを知る辞典 offers up some good interpretations. Translation in the alt text. (Also all sources in the thread have links in alt text).

Two interpretations are offered:

1. If you have open wounds on your shins, walking through bamboo grass would be far too painful as the grasses prick those wounds. So instead of calmly walking though, you end up running to quickly get to the other side. This is a metaphor for people with a dark past who cannot quietly and calmly traverse public society.

2. Those who have a guilty conscience are startled by the faintest sound. Even the rustling of bamboo grass would compel them to flee on foot at a brisk pace.

The text doesn't state it but for #2 I think the implication is that running through the bamboo grass is what causes the wounds on the shins.

https://kotobank.jp/word/%E8%84%9B%E3%81%AB%E5%82%B7%E6%8C%81%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E7%AC%B9%E5%8E%9F%E8%B5%B0%E3%82%8B-2053681#w-2337450

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