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@broph.bsky.social
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Splitting time between the US and Japan.

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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
That's some Orwellian nonsense right there...
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This is, by my own definition, not "successful."
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Wild turkeys causing a traffic jam in front of my apartment. People learning that if you honk at them, the stop and gobble back in challenge.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I'm not one for conspiracy theories but I've been around long enough to know deflection when I see it. Now I'm thinking it's likely this guy's on video doing something horrendous.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
In a time when nearly everything is getting worse, Kershaw just sent me a free replacement part for a pocket knife I paid $37.18 for 13 years ago.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I was already a fan of the Beastie Boys when they released "Ill Communication" (1994). But it wasn't until 2025 that I realized the lyric in "Do It" isn't simply, "Mike D's nuts."
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This popped up in my YouTube feed today. "Prospect" is clearly a 'Western.' I can tell because the good guys wear white space helmets and the bad guys wear black ones.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Someone's going around Berkeley wrapping cars in giant plastic bags
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
It's kind of hilarious how terrified of this poster 8-year-old me was back in 1979.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Love these older buildings with the rounded windows.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I forgot my phone even had a notification for stock investments losing value until Trump started this tariff bullshit.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Lunch at Michelin starred Restaurant Shima (formerly Bistro Shima) yesterday. Karatsu is such a great city.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
What's wrong with this picture?
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
RIP young mukade. Only around 6cm long. Tough little summabitch.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Happy to see that there are at least two baby huntsman spiders stationed around the house. I see them in the same spots every night, which is reassuring. One hangs out under the (unused) light switch next to the toilet, and the other near the soap dish at the sink outside the bathroom.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The bullets will be too dizzy to fly straight.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Found this in a run-down bookstore in Karatsu. Made me feel a little sad.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Who needs ghosts?
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
At least I can get my favorite Denny's cod roe spaghetti at 7-Eleven. It's like I'm back in the States.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Home office view in Karatsu.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Just got a Korean emergency alert on a phone that has an old US-based SIM card in it, which I use on WiFi. My regular phone, with service in Japan, got no message.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Individually wrapped squares of Colby jack cheese, usually ¥58 each, but I grabbed half a dozen that were 20% off.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The least skilled and knowledgeable farmer in Japan. I basically pull weeds after my wife demonstrates which are the weeds.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Potentially selling some land to the government for the construction of landslide abatement drainage.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
On a nearly empty Nishitetsu bus from Fukuoka to the farm in Karatsu, Saga. The driver, stopped at a red light, makes his way back to the middle of the bus to ask me, in English, where I'm going. Sadly, "Yokotashimohigashi' doesn't spring off my tongue, so I just "hai" when he says, "Karatsu?"
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Garden cherries ripening.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Japan is poised for an actual taco invasion.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Thinking about a new week of work starting at 2AM tomorrow.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Found this snail in the woods. Its shell is so fancy.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
My thoughts on the current administration in the White House... Bees in Skis.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Just got this email from the person doing my taxes 3 minutes ago. It's 6:48am, Thursday in Japan. I hope he's better at taxes than he is at timezones.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I was disappointed to get my first guess wrong, but there's something funny about having picked one word from each group.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I went to Joyfull around 4am today for the first time in months. Their new pizza features a white sauce alongside the tomato sauce. A creamy white sauce sounds good, but this was more like creamy dressing for coleslaw. I think mackerel might have been tastier.
Not my photo... Found in an image search for "Joyfull pizza."
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This car has good chin rests.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I'm starting to understand the plan... 1. Get rid of immigrants who will work for less $ 2. Bankrupt the majority of Americans so they're willing to do any work 3. Move sweatshop manufacturing back to the US 4. Destroy public education so we have a workforce 5. Rich get richer
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The United States coming out of a third Trump term...
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Obviously nobody was paying attention. Not even Ben Stein.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This is fine.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It's all FO from here.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I'm increasingly convinced that MAGA is, in part, a reaction to being constantly destroyed in online arguments with intellectual superiors.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"We're all trying to figure out how this happened."
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Is this Heaven? It's Handsman.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This is not a dream...
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I'm your only friend I'm not your only friend but I'm a little glowing friend but really I'm not actually your friend but I am
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Took the dog to one of his favorite spots.
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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トロイ @broph.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Shrine puppy (2020)
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