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rambunctious tomboy-wannabe; kid. MA in linguistics. ✨🦎i like rain, goats, playful media + games, public transit & juzo itami! 🌧️ 日本語OK。🌻 lucky me, lucky mud. 🌱 かわいいは、正義。 📍 名古屋 🔗 elifessler.com / 📝 japan.elifessler.com

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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
i wrote about the trip i took down to saga prefecture last february to get two commemorative IC cards! and in the process, run into potters, dutch culture, crossbow bans, scalpers, kids cheating on homework… and of course ride some great coastal trains 🚋 japan.elifessler.com/2026/02/28/m...
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Mini-trip #4: How do I keep finding myself in Saga?
No one likes Saga Prefecture for some reason. Except that I keep on ending up there, somehow, and it turns out I like it a lot! With the release of two IC cards on the horizon, I head down to Kyushu –...
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
i wrote about the trip i took down to saga prefecture last february to get two commemorative IC cards! and in the process, run into potters, dutch culture, crossbow bans, scalpers, kids cheating on homework… and of course ride some great coastal trains 🚋 japan.elifessler.com/2026/02/28/m...
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Mini-trip #4: How do I keep finding myself in Saga?
No one likes Saga Prefecture for some reason. Except that I keep on ending up there, somehow, and it turns out I like it a lot! With the release of two IC cards on the horizon, I head down to Kyushu –...
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
On a ticket where I start & end at the same station, I rode a bunch of local trains – including Japan's densest line with 94 stops – up to Nagano to snag a newly released IC card, then frolicked in the snow & looped back. A long weekend well-spent! 🍎🐻🚃 japan.elifessler.com/2026/01/30/n...
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From Nagoya to Nagoya, riding the Iida Line and KURURUing through Nagano
On a ticket where I start and end at the same station, I ride a bunch of local trains – including Japan's densest line with 94 stops – up to Nagano to snag the newly-released bus-riding apple-bear-mas...
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
hello friends i FINALLY wrote about traveling on local trains all around hokkaido last winter japan.elifessler.com/2025/11/18/s...
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SNOOOOOOW IN HOKKAIDOOOOO!
Japan is absolutely, unlivably hot for a solid four, arguably even five months of the year. But I grew up in the snow – it's my favorite type of weather, and winter is my favorite season bar none – so...
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
hello friends i FINALLY wrote about traveling on local trains all around hokkaido last winter japan.elifessler.com/2025/11/18/s...
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SNOOOOOOW IN HOKKAIDOOOOO!
Japan is absolutely, unlivably hot for a solid four, arguably even five months of the year. But I grew up in the snow – it's my favorite type of weather, and winter is my favorite season bar none – so...
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
an actual gift of the internet age is how relatively easy it has become for non-wealthy people to maintain memory systems. both personal ones (photos, backups, searchable mail) and collective ones (wikis, archives, fan communities) the glee with which that is being destroyed right now floors me
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
@ryannorth.ca dude i very much have a hole for you
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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
here is an excellent blog post by @frozenpandaman.bsky.social that explains the bizarre release saga of tomcat! japan.elifessler.com/2023/12/01/t...
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Tomcat's Big Adventure
I got to see a very, very rare Japanese film last night: Tomcat's Big Adventure (ちびねこトムの大冒険 地球を救え!なかまたち / Chibineko Tom no Daibouken: Chikyuu o Sukue! Nakama-tachi)
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ibcf @ibcf.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
ryutaro nakamura’s very hard-to-see feature debut “tomcat's big adventure” is being screened at the texas theatre in dallas next month (april 14th)! first time in the USA and with full english subs! tickets on sale soon per the "wamano nights" instagram www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-03...
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Tomcat's Big Adventure 1992 Anime Film Gets N. American Premiere Screening at Texas Theater on April 14
Serial Experiments Lain/Kino's Journey's Ryūtarō Nakamura directed film
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
unfortunately this app is run by puritans and i don't think i will be using it much
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
today, i completed my goal of riding over 10,000 unique km on railways across japan! #乗り鉄
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
i'm neglecting this website sorry but i'm neglecting twitter too don't worry
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
wtf the placement of this station office is insane
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
wtf the WOKE MOB has infected japan!!!!!
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
when they try to say that pronouns in english are a closed class
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
jonathan blow: "waa bla bloo bloo soulja boy said my game is for people who smoke" phil fish:
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
shin-yamaguchi decked tf out for the holidays
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
NEW YOTSUBA&! VOLUME AAAAAAHHHHHH
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
i'm not kidding we need to bring this back so bad
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
WHAT????? apparently some meitetsu express trains show a little graphic with the current speed & animation while they're traveling in between stops when there's no other information to display
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
"Geometric lines do not produce likeable people."
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
does anyone have kanji they particularly like or dislike. for me: love 渋 (unconnected cross is cool), hate 潟 (the topmost radical looks broken and uneven)
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
just saw "açai" in japanese spelled as あさゐ
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
omg this company's website draws out the exact path of their trains… this is genius
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
found some really great type design
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
first killing the seishun 18 kippu, then dwindling down unreserved shinkansen seats, and now this – ending the 10% discount on round-trip tickets, a benefit available on trips with > 600 km one-way distance since 1887. man, what the fuck is wrong with JR www.asahi.com/articles/ASS...
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JR、往復乗車券の割引廃止へ 連続乗車券も 2026年3月から:朝日新聞デジタル
JR旅客6社は2日、往復乗車券と連続乗車券の発売を2026年3月に終了すると発表した。長距離だと運賃が1割引きになる「往復割引」も終了する。「Suica」など交通系ICカードやネット予約システムの普…
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
finally finished my big blogpost about my obon week trip where i used the seishun 18 kippu (well sort of) to travel through the koshinetsu & tohoku regions of japan, ride for many hours on conventional/local lines, and grab 20 new IC cards! #交通系ICカード japan.elifessler.com/2024/11/26/s...
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My "Seishun 18" Koshinetsu–Tohoku Obon adventure
I took a big trip on local railways over Obon week and got 20 new IC cards! A little worried going in that it might be *too* much sitting, traveling, or transit-ing, I'm now convinced that being on le...
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
i grabbed three new IC cards this past weekend on a spontaneous trip: the sagan tosu commemorative SUGOCA from saga prefecture, a revised kumamon no IC card design down in kumamoto, and hiroshimas new MOBIRY DAYS! #交通系ICカード
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
FREE HIM
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Joshferatu Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
An addendum: another reason I dislike the word "content" is it turns art into something *pushed* on you rather than something you *seek out.* Acclaimed animator Don Hertzfeldt sums it up better than I can:
Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn’t the point. The point was to get out and to feel like you’re hunting, to feel like you’re living your life. I’m going to the movies, I’m going to this show. What streaming has done—it’s very convenient, but it’s taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we’re all just being fed. We’re all farm animals that are just being fed, and we’re being fed content. You can just stay home. Just stay home. We’ll just feed it to you. No wonder everyone’s depressed.
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
the best thing about bluesky is how i can use it while my phone is charging
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
imageboards are one of the only usable interfaces left on the web today
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
thinking about my favorite sign of all time
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"Getting LOST" @gettinglostdoc.com · 18/11/2024
SAVE THE DATE: Worldwide virtual premiere of Getting LOST with a livestream Q&A immediately following. Saturday, December 7th. On the Eventive platform. Global tickets available soon! #LOST gettinglostdoc.com
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
wow theres a lot of you
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
wtf??????? the creator of osu! also made the screenshot uploading tool puush????????
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I moved to Japan almost exactly one year ago – in which time I've ridden public transit all across the country & collected 113 different IC cards (…so far!) 🚞🥳💳 I'm still missing a few, but at this point, it's enough to finally lay them out to make a map of Japan! #交通系ICカード
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
did some manual follows of people i saw post about migrating over the past few days. to figure out the twitter bridge extension tomorrow! hoping thisll be a nice new space!
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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
obligatory "hello world" as my first post
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