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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

awesome topic!! look forward to reading it!

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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

thank you!!! also wow looks like a great shop i will go in the next month or two when i head to tokyo!

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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

OMG i live in japan and love signage can you please tell me what grocery store this is in!!! i will go see it at some point (DMs are ok too!!) see also: a grocery store sign i went to see two years ago

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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

yeah, or the university…? i suspect they perhaps just sent a random english email about it (because that's what works elsewhere in the world) and got a "who is this random foreigner, this sounds like solicitation, let's say no"-esque reply. they need to go in-person with someone who speaks japanese!

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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

you should come visit mississauga park in kariya, just outside of nagoya ;D

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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

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Mini-trip #4: How do I keep finding myself in Saga?

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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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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 · 13/08/2025

thanks!! :D this pic is so old now, hahaha, i need to get around to updating it! should be able to later this month i think!!

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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

WHAT!!!!!!! i never knew this! incredible trivia!

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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

hahahaha omg, yes, thank you for the tag nomi!! holly, japan has 100+ if you want to peruse my list here: japan.elifessler.com/ic-cards/ many are puns but only make sense in japanese, haha some of my favorites, phonologically: kururu, megoica, hayakaken

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eli's Japanese IC cards

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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 · 02/02/2025

sorry but anything that requires 983 words in a wikipedia article subsection that attempts to give an "overview" of events is indeed messy whether you like it or not

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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

i don't think it tries to paint anyone in that light. but at the end of the day, that's the exact point: nobody's going to know everything, or all have the same take, or come to entirely the same agreements. it's a messy situation and there's no one objective reality from an outsider's perspective

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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 · 22/12/2024

oh yeah sorry i misinterpreted that, i was talking about jblow

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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

read his tweets lmao he's like an "anti-woke" eugenicist & vaccine skeptic. total tool

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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 · 11/12/2024

ツイッターでも返信したが、ここに転載します：そう、任天堂さんからのNSO仕様変更のせいです。誰も解決策はまだ見つかっていなくて申し訳ありません😭 github.com/frozenpandam...

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NSO app version needs upgrade · Issue #198 · frozenpandaman/s3s

Output: s3s v0.6.6 Validating your tokens... The stored tokens have expired. Attempting to generate new gtoken and bulletToken... Error from Nintendo (in Account/Login step): { "status": 9427, "err...

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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 · 07/12/2024

haven't experienced this but someone did unexpectedly wish me happy thanksgiving the other week (!?) and ask me if i dressed up for either it or black friday...

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eli! 🐐 @frozenpandaman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

yeah, i was thinking how helpful this sort of diagram would be for operators! i wish this sort of view were available more in addition to standard timetables!

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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 · 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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