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The Savvy Millennial™

@g-r-a-g.bsky.social
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Japanese–English translator but not the cool kind whose name shows up in credits. I try to at least be a reasonably good person.

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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 1h
it's insane how Nintendo's house style for most game localization is "try to make it sound like it was originally written in English" and their house style for promotional videos is "if even a single word does not correspond directly to the original Japanese you are fired"
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Star Wars characters love to be named Chump Blocker
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
my brain just suddenly imagined someone doing dirty talk in Toki Pona and now I am utterly inconsolable
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
sending steganographic messages to agents in the field hidden in the arbitrary bolding of words in Tumblr posts
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
stopped myself cold mid-conversation as I realized, exactly one moment in advance, that I was about to describe the deer of Nara as being "lousy with ticks"
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thinking once again about Hello Kitty canonically weighing as much as three apples, and being five apples tall. Given the size of her head especially, Hello Kitty's density is presumably such that a gentle breeze presents a very real danger.
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bog landlord @pondslurp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i spent all my money on neodymium magnets because i thought theyd become priceless once the public woke up to their incredible power
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
recently finished the original Dune novel and I regret to inform everyone that I am currently extremely Boss Baby Tweet about it, which is exacerbated by the fact that it was in fact a profoundly influential work for decades
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have no proof for this but I'm fully convinced that like 80% of all people living today who know the word "gesamtkunstwerk" know it solely and specifically due to one Brian David Gilbert video
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Virtua Fighter 5 clips are the best because every time one shows up it's like "what am I watching this for?" and then it shows up in a way that's extremely hard to miss
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Halloween III: Season of the Ben @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey, it’s me, your childhood friend from your idyllic hometown in this RPG. Let’s do some tutorial missions together. No, I’m not in any of the official art, but that probably doesn’t mean anything.
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Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The best time to get gas was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the Switch 2 port of Maestro is great but perhaps nowhere is its Frenchness more apparent than right at the start, where the first instruction you are given in the tutorial is, in English at least, "Beat your baton."
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
a British House of Pain cover band releasing the single "Jump About"
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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Pieter Montoulieu @montoulieu.dev · 06/09/2026
Anyone remember the newsreader app, Paper? Started prototyping an atproto take on it using @standard.site records
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a bumper sticker that says "my other car is a BMW, which is why I drive this way"
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
tfw u make a typo in the group chat
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
before meals, Japanese people will say "itadakimasu," an affirmation meaning "I deserve this"
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
heckling the orchestra and turning the audience against them
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Element★ @elementpnw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
the puyo puyo flowery mod is way too good man I'm dying
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When I was a young boy My father took me into Hot Topic To teach me 'bout his bands
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
ever since I was a young boy, I've dreamed
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My stupid ass, having never tried カラムーチョ for like fifteen years: "yeah, it kind of sucks how you just can't really get anything all that close to barbecue potato chips in Japan"
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
getting banned from public life for wearing a hoodie covered in images of Looney Tunes characters who have just been hit on the head with a mallet or anvil
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
a specialty grocer selling items imported from the UK, called The British Aisles
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 01/09/2026
Welcome to Bluesky.
Thanks for being patient. A team member is coming to cancel you.
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I feel like the past several years have made it progressively clearer and clearer that, in practice, it's worse to be uncool than it is to be evil
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
pronouncing "timezone" like it's the name of a pasta
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
for anyone who's been kind of avoiding Deltarune with the intention of waiting for it to be finished, I think it's better to conceptualize it as "ongoing series of serialized independent stories" than "one incomplete thing," akin to, like, the Harry Potter books (don't hurt me)
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
indicating that a character in a novel speaks with an accent by using a different language's punctuation conventions (like putting a space before a question mark to show "this character has a French accent")
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
[gesturing at canapés at party] call me Baron Harkonnen the way I'm gonna try to destroy Atreides, leading directly to my untimely death
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/08/2026
“Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism — it's my least favorite quality, and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.” - Conan O’Brien in 2010
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
a kind of fighting game player who goes to the character select screen to recite the Litany against Fear after losing their first game in a tournament matchup
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
one fun thing about living in Japan is going to a Michi no Eki and inevitably buying three to four novel-looking snacks that I will never actually eat
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
it's not a house spider, it's a home spider
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
it's kind of funny to think about how Andor is basically just the pre-existing "Star Wars is just World War II movies, except in space" phenomenon but approached from a fundamentally different angle
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
slowly but surely losing my mind as I try and fail to find literally any recipe at all to make Okinawan-style taco shells
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Ben Hanson @yozetty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Based on the attract screen, you won't see the name of this 90s arcade game coming...
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The Picture of Doriane Gros @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
My advice for Gen Z job seekers as someone who has worked a union job since leaving college is that if you land a job and they ask you to "work for free," consult your local labor laws and contract, ask them to put the specifics of what they're asking into writing, and then tell them "No."
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
developing a headcanon that, much like how Star Trek post-scarcity future came after catastrophic nuclear war, we never see people scrolling through cat videos because of a similarly apocalyptic 21st-century ban of all social media for the collective good of humanity
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It might be considered impolite to say it, but you know what? Barbecue sauce just might make a better okonomiyaki sauce than okonomiyaki sauce.
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Danaru @danaru.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Tsugumi's twin sister Kurumi also sleeps like that, nobody understands why, it can't be comfortable and yet they've been doing it for four years now
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Danaru @danaru.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Tsugumi, the very Normal Animal
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
getting a Japanese tattoo that says
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I've spent genuinely way more time than I am proud of mulling over, after Ternus takes over as head of Apple, whether it would still be funny to call him "John Apple" or if it would just feel played out by that point (and unearned)
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
right before you die you experience a brief moment of total lucidity when you suddenly remember every single hotel room number you ever stayed in
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 03/08/2026
i don't watch shortform video but my sense is that infinite scroll is simply the jacked-up supernormal stimulus version of channel surfing
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The Savvy Millennial™ @g-r-a-g.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
you could probably put together a reasonably convincing facsimile of "Dubai chocolate" filling by just sort of mixing together peanut butter and shredded wheat
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