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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Canonical way to translate 色々訊きたい

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Find yourself someone who loves you as much as Toyotaro loves drawing hands

Toyotaro Jump Victory Carnival 2026 Dragon Ball Super illustration

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"Huh, this is also written with the exact chintzy marketing cadence of major LLMs. Let's check that author bio. Ah."

"Steven Wolfe Pereira is the CEO and Founder of Alpha, the leading independent AI governance intelligence firm for board directors and C-suite executives."

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Diane from LinkedIn is such a tease

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I play videogames for their tightly crafted narratives I feel bad that these are all so old; I'm sorry. I'm sure there are a lot of newer games I'd enjoy too. Tried to limit to one entry per series, but Alpha Sapphire is on there to represent my sole competitive(tm) tournament gamer stint

1) Super Mario Bros. 2 JPN, 2) Final Doom (Plutonia Experiment), 3) Castlevania III (international version), 4) Dragon Quest III, 5) Ninja Gaiden III (international version), 6) Zelda II, 7) Pokemon Blue, 8) Biohazard/Resident Evil 0, 9) Pokemon Alpha Sapphire

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This should for sure be understood to be a nothing "Look, we're doing something!" corporate/investor slide (people pretending for other people who know they're pretending), but aside from all the other subtle absurdities and inaccuracies here...what do they think is happening in this step?

$Pre-design layout adjustments, an apparently two-week process that involves: 1. figuring out text size and 2. vertical/horizontal text arrangements Is not full lettering (that's the next step), and can apparently somehow be cut down into a fraction of the time as part of their new "human+AI" workflow$

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Does anyone know how to get Word to not do annoying shit like this when I'm writing fiction and trying to channel an original human thought with rhythmic expression?

Word suggesting an edit based on thinking I'm writing a resume

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Wine + painting home date with the girlfriend. Mine left, hers right. Spot on.

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I quarter-fed my way to the end with Baraka earlier tonight, but the back half was just this the whole time.

Panels from the Dragon ball Super manga showing Vegeta getting rocked by Hit's Timeskip

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Text from my American girlfriend, on year six in Japan. For real, you have no idea. Doing anything medical in America even with robust insurance (a non-given) can be a logistical nightmare.

Text message: Japanese health care is so good. Like I can just walk in, scan my card, fill out a quick paper and be seen right away and have my problem fixed for cheap
So mind blowing for me even now

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Don't tell me it's boring Or basic Or mid Today's lunch includes

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Asking my girlfriend what she wants for her birthday

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Shoutouts to right-wing-propoganda-masquerading-as-popular-entertainment Bayverse straight-up having the Autobots perform a black ops dispatch of an Iranian (oh, sorry, "Middle East"; one of the worst captions of all time) nuclear site in 2011's loathsome Dark of the Moon, by the way

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Sadly more relevant today than it was in 1985.

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Murder mystery party night. Gf and I were 1920s exotic tea purveyors with secret pasts. Ran around doing a translatic accent all night talking about the fine "Jen-may-cha" I'd acquired during my travels

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

There's currently an irreconcilable rift between 7-11 locations over whether these tofu cake bars go with sweets or health snacks Pick a side; no one shall be granted the luxury of ambivalence in the coming war

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

To be completely and shamefully honest

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Bought years ago but have beem actively reading it during lunch breaks since changing jobs, and I cannot recommend it enough. I was debating translating 刺さりそうなところ as "ideas that resonate" earlier, but then Judy Wakabayash herself jumped out to smack the keyboard out of my hand for changing register

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

So it turns out Google's AI summary will tell you any random keigo-essque nonsense you type into it is a real, used Japanese phrase. Here are a few of my favorite results:

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