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Happy to have spent 10+ yrs in 🇯🇵 doing stuff. Traveller. Gamer. Japanese language geek. Views are my own. MightBeFun.com RT≠Endorsement.

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ハービー @japannewbie.bsky.social · 9h
Are you going to enter Zimbabwe too?
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17h
There is something real about Trump hires curing your imposter syndrome. Now that I’ve seen the new press secretary I am convinced that actually I am very good at public speaking. A genius, possibly
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
"Guilfoyle was scrambling to save her job ... when the Journal revealed texts showing she had solicited $100k from a Trump donor, Guilfoyle reached out to the WH to say the texts were AI generated. The officials didn’t believe her claims. Journal reporters verified the authenticity of the texts."
wsj.com
Inside Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Final Days as Ambassador to Greece
To save her job, she claimed the incriminating texts were AI generated; Trump grew annoyed with the damaging revelations.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
GOP launches investigation into the 1st, 5th, and 6th amendments
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
They'll be workshopping a better answer for Zacharia on the plane to Alaska, but you either passed the bar in the U.S. or you didn't.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 13/10/2026
Blakeman is such a piece of shit.
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Cheesemeister @cheesemeister.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Paging all YouTubers carrying water for ModRetro...
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Dads taking their daughters into women's restrooms are considering that their daughters don't need to see peckers at urinals. These are dads who care. Women throwing fits about this are saying children seeing peckers is okay if they personally aren't uncomfortable. Those women suck.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
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NurseQ AntiFascist: boycott big businesses @nursequixote.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Shooter has a history of violence
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2026
Since the start of Trump’s second term, federal agents have detained at least 70 American children. In one instance, a 15-year-old with disabilities was handcuffed outside a school in Los Angeles when agents mistook him for an alleged gang member.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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ハービー @japannewbie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#BirdSeenIn2026 Bush Punk. Cropped from 400mm.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Six months ago:
theonion.com
DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "He called himself the 'champion of big pharma.' I don't work for them. I don't work for big insurance, who has also bought him off, I don't work for big tech, who has bought him off, I don't work for DTE, who has also bought him off, I work for the people."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
WTF. Even I am just seeing this now.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 08/10/2026
do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life
flyer on a pole reading 

I CAN CHOP ANYTHING 
WOOD TIRE STRONG WOOD
(with action photos)
$400 REWARD for bringing me something I CANNOT CHOP 
chopping is how I keep my mind thinking good Thoughts
(contact info9
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ハービー @japannewbie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#birdseein2026 this guy has the nickname, Bush Punk, and that’s cool. #CrestedBarbet
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ハービー @japannewbie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Finally beat all the cups in Mario Strikers. This was way too difficult. Galactic Mode. So, so, hard. Rage inducing. But we couldn’t quit. I couldn’t quit. The kid was literally sitting right there, with his gamer dad, couch co-op. Quit? What kind of lesson would that be? Again. Again! #BeatIt2026
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ハービー @japannewbie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These birds look like toys… seen in Honolulu.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Auto transcription (I was curious, sharing for access. Agree this is fantastic.)
Screenshot of a transcript. It says: “Exactly right, but I want to say a couple things. One thing about cities that I found in this reporting: cities are very unfairly labeled as these problem centers by Donald Trump and others. And one thing is worth remembering: if you look at the population of well, all people in cities, particularly people who come to cities from elsewhere, but particularly homeless and other vulnerable people in cities, look at youth homeless. A pretty large chunk of those people who end up in cities were failed in some other parts of this country. Okay, in the fraction of youth homeless who are LGBTQ, whatever, pretty high. So there are a lot of families in this country who fail the first duty of family, which is to love your kids more than any other thing, and there's a lot of families in this country that look at some verse in some book, and their child's face, and choose theSecond screenshot says: “verse in the book over their child's face, and drive their children out of Nebraska or out of Florida or out of Idaho, and those kids come to San Francisco, and those kids come to New York, and those kids go to Chicago, and we have friends giving dinners with them. You live in L.A. You are surrounded by people who have those kind of stories, and so cities. Every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of America can sort of say, "Ah, look at these cities.” But we are holding a lot of your people who you fail to love and take care of.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The new Musk documentary from Alex Gibney is sprawling in scope -- but as @milesklee.bsky.social rightly points out, the testimony from his exes is what says the most about Elon's character (capricious, cruel). Your turn, Shivon...
wired.com
Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary
Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long “Musk” paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him.
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Jack Fortunato @jacklaridian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wait... Ensign Kellogg was trans? fr?
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026
I implore all cis people to read this.
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Tokyo Game Life @tokyogamelife.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
✨ FINAL EPISODE ✨ Featuring: 🌊 Final Fantasy X Museum 🔥 Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave ▶️ Nintendo Directs analysis Listen now! 👇 tokyogamelife.com/episode/the-...
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An amazing clip to drop during an October campaign. Can somebody check on those approval ratings with white women? I want to see just how badly he's rat****ed his party.
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Tokyo Game Life @tokyogamelife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve done some clean up on my ultimate gaming guide to Tokyo: ✅ More stores ✅ Updated addresses Gotta update it again when the Genshin Cafe opens 🤔 Check it out: tokyogamelife.com/blog/gaming-...
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Recession indicator
A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef
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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 28/09/2026
Reminder.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I knew this would last only a couple days. Pathetic.
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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can always tell when a Republican gets a new billionaire sponsor who has a single, very, very specific issue they would like the American people to hear about.
The image is a tweet from Sen. Tommy Tuberville that reads:  "Democrats are the party of Radical Islam, illegal aliens, and furry pilots. Lord help us."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She was an FBI agent. She started an investigation of the murder of Renee Good. Trump forced her to reclassify it as an ICE agent assault. She was then forced to resign. Her evidence confirms that a cover-up of the homicide has been undertaken, directed from the highest levels.
cnn.com
FBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN Politics
The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with...
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Son of Bengt @sonofbengt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Vibez #TOTP
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ハービー @japannewbie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All essential ingredients.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
b a r s
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/09/2026
Thousands of supporters gathered outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on the evening of Sept. 18, following the vote to close the center for at least two years for repairs. Read more: wapo.st/4rhwDug
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ハービー @japannewbie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’ve been reading about the Romancing Saga 2 remake on Switch and am intrigued… might have to give that a shot! Also interested in Star Ocean 2…. #JRPG #10000Hours
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ハービー @japannewbie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have read all of them except Ranpo! Will look it up. Thanks!
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ハービー @japannewbie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Looking for recommendations of something on www.aozora.gr.jp to read along with a teacher. I have read a lot of the mainstream Classical works like stuff by Akutagawa Ryunosuke and Dazai Osamu and what not. All recommendations welcome! I’m not a literary nerd, I, a language nerd. #japanese #文学
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青空文庫 Aozora Bunko
「青空文庫、新館試用中」
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you're not smart enough to regulate AI, get your ass out of the Senate.
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hi! I was the hacker culture and cybercrime consultant for this fantastic game, and I was *just* thinking the same thing. I answered a LOT of questions about predictive policing on the press junket. We made a great game that saw all of this coming and made it feel good to fight back.
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ハービー @japannewbie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tokyo Game Show 2003. Shin megami Tensei Devil Children poster in the back. #TGS #Japan
Tokyo Game Show 2003.

Shin megami Tensei Devil Children poster in the back.
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Endless Mike @squirrelsquirrel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyway, this post said it better but yeah, just another reminder: The OG is a classic but the new game involves none of the original talent (Including Suda51 and James Gunn,) and the team actually working on it are a bunch of anti-woke/pro-AI chuds who bought up an IP they had nothing to do with
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Citan Uzuki @doccitanuzuki.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Parents: just because 'your child' is smiling at their phone doesn't mean they have a 'boyfriend or girlfriend.' Maybe they're just looking at screenshots of 'the 1998 PlayStation classic Xenogears.'
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ハービー @japannewbie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New Fire Emblem game got good reviews!
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
as don jr and his new wife clutch their pearls about the story that says someone else subsidized their wedding a quick reminder that this is how his engagement to his first wife happened
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ハービー @japannewbie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I hope this game is good
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I wrote last week that true journalism is the act of stopping powerful people from being able to blatantly lie unchallenged. This is what true journalism looks like: showing when the authorities are lying through their teeth.
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St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Took my parents to watch Coyote vs. Acme. Saw a 72 year old man laugh and cry at a cartoon coyote. So yeah, good movie
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