roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 7halright that's enough posts time to go read more manga in bed might pop back out a bit if i can't sleep but i do gotta sleep better because tomorrow i'm back to work 010
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 7hoh yeah this one kinda pisses me off because as a learner it's genuinely hard to tell if someone means "appropriate" or "half-assed" sometimes 270
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 7hbtw i have honed the hōjicha latte recipe to: - steep hōjicha fairly strong (4g 4-5min in my little 300mL teapot, makes multiple servings) - fill cup about a third, add sugar - shake the "barista milk" well to get a li'l bit of foam and pour on top - heat in microwave for 50s at 1000W 0161
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 8hthis tray i bought makes my li'l evening snack setup look so much fancier 190
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 9htho when i use the macron, like "tongari bōshi no atelier", i'm prob just being a stinker 020
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 10hoh yeah something i learned from witch hat atelier yesterday is there's a bunch of idioms in japanese that use 'eight directions' (八方) to mean 'from all sides' the one they used in the manga was 八方塞がり happōfusagari 'being boxed in', literally 'eight directions blocked' 140
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 10honce again bitten by the fact that my L1 does not distinguish 'nephew' and 'cousin' 150
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 15hjapanese people love tracking their book inventory using RFID tags because of the ancient tradition of *shōhinkanri* 130
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 16hnew google translate has some funny failure modes. was just checking if 手伝う was a natural way to say 'helping out' here and noticed that the new translation system renders "my sister" as "姉(または妹)" which is "my older sister (or my younger sister)". the limits of one-shot machine translation, huh 181
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 17hcouldn't sleep so instead i finished volume 2 of witch hat atelier. getting close to where the anime ended now tbh i thought it would be harder to catch up to that point 000
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 29/09/2026was just about to head back to bed and now it's pouring out and there's thunder... hm 000
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026anyway i'm wide awake because i slept for like 4-5 hours during the day 010
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026i read* more witch hat atelier, finished chapter 7 (so they just got past the dragon) * did take it a bit less strict with looking up every piece of vocabulary i didn't get or couldn't read, and skipped some stuff 000
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026damn i guess it was only 9 months ago my parents' dog died. feels like it was longer 000
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026watched more yuyushiki because that seemed like the sort of thing to do when you're sick. what a stupid show... though i don't like, hate it 220
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026i had an important meeting scheduled for tomorrow but i'm not feeling right yet so maybe i should just stay home anyway 130
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026having some real trouble drinking enough lately for some reason, and i think it's making things worse 110
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026damn that's the 'ka' from 'kore kaite shine' (or the 'draw' from 'draw this, then die') 150
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026slept a bunch and read some more witch hat atelier. got like 10 pages of volume 1 left now but i got sick of looking stuff up i guess i better figure out dinner 110
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026went into my bookmarks on here and removed like 15 of them where i'd just clicked the button accidentally 140
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 27/09/2026i did neglect my own stuff. sink full of dishes etc. meant to do that on friday but... didn't we'll see if i get around to it tomorrow 020
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 27/09/2026laid laminate at my sister's all day and i've got no headache and i'm in a much better mood. we're on schedule again; did the hallway and half the living room now. probably other half of the living room next weekend and then the kitchen the weekend after. ok goodnight 020
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 26/09/2026laid laminate at my sister's all afternoon and night and i've got a headache and i'm in a shitty mood. ok goodnight 040
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 26/09/2026asked my japanese tutor if i was right in reading the top left bit (半刻後) as 'hankokugo' and if that meant "[about] an hour later" and derailed the entire lesson into talking about the chinese zodiac and the old japanese system for timekeeping 030
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 26/09/2026relatable... coco saying she's "drowning in unknown words" 120
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 25/09/2026i guess i broke one thousand followers at some point huh. that's messed up i gotta recommit to my core values of posting bad and being annoying 1100
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 25/09/2026those of you who have been following me for a while might remember that a year or two ago i bought a kilo of dried ginger for tea — as i'd done before — but it tasted weird to me, and it basically put me off ginger tea well i never threw that away and tried it again and it tastes normal now 290
Reposted by roy 朗井Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison. 7978611387
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 25/09/2026learned a new word (chinese edition): 防潮 fángcháo 'moisture proof[ing]' (i was curious because 潮 in japanese very specifically means 'tide', not 'moisture') 110
Reposted by roy 朗井Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 199180855059
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 25/09/2026oh i forgot i was supposed to pick up the jigsaw from my parents 110
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 25/09/2026you mean a worm? you've invented the earthworm? i think they already existed mate 040
roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 25/09/2026hooray my mom's (relatively small but still under general anaesthesia) surgery went well 1150
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 25/09/2026found my japanese dictionary app search history, most of it is me reading comics but there's some real mysteries in there. why did i look up 'birth control' at some point 040