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roy 朗井

@live.from.roys.house
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retreating ever further into inscrutable idiolect he/him ・ english/nederlands/日本語 ・ USDA hardiness zone 9a or so ・ pole brands DNI. if you follow like 20,000 people i'm blocking you 日本語アカウントはこちら → @raibu.furomu.roys.house

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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 7h
alright 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
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 7h
oh 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
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Depths of Wiktionary @depthsofwiktionary.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
English entry for "abbr." on Wiktionary. The definition line reads as following:

Noun
1. Abbreviation of abbreviation.English entry for "mispeling" on Wiktionary. The definition line reads as following:

Noun
1. Misspelling of misspelling.English entry for "archaïc" on Wiktionary. The definition line reads as following:

Adjective
1. Archaic spelling of archaic.English entry for "absolete" on Wiktionary. The definition line reads as following:

Adjective
1. Obsolete form of obsolete.
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 7h
btw 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
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 14h
“Bongo” Ballpoint pen, pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and a little colored pencil.

Our man is in trouble this time, reader. Art supplies are scattered around a painting of an abstract cityscape. On the canvas we see a man in a telephone booth making a frantic call to his cat, Bongo. In the foreground, an answering machine is taking his voicemail, [Leave a message at the beep] --- “Bongo, Daddy got stuck in the painting. Go get help, Bongo.” Bongo stands at the base of the easel looking at the phone. Her tail in the air and ears perked up. Whether she’ll be able to help is open to interpretation.

Artist’s note: One of my favorites from the Spooky Pants book. I was playing around with the idea of a painting coming to life (like that guy in Ghostbusters 2) and kind of fumbled my way into this version. I really draw a lot of corded phones. I won’t stop.
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 8h
this tray i bought makes my li'l evening snack setup look so much fancier
small bamboo tray from ikea with on it:
- aquarius brand sports drink
- shitty homemade hōjicha latte
- supermarket vanilla cupcake
- strip of paracetamol
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 9h
tho when i use the macron, like "tongari bōshi no atelier", i'm prob just being a stinker
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 10h
oh 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'
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 10h
once again bitten by the fact that my L1 does not distinguish 'nephew' and 'cousin'
wanikani review for the meaning of 従兄弟 which i have given as 'nephew'. it is incorrect because they wanted 'cousin'
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 14h
hooray most of the dishes backlog is done
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 15h
japanese people love tracking their book inventory using RFID tags because of the ancient tradition of *shōhinkanri*
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 16h
new 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
google translate English → Japanese; I entered "This weekend I helped out my sister." and got "今週末、姉(または妹)の手伝いをしました。"
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 16h
> Niels Onderwater > op de foto duidelijk boven water
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 17h
couldn'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
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 29/09/2026
was just about to head back to bed and now it's pouring out and there's thunder... hm
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026
anyway i'm wide awake because i slept for like 4-5 hours during the day
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026
i 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
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026
damn i guess it was only 9 months ago my parents' dog died. feels like it was longer
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026
watched 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
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026
i had an important meeting scheduled for tomorrow but i'm not feeling right yet so maybe i should just stay home anyway
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026
i should make some hot chocolate
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026
having some real trouble drinking enough lately for some reason, and i think it's making things worse
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026
damn that's the 'ka' from 'kore kaite shine' (or the 'draw' from 'draw this, then die')
wanikani review for the kanji 描 which means 'draw'
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026
watched the last episode of kore kaite shine. good show
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026
slept 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
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026
went into my bookmarks on here and removed like 15 of them where i'd just clicked the button accidentally
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026
tfw when the paracetamol hits >>>>
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 28/09/2026
woke up feeling like dogshit so i called into work sick
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 27/09/2026
i 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
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 27/09/2026
laid 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
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 27/09/2026
やった
wanikani level up screen. i reached level 38
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 26/09/2026
laid laminate at my sister's all afternoon and night and i've got a headache and i'm in a shitty mood. ok goodnight
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 26/09/2026
asked 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
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 26/09/2026
relatable... coco saying she's "drowning in unknown words"
crop from the japanese version of witch hat atelier (とんがり帽子のアトリエ) volume 1, somewhere in chapter 3. coco lying face down with a book on her head. qifrey asks her if she's okay, she replies saying it's like she's drowning in unknown vocabulary
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でんか @k-hermit.com · 26/09/2026
かに
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 25/09/2026
ok time to go read manga in bed. goodnight
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Norevasyl @norevasyl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fox in a dress
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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
surfing anteater
painting of an anteater surfing, in the background there are buildings
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 25/09/2026
i 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
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 25/09/2026
those 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
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i 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.
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 25/09/2026
learned a new word (chinese edition): 防潮 fángcháo 'moisture proof[ing]' (i was curious because 潮 in japanese very specifically means 'tide', not 'moisture')
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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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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 25/09/2026
oh i forgot i was supposed to pick up the jigsaw from my parents
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 25/09/2026
you mean a worm? you've invented the earthworm? i think they already existed mate
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 25/09/2026
ah shit i was gonna make mantou huh
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 25/09/2026
hooray my mom's (relatively small but still under general anaesthesia) surgery went well
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
welcome to The Museum of Menacing Jugs
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 25/09/2026
found 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
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