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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Sure looks like some big news is about to break at LDP headquarters. Loads of cops and reporters around, but no other civilians. One reporter with a TV camera told me they're here on a tip but couldn't tell me what about, other than that they're all still waiting for it. Any predictions?

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Love this book and so glad it's getting a translation.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Guess who was in Tokyo at an event for the new far-right anti-immigration party just a few days ago? sanseito.jp/charlie-kirk...

sanseito.jp

Charlie Kirk's Symposium

2025年9月7日開催。Charlie Kirk's Symposium。

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 30/07/2025

On X, Masaki Nobushiro posts a recurring (and useful) drawing about how people wrongly think a 1m tsunami is a cresting wave when it's actually a wall of water filled with dangerous and deadly debris that's strong enough to sweep up a car. #tsunami

X post by @nobushiromasaki. JP text: カムチャッカ半島付近の大地震（M8.0）による津波、日本各地にも1m程度の津波が来るという注意報が出てる。侮らないで。1mは、ふつうに自動車が流されるレベルです。画像は拾い物だけど、これが本当だから。沿岸地域の方、特に気をつけて！

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

A rule of thumb for tsunamis is that in open ocean, they move at similar speeds to commercial airliners. If you're ever curious how long it would take for a tsunami to get from one place to another, look up the duration of a similar-length flight.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The magnitude has been further refined to M8.8. It may seem like 8.7 and 8.8 are close, but the difference actually means about 40% more energy released. Logarithmic scales will do that! Want to know the difference between any two magnitudes? Try this calculator: earthquake.usgs.gov/education/ca...

earthquake.usgs.gov

"How Much Bigger…?" Calculator

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

forward.com

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?

A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

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Noah Oskow @noahoskow.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Mishima Yukio in 1948, a year before he published his seminal semi-autobiographical novel, Confessions of a Mask. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him looking so early-Showa-esque. He looks ready to star in the Asakusa vaudevilles. Far cry from the purposefully macho look he’d cultivate until his death.

Mishima Yukio in tight fitting suite and striped tie, with gelled, high hair that tapers to the back. He’s smiling while sitting at a table and playing with a cat.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Nice to see someone writing about legal history who has some understanding of history, unlike the amateur historians that populate the American judiciary and much of American legal academia.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Manzanar was a fascinating place to visit and I highly recommend it if you happen to be in the area. Which, I'll admit, is rather unlikely as they put it in the middle of a deadly and isolated hellscape.

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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The regime has posted signs at Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans, asking visitors to report "negative" historical interpretations. Hard to imagine a positive interpretation but it's probably just an excuse to shut down the park. www.sfgate.com/california-p...

sfgate.com

Signs to police 'negative' history went up at Manzanar. Historians are nervous.

"It sends a pretty clear message that your story is not welcome here."

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

If an American posts “oh shit oh fuck” with no other context it’s because something happened in a baseball game, if a British person posts that it’s because something happened to Doctor Who

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I mean, just read this

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Also, the citizens speculating on the foreign policy benefits from having a dragon as king.

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Rochelle Kopp / Japan Intercultural Consulting @japanintercult.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

So which Japanese pop star do we think bore Musk's child? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

An unexpected Cool Japan cameo in the form of leading precedent relevant to the tariffs. "One of those companies was Yoshida — now known as YKK — which challenged the tariff on zippers imported from Japan." ⁦https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/29/trump-tariffs-court-defeat-00374194⁩

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Showing up to work on time is *hard* -- no, scratch that, showing up to work *at all* is difficult.

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Bruno de Figueiredo @dieubussy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Yesterday, I uploaded the ISO image of one of the rarest videogames known to exist, of which a single copy is known to exist in the online world. After years of appeals, its owner finally agreed to share it with me so that I could in turn share it with the world.

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Cadensia 婉玉🪻🎀 @cadensia.eurosky.social · 23/05/2025

There was always something a bit magical about the Pilgrimage of Tripitaka being inaccessible, a sort of meta-commentary on the disappearance of early Buddhist canonic works. But there's also something great about it being accessible at last!

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Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The construction of the Osaka Expo may have driven away migratory birds that prey on insects. Now the Expo venue is experiencing insect swarms. A Japanese netizen shared this manga panel comparing it to Mao's extermination of sparrows during the "Great Leap Forward." toyokeizai.net/articles/-/7...

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Jocelyne Allen @brainvsbook.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Noooooo! My beloved goo!! I've used this dictionary on an almost daily basis since not long after it started up in 1999. (I am an Old of Advanced Age. Please be kind to me.)

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 13/05/2025

One of the world's first passive radio listening devices. Invented by a genius Soviet inventor and engineer Lev Sergeyevich Termen, also spelled Theremin. Yes, *that* Theremin.

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室町言葉bot @muromachi-bot.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

【日本人は日本語を何と呼んでいた？】「「国語」「邦語」「日本語」について―近世から明治前期に至る―」という論文を見ると、400年ほど前の日本人は日本語のことを「日本（の）言葉」「日本（の）口」などと言っていたそうです。雑誌「国語学」全文データベースから見ることができます。（中の人）

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 12/05/2025

Lots of people talking about this, but, uh... not enough people are talking about his willingness to talk without a lawyer present.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

at first I thought this name was Marlboro and TBH the flavor still works

New Magic card named "Malboro" with a game effect called "Bad Breath"

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Speaking of early 1990s gonzo shows, I just stumbled upon a complete archive of MTV's Liquid Television, the animation show that IMO is the best such thing ever aired. This episode features Aeon Flux, pieces by Mark Beyer, Drew Friedman & Charles Burns, and the debut of Beavis & Butthead.

archive.org

Liquid Television ep2.01 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

MTV Liquid Television season 2 episode 1

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

If you open your PlayStation’s disc drive after it’s loaded Theme Park into memory and replace it with a music CD it will just play whatever you put in as the soundtrack for the game

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Listen to The Weakerthans wythout cryinge challenge... faylede agayne.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Love to see that the best post of the day is from my old summer camp buddy @isaacbutler.bsky.social

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This is just to say I have lost The F/A-18 Super Hornet That was on the USS Harry S. Truman And which You were probably saving For bombing Forgive me It was the second one So sweet And so expensive

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I would like to recommend some manga for my 6 year old English niece (technically little cousin, but you know). I'm pretty familiar with manga in general, but much less so with stuff for young kids and NO IDEA what's been translated and currently in print and available in the UK. Any suggestions?

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

It's kind of funny that Trump won the election because Biden was a little senile but Trump is extremely senile?

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

recording the voice acting for the polish version of simon the sorcerer 3d with polish actor, maciej stuhr (2003) archive.org/details/clic...

maciej stuhr, kinda short hair, sitting, smiling, red t-shirt, brown and black jacket.

maciej stuhr in the voice acting booth while staff outside use computers and recording equipment. the desk outside the booth is messy with lots of paper.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Time to go to work in the shit factory!

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

hey fellow movie freaks - I looked into the address, it's an old film vault on 1+ acres - don't get arrested, but when films that haven't been archived are gone they're gone forever. the property is at 936 seward. if you find the lost Liza Minelli Evita screen test please call.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/04/2025

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

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