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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Nah. The only philosophy I had was an elective. The only thing you read are cases. Law school is trade school that thinks it's academia.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Law school's not that hard. I spent way more time on Japanese just in the first three years I was studying the language, which is how law school is.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

For the states that had major statewide races, how much would Congressional districts flip under last night's voting patterns?

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

This is slightly interesting to see but much less exciting than when I just happened to see the Prime Minister of the UK announce her resignation live, from a few dozen meters away.

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

There was reporting earlier that DPFP may support the LDP on a PM vote so more likely that, but at this point who knows.

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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

You also can only ever, as a civilian, own a single action hunting rifle. There are no legal privately owned pistols (other than perhaps some basically non-functional antiques).

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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

Sorry if it was unclear but that's actually the price they're charging to download the recorded session. Just imagine spending that.

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

I saw "nuke pack" and my initial assumption was that it's a cool new term for blocklist.

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

If anyone wants to pay the ¥10,000 to hear Charlie Kirk speak to some other assholes please feel free to send me a summary.

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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...

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Charlie Kirk's Symposium

2025年9月7日開催。Charlie Kirk's Symposium。

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I didn't go in much but "in front of the Sanjo Starbucks" was a VERY common reference as a meeting point.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

At least it was designed to blend in aesthetically reasonably well. And the kawadoko is so nice, if you can get onto it. I haven't even visited the general area the last couple of times I've been to Kyoto.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The Starbucks was definitely there as of 2002, but it may have been pretty new then. Roughly opposite the Lawson, which is on the south side of the street.

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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...

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"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...

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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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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Do you think there's any impact relating to a general feeling of wanting to disassociate religion and politics following the Unification Church scandal/backlash?

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Right, but I mean if you assume that the election yesterday would roughly map to the support levels of a hypothetical general election (not saying it would, but as a thought exercise) then I still don't think you get a governing coalition.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Absolutely not. If you add together all the parties that are arguably to the left of the LDP/Koumeito, you don't even hit 100. If you extrapolate the trend of these shifts to a hypothetical general election it's not quite impossible but very very very unlikely. www.nhk.or.jp/senkyo/datab...

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Surprised to find how pleased I am that this loser turned out to be a total loser.

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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 · 18/07/2025

It's particularly bad in law, IMO. The very specific task known as "legal research" is fundamentally about finding cases that cite other cases or use specific keywords. There's very little conceptual analysis and very little discussion of the concept of historical context. Lawyers are bad at history

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

And they should post it with no paywall...

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I have heard quite a few sound trucks from my apartment in Takadanobaba over the last few days, but I haven't really seen them much when outside.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Incidentally, the documentary about the collapse of the original production of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is great and absolutely worth watching. Moreso than the film that was eventually made, sadly.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

TBH I barely remember Fisher King and may want to revisit it, and Fear and Loathing I don't love but do enjoy pretty well. Perhaps my least favorite of his films that I still enjoy. I enjoyed the book enough to finish it but not to read more of Hunter S Thompson.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I fucking love Munchausen, which I did first see as a pretty young kid. Tideland I should rewatch. I suppose I could agree that 12 Monkeys isn't as clever as it thinks it is, but IMO it's still really good! All three leads just kill it.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

If he wants to learn to spell it properly there are resources out there ۇيغۇرلار

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

You didn't like Fisher King, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing? (Nothing after that worked.)

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

In an intellectually honest court, what would Trump's vast ignorance of "his own" policies mean for the unitary executive theory?

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Who even uses Threads? I have never once even seen a screenshot of a Threads post or been sent a link to one.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

You say Kyoto, ramen, fried chicken and my first thought is Takayasu (中華そば髙安) which is near Ichijoji, not Nanzenji. It's in a strip that's famous for having a heavy concentration of good ramen shops, with several sometimes developing queues outside.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The "lean" approach is how I studied in law school but absofucklutely not how I studied/read in research-oriented grad school.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The main way in which it's different from West World is that it doesn't fucking suck Can't believe I watched that whole series for three increasingly awful seasons out of morbid curiosity (season 1 was actually somewhat good)

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

against all odds, you sold me on it. not like I don't have a vague memory of liking the books as a kid...

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I love how this list is half films I liked half films I have been meaning to see and Paddington 2

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

You already do Disco Elysium? I'll also suggest Citizen Sleeper.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I agree that this is their goal, but it's unquestionable that having both Cuomo and Adams in the race makes this dramatically easier for Mamdami. He might have a mild struggle against either one of them, but with them splitting the asshole vote three ways he has basically no serious competition.

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Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

If it’s arbitrary and capricious then it is merely state action, but not law. Law is the subset of state action that follows rules.

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