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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃

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I love languages and am bad at capitalism. Focusing on Japanese and French and finally putting some time into Korean. Mandarin is on the back burner for now. You can also find me in the fediverse @raen@friendsofdesoto.social 🖖

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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 7h
That’s quite the range of creative choices
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TIL
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fascinating new study of New Mexico's universal childcare program, first of its kind, finds the program dramatically increased work for lower-income moms www.the74million.org/zero2eight/n...
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Nearly a Year In, Universal Childcare Is Reshaping Work for Moms in New Mexico
A new study highlights some early impacts of universal childcare on labor supply for mothers in New Mexico.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13h
You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 18h
So excite!
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 03/10/2026
Busan has a new resident named Bukangi, a shark who started chilling in the canals near the train station a couple weeks ago. The city has been trying all sorts of schemes to gently lead her back to the ocean but she foils every attempt and swims back and forth being admired by crowds of fans.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. DO YOU HAVE SOMEONE YOU CAN TALK TO?
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
😡 Christ these fascist nitwits suck.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When you see it badly emulate the process of a thing you know how to do, it's so *obvious* that there is no understanding, that it it doesn't know what anything is except words statistically likely to be near each other.
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Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · 23/09/2026
Please help raise funds for my friend. She's trying to escape the US right now to live a better and safe life 🥺💙 she's been so nice to me and she deserves so much happiness. www.gofundme.com/f/help-ro-es...
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Donate to Help Ro Escape the United States, organized by Ro Lorenzen
I am a Black Trans Woman raising funds to seek political asylum outside of the United S… Ro Lorenzen needs your support for Help Ro Escape the United States
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Can’t entirely remember what I wrote before bsky ate my text but anyway, this is dumb. Some of the really good episodes of older trek do lean dark, but the entire show? Come on, hire fans of Star Trek to make Star Trek.
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Skeletor and Heman in Water
Alt: Skeletor and Heman in Water. Skeletor shakes his fist in the air.
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Was writing a post, switched to Firefox briefly, came back to a completely refreshed app! Also, gif search is awful and I cannot find my favorite Dr. Crusher gif. Why on earth don’t addition signs and quotes seem to do anything?
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Jadzia Dax: 'Truly, You Exhaust Me' (DS9)
Alt: Jadzia Dax: 'Truly, You Exhaust Me' (DS9)
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I love that Peep Show made the NYT 100 tv shows list!
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Jbone666: The Secret Ingredient Is Crime
Alt: Super Hans in Peep Show: The Secret Ingredient Is Crime
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed
Bunnies re-enact the duel between Inigo and Wesley in "The Princess Bride", with a masked bunny fighting against a dashing shaggy bunny with a gold sword. The masked bunny is cornered, near the edge of a rocky cliffside, but still has a trick up his sleeve
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve maxed out Google translate’s saved translation limit…again 🤓
Screenshot of Google Translate. Unable to save a new word the UI says, “saved translation limit reached.”Google Translate UI displays the number of saved phrases: 10043.
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When I was a kid I loved these illustrated books about a fox and his friends from the 70s. I think there was also a mole. Anyway, in one story he gets mumps. A virus I never had to worry about because of vaccinations. Ummmm why are people rejecting science for diseases of decades past? WITAF?
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gif search really needs to be improved on this site
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🤔 Did the client underpay and/or poorly treat the designer???
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tim Heidecker introducing his short-lived children’s characters the “Doodle Dots” in On CinemaTim Heidecker introducing his short-lived children’s characters the “Doodle Dots” in On Cinema
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Multiple times daily!
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have so many questions. What have I just witnessed? Is this guy involved in or a fan of cool world 3d? Is this man a 3d graphics professional but his job is like painting out boom mics and wires 8hrs a day and this is his creative outlet?
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“Food” in Japanese
YouTube video by Dylan Senpai
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If the earth can recover from the giant asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs it can rebound from what humans have been doing to it for the last several decades. We just have to try.
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Hear Us Out Sushi
Alt: Hear Us Out Sushi Glory Hole sketch
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 04/09/2026
Support Carey here, if able: www.gofundme.com/f/back-our-s...
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Donate to Help us keep living while I sew, organized by Carey Means
We started this business with money that Carey got from conventions and used a sewing mach… Carey Means needs your support for Help us keep living while I sew
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you have a hard time empathizing with people unlike yourself but call yourself a fiscal conservative then you should be for SAVING taxpayer dollars by housing the houseless.
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 28/09/2026
One of the local Chinese language newspapers today had a feature on the upcoming election. It talked about how population growth doesn't automatically turn into political power unless one votes, and also had charts about voters of Chinese/Taiwanese/Hong Konger ancestry. (translated links in replies)
Newspaper article Headline 90%亞太裔選民 打算投票 (90% of AAPI Voters plan to vote)

Below it are bar charts with detailed data on voters of Chinese/Taiwanese/Hong Konger ancestry:
The top left shows that among these voters, 54% are Democrats vs 28% Republican, the lower two bars show that this is further split into 64% of women and 44% of men.
Lower left shows that of these voters 64% voted for Kamala Harris vs 31% for Trump, noting that a lot of people who belong to a third party or no party (the gray bar) vote blue.
This is compared to 65% of all AAPI voters, 79% of Black voters, 64% of Latino voters, and 45% of White voters.
The top right shows that of voters of Chinese/Taiwanese/Hong Konger ancestry who were born in the US, 71% are Democrats vs 19% Republicans.
The lower right has data for those who were born abroad (45% Dem), based on year of immigration.
53% of those who immigrated before 1980
46% of those who immigrated 1980-1995
45% of those who immigrated 1995-2010
38% of those who immigrated after 2010
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it’s particularly on-brand that Scott Wiener is an active participant in SF Transit Month while Connie Chan is nowhere to be found (which is unsurprising given that she fought against the ballot measure that saved Caltrain during the pandemic)
Elected Officials
Leaderboard - Rides - San Francisco Bay
Area
Top elected officials, appointed officials, candidates or board members who live in the San Francisco Bay Area by ride count for September 1 - 6

Name
Total
Distance
Agency
Count
Ride
Count

1 Alfred Twu
138 mi

43

2 D7 Myrna Melgar
64.6 mi
2
20

3 Scott Wiener
31.6 mi
2
17

4 Marina MIMBY
16.3 mi
1
12

5 Joaquín Torres
109 mi
3
9

6 EmilyM
46.6 mi
5
9

7 Emma Hare, DCCC
18.7 mi
2
9

8 James4mv
32.9 mi
3
8

9 SaraLovesBART
29.8 mi
2
8

10 busbaddie
10.8 mi
1
8

11 RebeccaEC
40.0 mi
3
7

12 Rockgirl
94.6 mi
1
4

13 H.B.
34.8 mi
2
4

14 Janice Li
11.0 mi
1
4

15 Danny Sauter D3
3.8 mi
1
4

16 Lydia S
12.9 mi
2
3

17 IttyBittyP
10.9 mi
2
2

18 Sam Gould
4.3 mi
1
2

19 ChristinePelosi
2.1 mi
1
2

20 Mike Chen
1.4 mi
1
2
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Started watching the new season of Collin From Accounts, did not it was already out, and I forgot how good and funny it is. It should probably be in my, and many people’s top ten shows produced since 2000.
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Partner suggested that the Kings should show run a new trek show & I firmly believe they would make an amazing show that comments on current culture and politics w/in the Star Trek genre in a way that new trek can only rarely manage. Plus they’re already working w/Paramount!
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The newest episode of Dark Matter, Apple TV not the Canadian sci fi show set in space, was so such a good bottle episode. 10/10
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#ResistanceRoots bell hooks was born on this day in 1952 in Hopkinsville, Ky. She was an author, educator, feminist and social critic whose work transformed contemporary discussions on gender, race and class. She pioneered the concept that these systems intersect to sustain social oppression. /1
bell hooks. hooks changed how the world understands power, education and human connection. Rather than confining her revolutionary ideas to the walls of academia, she dedicated her life to building a public philosophy that made radical critique accessible. She laid the foundation for theories of intersectionality, transforming modern understanding of race, gender and class. She argued that racism, sexism and class exploitation operate together, and highlighted the overlooked struggles of Black women. Her system of “engaged pedagogy” treated education as a practice of freedom and empowerment, while her politics of affection framed love as a transformative, public practice necessary to dismantle systemic oppression and encourage the healthy emotional growth of men. She wrote without academic jargon so her ideas could reach everyday people, serving as a voice for liberation, love and community. Photo credit: UC Santa Cruz.
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𝙰𝙲𝚄𝚃𝙴 𝚆𝙴𝙴𝙳 𝙿𝚂𝚈𝙲𝙷𝙾𝚂𝙸𝚂 𓁣 @bzvowell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
𝙼𝙾𝙳𝙸𝙵𝙸𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽
QUARK: My girlfriend oomox'd 37 guys!

ROM: In a row??
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.
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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From day one staff and public have been up in arms against the plans of the university and YOU can help as well! Sign this petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
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Petition to Keep the Academy of Natural Sciences Open to the Public
The scientific community in Philadelphia and concerned neighbors are calling on Drexel University to keep the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia’s public-facing museum open beyond their impos...
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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At the beginning of the month Drexel University made public that they want to close the Academy of Natural Sciences at the end of the month. The academy is the oldest natural history museum in the Americas and this would end more than 200 years of research and outreach.
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If Dootle Dots doesn’t make it to a top 10 list 😢 #dootledots #oncinema
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Dootle Dots Episode 2
YouTube video by Dootle Dots
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So shocking. Who could have predicted this?
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh there’s also Evil and the Good Wife and The Good Fight. Truly impossible.
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Midnight Mass was also great! As was The Haunting of Bly Manor. 🤔 Can it just be too 20?
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I also forgot about Fleabag, Lost, FLCL and Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex, 2nd Gig This is way too hard.
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not sure if this a yikes for that film maker or the Hollywood reporter 😬 Either way, someone does not know the most minimal of facts about the history of English.
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's like they WANT people to go "welp" and fire up Bittorrent again.
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Im already realizing I left out Lovecraft Country 😭 It’s too hard!
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Okayish Linguaphile 🥑🍞☕️🐈 日本語 | 한국어 | français | 𓊹𓌃 @raenpayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Since this is a thing, here’s my top ten, but it is so hard to narrow it down to just 10 since 2000. I’ve just seen so much TV, and not just from the US. Most of these are also pretty recent, so there’s some bias there. I might need to think about this and see if the list changes in a few days.
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Whimsy is actually a form of resistance against a world that wants us to be miserable. Says Skeletor trying to keep the whimsy even when the world is truly miserable.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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