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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Latest Roboco parody is Kagurabachi!

Japanese cover for Me & Roboco volume 28 done in the style of Kagurabachi volume 1. Roboco is in the place of Chihiro, wielding a broom instead of a katana.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Shout out to the Tate Geological Museum in Casper. Had some time to kill and they have a lot of neat fossils.

Wide view of the display room. Reconstructions of Torosaurus and T-Rex skulls are in the foreground and a Columbian Mammoth skeleton in the background.

The Torosaurus skull has some pieces missing. It’s on a special armature so that individual bones can be removed for study. Some of the bones are 3D printed based off the existing symmetrical bone.

The Columbian Mammoth skeleton, made of casts from the real fossils.

The actual skull of a Columbian Mammoth (named Dee) inside a display case

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Really late to the mini-discourse, but the #1 thing I would change with a new Doctor Who series is removing self-awareness. No more winking at fans.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hard to say no to a dinosaur park.

Statues of a T-Rex and a triceratops face off against each other, reminiscent of a JJBA “Oh? You’re approaching me?” meme

A very tall allosaurus stands at the top level of the park, overlooking Rapid City. A spiral mosaic plaza is in front of it.

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MangaAlerts @mangaalerts.com · 27/09/2026

🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨 Viz Media is increasing their manga prices again • Titles priced at a $14.99 MSRP will now be $16.99 • If its like last time, this will be a gradual roll out until its implemented As of reporting, Choujin X & REAL have their MSRP increased to the new price

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Had to stop by Crazy Horse Memorial. When I saw it as a kid, there was just the suggestion of an outstretched arm. But now there’s a detailed hand! And thd upper part of the horse’s mane!! And the cylindrical shape of the horse’s head is starting to emerge!!!

View of the Crazy Horse Memorial from the welcome center. There’s a giant crane rising from behind, indicating active work on the unfinished memorial.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Badlands isn’t so bad. A lot more variety of scenery than I expected.

Panoramic view from an overlook of the fin-like rock formations.

Sandstone hives way to green prairie before meeting the partly-cloudy sky at a nearly flat horizon.

An isolated, squat pillar of rock rises above the grassland.

A wall of pointed rock rises behind foreground trees. Overcast skies mute the colors.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s wild and awe-inspiring that a place like Devils Tower exists.

Iconic front view of Devils Tower from the road. It sits atop a mound of earth sparsly covered with evergreen trees. The sky is a clear blue.

View looking upward at the tower from the trail at the base. Trees loom in the foreground.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was just a bit late to remember my dad’s Apple II, so my first computer was a WANG

Simpsons frame of Nelson wearing a Wang Computers T-shirt on the school bus

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A long overdue purchase of Shuhei Miyazaki’s Promised Neverland gag spinoff volume. His depiction of Mom is basically proto-Roboco

A panel from the manga with dialogue in Japanese. On the right is a round-faced Mom doing an idol pose (peace sign over a winking eye, hand on hip, cutesy star at the end of her dialogue). On the left is the reaction of Emma and Norman hiding under the cart, horrified at Mom’s lighthearted attitude.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My first shiny in a Switch game! Thankfully a Quick ball was good enough for it.

Summary page for a blue Medicham. Caught at level 36 on the Acuity shorefront.

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NateMing on Elm Street @nateming.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

also Viz, please release a full-series Dragon Ball Kanzenban with a new translation keeping "Kuririn" and "Tenshinhan" and proper "Saiyan" pronunciation in there while you're at it

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happened to catch the brightest rainbow I’ve seen in a long time.

A double rainbow arcs over a housetop. The bottom rainbow is very bright and the top rainbow much dimmer. Dark clouds fill the sky above the inner rainbow, but clouds are brighter underneath.

Closeup of one side of the rainbow, to better see how bright and clear the colors are

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Alyssa Weldon @alyssaweldon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Update: $21k of the $25k raised! Unfortunately, their insurance didn’t cover everything they lost and a lot of the money will go to cover that gap, so meeting this goal would be a huge help for them. Please continue to share, and thanks everyone for donating/sharing already!

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Millennial urge to salvage the orange kitchen sink from your grandparents’ kitchen.

A 1970’s cast iron kitchen sink coated in bright orange porcelain. It is removed from the counter and sitting in storage.

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amanda💖 @appleisland.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

historians are at a loss from the discovery of a sequel to journey to the west featuring sun wukong's evil brother raditz

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George J. Horvath @landofobscusion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And there you have it... Me & Roboco now stands alone as the longest sub-300 chapter manga in Shonen Jump history. Only three more issues & it'll become only the 26th Jump manga to reach 300 chapters.

Chart from Jajanken of the 26th to 50th longest Jump manga of all time,, by weekly chapter length.

Me & Roboco is at the top at 297, just beating out The Gutsy Frog's 296.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My dad saw this and said, “Is that the fruit that makes people stretchy?”

The label on a can of Mountain Dew Dragon Fruit flavor

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Jetzero Infinity the Snobby Black Weeb @jetzeroinfinity.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Folks, I've been told there's a new MangaPlus survey where they ask about the use of AI translation. You know what to do docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Kory-dûm 🇰🇷 @nidokorn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Rereading Fullmetal Alchemist for the pod and it is immediately foot on the gas from page one.

Ed, kneeling with his hands on a transmutation circle: “It…It wasn’t supposed to be like this… Oh no.. He’s gone…!!” His left leg is missing.

Text: Teachings that do not speak of pain have no meaning…because humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I can’t be the only one who gets unreasonably anxious during the mountain crossing in Pearl. It’s night at high elevation during an blizzard and you’re wearing a skirt! Girl, you’ll die!

Player sprite dimly visible in a swath of deep snow.

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Tsun. All Tsun. @alltsunnodere.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you see this, could you please reskeet it? I want to test something.

Maya rolled over on the back of the couch

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Anni K. Comics @annikcomics.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you're not creating it yourself you're not an artist.

Screenshots of the anime Daemons of the Shadow Realm, in which a mangaka character is worried his manga files got destroyed. On the screen is dialogue from another character, saying "Even if you lost it, you could use Black and White to draw it again in a snap."
(Black and White are the daemons of the mangaka that can erase and create things.)

Screenshot of the mangaka looking upset and saying "you don't get it".

Screenshot of the mangaka with his little daemons on his shoulders. He continues: "The imperfections of drawing by hand are what make it good."

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

25% preorder sale takes MHA’s 2nd boxset down from $260 to $195. The war between girl math and actual math is at a stalemate. Save $65 on something I’ll want eventually vs. $195 is a lot of money for books I already own.

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MangaAlerts @mangaalerts.com · 09/09/2026

Barnes & Noble 25% off Manga Pre-Orders Sale is now live • If you’re a premium member you get an extra 10% off www.barnesandnoble.com/collections/... Sale Ends September 11th

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When I watched my dad’s old Star Trek tapes for the first time, I was particularly moved by the episode “Spock’s Brain” and rewatched it a bunch. It was years later before I knew it had achieved meme status online for how bad it is. Oh well. Happy 60th to Star Trek!

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Explored Pokémon Bank a bit more than I have in the past as I sort through my collection prior to shutdown. Apparently there’s a stats page and I was never meant to know how many eggs I hatched in Y.

The eggs hatched page in bank recorded 7,042 hatchings in Pokémon Y.

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Cy Catwell @pixelatedlenses.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm almost 40% the way to securing my housing, which means I'm also almost to the critical 50% point that will mean I can solidly pay a huge chunk of back rent, which will help me secure my housing and avoid insecurity. Please help me keep sharing so I can keep my accessible home!

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Joey Weiser @joeyweiser.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Interesting new series added to Shonen Jump after Shueisha just launched a project contracting agencies which utilize AI and low-paying anonymous translation work

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I only recently learned that “Tohu vavohu” is the Hebrew from Genesis 1:2 that’s translated variously as “without form, and void”, “welter and waste”, “complete chaos”, etc. Kinda neat that I was able to recognize it in One Piece.

Imu launches an attack, shouting “Shield of Emptiness—Tohu Vavohu!!”

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This was always going to be an unsurprising result, but it’s nice to get the U.S. total comparison. The section where it reveals which answers were the biggest tells is also cool.

A heat map in the shape of the United States where redder shades are more similar to how I speak and bluer shades are more dissimilar. Reddest areas are around Utah and the Pacific Northwest . Bluest ares are Louisiana and the Deep South .

The result test reads: “You talk most like someone from Utah - about 60% of your answers match a typical resident.”

Answers that point most strongly to Utah:

Q: What do you call the little gray creature (that looks like an insect but is actually a crustacean) that rolls up into a ball when you touch it?
A: potato bug

Q: What is your
*general* term for a big road that you drive relatively fast on?
A: a freeway has limited access (no stop lights, no intersections), whereas a highway can have stop lights and intersections

Q: What do you call the thing from which you might drink water in a school?
A: drinking fountain

Q: What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle and you have to get off at a certain point?
A: roundabout.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m not playing Pokémon to get trolled like this.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 02/09/2026

So Emma Woodhouse is a pretty girl who is pretty smart, pretty rich, and pretty much has no problems whatsoever. We’re off to a roaring start.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thinking about the alternate universe where Viz got the home video rights for My Hero Academia. My stomach wouldn’t be in knots about whatever fresh horror will come whenever Sonyroll deigns to release the final season.

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AnimEigo @animeigo.com · 02/09/2026

Over two dozen Viz titles are now available at the MediaOCD store! mediaocd.com/product-cate...

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Appreciated Spy x Family’s PSA on bias.

Handler says:

The human brain is well designed.
It isn’t fuel efficient, so it uses shortcuts to conserve energy.

But those shortcut thoughts are rife with bias.
Our brains always try to lighten our cognitive load by stuffing the world into our own limited scope of understanding.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Striking the balance between “impress with skills to stave off unemployment” and “accidentally became important at work” is super tricky.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 27/08/2026

Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.

Instructional image titled "Hide your posts from non-followers in Discover" accompanied by a screenshot of the "privacy and security" options from the Bluesky settings menu. "Ask apps to hide my posts from algorithmic recommendations" is toggled to the "on" state.

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My accuracy streak is finally over. I accidentally preordered the same book twice.

Two copies of Monthly Girl’s Nozaki-Kun volume 17 held in my hand

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Fun fact: This anime is why I recognized Fleming’s right-hand rule in Kaminari’s ultimate move pose

Kaminari prepares to fire an electric current at a pointer during the provisional license exam. His thumb is extended upwatd, his index finger forward and his middle finger at a right angle

A diagram of Fleming’s right-hand rule where the upward extended thumb represents the direction of Motion, the forward index finger is the Field, and the middle finger is the direction of Current

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

For “most out there” I would go with “Marie & Gali”, an anime about a girl who doesn’t get science who is isekai-ed into a city of history’s great (and wildly caricatured) scientists. Her mentor through it all is a bum-like Galileo.

Key image showing a pouty Marie with all the goofy scientist characters collaged in her hair

Character designs for Gali, Marie, and Pet. Marie ihas a gothic lolita style and Gali has disheveled blond hair with a red nose and unshaved beard.

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Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 21/08/2026

Award-Winning Translator, Jan Mitsuko Cash, Calls on American Manga Industry to Double Their Rates!

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Banshee Lover's Rage @annlynzee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

She described translators working 80 hour weeks and only being paid net 60 despite having bills due each month and no health insurance despite career-induced medical issues.

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Banshee Lover's Rage @annlynzee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Translator Jan Mitsuko Cash gets standing ovation after winning Best Translation and calling on the manga publishers to double their rates and describes the poor working conditions of translators that create their success.

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Kim🌸 @kpossibles.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Manga is Please Save My Earth. Grok translates it to My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU... like what the heck are they doing over there🫠💀

Screenshot from X @comic_natalie with automatic translation that is very incorrect: "My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU" Live-Action Drama Adaptation, Irisu Role Played by Alice Hirose; Exclusive Amazon Prime Video Release This Fall (Comments Included)

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Sandra @sandypsyche.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Show-Ha Shoten! is complete! I had a fun time following this world of high school stand-up comics. Humor is a skill I wish I was better at, so it was great to dig into the nuts and bolts of how it works. And laugh at the same time.

Show-Ha Shoten volumes 1-11, laid out in a 4x3 grid displaying all the covers

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MangaAlerts @mangaalerts.com · 18/08/2026

🚨BREAKING🚨 Crunchyroll has completely delisted/removed all Manga, Light Novels, Manhwa, & Danmei from their website following their store refresh that went live today As of reporting, it's unknown if CR will bring these back or not

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