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Sublight Monster

@sublightmonster.bsky.social
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Former paid liar. Advisor/ghostwriter to Japan PMs Abe, Suga and Kishida, speechwriter for Tokyo Gov. Koike. Now movie star. Still deciding whether I’m retired or just a bum. Born🇺🇸, living🇯🇵, speaking🇫🇷🇲🇽🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Have the same name pretty much everywhere. He/him

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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 13h
A career in acting.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Bluesky will suspend me if I say what I’d rather see done 500 times with a chainsaw
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
If capitalism were truly the engine of innovation, you’d think the quality of plastic surgery among the Epstein class would be a lot better.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Finished work on one movie. Got turned down for another movie. Still hoping on a couple of other roles.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
An ice hockey player, wearing a helmet, sliding feet-first.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
3 hours to travel to a job site, 3 hours to get one photo taken, 3 hours to come home. It’s damn lucky I’m still having fun.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At least the NYT editors can rest easy knowing his student thesis didn’t have any vague citations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
nytimes.com
Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bugger, my son’s a nonce.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
But do they know how to walk at half speed on the train platform while staring into their smartphones?
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“At night, behind the door, I think I hear one more…”
Crack Master from a Sesame Street short that terrified me in the 1970s, then disappeared for about 30-40 years.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
パラパラハラ 🕺
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My previous x3 company was this in spades, to the point that I was on stomach meds for two years and transferring to Dentsu was an enormous stress relief.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Knowing what 20 y/o me was obsessing over and terrified of, he’d be impressed as hell by where I am now, and probably horrified by how I got here.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mine was the former boss who, in his eikaiwa days, had a boss whose wife always used too much keigo for anyone to follow what she was saying. He tried to tell her “we don’t understand polite Japanese” but fumbled 丁寧 for てめい
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Done 6 of 10. I’m not into live shows and I keep telling myself I should do #4
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Yeah, I’d be pretty pissed off. Maybe not throwing chairs, but definitely “get tf out of my sight.”
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I see Liefeld still can’t do feet
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It’s the only form of healthcare we can usually afford
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hostages in Iran
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh no, I still have you mentally tagged as “the one with the hedgehog”.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
One thing I’ve always liked living here is that, no matter how stupid decisions may be, they’re never justified with “because god says so”.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You’re an academic, you don’t have anything to be judged by except the things you say.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
That you don’t see the absence of academics with strong anti-racist views signing it as a sign as a red flag speaks volumes about you.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You’re demanding the academic freedom to deny academic freedom to non white males
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I’ve been out of the US for quite a while, but I think I need more info, as ending Citizens United sounds like a very good thing and $60K a year is not an unreasonable salary for running a charity.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Because healthcare is healthcare and should be accessible to anyone who needs it.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Signed up with a talent agency only to find that the most lucrative work is shopping mall Santa
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
As scams go, a fairly cheap lesson
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The only disappointing thing about the death of Rod Liddle is that I didn’t hear about it until today.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Arrived in Japan and had wasabi (the mass produced stuff in supermarkets and kaiten sushi). Said “oh, this is horse radish!” and immediately got shouted down. Years later, cue the morning news shows all clutching their pearls at the news that supermarket wasabi is just horse radish dyed green.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hi, I’m a liposarcoma tumor that an idiot GP at the Tokyo Medical and Surgical Clinic (who now runs Hiroo International Clinic) spent a year saying “it’s just a cyst, it’ll go away on its own.”
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Gator 🐊 @gator.wildz.ooo · 12/08/2026
One amazing thing with Meta Glasses is that you can look at solar eclipses with them. #Meta #MetaGlasses #SolarEclipse #Eclipse
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Is that actually from Japan or is the katakana just decorative? I don’t recall ever seeing it here.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A good friend of mine has recommended I watch Extras as it relates to our recent work. While I’m only on episode 3, I can’t help noticing that the last two episodes have depended heavily on making fun of the disabled. It was a very “I loved this movie in the 80s!” moment for my friend.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Got this one!
The outside gate of Toei movie/tv studios. Sign reads in Japanese 東映東京撮影所 (Toei Tokyo Shooting Location)
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
On the bright side, this should settle the debate over whether women are suited for the role of PM, as Takaichi has proven herself to be every bit as competent and capable as her predecessors.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I married a Pirate
Me, a Pirate (aka Asada Yoshimi, former member of the comedy group Pirates), and some random dude
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I wouldn’t call it bad, but it can be done so much better at the same price point.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It feels like a good piece of information to provide, but it doesn’t seem like it’s directly useful in any of the problem-solving techniques that high-school students would be learning and practicing. Not a mathematician, so I could be completely wrong.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
All around my neighborhood
Recent poster for the JCP, featuring current party chair Tomoko Tamura.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Animal, Bunsen Honeydew, Statler & Waldorf
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Taco Bell doesn’t grow their own lettuce, so obviously
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Bai Ling Clothed would have been a newsworthy headline
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Looking for a pretense to switch parties because I know the line to primary my ass will go around the block
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
After being one of the IMDb’s top ten contributors back in its pre-Amazon days, I’m still floating a bit to finally have my own page as an actor.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I’m frustrated that none of it is actually innovation. I can’t think of any new product or service that was launched in the last ten years that actually solved an existing problem, rather than just shoehorned in additional layers of payment.
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
#FoundThatLizard !
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Was I the only one half expecting to read that the soybean farmer sued them for pollinating their crops without authorization? (They didn’t)
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Without joy and frivolity, what kind of world are you going to build?
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Sublight Monster @sublightmonster.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It’s ironic how the higher you go in terms of power, the lower the bar for relevant competence becomes. If my wife suddenly passed away, there’s not a chance her company would ask me to take over her position.
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