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Michael Hartmann @thedreaminggoat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Wow! What a performance. Even in a huge stadium, Atarashii Gakko! manage to get close to the audience. Fortunately Mizyu has a driver’s licence. I wonder if the interpreter has recovered yet. m.youtube.com/watch?v=n_9P...

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20260830 樂天桃猿SINGDOME音樂電台日本怪奇美少女組合「ATARASHII GAKKO!(新學校領袖）」賽後演唱完整版 #atarashiigakko #流量密碼

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Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hurrah! It does exist, I just didn't look hard enough... youtu.be/D00rpvyBcVM?...

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"The Muppet Show" Season 1 CREW VIDEO 1976

YouTube video by Priory Orchard

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Not just SAG-AFTRA members- I’d suggest everyone to do this if you haven’t already, specially you artists posting your art on the gram.

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Liam Wong @liamwong.com · 23/06/2026

Midnight arcade

A Street Fighter II match flickers across a CRT screen, the game is in standby mode, looping scenes to attract players, framed by the glowing shell of a Sega Astro City arcade. Neon magenta reflections wash over the arcade as pixels battle beneath the hum of fluorescent lights in Osaka.

A row of retro arcade cabinets stretches into the distance, their screens casting pink and blue light across empty stools and worn control panels. An Osaka game center frozen between rounds.

An intimate Osaka arcade glows with saturated violet light. Gashapon machines and claw cranes crowd a narrow room that feels suspended somewhere between the 1990s and the present.

A lineup of Sega Blast City cabinets illuminates the darkness with electric blue light. Retro fighters, puzzle games, and anime artwork flicker across aging screens, turning a quiet Osaka arcade into a shrine to gaming history.

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Michael Hartmann @thedreaminggoat.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Only one month until the new AG! album release. Can’t wait.

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Michael Hartmann @thedreaminggoat.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Atelier Karia looks very promising. I didn’t like the combat and alchemy in Yumia at all and both look massively improved here. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SKOo...

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Atelier Karia: The Night Kingdom & the Guide of Memories - First Look

YouTube video by KOEI TECMO AMERICA

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Liam Wong @liamwong.com · 10/06/2026

Tokyo’s Sangenjaya neighbourhood through my lens: the real-life inspiration for Persona 5’s Yongen-Jaya 📸

Image 1 : Narrow residential alley in Sangenjaya at dusk, with a glowing pink snack bar sign, bicycles parked along the street, and blue-purple evening light creating a quiet urban atmosphere. Cafe Le Blanc in game.

Image 2: Corrugated metal entrance leading into a narrow Sangenjaya side street, illuminated by warm ambient lighting and framed by weathered industrial textures. The entrance for the laundromat in Persona.

Image 3: Small neighborhood laundromat in Sangenjaya, featuring rows of washing machines, large dryers, vending machines, and warm fluorescent lighting against cool blue window reflections. Iconic location in Persona which is almost 1:1.

Image 4: Yellow-tiled staircase descending into a Tokyo subway station : Sangenjaya, with directional arrows on the steps and a lone commuter walking below.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Picture of a TV screen with teletubbies going to bed with the subtitles: I know you were high during my mother-in-laws wake

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Char Char Binks

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Michael Hartmann @thedreaminggoat.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Yay! A new Atarashii Gakko! song will be released in 12 days. atarashiigakko.lnk.to/ChankaChanka

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ATARASHII GAKKO! - Chanka Chanka

Listen to content by ATARASHII GAKKO!.

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This is delightful

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Michael Hartmann @thedreaminggoat.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Atarashii Gakko! just released an (almost) full show from their recent 新しい学校はすゝむ tour on YouTube. Only the encore is missing. Can’t wait to see them in London in about three months. youtu.be/C24PoMiffcM

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新しい学校はすゝむツアー / Full Show

YouTube video by ATARASHII GAKKO! - 新しい学校のリーダーズ

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Michael Hartmann @thedreaminggoat.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Is it just my imagination or are Bluesky outages happening a lot more often recently?

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 31/03/2026

Meiko Kaji's 60 year career has been defined by stubborn ambition: aftermath.site/meiko-kaji-lad...

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 24/03/2026

The company Ohkura Mochi, based in Japan's Aichi Prefecture, makes a Toilet Monaka (red bean paste in crisp wafer snack) that's fashioned like a crapper that you fill with the mixture. The linguistic joke is that 餡子 (anko, bean paste) is close in sound to うんこ (unko, poop)

X post from @hashimoto_vista. JP text: 社員がLIXILでこれもらってきた。
トイレ型のモナカにあんこを注いで食べる模様。よく発売できたな😂

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Michael Hartmann @thedreaminggoat.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Butt-In-Front-Man!

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Two decades after a small Duke breast cancer vaccine trial, every participant is still alive — a rare outcome for metastatic disease. When researchers looked closer, they found the women’s immune systems still carried “memory” cells that recognised the cancer. buff.ly/MNeRhJh #ShareGoodNewsToo

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A 20-year-old cancer vaccine may hold the key to long-term survival

Two decades after a breast cancer vaccine trial, every participant is still alive—an astonishing result for metastatic disease. Scientists found their immune systems retained long-lasting memory…

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

In honour of Rob Reiner, have David Moore's thread on the best sword fight in movie history and exactly how nerdy it is.

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Jim'll Paint It @sirpaintalot.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Mia Wallace & Gromit As requested by Paul Savage

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Michael Hartmann @thedreaminggoat.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Happy 50th birthday to Patti Smith‘s Horses. That album still sounds as powerful today as it did then (or as it did when I discovered it years later). The opening line is like a hand grenade being thrown. And 79 years old Patti Smith is still the coolest person ever. youtu.be/uURzmsTsLc8

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Patti Smith - Land : Horses - Land Of A Thousand Dances - Gloria - L'Olympia Paris - 21/10/2025

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

If you're looking for something to dislodge that Gordon Lightfoot earworm, tomorrow is ALSO the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith's debut album. Like Bruce Springsteen says, starts with "probably the greatest opening line of anyone’s debut album in rock ’n’ roll." This is a fun piece:

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Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary (Gift Article)

In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 19/09/2025

So very excited to share this news

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it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 12/09/2025

oh my god someone slashed our tire

a car tire with a guitar strapped to it, along with a hat, wig, and sunglasses arranged to resemble the famous guitarist Slash

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It

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Rogue @rogue.site · 02/09/2025

Rogue.site is now a reality! Thank you to everyone along the way who helped make it possible. If you like what you see, and want more of it. Consider pledging your support with a subscription. Your funds will go to support independent games journalism written by humans, for humans.

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Rogue

Ad-free video game news, guides, opinions, history, culture, previews, interviews, and reviews written by humans, for humans

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Duncan MacMaster of the Macabre @duncanwriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.

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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did. Manga deserves better than cheap, soulless automation. This is a betrayal of translators, fans, and the art form. We don't want your AI translations!

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Dear manga publishers, we don’t want your AI translations

VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did and want none of it.

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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

You know lads, I have to truly say: of all the possible forms of pornography, going after the one that doesn't even involve real people really does put an end to the idea that anti-porn crusades are ever about protecting women

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Even if you don't purchase smut, it should be common sense that the right for anyone else to obtain it shouldn't be completely up to modern day crusaders and credit card payment processors.

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AndresPlays @andresplays.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

This situation with itch.io is an absolute mess and for a conservative group to singlehandedly harm so many developers' livelihoods is alarming. No one should have that power.

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Michael Hartmann @thedreaminggoat.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

It’s been a while since I played the game on console, but it was a lot of fun. And you can’t go wrong with a free game.

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

THE ROCKETEER PUNCHING THE SHIT OUT OF A NAZI AI

The rocketeer punching a nazi robot in the face

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Michael Hartmann @thedreaminggoat.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

What could possibly go wrong? It’s not like words can have multiple meanings. And there are certainly no languages that are heavily relying on context. No writer will ever use neologisms. And not a single novel will include completely made up languages. I’m sure these „translations“ will be fine.

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Post from the great Padraig Kenny over on IG

IG post from writer Padraig Kenny dismantling claims that ai could ever translate books as well as a human

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Michael Hartmann @thedreaminggoat.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

My wallet is already feeling the pain, but these era vinyl box sets are fantastic. Of course I‘m going to buy this final one too.

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

"Though there's nothing glacial about it, Trump is ushering in America’s ICE age. He's catapulted it into America’s best-funded law enforcement agency, increasingly beyond accountability.That makes it Trump’s private army — his security state within the state." My column www.ft.com/content/b6a5...

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Trump’s ominous ICE security state

The nation of immigrants’ shift to mass deportation is among the most shocking turns in US history

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Michael Hartmann @thedreaminggoat.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Looks like we’ll get an Atarashii Gakko!/Balming Tiger collaboration this week.

Screenshot of Atarashii Gakko! retweeting Balming Tiger with the message „BTAG! 6/20“ and a photo showing both groups.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 11/06/2025

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

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ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600

And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.

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