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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"... but he allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves." — G.G. Márquez

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of those days where you can feel the seasons revolving

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The kinmokusei has unfurled its olfactory standard!!!

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Atomic Habitz cover of "Be Thankful For What You Got" is the anthem of my rainy summer. Is this a supergroup or what? www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaFy...

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Atomic Habitz (Marcus King, Chris Dave, MonoNeon) "Be Thankful4 What U Got" - live at Newport Jazz

YouTube video by MonoNeon

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That quake in the wee hours felt like a boxed-out stirring motion rather than the usual back and forth.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The only thing Koenji is missing is a go salon.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In refusing to examine its own role in how a plagiarist made it to the heights of academia, Cambridge University has heaped sadness upon sadness and become a much less serious institution. www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

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Cambridge Abandons Full Investigation Into Hiring of Late Professor Jason Arday

Cambridge's narrowed inquiry may leave key questions about “Great and Unfortunate Things" author Jason Arday's story unanswered.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sometimes the Cocoichi plays deep Grant Green cuts, sometimes the Cocoichi plays G. E. Smith-era Saturday Night Live sax rock. You just never know.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The curry sennin emerged to drop another masterpiece on the congregation. Seriously prolly the best in カレー in the city.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Still a live issue that needs following. It's unbelievable that Chris Payne is still in solitary confinement as he awaits retrial.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I wrote about that mysterious thing where some good books make you want to write while others make it feel next to impossible. archfidelity.substack.com/p/reading-a-... #reading #writing

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Reading a Hard Act to Follow

Why do some books make the pen feel heavy?

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The annual tansan bender is upon me. It always strikes when summer is wearing on and it begins to feel like the AC is pickling you.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New go calendar image to see us through to Halloween. Deffo know how this guy feels.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Pair go X nomihodai got a bit slippery the other night.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

C-SPAN: Do you read by yourself? SHELBY FOOTE: Always. CS: Why? SF: I don't know ... Readin' is a serious business. CS: How long at a time do you read? SF: Oh a six-hour stretch of readin' is not a long time.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“How strange it is that the sky, which by day is a stationary ground on which the clouds are seen to move, by night becomes the backdrop for Urth's own motion, so that we feel her rolling beneath us as a sailor feels the running of the tide.” --Gene Wolfe--

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Graduating to the next stage of yoghurt addiction: growing your own supply.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Tough one on the board last night, five stones against a shodan. By attacking in the center I managed to revive a dead group, thereby killing a huge white group and landing a winning position, which I then squandered in the end with a hasty misread. Been a lot of that lately.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

There's a bird call around I haven't been able to figure out, some kind of gurgly grouse chatter. It's confounded even the Merlin birdcall app (heartily recommend). Actual fact though: It's the branches of dueling trees being drawn against each other by the wind. merlin.allaboutbirds.org

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Merlin Bird ID - Home

Identify Bird Songs and Calls Sound ID listens to the birds around you and shows real-time suggestions for who’s singing. Compare your recording to the songs and calls in Merlin to confirm what you...

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Whole damn planet's a temple

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Happened all up on some falls

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Shelled out for the splash Famima brolly

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"but I want a regular banana later, so yeaaah"

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Niigata City for sub-capital!

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Rob Goss @robgoss.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It’s officially publication day for Another Japan. Well, in some places. Europe today. US in September. Australia in December. Japan…technically now but feels like it’ll be a little longer before stock arrives anywhere. Soonish. English and German versions available.

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Another Japan

Abseits bekannter Metropolen und Klischees bewegt sich dieses Buch durch Japans kleinere Städte und ländliche Regionen. Es folgt dem Rhythmus der Jahreszeiten, lokalen Festen, Werkstätten und Häusern,...

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"The murmur of innumerable bees in immemorial elms"

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The stress that you stress when your home internet is on the fritz is a very special kind of stress.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Heavy mixed feels from this building on the edge of the Sophia campus

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A respite from the usual board-flipping violence to see us through to the end of August (and hopefully of the heat as well)

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

There's a tin roof o'er the bikes beside the house across the street and it always makes the rain seem very extra #梅雨

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A hearthy repas in Jinbocho last night

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Shoutout Tomato Corporation

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The reclusive curry genius has emerged from his mountain redoubt to bless us with his sublime concoctions. The pickled zucchini is particularly exquisite.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Just had an intense five-minute cramp in the shin muscle at the front. That one's never locked up before, trying to think what I've been doing that could trigger it. A kind of hilarious agony, stumbling around trying to figure out how to stretch it.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The crispness in the air and the quality of the sunlight after that Tokyo deluge is amazing. Step outside for a minute if you can!

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