Gubaba
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QA on the subs for recent Macross Plus blu-ray box set. My anime blogs: https://j9hardserenade.wordpress.com/ https://gubabablog.wordpress.com/ Here's my book recommendation thread: https://bsky.app/profile/gubaba.bsky.social/post/3lvztvibvkc2l
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gubaba.bsky.social
HAPPY 250th BIRTHDAY TO THE US NAVY!!

Unlike the Army, there's no parade, or even a post from the President.

I wonder why not...?
gubaba.bsky.social
I mean, YES, that's an issue... but (to me, at least) not as much of one as the lack of extras and alternate versions of the episodes.
gubaba.bsky.social
So... I just need to take everything I've bought, put it all on my computer, and make my own "perfect" version. Which will be a lot of (tedious) work.

it's kinda worth it, though... for Evangelion.
9/9
gubaba.bsky.social
Between the Japanese blu-ray set and Archive, you have everything...

EXCEPT English subs, AND the '97 "Symphony of Evangelion" concert. That one is, I think, just gonna be lost to time.

I insist that I no longer need Eng. subs to watch the series. But if I'm SHOWING it to a friend, then I do.
8/?
gubaba.bsky.social
(If you're REALLY persnickety, like I am, you'll notice that it doesn't have the ORIGINAL broadcast versions, nor the version of Death and Rebirth that aired once on 12/31/97, pay-per-view on WOWOW.)

(But Japan has you covered, with a 2015 DVD set called Archive of Evangelion. It IS those.)
7/?
gubaba.bsky.social
The 2015 Japanese blu-ray set is IDEAL. It has (nearly... just a sec...) ANYTHING that YOU, as a hardcore Eva fan, could want. SERIES! MOVIES! PROMOS! ADS! SCRIPTS! ANIMATICS! BONUSES! 5.1 OR STEREO AUDIO CHOICES! "FLY ME TO THE MOON"!

It's (again, NEARLY) perfect!!

Except... no English subs.
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gubaba.bsky.social
(To say nothing of the lack of bonus content... most of which is superfluous, but some of which (to me) is NECESSARY.)

So that's the US front. Let's go to Japan!
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gubaba.bsky.social
There's the first ADV DVD release, which I used to own but sold in '04. But its a VHS dump and looks awful. And doesn't have the Director's Cut" Eps. 21-24.

Going back further, who has a VHS player these days? And how do 1997/1998 VHS tapes even look or sound here in 2025?
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gubaba.bsky.social
I have the '04 ADV "Platinum Edition" set, plus the '04 ADV "Director's Cut" duology, plus the '02 Manga movie duology.

And yet... the Platinum Edition ONLY has the later 5.1 audio which adds lines of dialogue and changes the ending so that EVERY episode has a different version of "FMttM." NO.
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gubaba.bsky.social
The obvious go-to is the recent GKids blu-ray. But (even in the "Collector's Edition" box, which I have have), it's missing the "On-Air" versions of Eps. 21-24 and "Rebirth." To say nothing of "Fly Me to the Moon."

So we go back to DVD...
2/?
gubaba.bsky.social
Yesterday, I finished showing Evangelion to a couple of friends (only the original series and the two old movies. We haven't gotten to the Rebuild series yet), and, as a fan who first got into Eva in '97, it's nearly impossible to show them the series as I want to. EVERY release has defects.
1/?
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ziibiing.com
lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day
AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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ericumansky.bsky.social
ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver
Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.
www.wweek.com
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johnrogers.bsky.social
“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.
the-independent.com
Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’
Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs
www.independent.co.uk
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royalpratt.bsky.social
NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.
www.chicagotribune.com
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paleofuture.bsky.social
Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”
Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance
Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.
www.10news.com
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notalawyer.bsky.social
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
misoshnik.bsky.social
Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?
A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”
gubaba.bsky.social
INDEED! “MA-KU-ROSS! MA-KU-ROSS!”
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acroray.bsky.social
Bought a new friend at a local street fair. #FlatwoodsMonster #BraxtonCountyMonster
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caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago



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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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ashleylynch.bsky.social
This is why the costumes are honestly brilliant. Ngo, who has never said a truthful thing in his entire life (remember the concrete milkshake?) now has to convince people inflatable Sesame Street and animal costumes are violent terrorists.

Sometimes you just need an image too silly to demonize.
michaelehayden.bsky.social
“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”
Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago
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shoutingboy.bsky.social
If I chose to invest in speculative bubbles I would simply sell before the bubble burst, maybe I’m built different
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sam-animeherald.bsky.social
"Crunchyroll acquires a company."
philistella.bsky.social
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.
impavid.us
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.