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Alex Koppel

@arsduo.bsky.social

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book reader, staff engineer at Slack, @awesomefoundgta.bsky.social organizer, 🏳️‍🌈, he/him.

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 8h

He's afraid of losing out on government patronage, after watching what the Trump administration has done for his rival Larry Ellison

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 15h

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

www.theguardian.com

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 15h

folks what did the Pope JUST warn us about

NPR @npr.org · 23h

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 17h

Bribing the cat into he likes or at least tolerates the costumes we got him

A cat licking a treat spoon while in a green dinosaur costume

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 19h

They have made a movie out of that game! And apparently it's really good. Looks like it'll have a 2026 North American release.

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 20h

I was bummed to miss Exit 8 at TIFF, saw promotion all over Japan, and literally just now realized the title refers to the amazing Japanese system of numbering subway exits so you can pop out closest to your destination. (Can't wait to see the film.)

youtu.be/emZZexEJO8c?...

Exit 8 | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Umbrella Entertainment

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 20h

I only shout that on express trains!

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks! Wish we could have had more vacation but it is good to be back!

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 22h

every flight should come with a little kid who shouts "oh gosh wow" as the plane ramps up for takeoff

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 1d

👀👀 this looks really cool! Adding it to the calendar, if Halloween plans allow I may try to rush it. (Congratulations!)

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 1d

Here we gooooooooooooo

A flight display. It says we have a long way from Tokyo to Toronto.

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 1d

And that's Haneda, which is *significantly* closer

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 1d

Easily one of my favourite shirts. It was one of the characters in an educational app I used to work on.

I wonder if I could buy the rights if the company ends up going under 🤔

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 1d

Also yeah! They checked my credit card against my passport, which no one else did. It was very strange, and also 2 AM so I didn't have the bandwidth to really clock it.

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 1d

Every aisle playing its own jingle simultaneously, with the Miracle Shopping theme song always somewhere in the background, with no windows or any indication there is still a world outside—it's hellish, and yet I can't wait to get back someday.

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 1d

It IS. I hope you can see it, it's astonishing (and brutal, in its way).

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 1d

Extra bonus secret train achievement unlocked! Very cool to see them run cargo through the same JR Rail lines servicing passenger routes 🚂

A train engine entering a station full of people. Somehow you can tell it's a working cargo train rather than a passenger one.

A cargo train running with mini-containers. Passengers on the platform look on.

Cargo container going thru a platform

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 1d

no human enters the late night shibuya mega don quixote except that they incur massive psychic damage

A grainy photo of a man with his hand on his riding the escalator up on a brightly lit, colourful, brutal place

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 2d

OH "what is an unfinished basement but a sex dungeon with a washing machine?"

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking about this @ela-bambust.bsky.social as I ate my steak and felt my arteries clog accordingly

bsky.app/profile/ela-...

Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 2d

WAIT …

STEAK

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 2d

Last minute plans with the clutch subway save: the Toei lines were the last major part of the Tokyo public transit system we hadn't yet ridden

A sign for the Toei Shinjuku line

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the story—much cooler of an explanation than I had imagined!
bsky.app/profile/anem...

un bastille after another @anem0ne.net · 2d

so "ilgop" is one way of romanizing "7" in korean (native, rather than sino-korean) and it turns out it's something to do with kpop after looking at their insta

and i assume maybe something to do with BTS because the fans (army) often use a ⁷ to denote their fandom

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un bastille after another @anem0ne.net · 2d

so "ilgop" is one way of romanizing "7" in korean (native, rather than sino-korean) and it turns out it's something to do with kpop after looking at their insta

and i assume maybe something to do with BTS because the fans (army) often use a ⁷ to denote their fandom

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing! Thank you for explaining that, that's so much cooler than I would have imagined.

Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 2d

oh no the Illinois Republicans have made it to Tokyo

A sign listing the occupants of a building in Shibuya Tokyo. The last entry is "ILGOP Studio"