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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 15h

Don’t make me tap the sign again

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15h

we have had to endure 190 months of your fucking mayoral election, i don’t want to hear shit out of new york

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 16h

I don’t think we should be gassing up people who live in Portland like this. You’re going to get so much bad art out of that.

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 20h

Silent Hill f is easily the best original entry in the franchise since Silent Hill 2’s release in 2001.

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 22h

Something that a friend reminded me is that there is an argument that art and culture actually thrived during the Edo Period. And it’s a “Leftist Myth” that the country was trapped in the Dark Ages during its closed door policy.

Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social · 1d

I actually think this mindset is key to the whole enterprise. It is certainly key to anime’s authenticity.

For too long we’ve seen “Galapagos” used to denigrate Japan’s inward focus. But in a world gone crazy, it has made Japan (and things from Japan) an oasis. Stay tuned for more about this soon.

Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 1d

Fascinating: "When I asked the editor of a major manga magazine how much thought they gave to foreign consumers when planning new series, they told me none — because how would they know what foreign people wanted?"

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 22h

That stuff does not expand your mind or make you smart. It just makes you weird.

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 22h

The other problem with Thiel is that he’s very likely dabbling with other medically assisted forms of quackery that explains why he’s going Full Elon.

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 22h

it’s been around for at least the Livejournal era of social media. The philosophy group that I used to be a part of aggressively bullied these types out of their communities—hence why they got the attention of Encyclopedia Drammatica.
P.T. Anderson kinda sorta documented them in Magnolia.

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Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social · 23h

Friends in Soka Gakkai have been circulating this analysis by Ide Eisaku, Keio University economist, which breaks down policy resonances between Komeito, Soka Gakkai, Japan's most powerful union, and opposition parties (thread to follow):

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 2d

I’m convinced that the Nobel Prize in Literature is the one thing that’s close to impossible for the Polymarket to predict or influence. And this aggravates critics and media kids to no end.

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 2d

I seldom see anyone take responsibility for what criticism has become. Most of BlueSky is like this except sincere

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 2d

A post-crit society might be a better descriptor. Which is odd because some of the excesses of the people that we’re talking about are the bastard offspring of Criticism in the Anglophone world.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I think Paul, of blessed posting memory, is entirely right here, and I say this *even though* the young people I know remain highly literate and engaged, because I think his sample is way more representative than mine.

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A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 2d

Really difficult to underscore how much the World Expo impacted Science Fiction in Japan. www.ign.com/articles/won...

Wondering Where Metal Gear Creator Hideo Kojima Got His 'Future-Oriented and Globalized Outlook?' A 'Life-Changing' Expo He Attended in 1970 - IGN

Death Stranding and Metal Gear series creator Hideo Kojima recently revealed how repeated visits to the 1970 World Expo (Expo ‘70) as a child had a “life-changing” impact on him, profoundly shaping hi...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

“Asshole with a thin leftist veneer” is what a substantial number of people want, because they don’t actually want to make the world better, they want to feel they’re part of a club and that their resentment of life and desire for someone to tell them how to think is justified.

fleurdor.bsky.social @fleurdor.bsky.social · 2d

I have never understood this guy's appeal. He's just an asshole with a thin leftist veneer. Like Vaush with even less substance.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3d

LKY was "what if an entire country was a British upper class boarding school"

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 3d

two thing that annoys me about Lee Kuan Yew worship is that nobody who does it seems to care about *modern* singaporean politicians and American right-wingers who do it would never accept LKY's policies of, e.g., massive public housing projects in a country that makes posting racism illegal

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 3d

The great irony of blueskys political hobbyists demanding that Ds talk about nothing but this issue now is that Harris actually made "Trumps an existential threat to our democracy" a pretty central campaign focus. Voters shrugged! The online left said she had to be more than just "anti-Trump"!

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry but if there is one single US political proposition that we have tested to destruction in recent years, it’s the idea that a critical mass of swing voters see democracy vs authoritarianism as a crucial and salient issue in judging Trump. They simply do not! I don’t like it either

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小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 3d

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 3d

Is Bane Swole Freddie De Boer?

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 3d

Met and married my wife.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 3d

Ope!

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 3d

Not writing off the possibility that Vance will start lecturing Church leadership about not being grateful enough or whatever. His Catholicism is about as sincere and well informed as Dasha Nekrova’s.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

given how bad this admin are at optics they're going to get into a fight with the catholics at some point i fear

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 3d

Wallen?

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 3d

Like, do you guys remember when we found out that Jia Tolentino’s mother was a human trafficker? And then Tolentino lied about it? Her replies were smothered with peers saying “I’m sorry this is happening to you.” bsky.app/profile/grov...

Glonzo Ball @groverhaustenbosch.bsky.social · 3d

remembering that blubbering meltdown julia ioffe had on the old site in 2018 going I LOVE BARI IM HERE FOR YOU GIRL when she got criticized once

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not sure if many people are fooled. Something more cynical is going on. Several—not all—of her defenders vary by ideology but come from the same profession. That’s my only rationale for why someone like Matt felt compelled to give a smarmy milquetoast defense of her.

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 4d

A more snobby attitude of mine is how much it bothers me this works. To be frank, Weiss and the Free Press people always seem really obviously to be what they are to me - right wing shills. If anyone is actually fooled by the "I'm just a concerned centrist" schtick they seem incredibly stupid to me.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 3d

BlueSkyism believes in Platforms not Protocols.

Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 3d

Beginning to think that our current predicament is the natural conclusion to the motto of “move fast and break things.”

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4d

it does seem increasingly apparent that next year will be when things really unravel

JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 4d

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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