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A Real DEI @g3kkou.bsky.social · 7d

Time for a Japan Trip photo dump.
9/11/25

Gate with giant hanging lanterns at Senso-ji in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan

Omikuji fortune at Senso-ji. You donate 100 yen to get a stick with a number on it from the metal boxes and open the fortune of the box with the matching number.

My fortune from omikuji.

"No.60 SMALL FORTUNE

Though you want climb up to a height or a dangerous peak, it bring you big trouble and hard work to go up there. You can be in safe all through your life wherever you stay on the flat place. So far as you keep the right way, a fortune may yet meet you sometime
It is sure that a certain fortune will help you to get a happiness.

*If your mind is always right, your request will be granted. *The patient keeps bed long. *The lost article is hard to find out. *The person you wait for will not come. *Building a new house and removal are both bad. *To start a trip will bring you a half fortune. *Marriage and new employment are both half fortune."

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A Real DEI @g3kkou.bsky.social · 14h

9/19/25

A picture of a road in Tokyo at night near our Airbnb

A Real DEI @g3kkou.bsky.social · 1d

9/18/25 pt. 3

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9/18/25 pt. 2

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A Real DEI @g3kkou.bsky.social · 1d

9/18/25

Looking up at the mirrored ceiling in the Infinite Crystal World at teamLab Borderless

The Microcosmoses exhibit. It looks like the room goes on and on

Mirror selfie in the Bubble World room. Friends are visible and the room is filled with countless hanging crystal bubbles

Selfie of me behind one of the bubbles with it obscuring about two thirds of my face

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A Real DEI @g3kkou.bsky.social · 1d

Cool, right? I felt like it only made sense that there were bamboo fences around since it was right next to the bamboo forest!

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A Real DEI @g3kkou.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thinking I might have to do the same honestly 😩😩 this is really how they get us to keep buying new phones

A Real DEI @g3kkou.bsky.social · 1d

Love that now that my phone updated to Android 16 overnight all of a sudden my phone's performance is tanking 🙃

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A Real DEI @g3kkou.bsky.social · 1d

9/17/25

The main shrine at Fushimi Inari Taisha
伏見稲荷大社

A shot of Kyoto from midway up Mt. Inari

稲荷山途中の上で京都の写真

Group pic of the 4 of us with Torii gates in the background

鳥居門の前で集合写真

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A Real DEI @g3kkou.bsky.social · 1d

Makes me very worried for the team this season 🙂‍↔️

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9/16/25 pt. 2

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A Real DEI @g3kkou.bsky.social · 1d

9/16/25

The Katsura River near the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest

嵐山竹林の近くに桂川

My friends walking down the street in an area near Arashiyama.

嵐山の近くに友人が道を歩いている。

Ogura Pond, a pond filled with lotuses near Arashiyama

嵐山の近くに小倉池、一杯蓮の中に池だ。

My friends and I standing in front of a giant Evangelion at Toei Kyoto Studio Park.

東映太秦映画村で大きいエヴァンゲリオンの前に私達が立ていた。

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 1d

This is an incredibly obvious instance of projection and mirroring, revealing how Casey Babb thinks of both Bari Weiss and Van Jones not as individuals but as fungible and replaceable assets (tokens?) within a general category.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

A useful illustration of the limits of liberal identity politics.

It's astounding to see self-described progressives lose their minds over the successes of a Jewish female entrepreneur and intellect in @bariweiss, and a wildly successful Black man in @VanJones68. I guess equity, diversity, and inclusion don't mean as much as they've told us.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 4d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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A Real DEI @g3kkou.bsky.social · 3d

9/15/25

Us walking from Nara Station towards Nara Park

The biggest bronze statue of the buddha Vairocana in the world at Tōdai-ji

Friends wearing deer antler headbands and bowing like the deer in Nara do

Friend washing his hands to purify himself before entering a Shinto shrine

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A Real DEI @g3kkou.bsky.social · 3d

That's actually a great idea, I might have to do that

A Real DEI @g3kkou.bsky.social · 3d

Yea, I'm definitely investing in a new memory card and from now on, I'm making copies and backing up my pics as soon as I finish taking them 😩

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A Real DEI @g3kkou.bsky.social · 3d

I don't think I'll ever recover from the fact that I lost all the photos for the trip from my DSLR. Memory card just shit the bed and like 200+ pics disappeared overnight 🥲🔫