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Daniel Morales

@howtojapanese.com

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Translator, writer. How to get used to Japanese (Additional topics: Murakami, New Orleans, Chicago, beer, writing, translation, basketball). Based in Osaka. http://linktree.com/howtojapanese

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 13d

The September newsletter is up. I wrote about some interesting Google search stats that suggest 〜ていただきありがとうございます is more commonly used than 〜てくださってありがとうございます...by a fairly large margin. newsletter.howtojapanese.com/itadaki/

いただき

Make your thank yous more natural by reorienting the phrase around the receiving of the action rather than the giving.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 5h

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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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?"

Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social · 1d

“Very few people here in America have the balls to do what anime does,” a veteran Hollywood animation director told me.

blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/why-hollyw...

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Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social · 1d

“Very few people here in America have the balls to do what anime does,” a veteran Hollywood animation director told me.

blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/why-hollyw...

Why Hollywood stars are saying “F*** anime”

And why they’re right to be scared

blog.pureinventionbook.com

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 1d

"Republicans blocked paying the troops during the shutdown but found $20 billion to bail out Argentina's bad crypto investments" should be the sort of thing that leads every local newscast, but...

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 2d

Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai is the winner.

Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 2d

An Elena Ferrante win would make me super happy.

Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 2d

Livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/SaWVus4...

Announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

YouTube video by Nobel Prize

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 2d

Join me for another year of Murakami not winning the Nobel Prize.

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 3d

I use Scrivener to draft everything. Can't recommend highly enough. Does require some finesse if you want to output large projects exactly as you want into Office formats but I managed it for the book I self published.

Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 3d

Dick Durbin is looking old as hell.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

Pete Hegseth was busy ignoring his job and doing pushups as part of a show for the Guinness Book of World Records while Illinoisans are being invaded by Trump’s military troops.

Pentagon chief Hegseth more interested in pushups than talking with Illinois leaders, Pritzker says

The governor said the Trump administration is keeping him in the dark about immigration enforcement and National Guard deployments.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 4d

Prosecute every ICE officer.

Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 4d

OK, cool. This is what I was thinking. Did you have trouble transferring stuff over, or are there options to not transfer everything?

Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 4d

Switch 2 people, what size SD card do you think an average person needs?

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 4d

Woops! I misread. They are still bundling it. All is right with the universe. (A less true statement cannot be made, of course.)

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 5d

"[Bodycam] video shows an agent turn federal vehicle left into Martinez’s vehicle, after which an agent says, 'Do something b----.' The agent then exits the vehicle and shoots at Martinez.

[Her lawyer] Parente said Martinez has 'seven holes' in her from the shooting."

Govt didn't show that video.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 5d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 5d

Can confirm that Nintendo is not bundling Mario Kart World in with the latest Switch 2 sales that start today. They are charging the full 9,000 yen. Which kind of makes me want to not buy the whole thing at all.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 6d

I just picked up Hades again. Such a great game. Can't wait until I can access 2. (Gonna wait until PS5 or I get a Switch 2.)

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 6d

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Richard Medhurst📚️🇯🇵 @richardmedh.bsky.social · 6d

Beer wars heating up.

Cans reading "Sapporo Extra Think" and "Kirin Good Ale."