Michael Vokabre
@vokabre.bsky.social
Hi, I'm Russian Jewish Israeli raccoon with brushes. Expect slice of life traditional arts, trains, androids, love of decency
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One reason I tend to be careful with speaking Russian when there are folks who don't understand Russian nearby.
Source: www.instagram.com/p/DPWFkmVCGrr/
Source: www.instagram.com/p/DPWFkmVCGrr/
December 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
One reason I tend to be careful with speaking Russian when there are folks who don't understand Russian nearby.
Source: www.instagram.com/p/DPWFkmVCGrr/
Source: www.instagram.com/p/DPWFkmVCGrr/
This reminds me what I find unusual is how so many completely disconnected languages — English, Japanese, Hebrew, lack separate words for a "dream" as in something you wish for or invent in your head, or a "dream" as in something you hallucinate while sleeping.
I actually got an answer why tapir!
bsky.app/profile/kosh...
bsky.app/profile/kosh...
Dream Plaza?
Tapirs look like the mythological baku, a creature that eats bad dreams, iirc.
See: Drowzee in Pokemon
Tapirs look like the mythological baku, a creature that eats bad dreams, iirc.
See: Drowzee in Pokemon
December 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This reminds me what I find unusual is how so many completely disconnected languages — English, Japanese, Hebrew, lack separate words for a "dream" as in something you wish for or invent in your head, or a "dream" as in something you hallucinate while sleeping.
Tokyo Teleport Station is the best named station everywhere
December 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Tokyo Teleport Station is the best named station everywhere
I have no idea why there's a tapir statue in Odaiba but why not i guess
December 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I have no idea why there's a tapir statue in Odaiba but why not i guess
Yurikamome and Odaiba
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Yurikamome and Odaiba
Just got suggested a large instagram account of a Palestinian from Nazareth (i.e. Israeli), who in his life story says that he felt like unwanted "2nd class", was sent by his family to study to Britain (not cheap) and worked at Apple (he mentions he experienced racism everywhere)
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Just got suggested a large instagram account of a Palestinian from Nazareth (i.e. Israeli), who in his life story says that he felt like unwanted "2nd class", was sent by his family to study to Britain (not cheap) and worked at Apple (he mentions he experienced racism everywhere)
The supposedly progressive notion that Europeans or "westerners" or "white people" brought racism, homophobia, misogyny to peoples around the world in itself is racist for it denies agency of peoples who aren't like, the claimants, westerners.
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The supposedly progressive notion that Europeans or "westerners" or "white people" brought racism, homophobia, misogyny to peoples around the world in itself is racist for it denies agency of peoples who aren't like, the claimants, westerners.
I have just thought of a great premise for a manga or an anime — a foreigner moves to a haunted Japanese house, encounters all sort of urban legend demons, but doesn't mind too much because they are unfamiliar with the lore, and are from the place that's much spookier than Japan.
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I have just thought of a great premise for a manga or an anime — a foreigner moves to a haunted Japanese house, encounters all sort of urban legend demons, but doesn't mind too much because they are unfamiliar with the lore, and are from the place that's much spookier than Japan.
Shahar and Suomi in Kamakura in Tokyo
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Shahar and Suomi in Kamakura in Tokyo
This ice cream sandwich looks like a sweet potato (and tastes nice too)
December 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This ice cream sandwich looks like a sweet potato (and tastes nice too)
Standing Together (@standing-together.bsky.social) sticker in Kamakura in Tokyo
December 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Standing Together (@standing-together.bsky.social) sticker in Kamakura in Tokyo
"Jews made Holocaust to get Israel" narrative you sometimes hear in ex-USSR indeed has a "lore".
Even the name "Holocaust" (yes I know it's an external term, as opposed to Jewish "Shoah") is seen as a "confirmation", i.e. "Jews sacrificed by burning other Jews in order to get Israel".
Even the name "Holocaust" (yes I know it's an external term, as opposed to Jewish "Shoah") is seen as a "confirmation", i.e. "Jews sacrificed by burning other Jews in order to get Israel".
Yep, "a mob hunting for Jews" must just be "pro-Palestinian".
I remember "well sourced and in-depth" explanation I heard while in school "Jews made Holocaust to get Israel".
It's often non-westerners who aren't into wars are disregarded by western consumers AJ&RT, we are "western perspective".
I remember "well sourced and in-depth" explanation I heard while in school "Jews made Holocaust to get Israel".
It's often non-westerners who aren't into wars are disregarded by western consumers AJ&RT, we are "western perspective".
December 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"Jews made Holocaust to get Israel" narrative you sometimes hear in ex-USSR indeed has a "lore".
Even the name "Holocaust" (yes I know it's an external term, as opposed to Jewish "Shoah") is seen as a "confirmation", i.e. "Jews sacrificed by burning other Jews in order to get Israel".
Even the name "Holocaust" (yes I know it's an external term, as opposed to Jewish "Shoah") is seen as a "confirmation", i.e. "Jews sacrificed by burning other Jews in order to get Israel".
I'm honestly surprised someone from contemporary Japan managed to write this short fragment, considering this is the feelings of people from places like those around myself who'd be saying something like that to westerners who'd call for death while living in unprecedented safety
December 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I'm honestly surprised someone from contemporary Japan managed to write this short fragment, considering this is the feelings of people from places like those around myself who'd be saying something like that to westerners who'd call for death while living in unprecedented safety
Reposted by Michael Vokabre
There are so many cases when I can reasonably say that if asked I could do a similar artwork, traditionally, for cheaper, perhaps even better, but I'm never contacted, and this highlights just how garbage I must be if this generation is preferable.
December 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
There are so many cases when I can reasonably say that if asked I could do a similar artwork, traditionally, for cheaper, perhaps even better, but I'm never contacted, and this highlights just how garbage I must be if this generation is preferable.
Reposted by Michael Vokabre
Painted in ink and watercolour on a postcard with a view from Odaiba of the Rainbow Bridge and Tokyo Tower, purchased at Kyukyodo (鳩居堂) shop in Tokyo's Ginza.
Sent from Odaiba Kaihin Koen Mae (お台場海浜公園前) post office in Tokyo for a special fukei-in (风景印) cancellation.
Sent from Odaiba Kaihin Koen Mae (お台場海浜公園前) post office in Tokyo for a special fukei-in (风景印) cancellation.
December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Painted in ink and watercolour on a postcard with a view from Odaiba of the Rainbow Bridge and Tokyo Tower, purchased at Kyukyodo (鳩居堂) shop in Tokyo's Ginza.
Sent from Odaiba Kaihin Koen Mae (お台場海浜公園前) post office in Tokyo for a special fukei-in (风景印) cancellation.
Sent from Odaiba Kaihin Koen Mae (お台場海浜公園前) post office in Tokyo for a special fukei-in (风景印) cancellation.
Reposted by Michael Vokabre
Postcard: Junco Chihira (地平ジュンこ) by Toshiba (東芝) at Aqua City Odaiba (AQUA CITYお台場)
This was the way how Junco Chihira looked in 2019 before discontinuation.
This was the way how Junco Chihira looked in 2019 before discontinuation.
December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Postcard: Junco Chihira (地平ジュンこ) by Toshiba (東芝) at Aqua City Odaiba (AQUA CITYお台場)
This was the way how Junco Chihira looked in 2019 before discontinuation.
This was the way how Junco Chihira looked in 2019 before discontinuation.
This was unexpected
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This was unexpected
Followed by many other similar comments, from France, Iraq, Palestine, USA etc.
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Followed by many other similar comments, from France, Iraq, Palestine, USA etc.
Societally, in Israel, this, and in part mental illnesses too, is something you have to "toughen up" and go through in silence. The shortage of access to mental health doesn't help. The situation is much better than in Russia or other places, but still not quite good.
x.com/Elizrael/sta...
x.com/Elizrael/sta...
December 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Societally, in Israel, this, and in part mental illnesses too, is something you have to "toughen up" and go through in silence. The shortage of access to mental health doesn't help. The situation is much better than in Russia or other places, but still not quite good.
x.com/Elizrael/sta...
x.com/Elizrael/sta...
I always carry a tenugui cloth with me, and in kagome pattern at that, from Kawamanu — it's one of the cheaper ones, and it also looks like the star of David.
Curiously Kawamanu also now has a special Georgia-themed design of a furoshiki cloth.
Curiously Kawamanu also now has a special Georgia-themed design of a furoshiki cloth.
December 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I always carry a tenugui cloth with me, and in kagome pattern at that, from Kawamanu — it's one of the cheaper ones, and it also looks like the star of David.
Curiously Kawamanu also now has a special Georgia-themed design of a furoshiki cloth.
Curiously Kawamanu also now has a special Georgia-themed design of a furoshiki cloth.
A big house built around a small house (Tokyo)
December 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A big house built around a small house (Tokyo)
This evokes images of hamas attack.
Low-flying paramotor raids hit villages in Sagaing and Mandalay, forcing mass displacement and killing children and entire families
Read more:
myanmar-now.org/en/news/junt...
Read more:
myanmar-now.org/en/news/junt...
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This evokes images of hamas attack.
Reposted by Michael Vokabre
Visit to Maid Robo Cafe Studio (#メイドロボカフェスタジオ) of MaSiRo Project (#MaSiRoプロジェクト)
Full ten minute video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ork6...
Full ten minute video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ork6...
December 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Visit to Maid Robo Cafe Studio (#メイドロボカフェスタジオ) of MaSiRo Project (#MaSiRoプロジェクト)
Full ten minute video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ork6...
Full ten minute video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ork6...
I wonder what's the background of this sticker I saw in Tokyo in Asakusa (the flags are UAE and Philippines)
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I wonder what's the background of this sticker I saw in Tokyo in Asakusa (the flags are UAE and Philippines)
Black cat by the sea
December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Black cat by the sea