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I love dogs, books, music, sumo, desserts, and RPGs
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Why is this game so gaddem beautiful? #GhostOfTsushima
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Tired: Everything evolves to be a crab.

Wired: Everything evolves to eat ants.
Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age, study finds
Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a ta...
phys.org
January 7, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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Consider the resemblance. Clearly, juvenile tyrannosaurs were also puppy.
January 7, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Vampires: 🤔
January 4, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
January 4, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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What you have seen him do, and heard him speak,
Beating your officers, cursing yourselves,
Opposing laws with strokes, and here defying
Those whose great power must try him—
January 3, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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The image we’ve all been waiting for. It is now officially 2026 in Tokyo 🎉
December 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Semiotic paradox alert!
December 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Y'all aren't ready for this conversation but Vic Fontaine should be in Starfleet Academy, not the EMH
December 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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"Nothing is permanent except for change," a lesson I learned not from a philosopher but from following sumo in 2025.

Looking back at the rankings of January 2025, Terunofuji was our sole yokozuna with three ozeki-- Kotozakura, Hoshoryu and Onosato right behind him.
Many fans were dubious ...
December 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Sometimes you just really want to see the translation of a panel
December 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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#tdih 1521: enslaved Africans on a Santo Domingo sugar plantation owned by Christopher Columbus's son attempted to free themselves and take over the land.

This was the earliest recorded slave uprising in the Americas. ⬇️🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/en...
Dec. 25, 1521: Enslaved People Revolt in Santo Domingo
Enslaved people on a Santo Domingo sugar plantation owned by the son of Christopher Columbus attempted to free themselves and take over the land in the earliest recorded slave uprising in the Americas...
www.zinnedproject.org
December 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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🎄🎄🎄Welcome to @EmpirePodUK Christmas Special!🎄🎄🎄
Who Stole Father Christmas?
The true story of the Heist of the Relics of St.Nicholas
December 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Enlightenment intellectuals with CVs like:

1717 publishes pamphlet "Jesus, Lying Bastard Son of a Whore!"
1718 forced to publicly renounce his views
1719 receives doctorate of theology
1721 becomes Bishop of Overgrafenmünster-Lauberg-Haibach
1723 publishes "God: What a Wanker"
1725 Archbishop
December 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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house tour
December 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.

Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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do you gotta personify the dead trees in the vacant lot too. they're having a hard enough time without you imagining they have an opinion about what's happening

Wondermark #1578; In which Trees are a Lot
December 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete

sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
Anatomy of a Sex Scene: Heated Rivalry Edition - Reading the End
Heated Rivalry, AKA the gay hockey show, has been getting a lot of buzz for its explicit(-ish) sex scenes, and a lot of that buzz has been coming from viewers and critics whose experience with the rom...
readingtheend.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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the image of the earth is off-screen. and big. real pretty. honestly it's a shame you can't see it

qwantz.com/index.php?co...
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I'm in the The First Members' Office Building of the House of Representatives where a multipartisan group of members of Japan's parliament have gathered with plaintiffs, lawyers, and representatives of the Marriage For All Japan movement to talk about same-sex marriage.
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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My first-ever piece for @unseenjapan.com
Supporters of marriage equality in Japan faced a setback on November 28th that surprised many. After a series of favorable court rulings across the country, the Tokyo High Court ruled that the lack of recognition of same-sex marriage was constitutional.

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Surprise, Anger, and Frustration as Tokyo’s High Court Rules Against Marriage Equality - Unseen Japan
Supporters of marriage equality in Japan were met with an unexpected setback after a series of affirmative rulings.
unseen-japan.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Supporters of marriage equality in Japan faced a setback on November 28th that surprised many. After a series of favorable court rulings across the country, the Tokyo High Court ruled that the lack of recognition of same-sex marriage was constitutional.

buff.ly/HlG6HWe
Surprise, Anger, and Frustration as Tokyo’s High Court Rules Against Marriage Equality - Unseen Japan
Supporters of marriage equality in Japan were met with an unexpected setback after a series of affirmative rulings.
unseen-japan.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Has this been posted yet
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Whenever the camera zooms-in on the eastern side of the dohyo at the Kyushu tournament, a beautiful woman in kimono always appears--whose presence captivates viewers, not just in Japan, but throughout sumo fandom.

Who is this exquisite woman in the same, dedicated, and very plum seat for the ...
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM