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Jay Allen

@gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social

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Writer on Japan. Living my best life in Tokyo. Militant bisexual. Pagan/Buddhist. 日本在留アメリカ人男性 https://unseen-japan.com

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · Nov 17

Not sure how I got 500 followers already but…hi! I’m the @unseenjapan.com guy. This account is mostly about cool things I’m doing (or eating) around Japan plus pontification on publishing and politics.

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 14h

Someone at Shibuya 109 understood the assignment

Shibuya 109 promotional poster featuring two jirai girls

Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry I haven’t been around much, I’ve realized that social media is the Torment Nexus

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🌿Elaine Tipping🍃 @triaelf9.bsky.social · 3d

I'm so tired of being my own hype person, I'm tired of having to do it on sites where the owners hate their userbase. Or sites built to stoke rage to keep interactions up. I'm just so tired. I just wanna make comics that ppl enjoy & not worry every day about making an income & bills. Please.

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 3d

Needy Dog Overdose

Pumpkin, my French bulldog, resting her head on my arm as I read a book on kindle

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Fern 🖤 (used to be BodyAlchemy) @lewdfern.bsky.social · 3d

Kinktober day 05 - Finger sucking + Dacryphilia

just a little sketch for today cause it's late and I've been busy but I hope y'all like goth elf girls 🖤

#NSFW #NSFWArt #Kinktober2025 #kinktober #nsfwgoth

POV: a goth elf girl with the viewer's finger in her mouth <3 her mascara's running on her cheeks but she's smiling

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 4d

Being back NSFW Tumblr that was peak

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 4d

Japan has also been making a lot of great strides in the past two decades on LGBTQ recognition and cracking down on workplace sexism. Still a long way to go but solid progress that I now fear may start to be undone…

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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 5d

This throwaway joke in Only Murders In The Building was fucking WILD. What a deep cut in a show for boomers

Martin short telling Steve Martin that Tumblr was ruined after they banned naughty pics

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 5d

“Dear Stranger” follows a Japanese husband and a Taiwanese-American wife, in a New York-set tale of intrigue that wields the awkward intricacies of English as a 2nd (or 3rd) language to enhance its drama. Also, Hidetoshi Nishijima drives his car. #BIFF2025 joysauce.com/dear-strange...

‘Dear Stranger’ finds a couple at their breaking point

Tetsuya Mariko’s Japan-Taiwan-U.S. production applies a unique lens to modern Asian American-ness in this domestic drama.

joysauce.com

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Rob Fahey @robfahey.net · 5d

Unless Takaichi as LDP leader can show a side of herself that's never been apparent in her career to date, this is going to be a disaster. Lots of very glum faces among the senior LDP faces up on stage right now; they no doubt suspect that the turkeys just voted for Christmas.

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Rob Fahey @robfahey.net · 5d

Takaichi wins, with Koizumi falling surprisingly short in the lawmaker votes - he didn't even win all of Hayashi's votes.

Probably in part down to lawmakers not wanting to ignore the constituency votes, but also a pretty clear sign of a party running scared of populist challenges from its right.

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⛰踊❤️ウタマロ♨️ @utamaro.bsky.social · 5d

高市さんのほうが立憲はやりやすいよね

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 5d

Welp looks like Japan has its first female PM (derogatory)

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Escher🍉@I love Asaba Harumasa @escher.gay · 6d

it's amazing how -publicly- up their own ass the whole bsky team is. they don't even just leave it to the official accounts run by shadowy hands like most services do. no they go on their own personal accounts and say it with their whole chest.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 5d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 6d

Bluesky peeps after allowing outright trolls and Nazis to thrive here: gee why is this place so negative

Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 6d

that the current design of the social app currently drives people to negative interactions with each other

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 6d

Been blocking political keywords bc being enraged every day is an unhealthy time suck, esp when you have no control over anything, but this slipped through and now I’m gonna go commit myself to a psych clinic thx

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 6d

Just at the gym with my little bisexual bottle (pronouns: bin/beirs)

A Thermos 1.5L bottle looking snazzy in purple and turquoise. It’s just missing some rhinestones and a splash of glitter

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 6d

The dude at the gym who monopolized the cable machine last time is now on the lat pulldown machine (which I need) and he’s cycling through three different bar grips 🫠This geezer and I are gonna come to blows some day I can feel it

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Andaerz @andaerz.bsky.social · 6d

Daily #1815 - Aerodynamic

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 7d

And yet it’s so good

Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 7d

In your 50s it’s either pee 15x/day or be dehydrated there’s no in between 🫠

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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 7d

I think it probably ranks number one in that scale 😅

Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 7d

Peak Japan: Eating okonomiyaki on Tsukishima’s Monja Street to the theme from Kimagure Orange Road

(Yes we also had monjayaki but I’m not showing it since it looks like the streets of Kabukicho at 4am)

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