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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 11h

Amazing title slide I have to share before even watching @scriptingjapan.bsky.social

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X the Ancient Japanese Art of Y: The Mobilization of Linguistic Fantasies in Self-Help Books

YouTube video by Scripting Japan

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

Tolkien could have listened to the first five Black Sabbath albums.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 15h

Se os últimos anos me ensinaram algo é que o eleitor médio, em qualquer país, é absolutamente idiossincrático em sua ideologia (ou falta de). Não se deve esperar coerência - as vezes o cara quer um keynesianismo evangélico, as vezes um SUS com armamentismo. Tem que atrair onde dá, com o que dá.

Barangurte a CLT das Trevas @barangurte.bsky.social · 16h

Lembrando sempre que é muito difícil convencer um pobre de direita a vir pra esquerda marxista mas é muito fácil convencer a vir pra esquerda keynesianista

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🇲🇽 🌻 SamⒶntha 🌻 🏳️‍⚧️ @samanthak.bsky.social · 19h

I am now on Tubu. I've moved to Heebee. I signed up for Poodee with invite codes. I'm literally on Dippy. You can find me on Weeno. Dude, I just moved to Gumpy. I'm a Pheebo girl. I'm on Poob. at me on Poob. You can Poob me.

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 2d

Leave Twitter for Bluesky. Leave Bluesky for Mastodon. Leave Mastodon for Klerb. Leave Klerb for Chunk. Leave Chunk for Goobus. Leave Goobus f

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 19h

Yep! My own shorthand explanation is normally something like: it’s real, it’s conservative but it doesn’t call the shots in Japanese politics in any meaningful way

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 20h

There's a more nuanced version of that argument that I've made before, which goes something like, NK is a pressure group for conservatism, being associated with it is useful as a lowest common denominator signal particularly for a politician like Kishida.

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MotoYae @motoyae.bsky.social · 1d

夜。どこのビルの裏かは知らない

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 20h

Nippon Kaigi discourse is dumb but somehow so is Gearoid’s counterpoint that “your honor, it can’t be a sinister far-right movement - it has too many people in it!”

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cesar soto @cesarotos.bsky.social · 20h

vocês

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I think any standard radio show (or print news) will get you to like 90%+ of all the news you need for the day. And getting the final 10% is probably not worth the cost of being insanely online

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 1d

I haven’t done exactly this, but every morning I listen to 30 minutes of really dry Brazilian radio news (Panorama CBN) and it’s pretty rare that anything I read online throughout the day improves on that.

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 1d

A thought I keep having: what if I just log off all social media and subscribe to a few paper magazines and newspapers instead

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 1d

I just scrolled by this on the homepage and lamented the debasing of the NYT headline. Pitchbot would have had something like “Amid fiery rhetoric, Hegseth speech offers insights”

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 1d

That New York Times Contributing Opinion Writer Is Actually Pretty Racist

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

www.nytimes.com

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 1d

Gerry Curtis is always -- always -- worth reading.

Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

The emeritus dean of Japan politics studies in the U.S. has thoughts about Takaichi:

Gerald Curtis: Takaichi victory hastens LDP's collapse; 'not if, when'

Veteran Japan watcher worried about what comes after the 'most boring election'

asia.nikkei.com

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d

We Have Always Lived in The Castle And That’s Why I Am Writing to Oppose to Proposed Housing Development That Will Fundamentally Change the Character of Our Picturesque, Gothic Community

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 1d

Sim tou zoando kkk

Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 1d

Eu fui o mandante??

Guerra @guiltyguerra.bsky.social · 1d

@greaterhermit.bsky.social essa foi pra você

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 2d

Some bw photos of UN week in New York, taken on Ilford FP4 film stock

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 2d

Damn, Curtis coming out swinging

Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 2d

Gerald Curtis: Takaichi victory hastens LDP's collapse; 'not if, when' - Nikkei Asia asia.nikkei.com/politics/jap...

Gerald Curtis: Takaichi victory hastens LDP's collapse; 'not if, when'

Veteran Japan watcher worried about what comes after the 'most boring election'

asia.nikkei.com

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 2d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 2d

I’m in kpop fandom on twitter and I’ve come to the same conclusion from the opposite direction. I think there is some serious scholarship to be done on how fandom and MAGA’s modes of action often intersect or mirror each other, starting with this semi-religious view that your side is always right.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my god. I had no idea. RIP, will delete this

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely do not know. Haven’t thought of him for about a decade

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 2d

Jorge Luís Borges vs. 30 programas de debate, cada um dos quais contém 30 programas de debate, e assim sucessivamente, compondo um programa de debate infinito que contém todas as posições, verdadeiras e falsas, todas refutadas por ele.

Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 2d

O hexa veio 🥹🙏

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 2d

The real tragedy of Jon Stewart is that he correctly identified and critiqued this style of discourse VERY early on - and then contributed to hypercharging a media ecosystem that is essentially a big Crossfire

bree speech absolutist 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 12d

feel like it’s time for this to circulate again

Jon Stewart on Crossfire

YouTube video by Alex Felker

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