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samutara
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Rides a bicycle.
Knows a few things about a few things.
Eng / 日本語 (下手ですけど…)
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ジョン・ウィックじゃないけど、この20年前のファミコムゲームはどう？
An ad for the old Game Boy and NES video games based on Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
November 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Vauxhall's Black Prince Road - What does "the flower of English Chivalry" even mean?
ロンドンのヴォクソールの「黒太子道」ー「英国騎士道の花」という意味は何だけ？

#geographyfactsイギリスの文化 #騎士道 #ロンドン地理 #日本語下手 #イギリス地理 #japanese #日本語勉強中 #fyp
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Ha ha ha ha, look at the big doofus who put gyoza on a supermarket Caesar salad.
A photograph of a large plate full of a caesar salad and 6 pan-fried gyoza.
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I never questioned my mom when she said "we don't need to buy [specific ingredient], we've already got some at home". Until once in the early 2000s, when I went looking for soy sauce and discovered this container of coriander seeds from 1977.
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Post something random or you'll have an awful December.
A diagram showing the 6 observed stages of mouse actions upon encountering a known but unconscious fellow mouse. The six are: 1. Encountering - a dark mouse sees a lighter mouse lying down, unmoving. 2. Approach and sniffing - the dark mouse examines the light mouse. 3. Grooming - the dark mouse grooms the fur of the light mouse 4. Mouth biting - the dark mouse nips and bites the mouth of the light mouse. 5. Tongue pulling - the dark mouse pulls the tongue of the light mouse, as if to clear the airway. 6. Recovery - the light mouse is standing again, with eyes open.
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Thinking of the time I saw this decoration of... Garfield? (And ketamine nightmare Baron Silas Greenback, maybe?) at a nursery-daycare.

Exactly the right level of menacing for your 2-5 year old darlings.
Photo of a green, corrugated steel wall in the garden area of a daycare nursery. On the wall are blurry, menacing, spray-painted faces of cartoon cat Garfield and a frog (or possibly a toad). Some worn children's toys and rough wooden furniture are visible in the foreground.
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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That guy with the long hair looks familiar...
A photo of George Carlin, taken in 1972. He wears a blue Henley shirt with faint purple stripes, flared blue jeans, and black shoes. He is sitting on a tall stool with wrought iron legs, in front of a blue photography studio background.
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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100% this. Everyone who digs comics should know Kate Beaton's work👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...
Kate Beaton's Hark A Vagrant comic #208, "Henson and Peary": Two men, one Black and one white are dressed in heavy coats with fur-lined hoods are speaking to each other. Panel 1: "Like I said, Peary, here it is." "At last. It's MINE" Panel 2: We can see now that Peary, the white one, is lying down in the dog sled, covered with a blanket and strapped in, because he has been transported there. Peary says "Now get me out of this sled so that I may be the FIRST to set foot on the NORTH POLE!!" Panel 3: "Weelll, I already did, before we drove you here". Peary rolls his eyes and says, "Oh Henson, you KNOW what I MEAN." Panel 4: a close-up of Henson. He is handsome, and serious with the implication of Peary's words. "Yes, I see." Panel 5: Henson, smiling brightly, says "MAN! It's pretty nice, being on the north pole." Peary, frowning, says "Henson get me out of this sled" Panel 6: Henson, hands on head and knees deeply bent says, "Gonna do some squats" Peary shouts "HENSON" Henson continues, "On the north pole. Feels good". Panel 7: Henson, looking into the distance, says, "All those squats! They're making me tired! Who's ready to go home?" Peary, livid, stares from the sled. Panel 8: Henson, grinning hugely, drives the dog sled. Peary is silent and furious. The sled dogs rush on, with stupid, happy grins.
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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How did I overlook that one time Calvin & Hobbs predicted the AI-in-art argument?
A Calvin & Hobbes comic strip. Panel 1: Hobbes the tiger walks in to see Calvin the boy sitting at a small desk, doing homework. "Everything is so darn hard!" Calvin complains. Panel 2: Calvin says, "I wish I could just take a pill to be perfect and I wish I could just push a button to have everything I want." Hobbes looks non-plussed. Panel 3: Hobbes rests his head on his hands (paws?) and says, "the American dream lives on." Calvin, not listening, says "Why should I have to work for everything?! It's like saying I don't deserve it!" Below the strip is author Bill Watterson's comment: "As somebody said, we all want to go to heaven, but nobody wants to do what it takes to get there." Panel 3 (again, for emphasis): Hobbes rests his head on his hands (paws?) and says, "the American dream lives on." Calvin, not listening, says "Why should I have to work for everything?! It's like saying I don't deserve it!"
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Finally got to open Perfect Crime Party - fantastic comics to start the day!

(Almost spit my coffee out reading "Psikotika Will Strike at Midnight" by @illuminatedcomics.bsky.social)
The cover of the Iron Circus anthology "Perfect Crime Party". The cover art shows anthropomorphic animals looking guiltily at the outline of a body on the floor (with a clear cartoon "bonk" swelling on the head). An anthropomorphic dog detective examines the evidence. A comic panel from the story "Psikotika Will Strike at Midnight", by Illuminated. It shows an apparently naked man, tied to a chair with a bag over his head. His dialogue reads: "I seem to be trapped in a dark room! There's a bag on my head and I appear to be fully naked! What a dreadful situation for me, Mr. Esposito, of Esposito Diamonds' Diamond Exposition!"
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Weather here is &#+*@, but I got a delightful slice of brightness in the post yesterday!

Sooo good to get back to the Grobusverse from @simonroy.bsky.social, with @thenazavr.bsky.social and @gnarlyghost.bsky.social!
A photo of the absolutely delightful hardback book, 'A Star Called The Sun', by Simon Roy, Sergei Nazarov and Drew Shields. The cover illustration shows a tired, but cheerful looking human in cargo trousers and a tank top, standing next to a large, 6-limbed, radially symmetrical alien. The alien has one arm draped in a friendly manner over the human's shoulder. Did I mention the book is great? It really is!
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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A photo of the Sesame Street muppets Ernie and Bert. Their poses and positions echo the photo of two real human men in the skeet quoted above. Ernie, on the left wears a roll-neck sweater with red and blue horizontal stripes. He is looking at and speaking to Bert. Bert, on the right, wears a v-neck sweater with thin, vertical stripes of green, orange and blue. His mouth is firmly shut as he looks at Ernie.
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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水曜日の体操:　パンクの修理後に、手動ポンプでタイヤーに空気を入れた。

Wednesday workout: inflating a flat tire with a manual pump.

疲れた〜
I. am. beat.
写真は手で持っている手動ポンプ。 Photo of a hand holding a hand pump, like you'd use for a bicycle. タイヤに手動ポンプを付けている。 The manual pump attached to a tire. 圧力計は約38psi (2.6.bar)を示しています。 Pressure gauge showing about 38 psi (2.6 Bar)
November 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Just FYI: I dunno if it's an issue inside the US, but recent email about the crowdfund is showing up for me with some sort of "content not viewable in your region" block.

Good luck hitting the stretch goals!
Screengrab of an email, showing two large purple rectangles in place of embedded images. The rectangles contain the words "Content not viewable in your region".
November 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Kinda surprised there was no mention in this thread for the stovetop moka pot. Not quite espresso strength, but a consistent strong brew that's hella easy to hone in.
A photo of a Bialetti brand moka pot for brewing coffee. This model is stainless steel, with a truncated cone base, a slightly tapered cylinder above to collect the coffee after it's brewed, and a matte black plastic handle. The Bialetti logo is barely visible on the side of the moka pot.
November 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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ロンドンの「王様の道」はなんとなく「腐った道」…

(「馬道」の読み方を間違った…) ( ;´ - `;)

London's "Rotten Row" is some sorta... the "King's Street?
(Aaaaand I messed up the Japanese reading for "bridleway")
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November 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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If there is room enough in this world for Star Wars, Star Trek, Star Crash and The Stars My Destination, there's room enough for you - make that comic, please!
Painted poster art for the first Star Wars movie, done by the Hildebrandt brothers. A still from Star Trek: The Original Series, taken from the episode "City on the Edge of Forever". A large, lumpy boulder seems to contain a portal to another sepia-toned place. From left to right, Kirk, Spock, Uhura, and Scotty are standing and looking into the portal. A movie poster for the 1978 film Star Crash. In the background, a spaceship and a giant, masked spaceman holding two pistols loom. In the foreground, a woman in a black bikini and knee boots crouches while a man in a red leather jumpsuit holds a glowing sword (that is legally distinct from a lightsaber). The cover art of the comic adaptation of Alfred Bester's novel, The Stars My Destination. Tge art seems to be by Howard Chaykin and Byron Preiss, and shows the protagonist Gully Foyle, glaring at the viewer. Tattooed tiger stripes and the word 'NOMAD' are visible on his face.
October 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I'll grant that the US is woefully behind on moka pots, steel chopsticks, and many other delightful kitchen goods.
But the UK still acts like two-tap sinks are reasonable design, and not an anachronistic insult to hygiene and comfort.

Freeze, scald, or mix a tepid bowl of sink debris. 🤢
A photo of a white porcelain sink with two separate taps, one for cold water and one for hot, just as if it were 1900 instead of the goddamn 21st century.
October 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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ロンドンの狐はなんでもかまわない。
London foxes are not bothered. At all.
#イギリスの文化 #動物 #狐　#コンコン
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Getting to know my neighbor, Ms Crow.
隣同士のカラスさんに知り合う。
October 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Funny, I try to think that medieval folks were generally like us, but I forget what seemingly obvious (and wrong) things they assumed about the world (again, generally like us).

15th C France? Seemed to think Alexander the Great met a society of giant no-head dudes while conquering central Asia.
15th century illustration showing "Alexander the Great", riding a horse and wearing medieval plate armor, as he meets a trio of "headless men (gens sans teste)", bronze-colored giants with no heads, but faces in the middle of their chests and beards down to the their thighs.
October 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Yep, though it's primarily a UK English thing.
Screenshot of a London Mail article with the headline "Top Michelin Chefs reinvent 'lunch al desko' with gourmet feasts for just £3" Screenshot of a page from the BBC Food website with the header "Al desko". The lede follows: "Need quick, easy and affordable lunch or breakfast recipes? Here are some ideas perfect for eating 'al desko'."
October 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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See also: Le Petomane
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3...
A screenshot of the Wikipedia page for Joseph Pujol, aka 'Le Petomane', a 19th C. French performer, famous for his ability to fart musically and at will.
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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A cartoon sketch of three black cats standing on their hind legs and wearing Halloween costumes. The first is a witch, the second is a ghost, and the third is jammed into a jack o'lantern.
September 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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3 black cats dressed up for Halloween.
ハロウィンの仮装をした三匹の黒猫。
A rough sketch of three black cats on their hind legs, wearing Halloween a sheet with eyeholes. The third is in a pumpkin, carved to resemble a stool.
September 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM