Hump day (with new @eddyunderwear.com jock)

This is not a conspiracy theory, simply the truth, especially with regard to why the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The Occupation-led medical examinations of hibakusha (the ABCC exams) after the war were also a data-harvesting, not humanitarian, mission

Probably Miike's Audition

やっと #日本共産党 が日本政府によるビザ改悪を取り上げてくれました… 日本政府による外国人迫害をやめさせることにご協力お願いします… #差別反対 youtube.com/shorts/S6Ctq...

Arm's length #mcm #nsfw

It's finally nice enough to go for a little bike ride to Drawn and Quarterly, where I visited the three translations of mine they have in the shelf!

Morningview #fcf #nsfw #ignoretheclothesonthefloor

This is gonna be lit

Some data on how people are actually reading more and book sales are up, much as I suspected.

Getting ready for my Zoom meeting ✨

Getting ready for my Zoom meeting ✨

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Ooh I should do this with my introduction to Japanese culture class

"There is an urgent need for places where languages meet, stories cross, & people recognize their connection to one another." With community support, CAT is opening a permanent home for literary translation. Read the news in @publisherswkly.bsky.social. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

This is a victory for the LGBTQ+ community and for our entire city. It’s a reminder that New Yorkers won’t let our history be rewritten. Our administration will keep working to ensure LGBTQ+ New Yorkers can live safely and with dignity in our city.

💪 #mcm #flexing #pitstop

A record year for dam removals reconnects US rivers, reconnecting over 7,900 km of rivers. Many of the structures were obsolete or unsafe, and their removal is already restoring fish migration routes, reducing flood risks, and reviving ecosystems. American Rivers buff.ly/LwcNbjh #ShareGoodNewsToo

I don’t often find myself agreeing with Ezra Klein, but this is completely correct — and frankly, shows some guts for a mainstream liberal columnist to say. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/o...

On the other hand, most of the contracts I sign *as a translator* stipulate that I must have at least two social media accounts where I'm willing to promote the book 🤷

Made the James Beard Whole Orange Almond Cake today ✨ www.jamesbeard.org/recipes/whol...

The carpet bombing of Tokyo in WWII was just as much an atrocity (and retrospectively, a war crime) as dropping the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for example

Just a lil reminder that when South Korea’s president declared martial law at 10 at night in Dec 2024, lawmakers immediately rushed in, climbed barricades, and fought off armed soldiers to overrule and depose him in the middle of the night

The cocaine analogy is particularly apt because genAI use causes real and actual harm, addiction, destroys people's families and lives.

“These plug-in versions are far cheaper and can be put on a balcony or in an outdoor space such as a garden” (In Germany, 500,000 installed annually. After André Gorz & Kohei Saito, decentralised tech allows for decentalised poltics #smallpieceslooselyjoined ) www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/...

This is gonna be lit

Another great review of I Was Alive Here Once! 'The only science-fictional story in the anthology, “Jupiter” (Japanese) offers a masterful example of the unreliable narrator..." @rachelcordasco.bsky.social www.sfintranslation.com?p=16574

Looking for an audiobook that's topical for both the news and upcoming Earth Day? I just noticed Erika Kobayashi's Trinity, Trinity, Trinity (trans Brian Bergstrom) is on sale at Libro.fm for $2.09! (Stay tuned for a freshly-updated list of audiobook Japanese lit in English!)

Green room #fcf #nsfw

absolutely cannot get this image out of my head. i should be working on my book

髪を切った✨

Worth it if only to hear @michaelhobbes.bsky.social find out in real time that Sophia Loren and Ralph Lauren aren't related

Taiwan Travelogue is great!

A really nice review, with a specific shout-out/consideration of my translation of Tomoyuki Hoshino's "Jupiter" ✨

“Literature sometimes portrays darker aspects of humanity, such as discrimination, oppression, and exclusion. However, we believe that literature should never further exacerbate harm towards those already marginalized, nor should it contribute to any form of violence.” —Authors in Japan

On Trans Day of Visibility, RJL honors Japan’s two openly trans Akutagawa winners—Chiya Fujino and Li Kotomi—and reminds everyone that Li was outed against her will. Many of Japan’s most important writers made a statement supporting Li and other members of the LGBTQ+ community. 👇

太腿🦵✨ #nsfw

More of this kind of thing

Hey gals and pals! I'm a finalist for the ARTIT Portrait Artist of the Year and there's also a people's choice award! If you could consider going to the following link and voting for me, Ignacio Henríquez, I could have a chance to win! Please vote and share 🥹 shorturl.at/m4K4Z

Back with this guy this weekend

Rahm thrown in there for Skeletor-American representation

胸✨

Up and going #fcf #nsfw

The continued cold is making me act out #jock #nsfwish

FINALLY

Erika Kobayashi's Trinity, Trinity, Trinity was pub. in Japanese in 2018 and imagined an interrupted version of the 2020 Olympics, which eerily came true It's a meditation on the Olympics and its history with the Axis powers of WWII (including the postponed 1940 Tokyo Olympics). Check it out!

Still hoping for warm weather ✨

"By juxtaposing ghostly tales from a wide variety of literary styles and traditions, the concept of ghost itself becomes fluid, but never trapped."

Another fun item you might consider during the 25% off preorder sale at Barnes & Noble is my upcoming translation of Capital from Zero by Kōhei Saitō! (again, the "membership" is a matter of throwing them an email) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/capital-fr...

Heads up for Barnes & Noble members (membership is free) —the paperback for The Dilemmas of Working Women is eligible for the 25% discount on pre-orders they are currently running! Go get it ✨ www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dilemm...

1/3 La mairesse de MTL a félicité le nouveau maire de Paris, avec une photo où il pédale fièrement, pour ensuite rapidement retirer la publication, pour en faire une autre, avec une photo, disons, plus neutre. À quel point EM ne souhaite pas être associé au vélo, de près ou de loin, pour faire ça ?