you've heard of "this is more of a comment than a question" but have you ever encountered its twin:

Anyone using the GO taxi app who knows how to cancel a ride? I had to listen to a very angry man tonight because I couldnt find a button to cancel the ride and I’d like to not ruin other drivers moods in the future.

There is a certain self-assured, almost offended attitude some people have when asking questions about issues that were addressed early on in a presentation, that only comes with industrial amounts of stupidity, surely the result of carefully cultivated ignorance during one's PhD journey.

The private equity presidency is deeply unpopular, who'd have thought

a couple of years back when the bathroom debate was reaching its climax and I was feeling like I was looking my mind it was Matt Walsh that pulled me out of it in a bullshit anti abortion video disguised as concern for people born with "birth defects". the birth defect in question? Down syndrome

Temu Trump is wel raak.

L’une des particularités du gouvernement de la Première ministre japonaise Sanae Takaichi va être de présenter des réformes comme des avancées alors qu’elles seront in fine des reculs ou des freins à des avancées réelles. On ne va pas tarder à en avoir des illustrations flagrantes.

Fixed it for you 😇

Because there is no industry body that will aggregate the total number of foreign employees in the Japanese video games industry I have to do it myself. And that's how I spent my day calculating percentages and totals. Just curious, is anyone interested in the numbers?

Do we call this the Sanseito Ripple Effect? I made the mistake to read the comments. It is fascinating how Trumpist discourse has permeated this society so well despite low English literacy. I guess the idea was always dormant like a cancer ever since Meiji. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pAT...

if the trump admin doesn't want this shared I feel a moral duty to share it

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability. (Published July)

「GAFAMのような巨大プラットフォームに支配され、知らず知らずのうちに自らの思考を明け渡し、知らず知らずのうちに搾取される。「移民が来るリスク」や「伝統的な日本が壊れるリスク」よりも、私やあなたが＂AI小作人＂になるリスクのほうがよほど大きいのです」 news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/909...

質の悪い読者がつくと著者が堕落するように、質の悪い支持者がつくと政党も堕落するものなのかもしれない。

It's always a humbling experience to re-read papers from your first year of university. Glad to be able to say that even back then you could already see the potential buried beneath the chaos.

Only chaos on the horizon for Japan. Welcome to the second decade of the 21st century

I can’t adequately express how mystified and nauseated I am by the conversation about Trump receiving a Nobel Peace Prize that corporate media is now leading. But as a journalist, attorney, historian and Trump presidential biographer I’m now obligated to make the case *against* in full. Here it is:

前にも同じようなことを書いたけれど、ノーベル平和賞はむしろトランプに抵抗している人たちに与えるべき。米国に限らず、世界の各地でトランプ的なもの、強権主義に抵抗している人たちに与えてほしい。

It's finally that time of the year when inside is cozy, outside it's crisp, the smell of coffee is deeper, the sunlight is colder and the sound of music flows like butter.

PSA for Japanese games scholars researching Dojin games: Read YAMADA/HICHIBE. His is the largest and most comprehensive sociological research on what Dojin games and Dojin culture is from the mouth of the Dojin creators themselves.

When the election results came in last year, Kimmel couldn't go through his intro without tearing up and without his voice breaking. And that's when I realized that if this bully of a man cries about it, the situation is really bad. Hope he makes a YT channel

The worst type of email is the one that announces application results and asks you to check the attached document for the results but the sender forgot to attach any documents.

Although this sounds like an amazing postdoc project had I had any Chinese language ability, how does one categorize China as part of the "Global South"?! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Dear EU scholars, I BEG of you to also include the name of the country when you announce your roundtables and conferences. You can't possibly expect everyone to know every European city just because it's in Western Europe. Including the name of the state/country after a city is not a terrible idea

Thank you everyone who contributed to our "Exploring Global Game Work Migration" workshop #digra #digra25

I would like this embroided so it doesn't wash off. maybe tattoo it on my forehead for the next time I have to differentiate myself from the asshole who enters a shop just to have a speakerphone conversation in a chilly place

During the DiGRA workshop I co-organised with my colleagues on game work migration one of the best points came from Aphra Kerr who pointed out that migrant stories can be co-opted by far right discourse and that it is our responsibility to be mindful of that when working with interview data.

"you're cosplaying a personality disorder and calling it leadership" might be the highlight of my day

Editor pro tip after reading several excellent articles that got nonetheless desk rejected Not citing any scholarship published in the journal (or similar/adjacent) where you are submitting is a major red flag that your piece is off-scope Embed your piece in a debate that matters for your readers

Yesterday I took a stroll in my neighbourhood and reached areas I've never visited before. I was pleased to find no sanseito posters. Instead one house had a few posters from the Communist party, including the latest one that says 外国人差別許しません(foreigner discrimination is unforgivable). Never moving

Last year I approached IIAS to create a new blog category for scholars of cultural and creative labor in Asia. It took a year, but today I finally sent the first essays written by myself and my colleagues. It will take a few more months to have them published too but I can't believe we're so close!!

Sanseito are not a new phenomenon, they're just social media savvy demagogues . What they say is not controversial in Japan, it is controversial abroad because it's bad for optics. But now that they gained some power the LDP is summoning Abe's spirit from the dead www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Mover over "Latinos for Trump", it's "Gajins for Sanseito" time to shine

Really, the ONLY good thing about this election season is that I have an excuse to make another one of these videos. Remember to get out and not be allowed to vote on Sunday, friends!

遊びに来てね！

Is it too early to call it Filegate?

In Japan, we believe that crimes and nuisances should be punished equally. But this is not jut government rhetoric. Anyone boarding a JR West Shinkansen these days can hear the same thing in the new announcements. edition.cnn.com/2025/07/17/a...

"During an expert panel meeting on June 26, the education ministry clarified that the original intent of the program is “primarily to support Japanese students who are hesitant to pursue doctoral studies due to financial concerns.” www.asahi.com/ajw/articles....

A lot of people come into the games industry and pretty soon develop a cynical attitude that the industry is largely run by business guys who don't know a thing about video games. It's only after a few years and some seniority that you realize that those guys don't know shit about business either.

greetings i have made another zine, this is about how i got my hands on a knife at age ~9 (individual pages in the replies) #internationalzinemonth #minizinejuly2025

Everyone responding to this with some variation of “just tell AI to summarize it for you”: I curse you. I curse your lineage. Fucking never will I do that

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

今月のライナップが決定しました。お楽しみに！ - Janne Nedamo & Maja Milas / Bonita - @ichigoichiegames.bsky.social / Tactichord: Glam Strategy - Vitalii Terletskii, Katya / Sobakistan: The Land of Dogs - Gino Carlo Graciano Grippo / Winter's Hope - @harukamatsumiya.bsky.social / 水鏡

Allow me to take you into the mysterious depths of the Japanese art of “Aruku.”

the silver lining of intermittent internet on a train to London is the Goldman banker sweating and cursing next to me, he must be loosing millions a second

Watching the Trump admin in action has forever cured me of imposter syndrome

Solving the birth rate one ojisan smirk at a time.

The guy who did a Nazi salute a few months ago is now starting his own party to try toppling the status quo. That's the only thing I would add www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuw8...

He should fax the tariffs to Japan