spent yesterday roaming southeast Kanazawa and making a dual pilgrimage to sites concerned with earthly attachments (against/for)

2025 TL roundup- three new titles for the life-to-date mosaic straight-to-GN manga: 34 📚 add'l GNs via simuls: 10 📑 simul chapters: 55 💻 simul chapters done on the Osaka->Yokohama Nozomi shinkansen, in a harrowing battle with spotty wifi: 2.5 🎡🚄🐙 still-NDA titles: 3 QA'd GNs: 70🔎❌ lectures: 1 🗣️📈

Heartbreaking words from Dr. STONE mangaka Boichi, who decided to stop posting art on X because of the implementation of the GenAI Edit button and who has been so distressed by its hostile, destructive purpose to destroy other artists' works that he hasn't been able to eat properly since Christmas😢

woman in hotel elevator in Yokohama: So, where are you two from? me: America 😓... and you? her: Canada. me: oh. i'm sorry for, um her: Yes, every American we meet says that.

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant “we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

spotted an ad for a maker's market at the industrial port ass-edge of Osaka and, as avid craft fair goers, we had to check it out. like comiket for potters and knitters and muffin makers. not a single IP in sight (incredible!!), tons of alt people, and basically no sweaty tourists! ...except us!

first crawled through the Buddha's nostril pillar hole in Todaiji back in 2008 Did it again today, 17 years later, as haters and doubters looked on. Have now escaped reincarnation a second time. Reupped my nirvana subscription.

woke up in this Osaka hotel, opened the curtains, and experienced the opposite of a jumpscare

highlights from 2 days in Kinosaki Onsen

environmental storytelling in Kinosaki Onsen (bear rummages for sweet dregs in recycle bin next to hanbaiki; town puts up warning, turns bin around to render it unusable, asks people not to litter; people cannot/do not read, they litter; alluring vessels are now even more available to bear)

clearest view of Fuji I've ever had! en route to Kansai, somewhere between Hakone and Shizuoka

wish I could say that the fugu for a buck-twenty equivalent at the chain sushi was worth it. chewy, gristly, felt like gollum gnawing on it, didn't even get to enjoy tingly lips, 3/10

made a Porygon amigurumi! didn't have hot pink and teal yarn on hand, so my guy looks like it was getting sun-bleached on a dusty shelf for years pattern is from SirPurlGrey on etsy: www.etsy.com/listing/4419...

Japanese has chosen FPPs, English has email signoffs 私は Best, personally. sometimes dabble in 自分/All my love,

>hear faintly buzzing lightswitch >fiery Final Destination death incoming, surely >don't feel like bothering landlord and letting in some worker who, disgustingly, doesn't take off shoes >successfully replace it myself in 5 minutes with a 5-buck part >remain unaffected by never having a father

final pattern I bought from this creator (Emberloom on etsy) was the Fingercreeper much bigger than expected! (large banana for scale) each of the 12 fingers has a wire core, for slight posability. My customizations were the red cuticles and back-of-hand warts

couldn't pass up doing Miriel Pastor of Vows, aka turtle pope I modded the design to make him stand taller, and jammed a recordable voice box in his belly

next amigurumi from this pattern maker: the "pot boy" (legally distinct name for Elden Ring's jar warrior) this one's got wire in the arms, for posability :)

no joke- dentist just gave me an appointment at *two-thirty* tomorrow to address some molar pain 🦷💥

from the same pattern maker, the Dark Souls mushroom (parent) I did a few mods- angry eyes, bulkier arms, right hand w/fingers, bloodied-up left fist

two Ruri loc points: -literally, are you a middle-schooler?, but "what're you, 12?" is the standard English for that. -literally, should I downgrade you to "girl" status?, but "another species" gets the idea across less confusingly (mild misogyny-by-way-of-awkwardness)

2007- start learning JPN at college 2011- move to Japan 2012- pass N2 + KanKen4 2013- fail N1/pass KanKen3/leave Japan 2014- defeat N1 back in US KanKen pre-2 and 2 someday? standardized tests are 🥰. irl rpg stat increase vibes. get tricked into learning, for extrinsic validation? hell yeah

feeling like V. Frankenstein; made a leftovers waffle (mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, cornbread) 10/10

baja blast pie was sold out at every tb immediately when it came out a few weeks back, so we had to make our own for today

made a dark souls Crystal Lizard amigurumi! (pattern maker is EmberloomCrochet on etsy; will definitely be doing more from them)

After publishing this article, I've heard from many that CR seems to be using AI to produce dub CCs. Now, thanks to a slip-up CR had with episode 6 dub of The Banished Court Magician, we can say that with 100% certainty: Crunchyroll is using the AI service Ollang.com for its dub closed captions!

finally got around to doing these papercraft kits I picked up in japan almost 2 years ago fun use of perspective going on!

fifth charcoal drawing- my mom (circa 196X, Paris) yeah, she gave me the eyebrows... 🥸

lol I fucking knew that little shit wasn't to be trusted. Avoid the new Vine like a plague, they just want a pure dataset to scrape.

I don't often lego-post but this astounding hand-cranked mechanism in not-dracula's-castle has to be seen

ran out of woobles licensed crochet kits, but I found a legally-distinct "dark tower" pattern on etsy it felt a little bare-bones, so I freestyled a bunch of extra adornments using my whopping ~2-weeks'-worth of crochet comprehension. It's fun! Quite mathy! Kind of like coding!

MP1: no npcs who talk to you MP2: one (living) npc who talks to you MP3: at least five npcs who talk to you (<-Halo envy, here) MP4: some Whedon-Marvel Jack Quaid-ish anthropomorphized-yellow-paint quipper (the pinnacle [derogatory] of npcs who talk to you) the roadmap was always there 🤷‍♂️

re: entitled men can't email: For work I usually correspond with in-the-trenches women who can write, but for one project, a high-level manager-type man was on the chain, and istg this dude wrote in incoherent misspelled sentence frags w/o capitalization, punctuation, etc. Kinda revolting!

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

needed a photo for the holiday card; had to unleash Mrs. and Mr. Autumn

haunted by this very specific exchange

about to translate famiresu as fast casual dining and nobody can stop me *actually a bad loc, b/c famiresu in Japan are cheap as sin, cheaper even than US fast food, thereby giving the wrong impression to western readers **but indexing against JPN incomes makes it an apt comparison, so it's fine

took a minute, but the autograph wall has now got frames and all. 10 cast members down, only a few thousand to go!

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

the existence of LoTR amigurumi kits mean I had to learn to crochet 🤷‍♂️

a triumph 7 months in the making

came across an unholy triple negative! ...okay, maybe 2.5. three ないs anyway 倒せそうもないって気はしないんじゃないか？ >We ain't ready to call this thing 'invincible,' right? (transposing the negative verb phrase (we cannot beat) into a neutral adjective (invincible) is a handy trick. preferable even to "unbeatable")

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

new and uncomplicated recipe: butadon! (via: aaronandclaire.com/butadon-japa... )

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

got to this part in The Bugle Call and yeah the Looking Glass Branched is basically two soulsborne bosses in one the mirrors-as-portable-portals-from-Portal creativity only gets wilder in volume 4 (volume 3 chapters were just added to SJ app: www.viz.com/shonenjump/c... )

shot of alternate history where the Swedes won World War 2 😲

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