Part of the American Problem is that the US military will bomb, drone strike civilians, infrastructure, and there is nothing in war that is more of an acceptable target than a soldier because the soldier is the cog in the genocide engine. Americans do not accept that the US soldier is a valid target

Got my JLPT N5 certificate in the mail today :)

Not a single day without a Crunchyroll fuckup

Dan Simmons, noted racist, has died. He wrote Hyperion, which contained a good short story and then a lot of other words, which many of us read anyway because it was the Nineties and Waldenbooks had a limited science fiction section.

Well shit. Seven Seas, one of the bigger English-language manga & light novel distributors, bought by a company proudly touting its AI slop translation software. Not good. www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-03...

Damn, every week I think "this, this is a perfect episode, surely Frieren is the anime of the season"... ...Ikoku Nikki / Journal with Witch comes along and completely obliterates it They're both really really good and I can't decide which is better

Damn, I love Frieren This episode too was the perfect mix of somber melancholy and funny

I really want to like The Holy Grail of Eris, but it's difficult when it rushes through 5 dozen plot points, without breathing, every episode I guess that's because it only got 12 episodes, but the story could have used 24

Kein Mitleid mit den "Opfern" des Schließfächer-Raubs in Gelsenkirchen Ernsthaft, Hunderttausende Euros Bargeld in einem Schließfach? 🤨

Wir gedenken: Gökhan Gültekin Sedat Gürbüz Said Nesar Hashemi Mercedes Kierpacz Hamza Kurtović Vili Viorel Păun Fatih Saraçoğlu Ferhat Unvar Kaloyan Velkov Ermordet vor 6 Jahren, am 19. Februar 2020, beim rassistischen Anschlag von #Hanau. Wir gedenken Ibrahim Akkuş, verstorben an den Spätfolgen.

I will also never vote for Gavin Newsom

Death to America

In a fit of hubris, I bought the first volume of the Yotsuba manga. In Japanese I read the first couple of pages. I get about...90%? It's not that bad However... I have issues *reading* it, from a vision standpoint. It's so small, the furigana especially! I'm old and I have -12 dioptre!

Another week of Ikoku Nikki / Journal with Witch throwing punches directly into the stomach

Okay, I'm really not sure if that was the end of Gnosia or this was just a fake-out I guess I'll see next week... But also, wtf

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Okay, "neat", the @newyorker.com too has started to platform nazis. Jenin Younes, Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss

A fun fact: alphabetical order depends on the language. Even if they use the same letters German and Swedish both have "ä" and "ö". But German sorts "ä" and "ö" as if they're "ae" and "oe", while Swedish sorts ä and ö after z Also, when going "a b c ...", German doesn't count äöü, Swedish does åäö

Yeah

@crunchyroll.com wtf are you doing?!? Missing: - Episode titles - Episode preview images - Episode summary (the summaries in episodes 3, 4, 5 are the show's)

🤔 It’s definitely not suspicious at all to have people point out your common Twitter sign off is in the Epstein files and ten completely delete your yacht’s logs right?

Huh, apparently SubRosa are back together? :D (Attached video is not new material, but from their debut) www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX-X...

The music in Frieren continues to be really lovely, too

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Yay, passed the JLPT N5, the (official) Japanese Language Proficiency Test (lowest level) I'm now "certified" at CEFR A1 for Japanese #jlpt

Yay, passed the JLPT N5, the (official) Japanese Language Proficiency Test (lowest level) I'm now "certified" at CEFR A1 for Japanese #jlpt

mood of the century

I can't express with words how much I love this week's Frieren episode It's perfect

Is it just me or is Greenland nor really a topic in US news? I've got several political US podcasts in my podcatcher, and none of them is talking about Greenland. ICE, the Fed, sure, but nothing about Greenland. Nothing about the WHO either Even left-ish US podcasts are 100% navel-gazing

Crunchyroll is really saying "episode titles? what's that? episode summaries? they're the same as show summaries, no?" today, yeah? Ugh

Ich verstehe nicht, warum überall immer noch davon geredet wird "das ist Trumps Strategie", etc. Strategie. Trump. Als wäre er ein intelligentes Wesen Das ist doch lächerlich

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

Test... 令和８年

Kabedon! :) #beancounter

me every time I am reminded of Linux kernel version history

I regret to inform7 you ma'am but your son is dead. Your son is found in the Grey Hallway. The description of your son is "a poor soul who died in these hallowed halls." The son is wearing a backpack. The backpack is openable and closed.

Yeah, okay, third episode of Wash It All Away, and I'm dropping that The constant fanservice, the show constantly perving on Kinme, the weird relationship she, an adult of drinking age (i.e. 20+) has with a school boy, and apparently him breaking into her home is a-okay now too? Eww, just eww

This anime season is Ikoku Nikki and Frieren having a competition about which of them can make me cry more

My therapist: the tiramisu pizza isn't real. It can't hurt you. The tiramisu pizza:

We're so back! #frieren

Ich fordere Dienstpflicht für Ministerpräsidenten. Es kann nicht angehen, dass die den ganzen Tag nur Lack saufen und nicht arbeiten

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers... German advertisment games edition

In Germany, back when I was unemployed, my staples were: - sliced bread ("toast") (~ 1€ for a loaf of 20 slices) - cheap cold cuts (1€ to 2€ for about 10 slices) - instant ramen (~ 50¢ per pack) - canned lentil or pea soup (~ 1€ per can)

Anyway so episode 2 of Other World's Bean Counter was definitely a slow down plot wise (thank God) as the show shifts gears to focus on the main romance. I'm still getting used to the anime's artstyle of the characters (I really loved the manga version) but it's definitely enjoyable

Name a more iconic duo than Crunchyroll and fucking up subs...

You notice how thousands and thousands of cops aren't coming out to condemn Jonathan Ross for senselessly killing Renee Good? This is what people mean by "all cops are bastards". If this were any other profession, the entire group would condemn it. With cops it's the reverse, they all justify it.