Remembering that there was a time where being into JRPGs marked you as a loser because they're foreign.

Becerra takes money from terrible people and companies. Steyer does this. I know he's a billionaire and that has its own problems, but when you don't take money from terrible people and companies you can do basic humanistic shit without worrying. He's worth your vote, or at least a look.

Big fan of the amount of Lesbianism in Azumanga Daioh

Gonna watch anime and eat cake now

The problem with napping after 9pm is that you stop being tired

It's interesting that until some point in the 2000s RMB bills still had a small coin with a rectangular hole on it pictured on them

I would not be shocked if eventually trans runs the same race as “socialism,” where it being a catch all boogeyman defangs it but also causes like 47% of people under thirty to identify as “trans” due to the various anodyne non-trans things they think are trans.

cool a list of the artists whose management paid Spotify the most

Was ist das (nieder-)österreichischste, das ihr heute gehört oder gelesen habt? Ich fang an: Der Chef der Raiffeisen bekommt eine hohe Auszeichnung - von der Raiffeisen. Mit dabei sind: Stocker, Nehammer, Kurz, Mikl-Leitner und der Bischof. Und der CR des Kurier selbst scheibt den Artikel drüber.

On This Day in Pop: 6 years ago Lady Gaga released "Chromatica".

"Why are people so negative about the economy?" Consider this. There are two possibilities: 1) He's right and my livelihood is screwed. Maybe not 18 months but soon. 2) He's full of shit, it won't happen, and AI is a giant bubble that will crash the economy. Why would I feel good about either?

✨🌌 #risart #wha

you ever notice how from shaving to clothes all "gender conformity vs nonconformity" discourse is basically about commodity consumption and lifestyle. consumer rights politics

i love when people are like "gender nonconformity is basically just about clothes. if you are a little gay or fuck with your sex a little that's a bit too lgbt so you're reinforcing gender norms" people's idea of being gnc has been sold back to them as a selection of poshmark purchases i'm afraid

Austria having a ministry of innovation and a ministry of science and those two not being held by the same minister, but the minister for innovation also being minister for sport tells one a lot about how this country thinks, oh yea education for some reason is also under a different minister

Like I'm not being funny but I don't really care what Israeli public discourse is if the actual decisions of policymakers have never ever ever contributed to actually building a stable Lebanon

Generally we talk here about agency and power: people are not just cogs in the grip of impersonal forces, they have agency of their own. Individuals with lots of power in turn have far wider scope for that agency and thus for impact for better or worse.

The difference in attitude towards Israel/Palestine between German speaking leftist ~30+ and younger is always wild

Montasio, perfect level of base spice and can be used for basically everything, also theres like 30 different varieties depending on how much it's aged

As a relatively recent Baseball Sicko, one thing I am still grappling with is how to follow and enjoy a sport for 162 games when my favorite team makes me insane with rage on a daily basis. How do you guys do it and stay mentally healt—wait, okay, I see the answer.

Weil es offenbar einige bis dato nicht verstanden haben: Peter Thiel ist KEIN Theologe, entgegen hartnäckigen Gerüchten nicht einmal Katholik. Basically ist er ein Superreicher, der sich auf Basis von 2 Thess 2,6–8 und halbverdauter René Girard-Texte etwas zusammengesponnen hat.

My poster from today's #unisretten protest in Vienna

the "Enhanced Games" might be a real shitshow from an athletics perspective. But from a juicing perspective? Also shit. None of these people are juicing hard enough. None of them are injecting high-O2 blood into their eyeballs. None of these juiceless slowpokes can lactate

lance armstrong had to have one of his balls removed and then do weird loony tunes shit with blood. And he did that to win at a sport his countrymen correctly dismissed as gay. And you want to use Cashapp to buy tren off a cypriot pharmacy with a *website* and pretend you're even the same species???

Too hot to sleep

*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social “An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick #animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist

It's always funny to see what the latest book a prof has read is

It’s really frightening.

The tang dynasty was a very paper obsessed time, we could learn from that

I think what my 10 minutes presentation needs is a tangent on the religious politics of the Song dynasty

Its very funny reading numismatist writing about early Chinese paper money because we simply don't have any of it except for the printing plates so they just go "look how pretty"

Vatican III will issue the Orange Catholic Bible

Honestly the more i read about monetary policy in the Song dynasty the more i sympathise with that fella in Yingzhou and his horrible handwriting, I also wouldn't bother if I didn't know if money is gonna be a thing that exists tomorrow or not

I should go back to opening my Yijing on a random page every morning to see how its gonna go

the Pope believes in open source

goes hard

Sketch of a assistant clerk from the Song Dynasty, hes called Assistant/Deputy Yan because thats the guy the ingot i transcribed/partially translated today mentioned an assistant/deputy Yan transporting 10 taels of silver

I'll use just about anything as a reference but if you are going for "anime" nothing really beats studying official/production art because it's the end result of decades of efficiency with regard to decision-making on which lines and proportions are absolutely the most essential to reproduce

Being in a bubble is a good thing, actually It's your online space, you don't owe anyone or anything your time. Engage with what you want and don't waste time giving idiots attention and arguing with them

My favorite british food tidbit is that brits introduced curry to japan and literally no one, including brits and japanese, acknowledge that My japanese buddy thought indian traders brought it to nagasaki back in the day 💀

I have no idea what the average person knows about the news because I spend more on news subscriptions than streaming subscriptions but every time I hear someone ask “why isn’t the media covering X” it was, like, the headline in Bloomberg the previous day

“Why are women less bullish overall on AI than men” is not actually that mysterious of a question

There are 38 issues of the early Japanese socialist women’s periodical 世界婦人 1907-1909 on Internet Archive to read or download, edited by Fukuda Hideko (福田英子). archive.org/search?query...

It's a very nice and warm day

The anti-UV umbrella is such a goated invention and I hate that I forgot mine at home today

*Extremely* revealing comparison here re: grade inflation, and exhibit number 592 that students need to be made aware of the conditions under which they are being educated

Me when I realize I don't have a little treat because I was responsible at the supermarket