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I like to watch anime & write about it 🌿✨#薬屋のひとりごと #ApothecaryDiaries Words: @Kotaku, @PasteMagazine, @Polygon Links: https://teapawt.org/t.co/gz4lEHOJLQ PFP: @udeta_

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Joined May 2014
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Seeing the news even in the last few days makes me more sure than ever we've fully crossed over into the World of Ruin at this point. The contempt that the rich & powerful have for the rest of us is off the charts. 🌎✨#FinalFantasy #LateCapitalism #AI #Criticism #ClimateChange
World kinda sucks right now. Google chopping down forests, genocide is actively happening, late capitalism is sucking everything dry... Sooo... we're fully in Final Fantasy VI's World of Ruin, aren't we? I wrote about it! Take a look: kosatenmag.com/home/world-of…
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Kamille Bidan is maybe my fave character in all of anime. I wrote about him last year. Rejects toxic masculinity. So so so angry at the adults making terrible decisions. He's my hero. Happy Birthday, Kamille! 🎉💙✨ kosatenmag.com/home/zeta-gun… #カミーユ・ビダン生誕祭2026 #ガンダム
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Puh-lease. Ironic weeb was a fucking terrible era. I wanna go way back to the uncool-but-authentic-enjoyer days. Recognize your low cultural status and embrace it! Love even the trashiest anime earnestly! Only then can you become your true self! ✨
if you miss pre-covid "ironic weeb" culture then boy howdy do i have the Subreddit for you it's called /r/animemes and they're the internet equivalent of the North Sentinel Islanders
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Newsweek says Mark Carney has been worse for the environment than Donald Trump
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Having had a version of this experience with just about every major Canadian media company, let me take you behind the curtain for a moment to my most recent on the double standard in Canadian media when it comes to talking about Israel vs. Russia.
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Breaking news: Angel saves humanity, world peace achieved. ❤️🪽✨ #ChainsawMan #天使の悪魔
のびのび柔らか天使くん2
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Tan in the winter uniform fit is very excellent. Even the Student Council Has Its Holes | Ep.6 🍁#生徒会にも穴はある #生穴る
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A bajillion dollars for the military, while slashing spending that enriches Canadians' lives and shows commitment to environmental stewardship. Of course. If you actually love Canada and its natural beauty, once again, the NDP is the only option.
Massive cuts at Parks Canada. Meanwhile, surviving staff will have to deal with big demand since Carney renewed the pass to make these Parks free!! Such a classic CEO-style move to think workers will just ~figure it out~ as you actively make their job WAY harder to save a buck
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This whole thread is so weird. What’s great about the drawbridge closing at night is it shows you that Hyrule exists as its own living world and the player is just in it. With the drawbridge never closing it now prioritizes the player. Hyrule only exists FOR you. Changing that
If you think about this logically for more than three seconds instead of jumping to banal conclusions about how modern games treat gamers like idiots you’d probably realize this was done to prevent trapping players in castle town because the time of day can change there now.
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relationship makes for a Hyrule that is ultimately less immersive because it ONLY exists to serve the player. Why would the bridge close at night? Ah, castle town wants to keep the monsters out. It tells you something about the townsfolk’s plight, and about the state of Hyrule.
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I don't care if she's always mugging for the camera, Frenda's the best. ✨😜#ToAruItem #ACertainDarkItem ✨😜#とある暗部の少女共棲 #フレンダ
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Dang, what a shame. Was fortunate to have the opportunity to write a couple anime-focused pieces for Salon. Great people to work with. 🥲 Read my piece on Delicious in Dungeon while you can!🍖🍄🍳✨ salon.com/2024/04/28/ethics-…
Today, after 31 years, we are saddened to announce that Salon is ceasing publication. It has been an extraordinary privilege. salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye…
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These guys really don’t know how they sound, do they? To do math on which death is more tragic based on some made up meaningful experiences equation is sociopathic talk man. We’re all people, any preventable death is terrible at any age. Dario is straight up evil.
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The excerpt is from Dario Amodei's 2010 GiveWell guest post as a Princeton physics grad student; he donated the $10k to VillageReach (child vaccines) and described the critical analysis as emotionally taxing. blog.givewell.org/2010/06/03/my-… nytimes.com/2026/11/05/tec…
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Michael Lee retweeted
Canadians are looking to this year's budget and wondering, is it going to make life better for people like me? The NDP has put forward three measures to make sure that it does. It's time to put the working class back at the centre of economic decisions that will shape this country's future.
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Mark Carney just spent $1.6 billion of public money on the AI company Cohere, calling it a landmark moment for Canadian AI. But as Marcus Werner explains, this deal looks less like a bet on Canadian AI and more like taxpayers footing the bill for a private data centre buildout
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This really hits on how different culture is these days, as there's no answer to this question given OP's definition of "cultural relevance." The monoculture is dead, everyone's in their own little bubble. The closest might be Bling Bang by Creepy Nuts. youtube.com/watch?v=mLW35YMz…
what's the 2020s equivalent of Renai Circulation
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💜⚛️Yatta! ⚛️💜 To all Mitya wanters, never give up on your dreams! You too will bring the boy home! #ミティヤ #Genshin #原神
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Michael Lee retweeted
It's time for nation-building projects for the people. Ahead of the 2026 Budget, we're calling on the Liberals to prioritize three big projects that will lower costs and make life better for millions of families, paid for by a wealth tax on the 1%. • Make a down payment to build a network of 50 public grocery stores. • Triple the federal government's community housing investment to build one million non-market homes for people. • Make a nation-building investment in health care, including funding pharmacare from coast to coast to coast. Read my full letter to Prime Minister Carney.
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An underground activist group says it plans to start openly doxing billionaires as part of a phased campaign against what it calls the American oligarchy—starting with Elon Musk and Tesla’s board. wired.com/story/anti-oligarc…
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You’re not even tempted a bit, Master Zhang? Not even gonna sneak a peek? 🪄✨#Lyney #リネ #Genshin #原神
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