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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 3h

orthodox economist has terrible and astoundingly ignorant opinion, feels extremely confident regardless, gets ratio'd, thinks this means he's actually a very smart boy, film at eleven

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 4h

The number suit of tiles was interpreted in the Islamic world as a "cup" which would become the minor arcana suit and the heart suit

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 4h

And I supposed that would make Nintendo publishing Mahjong games going full circle

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 4h

Huh, somehow I never realized until now that the playing cards we all know (as well as the minor arcana) were originally invented by the Chinese as Mahjong tiles.

It's just that millennia of "telephone" have transformed them greatly since

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The bones of Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 7h

They've finished in front of the fence, and have started to clear out behind the fence. Gonna take that dang fence down when they're done.

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 7h

chef bona fide

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 8h

For those keeping score, that's the second time Cuomo has said "bona fide" (BOH-nuh FIE-dee)

k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 9h

I still have the tenegui I caught too

A white cloth with two people in white costumes with a tail and faces covered with fox masks climbing and dancing on bamboo poles, in red 芸ン竹きさがな (read right to left old fashioned) and in blue 山中夏生

k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 9h

It's honestly kind of unusual that Silent Hill f borrowed elements from an actual real and fairly major kami, including how different regions change worship in different ways

Like, by contrast PTSD Radio invented a completely fictional kami ("The Kami of Hair")

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 9h

There's some good videos of it on Youtube but you need to search in Japanese

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 9h

The final thing thrown out is a *live rooster* and whoever catches it is supposed to be super lucky for the rest of the year

At the end they climb down and are carried out

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 9h

But then at the end they have adults who jump between the poles, and swing back and forth, and then at the end they throw out things to the crowd from the top of the poles, sweet rice cakes, tenegui, maybe other stuff

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 9h

Basically there's a set of 10m tall bamboo poles set deep in the ground with rungs on it and a set of people carry people in white fox costumes and masks over to them (because heavenly foxes cannot touch the earth)

The start with little kids who just climb up or do very basic poses or flips

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 9h

I just remembered because of Silent Hill f:

There's nothing on it in English, but I think it's around this time of year that Nagasaki has the Takenge 竹ン芸 festival at the Inari shrines, I remember attending it when I was there years and years ago

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 10h

Clam: "It's all the same to me"

The Onion @theonion.com · 12h

Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams https://theonion.com/biologists-announce-there-absolutely-nothing-we-can-learn-from-clams/

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 12h

Peter Parker got bitten by a radioactive house

An inflatable bounce house with Spider-Mans torso poking out of the top, like some kind of house centaur

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 12h

A reference to the comic which shows a scientist looking at a presumably well slide as the subjects under the scope have a little speech bubble reading "The eye! The eye!"

k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 12h

Real locals remember how the California Academy of Sciences used to have a Far Side gallery, including a three dimensional model of a microscope that you could look up through the lens into the eyepiece and see an eye

cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 13h

BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped

a jazz club named "Club Gombe" with a chimpanzee band going nuts on stage and more chimps hooting and hollering at the tables. one empty table has a card on it reading "reserved for Jane Goodall"

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 14h

Edgar Allen Poe story except all the characters are tropical birds call that "The Casque of Amontillado"

k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 1d

But on the other hand, like if the American economy is headed into the dirt, between the sagging lead balloon of gAI holding up the NASDAQ, the endless circus of corruption incompetence in the whitehouse, I might not be getting a new job anytime soon either and what else am I gonna do

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 1d

I really don't want to dip deeply into my savings on one hand, and also, I really do not trust the situation regarding flight control (did everyone forget the midair collisions) especially given the compounded situation especially since the government is like... shut down

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 1d

I originally had planned to visit Japan around this time last year, but decided against it after DOGE started fucking around

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing so many people in Japan and am jealous

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k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻 @kuwagata.bsky.social · 1d

None of these words are in the Sutta Pitaka

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 1d

"Crunchy", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn). #art #sciart

A small painting of an amber brown cicada shed carapace.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

The reason mainstream Democrats are constantly trotting out the imaginary archetype of the Decent Conservative is because they are themselves just slightly more polite Conservatives.

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