k☭wagata, a specter haunting europe 👻
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(not actually in europe) lust, revolution and love - the holy trinity what it was, is and what it finna be we got the capability, we got the connectivity they/them
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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
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
And I supposed that would make Nintendo publishing Mahjong games going full circle
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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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.
Yard progress
chef bona fide
For those keeping score, that's the second time Cuomo has said "bona fide" (BOH-nuh FIE-dee)
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")
There's some good videos of it on Youtube but you need to search in Japanese
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
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
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
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
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
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!"
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
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"
Edgar Allen Poe story except all the characters are tropical birds call that "The Casque of Amontillado"
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
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
I originally had planned to visit Japan around this time last year, but decided against it after DOGE started fucking around
Seeing so many people in Japan and am jealous
None of these words are in the Sutta Pitaka
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"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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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.