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Alexandra

@malecsandram.bsky.social

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PhD • Trans-Cultural Video Game Production: Migrant Developers in Japan Translator JP-ENG 🇷🇴🇬🇧🇯🇵en een beetje 🇳🇱

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Jake Adelstein @tokyovice.bsky.social · 2h

日本版“女性トランプ”の出現：高市早苗は、安倍2.0以降の日本の民主主義にとって最悪のニュース

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日本版“女性トランプ”の出現：高市早苗は、安倍2.0以降の日本の民主主義にとって最悪のニュース

90年代に『ヒトラー選挙戦略』をヨイショ、総務相としてテレビ局を脅し、根拠なく「外国人ばかりが奈良の鹿を虐待」と言い、挙句に神さまに語りかける。麻生太郎元総理の策略で、青いドレスを着た安倍晋三氏の亡霊が総理大臣になる日が最悪。

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Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 2d

Glad to hear there is one more soul interested <3
I am considering putting together a methodology guide along with it. This was such a rabbit hole but it makes sense when you understand the principles behind why the companies hide their data in specific places hahaha

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 2d

Because there is no industry body that will aggregate the total number of foreign employees in the Japanese video games industry I have to do it myself. And that's how I spent my day calculating percentages and totals. Just curious, is anyone interested in the numbers?

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 4d

I think during Louis XVI it sucked ass for the same reason the White House does rn

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 5d

I have a friend who already turned it on yesterday

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 5d

no comment in this section was NOT unhinged

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 5d

I also saw a comment saying that they'd rather 10 well behaved tourists than shop just a little than 100 who "just throw trash and don't buy anything". Logical thinking is not a feature of the 21st century. I understand now why my uni was offering courses in "logical thinking" to students.

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 5d

If anything it might discourage those with lesser incomes from applying, meaning those from Africa or South-East Asia. Unless, that was actually the point. It's not as if the JICA protesters were screaming about not wanting "uncivilized" people from the "Middle East and Africa".

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 5d

This is not an efficient way to collect "taxes" if the richest tourists don't even need to pay it. It will also not stop over tourism, if it's still comparatively cheaper to travel, sojourn and shop here.

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 5d

They compare the Japanese application fee (3000 yen) with that of the US (250 dollars) (which is ridiculously expensive considering that the visa is not a guarantee to entering the country) and say they consider raising it.

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 5d

What is hilarious is that most of the "foreigner" footage is of white people who would NOT be affected by an increase in visa application fees. It is also hilarious that the only measure they can take against us is rising the entry/exit fee which will also affect Japanese people

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 5d

Do we call this the Sanseito Ripple Effect?
I made the mistake to read the comments. It is fascinating how Trumpist discourse has permeated this society so well despite low English literacy. I guess the idea was always dormant like a cancer ever since Meiji.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pAT...

政府が外国人訪日ビザ値上げ検討か　出国税3倍の欧米並みも　高校無償化財源にする案【知ってもっと】【グッド！モーニング】(2025年10月20日)

YouTube video by ANNnewsCH

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Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 6d

if the trump admin doesn't want this shared I feel a moral duty to share it

MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 6d

Someone posted this too.

White House being torn down.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11d

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.

(Published July)

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

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Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 13d

「GAFAMのような巨大プラットフォームに支配され、知らず知らずのうちに自らの思考を明け渡し、知らず知らずのうちに搾取される。「移民が来るリスク」や「伝統的な日本が壊れるリスク」よりも、私やあなたが＂AI小作人＂になるリスクのほうがよほど大きいのです」

news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/909...

【モーリー・ロバートソンの考察】自民党総裁選で誰も指摘しなかった、多くの日本人が＂AI小作人＂になるというリスク（週プレNEWS） - Yahoo!ニュース

『週刊プレイボーイ』で「挑発的ニッポン革命計画」を連載中の国際ジャーナリスト、モーリー・ロバートソンが、円安の恒常化によって日本社会の「二極化」が固定化される可能性、そして多くの人々が本当に気をつけ

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Kenji Ito 伊藤憲二 @kenjiito.bsky.social · 16d

質の悪い読者がつくと著者が堕落するように、質の悪い支持者がつくと政党も堕落するものなのかもしれない。

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 16d

It's always a humbling experience to re-read papers from your first year of university. Glad to be able to say that even back then you could already see the potential buried beneath the chaos.

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 16d

Only chaos on the horizon for Japan. Welcome to the second decade of the 21st century

Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social · 16d

Big upheaval in Japanese politics. Today (Japan time), after a ninety minute meeting between Saitō, head of Komeito, and Takaichi, the LDP politician who recently won her party’s presidency, Saitō announced an end to their parties’ 26-year-long coalition agreement.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17d

I can’t adequately express how mystified and nauseated I am by the conversation about Trump receiving a Nobel Peace Prize that corporate media is now leading. But as a journalist, attorney, historian and Trump presidential biographer I’m now obligated to make the case *against* in full.

Here it is:

Media and MAGA Calls for Trump to Catch a Nobel Peace Prize Rather Than An ICC War Crimes Indictment Are Obscene

The second-biggest threat to global peace after Putin has earned a cell for war crimes—not a humanitarian award. That his grotesque and scammy appeal for a Nobel Peace Prize is working is terrifying.

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Kenji Ito 伊藤憲二 @kenjiito.bsky.social · 17d

前にも同じようなことを書いたけれど、ノーベル平和賞はむしろトランプに抵抗している人たちに与えるべき。米国に限らず、世界の各地でトランプ的なもの、強権主義に抵抗している人たちに与えてほしい。

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 23d

It's finally that time of the year when inside is cozy, outside it's crisp, the smell of coffee is deeper, the sunlight is colder and the sound of music flows like butter.

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 24d

PSA for Japanese games scholars researching Dojin games: Read YAMADA/HICHIBE. His is the largest and most comprehensive sociological research on what Dojin games and Dojin culture is from the mouth of the Dojin creators themselves.

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · Sep 19

The tradeoff between productivity and health

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · Sep 18

When the election results came in last year, Kimmel couldn't go through his intro without tearing up and without his voice breaking. And that's when I realized that if this bully of a man cries about it, the situation is really bad. Hope he makes a YT channel

Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 17

“Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t doing politics right.”

—Ezra Klein

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · Sep 17

this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe

Alexandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · Sep 18

The worst type of email is the one that announces application results and asks you to check the attached document for the results but the sender forgot to attach any documents.