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ghidorah5000.bsky.social
FKA Magical Animal
@ghidorah5000.bsky.social
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Former restaurant owner in Tokyo, drinker of, and occasional writer about beer (and other topics). Chibanian since 2000. Sausage and bacon maker.
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I’ve yet to find a better way to say how things should be. Every decision to put up a wall at the expense of the bigger table, to divide and say “I and mine should have, they and theirs should not” should be followed by such shame and derision that the speaker finds no place left for them in society
An image of a group around a table for a feast, with text that says “when you have more than you need, build a longer table, not a higher wall”
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
ghidorah5000.bsky.social
It’s been a while. Nice to get the chance to write again, and it’s a pretty tasty beer if you can get ahold of it.

www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/10...
A bitter pale ale from Yokohama finds a sweet win at World Beer Awards
Libushi Bashamichi brewery's award-winning IPA, Existing is Exhausting, was born out of a collaboration with a Shibuya craft beer bar and a local English wrestler.
www.japantimes.co.jp
October 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
ghidorah5000.bsky.social
This is good. Hate is an appropriate response to people trying to create a world where we gladly give up everything that makes us human in response for… what? Half-assed, uncaring slop marketed under the umbrella of convenience and the freedom from ever having to learn anything again?
“And to what end? In a kind of nihilistic symmetry, their dream of the perfect slave machine drains the life of those who use it as well as those who turn the gears. What is life but what we choose, who we know, what we experience? Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation, warm in the womb of the algorithm, nourished by hungry machines. And even as it consumes those who use it, even as the scammers become their own marks, even as it is sustained by exploited workers slotted in as human filters for algorithmic abuse – some people want to have a little, as a treat. As a joke. Just to make fun of it, just for the busywork, because it’s good enough, right? You understand. I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.”
August 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
ghidorah5000.bsky.social
Nothing like getting slapped in the face with fiction that makes it hard to look at the old things around you with the new ideas running through your mind. Damn. Damn.
July 31, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
"SCPs that got hoovered up and regurgitated by chatbots end up giving tech executives schizophrenia" is perhaps fittingly a very SCP thing to happen
Social media users were quick to note that ChatGPT's answer to Lewis' queries takes a strikingly similar form to SCP Foundation articles, a Wikipedia-style database of fictional horror stories created by users online. "Entry ID: #RZ-43.112-KAPPA, Access Level: | (Sealed Classification Confirmed)," the chatbot nonsensically declares in one of his screenshots, in the typical writing style of SCP fiction. "Involved Actor Designation: 'Mirrorthread, Type: Non-institutional semantic actor (unbound linguistic process; non-physical entity)."
July 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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radiodeadair.com
The fucking head of fucking XBox Graphics used a fucking "AI" slop image to hire new engineers but couldn't tell that the fucking screen on the fucking monitor is facing backwards.
Linked In post from Mike Matsel, Principle Development Lead, XBox Graphics: "The XBox Graphics team is hiring folks with experience with device drivers, GPU performance, or related validation or engineering system experience. If the positions are closed and you want to apply, please message me!" And below it is an "AI" slop that reads in white on green "XBOX GRAPHICS IS HIRING" and an image of a woman in a green sweater wearing earpods typing on a computer, except the "AI" has put the screen on the back of the monitor.
July 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
ghidorah5000.bsky.social
From some speaker in the neighborhood, a school, maybe, an instrumental version of Auld Lang Syne has been playing on repeat for about ten minutes (just started up again).

Uh… is this how I find out the world is ending today?
July 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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brainnotonyet.bsky.social
Just like with Climate change, fascism is something you see on your phone in videos until you are the one taking the video.
samwellerauthor.bsky.social Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · Jul 11
Why is there a military vehicle with soldiers seated on top riding on Lake Shore Drive?
July 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Cursed Tokyo, an intermittent series:
A storefront in Shinjuku used as a garage for that fucking tourist Mario kart bullshit.
July 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
ghidorah5000.bsky.social
Images of existential dread in Tokyo, an intermittent series:
Window in a storefront in eastern Tokyo listing floors of the building. Where is says (in Japanese) “current location,” the English translation is “Are you here” with no punctuation.
May 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
ghidorah5000.bsky.social
Teaching in Japan, working with students who have lived overseas, I’m urging them *not* to apply to schools in America. Some of them have pushed back, saying they wouldn’t have trouble, they wouldn’t protest or “make problems.” About that: kslnewsradio.com/utah/visa-re...
BYU grad student has I-20 visa revoked, leaving student, family, unclear
Suguru Onda has been living legally in the US with a Form I-20, or I-20 visa, and said he has one year before completing his doctoral degree.
kslnewsradio.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
ghidorah5000.bsky.social
The episode about the cigar factory still haunts me a little.
Old newspaper ad for the Fox show Key West, which ran for one season in 1993.
November 22, 2024 at 5:37 AM
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mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
I wrote about how stupid and bad everything is and how exhausting it is to live in a cycle that feels the same defector.com/the-american...
The American Nightmare Is A Rerun | Defector
The week before the election, for two nights in a row, I dreamt about the moon. The dreams were in sequence: two parts of a single story that were braided together. A single day of my life became the ...
defector.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:57 PM
ghidorah5000.bsky.social
I’m not sure what was worse, my fear that my Japanese junior high students would ask me to explain the election, or the fact that, through four classes today, not a single student brought it up at all.
November 7, 2024 at 10:22 AM
ghidorah5000.bsky.social
Cursed Images in Tokyo, second in a series:
SoftBank wework offices
November 15, 2023 at 8:59 AM
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Cursed Tokyo, an intermittent series:
Palantir’s Tokyo offices, discovered on a walk from Shibuya to Harajuku.
October 11, 2023 at 8:47 AM