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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
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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
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I saw this one at a used clothes shop in Japan recently. Sadly, not in my size.
A navy blue alternate Oklahoma Thunder alternate jersey for Russell Westbrook
August 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Richard Spencer, getting punched in the face for being a Nazi, as is right and just, with “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” superimposed on the screengrab.
August 17, 2025 at 6:56 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
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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
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Marines fans are the absolute best. The stadium has its moments, too. Soto has the best fan club song at the moment, though.
Sun setting over the right field line of Chiba Marines Stadium.
April 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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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Cursed Images in Tokyo, second in a series:
SoftBank wework offices
November 15, 2023 at 8:59 AM
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Might I introduce you to the ¥500 coin? With the exchange rate at the moment, it’s only worth $3.30 US, but having a functional five dollar coin makes life a lot more fun.
October 14, 2023 at 9:28 AM
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My version of this is natto, a mind bogglingly popular food in Japan. It’s slimy, stinks, and when you pull some away from the mass, it has little stringy tendrils of slime. Someone had to be incredibly hungry to give it a go.
Natto, rising from the ooze, coated in its own fermented funk.
October 13, 2023 at 12:05 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