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Sally Dukes
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American in Belgium, ICC enthusiast, leader of the anti-IR realism coalition, no I do not speak French 🇺🇸 🇱🇺
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This is the truest thing anyone ever wrote about Japan

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Generally though, the TV here is surprisingly dull. The vast majority of programmes consist of several seriously overexcited people sitting in an overlit studio decorated like a novelty grotto made from regurgitated Dolly Mixture, endlessly babbling about food. Seriously, it's all food, food, food. People eating food, answering questions about food, sometimes even just pointing at food and laughing. It's as they've only just discovered food and are perpetually astonished by its very existence. Imagine watching an endless episode of The One Show with the colour and brightness turned up to 11, where all the guests have been given amphetamines, the screen is peppered with random subtitles, and every 10 seconds it cuts to a close-up shot of a bowl of noodles for no apparent reason. That's 90% of Japanese TV right there. For a nation so preposterously hi-tech, it's a curiously old-fashioned approach to television. People talking in studios. Forever. Like it's the 50s. And yet it's insanely agitated: as though the participants are simply too wired to make a proper TV show, and have subsequently just switched the cameras on and started yelping. The adverts continue this vaguely old-school theme. There are plenty of super-sophisticated ones starring giant CGI cats and the like, but there's also a rather charming emphasis on dancing: people unpretentiously dancing and singing about the product on offer (generally a foodstuff, which presumably explains their terrifying level of excitement). It makes the Go Compare tenor seem subtle. Sedate, even.
November 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
sallydukes.bsky.social
anyone who takes huntington seriously should have their degrees taken away
November 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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ianford.bsky.social
Americans don't realise that the current military situation in Europe is a brief historical anomaly. European countries are very, very good at war. In fact they got so good at it that they killed millions less than a century ago and decided maybe we should cool it a bit. But that can change quickly.
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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If Haiti in 2025 doesn’t meet these conditions, nowhere does
The Secretary may designate a country for TPS due to the following temporary conditions in the country: • Ongoing armed conflict (such as civil war) • An environmental disaster (such as earthquake or hurricane), or an epidemic • Other extraordinary and temporary conditions
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM