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thinking of being like, "if I get a subscriber I will actually get out of bed" but I think I'm going to have to do that anyway.
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well, I feel somewhat better, but these episodes of dire bowel collapse are becoming worrisome. if you pity me you can cheer me somewhat by becoming a subscriber? It's $50/yr, $5/month. I'm not proud. www.everythingishorrible.net/subscribeSubscribe to Everything Is Horrible
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Fuck. The Wayback Machine's archive of my blog is rather spottier than I'd like and my lackadaisical approach to checking that the conversion from a database backed typo site to a statically generated one has left me with far too many truncated posts. My semi-automated recovery process is at least reasonably quick, but I'm pretty damned sure I no longer have backups of the database.
Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks!
Paths to peace, pressure on Russia: Zelensky meets with Lula
At a meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed Ukraine's openness to peace talks with Russia, while noting the aggressor's unwillingness to engage constructively, and called f…Ukrinform
Juicy round autumn
Juicy round autumn
burnished red and golden
mesmerizing quality of time today.
Hunger forgotten when life is a garden.
Sow and weep
while you sleep
a new day grows.
Getting our time together.
Getting in touch with weather again.
And there’s been so much to weather
again and again and again.
Sunrays are playing
warming the walkways
flashing out rainbows
in random puddles and streams.
Clear skies and starlight
awaken the night hours
expanding the time to harvest our dreams.
Trump has declared war on trans people, leaving Americans to seek asylum — from America
Four trans Americans claiming refuge abroad tell Io Dodds why they no longer feel safe in their home country, from fears of martial law to being arrested in changing roomsIo Dodds (The Independent)
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Schumer says Trump ‘totally derelict’ for scrapping negotiations to avoid shutdown
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Schumer says Trump ‘totally derelict’ for scrapping negotiations to avoid shutdown
The federal government is heading towards a shutdown in one week with no potential solution in sight. President Trump canceled a planned meeting with Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, saying what they are asking for in negotiation…Geoff Bennett (PBS News)
saw @juliaserano.bsky.social was promoting her amazing novel 99 Erics, which I just reread and still adore. Highly recommend; it's one of my favorite novels of the 21st century. www.juliaserano.com/99erics.html
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99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel by Julia Serano
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Ryder Cup banter and blunders get started at Bethpage without a shot being hit
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Rubio to Lavrov: Russia must stop killings and agree to peace in Ukraine
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New York, once again called for an end to the killings and for meaningful steps toward a peaceful settlement in Ukraine. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
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Photos from Letizia and Felipe's state visit to Egypt, including all of her outfits from official
The white dress is amazing!EUROPE SAYS
The accelerator has introduced a new application track called Early Decision, designed for students who want to start companies but don’t want to drop out.
East Bay apartment deal would preserve affordable housing for residents
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East Bay apartment deal would preserve affordable housing for residents
A shopping spree for Bay Area apartments has reached $141.2 million.gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com (The Mercury News)
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This mom was an antivaxxer, but changed her mind. Now she busts myths for other parents
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Asian Stocks Set to Fall as Global Rally Stalls: Markets Wrap
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I went to Japanfest this weekend in support of a friend. He does pottery based on traditional Japanese folks techniques and imports and blends teas.
I mostly didn't have time to walk around, but what little walking around I did was somewhat disappointing.
The other artists were great.
There were a lot of imported snacks (Good! I liked that!) but I didn't see much there that I couldn't find at retail in at least three shops local to the venue for a better price.
My friend had some specialty teas, including a high quality Sencha, a Genmaicha, and a Hōjicha. No one else there had teas.
There were a fair number of Anime things related to franchises that are popular in the US: T-shirts, statues, some figurines.
I know, more or less, how I would source the above if I was to pursue this.
I have a lot of these kinds of things as one off items, but not in the quantities or at the margins it would take to stock a booth at a con.
The current tariff situation complicates sourcing some of this stuff a bit, but it complicates things as much for me as it would for anyone else.
It'd be a big time investment to stock up on these things the first time, and then it'd take a commitment to keeping them stocked after the fact. I can't imagine it'd be worthwhile if I was only selling at Japanfest, but if I was going to AWA and Momocon, I could probably make that work.
(I have no intention of doing this, it's just what I thought of after having been at the show.)
Alright, so back to the topic at hand.
My buddy sells tea, pottery, and books. A lot of the books he sells are english translations of Japanese lit, folklore, history, etc.
Mostly these are hard-to-find used books. He does pretty well sourcing these, but it's a fairly high effort task.
One of my recommendations to him was to start picking up some new books (of course, as a bookseller I could help him do that.)
I also recommended that he try to find some vintage Japanese language manga and art books through his existing channels.
Beyond that, though, I'm trying to figure out why things would meet the tone of his existing work while attracting an audience beyond tea drinkers, you know?
@shapr I'm very much thinking about it from the perspective of "could I make this work better for him" and then also "could I make this make sense for me"
And I think in both cases the answer is "yes, but there are probably other shows that make more since for me to put this energy into."
I like the whole cheerful multipurpose wrapping cloth idea.
Relatedly, I'm looking for copies of or scans of vintage Japanese magazines (and, frankly, pop culture magazines from all over the world!)
I'm especially interested in 1970s issues of テレビマガジン (Terebi Magazine) and たのしい幼稚園 (Tanoshii Yōchien) from 1974 - 1976 because they'd have had some Himitsu Sentai Gorenger recap strips which I'm looking for.
But any manga magazines, shonen or other shojo or whatever, would be appreciated.
I've found a fair number of later scans (like this one: archive.org/details/TV-Kun-197… ) on the internet archive.
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But yeah, if you have any of these you want to sell, or you have some you want to keep but are willing to scan, or if you have scans of them, I want 'em.
I'm also looking for old wrestling magazines from any country. I'm less interested in those scans than I am the physical magazines. "Old" in this case is pre 2000.
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nope, it's been down since yesterday.
Steam and Instagram were also down yesterday, and today I'm seeing outages for Roblox, Discord, and others, idk if related or not.
There's a serious set of outages happening, actually.
@jakimfett the archive was up intermittently when I shared the link. I had just taken those screenshots and sourced those scans.
It's up and down a lot these days. Ai scrapers, I assume.
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Alberta health-care wait lists climb past half a million, as Alberta stops tracking deaths of those waiting for treatment
Alberta’s health-care wait lists have swelled beyond half a million patients, and the province has stopped counting how many people die while waiting for treatment creating a lack of disclosure that leaves families and analysts examining the system w…Kevin Green (CTVNews)
JUST IN: Jimmy Kimmel’s Return to TV Receives Whopping 6.3 Million Viewers
The return of Jimmy Kimmel Live! to television on Tuesday received a whopping 6.3 million viewers, according to ABC's figures.Charlie Nash (Mediaite)
Jimmy Kimmel’s return scores 6.3 million viewers on ABC — and many more on social media
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Jimmy Kimmel's return scores 6.3 million viewers on ABC — and many more on social media
The late-night show host was back on the air Tuesday after being yanked for his comments about right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.Stephen Battaglio (Los Angeles Times)
‘A symbol of liberation’: how the One Piece manga flag became the symbol of Asia’s gen Z protest movement -
In Indonesia, it was hung outside homes, on motorbikes, cars and trucks, in a sign of discontent with the government that boiled over into deadly protestsEUROPE SAYS
WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES? - EUROPE SAYS
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A new Trump policy on Ukraine, or more of the same?
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Tesla is now buying ads on Elon Musk’s X to get people to vote for his $1 trillion compensation
Tesla is now buying advertising on Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) to get Tesla shareholders to vote for his CEO...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
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$50K bribe. FBI recording. Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan. DOJ shuts it down. White House says “nothing wrong.” Democrats demand the records—because cover-ups shouldn’t be the law of the land. #Corruption #Justice #Accountability www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
NXT's Myles Borne congratulated his girlfriend, new Women's World Champion Stephanie Vaquer, on Instagram: "I'm so proud of you... Congratulations mi campeona".
In her reply, Vaquer confirmed reports of a recent illness, thanking Borne for "taking care of me during the three weeks before this match when I was very sick".
What do you think of the new champion? Let us know!
NXT Star Myles Borne Praises Girlfriend Stephanie Vaquer Following WWE Championship Victory - Wrestling News
Stephanie Vaquer and her real-life partner, NXT Superstar Myles Borne, shared a public exchange on Instagram celebrating her championship win and revealing new details about her recent struggles.Erick Chambers (WrestlingNews.co)
Estonian foreign minister talks about Russia's alleged incursion into their airspace
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JD Vance Demands People Stop Using 'Nazi' As Insult And Gets Mocked
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JD Vance Demands People Stop Using 'Nazi' As Insult And Gets Mocked
Many people on social media reminded the vice president that he referred to Donald Trump as "America's Hitler" back in 2016.David Moye (HuffPost)
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US judge blocks Trump from tying states' disaster aid to immigration enforcement
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(Reuters) -A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that an effort by the Trump administration to force states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in orderNewsBreak
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I see the "How One Bad Password Ended a 158-Year-Old Business" story has resurfaced (as a thinly-disguised SpecOps ad).
If a single non-MFA'd password is an existential threat to your entire enterprise ... maybe the problem isn't the intern.
And maybe the fix isn't a single vendor.
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After #Cincinnati #Ohio area Tri-State priest placed on leave due to a "list" of URLs to sex sites found of his computer, police and church officials say no 'criminal activity or wrongdoing' found on computer.
The search of the computer found the configuration file of a malware program meant to block such sites on church computers which had those sites and others in it.
The Cincinnati Archdiocese have been extra vigilant of late after several incidents regarding bad, and even criminal, sexual behavior of some of its priests.
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After Tri-State priest placed on leave, officials say no 'criminal activity or wrongdoing' found on computer
We previously reported that the Archdiocese of Cincinnati placed Fr. Ed Burns Jr. on leave after a parish employee told leadership that a computer in his possession may have accessed porn websites.Taylor Weiter (WCPO 9 Cincinnati)
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