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Step 1: Start a dumbass trade war with China (and Brazil). Step 2: Lose Chinese soybean market to Brazil. Step 3: Bail out your nutty right wing buddy Javier Milei. Step 4: Lose soybean market to Milei, too. Steph 5: Make taxpayers pay for your stupidity.
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Zelenskyy praises 'well-informed' Trump after shift in position
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Newly appointed US attorney will attempt to charge James Comey: Sources
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‘The Morning Show’ Women Are “Nakedly Ambitious” in Season 4: “It’s Fun to Hear Them Say the Quiet Thing Out Loud”
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Treasury Secretary Bessent tells NYC to ‘drop dead’ if it elects Mamdani aljazeera.com/economy/2025/9/2…

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There's a woman on the bus who has the volume on her phone all the way up and she's watching a video of some lady talking to a baby and the baby is just screaming and crying.
in reply to Emily Velasco

the video could maybe be of her own child that's living outside the country and it's really meaningful for her, but she should still have some public awareness. I'm sorry you had to listen to that, I'm not saying suck it up, but making a theory like this can help rationalize it a bit more and make it less irritating at the end of the day.


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World Title Open Challenge
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Hangman Page vs
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In case you missed it! ⚡️ The HarryPotter HBO series is currently filming and the cast was previously revealed. 🎥

💙 Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter.
💛 Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger.
🧡 Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley.

Are you excited? 🤔


in reply to Susan ✶✶✶✶

@anubis2814 not to defend either of these bafoons, but I don't belive the Secretary of Health is usually someone medically educated. The only other one I can think of off hand with a search is former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson who served under Bush Jr.
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@Trump may be the anti-christ True but the secretary of health should be actually listening to doctors as opposed to his own brain worms in his head.


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/subscribe



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!

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@quinn I mean… killing your darlings is one thing, but discovering that some of them died of neglect years ago is another, I fear. Nothing world shaking, but upsetting all the same.


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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.



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Schumer says Trump ‘totally derelict’ for scrapping negotiations to avoid shutdown
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Are there any plumbers amongst my Mastodon folks? I have a threaded water pipe that is one inch, but it needs to fit into a threaded pipe that is closer to 1.4 or 1.5 inch. Or there such things as threaded adapters?



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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.

in reply to Andrew (Television Executive)

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.)

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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?

in reply to Andrew (Television Executive)

that's why I stopped going to the DragonCon vendor rooms. Everything they had was mass produced crap.
in reply to Shae Erisson

@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."

in reply to Andrew (Television Executive)

what about custom furoshiki? I have a real made in Japan furoshiki but I'd like something a bit larger and slightly more American.
I like the whole cheerful multipurpose wrapping cloth idea.
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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.

in reply to Andrew (Television Executive)

Hell, if you've got any of the Beetleborg or Masked Rider magazines that littered walmart shelves in 1997, I'd like those too.
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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.

in reply to ParenTessaLation

@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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CTV did a journalism! In this excellent report, Kevin Green remembered Smith’s 2022 promise to fix health care in Alberta in 90 days. That was 1,070 days ago—are things any better? “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 without answers.” #ABPoli #healthcare
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