got drunk around TK and fell asleep on the train & woke up miles from home. Went into a hotel, used drunken japanese trying to book in. Guy behind counter baffled. People complaining at check-in, me belligerent that he wasn't helping
...had brief window of soberness, realised i was in a mcdonalds
First image that came to mind
Good stuff
Disappointed (but not entirely surprised) this #cartoon didn't find a home. #doglife #dogs #business
Quentin Tarantino should have been run out of town for speaking ill of this man
Damn, that’s handy.
I know so little about this device…
TIL
Blake Morrison, "Stop"
I found the longer speech, the whole speech is so heartfelt inappropriate now as well. youtu.be/HfXmpJRZPYI?...
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Awesome!
The @warmovietheatre.com pod did a really good episode on Reach for the Sky just this week, with a really thought-provoking contribution from Peter Apps on the role that Bader, and the film, have played in disability awareness and representation. There's a lot more to this film than meets the eye.
Loved Tatjana’s work, esp. her stunning run on Alan Moore’s Saga of The Swamp Thing run.
There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana
(Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)
Japan friends, this Sunday March 1st, from 1pm we’ll be celebrating Japanese literature in translation at Human Arts Studio in Tsukuba. Some of my literary translator friends have kindly agreed to come along and read from their work - free and open to all, so do join us!
#translation #literature
This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is “feared.”
Brooklyn 8:37 PM
I’m immediately transported to the summer of 85, driving back from a summer job in Idaho to college in Chicago for my senior year. We played that tape to death.
Took my mother to the green tea shop in her local mall. I’d brought her a Japanese teapot and she wanted to try it out. The nice lady behind the counter handed over the tea and said, “Of course, you can add sugar if it’s too bitter!” GTFO.
February 19, 2026 INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY As survivors and descendants of the mass removals, detention, deportation, and family separation targeting our community during WWII, we refuse to stand by idly while our friends and neighbors are violently disappeared, forcibly removed, mass incarcerated, and separated from family members. We decry the murders of community members and at least 37 people in ICE custody and enforcement in 2025. We reject false narratives that state violence is "unavoidable," a "justifiable military action," necessary for "national security"—the same arguments used as they forced our parents, grandparents, aunties, and uncles into U.S. concentration camps in 1942. On this Day of Remembrance, we call on Japanese Americans and all people who believe in "Never Again" to demand justice for those we have lost—on the streets and hidden away in ICE detention centers. To break this cycle of state violence. To rise up and resist, together. We bravely commit to being the allies our familes needed during WWII. STOP REPEATING HISTORY. #TsuruForSolidarity #FreeFamilies #FreeThemAll
84 years ago today, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering the removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, about two-thirds of whom were US citizens. The Day of Remembrance this year comes as we see DHS buying land and warehouses for more camps now.
“If the President can, at his pleasure, send troops into any city, town, or hamlet…then there can be no difference whatever in this respect between the powers of the President and those of...the Czar of Russia.” Illinois's Guilded-Age Governor John Altgeld in 1895
Black and white caricature studies of Rowan Atkinson as the four principal incarnations of Edmund Blackadder, arranged in diamond formation.
Studies of Rowan Atkinson as the four principal incarnations of Edmund Blackadder, for a painting.
#caricature #art
Here's a downloadable inventory—including geolocation data—of the 200+ trees in Tokyo known to carry traces of wartime bombing in their morphology
www.davidfedman.org/tokyos-warda...
Happy to share a lesson plan/walking route I've developed, if anyone's taking students to Tokyo anytime soon
My new favorite German word.
His two appearances on Mark Maron’s WTF podcast are epic fun.
My first attempt to make sense of a truly historic general election.
open.substack.com/pub/observin...
The Busby Babes black and white photo
Tommy Taylor
Mark Jones
Mark and Tommy remembered on the museum with photos, autograph book and scarf
Today is the 68th anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster, we remember the Busby Babes who lost their lives including Barnsley's Tommy Taylor and Mark Jones
There will be a memorial stone to Mark Jones unveiled on Wombwell High Street today, Friday 6 February at 11am
#FlowersOverManchester
This whole thread is a brilliant take down of noted sex predator, Neil Gaiman, bit this right here is the bottom line.
Many men will believe some male rando over women with CVS long receipts.
Fuck Neil Gaiman forever and a day.
Felt-tip pen on paper illustration of several cyclocross racers running up a snow-covered hill while carrying their bikes. Most are wearing shorts. Two spectators stand nearby.
Cyclocross in the snow
Artist: Eliza Southwood
