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it's insanely cool that bilibili, one of china's largest video streaming sites, has an anime girl on the login screen that's blatantly traced from that meme image of Kotori from the Love Live! (2013) OP (circa 0:20). it makes us feel right at home. chinese otaku, we salute you o7

fuck we need to finish that fucking EP

Did you know? Most everyday conversations are improved by finding an upright piano, and alternating between playing D on your left hand, and the chord F-A-E (one octave up from D) on your right hand, then after two alternations moving everything down to the next-lowest white key.

Some facts about the United Kingdom:

• A huge amount of the Global South's queerphobic legislation originates in being imposed by British colonial rule
• Nobody born after the repeal of Section 28 or the legalisation of legal gender changes could vote in the Brexit referendum

hmm…

Rainbow Dash

red berries and a bench shaded by the trees

🎵 Docklands — Vivid-Soundz (https://tenby.bandcamp.com/)

oh my god the americans are gonna have a war department again. the post-ww2 order really is dead huh. we always thought “war department” and “propaganda minister” were more honest terms so in principle we almost like this change. however it's full of awful implications also…

wait what do you MEAN the PSS-A50, an €80 toy keyboard, can layer four instruments at once! what the fuck https://youtube.com/shorts/EiBqJ4Yfl1c

we thought the limit was three! but then we hooked it up to the SC-88VL and noticed a suspiciously silent channel in the middle! there's FOUR??!!!

"sake" isn't called "sake" in Japanese, but rather 日本酒 [nihonshuu], "Japanese alcohol"

a "katana" isn't called a "katana" in Japanese, but rather 日本刀 [nihontou], "Japanese sword"

except, well, if you drop the Japanese/日本/nihon part, they are read as "sake" and "katana"!