Twistar

How Kyodo reported on the International Booker Prize winner announcement:

- Writes about the Japanese candidate who didn’t win
- Says an Indian author won but doesn’t give her name or the title of the book
- Writes more about the Japanese candidate
https://nordot.app/902667035480539136

on a different note - I wonder if anyone has offered David Hayter some stupid amount of money to do a fan redub of MGSV. I feel like someone must have. I mean somebody got him to do that MG1 fan remake. (before konami smashed it to bits)

this is an amazing read please

YOU DON’T EVEN LIVE HERE

The exploding anti-vaccine movement has radicalized a wave of parents into rejecting routine immunizations they once accepted — with potentially lethal consequences. https://nyti.ms/3NFzwA3

A domestic abuser, a klansmen, and a murderer walk into a bar.

Bartender: what will it be, officer?

A new subway line enters operation in Seoul 🇰🇷: the Sillim Line!
It fills a gap in the south-western part of Korea's capital.

@pajininsp3c @sindicatodedom4

no one knows how loud i just screamed

Shot / Chaser

Is men’s first instinct when planning a solo road trip to wonder if they’ll be serial killed or is that just a special treat for us girlies 🥰🥰

typescript has gone too far

“I could not name him Craig,” said Hayao Miyazaki about Totoro. 😂

Whose idea was it to go full Hunger Games cannon with this?

I’m still bullish on the Silicon Valley suburbs because there is literally nothing to do there except make money

“oh you want to defund the police? then who will you call when you need help?” has lost all power. don’t say it ever again.

*visible disgust*

I’m just curious why it’s age appropriate for kids k-5 to learn about hiding under desks and not that sometimes people have two dads.

2022FaOI Makuhari–《Real Face》
Photo by Kyodo/Getty Image (2k)
#YuzuruHanyu #羽生結弦

Still one of the greatest opening paragraphs of all time, and especially prescient this week, when my half Irish daughter has been asked to go to school dressed in red, white and blue and wave a flag.

DIR EN GREYの皆様は今日もお元気ですよ。

京

The Totoro wikipedia article is pretty crazy.

The Claire on the right can bench press the Claire on the left.

(Photos are 2 years, 8 months apart)