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Chris Israel Barker

@downpressor

4 years

RPGs are just wargames in party dresses.

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Chris Israel Barker

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9 months

@mrjeffu Thanks to Article 22 of the Constitution of Japan she can do this without being disappeared into white van by plainclothes police.

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Yamazaki Bread truck on the Hokuriku Expressway on the way to provide relief food. They did this after the March 2011 disaster also. Good company, good bread.

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みんな大好きヤマザキパンのトラックも被災地に向けてゾロゾロ北陸道を上っています。 #令和6年能登半島地震 #ヤマザキパン #支援物資

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@GaijinMommy I read the whole thing. Strangely reminiscent of some workplaces… Also the idea of “graduation” from kindergarten is kinda weird.

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Was just stopped and completely searched less than 100M from home. Full pocket dump, frisk, went through my bag and wallet.

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1 year

@OliverJia1014 We fought a whole war to get rid of British royals.

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3 years

@SarahJ_Berry Sorry to say but all your photos are cherry picked. These are all small “shotengai” shopping streets. Normal streets may have on street parking or people just park anyway like below. Signed, Tokyo resident

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Almost qualifies for @giantcat9

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やられました！😵

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@AP @AlfieJapanorama Maybe the gorilla, lion and elephant will go attack @peta HQ and eat all the staff.

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@BorisBikeFake @necrospective13 やはりそうです

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3 years

Remember this gem? Any of y’all in Osaka still alive?

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@dieworkwear > they relied on tailors to keep things in wearable condition (alterations and repairs). I recently tried to get some Brooks Brothers suits repaired here in Tokyo. Their store couldn’t do anything. Most disappointing.

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Periodic reminder that white people know what’s best for the Japanese.

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Twitter loves the “I was never taught this in school” takes. Lots of things aren’t taught in school but thanks to your friendly public library people get to learn for themselves.

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2 years

Unfortunately already seeing English language ghoulish tweets trying to use the shooting of former PM Abe to advance their pet causes.

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2 years

I don’t understand the media today at all.

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1 year

Consulting the Advanced Squad Leader rules

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5 years

@Resistance48 3 cheers for ahistorical nonsense!

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6 years

@geofft @jopito Am I the only one that even the name “Trustico” inspires exactly the opposite feeling? Sounds like something from an Austin Powers movie

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3 years

Someone at Reuters has been drinking too much.

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@MalyndaHale We’re expressly forbidden from both those things.

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@hmvtweets Norm!

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4 years

@CallemAronsen Son, multilingual signs in public transportation are no threat to Japanese culture.

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2 years

@NAMC1997 Walking while not Japanese is reason enough.

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2 years

I don't envy translators who have to deal with really idiomatic language. Probably the right choice to go for real meaning rather than have the target language be idiomatic as well.

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1 year

"you will ride eternal, shiny and chrome" became this... elsewhere, shiny and chrome, witness me, mediocre and all other in movie slang was similarly botched into daily Japanese.

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6 months

@UNRWA @UN @UNOCHA @ochaopt @UNICEFpalestine @WHOoPt @UN_News_Centre @UNNewsArabic @UNESCO @UNESCO_Ramallah Huh, doesn’t look that way.

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Scenes from the Nutzirat market, central Gaza, yesterday (Dec. 18).

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2 years

Fog of wargaming

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@JigokuCake How about the strange names for the Clint Eastwood dollars trilogy?

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4 years

@JezebelKat @LRBbookshop @tweetheart4711 So, what? Another point in the sharks favor?

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2 years

Let’s settle this debate about Rings of Power. Dig up Tolkien and ask him.

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6 months

@zhao_dashuai None of this happened at all. Very lame post.

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2 years

Remember not too long ago when the Japan Experts told us that Japan had burned all its foreign goodwill and that people would stay away? Full of 💩 as usual.

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@japantimes

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The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan in September increased by almost twelvefold from a year earlier to 206,500.

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@EFischberger Unsurprisingly

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2 years

Westerners in Japan giving each other bad advice for over 400 years

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4 years

@CallemAronsen @Jushimatsukawa1 Chatty, I’ve been living in Japan for 21 years. Don’t imagine what I do or don’t understand. Oh and Callem, why do you figure any signs at all should be in English if you imagine that multilingual signs are such a threat?

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In Tokyo it’s common for people to put out stuff with a “take free” sign. I passed on a 35mm camera body with obvious damage and 2 lenses, didn’t take the guitar but did find a decent clean pair of trousers that fit me.

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2 years

@OliverJia1014 This basic tactic of comparing the two has become really common with a certain flavor of lefties and Arab propaganda accounts who bait those lefties.

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3 years

To quote Joe Strummer “if you’ve been trying for years, we already heard your song”.

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5 months

A portrait of a Jewish woman of Tangier before she was executed because she refused to convert to Islam.

jewish art

@AlbertBaram

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Alfred Dehodencq (1822-1882) Portrait de Sol Hatchuel La Tzadika de Tanger au moment de son exécution, elle avait refusé de se convertir à l’Islam et de renier son judaisme. Dehodencq avait assisté à son exécution.

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5 years

@RepRashida Still a liar

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@DempseyMjd @the_transit_guy You’ve never lived in Japan have you.

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1 year

@mrjeffu There was no need for any dashes at all in the movie map though.

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2 years

Neighborhood crow lectures are a good part of working from home.

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@OliverJia1014 Oliver, did you know were living in Nazi Germany? News to me!

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@OliverJia1014 That’s harshly phrased but actually a healthy attitude for men & women both. Unless there’s obvious reason to do so, worrying about your SO’s ex learns only to darkness & destruction.

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@UKinJerusalem @ClarenceHouse Shame on Britain

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@OliverJia1014 “Japan is not America” is the main point here.

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1 year

Clams: “you fixed me WHAT for dinner?”

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@kuro_asari5bee

1 year

やんのかやんのかオラオラオラオラ

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Chris Israel Barker

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3 years

Japan Post is pretty great. A leaf with a stamp and address was properly delivered.

石川初 Hajime B. S. Ishikawa

@hajimebs

3 years

ポストに葉っぱが入っていた。ちゃんと消印押してある

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4 years

No, I’m not gonna pay for this kind of content. I feel no pity. Learning to cook isn’t hard and it is the basic responsibility of people with custom diets.

The Japan News

@The_Japan_News

4 years

When British vegan Jessica Langshaw arrived in Japan for the #JETprogram , how would she be able to eat? She went from "wiping away my tears with a piece of lettuce" to joining a thriving " #Macrobiotic #Vegan scene."

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@Thoton That’s a stupid comparison.

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2 years

@hikosaemon Any mention of the fact that all the hiring ads for the last few years demand “native level” Japanese fluency?

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3 years

This is complete 🐴 💩 ↓ We have lots of historical evidence that Imperial Japan refused all German requests regarding Jews in Japanese controlled territory. The Mir Yeshiva exists now only due to Imperial Japanese policy. See also Lt General Higuchi Kiichiro.

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3 years

@abierkhatib @AlQastalps That’s some pretty casual storming there.

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Columbo telling deep truths

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@OliverJia1014 Says it all really

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2 years

@thejuliarock As a former hiring manager if I saw any of your example action verbs on a resume I’d think the person was trying to blow sunshine at me.

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4 years

To my fellow non Japanese residents of their fine archipelago: please take a moment to consider that we aren’t perpetual victims.

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"Foreigners are blamed for spreading the virus in Japan" is on heat here now. So I took a look at the original press conference. See below. Of the ~2hrs, around 5 mins are dedicated to foreigners. Here's a small breakdown:

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@CallemAronsen @Jushimatsukawa1 But shouldn’t you be speaking Maori first and English second?

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1 year

Be kind to each other

ジオラマ食堂official【公式】

@officia86839977

1 year

おはよう御座います。まもなく卒園する白ブチのプーマ君。カブちゃんがよく頑張ったねと…😢🩷 ずっとのおうちで幸せになるんだよ。 #ずっとのおうち #ジオラマ食堂卒園生

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@nyrath Worrisome if one gets stung by space bees.

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3 years

@mikko @chaz_6 Information doesn’t “want” a damn thing but certain information may only have value based upon how accessible it is when needed. Inaccessible standards are almost valueless.

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@AbandonedKansai @Mutantfroginc Actual content is here, feel free to read before passing judgement

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@YukariP The joke is that it’s not just “white men”. Japanese feudal culture turns it to be interesting to lots of ethnic groups and both sexes. But let’s not let facts get in the way of the narrative.

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5 months

@ICRC Except when they’re used for military purposes. Like Hamas has done.

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3 years

2 of the signs in today’s protest Replacement theory map Friendship with Jews prohibited This isn’t normal. The Jewish & Muslim communities here tend to get along.

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2 years

This is one of the coolest Metal Gear 35th anniversary tweets - a cake shaped like a Sony MSX 2 of the time with the game cartridge.

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メタルギア35周年おめでとうございます❗️🥳🎉㊗️ また潜友で集まってお祝いができたら良かったけど…もう少し我慢かな。30周年の時はMSX2のケーキを発注🎂 …若い職人さんは何を作っているのか謎だったかもしれないw #メタルギア #メタルギアソリッド #MetalGearSolid #METALGEAR #MG35th

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3 years

本当に馬鹿です。

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@neruhi2 @tomoe_0ct3 私は25年日本住んでアメリカ国民です。絶対に私は日本で投票権を持つべきではありません。

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Apparently this wasn’t sarcastic. I mean, who knew that people have to obey the law of the land?

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Giant cats roamed Japan in the Meiji era

ジオラマ食堂official【公式】

@officia86839977

1 year

この先100メートル通行止（新入りボブ爆睡の為） #cat #CatsOfTwitter

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MYAKU MYAKU has taken to the air to unleash his evil upon us

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Today, we announced the companies of the "Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)" that will operate eVTOLs at the Expo 🎉. Together, we will realize a new "revolution in air transportation" said to occur only once in a century 🌈. MYAKU-MYAKU also made an appearance☆! #EXPO2025

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@Ada60416802 @bull_japanese @ArthurEASC In fact Imperial Japan saved thousands of Jews lives. I’ve met descendants of people saved by Lt General Higuchi and of people who were in the Mier Yeahiva which resided in Kobe for years.

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Every small victory in the War on Christmas is important

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1 year

For those traveling to Osaka who wish to see the Giant Cats

ジオラマ食堂official【公式】

@officia86839977

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If you make a reservation at this store, we accept reservations by phone or direct message. 0667762460 #dioramarestaurantreservation

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Chris Israel Barker

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@rpxadair @crushspread No but I’ve got clear memory of the eleventy first of Aprember

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6 months

@UNRWA @UNLazzarini @FilippoGrandi UNRWA on the verge of collapse? What happened to the billions of dollars they were given?

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@OliverJia1014 Never needed one. I’m capable of heating a pot of water on the stove.

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Somewhere in Japan there’s a functionary whose entire job is to determine the food I like and remove it from the marketplace

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@paimadhu Why don’t you ask Hamas not to use hospitals for military purposes?

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1 year

How many of y’all would like this in front of your house?

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@Ofdelasalle @yehuda_feldmann In some parts of japan it is same day.

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Today I talked to a Japanese Communist Party member doing a political speech in Shinjuku with below poster. Says he’s against the Gaza war. He didn’t know ・what happened 10/7 ・the borders of Palestine ・who/what is Hamas ・meaning of genocide/apartheid ・etc on the subject

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@BenFRubinstein I’m confused, do you mean the Roman colonizers who invented that name, the Arab colonizers who never used that name or the British colonizers who used the Roman name?

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@DrWalidAmer1 PhD in linguistics doesn’t rate much it seems

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@PaulJNadeau That was always the stupidest concept. I’d actually laugh at the “no blood for oil” people.

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@ADL_National @UMich Sup ADL? Something wrong in your drinking water?

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@Ofdelasalle @yehuda_feldmann Overall shipping is a mess since the pandemic

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Don’t wanna jinx it but I just signed a job offer letter.

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@CallemAronsen @Jushimatsukawa1 This whole thing is really hilarious with the young man living abroad and Chatty who seems to be Japanese imagining threats to the nation like monsters under the futon.

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@PalestinePDP People aren’t stupid. Even Wikipedia is better than this drivel.

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