Place-based engagement, transit, urbanism, anime pilgrimage (seichijunrei, butaitanbou), anime tourism, ramen. 日本語: @michaelvito_jp
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Tamako Market, Demachi Masugata Shotengai likeafishinwater.com/2014/04…
Moriwaki Kiyotaka, Kyoani location hunting likeafishinwater.com/2014/11…
Butaitanbou-sha first meetings likeafishinwater.com/2014/11…
Anime Pilgrimage: Seichijunrei, Butaitanbou and Anime Tourism likeafishinwater.com/anime-p…
Listening to Sgt. Pepper's while doing the dishes. Other humans in the house keep asking "Is this a different band?" each time the track changes. Philistines.
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"You don’t need to talk down to a child. Children are very intelligent. They ask great questions."
apnews.com/article/raffi-new…
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Whenever I get an updated credit card, about one in five of the online services where I have subscriptions or autopay act like they have never considered the concept of updating card expiration dates. The solutions are usually something like:
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Me: <making coffee>
Spouse: Want anything while I'm on my US business trip?
Me: Economy size box of Cheez-It Extra Toasty
Spouse: Don't we have that already? <points to vaguely similar but obviously not Cheez-It thingy>
Me: You woke up and chose violence.
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When I lived in Philadelphia, if there was time I'd take the long way home so I could walk through Old City. Once, when I stopped to get groceries, I ran into Benjamin Franklin in the cereal aisle. Even historic polymaths gotta start the day right. apnews.com/article/america-2…
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Our son's psychologist knew that the voice actor for Optimus Prime passed away this week. We chose wisely (^^)
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Hong Kong’s independent bookstores, a refuge for Chinese readers, are under threat apnews.com/article/independe…
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While we are on the topic of anti-enshittification, here is the current set of engagement nudges *beyond advertising* I have to block on the Associated Press website just to be able to read the news without being distracted into oblivion.
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Google Search rolled out this URL redirect feature. Beyond the stated purpose of blocking scrapers, it prevents normal users from previewing or copying the actual URL, and prevents Firefox containers separating search pages from results for privacy. --> seroundtable.com/google-sear…
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There is a free, open-source plugin for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari that reverts to the previous behavior here: googlegotourl.com/
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