Jesse Betteridge

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Zannen, Canada podcast: Exploring the connections between anime and Canadian media: zannen.ca
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in 1986—peak AIDS crisis; only 6 months after reagan admitted AIDS was real—the NYT ran a william f buckley op-ed calling for all HIV+ people to be tattooed on the arm & the ass for the greater good anyone giving the NYT the benefit of the doubt about trans coverage: this is who they’ve always been

Worth noting that the 'crisis' of kids socially transitioning at school without notifying their parents was almost entirely seeded by a NYT article. Even in conservative states, this was nowhere on the legislative agenda a year ago and now it's everywhere.

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I'mma say this for all the people in the back. Don't vote for a person. Vote for your rights, for the rights of others. On page 5 of Project 2025's 180-day plan they openly call for outlawing porn, recommending imprisoning anyone who creates it. Are you an NSFW artist, or like the art? THIS IS YOU.

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I'm not depressed about politics. In 2016 I realized this is the fight, we're in the fight we spent our youth sitting around whining that we'd missed out on. We were in that fight before 2016 and we didn't know it. We know it now. This isn't the time for doomsaying, this is fightin' time

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oH MY GOD IS THE MENSWEAR GUY GOING AFTER PIERRE POILIEVRE

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Guys I try to remain pretty uncontroversial on here but I can’t stay quiet about this any longer. I think the Filipino Gundam statue is good

Hot damn, this is some promising news. dailyhive.com/vancouver/va...

Vancouver to allow more density at all SkyTrain stations beyond legislation | Urbanizeddailyhive.com These are the City of Vancouver's policies for the designated Transit-Oriented Areas (TOAs) of SkyTrain stations and bus exchanges.

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neways i got big plans

It's worth stressing that both Riding Bean and Otaku no Video are also listed on Amazon.ca without ridiculous import mark-ups. This wasn't the case with older AnimEigo titles, so it seems they have new Canadian distribution in place. @discotekmedia.bsky.social might want to copy their homework.

Riding Bean on Blu-ray updates! A preview of the exclusive slipcover if you order from the MediaOCD Store! www.mediaocd.com/product-page... Plus... in addition to Japanese & English audio, the German & Catalan dubs are here! The disc is also region free. www.amazon.com/Riding-Bean-...

Riding Bean [Blu-ray]: Amazon.ca: Yasuo Hasegawa, Hideyuki Tanaka, Kei Tomiyama, Mami Koyama, Megumi Hayashibara: Movies & TV Showswww.amazon.ca

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Well it took two years but I do appreciate the hers and hers packaging for the GWitch Blu-rays

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I love this poll question

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I was at the Fandom Bazaar yesterday, where @jbetteridge.bsky.social’s table reminded me that it’s always time for Discotek Day.

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My ride is here.

I paid $35 and got both of these Nendoroids. Then I had to pay $55 to release my car from the only convenient parkade. Basically, I had the full flea market experience.

Here's some great news: Psi-Cops is coming to Adult Swim in the US next month! adultswimcentral.com/2024/06/07/p...

Psi Cops are Coming to Adult Swim US in July | [adult swim central]adultswimcentral.com Hosts of Canada's Night Sweats in conjunction with Robert Kirkman's Skybound bring you Adult Swim's next "Procedural Cop Drama."

Fandom Bazaar is TOMORROW! I'll have a CASH ONLY flea market table there!

For those in the Metro Vancouver area, I am going to have a flea market table at Fandom Bazaar at the Sapperton Community Hall next Saturday. I'll be selling loads of used books, manga and DVD/Blu-rays, including a whole bunch of coveted Discotek titles! CASH ONLY.

This took forever to launch, but it's a promising step forward and badly needed. www.cp24.com/news/liberal...

Liberal government launches $1.5B program to build more co-op housingwww.cp24.com Housing Minister Sean Fraser announced the launch of a $1.5-billion co-operative housing development program that the federal government promised in its 2022 budget.

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this is the funniest thing happening on the internet today: people claiming the newly elected president of Mexico isn’t really Jewish because she thanked Jesus (she thanked Jesús, her husband)

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We were saddened to hear of the recent passing of Eiko Masuyama, best known for being the voice of Fujiko Mine in Lupin the 3rd TV shows, movies, specials & more for decades. Not just beloved for Fujiko, Masuyama was also the original Cutie Honey, & more during her long career.

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Good Faces Bot is on bsky, this is not a drill

My podcast with @bunnycartoon.bsky.social on Wakakusa no Charlotte, the first anime ever set in Canada, is now up on YouTube. Apologies for the delay on that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rJW...

Zannen, Canada Episode 93 - Charlotte Watch Out Oh God What Are You Doing Bonhomme's Coming For Youwww.youtube.com It's time to look at the first anime series ever set in Canada: the pastoral Quebec tale of Wakakusa No Charlotte (Charlotte of the Young Grass). It's not a ...

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Bnuuy.

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In Anime World Order Show # 231 – This Isn’t Meshing and Watching This Was UnW’z of Us, it's come to pass. Yes, thanks to your support and helping us reach our goal of 250 Patreon backers, we're reviewing what you voted "the worst anime ever" Hand Shakers from 2017 www.awopodcast.com/2024/05/anim...

Anime World Order Show # 231 – This Isn’t Meshing and Watching This Was UnW’z of Uswww.awopodcast.com It’s finally time. As a result of us reaching over 250 Patrons, we’re reviewing what you’ve voted “the worst anime of all time”: Hand Shakers from 2017. But maybe it&#…

New Zannen, Canada! @chandyran.bsky.social is back to chat about Gundam SEED FREEDOM. Originally planned for a one-day screening, its Canadian release was expanded to 17 days! Whoever would've expected that Bandai would underestimate something like that? www.zannen.ca/2024/05/epis...

Episode 94 - There Is No Acronym That Can Describe Gundam SEED FREEDOMwww.zannen.ca In a move that is not at all surprising for Bandai, the demand for the long-delayed Gundam SEED FREEDOM film was drastically underestimat...

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Great Washington Post nostalgia study. Adults think U.S. society was historically nicest and comfiest—most moral and close-knit, families happiest—whenever they happened to be little kids, and culture (music, movies, TV, fashion, sports, food) best whenever they were adolescents. wapo.st/3WXd9xS

A new high profile Vancouver dub! imissbionix.wordpress.com/2024/05/24/d...

Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction debuts with Vancouver-produced dubimissbionix.wordpress.com Crunchyroll debuted the first episode (technically, episode 0) of Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction yesterday in both Japanese and with an English dub made in Vancouver by Ocean Productions. The ...

Kaori Tsurutani, author of BL Metamorphasis, is a guest at Vancaf this weekend, and to celebrate they're streaming the recent film based on the comic for free for anyone in Canada. You can access it here: t.co/QVbepCWDR5

"BL Metamorphosis" virtual film screening, co-presented with VanCAFt.co Kickoff the 2024 Vancouver Comic Arts Festival with the virtual screening of "BL Metamorphosis," adapted from the acclaimed manga of the same name. Co-presented with the Japan Foundation, Toronto

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how it started how it's going

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COVID wastewater data in NYC is at sustained historical lows, and I think that's pretty neat

I finally took the plunge on our plane tickets to Japan. We'll be there from October 29 to November 9!