Mike

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Software developer, anime fan, retrogamer, lover of nature, and pursuer of other geeky pursuits. He/him.

Co-host of amokenzoku.com/podcast/ with the other "Bubblegum Crisis Boomer Otaku" (aka excuse for 00s anime club friends to chat about weeb stuff)

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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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Gainax died as it lived: being just comically terrible at money management at every turn.

Gainax — the anime studio once behind Evangelion, Honneamise, Nadia, Gunbuster, Gurren Lagann, and other classics — has filed for bankruptcy.

Anime Studio Gainax Files for Bankruptcywww.animenewsnetwork.com Co-founder Hideaki Anno's current studio Khara acquires Gainax's trademark

Fanime Day 2 attire - a 20 year old @animeigo.bsky.social "15 years of anime your way" shirt seems perfect for starting off the day with @sv2captain.bsky.social 's "Vintage Anime: Name that Year" panel.

FanimeCon Night 0: Badge picked up, now waiting in the line for swap meet. Current outfit: General Products T-shirt (official), Commodore 64 hat (not so official)

Made it to San Jose. Anyone else here at Fanime this year?

Catching Streets of Fire (??? was never expecting to see that on a local screen) at The Palm while wearing my @bunnycartoon.bsky.social "Bubblegum Midlife Crisis" shirt for reasons.

For various legal reasons they can't say this is the official, authorized sequel by the original creators of Star Control 2 I've been hoping for for three decades, but it is. Check out FREE STARS: Children of Infinity by Pistol Shrimp on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pis...

FREE STARS: Children of Infinitywww.kickstarter.com An epic space Action-RPG, and the long-awaited sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters.

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Tokyo Godfathers, one of my fav 🎄 movies, is free on YT! This film from legendary dir Satoshi Kon follows a homeless trio of a middle-aged drunk, a runaway teen, and a trans woman as they try to do right by a abandoned baby they find in the streets of Tokyo on Christmas Eve. youtu.be/R-HWzDCQr58?...

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Every time I remember that Kimono My House exists and that I can go there, it's like a tiny gift. It's basically a warehouse full of anime and tokusatsu goods from the 70s and 80s, as well as unique shirts and posters from when the owner licensed the stuff before anyone in the US cared about anime

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It's nice to have one's agony understood

TURN!!! IT!!! OFF!!!

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Very few people have had the honor of drawing Captain Harlock comics for a living. I am extraordinarily lucky to be one of them. timeldred.com/captainharlo...

How Captain Harlock changed my life, 1990 | Tim Eldredtimeldred.com The story of how fate landed me with the plum assignment of drawing Captain Harlock comics, starting with issue #12. How can drawing a comic book change your life? Usually in unexpected ways you never...

BRAINS

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I feel like such an idiot for not realizing that yesterday was the 35th Anniversary of Super Mario Bros 2 coming to North America. My favorite Mario game.

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... it's been real, TRSI. A lot of us are going to miss you a whole lot. 🥺 Thanks for 36 years of outstanding service.

Not sure why I went with carrot cake except I haven't had one for quite a while and I'm really craving it. I miss the cheap but delicious frozen carrot cake Trader Joes used to sell in a paper tray until like 10-15 years ago. 😥

Let's go, full dessert mode on Bluesky. Best pie: banana cream Best ice cream: mint oreo Best donut: glazed old fashioned Best bar: maple bacon Best cake: carrot w/ cream cheese frosting Best other: persimmon tempura ala mode made by a local Japanese restaurant for a couple weeks every December.

Let's go, full dessert mode on Bluesky. Best pie: apple pie Best ice cream: strawberry (or anything floral) Best donut: old fashioned maple Best bar: key lime bars Best cake: homemade red velvet (cream cheese frosting only) Best other: Hawaiian shave ice 🍧

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if i ever post something that can be interpreted in more than one way, then i definitely wrote it with the intention of grievously wounding you, a stranger i have never spoken to before and whose existence i was previously not aware of

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The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

#RNDitem No. 17 - Anime Poseur bag from @bunnycartoon.bsky.social's store - I've carried this to every anime con (admittedly not that many thanks to the pandemic) I've attended since I bought it in late 2018. TBH I'm not really sure how much of why is deliberate irony vs actual imposter syndrome 😅

#RNDitem No. 16 - my BD copies of Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise. Bandai Visual US chipboard box autographed by director Hiroyuki Yamaga @ Fanime 2010 + postcard @ 2013. Gainax screened my BV BD at Fanime 2011 when they realized the copy they'd brought had no subs... 🧵

#RNDitem No. 15 - Blue DEVO Energy Dome hat. IIRC this was a gift-with-purchase promo if you bought the DEVO release at Record Store Day 2010.

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Periodic reminder that "don't speak ill of the dead" is for, like, not mentioning at her funeral that Aunt Sally was a drunk and a lousy cook. It's not for suppressing public discussion of public figures and their complicated legacies.

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Everyone should follow Tim. He's a fantastic person and probably the biggest and best Star Blazers fan on the planet. 💖

Hey, folks. The lovely Tim Eldred has joined us, so please give him a follow: bsky.app/profile/time...

#RNDitem No. 14 - BOME Selected Works 1983-2009. Exhibition catalog for his 2009/2010 "Psyche" solo exhibitions at Takashi Murakami's Kaikai Kiki Gallery locations in Tokyo and Taipei. This would have been very interesting to have seen in person.

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As a linguist, I'm really curious to watch how a better understanding of history might change the modern use of the word Luddite. As someone concerned about how tech is being used to concentrate power, I want everyone to learn from this, stat.

The Luddites weren’t technophobes. They saw factory owners using tech to degrade their livelihoods and fought back—first by trying to negotiate, then writing to Parliament, and finally smashing the machines. @bcmerchant.bsky.social talks to @parismarx.bsky.social about what we can learn from them.

The Real History of the Luddites w/ Brian Merchant - Tech Won't Save Uswww.buzzsprout.com Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss the history of the Luddites, why we have their story all wrong, and what we can learn from them today. Brian Merchant is the technology columnist at ...

#RNDitem No. 13 - Teacup from the "Yamaga Tea Party" at Fanime 2012 or 2013 which were a rather odd events (though less odd than the one in 2014?) Gainax had leftover Dantalian tea and cups from this crossover promo with Utako Yamada's Karel Kapek tea shop so brought them to Fanime for a tea party🧵

#RNDitem No. 12 - Pac-Man Arby's promo glass from ~1980 Found at the local drive-in theater's Sunday swap meet in the late 2000s. I probably don't want to know what the CA Prop. 65 warning would read for this.

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Ok Latesky I’m off to bed. Good night to all of you but especially to everyone that gets this joke.