Adamukun
@adamukun.bsky.social
Former Tokyo resident, current teacher/Japan watcher with a modest reform agenda:
✔️Make Kako-sama the emperor
✔️Use Japan's special forces to apprehend Carlos Ghosn
✔️Retake the Kurile Islands
✔️Aggressively pursue Fully Automated Luxury Communism
✔️Make Kako-sama the emperor
✔️Use Japan's special forces to apprehend Carlos Ghosn
✔️Retake the Kurile Islands
✔️Aggressively pursue Fully Automated Luxury Communism
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Adamukun
@adamukun.bsky.social
· Aug 27
Free on Plex: Golgo 13 (1973) starring Ken Takakura - an incredible time capsule of 70s Japanese aesthetic set in pre-revolutionary Iran (!) where the women dress promiscuously, the booze flows like wine, and the now-forbidden belly-dancing will captivate you watch.plex.tv/movie/golgo-13
If Khanna and Massie are serious about the Esptein files they should demand all the NSA data about him too @rokhanna.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 3:34 AM
If Khanna and Massie are serious about the Esptein files they should demand all the NSA data about him too @rokhanna.bsky.social
Bro, Pico Ayer was in Marty Supreme wtaf
February 12, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Bro, Pico Ayer was in Marty Supreme wtaf
Takaichi should cancel this humiliating "deal" with the US and call another election. she'd win 400 seats @mrjeffu.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Takaichi should cancel this humiliating "deal" with the US and call another election. she'd win 400 seats @mrjeffu.bsky.social
Most boring Super Bowl of all time?
February 9, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Most boring Super Bowl of all time?
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My 2026 Japanese general election thread starts here. We're now less than a half hour to polls closing.
February 8, 2026 at 10:35 AM
My 2026 Japanese general election thread starts here. We're now less than a half hour to polls closing.
This is the 2nd time in 15 years Noda has taken a wild political risk that handed the LDP a huge victory. They say he's a loach, but I think he might really be a mole!
February 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
This is the 2nd time in 15 years Noda has taken a wild political risk that handed the LDP a huge victory. They say he's a loach, but I think he might really be a mole!
What did Jerry Lundegaard need $320,000 for?
February 7, 2026 at 1:54 AM
What did Jerry Lundegaard need $320,000 for?
When the revolution happens they'll force Apple to make an iMessage PC app
February 1, 2026 at 10:01 PM
When the revolution happens they'll force Apple to make an iMessage PC app
Just saw Bugonia. Very fun and topical variation on Misery - Emma Stone absolutely kills it again in another great The Curse style role of “lib who thinks she gets it but very much does not” 7/10 would have been a 6 but Stavros Halkias adds texture with his clueless molester cop act
January 28, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Just saw Bugonia. Very fun and topical variation on Misery - Emma Stone absolutely kills it again in another great The Curse style role of “lib who thinks she gets it but very much does not” 7/10 would have been a 6 but Stavros Halkias adds texture with his clueless molester cop act
New post: I've got thoughts about how AI in the classroom undermines learning, inspired by a surprisingly clear-eyed white paper from the Brookings Institution: www.mutantfrog.com/2026/01/22/a...
AI undermines education and even the Brookings Institution can see it clearly – Mutantfrog Travelogue
www.mutantfrog.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:37 AM
New post: I've got thoughts about how AI in the classroom undermines learning, inspired by a surprisingly clear-eyed white paper from the Brookings Institution: www.mutantfrog.com/2026/01/22/a...
football sucks, fake sport
January 18, 2026 at 1:16 AM
football sucks, fake sport
bills ROBBED, wtf was that interception call
January 18, 2026 at 1:14 AM
bills ROBBED, wtf was that interception call
Cool Japan was right about everything
January 16, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Cool Japan was right about everything
they need to be stopped
January 6, 2026 at 1:01 AM
they need to be stopped
Japan should not give the Ueno Zoo pandas back. They’re better off in Tokyo!
December 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Japan should not give the Ueno Zoo pandas back. They’re better off in Tokyo!
They're caging Hachiko to protect him for Halloween. Why not instead give him a cool costume covered in razor-sharp spikes?
October 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
They're caging Hachiko to protect him for Halloween. Why not instead give him a cool costume covered in razor-sharp spikes?
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An extra-long, free Japan Daily Briefing to mark the start of the Takaichi government. Turns out the start of a new government generates a lot of news and analysis to read — who knew.
open.substack.com/pub/observin...
open.substack.com/pub/observin...
The Takaichi government arrives | Japan Daily Briefing
Takaichi displays her ambitions as she takes over as prime minister and organizes her administration
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
An extra-long, free Japan Daily Briefing to mark the start of the Takaichi government. Turns out the start of a new government generates a lot of news and analysis to read — who knew.
open.substack.com/pub/observin...
open.substack.com/pub/observin...
ways my seniors have misspelled The Metamorphosis in papers they wrote specifically focused on analyzing the book:
Metamorphise
Metaphorposis
Metamorphasis
Metaphorfisise
Metamorphesis
Metamorphise
Metaphorposis
Metamorphasis
Metaphorfisise
Metamorphesis
October 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
ways my seniors have misspelled The Metamorphosis in papers they wrote specifically focused on analyzing the book:
Metamorphise
Metaphorposis
Metamorphasis
Metaphorfisise
Metamorphesis
Metamorphise
Metaphorposis
Metamorphasis
Metaphorfisise
Metamorphesis
OBAA - it was pretty good!
October 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
OBAA - it was pretty good!
One battle after another time #lockingin
October 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
One battle after another time #lockingin
schroeder on the magic would win them a championship, make it happen
September 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
schroeder on the magic would win them a championship, make it happen
They're firing the Suntory guy for CBD supplements? Get a grip, Japan
September 4, 2025 at 1:24 AM
They're firing the Suntory guy for CBD supplements? Get a grip, Japan
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This is a win for all of us
August 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This is a win for all of us
Free on Plex: Golgo 13 (1973) starring Ken Takakura - an incredible time capsule of 70s Japanese aesthetic set in pre-revolutionary Iran (!) where the women dress promiscuously, the booze flows like wine, and the now-forbidden belly-dancing will captivate you watch.plex.tv/movie/golgo-13
August 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Free on Plex: Golgo 13 (1973) starring Ken Takakura - an incredible time capsule of 70s Japanese aesthetic set in pre-revolutionary Iran (!) where the women dress promiscuously, the booze flows like wine, and the now-forbidden belly-dancing will captivate you watch.plex.tv/movie/golgo-13
I knew Anthony Bourdain was a fervent Cool Japan guy, but it was news to me he made a cyberpunk graphic novel series called GET JIRO starring an ass-kicking sushi chef. How epic of him!
August 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I knew Anthony Bourdain was a fervent Cool Japan guy, but it was news to me he made a cyberpunk graphic novel series called GET JIRO starring an ass-kicking sushi chef. How epic of him!