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Nick Seaver
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Mothra, looking transcendent, flying about the Japanese diet building
December 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Godzilla flinging a mothra larva that’s biting the tip of his tail into the air
December 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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this could be an STS book
Random Vibration volume 2, edited by Crandall, MIT Press
December 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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don’t talk to me or my son ever again
two plastic gundam models, one small
December 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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got two very different kinds of RPG for my two very different kinds of children
Psychic Trash Detectives, A story game by Brigitte Winter And HOME: Mech x Kaiju mapmaking RPG
December 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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2020 was
a felt ornament that looks like a coronavirus and has “2020” embroidered on it
December 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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every year we make a commemorative felt ornament for the tree, this year’s is:
a felt mothra ornament on a green plastic Christmas tree
December 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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children brought back the gundam kit, I got a FamilyMart one
a small plastic model of a familymart convenience store in front of a box with a plastic gundam kit
December 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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three little plastic gundams under dramatic lighting
December 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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the gachapon gundam situation is getting out of control here (pictured: gundam number one)
a little gundam figurine next to a Christmas decoration
December 17, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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kids learned to write their names in katakana, only for Gus to discover that they have *volcanic* Gus here (火山ガス)
火山ガス on a sign
December 14, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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the cover of Lucy Suchman's PLANS AND SITUATED ACTIONS, but it has a diagram from Wile E. Coyote's efforts to catch the road runner on it
December 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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I’m having so much restraint
an adorable Godzilla humidifier that blows mist out of its mouth
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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she’s right behind me, isn’t she
a guy with a mustache and glasses taking a selfie in front of an enormous white unicorn gundam
December 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Y WHIPLASH
a clothing store called SNIDEL
December 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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the big-eyed evolution of Godzilla from SHIN GODZILLA
December 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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lol the mad men thing is really true
a bunch of guys in suits, one of whom appears to be vomitingc but you can see the guys running a tank and tube of fake vomit toward him
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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this is the only well being OpenAI is qualified to support
a girl climbing out of a well in THE RING
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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have you seen how their sports book starts
“Yeeeeeeeeeeesss!” That’s me, Harry Collins, a seventy-year-old university professor, my thirty-eight-year-old son, who works for an economics think tank, and my thirty-five-year-old daughter, a senior civil servant. We’re high-fiving and rolling about on the floor. The final whistle has just gone and Liverpool has held on at Anfield, their home ground, to beat Manchester City and put the Premiership title in their own hands. It’s Sunday, April 13, 2013, and we’ve been watching the telly at a friend’s house in London, where my kids live. My wife has gone home to Cardiff on the train because she can’t stand the tension and she doesn’t want to see me have a heart attack. Insanity!
November 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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excellent contraptioneering on the tabletop skewer grill at this ktown bbq place
a bunch of metal skewers with lamb on them over an open hole in a table surrounded by little plates
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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happy turkey congee day
delicious looking turkey congee with a bit of salsa macha on top
November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I’ll play, since I just got this picture of my ethnography of music recommender system developers on display in a hifi listening cafe in Long Beach, CA
a copy of COMPUTING TASTE on a shelf above some mugs
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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this is an all-timer ethnographic vignette for me (from Noriko Milman's 2009 dissertation, "PAY ATTENTION!")
Several teachers measured attentiveness by the amount of active discussion and verbal participation. The following morning wake-up routine in Room 12 illustrates this point to the extreme: After the kids settle in, their teacher announces that they're going to "warm-up" to their motivational pop song, "Unwritten." Ms. Harvey heads to the front of the room to press "PLAY" on the CD player. After a few seconds, the song streams through the small stereo's speakers, "Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun..." The teacher and most of her students rise to the occasion and begin to swing their hips and shoulders to the beat of the music. The teacher enthusiastically sways her arms in the air, tips her head back, closes her eyes, and shouts the melody of the song. She turns around and shouts with glee, "Get louder! You're not ready for second grade, yet! Let's wake up the school!!" With this, several kids bark the words and move with more fervor, "Feel the rain on your skin! No one else can feel itfor you, Only you can let it in, No one else, No one else..."
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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a big stupid rollercoaster
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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if I’m going to give multiple choice in intro to STS, might as well lean in to the absurdity
6. Do artifacts have polities? (a) Yes. (b) No. Explain your answer:
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM