"はあ?", especially with in a nasal and incredulous way is where it's at for me

Thanks! Next is nothing, I'm going to stop working for the next 6 months to recover my mental health

It's wild that they have so many conventional markers of status (wealth, education, access to nice dinners) and they still feel insecure about not being American for the white silicon valley man at the top of the hierarchy

I was hosting a friend from Japan and apparently she had never eaten or seen a nectarine before???

I'll eat both peaches and nectarines, but I feel like yellow nectarines are peak because of the lack of fuzz

without her baby photos, I can only assume my cat sprang fully formed at two years old from the forehead of her parent a la Athena and landed her ass immediately in Oakland Animal Shelter

white people yearning for cultural knowledge...

Japanese salaries are way lower than that of the US across most industries and roles. I received an entry level software job offer from a Japanese company that would have paid me half of that of a company in SF!

Japan minimum wage ranges from 900-1100 yen - enough to get a cheap lunch, maybe

People weirdly see Miyazaki as apolitical and happy vibes even tho war is in the backdrop of a lot of his work

You have probably seen this already, but from lizbourke.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/6...

"[...] seems to be an expression par excellence of US (white) middle-class assimilationist queerness, reproducing the structures and strictures of white (capitalist) heterosexuality."

honestly praying sundae school makes one with a cool pattern sundae.school

omg this was wonderful and I recognize Mary from some of your earlier works!!! aaaaaaaaaaa

ocha and osake