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jezebelkat

@jezebelkat@famichiki.jp

Labor Organiser 🎌, Journalist, Teacher, New Mexican, Kimagure Orange Road Fan
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jezebelkat, to random
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Asked on that other website, thought I'd ask on the chicken snack:

When did helicopter parenting kick in? When did kids stop having the ability basically be gone on their bikes all day and maybe call from a payphone/friend's landline to check in once?

Was it the rise of cell phones as something now adolescents or even younger kids just... had? Did it start earlier and I just didn't notice?

It feels like kids/teens haven't had that kind of freedom in a very, very long time. 20 years maybe.

tokyohomo, to random Japanese
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Umm…fellow 30-somethings, maybe let’s not marry 19-year-olds? 👀

jezebelkat,
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@tokyohomo 30 and 19 is sketch enough, but 37 and 19? Nope.

jezebelkat,
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@tokyohomo My parents were eight years apart, but they also got married when my mother was 44 and my step-father was 52, and that's an entirely different situation.

Even 11 years isn't a big deal if it's 51 and 40. Not sure 18 years is really not sketch to me if either person is below 50.

jezebelkat, to random
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"79% of Japan survey respondents want to join year-end parties after COVID downgrade" reports Mainichi.

I never wanted to join year-end parties BEFORE COVID existed. I hate the things.

FlockOfCats, to random
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It’s quite chilly tonight, so shorts season might finally be at an end.

I’m sorry, but you all might have to wait until spring for more of the zettai ryōiki between the bottom of my cargo shorts and top of my socks.

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

As long as it is only mildly cool until spring, basically meaning now through March is Autpring, I'm okay with it.

FlockOfCats, to random
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Ms. Dr. FlockOfCats has to do a meeting in English where predators of an endangered bird will be discussed.

But she has trouble saying “predator”, so for the past two days she has been asking me random questions to practice saying it:
“Do you know bird predators?”
“Do you like predators?”
“What is your favorite predator?”
“Have you seen a predator?”
“Are you a predator?”

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

And have you had her watch this classic as study material?

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Well that was certainly one hell of a storm!
160-190 km/h winds, about 800 000 people left without electricity in my Region alone, and roads are blocked around my city as so many trees were ripped out of the earth…

I live on the last floor of my building, and the flat was battered the whole night by these winds, it was insane!

jezebelkat,
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@thelinuxEXP

I hope you and yours are okay, Nick. No injuries? At least nothing serious?

jezebelkat,
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@thelinuxEXP

That's wise, when we got hit in 2019 with our big typhoon here in the Tokyo area, it did some significant damage, and I'm doing renovations on my house, and might want to go ahead and replace the entire roof...

willofgregor, to random
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Forgot to share this morning: GIIIIIIIIIIINGERBRREEEEEEEEEAAAAD LATTTTTTEEEEEE!!!! Suck my dick Christmas is here bitches fuck you (get no whip though - Starbucks cream is shit. Unlike my thick rich offering - I haven’t been drinking. Well maybe. Call a daiko and send them to Yamaya for vodka.)

jezebelkat,
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@willofgregor

The War on Christmas will continue as long as the forces of Christmas invade the sovereign territory of other holidays.

Get back across the December Line and respect interholiday law.

jezebelkat,
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@willofgregor

Halloween? No, sir. Not just that. I'm being even more Americentric.

October is for Halloween. November is for Thanksgiving. December is for Christmas.

Christmas keeps invading November and October, forcing Spooky Season to claim refugee status in summer.

This must cease!

jezebelkat,
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@willofgregor I know, but the truth is I enjoy the food, the atmosphere, and the intended sentiment (if not the totally fucked up fake history it was built on), and I resent that encroachment of holidays into other holidays.

jezebelkat, to random
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31C at 51% humidity in my house now. Wow.

This is summer.

jezebelkat,
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It's November!

Thanks Climate Change.

jezebelkat,
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There are no seasons. There is only Zuul.

jezebelkat, to random
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Me on October 31st 🎃 vs Me on November 1st 🦃:

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jonny, to random
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I could read Shawn Fain pushing #UAW back into radical labor territory all day. They got the money, fork it over. Period.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gm-makes-new-offer-uaw-sees-movement-all-key-areas-2023-10-20/

jezebelkat,
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@jonny

Union organiser in Japan here:

Honda and Toyota have domestic unions here in Japan.

They can damn well have unions in the US.

snazzyq, (edited ) to random
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What title we going for?

jezebelkat,
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@snazzyq Definitely the second one, it makes you look like you're offering the steak up to some kind of deity in sacrifice.

jezebelkat, to random
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Something that I think will always leave me unsettled about being in Japan: the casual use of foreigner (or in Japanese 外国人, 外国の方) in conversations or in publications in ways in which I consider awkward at best and offensive or insulting more often.

Sometimes it is completely irrelevant, yet said anyway. And other times there are nicer, more informative ways to talk about someone's immigration status when it is relevant.

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats Oh, I already have when I decide to actually attempt the conversation.

Especially since sometimes the person actually IS NOT a non-national. I've taught plenty of native Japanese with mixed parentage who looked more like their non-Yamato parent and have had to deal with this repeatedly.

jezebelkat, to random
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Japan: We have four seasons!

Climate change: Not anymore you don't.

jezebelkat, to random
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I genuinely recommend Crime Pays, But Botany Doesn't.

There's just something incredibly soothing about his overt working class accent and lexicon, fundamentally challenging the nature of academic and scientific community tropes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TkI0LJkVAA

DNA, to random
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Stepmom requested the kids be able to speak English before they visit next because, she "couldn't handle it."

I nodded emphatically.

This makes it easy NEVER TO VISIT AGAIN.

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jezebelkat,
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@DNA tell her to learn Japanese before they visit again.

jezebelkat, to random
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Hey uh, @TomatoGrilledCheese it's uh... it's a funny name.

jezebelkat, to random
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I have questions.

jezebelkat, to random
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Guess I have a pet 🐸 now.

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jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats they're honestly everywhere, but this is the first one that has made it into the house. Unsurprisingly, it has set up shop in the bath tub area. Probably because I have a lot of plants there and it is very humid. And it has the occasional fly.

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