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Hey guys! The future of the Chandra telescope is currently up in the air (no pun intended). The US government is planning on massively reducing the budget for Chandra’s operations, which would cause them to lay off about half their staff. Future planned budget cuts can possibly end its mission altogether. The staff are government workers and cannot lobby for themselves (which is why I’m trying to spread the word 🙂 ).

You can read more about it here

Basically they ask for two things:

1) contact your representatives (if you’re American)

2) sign the in-progress community letter to NASA and Congress (you do not have to be American for this!)

Please sign, contact representatives if you’re American, and share with folks!

Chandra has a decade of mission time left and is continuing to produce amazing data for astrophysics research. Cancelling it a decade early would be a tragedy.

if you're wondering why THIS tiktok ban bill made it through the senate unlike last time...

ah fuck I'm getting mercurypilled again.

Okay I gotta ask People unfamiliar with Detective Conan: Which one is the real Kudo Shinichi?

Is it not completely devastating that the track that plays in the Working Class Woman's room, and in the seaside shack belonging to the Washerwoman is titled "Live With Me"?

Martinaise as a whole is obviously pockmarked by grief and loss of many kinds, but I think these are two locations that, more than anywhere else, are scarred by the absence of loved ones and family specifically. These were places of familial intimacy, but you will never see the version of that place filled with joy and laughter, where the dream of living with people you love is still alive. Only the hollow corpse of it, when you tell Billie that her husband is dead. When you're getting ready to end another exhausting day, and you lay down in that impersonal room where the washerwoman's family once lived, but has lain abandoned for decades.

You, Harry, are physically there, but you can never be to these people what their family was to them. They are not alone, and yet they are, in the deepest sense of that word. And they can never be to you what your own family was to you, either.

I love asking for reference pictures from myfriends because it's like wow. look at all these items takayama definitely wouldn't own. the world is so vast and large

The Palestinian Relief bundle is finally live, and a PDF of my manga oneshot, Tattoo to Tomorrow, can be found in it!

It's free to read on my website, but with a simple $8 donation, you could get that AND nearly 400 other games, comics, and TTRPGs! We've already raised $210,000 and we're just a short hop away from the $250,000 goal. The fundraiser ends in about a week so make sure to get it soon!

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Soh if Birdmen were ever picked up for official translation what’s something you really really hope they don’t do?

I assume you mean an English translation!

"How badly could they flub it, to be honest?" was my first response as I read it. The most egregious JP -> EN translation flubs in general that come to mind is censorship of queer romance or excessive violence and botched localization, but I feel like of the three, only "censorship of excessive violence" is applicable.

BIRDMEN as a story isn't really focused on romance at all, and I think textually there IS nothing to downplay about Takayama and Karasuma. A lot of it is veiled dialogue, a lot of it is in the pictures, which people typically don't tamper with too much these days. How are you going to have them not hold hands about things? Nobody is going to redraw birdmen to not have hand holding in it, and I think it was built in that way, to be so plot-relevant as to be impossible to censor without completely destroying the narrative.

Nobody does localization on the scale of Jimmy Kudo and the Alberta-dwelling Harley Hartwell anymore either and besides, you can't actually do that to BIRDMEN without butchering the geopolitics of it either. Tanabe makes a big deal of making Karasuma and co. travel the world and you kind of can't do that if you're going to pretend all of it is the US. Like you're going to call him Ethan Crowley? Okay now tell me what's going to happen when the REAL white people like Robin Howard and Alva Larson show up. What I'm saying is that I WOULD go to the killing myself store if I had to read "Sam Robinson" instead of Saqr bin Jabad Al Rasheed but I think the odds of that actually happening is so astronomically low I'm not even worried about it.

If anything I hope they don't censor the US military's role in committing the American flock genocide, that's really all.

I think it would be extremely easy to downplay that as "planes and bioweapons that belonged to EDEN" instead of. you know. property of the US military, because you can see that it's only said IN TEXT. The only depictions of the planes we actually get are quite ambiguous:

I think aside from that I would really appreciate if they kept the word "comrade" instead of substituting it for literally anything else. Like you know I think it would be deeply cringe and fail for the translators to not use the word comrade in the communism metaphor manga.

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No secret third option they are or aren't the same person. Go

I was too used to your company

Now let me accompany you in another way

But then who am I?

Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?