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[Carlie Jo @cupofcarliejo]

Checking in RT if your happy to see me I have had a weird past couple days 😓

[randy @wingzero16]

@CharizardEats Japan does this for boxes to stop scalpers at numerous places

[NyanChuu🔮🇯🇵🍭 @tanpukunokami]

This might be hard to believe, but…

Everyone knows Shinjuku.
Everyone knows Golden Gai.
Every tourist wants that tiny Tokyo bar experience.

But about 15 minutes from Shinjuku,
there’s a neighborhood called Nishi-Ogikubo.

No giant neon signs.
No long tourist lines.
No “must-see Tokyo” hype.

Just small bars, yakitori shops, old cafés, secondhand bookstores, antique shops, and locals drinking like they’ve been going there for 30 years.

You probably won’t find it on a first-time Tokyo itinerary.

It doesn’t feel like a place made for tourists.
It feels like a place people actually live in.

[PREMIUM BANDAI USA @_PREMIUMBANDAI_]

[ENDING SOON] #GUNDAM
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Original display stand set included!

[STRANGER THAN HEAVEN @STH_Game]

Watch the new Story & Cast Reveal Trailer
►Song Name: STRANGER THAN HEAVEN | Artists: Snoop Dogg, Satoshi Fujihara, Ado, Tori Kelly
►STRANGER THAN HEAVEN is coming this winter | Wishlist now on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud, PlayStation 5, and Steam (links in comments & bio)

[Ryu News Gotoku 🐉 @RyuNewsGotoku]

Stranger Than Heaven details
- Tojo Clan origin story
- Makoto Daito, half Japanese, half American
- Theme song by Ado
- 5 eras, 5 cities (Kokura, Kure, Minami, Atami, Kamurocho)
- Music plays a vital role, creating custom composition
- Daito works as a showman

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Jason Sudeikis made around $300,000 per episode in season 1 of Ted Lasso. By season 3, Apple had bumped him to about $1 million per episode. Tim Cook just announced season 4 lands August 5, after a three-year break that looked like the end.

The rest of the cast got similar raises. Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, Juno Temple, and Brendan Hunt all moved from the $50,000 to $75,000 per episode range to the $125,000 to $150,000 range. When production costs kept rising, Apple agreed to absorb them so Warner Bros. would keep producing the show. Most streaming companies wouldn't have signed that deal. Apple did. The reason has very little to do with making good TV.

Apple TV+ has roughly 45 million paying subscribers. Netflix has 325 million, more than seven times as many. Apple captures less than 1% of all US streaming time, while Netflix takes 8.2%. Apple TV+ has been losing over a billion dollars a year, according to a March 2025 report from The Information. None of that is going to change Apple's plans.

In the three months ending December 2025, Apple made $143.8 billion in revenue and $42 billion in profit. That works out to more than $400 million in profit every single day. The whole annual Apple TV+ loss is less than three days of Apple's profit. To Apple, the streaming service barely registers.

Ted Lasso is the show that made people sign up for Apple TV+ in the first place. When it launched in August 2020, Apple TV+ was less than a year old and barely on the cultural radar. Ted Lasso won 13 Emmys, including Outstanding Comedy in its first two seasons. Suddenly Apple TV+ was the home of a show people couldn't stop talking about.

That kind of cultural moment is worth more to Apple than any money the streaming service loses. Ted Lasso fans buy more Apple products. They stay subscribed longer. They tell their friends, who sign up too. Each new fan becomes another monthly check to Apple, and another reason to keep their iPhone instead of switching. The character started as a 5-minute NBC Sports commercial in 2013, where Sudeikis played a clueless American football coach trying to manage a Premier League team. Thirteen years later, that same character has become one of the most expensive ways Apple has ever found to sell iPhones. On August 5, the most expensive iPhone ad ever made premieres as a TV show.

[randy @wingzero16]

@JoeZieja Nice makes me wanna get it. Love the game

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Still can’t get over the House GOP rejecting a 100-0 bill from the Senate to fund TSA, Coast Guard, and FEMA and… just going on vacation.

Complete abdication of duty.

[🦁❤️‍🔥 𝐷𝑖𝑒𝑥 𝑎𝑖𝑒 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @ricardusfirst]

I AM SPIRALING. What makes him so extraordinary, what makes him unbearably compelling, is that he does not flinch from himself.

He does not carve away the uglier pieces to make something easier to love. He does not soften the edges of his legend. He stands in the full weight of what he was: conqueror, crusader, invader, king… and accepts it all with a steady, unblinking understanding.

He knows.

He knows he brought war to foreign countries. He knows he left blood in his wake. He knows he caused suffering. And yet, he does not scramble for absolution. He does not twist history into something kinder. He does not murmur excuses about necessity to ease his conscience.

But he also does not repent in the way we might expect.

Because for him, those choices were not accidents. They were not lapses. They were deliberate acts made in service of something larger than himself, his kingdom, his era, the future he now gets to see, the relentless machinery of history.

He understands he was not a good man in the moral, gentle sense. He understands that glory and cruelty shared the same blade in his hand. Yet he is proud, fiercely, unapologetically proud, of the figure he became. Of the name that echoes through centuries.

Richard I.
The Lionheart.
The warrior-king.

He does not separate the hero from the harm. He claims both.

And in the light novel, when he’s quietly reading about England after his reign, there’s something almost devastating in that image. He isn’t longing to rewrite himself. He isn’t wishing to undo his legacy. That will tie directly to his wish later on. He wanted his name to endure, and it did. Whatever else he was, he helped carve that future into existence.

That’s what makes him so magnetic. He is a man who reconciled himself with his own contradiction. He embodies the paradox of pride without denial, responsibility without self-flagellation. He does not seek redemption because he does not believe he requires erasure.

And that quiet certainty? That unwavering ownership of self?

That’s what makes FSF Richard so devastatingly good.

[Rathbone @_rathbone]

Decisions, decisions…

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

MAGA y’all awfully quiet.

MAGA dad shoots his daughter in the chest and kills her after an argument about Trump.

On January 10th Lucy Harrison asked her dad “how would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I'd been sexually assaulted?"

MAGA dad replied that he had two other daughters who lived with him so it would not upset him that much.

A grand jury declined to indict the murderous MAGA.

Republican Christian values amirite?
#DemsUnited

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

This SNL skit about a MAGA mom slowly realizing she made a mistake supporting Trump—and her kids absolutely losing their shit over it—is so real to me. Especially the dad saying they should give her more grace because she has an old laptop that gets a different internet than you do.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

THIS IS PAINFULLY TRUE 🎯💯

[Cheri Jacobus @CheriJacobus]

Tagging @seanhannity and @JesseBWatters for no particular reason.