Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET

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Blogs occasionally on Japanese Contemporary Visual Culture. Fans out on #Genshiken/ #SpottedFlower. Blocks ULAC, mktng, lists Blog: heartsoffuriousfancies.wordpress.com Tumblr: mudakun.tumblr.com

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Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Jul 13

Totally non-related to anything, but the apple core thingy I grabbed cheap at a resale shop is WAY KEWL !!!

Product pic of an apple core remover, stainless steel, black handle, cored apple and core lower right

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Jul 6

Starts off as same-old regional idol girls (who are secretly zombies) doing regional idol things and rapidly segues into an INDEPENDENCE DAY spoof. Very well done one at that.

(cont. from previous) as the rest of Franchouchou emerges from the fires of the alien blast ray that destroyed their arena. They are walking side by side, down wide outdoor steps, wall of fire behind them

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Jul 6

Somehow missed this last year: Zombie Land Saga: Yume Ginga Paradise (2025) Can zombie idols save Saga—and the world!?

Newly "awakened" Tae Yamada stares up in disbelief

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Jul 1

Happy Dominion Day

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Jun 30

Breaking News pic generator announcing JUDITH BUTLER BEGINS HOLY WAR, pic of Butler, arms wide explaining something

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Jun 27

Ed Zitrons face extreme close up, smiling, waiting for the inevitable AI bubble collapse.

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Jun 27

Arm out like from a selfie, a bemused white duck is resting on your palm. Letters over read:" Congratulations you are now holding a duck"

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Jun 26

Due to a vowel shift translation fubar, news takes about DIY AI use in China are full of gushing excitement over the use of "Open Clow". They are loose on the world once again!

Sakura opens the Clow book and things get loose!

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Jun 25

Aaannnnnd... The usual grey places finally have the scanlations of Spotted Flower up to the Big Event (51) chapter.

End page character poster for the 30-somethings Spotted Flower gang, Chapter 51.

Center front in yankee crouch alt-kuchiki, mid left crouching is alt-Sue, right alt-Rika. Center back is the now-happily reconciled couple & child, flanked right by the cosplay couple (& child), left by the Ex, Ogiue, & Sass.

There is a Paradis web-extra 51.5 which I think has Alt-Ogiue considering how she and Sue could get Sass to anonymously father children for them, without using a turkey baster but it is probably too weird

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Jun 18

NOT ANIME/MANGA: The Chinese clean air entrepreneur/ activist (who DOES NOT like her name mentioned on social media) behind the NUKIT brand is upgrading her DIY filter box designer page: www.filterboxbuilder.com to include MODULAR 3D printer block air filter designs!

Example page of blocking out a fan-filter box that can be 3D printer in modular pieces to slot together

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Jun 15

ALIEXPRESS LiFePO4 BATTERY WAIFUS !!!

4 messy haired manga girls surround the product picture of a 12.8V 20Ah lithium iron phosphate battery. Text above: "12V LiFePO4 battery 20Ah suitable for solar charging".

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Jun 8

Noteworthy for SCUM OF THE BRAVE: no fanservice on the apprentices. The most we got were the episodes with the younguns in evening dresses. IS animoo FINALLY realizing that the cheesecake GETS IN THE FVCKING WAY?

King's daughter doing a jumping downward slash at the air-stairs using sarrayman. No fanservice., she wearing tights/ bodysuit under her sailor suit school uniform.

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Jun 7

Close up of a home built rechargeable fan using a Makita 18V battery & adapter, a dc-dc voltage converter/ speed control and a PC case fan. Fan mounting done with zip ties so I can tear it apart if need be.

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Jun 6

Screen-grab of text block from https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

That’s because, as I’ve said before, nobody can actually measure the ROI of AI, or even create a standard measurement of the cost of a task thanks to the inevitable hallucination-prone nature of LLMs and the ever-growing list of different harnesses and “agentic” (sigh) interfaces. Every different prompt and project and interaction can go wrong in a way that is hard to predict or plan for other than having an eternal vigilance that the supposed “intelligence” doesn’t do something catastrophically stupid, because LLMs have no thoughts, consciousness or ability to learn outside of pre and post-training.

If you can’t measure how good something is, how much it might cost, or what your return on investment might be, it’s fair to ask why you’re even paying for it in the first place.

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Jun 5

Text block: "Today I gave away my old batteries… Free of charge! No one wanted them, so I became angry and threw them in the yard. The battery acid now leaks into the soil, killing a colony of ants. A sparrow eats their bodies and is poisoned. Somewhere in the Serengeti, a lion devours his rival’s cubs. Then the lion is shot by a poacher and sold to an unloved rich man whose father was an unloved rich man. In five billion years, the Sun will become a bloated giant, boiling the oceans and consuming our pointless cruelties with flames. I wake sweat-drenched and screaming, staring at the visage of a faceless god. “WHAT HAVE I DONE?! HOW COULD I BRING A CHILD INTO THIS WORLD!?” But this god, like all gods, is nothing—just my son’s Wilson baseball mitt, sitting on my dresser, mocking me."
from: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nihilist-dad-jokes

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· May 29

A DS9 title screen with the DEFIANT docked, title text reading NEEDS MORE CAT PICTURES

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· May 29

Aliexpress can be a real pit of crap but at least one can find REPLACEMENT BREAD MACHINE PADDLES cheap!

Pictorial diagram of a bread machine paddle with measurements in mm.

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· May 29

USB-MICRO WAS A SHIT IDEA. Instant e-waste! USB-C ONLY!

diagram of usb-micro and usb-c plug ends

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· May 26

YIKES! (most excellent essay)

Text block image from article: ""The Big Kink Survey dataset is massive and contains tons of interesting data, but it doesn’t capture literally everything. Believe it or not but there wasn’t a question on the survey for “are you a right-winger who has anxieties regarding the racial demographics of your country and also do you enjoy cuck porn?” We do have something pretty close though. With the results from two different survey questions and some simple math I can calculate how many respondents of different political beliefs are into a combination of different kinks.""

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· May 12

Cn shops have tons of these: 2xAA batteries, heat, buzzing. They are somewhat effective. www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007...

Product image of a Chinese heat treatment bug bite pen. A white thingy is being applied to the back of a hand with crude insert illustrations of a bug biting, the device applied to a bump and the bump gone. Also a grid of 6 small cartoonish bugs with a red X over them.

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· May 9

This one brings back memories if one ever worked in community publishing decades ago, before desktop publishing. "Waxers" were ubiquitous for coating the back of "copy" so it could be stuck to a layout sheet without permanently affixing it. Messy temperamental devices.

A highly simplified depiction of Rosemyne's wax-paper coating machine: two rollers with a crank handle on the top one, the bottom roller's lower edge touching a tray full of melted wax. There are small stylized flames beneath the tray.

The Rosemyne wax paper stencil machine is slightly different from the commercial layout "waxer" that only left lines of wax on the bottom surface of "copy" by using ridged rollers. Electric wax heating too, no candles.

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· May 9

After a week break, BOOKWORM #anime is back with... ... ... Waxers!

In the temple workshop, the two smiths are standing at a table presenting their designs (on boards) for wax paper roller machines to Rosemyne. Gil is standing next to her while a guard knight keeps watch in back.

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· May 1

MAY DAY

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Apr 26

You can slot in a more powerful 18650 battery (you might have to bend some contacts) to get more life out of it. It also does MP3 from a micro SD card. Later variants have BT and USB-C but LOSE the 70MHZ Japan compatibility.

Another product picture, showing the ports on the radio. The topmost USB port works as a power out, so you can use the radio as a low-amp power bank

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Apr 26

You going to Japan you need THIS! This radio thing is available from the main page of the Aliexpress site under BUNDLE DEALS Under CA$10. Or you can pay list. Runs off a 18650 battery, the USB port on it also works like a power bank. www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010...

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Apr 26

Cover of book EN translation of Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle, a treatise on antique glasses.

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Apr 25

Etching illustration of a baby being sacrificed to Moloch

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Apr 21

Huge Guy Debord block text on Ideology & Schizophrenia, TLDR: touch grass.

Strongest Witch Galaxy Empty Head panel, (see up thread)

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Apr 20

The manga version amps up the visual gags, does a superb job riffing on our heroine's SSS-level empty head. SSS-level much funny!

Our heroine making a stupid UwU face being worshiped as a god

Mudakun COVID is AIRBORNE - MASK IT or CASKET@mudakun· Apr 20

The #manga is way funnier than the #Light Novel: Sekai Saikyou no Majo, Hajimemashita/ I Became the World's Strongest Witch AKA The World’s Strongest Witch: I’m Starting My Free Life in a World Where Only I Can See the Online Strategy Guide