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Justice – Neverender (Starring Tame Impala) (Official Video)

80s anime-style music video.

The song is decent too!

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Fall Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2024, Week 38]
  • @wjs018@ani.social Maybe it would be a good idea to post about how @rikka@ani.social works.

    I believe this /c has gained a significant number of new users over this season, and the newbies may not understand that they need to comment inside their favorite shows threads to get rikka to post the next episode thread, or that they can request episode threads if rikka drops a show.

  • California governor signs law banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores.
  • That depends on how Canada implemented their plastic bag ban.

    California's ban allowed "reusable" bags, which the plastics industry interpreted to produce bags that looked a lot like the thin single use bags, but of thicker plastic, and consumer habits weren't changed by much.

  • Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction • DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION - Episode 18 discussion
  • This is the final episode.

    Watch episode 0 again, because it makes more sense after episode 16.

    It is believed that the producers structured the show that way to grab an audience from the start.

    But it didn't work, because this is one of the lowest rated shows this season.

    Which is a shame because the writing is actually really good IMO.

  • San Francisco @lemmy.world zabadoh @ani.social
    SF mayor assigns team to help city's troubled public schools
    sfstandard.com SF mayor assigns team to help city's troubled public schools

    The news came just hours after the SFUSD's top leader narrowly avoided termination.

    SF mayor assigns team to help city's troubled public schools

    > San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Sunday that she’s lending some of her own staff to help the city’s troubled public school district, whose top official narrowly avoided termination just hours earlier.

    > Hours after the San Francisco Unified School District’s governing board wrapped up a meeting in which it considered firing Superintendent Matt Wayne, accepted the mayor’s offer.

    > In a news release Sunday afternoon, Breed said she’s carving out $8.5 million for the School Stabilization Team to help SFUSD overcome its dysfunction.

    > Money for the mayor’s effort comes from a 2022 measure that unlocked city money to help SFUSD with so-called Student Success Funds for urgent needs. That’s on top of the $100 million the city already provides annually to its K-12 district.

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    San Francisco @lemmy.world zabadoh @ani.social
    Homeless encampments have largely vanished from San Francisco. Is the city at a turning point?
    apnews.com Homeless encampments have largely vanished from San Francisco. Is the city at a turning point?

    The number of people sleeping outdoors in San Francisco dropped to under 3,000 in January, the lowest the city has recorded in a decade, according to a federal count.

    Homeless encampments have largely vanished from San Francisco. Is the city at a turning point?

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/29507311

    > The number of people sleeping outdoors dropped to under 3,000 in January, the lowest the city has recorded in a decade, according to a federal count. > > And that figure has likely dropped even lower since Mayor London Breed — a Democrat in a difficult reelection fight this November — started ramping up enforcement of anti-camping laws in August following a U.S. Supreme Court decision. > > Homelessness in no way has gone away, and in fact grew 7%, to 8,300 in January, according to the same federal count. > > But the problem is now notably out of the public eye, raising the question of where people have gone and whether the change marks a turning point in a crisis long associated with San Francisco.

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    San Francisco @lemmy.world zabadoh @ani.social
    How to watch or listen to tonight's (9/19/24) Mayoral debate at 7pm
    • KQED channel 9
    • KQED radio 88.5FM
    • Livestream on SFChronicle.com and app

    Hopefully Mayor Breed will show up this time...

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    San Francisco @lemmy.world zabadoh @ani.social
    Mark Farrell asked (SF mayor's office) for favor to rush his home renovation permits, mayor claims
    sfstandard.com Mark Farrell asked for favor to rush his home renovation permits, mayor claims

    Mayor London Breed told The Standard that, after he left the mayor's office, Mark Farrell asked for a special favor to speed up his home renovation permits. Farrell called the allegation a "bold face lie."

    Mark Farrell asked for favor to rush his home renovation permits, mayor claims

    Farrell's response regarding this incident doesn't make sense.

    If he was purely interested in how long the issuance of the permits would take, why not call the DBI directly instead of Mayor Breed's office?

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    San Francisco @lemmy.world zabadoh @ani.social
    Mark Farrell Faces Questions After Companies With Business Before City Gave $1.2 Million to Nonprofit Where His Wife Is on the Board
    sfist.com Mark Farrell Faces Questions After Companies With Business Before City Gave $1.2 Million to Nonprofit Where His Wife Is on the Board

    It’s beginning to look a lot like Nuru with a pattern uncovered during mayoral candidate Mark Farrell’s time on the Board of Supervisors, as a report details how he got $1.2 million in donations directed to a nonprofit where his wife serves on the board.

    Mark Farrell Faces Questions After Companies With Business Before City Gave $1.2 Million to Nonprofit Where His Wife Is on the Board

    As Supervisor, Mark Farrell requested noticeably more "behested" payments from companies that had business before the city than other Supervisors.

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    Athletes Go Super Saiyan for Anime - NY Times gift article link
    www.nytimes.com Athletes Go Super Saiyan for Anime

    Young professional athletes are increasingly broadcasting their obsession with anime like “Pokémon” and “Naruto,” upending preconceptions about kinds of fandom.

    Athletes Go Super Saiyan for Anime

    More and more high profile athletes are displaying their love of anime.

    p.s. That's a closeup of My Hero Academia's All Might's eyes on the NFL player's visor

    Archived version

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    Sword From The Orient For Sale

    High quality oriental sword that took over 2 years to transport across the Silk Road.

    Kept in my cellar in ideal storage conditions.

    Don't try to lowball me, I know what I got.

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    San Francisco @lemmy.world zabadoh @ani.social
    Long-shuttered SF Walgreens (at Cesar Chavez and Mission) to become a locally owned grocery store (Casa Guadalupe)

    Personally, I don't think it's a great location due to lack of foot traffic, and cars can't stop there...

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    DOJ seizes dozens of domains used in Russian influence campaigns targeting swing states
    therecord.media DOJ seizes dozens of domains used in Russian influence campaigns targeting swing states

    Three Russian companies with links to the government were allegedly using the domains as part of a coordinated effort to influence the upcoming election.

    DOJ seizes dozens of domains used in Russian influence campaigns targeting swing states

    A pretty good summary of the DOJ documents in the Russian propaganda campaign.

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    Review: Blue Lock - Episode Nagi

    The movie just recently became available for streaming, so I got a chance to watch it.

    Mostly a recap of the first 2 seasons, but from Nagi and Reo's point-of-view.

    I felt disappointed by this:

    Nagi isn't the most captivating or motivated character. He has a one-dimensional personality and this movie does nothing to change that.

    He spends most of the movie moaning about what a hassle it is to do just about anything: Playing soccer, brushing his teeth, even eating.

    Incredible football super powers aside, he just isn't interesting enough to be the subject of a 90 minute movie.

    It was nice to watch the group elimination stage from Team V's point of view, but it's presented almost as quick highlights, with maybe the best part being against Nico's Team Y, although more screen time is given to their fateful match against Isagi's Team Z.

    And that's a problem, because we already saw what happened in V vs Z in excruciating detail in the TV episodes.

    Assuming anyone who is investing time and money to watch this has already watched the show already knows exactly what happens, so what was the value add here?

    Although the production did animate just about everything from scratch for the movie, there was disappointingly little actual new story.

    And the movie production quality was also not that great.

    The TV show is famous for its Powerpoint-style graphics, and the movie was only slightly above that.

    It felt like a missed opportunity to "fill in the gaps" of the action that's happening between the Powerpoint slides.

    To sum up, it feels like a lot of poor production and concept decisions.

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    Edgar Bronfman Jr. withdraws offer for Paramount, allowing Skydance merger to go ahead
    apnews.com Edgar Bronfman Jr. withdraws offer for Paramount, allowing Skydance merger to go ahead

    The proposed combined company of Paramount and Skydance is valued at around $28 billion. The deal is expected to close in September 2025, pending regulatory approval.

    Edgar Bronfman Jr. withdraws offer for Paramount, allowing Skydance merger to go ahead
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    Paramount Signals Closer Consideration of Edgar Bronfman’s Bid
    www.hollywoodreporter.com Paramount Signals Closer Consideration of Edgar Bronfman’s Bid

    Shari Redstone's company, which had agreed to a merger with Skydance Media in July, has extended its "go-shop" window until Sept. 5 to take a closer look at the offer from a group led by the former Warner Music Group chief.

    Paramount Signals Closer Consideration of Edgar Bronfman’s Bid

    Just when you thought it was over...

    Redstone/Paramount to consider a competing bid for the company...

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    GRRM Confirms That He's Hasn't Worked On ASOIAF Since 2022

    Apologies for the slightly off-topic post...

    It's not looking good, folks...

    George R R Martin confirms he hasn't written anything for the 2 remaining A Song Of Ice And Fire books since 2022.

    He wishes that they were finished.

    The last published book in the series, A Dance With Dragons, was published in July 2011, now 13 years ago.

    Obligatory song that's now 12 years old... https://youtu.be/j7lp3RhzfgI

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    Knife Behind Back (2000) - Yoshitomo Nara and the dark side of Japanese 'cuteness'
    www.bbc.com Yoshitomo Nara and the dark side of Japanese 'cuteness'

    How Japan's "most famous" artist, and others, are subverting the country's cute "kawaii" aesthetic to question the world we live in.

    Yoshitomo Nara and the dark side of Japanese 'cuteness'

    A little off topic, but the whole Japanese "utsukushii" and/or "kawaii" aesthetic... Where does it come from?

    Descriptions of "utsukushi" things and moments in "The Pillow Book" from the Heian period goes back to the year 1002.

    Note: Thumbnail URL is from a different article that is referenced in the linked article https://news.artnet.com/market/yoshitomo-nara-hong-kong-1671325

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    Re:Zero Season 3 (premiere episode) Leak Explained

    Apparently unrelated to the massive Netflix anime leak, the Re:Zero movie length premiere has also leaked.

    This one appears to be related to a canceled showing at Japan Expo in Paris, similar to the massive CR premiere leak from a convention in Washington couple of seasons ago.

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    DisneySea Electric Railway @ Tokyo DisneySea (+3 pics) (OC) - Lemmy.World
    lemmy.world DisneySea Electric Railway @ Tokyo DisneySea (+3 pics) (OC) - Lemmy.World

    (Sorry, maxso216, but this is truly the shortest functional train line in Japan.) The DisneySea Electric Railway is a 2-station line coming in at less than half a kilometer in total length (0.48km). Even at the relaxed 15kph speed of the trains, it only takes two and a half minutes to traverse the e...

    DisneySea Electric Railway @ Tokyo DisneySea (+3 pics) (OC) - Lemmy.World

    Great knowledge by the OP and a commenter!

    Thanks!

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    Netflix Hit With One of the Worst Anime Leaks in History - Dan Da Dan, Ranma 1/2 remake, Terminator Zero, Mononoke TV + movie
    www.cbr.com Netflix Hit With One of the Worst Anime Leaks in History

    Netflix has been hit with one of the worst cases of anime leaks, with popular titles like Dan Da Dan posted months before their intended premieres.

    Netflix Hit With One of the Worst Anime Leaks in History
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    San Francisco @lemmy.world zabadoh @ani.social
    S.F. police are using drones to arrest bipping suspects, officials say (SF Chronicle gift link)
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