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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:56 JST mcc

   I am in Japan

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:41 JST mcc

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     Two 50 yen coins, overlapping in four dimensional space. To capture this phenomenon Miguel proposes the term "Hyperyen"

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:42 JST mcc

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     Okay now I am going to post some platonic forms

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:42 JST mcc

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     Cubes

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:42 JST mcc

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     Orbs

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:43 JST mcc

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     There is a hole in everything

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:43 JST mcc

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     I was really captivated by this water fountain. Its design is just so thoughtful for a water fountain

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:43 JST mcc

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     I don't even know if the design is *good*. I just know that this object was designed by someone who had very specific thoughts about the nature of a water fountain

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:44 JST mcc

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     Truchet tiles spotted

     They did this cool thing where there was one area of the walkway tiles with the chaotic/aperiodic Truchet tiles, and another area tiled with one repeating tile that formed a complete unbroken picture with the Truchet tiles but were themselves totally regular, so it was like this rough border with order on one side and chaos on the other

     This is still in the park around the Tower of the Sun. Every individual little part of this place had so much care and thought put in it

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:44 JST mcc

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     Pictures of World

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:44 JST mcc

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     Water

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:45 JST mcc

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     Please

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:45 JST mcc

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     He has Neck

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:46 JST mcc

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     Data corruption in mesh buffer

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:46 JST mcc

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     Waste Paper • Please Waste

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:47 JST mcc

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     • Miguel 🦑 Sternberg

     Miguel Sternberg @spookysquid

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:47 JST mcc

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     • Miguel 🦑 Sternberg

     M?iguel Sternberg? @spookysquid

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:47 JST mcc

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     • Miguel 🦑 Sternberg

     ??Mig??uel Ste?rnberg? M?i?g?uel? Ste??rnb?er?g ?? @spookysquid

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:47 JST mcc

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     Hmmm those photos may be getting cropped horizontally by Mastodon and ruining the intended effect unless you click on them

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:48 JST mcc

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     Hands, fire

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:48 JST mcc

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     A selfie from the elevator inside of the Sun

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:48 JST mcc

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     The map claimed on the grounds the presence of a "Labyrinthian Fortress". We followed the map and found a large building there but there was a $9 entry fee, to see an exhibit about uniform fashion, and no apparent labyrinth. We did find this mysterious Object outside.

     Perhaps if you go to the fashion exhibit, and become sufficiently lost within it, the labyrinth will Reveal itself

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:49 JST mcc

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     I am inside of Him

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:49 JST mcc

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     There is a tree inside of the Sun. I hope you understand now

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:49 JST mcc

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     Actually jumpscared myself the first time I walked around to the back and looked up

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:50 JST mcc

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     Look at the design on this bag. It's good. I feel very silly using an international telecommunications network to tell you I like this piece of actual litter but I do like the design on this bag

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:50 JST mcc

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     He Watches

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:50 JST mcc

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     HIM

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:50 JST mcc

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     I got a photo with Him

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:51 JST mcc

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     I LIKE… MISTER DONUT…

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:51 JST mcc

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     Behold… Strawberry Orb

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:52 JST mcc

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     Extremely incredibly good: Waking up with the sun

     IMO not so good: the sun in Osaka, Japan at the end of October raises at 6 AM and sets at like 4:30 or something

     Japan doesn't have daylight savings time, but of course daylight savings time would make this problem literally worse. Sometimes I actually kinda wish the world had daylight savings time in reverse

     EDIT: Wait. DST is in the *summer*. Is what I really want for DST to be year-round?

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:52 JST mcc

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     I think as a good socialist I'm not supposed to get excited about "oh look at all these nice consumer products"

     But

     Wow I really do like Japan's consumer products!!

     The temporary deodorant and hand moisturizer I picked up here. I like them more than my regular brands

     I like the convenience store onigiri. It fills a hole in my day to day life in North America

     Arcades are (in Osaka?) relatively common, relatively cheap, and have games I actually want to play

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:52 JST mcc

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     Look at this book I got (it was like $25 I feel like I got a good deal) consisting almost entirely of full color photos of 1970s "TV Game" proto video game consoles. I sincerely love this era of product industrial design

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:53 JST mcc

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     I got a "Danger: Object Class Keter" shirt with a little SCP Foundation logo at the bottom in an intentionally overlarge size to wear as a sleep shirt. Sleepy Keter girl

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:53 JST mcc

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     Mood

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:53 JST mcc

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     • Miguel 🦑 Sternberg

     Oh by the way also at the arcade there was an AMAZING ddr successor called "Dancerush Stardom". Instead of the nine plates there's just basically a giant touchscreen, it has depth because it's clear with an array of flashy lights underneath, it richly combines elements from multiple rhythm game concepts (not clear from the video but it often has you drop your foot and slide it left or right), some tracks assume two people on the plate dancing around each other(!)

     @spookysquid playing:

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:54 JST mcc

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     There is also a "Bomberman Girls" now which is a mildly MOBA ish capture the flag Bomberman but everyone is a sexy anime girl. The basic game design concept rules but every part of the execution fails (horrible analog stick that hurts your hands, shockingly low framerate given the simple graphics, map design that bunches everyone up on one square) and the cheesecake is creepy where it should be hot (especially given some of the characters look very young but get the same sexy poses/"gaze" D:)

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:54 JST mcc

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     Wait wait WAIT what is this and why does it have a light pen :O

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:55 JST mcc

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     I am moved to tears by the size of this thing

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:55 JST mcc

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     I told Grandma, I hate Grandma's stupid pies. I didn't want that.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:55 JST mcc

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     Okay I asked and apparently Mastodon wants to see what the Japanese Laserdisc cover for "Barbarella" looks like. (In my opinion: This is a very good piece of packaging.)

     PS what is this second movie

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:55 JST mcc

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     Went to a Japanese arcade and was expecting to come out complaining about how everything's rhythm games now but instead I'm walking out just super impressed with the high production values on these incredibly polished rhythm games with compelling mechanical concepts

     Also: all the games feature music by Toby Fox. Good for him!

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 22:26:56 JST mcc

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     My goals for this trip:

     - Locate and buy a used 1981 "Epoch Cassette Vision"

     - Do not sink time into following developments in, or writing social media threads about, the United States election (I am not saying this is inherently a bad thing but it is simply not what I should be doing right now)

     If I do this right expect this account to consist of pretty much photos for the next month

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 13:04:13 JST mcc

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     Cubeset

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 13:04:13 JST mcc

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     Note: If you like the posts above from my visit to the Tower of the Sun, you may also like Miguel's thread on Bluesky with his own photos from the day. Miguel paid extra to be allowed to take photos inside of the Tower (above described as "Him") above the first floor (they appear to be very concerned about people dropping their cameras and make you rent a lanyard) and so got some shots I was not able to

     https://bsky.app/profile/spookysquid.bsky.social/post/3l7pbc3vtlt26

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 13:04:14 JST mcc

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     Photography is a way of seeing

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 13:04:16 JST mcc

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     I concluded my day by making… making what what may have been a very unwise purchase.

     Or maybe it will turn out to have be the wisest purchases I have ever made. It is too early to tell

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 13:04:29 JST mcc

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     I just… I saw them, I was getting something at the pharmacy by the subway station and I saw them, and I thought "do I want one of these?" and suddenly the thought hit me, a lightning bolt of absolute certainty, that no, no what I want is *four of them*.

     They are posable.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 13:06:17 JST mcc

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     Public service poster on the Osaka subway admonishing the reader not to play Pokemon Go at situationally inappropriate times

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 13:06:17 JST mcc

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     Public service announcement on the Osaka subway admonishing you NOT to have meet-cutes on the subway!! You could damage your vintage 2007 flip phone!!!

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     Cefr (cefr@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 13:06:17 JST Cefr

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     @mcc Your Name has me convinced that sign warns passengers not to have body swap love stories. It's very important to get to work on time and the lost productivity in untangling a Freaky Friday loses them money. 😆

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     justin ferguson (jferg@flyovercountry.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 13:15:29 JST justin ferguson

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     @mcc
     I honestly thought that was a "look out for other people when dodging laser beams" sign for a second.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 06:06:13 JST mcc

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     Promotional signage by Rene Magritte

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 06:06:13 JST mcc

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     Ok I got a explanation from a protected account abt this https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113400800877383368

     Apparently "image" is "Wasei-eigo"— an English borrow word that took on a distinct meaning unlike its original meaning. This happens in all languages, it's why reborrowing exists, but it happens so much EN->JA there's a word for it.

     The English word "Image" in a Japanese sentence means "impression" or abstract mental picture. So someone left "image" in a Japanese sentence untranslated, bc it was "already English"…

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 06:06:14 JST mcc

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     Vending machine from the Osaka subway labeled "FEED ME ORANGE" which has a bunch of whole oranges on a hopper and when you pay it pulls one, squeezes the juice out of it, and serves you just-made fresh orange juice

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 06:06:14 JST mcc

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     I started writing some body horror about dropping Kirby in your bathtub and it turns out he's a bath ball and he dissolves while smiling the whole while, but everything I came up with was too horrible to post

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 06:06:14 JST mcc

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     Nyaan and Nyaang