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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
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
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
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.
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"…
We passed by another of those "Feed Me Orange" juice-squeezed-while-you-watch vending machines (see upthread) but this time I just looked at it and was like… well, actually I could really go for some orange juice right about now.
So I tried it and… okay!! It was actually some really good orange juice!!
Ran into Toby Fox in the basement of a mall in Osaka
(the location these were found for sale implies these at some point were in a gacha machine)
Walking through the Osaka rail station I saw a dude in his late 40s wearing an open button-down under which was a T shirt reading "FOLLOW YOUR FUCKING DREAMS". I am telling you this because I wanted to post the below image but it did not seem like enough of a post by itself.
But I do like this image
To follow up on my post above (Quote: "Beans") Miguel just posted a thread of his photos from that event on bluesky, and he got a photo of the projection mapping monoliths half sunken in the lake
https://bsky.app/profile/spookysquid.bsky.social/post/3l7wvq7r6dd2y
Going for some slightly aggro fashion choices tonight
I was like "hmm my hair's a little out of control tonight… might as well lean into it"
Okay this is maybe a little too specific to ever come up but if anyone ever wants a recommendation for an Indian restaurant in Nagoya, Japan, I have you covered
(Fluffiest naan I have ever eaten in my *life*, it was incredible)
Here's me hanging out with the spite spirit made of the selfish hunger and thoughtless negativity humanity pumped into the world through its drive to control and organize. Yeah, we're buds now
(photos by @spookysquid)
curtmack@mcc Guy with nose: "It's cold..."
Heart umbrella: "Megu | Muta" (I believe these are names)
Near the umbrella in white: "I love you!"
On the right: "The Meow King was here!!" (The Meow King is the main antagonist of The Cat Returns; also, the Neko kanji is decorated with cat ears and whiskers
Nasado
pandabutter [I have moved]
dragonfrog
Emelia/Emi@mcc The top white one, considering the context of the "megu x muta" square thing next to it, is probably "Really in love!"/"I love you!" (the actual text is 「大好きだ」or "big like/love"), bottom left is some dude going "Samui..." or "chilly..."
The rightmost one I don't know enough kanji to make out, but the top one is definitely 猫 with what looks like whiskers and cat ears, so I'm assuming it's something to do with cats?
Stu
Misty@mcc The umbrella graffiti is a common thing - a couple draws the umbrella, with the names of the two people on either side of the handle. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%9B%B8%E5%90%88%E5%82%98
Like someone else mentioned, the names are Muta and Megu.
elle mundy
Owen Nelson
Elias Mårtenson
Elizabeth 
Glyph
Hisham
Kim Scheinberg
Neia masks
Matthew MillerPlease tell me that this is the label on a beverage.
Michael Sumner
Ratsnake Games 🔞@mcc I might go to Japan next year and want to visit the railway museum at Nagoya, so I wouldn't mind a DM
(Does Mastodon have DMs? I honestly have no idea.)
Ronflaix
Developing Stacy 
I love it.
Michael Wyman
Moth Girl Amber Approaches!
gkrnours
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
rezmason
Hugo Mills