Is it possible the Dodgers could win over new fans in Japan by tapping into an activity which is wildly popular among Japanese teens?
> > > In the service of digging into what the Dodgers might be doing to entrench themselves as Japan’s favorite major league team, I am interviewing an animated character. > > > > “I’m a shark-girl from the lost city of Atlantis,” Gawr Gura tells me. “I swam to the surface to hang out with you guys on land about 9,000 years ago.” > > > > Tell me more. > > > > “I’ve been told I have a heart of gold and a head of bone,” she says. “I have a long history of saying and doing ridiculous things on the internet.” > > > > This is the part where I tell you that Gura — she said I could just call her Gura — will be shouting out the traditional “It’s Time for Dodger Baseball!” exclamation at Dodger Stadium on Friday. > >
Priestess post: Xitter (has slightly less compressed image)
Drawn live during 【DRAWING】 Fulfilling My Duty as Tarnish-....Senpai heh
Australia's corporate watchdog, ASIC, isn't prosecuting enough white-collar crime and can't perform its full range of duties, so a Senate committee has recommended it split into two new, more streamlined regulators.
> > > * In short: A Senate committee recommends ASIC be split up, to create a corporations regulator and a financial services regulator. > * Key findings of the report include a "bad culture" at the corporate watchdog, and a sprawling bureaucracy that is unable to prosecute white-collar crime. > * What's next? Committee chair Andrew Bragg says its unlikely the recommendations will be adopted in this term of government. > >
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In its initial public offering in 2020, Booktopia issued shares at $2.30 and debuted on the ASX at $2.86.
The stock has since lost more than 98 per cent and last traded at $0.045.
..wow lol
The Australian online bookstore has announced it has appointed administrators to possibly restructure or sell the business after a year of losses.
> > > * In short: Australian book retailer Booktopia has gone into voluntary administration. > * The company has been trading at a loss for over a year and earlier made 50 staff redundant. > * What's next? Administrators are looking at selling or restructuring the main Booktopia business and its three subsidiaries. > >
Eh, it was reported about the normal amount imo. With the violent lone-wolf types, sometimes media under-reports it to reduce copycat actions (see the famous Newswipe clip).
I'm aware of at least two posts about it from the ABC (national broadcaster)[1][2] and one from local news[3] (paywalled, mirrored here), though admittedly this one has a very local-news angle on it.
Most significantly, the manifesto favorably references Brenton Tarrant, the Australian-born terrorist who in March 2019 murdered 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Patten describes himself as having become fascinated by Tarrant’s actions.
There would appear to be copycat elements.
Yeah, hence some under-reporting of the details. There's some fair discussion about reporting / commentary on recent protests there but I don't personally think the comparison to this incident seems fair.
said she wanted to be the biggest and encouraged us to amplify them
The purest member of hololive: YouTube
Hard to showcase it without an album - I did what I could to throw into one image, but check the original for the full sizes.
Chefpost: Xitter
(for platforms that don't interface with whatever this image is: https://fedia.io/media/d3/88/d388eb316823ac41614de512d02fc02c1b26856d257d5725d82c719a7ae09849.jpg )
Old Pixiv source (has higher res and less compressed image) - unrelated to current Beverage War!
Oo, acute pancreatitis
the pancreas got digested by the very digestive enzymes it creates
FUN TIMES
Hearing (well, reading) the rest, man that sounds like it was rough. Glad she made a good recovery.
Anthony Albanese said Fatima Payman disrupted the government's messages around cost of living relief by conducting an interview to declare she would cross the floor again to vote in support of Palestinian statehood.
> > > Anthony Albanese said Fatima Payman disrupted the government's messages around cost of living relief by conducting an interview to declare she would cross the floor again to vote in support of Palestinian statehood. > >
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While vaguely on the topic of retirement/graduation, holo snuck a bit of Vesper and Magni into the recent HolostarsEN merch https://holostars.hololivepro.com/en/news/20240629-01-18/
From YouTube community / Xitter
> Here we go!! > This is you! And for fan name we settled on Otomo/Otomos! Very cute I like it lots I hope you do to! > See you all tomorrow, Otomos! hehe
> Thank you Raora for designing you, she did an amazing job, I'm so happy c:
Discussed a little in her recent stream: 【Dishonored】Fan name chats and then DISHONORED!!
Fatima Payman's future at Labor is in question, following a TV interview where she openly expressed her intention to repeatedly cross the caucus floor.
> > > Key Points > > > > * Senator Fatima Payman has been indefinitely suspended after declaring her intention to cross floor again. > * She said she believes she upheld the party's views with a conscience vote on the issue of Palestinian statehood. > * It is unclear if Payman will remain at the ALP. > >
An invented creation used to segment regions of the Earth in homebrew RPG campaigns :P
I guess it could be used in many different ways, but when I read it I thought of it in the context of a homebrew campaign's lore (maybe ttrpg memes have corrupted my mind?)
Region code 0 ("Worldwide") discs work in all regions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code
Yagoo response (Xitter), fan TL via DeepL:
Thank you, Friend A, for all your hard work! We are very grateful for all the hard work you have done to bridge the gap between the fans, the talent and the staff. Thank you so much for all your hard work over the years!
And her response, fan TL via DeepL:
Thank you very much for accepting me into your company, even though I did not know what was right and wrong at the time! I am very happy to see the day when Mr. Tanigo will be loved all over the world as Mr. YAGOO. From now on, I will support you as a fan.
She put out a couple of related shorts:
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