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passbook awakening / media interaction transaction register
april - june 2026
I hesitated at first, fumbling with the plastic cover sheet as I tried to orient it correctly toward the slot in the ATM. I was slightly shocked by the force with which it was pulled in, and I could faintly hear the pages fan out and flip behind the grainy screen, which had that matte, almost sticky texture unique to early-2000s touch panels.
"There's a little pen plotter inside that actually writes out your bank statement," I had been told.
The machine spit out my passbook, and sure enough, perfectly-formed letters and numbers had appeared in the tiny off-white rows. I put this fascinating little booklet back in my bag, where it traded places with my iPhone 15, toward which I feel nothing at all.
Maybe getting issued a passbook was what made me want to write again. The lost art of ink handwriting has continued inside these ATMs for decades, at least in real ink if not really by hand. Am I to be so thoroughly outdone?
You can tell the contents were written with ...
20 june 2026
- gym bro in Korean streetwear / Roblox default avatar style outfit (level 16-17)
- ankle skirt salarywoman (lvl ~12, or lvl 19+, nothing in between)
- 大学生 with concerningly bad posture (lvl 18)
- middle schooler (lvl 4-12)
- half ponytail + KN95 mask + taobao yohji + gender impossible to discern (lvl 16-19)
- extremely skinny guy who, we may assume from his beret and tiny leather bag, is one of the approximately 12 people in Japan who still care about shibuya-kei (lvl 20)
- white man in slightly too small graphic t-shirt (lvl 14-17)
- anyone wearing a glasses chain (lvl 20+++)
- anyone playing with no headphones (?????)
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- the author, outfit and appearance redacted - lvl 14 :’(
listen and lurk
soon
soon safety cells
march 2026
i watched a video stream of my friends' party, because i couldn't be there in person. it was at a hotel just outside of washington, d.c., the legislative capital of the united states. there were a lot of trans people in the room. i felt worried for them.
they (we?) had congregated in this hotel suite. they strained the edges of the video frame in the same way that they strained the boundaries of the room, both enclosed by and allowed into ...
is it too late for iyashi-kei?
later