When the election results came in last year, Kimmel couldn't go through his intro without tearing up and without his voice breaking. And that's when I realized that if this bully of a man cries about it, the situation is really bad. Hope he makes a YT channel

The worst type of email is the one that announces application results and asks you to check the attached document for the results but the sender forgot to attach any documents.

Although this sounds like an amazing postdoc project had I had any Chinese language ability, how does one categorize China as part of the "Global South"?! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Dear EU scholars, I BEG of you to also include the name of the country when you announce your roundtables and conferences. You can't possibly expect everyone to know every European city just because it's in Western Europe. Including the name of the state/country after a city is not a terrible idea

Thank you everyone who contributed to our "Exploring Global Game Work Migration" workshop #digra #digra25

I would like this embroided so it doesn't wash off. maybe tattoo it on my forehead for the next time I have to differentiate myself from the asshole who enters a shop just to have a speakerphone conversation in a chilly place

During the DiGRA workshop I co-organised with my colleagues on game work migration one of the best points came from Aphra Kerr who pointed out that migrant stories can be co-opted by far right discourse and that it is our responsibility to be mindful of that when working with interview data.

"you're cosplaying a personality disorder and calling it leadership" might be the highlight of my day

Editor pro tip after reading several excellent articles that got nonetheless desk rejected Not citing any scholarship published in the journal (or similar/adjacent) where you are submitting is a major red flag that your piece is off-scope Embed your piece in a debate that matters for your readers

Yesterday I took a stroll in my neighbourhood and reached areas I've never visited before. I was pleased to find no sanseito posters. Instead one house had a few posters from the Communist party, including the latest one that says 外国人差別許しません(foreigner discrimination is unforgivable). Never moving

Last year I approached IIAS to create a new blog category for scholars of cultural and creative labor in Asia. It took a year, but today I finally sent the first essays written by myself and my colleagues. It will take a few more months to have them published too but I can't believe we're so close!!

Sanseito are not a new phenomenon, they're just social media savvy demagogues . What they say is not controversial in Japan, it is controversial abroad because it's bad for optics. But now that they gained some power the LDP is summoning Abe's spirit from the dead www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Mover over "Latinos for Trump", it's "Gajins for Sanseito" time to shine

Really, the ONLY good thing about this election season is that I have an excuse to make another one of these videos. Remember to get out and not be allowed to vote on Sunday, friends!

遊びに来てね！

Is it too early to call it Filegate?

In Japan, we believe that crimes and nuisances should be punished equally. But this is not jut government rhetoric. Anyone boarding a JR West Shinkansen these days can hear the same thing in the new announcements. edition.cnn.com/2025/07/17/a...

"During an expert panel meeting on June 26, the education ministry clarified that the original intent of the program is “primarily to support Japanese students who are hesitant to pursue doctoral studies due to financial concerns.” www.asahi.com/ajw/articles....

A lot of people come into the games industry and pretty soon develop a cynical attitude that the industry is largely run by business guys who don't know a thing about video games. It's only after a few years and some seniority that you realize that those guys don't know shit about business either.

greetings i have made another zine, this is about how i got my hands on a knife at age ~9 (individual pages in the replies) #internationalzinemonth #minizinejuly2025

Everyone responding to this with some variation of “just tell AI to summarize it for you”: I curse you. I curse your lineage. Fucking never will I do that

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

今月のライナップが決定しました。お楽しみに！ - Janne Nedamo & Maja Milas / Bonita - @ichigoichiegames.bsky.social / Tactichord: Glam Strategy - Vitalii Terletskii, Katya / Sobakistan: The Land of Dogs - Gino Carlo Graciano Grippo / Winter's Hope - @harukamatsumiya.bsky.social / 水鏡

Allow me to take you into the mysterious depths of the Japanese art of “Aruku.”

the silver lining of intermittent internet on a train to London is the Goldman banker sweating and cursing next to me, he must be loosing millions a second

Watching the Trump admin in action has forever cured me of imposter syndrome

Solving the birth rate one ojisan smirk at a time.

The guy who did a Nazi salute a few months ago is now starting his own party to try toppling the status quo. That's the only thing I would add www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuw8...

He should fax the tariffs to Japan

I haven't fleshed it out into a full article, but at DiGRA last year I presented this talk which was a Marxist analysis of the tendency of (indie) developers becoming publishers after a big hit. Maybe of interest to the current discourse I'm seeing around publishers www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ey014...

A lot of people in the US feel that as long as they can go on minding their daily lives of work and consumption that fascism has not arrived, but COVID, global warming, and Gaza has demonstrated that is precisely this desire to go on as if nothing is happening that drives contemporary fascism.

As Humanities depts are being shut down all over the world, Digital Hollywood University is going in the complete opposite direction. Maybe we can rebrand DEI measures as measures conductive to "luxuriant imagination"?(to be taken with a mountain of salt as this is very much a for profit university)

My time at DIGRA 2025 was short, but I got to listen to Rasheed Abueideh talk about his game "Dreams on a pillow" about the Palestinian plight. I am very thankful to the organisers for bringing him. We did the bare minimum and honoured him with a standing ovation. Sad we still call it a "conflict"

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

Political graffiti on a post box in a quiet corner of Setagaya, Tokyo. Whatever your stance on the situation in Gaza, that’s a neat way to integrate the Japanese postal mark.

Excellent keynote today by @aphrak.bsky.social with hardcore facts - the industry inflates its size/importance, normalises bad practices across employment, harassment, and gambling and all these things spread out way beyond games. #digra2025

Got gossip from a managing editor pal of a journal that a few reviewers used ChatGPT to write their assessments for them, and didn't even conceal it. I'll say it again - it won't be the neoliberal administrators that take down the humanities. It'll be humanities professors who've stopped reading.

Lots of memorable moments in Seville at #FfD4, but my favourite was this Oxfam cookie.

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

aaaaah it's starting tomorrow digraconference2025.org

on linkedin to contact a colleague and I got rage baited by AI finance consulting bros commenting unhinged shit on topics they aren;t familiar with even tangentially. Somehow all seem to believe entry level jobs should be made redundant, but smh think they bring irreplaceable value to the world

Pretty place to sweat your body weight hiking up to Nice view 👌

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Complicating Ouran High School Host Club’s portrayal of gender systems is an equally compelling portrayal of class difference that positions Haruhi as an intersectional figure whose experience of gender and sexuality is impacted by her lower-class upbringing. #ouran 1/8

オランダ生活は懐かしかった。一番おしゃれな洋服を気にせずに、道を歩いて、久しぶりだ。

Tooting my own horn here but 30th of July,Digra 25, Malta, workshop on the global migration of #gamedevs. that's it.

When I think back on it it's funny how the people who introduced me to Oscar Wilde (specifically the portrait of dorian gray) with great fanfare are homophobic men with a masculinity complex.

Here’s the massive, magnificent but very rare Octobasse, invented in 1850. To play it, the musician must stand on a platform. You can hear its rather alarming deep bass tone, and see it being played, at www.youtube.com/watch?v=12X-...