Finally, some good news.

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🧵 Before Hollywood turned her green, L. Frank Baum’s Wicked Witch of the West looked very different… & she appears only briefly in the 1900 book. 📚 🧙🏼Check out her earliest depictions in these images, & explore more Oz history on our blog ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t... #PublicDomain #Oz #Wicked

Saw Mamoru Oshii's "Angel's Egg" Thurs night at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social - our 98-yr-old Little Cinema Movement survivor. Full house. 4K restoration happily displaces bootleg video experience. Worth seeing, see Ebert.com #Angel'sEgg #MamoruOshii #80sanime

Librarians, help us celebrate 1 trillion web pages preserved by the #InternetArchive! 🌐 Use our resource guide, complete with templates, visuals & event ideas, to connect your community to the web’s history. More ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/07/ 🧵 #Wayback1T #Libraries

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

“Our shared identity is not born of common ancestry or tribal origin. It is built instead on self-governing principles — expansive, open-ended, and intentionally universal. The point of America is that it stands only for these principles.”

Genjipoems.org is such an amazing resource www.bu.edu/articles/202...

Happy Ishirō Honda's birthday!

Can you learn about Japan’s history and culture from pamphlets? Sheet music? Postcards? 🏣 Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Joanne Bernardi (University of Rochester) to discover some of the fascinating modern Japanese ephemera her Re-Envisioning Japan project explores! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” 🔥

The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history. Archive is here: web.archive.org/web/20250304... Page was here: www.army.mil/asianpacific... Disgusting.

Ishinomaki, Japan, reborn. In memory of 3.11.11

I have to wonder about the American strategy of spending three decades defunding and mocking the humanities, forcing kids into STEM fields whether they like it or not, and then rug-pulling the entire US science & medical sector because you got mad at women online.

To my dear friends in Japan, I am delighted to announce the successful crowdfunding of the Japanese edition of "MY LOST FREEDOM." The children's picture book will be released in the fall of 2025. My heartfelt gratitude goes out to my friends in Japan for their generous support. Arigatou gozaimasu!

bsky.app/profile/coli... No words. If you go to the original post and follow the comments, you'll see the other websites that have suddenly disappeared. As if deleting websites erases history.

the perfect rating doesn't exi...... 📽️

Help subsidize the Toy Film Museum's move to and renovation of its new Nishijin, Kyoto location! camp-fire.jp/projects/811...

Make America White Men Again. Seems to be working.

Every academic right now

Since they seem really set on using that promo shot, let's review, and pass along to any newbies: - do not watch Grave w/your kids (teens, ok your call) - do not watch Grave w/strong drink - do not watch Grave alone - DO NOT watch Grave in MH crisis, or even mild upset

Finally a VP who’s had to design a syllabus!

If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again. anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️