AI hallucination #torii lookin ass decor 😅

I finally got to see the card game I consulted on, Upper Deck’s Rush of Ikorr, in a store! Fun to see it in the wild 🤩 Thousand-armed Kannon was one of my deck additions, and the artwork was so popular that it became a primary asset for the game marketing. 🪷🙏

It’s always an absolute pleasure to chat with Greg Soren from the Classical Ideas Podcast! This time we discussed something other than Shinto 😱: my work on the “YouTube prosperity gospel” & ideas of algorithmic salvation in the platform economy. 🤖▶️🙏 #digitalreligion #AI #blessedbythealgorithn

Ancient Japanese wisdom: “Weebles wobble, but they don’t fall down.” —Kūkai, probably

Closing all of my tabs at the end of semester is liberation.

Just recorded a public scholarship interview for a podcast about Japanese monsters #yokai in history and #anime under a blanket fort to kill the insane echo in my empty, untreated office. Adulting so hard I’ve circled back to just being a kid. 😅

Ted Turner once proudly proclaimed on an interview on 60 Minutes that Cartoon Network was one of his greatest achievements. He understood the assignment very early on that EVERYBODY loves cartoons. It's a less I wish the network understood today. I'm glad MeTV Toons took notes from him.

That’s it, the rest of Instagram can go home. This is peak content 🤌 #funthropology

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Y'all mind if I trample out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored?

Films and animation too further down in the thread… Ridiculous all the way around 💀

Honored to be a small part of this event through the amazing medium of VR! Kudos to my colleagues Prof. Hirafuji Kikuko and VR filmmaker Niall Hill for showcasing Shinto ⛩️ in the digital age. 👏 And thank you @daiwafoundation.bsky.social for hosting this event.

Pokemon pareidolia is a helluva drug 😆

3, 2, 1… let’s jam! The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival here at @uidaho.bsky.social is right around the corner! Proud to help represent the variety, significance, and appeal of Asian media to local high school students with the Habib Institute for Asian Studies. 🎷🎺🎶 www.uidaho.edu/events/jazz-...

Yokai gang powers activate!

3, 2, 1… let’s jam! The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival here at @uidaho.bsky.social is right around the corner! Proud to help represent the variety, significance, and appeal of Asian media to local high school students with the Habib Institute for Asian Studies. 🎷🎺🎶 www.uidaho.edu/events/jazz-...

Tfw you conjure up a banger lecture on Jazz and Anime out of thin air

Love Aurora's music and had this concert in a cozy twinkly forest setting on in the background while working today. Happened to look up and do a double take. What in the luna moth hanbok??? #hallyu youtu.be/8un_miodCoo

Love this kind of data!!! 🤌✨

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DON'T YOU THINK THEY LOOK TIRED 😇😇😇

I’m a simple guy I see a new anthology from michele abounader, I share it 💀🌟

Honored to be included as one of the "Scholars to Watch" in the new 2025 Digital Religion Yearbook published by The Network for New Media, Religion & Digital Culture Studies (NNMDC) and edited by @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social. 1/4 #DigitalReligion #NMRDC #OpenAccess

Funded PhD Studentship on Women, Nature, and Early Modernity in Japan Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona – the Consuming Nature Project #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ754/f...

How dare you. I haven’t started my second PhD yet.

Babe, wake up, new Shinto rice god cooking tournament show just dropped 🌾🍚🍚⛩️

Babe, wake up, new Shinto rice god cooking tournament show just dropped 🌾🍚🍚⛩️

I had a wonderful time connecting w/ the caring faculty & bright students at St. Edward’s University! I guest lectured on anime pilgrimage in Prof. Mathew Scruggs’s exciting Religion + Anime class & abt my work to bring 🇯🇵 religions & media theory in conversation for the Spring Nostra Aetate Lecture.

I read like 10 articles today, what do you mean my revisions aren’t done?😭

free him

Spoke to the Guardian about the idea of quitting LLMs for climate: -“I see this all as very much part of the tactic of trying to embed these systems into society and instil dependency in a fashion similar to the growth of single-use plastics in the 1970s.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

You'd think they'd want to discuss how it won as many awards as The Matrix, ET, Fellowship of the Ring, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Parasite... How it has the most wins of any Vampire movie ever... How its success further cements that Coogler's deal could be Hollywood's future. But alas. It's Black.

so we rescued a set of cinema film scanners does anyone need a set of cinema film scanners? if you have a need for a cinema film scanner (or can give it a good home!), and can arrange to have it transported from the Seattle area, message me on fedi or e-mail me at [email protected]

Britanny Howard, Misty Copeland, Miles Caton, Chinese opera, and the Monkey King on one stage at the Oscars. I’m in love. This too is America.

I could watch this forever. youtu.be/j3ae7BvTuC4?...

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."

That’s… an incorrect way to assess what happened tonight. Fuck off.

The American Academy of Religion unit for Religion and Popular Culture literally put out a call for proposals for the 2026 annual meeting on the works of Ryan Coogler. Like @wolvendamien.bsky.social says, Coogler’s work is groundbreaking & important; if you’re sleeping on it, that’s on you.

Was hearing a weird amount of pop culture critics throwing shade on Sinners this past week, but I have to say, after hearing Ryan Coogler lifting up educators & saying he's honoured by professors who might teach his work, if you still don't understand why people dig this man, you're choosing not to.

How can you NOT make time to watch this week for free? Ncuti Gatwa is an utter delight youtube.com/shorts/fQFG-...

NOT NOW, MYSTERIOUS LARGE STEEL CYLINDER

for those who might be interested, the National Theater is streaming their production of The Importance of Being Earnest (starring Ncuti Gatwa!) for one week on YouTube for FREE youtu.be/obX-HGs-PS8?...

It’s only midterms for my spring Anime class at the University of Idaho, and we’re having a blast. But I can’t help but also look forward to teaching a course on Japanese culture and games in the Fall!

Anime class today was about fan communities & labor. We read Mizuko Ito’s ethnographies of fansubs & AMVs from “Fandom Unbound” (2012). It’s the middle of a 17-week semester, so we needed a little levity. Here’s AnimeNYC 2025 Comedy AMV winner: “Polka Expansion” by Cagayakegirlz youtu.be/xwfGmvC0fsQ

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: My brain: If you stay always already, you ain’t gotta get always already! …I’ll see myself out.

Anime class today was about fan communities & labor. We read Mizuko Ito’s ethnographies of fansubs & AMVs from “Fandom Unbound” (2012). It’s the middle of a 17-week semester, so we needed a little levity. Here’s AnimeNYC 2025 Comedy AMV winner: “Polka Expansion” by Cagayakegirlz youtu.be/xwfGmvC0fsQ

I just backed Almighty ⚡️ The Godliest God Game on @kickstarter.com. Looks like fun!

People of DC: You have **one more day** to see the fabulous display of Australian Aboriginal art, 'The Stars We Do Not See,' at the National Gallery, on the mall. www.nga.gov/exhibitions/... Free. And not to be missed. (Was jam-packed today. Join them tomorrow.)