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?😭

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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.)

I’m so angry. I’m so sorry. 😔

New translation! This week I’ve translated the short documentary Ise-Shima, the 1949 directorial debut from the man behind Godzilla, Ishiro Honda! Enjoy the start of one of the most famous names in movies, the first instance of underwater filming in Japan, and lots of post-war anxieties!

Oh no my favorite New Thought/Posi/manifesting music artists are doing collabs. Please tell me someone else is already writing about this 🫢 youtu.be/IILfAv5zxYE

So satisfying to find niche screencaps for lecture. 🤌 Today we read Marc Steinberg's @msteinbrg.bsky.social excellent translation of Ōtsuka Eiji's "World and Variation: The Reproduction and Consumption of Narrative" in Mechademia Second Arc 5, no. 1 (2010). 📖🔗 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Glad to see 𝙎𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙇𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧: 𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙇𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙍𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨, 𝘾𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙘 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 (Bloomsbury 2026) is officially published! My chapter, "Laughing to Move the Gods: The Transformative Power of Humor in Shinto," looks at laughter in #Shinto mythology & 'laughter festivals.' DM for PDF. 😉⛩️

They're just putting #torii gates on roofs now ig 😅 Shiki of Mocksville Japanese Restaurant, Mocksville, NC

They're just putting #torii gates on roofs now ig 😅 Shiki of Mocksville Japanese Restaurant, Mocksville, NC

Big same. So lucky to be teaching classes on comics, games, and animation with passionate students. Keeping it together one day at a time.

Regular people: soccer/football thoughts ⚽️ My brain: Oooh Kaiserslautern, they have a lovely Japanese garden with a #torii gate!

@kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social found an odd, uniquely-American “Torii Gate” and “Japanese Garden” at the Muscatine Art Center in Muscatine, IA. Thought you might be interested in it!

New JJRS issue (52) just dropped! Read new research about Oda Nobunaga's relationship to religions, medieval/early modern ritual prayers & origin stories, student protests at Meiji Buddhist universities, & esoteric Buddhism, & reviews. Online & open access. nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6/is...

I grew up watching and singing along to this every year with my mother and grandmother. A classic.

Ack, I should have spelled it out. Let's try this again... The latest issue (52) of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social has been published! 🥳 nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6/is... Read more about the individual articles below 👇

New JJRS issue (52) just dropped! Read new research about Oda Nobunaga's relationship to religions, medieval/early modern ritual prayers & origin stories, student protests at Meiji Buddhist universities, & esoteric Buddhism, & reviews. Online & open access. nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6/is...

Co-signed. AI is the worst thing to ever happen to HistoryTube; even as much as an AI-generated thumbnail or narrator and I'm muting your channel. You have a fucking duty to relate the truth of history as best as you're able, and if you're using ehn-good-enough AI to do it, I don't want hear it.

The Center for Digital Play (digitalplay.itu.dk) has a YouTube channel, and we've just published a ton of content! Seth Giddings (@sethgiddings.bsky.social) on Postdigital Playthings: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAjE...

Tomorrow is my last day at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social after a bit less than 3 years. These are all the works we’ve published since I started as Associate Editor (minus the Bible), plus another full issue of the JJRS coming soon. Not too shabby!

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AI automation =/= AI generation. the scripts to automatically transcribe voice to text or whether your party character prioritizes Attack or Defense isn't the same as algorithms generating randomized results out of an amalgamation of existing data. conflating them is intentionally misleading.