Keep the Penguin 🐧

Some local culture person heard me on the radio and brought a free ticket to see the locals singing Enka, which I haven’t researched for thirty years. No surprise that nothing’s changed ♬

The local radio station reporter saw me on NHK so our interview will be on the MRT Sunday Daigaku show this weekend (and on radiko for a week if you listen to your radio online) www.miu.ac.jp/news/archive...

It’d probably be better for me to get back from the field more than a week before the paper is due 😅 #acasky

What’s your sign?

Totality of the lunar #Eclipse

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I’m on NHK next week with the heroes and local mascots www.nhk.jp/p/ts/PG7NRXY...

A new bill introduced in the U.S. House on August 1 threatens to block overseas Americans from voting in federal elections.

Stoked about the publication of my co-authored book chapter on Aggretsuko and the characters’ relationships with tech 🤘

I turned off all AI features in DuckDuckGo, and apparently you can now do that in Google search as well. You can hide the AI-generated images, too! (They all look terrible to me, kinda like autotuned voices, but worse.) www.devx.com/daily-news/h...

Coastal friends on the ring of fire take care 🌊

Quick stop in Uji 🍵🌱

Summer reading list! I’ve been dumbbelling my way out of a shoulder injury all year and found her work 💪

Things That Make Me Feel Old #43587: ORANGE RANGE releasing a Reiwa-version music video of イケナイ太陽 (original release: 2007) and they crammed A LOT of cultural references of things that were common or popular with high school students in Japan back then (including myself). youtu.be/fdYFKOMQGUU?...

Did AI write this recipe?

Share a song that still slaps

Loli sighting at the mall 🖤💜💗

Forget auto-tune, listen to these vocals:

The Pokémon that runs this account

I see that Moai and raise you seven official ones 🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿 🗿🌴

Looking forward to ✨💖

Great keynote and so much more going on here ✨💖

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Whut 😶 www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2...

Happy Mother’s Day 💐 #bloomscrolling

✨🗣️ Here is the link to register for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium Second Edition 💕🌈🏳️‍⚧️🔥 a free and online event (May 19 to 22) with 20+ participants and three awesome keynotes ✨😎 Program below and at the link here 👉 events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...

It’s supposed to be Golden Week, but this year it’s broken. Happy Golden Tuesday 🥳🙃

Zespri is legend for wacky marketing videos

for your #bloomscrolling pleasure

As the cherry blossoms fade and the weather gets warmer we’re getting hit with micro particles of yellow sand and a whole lot of chemicals www.data.jma.go.jp/env/kosa/fcst/

Happy first day of classes 😁

Wonderful JAWS/AJJ conference in Kobe last weekend! I spoke about the English Day my MA student and I did in Aya town

Day 2 of the new fiscal year already

Ruin a movie with a kitchen utensil: Glen or Blender

Naming today’s found art Ozymandias before going to work for the new year employee meeting

Ruin a movie with a kitchen utensil: The Old Pan and the Sea

Korean telop is amazing, and I like this one the best so far

It’s finally here www.nhk.jp/p/ts/PG7NRXY...

So is this Doraemon no longer cute? www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...

March 25, 2025

It’s not just the word…I whipped out my furoshiki (muji, ripstop nylon) yesterday at the toy store and the clerk said they would wrap the stuffed toy Pikachu I bought and couldn’t figure out how to tie the opposite corners

The #LinguisticSocietyOfAmerica gives 4 reasons why we should not designate English as the official language of the US. www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

Movies you’ve watched more than six times, GIFs only

Charmander🔥 your profile seems burnt on the sauna ceiling of a nearby hot spring

✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its second edition!!!✨🎀 📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at [email protected]✨ Share widely!

When my amazing MA student said she was nervous about tomorrow’s final presentation, I showed her this and said, think of the audience as a cabbage field and you have a pocket full of ninja stars ✨

Please repost! My department -- Waseda University's Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies -- is planning to offer a tenured position to begin in 2026. We're a friendly place and we offer one of the best research environments in Japan. Application information here! Thanks for reposting, folks!

Had to catch up a bit with the Pokéfuta research I couldn’t talk about with the film crew last week