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Historian of graphic narrative, writing on Japanese comics and the history of the comics medium. eikeexner.com/books - Comics and the Origins of Manga (Rutgers UP, 2021) - Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics (Yale UP, 2025)
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Pixelfed took several days to process my 165 Instagram posts and ended up importing just 4 of them. No information what's wrong with the other 161 and apparently no way of retrying (??), so I'm gonna give up on Pixelfed and hope that Flashes will be better :-(

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Twitter is now an American right wing disinformation machine interfering in global politics. Your participation in it, is collaboration and nothing less.

submitted 2 days ago • 250 comments

Very strange energy from people who quoteskeet your posts and don’t add anything instead of just hitting the repost button. More and more people are doing this. I don’t like it. It’s unsettling.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

LEAVE YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT, IT CAN BE ANONYMOUS

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

How many open Nazi salutes does it take for the majority to realize what "conservative" actually stands for today?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Hey at least you don't need to make complex arguments why capitalism is a bad and stupid system anymore; you can simply point to the fact that it made an incredibly stupid loser the world's richest and most powerful person.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Did not expect the entire world to end up being powerless at the mercy of its biggest loser

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

submitted 3 days ago • 236 comments

Saw a prominent organizer sincerely thank an anonymous account for explaining that Trumpism is based on "white neurotypical culture" today. Good reminder to spend less time online.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Every writer for the Atlantic looks like this

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Cars and the violent top-down structuring of society around them are fundamentally fascist, exhibit 749

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 3 days ago • 845 comments

Quick update on my quest to understand the origins of thought balloons. Based on simonw.bsky.social 's suggestion, I started looking at Wash Tubbs more closely and came across this, so far earliest, use of text-based thought balloons from 1926. (1/4)

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

This is all the more infuriating when you consider that Musk himself immigrated illegally (through overstaying a student visa), so this has nothing whatsoever to do with legality and everything to do with racism, hatred of the poor, and wanton cruelty.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is so beyond evil that I don’t even have the words

submitted 4 days ago • 148 comments

We love having extralegal power structures at the highest levels of government don't we folks

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

don’t know if this a real account or not but it’s tweeting like it is and i think it would be great if we made @doge-reporting.bsky.social the most blocked account on here

submitted 5 days ago • 204 comments

Remember when we were like “Biden ban Trump from office” and “Biden fire dejoy” and “Biden expand the courts” etc and a bunch of liberals were like “HE CANT BC RULES” yeah just thinkin about that while planes crash every day bc a guy who isn’t even president just kinda felt like “disrupting” the FAA

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Republicans are gonna split Presidents' Day into two separate holidays again for Presidents Trump and Musk

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