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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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Nationalism, often euphemized as "patriotism," is a disease, and one that threatens our collective progress and survival. We all have more in common with the average "foreigner" than with the rich asshole compatriots that run our countries and who are the only ones to benefit from nationalism.

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Oh no, not conventionally attractive men being affectionate towards each other while destroying cars and AI shit, what a nightmare I'm scared, please RESTORE ORDER, which I guess is when everyone hates each other and the outside is automobiles.

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Blatantly derivative of Ira Ishida's work, if you ask me.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

LA protests on the news in Japan

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LAPD when they think nobody is watching

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seriously, what what a piece of shit thing to do. imagine this idea forming in your brain & just following through. no impulse control. juvenile brain function. years of training telling you all your peers are totally down w/ what you're about to do. what a bad organization this guy's a part of.

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Wow this book seems cool

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The one thing you can do as an academic to fight back against the increasingly crass exploitation of our work is to categorically refuse to work with the for-profit publishers.

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They're literally doing the meme

submitted 6 days ago • 143 comments

Just like with climate change, the fascist police state is videos and posts you see on social media until it’s right in front of you and you’re the one filming it.

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I ruined the Proud Boys’ press conference 😂

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Walking around Tokyo while listening to Pink Pony Club and feeling unreasonable levels of joy, despite carrying 10 books and sweating accordingly, makes me realize that living in Texas has made my own personal Pink Pony Club not The Abbey but "Being Able To Walk To The Store"

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The five food groups

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世界の人気男　アダムスン親爺日本に来る！

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New, open-access article: "Phenakistiscope and Pantomime Cartoon: The Rise of 'Stories without Words' amid the Nineteenth-century Revolution in Visual Culture, Science, and Technology, 1832–1899" seika.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/20001...

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New, open-access article: "Phenakistiscope and Pantomime Cartoon: The Rise of 'Stories without Words' amid the Nineteenth-century Revolution in Visual Culture, Science, and Technology, 1832–1899" seika.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/20001...

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These are the same losers that drive giant shiny pickup trucks. They love to brutalize others because it makes them feel big and strong, but they're also whimpy cowards. They want to cosplay war without any of the risk.

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“The levels of... police recorded crime are much more influenced by deep structural features of our society.” @premthakker.bsky.social speaks with civil rights lawyer @equalityalec.bsky.social on how public safety reporting focuses on legal policies rather than societal issues such as poverty.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Excited to read this.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

They should invent a political party that's against fascism.

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Reading @eikeexner.com's excellent "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" for a paper I'm writing, and came across these great thoughts (Exner, 178-179)

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As you can judge a culture's degree of civilization by its prisons, so can you judge it by its transportation.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Based Bill Burr giving the most based take

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As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

submitted 10 days ago • 71 comments

THREAD. This is so cool. I just got the first copy of the FREE paperback edition of the Copaganda book. It's beautiful! We have free copies for any people in prison (easiest for prison book programs to get in bulk) and for ANY teacher who wants to have the book for their students.

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