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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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The neonazis are on a rampage across the country, with the full backing of the federal government. Any governor brave enough to put an end to this shit in their state by starting to arrest ICE agents for breaking laws will become a hero.

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More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Starting to suspect it may have been a mistake to "look forward, not backward" when it came to prosecuting Republicans for crimes committed in office.

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This is a whole new level of escalation. Also look at the glee with which these fascist losers brutalize and handcuff an elected representative.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Sitting US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly wrestled to the ground and arrested by the FBI for attempting to ask a question of DHS secretary Kristin Noem.

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

It's cool how much Japan Studies research is now sponsored by benevolent entrepreneurs like the Sainsbury Supermarkets Institute or the Yanai Uniqlo Initiative. I'm sure this in no way impacts scholarship. Hold on, brb, need to check on my Yanai grant proposal for research on Uniqlo labor practices.

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Abolish Palantir. Palantir Technologies is not a data analytics company. It is, as its own CEO and founder has stated, a “digital kill chain.”

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Feds Flew Predator Drones Over LA Protests 🔗 www.404media.co/dhs-flew-pre...

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

Next step: letting our beautiful Eh-Aye figure out the food supply. It's what plants crave.

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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.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

LA protests on the news in Japan

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

submitted 4 days ago • 1906 comments

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.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

Wow this book seems cool

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

They're literally doing the meme

submitted 10 days ago • 142 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.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I ruined the Proud Boys’ press conference 😂

submitted 7 days ago • 565 comments

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...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

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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