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Professor of Japanese, comics, and funk
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I was at the grocery store today. 1/2 doz. eggs for $7.99. 6 eggs, more than $1 each. Way to go, Orange Daddy.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

It's so like the Republicans to shame others, like Zelenskyy, and demand apologies from him, instead of trying to be constructive. They don't want to make the world a better place. It's all distraction, mirrors, smoke to get more powerful and rich while the rest of the world burns.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I think this is correct. Everyone involved in aviation KNOWS FOR SURE that reckless/ rampant changes of past six weeks will, *for sure,* make airplane crashes more likely. But no airline exec wants to be the first to say this in public.

submitted 2 days ago • 147 comments

article/translation, away!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

submitted 3 days ago • 6046 comments

The GOP. No sense of perspective. No sense of shame.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

At PSU, average student age is about 25. Most are older, thus more mature than at other institutions that might have a lot of incoming freshman. Today, one of my students was talking about Murakami. Norwegian Wood. "No frontal lobe, that guy"(in the novel; the novelist). PSU=more frontal lobe

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

James Carville is right, I think. Let the GOP hang itself.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

But the price of eggs, Biden!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Manga at MLA in 2026! Accepting proposals! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“Suddenly it was like, Starbucks! I had to stop.” “I do the same thing.” (Overheard Portland Street Voices Haiku, February 24, 2025)

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Published today! I'm in very good company here.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

“Musk orders”? What the hell?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

"I didn’t have to come here. My staff didn’t have to come here." No, you're their elected senator. You need to face all of your constituents.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Hedge funds are buying homes that actual families—real people—should be able to purchase. Democrats offered an amendment to push hedge funds OUT of the market and help real people to buy homes. Republicans sided with hedge funds and against YOU and voted NO.

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

Am I the only Bluesky user who just doesn't get Bluesky? I feel like I'm missing the give-and-take, the call-and-response of FB. Even though I get to see what friends and whatnot are up to, I don't get a sense of if people agree with them, argue with them, etc. Kinda blank experience.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

@eikeexner.com Eike, have you seen this upcoming release? www.fantagraphics.com/collections/...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Federal government interfering with city/state government. I thought that was against GOP dogma?

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I thought Trump promised "all hell would break loose" if Hamas didn't release all the hostages by Saturday. I guess Trump got ignored. Too bad Elon can't help him fire Hamas personnel.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I just don't think the new Marvel Legends ROM figure is all that great. He's got too many muscles. He's like 95% machine. Even Cyborg (DC) doesn't have that many muscles. Doesn't anyone at Hasbro read the comics? marveltoynews.com/marvel-legen...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Some big event happening in the USA today but I don't know what it is.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Missing Biden yet, Tesla Republicans? Trump just pulled the plug on $52 million dollars of DOT funds to build charging stations throughout Oregon. I bet Elon didn't see that coming.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I'm teaching Japanese nature poetry again after a hiatus. Well, Masaoka Shiki's poetry. I love poems like this -- I end up learning about the natural world instead of Buddhism or socialism, etc. Nice palette cleanser. The poem is: 縁先に玉巻く芭蕉玉解けて五尺の緑手水鉢を掩う So I read .. kigosai.sub.jp/001/archives...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty sure that all of Trump's Gaza Riviera Middle East, tariffs bs, war on transpeople, etc., is just smoke and mirrors so we don't see what Elon is doing behind the curtains.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Look at Amy go

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Fucking Trump goons. Ok, you fired her. At least give the person time to relocate. She served our country you disrespectful bastards.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

I think Trump thought these tariff threats were going to be huge and get him all kinds of rewards. Looks like it's going to backfire and make him hated by Americans for $$ costs, look stupid in the int'l community, and he'll have to come crawling back to make up for the damage. Dummy.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments