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ABD, Princeton, East Asian Studies. Instructor, Asian History, Rider University. Perpetually writing my dissertation (warfare in 16th C. Kyushu, Japan). He/Him/あいつ/"That Nagashino Guy." At some point I'll start posting useful stuff here. Maybe.
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I come back and read for 10 minutes after a week dealing with family health stuff and y'all already have me exhausted.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This is a massive point. I keep being told I have to understand these people. I DO! I'm from the Florida Panhandle. They were murdering local abortion providers when I was in high school. They had a beach that said "No N#$%^$ Allowed". They marched with the Klan. I know who they are.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine being so bad at Sunday school that the pope yelled at you personally

submitted 17 days ago • 36 comments

Saying "don't worry, they'll stop it, our scientific research is valuable and profitable and important to tuition-paying students" suggests you've misunderstood that it has been an ideological project all along. The humanities were all those things too! It was never just about profit and loss.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

My anxiety is thru the roof, I hope 9 cups of coffee & 14 hours on social media helps

submitted 26 days ago • 558 comments

This is frankly insane. This is what trying to build a white power military looks like. Why wouldn't you want African-Americans and other minorities in the military? Esp. when historically minorities were recruited as cannon fodder (ie Vietnam)? Bc you want to use the military against minorities.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

One of the nice things about being in Japan for two and half weeks was that I didn't see a single Tesla the entire time I was there.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

It's all so stupid it hurts it hurts so much.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Googles response basically being “it’s not making things up, it’s just incapable of telling facts from made up bullshit” would have destroyed a product in the days before the economy was propped up by a thin framework of scams lashed together with investment capital

submitted 18 days ago • 33 comments

So I know it's how unions work and all that but I'm really kind of bummed to get an email from my faculty union talking about the legal steps they're going to take to defend the piece of shit department chair who got suspended bc he thought it'd be fun to do a Elonesque Nazi salute at a dept. mtg.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Tattoos for everyone!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

And while Nagoya Castle is a cool museum and all, the best castle in Japan is Inuyama Castle a short train ride away and this is indisputable. I will take no questions at this time.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

You know your presentation is cooked when your discussant pulls up like this.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Breaking: Trump announces new initiative to produce and sell heroin in China to offset current trade imbalance.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

#blessed

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Crack the Liberty bell it’s time to chuck some batteries at fascists

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

If you parked your car in downtown Philly tonight, you need to buy a new car.

submitted 18 days ago • 24 comments

Tom Brady has made two comments about his playing career for every one comment about the game.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I think an American flag created entirely by black men at the Superbowl is one of the best pieces of art I've seen in my lifetime. I hope it actually killed some folks. And I hope it finally closes the fucking book on the argument that we shouldn't use the flag to fight the God damned fascists.

submitted 18 days ago • 84 comments

👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

A kid got on my son's bus wearing a Drake shirt in a small town in Massachusetts and the entire bus sang "Not Like Us" to him. Even the Kidz Bop version is a banger.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Gritty is president now, I don’t make the rules

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

imagine thinking ‘personal jesus’ was about jesus lol

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

We’ve secretly replaced the Kansas City Chiefs with the Chicago Bears. Let’s see if anyone notices.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

ok, just because this is close to my heart: who's the worst person with your first name?

submitted 22 days ago • 1376 comments

Evangelical Inquisition, cool cool. cool.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

PITCH: An updated version of the curse of Cassandra where she's describing things that are happening now, in front of everyone, but still isn't believed.

submitted 24 days ago • 79 comments

"pulled an all nighter to finish an assignment" describes literally everyone who went to college

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Most historical commentary on the Second World War

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

Thinking of inverting my "likes" and separate feeds so that politics gets pushed to a separate column I can consume when needed and my general "frens" and colleagues talking about other stuff are what is mostly on the main feed.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

No time for Ishiba to celebrate his birthday as he prepares for his summit with Donald Trump and his government tries to move its budget through the Diet. All of this and more in This Week in Japanese Politics. open.substack.com/pub/observin...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

So, they're totally breaking up after the Super Bowl, aren't they? And by April we'll have a new song out of it.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments