Reposted by Avery M100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Sonny Rollins, who has just died at 95, was the last surviving jazz musician from among 57 seen in this 1958 group photo taken in Harlem bsky.app/profile/100y... 310938
Reposted by Avery MMoss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 25/05/2026There are 38 issues of the early Japanese socialist women’s periodical 世界婦人 1907-1909 on Internet Archive to read or download, edited by Fukuda Hideko (福田英子). archive.org/search?query... 0189
Reposted by Avery MKonrad Lawson @kml.muninn.net · 14/04/2026I created a deep linked and searchable table of contents index for issues of the prewar "Japan Magazine" found on Internet Archive, with over 200 issues and several thousand articles. Useful for history students working only with English sources: froginawell.net/indexes/japa... #japan 12511
Reposted by Avery M100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 04/04/2026April 4, 1926: An Easter greeting from George Herriman’s “Krazy Kat.” 0217
Reposted by Avery M朝日新聞 @asahi.com · 04/04/2026宗教信者限定マッチングアプリ登場 背景に出会いの壁「両親が嫌と」 www.asahi.com/articles/ASV... 運営会社によると、一般の婚活サービスを運営していたものの、身長や年収などの条件に評価が集中し、一部の人しかマッチングしない構造を課題に感じていたといいます。 宗教などの属性に特化したアプリなら、属性を共有できることで一番大事な価値観が満たされ、「身長や年収などの優先度が相対的に下がる」。 利用者からは「宗教のことを隠さずに出会えることに安心感がある」などの声が寄せられたそうです。asahi.com宗教信者限定マッチングアプリ登場 背景に出会いの壁「両親が嫌と」：朝日新聞 マッチングアプリサービスに、宗教に特化したものが登場している。信仰のために出会いや交際がうまくいかない――。宗教信者の中に、そんな悩みを抱える人が多いことが背景にある。 創価学会3世の30代の会社員… 02418
Reposted by Avery MTom Mazanec @tommazanec.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Another article now out, on literary and religious infrastructure in the Tang. Pleased to see it published in the journal Religion & Literature, from Notre Dame. Let me tell you why this one is important to me... 1/ 153
Reposted by Avery MGeth Rees @gethrees.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I agree with much of this great blog but I think there is a reason to keep the label science and that is in order to identify who wins the epithet "science" in a crebibility contest, and then explain how that contest was won (usually identifying social causes). 111
Reposted by Avery MCheburashka @leshij.bsky.social · 14/03/2026It’s been another long, miserable week under our Chongzhen Emperor, but there are still good things in the world:burninghou.seWhat's Good? A Collection of Small Nice ThingsThe dynasty is collapsing and the vibes are fucked. Other people have been here before. Here's a few of Jin Shengtan's favorite things to distract you. 0155
Reposted by Avery MSayaka Chatani @sayakachatani.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I got a discount code for sales of my book in March! 01912
Reposted by Avery MSteve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 22/02/2026This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen 9969162260
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 23/02/2026I call it, "Shoveling through a second blizzard when the previous snowdrift hasn't melted yet" 030
Reposted by Avery Mとんまのまんと🍉💙💛TONMA NO MANTO @mmantle3.bsky.social · 19/02/2026アメリカの在住者は この俳句の通りなのだろう 物いへば唇寒し秋の風 どうぞご無事で 032
Reposted by Avery MAccount That Makes You Stupid @heyguys.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Crying about the 16 year old caring all alone for her 3 month old sibling who didn't eat for a day and a half, imagining how that baby must have been screaming Thinking oh God we're powerless but we aren't, the baby ate, caring for one another is a kind of power too 19thnews.org/2026/02/minn...19thnews.orgWhen one mother was taken by ICE, another stepped in to donate breastmilkMoms in Minneapolis are donating diapers, food and time to help families who have been ripped apart by ICE. 0266
Reposted by Avery MWilliam Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Hamilton's most effective piece of writing was the sleazebag letter from beyond the grave where he pretended he was going to waste his shot in the duel with Burr. 001
Reposted by Avery MMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 09/02/2026If I told you that a formerly straight-A student whose dad was detained by ICE at gunpoint, was now food insecure, housing insecure, traumatized, and not doing as well in school? That would make sense to you. There are ~100K people in ICE detention. There are ~400K people in pretrial detention. 18924
Reposted by Avery MEgas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 26/12/2025余ノ友人オリオン・クラウタウ先生、近代日本ニ於ケル鎌倉仏教ヲ「宗教改革」トシテ解釈スルヿニ就キ、迚モ興味深キ大論文ヲ公ニセリ。是数篇ヨリ成ル論考ノ端緒ニ過ギズ、今後ノ続編ヲ待望スベシト。嗚呼！実ニ慶賀ノ至リ奉存候！ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comKamakura Buddhism as Japanese reformation: Hara Katsurō’s modern historiographical projectThis article re-examines how the ‘new’ Buddhist movements of the Kamakura era (1185–1333) – the opening phase of what we now consider Japan’s ‘medieval’ period – were cast as a counterpart to Germa... 043
Reposted by Avery MCaleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Thanks to Bruce Winkleton for the kind review! It focused on the narrative analysis in the book, a pet passion and something an earlier version of the manuscript centered, until I pulled it back and refocused on Shugendō’s historical development (albeit via its frequent shaping through narrative). 121
Reposted by Avery MWilliam Andrews @william-andrews.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Harumasa Abe on the decline of the New Left in Japan, arguing that the United Red Army incident and uchigeba in-fighting embody a "maximal tension" between two dynamics: centralization and fragmentation. illwill.com/uchigebaillwill.comFragmentation, Centralization, and Civil War in the Japanese Ultra-Left • Ill WillHarumasa Abe on revolutionary organization and internecine violence in 1960s and ’70s Japan. 051
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I was taking this quiz to learn which Japanese political party I'm close to. It has a bunch of normal stuff, then suddenly asks me this: Is the purpose of a constitution A: to limit the power of the state or B: to define the foundations and ideals of the state? 120
Reposted by Avery MAshley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Look for the helpersartnews.comAlaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in ProtestA University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest. 13557741366
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Proof that Hutchinson was a true Bostonian: Give him a little free time and he starts developing an interest in Japanese culture 031
Reposted by Avery MOrion Klautau @orionklautau.bsky.social · 26/12/2025New open-access article: "Kamakura Buddhism as Japanese Reformation: Hara Katsurō's Modern Historiographical Project." doi.org/10.1080/0048...doi.orgKamakura Buddhism as Japanese reformation: Hara Katsurō’s modern historiographical projectThis article re-examines how the ‘new’ Buddhist movements of the Kamakura era (1185–1333) – the opening phase of what we now consider Japan’s ‘medieval’ period – were cast as a counterpart to Germa... 044
Reposted by Avery MMKSongbird @mksongbird.bsky.social · 14/12/2025so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity. 9269982017
Reposted by Avery MDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Born this day in 1884, on Neskuchnoye estate in Ukraine, the marvelous painter Zinaida Serebriakova. After my time, but worth making an exception! Here by herself at the mirror in 1909. 750988
Reposted by Avery MCharles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE 126182436487
Reposted by Avery MYKJUN18 @ykjun18.work · 07/12/2025職員室を再現したという展示企画「あの職員室」って、こういう内容だったんだ。青春映画の物語みたいだ。行けば良かったなー（ただ単に職員室を再現しただけかと思ってた）（よくよく考えると、そんなわけないか……） note.com/20040831/n/n...note.com【解説】展示「あの職員室」の中にあったもの（ネタバレ有）｜展示「あの職員室」11/15〜12/7この記事は2025年11月15日〜12月7日に開催された、展示「あの職員室」の解説記事です。 「あの職員室」公式サイトはこちら 本展示は、現在のところ再演を予定しておりません。そのため、体験いただけなかった方に向けて、こちらの記事で本イベントの全容をご紹介できればと思います。 ※イベントの内容に関するネタバレを含みますのでご留意ください。 ・ ・ ・ 15年前から時が止まった「あの職員室」... 101
Reposted by Avery M250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Dec. 3, 1775: The first flag of the 13 United Colonies is introduced in Philadelphia. The ensign that features a British Union flag in the canton (upper left) and 13 alternating red and white stripes in the field, is hoisted from the Continental Navy warship Alfred by Lt. John Paul Jones. 1/5 12510
Reposted by Avery MBuddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social · 21/11/2025For anyone attending the #AARSBL in Boston, come see the Buddhas in the West Pop-Up Exhibit this Saturday at CGIS S050 at Harvard University. We look at the early European depictions of the Buddha and Buddhist monks from the 1660s to 1850s. 🗃️ 📜 #Buddhasinthewest 2268
Reposted by Avery MKristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 21/11/2025We're not using this photograph of a mesmerist performance in open air for the cover of 'Performing magnetism: the theatrics of persuasion in the nineteenth century' (out with Leuven UP in 2026!) but it's such a nice and evocative picture that I'll share it with you here 2315
Reposted by Avery MDr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching 5245201434
Reposted by Avery MGwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025positionspolitics.orgTessa Morris-Suzuki, Morals and Minorities: Scholarly Publishing and the Lessons of Ramseyer - positions politicsEditorial Note: This is a summary introduction to a longer essay Prof. Morris-Suzuki wrote in rebuttal to Harvard’s Mark Ramseyer. She has embedded hyperlinks to her original essay. The international ... 032
Reposted by Avery MPutri Prihatini @putriprihatini.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Popular mountains in Java like Merapi (pictured), Lawu, Arjuna, Sindoro, and Salak are rich sources of haunting local folklore that urge climbers to be cautious and act respectfully. Among the most popular tales are disappearances around pasar setan, or "ghostly markets". 1/3 🧵 #WyrdWednesday 👻 13012
Reposted by Avery Mmulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 25/10/2025The Yamanote Line first became a full loop in 1925, and November 1st next week will mark the 100th anniversary of its complete encirclement of the city centre. www.47news.jp/13346469.html47news.jpJR山手線の環状化まもなく百年 大正期から首都発展支え東京のJR山手線が大正時代に都心を一周する環状運転になってから、11月1日で100年を迎える。東京、上野、新宿といったターミナル駅をつなぎ、私鉄やバス路線とも接続して首都の発展を支えてきた。34.5 ... 28527
Reposted by Avery MJapan Media Review @japan-media-review.bsky.social · 23/10/2025New Podcast! Japan's New Minister for Managing Foreigners (Onoda Kimi): Will She Stop Immigration? youtu.be/ey9henrAp44youtu.be(Podcast)Japan's New Minister for Managing Foreigners Onoda Kimi: Will She Stop Immigration?YouTube video by Japan Media Review 052
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 23/10/2025October 1915: Employment crisis at the shrines! Families that formerly supplied their daughters to work as miko are now finding more profitable work for them as switchboard operators. Shrines have to hire amateurs with no knowledge of decorum! 011
Reposted by Avery MLevi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Japan, ostensibly one of the least religious countries in the world, had its political order upended by the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. That is THE story about Friday's epochal shift in Japanese politics (thread follows): 517161
Reposted by Avery MFernando Gros @fernandogros.com · 02/10/2025Marie Kondo has a new book coming out and I can't wait to read it. Letter From Japan is the book I'd been hoping she would write. Tracing the connections between her ideas and Japanese culture and religion. 031
Reposted by Avery MThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/10/2025Young South Koreans are buying Buddhist merch. Monks and experts hope the buzz will translate into deeper engagement.nyti.msIs South Korea’s ‘Buddhistcore’ Aesthetic a Fad or a Spiritual Awakening?Young South Koreans are buying Buddhist merch. Monks and experts hope the buzz will translate into deeper engagement. 5336
Reposted by Avery MDr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 01/10/2025In celebration of Black History month, here is: 'Portrait of an African Woman holding a clock' (circa 1583/5). attributed to Annibale Carracci. 05311
Reposted by Avery MBaxter @cosmicspooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2025New translation! The movie that shocked a young Hirokazu Kore-eda and has followed him his entire career...from the director of Dream Island Girl and Utopiano, Shoichiro Sasaki, I'm happy to share English subs for the gentle masterpiece that is "The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin" Enjoy!!youtu.beThe Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin (Shoichiro Sasaki, 1981) w/ English SubsYouTube video by Tsundoku Diving 615060
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Some terrifying monsters drawn by Lafcadio Hearn. Shinjuku Historical Museum, Tokyo 011
Reposted by Avery MDr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 25/08/2025A new book on #Shinto and famous #Kokugaku scholar Hirata Atsutane 平田篤胤 (1776-1843) has just been published open access and free for download by the preeminent historian Dr. Ann Walthall! You can check it out here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...fulcrum.orgIn the Presence of Gods and Spirits: Hirata Atsutane and His Collaborators<I>In the Presence of Gods and Spirits </I>brings to life the early nineteenth-century Japanese religious leader and scholar Hirata Atsutane, whose fear of Russian incursion onto Japan's soil led him ... 34820
Reposted by Avery MThe Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Disaster relief volunteers in Japan are helping to entrench a culture of compassioncsmonitor.comDisaster relief volunteers in Japan are helping to entrench a culture of compassion 011
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 17/07/2025I like it when Japanese publications randomly try out an L instead of an R to see how it looks. Feeling cute, might rhotacize later 120
Reposted by Avery MBulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 14/07/2025In 1946, an American football game called the "Atomic Bowl" took place in Nagasaki, Japan, in the ruins of perhaps one of the most tragic events in human history. "A new documentary highlights one of the most surreal events of World War II: The 'Atomic Bowl,'" by @erik-english.bsky.social.thebulletin.orgA new documentary highlights one of the most surreal events of World War II: The “Atomic Bowl”In 1946, the US organized a football game in the ruins of atomic-bombed Nagasaki. 24120
Reposted by Avery MIncunabula @incunabula.bsky.social · 14/07/2025I've just heard the terrible news that my friend - and friend of many here - Andrew West, @babelstone.co.uk, the incomparably brilliant Sinologist and Tangutologist passed away suddenly but peacefully on 10th July. 1/2 88536
Reposted by Avery MCristi Proistosescu @cristiproist.bsky.social · 04/07/2025People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?” It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents: Sleep when the baby sleeps Cry when the baby cries Publish when the baby publishes 18787112
