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
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I seriously wonder whether these aren't labeled by hand. The website kind of has that vibe. 110
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I guess I can now reveal, it is called Maruyamakyō in its present incarnation. d-museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/eos/detail/?...d-museum.kokugakuin.ac.jpEncyclopedia of Shinto詳細 | 國學院大學デジタルミュージアム78197 020
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 26/04/2026It happened in the small new religious group I just finished my dissertation on. The founder got frustrated with externally imposed Shinto middle managers and told his followers to rise up 120
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 20/04/2026The Culture books are dystopia. This is yet another "build the torment nexus" tweet 010
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
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I wouldn't have thought that their business practices would be acceptable in Japan. 010
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
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 02/04/2026It was so nice to see the page showing your Japanese fans who have gone on to live creative lives! 110
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
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 04/03/2026You've got to show them some of what Massimo Introvigne has written about this case 110
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I looked this up and it's a manga from 1978 that's only ever had a poor MTL scanslation? That's dedication 010
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Also worth mentioning Yaohan, inspiration for the series Oshin... Also gobbled up by Aeon 100
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Show them this youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuoyoutu.beDatacenters Behaving Like Acoustic WeaponsYouTube video by Benn Jordan 0110
Reposted by Avery MSteve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 22/02/2026This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen 9969142260
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
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 18/02/2026"Prebiotic" soda is basically just that, $2 Stevia soda water with added fiber. Also it is delicious and I love finding new brands like this one. 040
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
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Oh hey, @williamhogeland.bsky.social is there too! Two great tastes together at last 010
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Multiple interpretations of Amitayus though. There's a salvation through works reading, a salvation through faith reading, and a "you are already Amida" reading 010
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 11/02/2026My mom also saw this and it was funny to hear her talk about how hyped it was already in 1977. They made a disco tribute! youtu.be/dWRWYYt47RIyoutu.beStar Wars Theme - Disco versionYouTube video by lcozzarelli 110
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 10/02/2026I haven't had a read on young people since I left in 2018, but I don't think so. I recently saw a tweet from someone saying "What was SEALDs all about really? Was Abe supposed to be Hitler? Give me a break..." They guy who wrote that tweet went on to assassinate Abe 010
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
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 09/02/2026This article is not principally about Japan, but I think reading it might give some insight into what Takaichi is thinking. open.substack.com/pub/chinaart...open.substack.comBeen spendin’ most their lives livin’ in the free trade paradiseIt feels a bit like 1995 listening to Canadian and European leaders 110
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 08/02/2026People keep replying "bad news" to this, but it's important to understand why Takaichi secured the LDP's largest ever mandate after so many condemned her the first time around. 0131
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 08/02/2026The LDP has had multiple political camps and historically served as a ticket to access business and bureaucratic networks, rather than a party line. That being said the party has slowly consolidated into a single conservative line since Koizumi onwards 070
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 · 27/01/2026Genuinely, I've never thought about that before in my life, and I think I believed in B before ICE started terrorizing Minneapolis, and now I believe in A 110
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
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I'm sorry to barge in 2 days later, but I bought this book on your recommendation and thought the opening vignette about Louis Kーjathy was really fascinating and strange, and I just Googled him and oh my God 110
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 25/01/2026You can always use "anata" if you want to purposefully insult someone 110
Avery M @averym.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I'm trying to imagine who would visit there to be served by the world's highest per capita amputee population. I don't think any fictional dystopia has gone that far 020
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