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The @InternetArchive is serving frights all month. Today’s treat: a 1906 postcard design by R.L. Wells featuring a wide-eyed owl perched beneath the ominous words, “Tis the wise that visit us.” 🦉 More Spooky Stuff ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias... #Halloween #SpookySeason

A 1907 postcard illustration on aged cream paper. A stylized owl with a white face and body, black-outlined features, and red eyes perches on a branch in front of a large red crescent moon shape, gripping a birch tree trunk with its talons. Hand-lettered text to the right reads "Tis the wise that visit" in hand-rendered text.

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On October 1st, 1998, Raccoon City was destroyed by an experimental thermobaric bomb after an uncontrollable outbreak of the T-Virus.

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Dungeonbuster @dungeonbuster.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

dnd (1975) by Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood was an early CRPG created on PLATO mainframe systems. Inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, it was a classic dungeon crawl where players could roll up stats and explore a vast and dangerous dungeon for a powerful Orb guarded by a dragon. (a bossy dragon thread)

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm excited to be collaborating with Cody Mejeur and the Amatryx Game Lab to publish an edited collection on the multiplayer online horror game, Dead By Daylight (Behavior Interactive 2016). Check the CFP and submit an abstract! wiredhistory.com/dbd/cfp-2/ #dbd #deadbydaylight #gamestudies

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CFP – Into the Fog: Essays on Dead by Daylight

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I certainly have some opinions on the 10th anniversary reveal, as does most of the DBD fandom. I do appreciate Behavior taking chances on reveals and I'm keen on the long term health of the game with the much anticipated Jason collaboration. #dbd #deadbydaylight

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Hour twelve of Cabinwatch. The waiting, as they say, is the hardest part. #dbd #deadbydaylight

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Tonight is Walpurgisnacht, the eve of the feast day of Saint Walpurgia, the night of a mountaintop gathering of witches in German folklore, and an inexplicably well referenced event in anime. Time to rewatch Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

"In my restless dreams I hear that music." Akira Yamaoka at the Orlando Hard Rock Live taking us back to Silent Hill. Also featured: the most Silent Hill cosplayers I've ever seen in one place.

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I have not been so entertained by the internet in years, and if #conformitygate is real it would be one of the greatest television surprises of all time regardless of the actual content of the episode. Odds are infinitesimally low...but not zero.

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Mike Sterling, A Comical Fellow @mikester.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

BUCK ROGERS: CURRENT STATUS

Buck Rogers surrounded by swirling lights, with the caption "2026"

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Happy Federation Day! On 12 August 2161, representatives from Earth, Andor, Tellar, and Vulcan sign the Articles of Federation, founding the United Federation of Planets.

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Witch Watch episode 14 certainly committed to the bit.

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I had a busy weekend Marvel. Could we have held off on the Thunderbolts reveal spoiler just a little longer?

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Shizuoka is home to much of Japan's model kit industry, hence the slogan, "A Model City." Large sculptures like this dot the city.

Gold colored sign for the city of Shizuoka in the form of a life sized model kit sprue of samurai armor

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Best 300¥ I spent in gatcha machines this time around.

A black and white cat on a chair wearing pink bunny ears.

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Himeji Castle among the cherry blossoms.

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Global DH Symposium @globaldhsymposium.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

First keynote of the Global DH Symposium 2025! Minimal Lab / Maximal Labor 🗣️ Gimena del Rio Riande @gimenadelr.bsky.social 🎙️ Moderator: Kristen Mapes “Everything must change if we want to stay the same.” #GlobalDH #DigitalHumanities #DH2025

centerNet Keynote presentation: Minimal lab/Maximal labor, Gimena del Rio Riande

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Jesse Draper @jessedraperhnet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Final day at #OAH2025! We have free totes, pens, notebooks and stickers! We’ve had great chats about how H-Net can help during these hard times for scholars. How can we work together? We’ll be away for a meeting between 12:15 and 1:30, but otherwise please stop by and say hello!

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Happy First Contact Day! On April 5 2063 Zefram Cochrane will make his historic first warp flight, attracting the attention of a passing Vulcan ship. After the vessel lands, Cochrane leads a mob to slaughter the Vulcan invaders and seize their ship, starting the reign of the Terran Empire.

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Okayama castle on a cloudy morning.

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 07/03/2025

Five months before the U.S. dropped atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nighttime Tokyo raid on March 9 and 10, 1945, was World War II's deadliest using conventional bombs.

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'Eerie' sky, charred bodies: 80 years since Tokyo's World War II firestorm

Because of the atomic bombings and Japan's surrender a month later, the firebombing of Tokyo is often overlooked in history.

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 03/03/2025

Magnetic tape recordings used in videotapes and cassette tapes, which were popular up to the 2000s, are at risk of being lost as the tapes deteriorate and replay equipment are no longer produced.

japantimes.co.jp

Magnetic tapes at risk without digitization, archive groups warn

UNESCO has called for the digitization of audio and video recordings kept in academic and cultural institutions.

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Happy National Cat Day (猫の日)! Lord Regent Kyubey approves of your celebration.

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

In many ways Marvel Rivals represents the modern day incarnations of some of the ideas about Japan in gaming that I discussed in my dissertation. It's also fun and I'm a now a Peni Parker main it seems.

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Jesse Draper @jessedraperhnet.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

LIVE STREAM starting Thursday, February 20 beginning at 8:30 am EST (US): Fear, Faith, and Praxis: Artificial Intelligence in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Panels on Teaching, Research, and Ethics: networks.h-net.org/2025-ai-symp... #AI #humanities #socialsciences #academicsky

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My partner and I are like Nick Fury assembling the Avengers when we are trying to get a trivia team together. "We need a sports person." Bring up files of everyone we know. And by files I mean naming people and thinking if they ever mentioned sports in conversation.

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Julian Chambliss @julianchambliss.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Don't miss the opportunity to engage with Ho Che Anderson and TreaAndrea Russworm at the 2025 Comic Studies Society Conference at Michigan State University. Learn more about the conference here-->https://buff.ly/4ghOcE7 @ProfessorTMR @msucal @msuenglish @msulibraries

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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum @baseballhall.org · 21/01/2025

Welcome to Cooperstown, Ichiro! baseballhall.org/hall-of-fame...

Welcome to Cooperstown Ichiro Suzuki, National Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2025.

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Daniel Fandino @danfandino.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

John McTiernan’s seminal 1988 action film Die Hard has undergone a cultural transformation into a favorite Christmas classic. Also present is an intentional subtextual commentary on the fear of a rising Japan eclipsing the United States in the 1980s.

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Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza and the Fear of a Rising Japan

For some, John McTiernan’s 1988 Die Hard has undergone a cultural transformation into the unlikely position of a favorite Christmas classic. The setting of the film on Christmas Eve and the inclusion ...

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