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Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

✨ Take your ticket (free!) for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2026 🌈🥹⬇️⬇️ join us online from September 14 to 17 and listen to talks on fashion, manga, anime, video games, idols, etc by scholars from around the world!! events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...

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Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2026

A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hmmm deranged food mascot throw down: I’ll take Koolaid Man, Jack, Green Giant, and I’ll be Little Debbie ftw

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Miyazaki people eat udon in the morning so I guess that’s 朝う

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Lindsay Nelson-Santos @newsfromnihon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The naphtha-deficient Calbee bags have arrived.

Image shows a bag of Calbee granola and a bag of potato chips. Instead of their usual multicolored design, the bags are shiny silver with black and white lettering.

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 19/06/2026

My Number was originally posed as an optional system designed to make administrative tasks like paying taxes easier. But in five years, only 40% or so of people opted into the system. The government even started to offer cash incentives to get people to sign up.

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Why This Special Edition Pokémon Card Will Require a National ID to Buy

In an attempt to prevent scalping of Pokémon cards, the Pokémon Company is going to have buyers verify ID using their My Number card.

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 18/05/2026

Noto Satoyama Airport in Ishikawa will reopen as the world's first "Pokémon With You Airport" on July 7, complete with 111 flying-type Pokémon, themed food, and a branded express bus. The goal: draw visitors to a region still rebuilding from the devastating 2024 earthquake.

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The World's First Pokémon Airport Aims to Boost Japan's Noto Region Post-Quake

Ishikawa Prefecture is renaming Noto Satoyama Airport as 'Noto Satoyama Pokémon With You Airport' from July 7, 2026, making it the world's first airport bearing the Pokémon name.

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Dr Erika’s (spookily) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 28/04/2026

"If you’ve ever been a white migrant in Asia, you know exactly how not new this type of Guy is. You have already met this guy, so many times, at so many parties." Or: I finally wrote a thing about "passport bros" and the international marriage market, with receipts.

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The Original “Passport Bros”

Charisma Man was a superhero. Simply by moving to Japan, with the power of being a white Canadian guy, he gained the superpower of attracting Japanese women. His nemesis? The Western Woman in Japan…

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11/04/2026

There are certainly good reasons for every step in the crew recovery process but at this point it feels like they’re just putting the astronauts through as many of the most dramatic methods of transportation they can think of in one day

A helicopter hovering low over the “front porch” raft to pick up an astronaut. The propeller is making huge circular waves radiating out from the raft

An astronaut and a crew recovery person dangling over the ocean from the helicopter hoist

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

If you haven’t blocked attie.ai yet, join the hottest trend on BlueSky! #ByebyeAI #NobodyWantsThis

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Attie

Agentic environment for the Atmosphere

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Eric J. White @ericjwhite.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

With everything else that’s going on this is quietly getting pushed through. There’s still time to stop it. morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...

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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests

One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Who’s your favorite Pokemon? Wrong answers only

A black buoy with a flattened bottom and a green rope attached sits on the concrete with a tan tile wall behind it. It is not a Pokemon

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Oh cool, thanks for this too! 😄@jjwalsh.bsky.social

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JJWalsh @jjwalsh.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Join me & linguist-anthropologist Dr.Debra Occhi this Saturday 9am for insights on Japan's cute characters & mascots @debraocchi.bsky.social #seeksustainablejapan #talkshow www.youtube.com/live/DsDS7RD...

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Debra Occhi - Linguist-Anthropologist View of Japan Mascots & Characters

YouTube video by Seek Sustainable Japan | JJWalsh

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Went to show this video in class and learned that none of the local students have ever been to see these local wild horses that are 1.5 hours drive away youtu.be/2CwXMJEOJzA?...

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4K 都井岬宮崎県 Cape Toi Miyazaki Kyushu JAPAN

YouTube video by SHISO PRODUCTIONS.

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Wasei Eigo! Plan your bestseller J culture essentializing book on…?? Mine’s about magic tape

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David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Jazz OTD: Pianist David Hazeltine recorded his lyrical, exceptionally well-played tribute to Bill Evans, “Waltz for Debby,” on December 27, 1998 with George Mraz (b) and Billy Drummond (d). #jazzsky

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Time Remembered

YouTube video by David Hazeltine Trio - Topic

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The NSF grant that supported my PhD thesis research was ‘archived’ 😨

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

You’ve just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. 👹

“Local soup” in a 7-11 includes Akita’s kiritanpo nabe, with chicken and rice tubes, and a namahage ogre on the label for ¥398

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I was studying Japanese and someone gave me some homemade vhs tapes of early An-Pan Man

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Some local culture person heard me on the radio and brought a free ticket to see the locals singing Enka, which I haven’t researched for thirty years. No surprise that nothing’s changed ♬

Small town lady singing Enka in a purple dress on a stage with glitter falling all around her

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

It’d probably be better for me to get back from the field more than a week before the paper is due 😅 #acasky

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I turned off all AI features in DuckDuckGo, and apparently you can now do that in Google search as well. You can hide the AI-generated images, too! (They all look terrible to me, kinda like autotuned voices, but worse.) www.devx.com/daily-news/h...

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How to Disable AI Features in Popular Search Engines - DevX

Users concerned about AI influencing their web search results now have options to disable AI features in Google and DuckDuckGo.

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Summer reading list! I’ve been dumbbelling my way out of a shoulder injury all year and found her work 💪

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箕島綺譚 [Mishima Kitan] (they/them)💖Support Black Trans Liberation @mishimakitan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Things That Make Me Feel Old #43587: ORANGE RANGE releasing a Reiwa-version music video of イケナイ太陽 (original release: 2007) and they crammed A LOT of cultural references of things that were common or popular with high school students in Japan back then (including myself). youtu.be/fdYFKOMQGUU?...