iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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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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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Cleans off the bran from brown rice

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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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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Someone has a grudge and a calculator! I’ve never seen anything like this before

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Misty has legacy of abuse issues. Where IS her bicycle

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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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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Yes, more side dishes…both things that you can easily eat out of the pack and things in retort packs (more likely intended for eating at home), also the smoothie machines survived winter and have expanded their choices

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Just curious (and not a boomer fwiw)

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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 · 28/03/2026

I’m curious what the name Deborah signifies to you here

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Have you seen these scenes in the anime? The “ seems to mark sniveling voice. 😭

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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 · 22/02/2026

Tabio=aeon mall sock store, often has deals if you buy three similar items

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Deserved criticism 😄 It was hell on moms because they weren’t allowed at school and we had to keep them alive all day. We just had no idea back then how a crying device would become normalized

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I’m saying this as a kid with weird memories from random TV. OTOH we ate up Sumikkogurashi and Chiikawa and talked about the different stuff that’s in there

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It’s adolescent moody with a lot of conflict, with aesthetics that I thought were cool but still I wouldn’t show it to my 6 yo granddaughter yet

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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

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

At least James gets the good drag

Pokemon Team Rocket cosplay as Rose of Versailles with James/Kotaro as Marie in a red dress with shiny golden ringlets and Jessie/Musashi as the prince, subtitle says To extend our art to outer spaces.

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Thanks, I know ppl who are researching agriculture and could use the info 🐝

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

To me (who knows what’s canon) the cops, nurses, and other Jennylike functionaries are like elevator girls, performing the role but otherwise more like a NPC since they’re not in the roles of catching/training

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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 · 13/01/2026

This is interesting and makes me think about documenting more around me

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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

woke up at 4 with the plan. Each side of the magic tape (aka Velcro) is anthropomorphized, and it’s a retake of Doi’s Amae no Kouzo (1971, The Anatomy of Dependence)

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

Um, how about “The Life-changing Magic Tape”?

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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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Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

This way the non kanji readers are even more minoritized

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