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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 4h

I got my Trump $90 Social Security bribe today. I'll match it and donate the total to progressive causes.

Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Alwadish told Forbes. “However, when the State Department makes the new 2028 passport design permanent, the passport will no longer be subject to choice.” "U.S. Passport Redesign Features ‘Non-Negotiable’ Image Of Trump—Here’s What To Know" www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

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Trump’s Image ‘Non-Negotiable’ On New U.S. Passport Redesign

Starting in 2028, there will be no way for Americans to avoid having the president’s image grace their passports.

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area: Anime Cinema Club presents: Perfect Blue Remastered Thursday Oct 15 - 6 pm www.eventbrite.com/e/anime-cine...

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Anime Cinema Club presents: Perfect Blue Remastered

A very special one-night only screening of the legend Satoshi Kon's utter masterpiece "Perfect Blue" remastered in 4k!

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🧵 Nearly 12,000 (11,982) books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s newly updated Index of School Book Bans. #BannedBooks #BannedBooksWeek

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · 04/10/2026

You want to put *what* *where*?!? "To investigate the content and characteristics of the communication of science-related ideas in anime, this work examined six productions of worldwide popularity." #openaccess www.icaseonline.net/journal/inde...

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Science in Anime? A Debate from the Content and Characteristics of Communication of Science-related Ideas | Science Education International

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Brian S. Mah @ranmah76.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For the future.

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The new season of The Apothecary Diaries has landed. The first episode sets up the new story line quite well.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

California is weaning itself off fossil gas, fast. Gas-fired electricity generation in California fell by 26% in the first half of 2026, as utility-scale solar, batteries and the new SunZia wind project feed power in via a dedicated transmission line. buff.ly/QWQoLPc #ShareGoodNewsToo

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How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit - Inside Climate News

Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A new FamilyMart commercial. ファミマではたらく？　30 youtu.be/H9fyGu7R9ck?...

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ファミマではたらく？　30秒

YouTube video by familymart

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Given my age I have to get that t-shirt.

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the shops I know about even does classes.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Episode 3 is up! More Machiavelli! More Renaissance weirdness!

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Last night's movie was Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder movies. I was delighted with homage to the kabuki play Kōchiyama. youtu.be/xEHXbXUvHko?...

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Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder | Original Trailer | Takashi Harada, 1968

YouTube video by Arrow Video

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Jake Adelstein @tokyovice.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Japan just told the foreigners here, who learned the language, paid taxes, raised kids, buried the years — you were too slow. No permanent residency. Not because you didn't earn it, but because it's easier to blame 3% of the population than govern tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/takaichi-j...

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Welcome to Japanistan, where the foreign residents who buried their lives here aren't welcome anymore. It's not a kind policy–and not even a wise one

The Japanese government, under rabid nationalist Sanae Takaichi and her half-American minister, have effectively made permanent residence impossible for many.

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A new project in San Francisco, the Anime Cinema Club shows movies at the New People Cinema in Japantown. The first film on October 15th at 6 pm will be Kon Satoshi's Perfect Blue from 1997. Their web page with showing details and more is at: www.animecinemaclub.com

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Perfect Blue, the 1997 Psychological Thriller Masterpiece, Hits the Big Screen with Anime Cinema Club This October

One night only. Perfect Blue remastered in 4K at New People Cinema, Japantown SF. Thursday, October 15, 2026. Doors 6:00 PM, film 6:30 PM, ends 8:30 PM. $10 GA / $15 VIP / $100 Co-Host.

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tonight's movie was Wicked Priest from 1968, the first in a series of five films. youtu.be/20EFAN-6QM8?...

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Wicked Priest | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Arrow Video

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My copy of The Wicked Priest Collection arrived today. Five movies of vow breaking Buddhism. Plus an interview with James Mudge, commentaries by Jonathan Clements, and the team of Matt Alt and Patrick Macias! www.arrowvideo.com/p/blu-ray/wi...

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Wicked Priest Collection Limited Edition Blu-ray | Arrow Video

Shop Wicked Priest Collection Limited Edition Blu-ray at Arrow Video. Free UK Delivery

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Retired animator Ken Pontac has not slowed down, After all retiring means you get to do those projects you enjoy. Besides continuing to work on Happy Tree Friends he also was active in this documentary. youtu.be/0CQIF90yfIA?...

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Episode 1: Autistics with Power Tools

YouTube video by Colors of the Spectrum

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:

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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem

A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Episode 2 is up! Beforecast, my new podcast about history and our present, starting with a deep dive into Machiavelli. Beforecast.fm has links to all the podcast sites, and the YouTube link is below.

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Beforecast — Now Live

Historian Ada Palmer on the real Machiavelli. Episode 1 is out now. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube and more.

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Coop @riderstrike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@worldofcrap.bsky.social: Wanna work with @miketoole.com on a column? Me: Yes, I do wanna work with @miketoole.com on a column. Mike’s writing and splash image game is like no other! Check out Toole’s Gold!

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The first episode of my new podcast is out! BEFORECAST with weekly episodes on history and our present, starting with a Machiavelli deep dive!

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Mountain lions are making American roads safer by frightening away deer. On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where cougars were most active, deer-vehicle collisions fell 76%. Deer kill up to 440 Americans a year; cougars have killed 29 Americans since 1868. buff.ly/9bDfEKZ #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Cougars cut deadly vehicle-deer collisions in the US by up to 76%, study shows

If you’re a black-tailed deer on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington, you’re always surrounded by friends and family. You are free-range, with abundant food to forage in familiar…

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is delightful. “FukuFuku Map”: The Brand Film for “Fukushima Map”【English subtitles】 Translation by Dan Kanamitsu youtu.be/fKhHAvY5KdQ?...

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A Film by Sunao Katabuchi | “FukuFuku Map”: The Brand Film for “Fukushima Map”【English subtitles】

YouTube video by PrefFukushima

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 05/09/2026

sharing again for the weekend crowd. the humanities aren't in crisis, they're under attack -- because they're dangerous to people in power, because they ask their students to imagine possible worlds.

from the article: "Our tendency to see religion as a matter of personal, interiorized belief has led us to view its study as intellectually niche—or, to put it in neoliberal corporate speak—as a “low-skill” distraction. This is true of how we view the Humanities in general, of course—that, as Lauren Horn Griffin has so well explained, they’re seen as little more than “personal enrichment.” But that, she continues, is a right-wing act of controlling unruly ideas, of pushing to the margins disciplines that ask difficult questions of “invisible” power structures—say they’re irrelevant, deny them resources, call them “unprofitable,” make them disappear. But faculty, especially but not exclusively in Religion and other Humanities disciplines, often work directly against these forces. Because the discipline of Religion is attuned to issues of (presumed) interiority as well as actions in the public sphere, it’s these faculty who are some of the best situated to ask uncomfortable questions of those in power—be they federal policymakers or university administrators.

At (regional) public universities like ours, this means highlighting a population that is quite different by class, race, gender, and sexuality than found at, for example, the Ivies. Humanities education, including Religious Studies, helps inure students to authoritarian thinking. At their best, the Humanities are attentive to the frictions that create lived experiences—particularly those that are oftentimes marginalized. The Humanities explain how things have been different, could have been different, could be different now, and may be different in the future. They are about possible worlds."

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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

These are serious times but we are not serious people. I love us.

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Rumic World @furinkan.com · 02/09/2026

There’s so much great manga finally being released in English from small publishers, be sure to support them! @glacierbaybooks.com @peow.bsky.social

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It has been a long day creating a series of new web pages for the Tokyo Stroll web supplement. I'm tired, time to rewatch Redline. youtu.be/2t26m_Q6ENo?...

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Redline Trailer

YouTube video by Manga Entertainment

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How dare you forbid vehicles in cities! We cannot have towns where the only vehicles will be for deliveries and services! This is an insane left-wing idea, a novelty against any tradition and it will kill the inner cities. Lex Iulia Municipalis from 45 BCE:

14) After January 1 next no one shall drive a wagon along the streets of Rome or along those streets in the suburbs where there is continuous housing after sunrise or before the tenth hour of the day, except whatever will be proper for the transportation and the importation of material for building temples of the immortal gods, or for public works, or for removing from the city rubbish from those buildings for whose demolition public contracts have been let. For these purposes permission shall be granted by this law to specified persons to drive wagons for the reasons stated.

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