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Dr Rukmini Pande @rukminipande.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Still open! Ever boycotted a kpop company? Hybe? SM? All of them?? I'd love to talk to you! DMs are also open in case you'd prefer that over the form!

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Acum ca din nou am ajuns într-un punct in care trebuie sa scriu cover letters si elevator pitches, încerc sa întruchipez filozofia lui Pavel Puiuț, zis Pepe când le scriu: "mâna întinsă care nu spune o poveste nu primește pomana"

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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 24/03/2026

Play HAMM-3R! 🚀 FREE + SHORT (5-10 mins.) >> hammer.gua-le-ni.com << An experimental game about tools and technologies made with @amidos2006.bsky.social, @demigiant.com and other friends at the @indigitalgames.bsky.social! 🔨

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HAMM-3R

HAMM-3R is a SHORT and FREE experimental videogame about how our equipment influences the ways we understand the world and act within it.

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

No matter how many inaccuracies my PhD will have it will never be as inaccurate as Fukuyama in 1992

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Victor Navarro-Remesal @vthewanderer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

THE FIRST 3 YEARS PROJECT Inspired by first3yearsproject.com In my class on games as cultural industries, 60 students created a white paper on the first years as a games worker. Good practices, production processes, and labour issues. Please share! tinyurl.com/first3yearstcm

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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 16/02/2026

Hi! I have a new, quirky article out on how games use and represent the dead, but also on deadpool games, & the strange case of the #Fantamorto (an Italian fantasy sport). >> gamestudies.org/2601/article... << 🚨WARNING🚨: it might contain traces of @ckunzelman.bsky.social and @maurovanetti.itch.io

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

losing my mind over arabic being phonetically as close as German to English

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

as I'm going through the interviews I've been taking in the past two years with video game recruiters, I was reminded why I dislike them. I am wondering if we're ever going to address the fascism embedded in MBA's that teach people to say without blinking that "as you get older your value decreases"

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

now and again I open instagram and wonder, ce boala psihica o avea dana Budeanu...?

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Wow. The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.

Underneath the name Charlie Hebdo is a pile of bloodied dead bodies representing US citizens killed by ICE. The pile of bodies are collected in one corner to represent the stars of the US flag and the streaks of blood caused by them being dragged across the ground form the red and white stripes. In the foreground an armed skinhead officer with an ICE vest is dragging his latest victim with multiple gunshots to join the pile. The world is watching in horror.

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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last was “Diversity and Inclusion in Japan,” edited by Lailani Alcantara and Yoshiki Shinohara. This is a great collection of papers and essays on the state and dimension of diversity and inclusion efforts in Japan. Highly recommend Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (9/9)

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Diversity and Inclusion in Japan: Issues in Business and Higher Education

Alcantara, Shinohara, and their contributors evaluate the current state of diversity and inclusion (D&I) within business and higher education in Japan, and the importance of D&I to the growth of Japan...

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Kenji Ito 伊藤憲二 @kenjiito.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

強くなくてもいいから住みやすい国にしてほしい

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Sketchy Ceviche | Tokyo Based Mexican Indie Game Studio. @sketchyceviche.itch.io · 26/01/2026

A.I. The hot take: anyone will tell you it's useful for everything *except* for their field of expertise. I know. I've done it. I'm not an expert in T.P.S. Reports. Is it worth the crash we all will suffer when the bubble pops? nope. OK, now that I've farmed the hate, please check my games.

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

“By accepting that AI “sees” for us, we are presented with the world whose epistemological positions have been predefined by corporate elites in pursuit of market dominance. Sure, the user is free to create so-called art with the so-called tool, but only within the confines of a pre-digested world.”

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

A skill I hate I have is my ability to read business Japanese and government reports, which came at the expense of my ability to read literature.

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Reminders asking me to move "transcrible last 3 interviews" to the category: 飲料or beverages. I'd love to know which word is triggering this suggestion.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 03/01/2026

Reality is becoming a luxury. Before the Industrial Revolution, everyone lived with handmade things because there was no alternative. After mass production, handmade didn’t disappear, it became rare, expensive, & status-signaling. The wealthy got craftsmanship. Everyone else got the factory version.

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Kenji Ito 伊藤憲二 @kenjiito.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

歴史を振り返るのは、同じ過ちを繰り返さないためである。過去の栄光をもう一度と思っても、環境が変わったら同じことをして成功することはめったにない。そもそも100年前の日本はむしろ破滅への途へ進んでいたので、同じことをくりかえすのは愚かでしかない。

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Dr. Will Helmke @williamhelmke.com · 30/12/2025

-Defended my dissertation -Finally got my Cybiko paper published -Co-chaired a successful anime convention -Created a new course (that I will teach in spring) -Made new friends, and got reacquainted/better acquainted with some past ones (such as @jealaxy.bsky.social and @malecsandram.bsky.social)

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ごん🦞 @traffickerg.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

お金がほしいんじゃなくて「住むな」と言ってる。正確には「働け。だが住むな」。搾取と排斥が見事にドッキングしているのである。

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

A while ago I went to Nanba for to do some fieldwork only to realize that most of the district is a super potato, a bunch of maid cafes, a bunch of card trading shops and the most hyper real gacha machines in existence

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

you've heard of "this is more of a comment than a question" but have you ever encountered its twin:

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The private equity presidency is deeply unpopular, who'd have thought

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Karyn NISHIMURA 西村カリン @karynnishimura.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

L’une des particularités du gouvernement de la Première ministre japonaise Sanae Takaichi va être de présenter des réformes comme des avancées alors qu’elles seront in fine des reculs ou des freins à des avancées réelles. On ne va pas tarder à en avoir des illustrations flagrantes.

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Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Fixed it for you 😇

Screenshot about go carting in Tokyo. I make some edits to better reflect the feelings of residents here.

DID YOU KNOW? YOU CAN LEGALLY DRIVE A GO-KART ON TOKYO'S STREETS! •

Yes, street go-karting in Japan is 100% real! You can zip through Tokyo's busy roads, past (UNHINGED) taxis, neon lights (OF TRUCKS THAT CAN’T SEE YOU), and cheering crowds in a mini (DEATH TRAP).

Once behind the wheel, you can dress up in (UNSAFE)costume. cruise past landmarks like Shibuya Crossing or Tokyo Tower, and feel like a real-life video game character. (NOT A THING) Just remember (how u would feel if a bunch of
totally unforgettable. tourists descended upon your city and acted like it was their
personal playground.)
#japan #travel (#japanese#apikachuhoodisnotahelmet)
THIS IS YOU SOON:
GO-KARTING IN TOKYO
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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Because there is no industry body that will aggregate the total number of foreign employees in the Japanese video games industry I have to do it myself. And that's how I spent my day calculating percentages and totals. Just curious, is anyone interested in the numbers?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/10/2025

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability. (Published July)

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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

「GAFAMのような巨大プラットフォームに支配され、知らず知らずのうちに自らの思考を明け渡し、知らず知らずのうちに搾取される。「移民が来るリスク」や「伝統的な日本が壊れるリスク」よりも、私やあなたが＂AI小作人＂になるリスクのほうがよほど大きいのです」 news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/909...

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【モーリー・ロバートソンの考察】自民党総裁選で誰も指摘しなかった、多くの日本人が＂AI小作人＂になるというリスク（週プレNEWS） - Yahoo!ニュース

『週刊プレイボーイ』で「挑発的ニッポン革命計画」を連載中の国際ジャーナリスト、モーリー・ロバートソンが、円安の恒常化によって日本社会の「二極化」が固定化される可能性、そして多くの人々が本当に気をつけ

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Kenji Ito 伊藤憲二 @kenjiito.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

質の悪い読者がつくと著者が堕落するように、質の悪い支持者がつくと政党も堕落するものなのかもしれない。

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

It's always a humbling experience to re-read papers from your first year of university. Glad to be able to say that even back then you could already see the potential buried beneath the chaos.

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Kenji Ito 伊藤憲二 @kenjiito.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

前にも同じようなことを書いたけれど、ノーベル平和賞はむしろトランプに抵抗している人たちに与えるべき。米国に限らず、世界の各地でトランプ的なもの、強権主義に抵抗している人たちに与えてほしい。

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

It's finally that time of the year when inside is cozy, outside it's crisp, the smell of coffee is deeper, the sunlight is colder and the sound of music flows like butter.

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

PSA for Japanese games scholars researching Dojin games: Read YAMADA/HICHIBE. His is the largest and most comprehensive sociological research on what Dojin games and Dojin culture is from the mouth of the Dojin creators themselves.

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The worst type of email is the one that announces application results and asks you to check the attached document for the results but the sender forgot to attach any documents.

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Dear EU scholars, I BEG of you to also include the name of the country when you announce your roundtables and conferences. You can't possibly expect everyone to know every European city just because it's in Western Europe. Including the name of the state/country after a city is not a terrible idea

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Solip Park @solippark.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Thank you everyone who contributed to our "Exploring Global Game Work Migration" workshop #digra #digra25

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I would like this embroided so it doesn't wash off. maybe tattoo it on my forehead for the next time I have to differentiate myself from the asshole who enters a shop just to have a speakerphone conversation in a chilly place

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

During the DiGRA workshop I co-organised with my colleagues on game work migration one of the best points came from Aphra Kerr who pointed out that migrant stories can be co-opted by far right discourse and that it is our responsibility to be mindful of that when working with interview data.

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

"you're cosplaying a personality disorder and calling it leadership" might be the highlight of my day

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Editor pro tip after reading several excellent articles that got nonetheless desk rejected Not citing any scholarship published in the journal (or similar/adjacent) where you are submitting is a major red flag that your piece is off-scope Embed your piece in a debate that matters for your readers

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Yesterday I took a stroll in my neighbourhood and reached areas I've never visited before. I was pleased to find no sanseito posters. Instead one house had a few posters from the Communist party, including the latest one that says 外国人差別許しません(foreigner discrimination is unforgivable). Never moving

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Last year I approached IIAS to create a new blog category for scholars of cultural and creative labor in Asia. It took a year, but today I finally sent the first essays written by myself and my colleagues. It will take a few more months to have them published too but I can't believe we're so close!!

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Alecsandra @malecsandram.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Sanseito are not a new phenomenon, they're just social media savvy demagogues . What they say is not controversial in Japan, it is controversial abroad because it's bad for optics. But now that they gained some power the LDP is summoning Abe's spirit from the dead www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

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Justice minister voices concerns over illegal Turkish residents | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki expressed “grave concern” over illegal Turkish residents in Japan and called on the country’s ambassador to help resolve the matter.

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C @clikesfashion.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Mover over "Latinos for Trump", it's "Gajins for Sanseito" time to shine

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Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Really, the ONLY good thing about this election season is that I have an excuse to make another one of these videos. Remember to get out and not be allowed to vote on Sunday, friends!

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Tokyo Indies 次回9月16日 @tokyoindies.com · 17/07/2025

遊びに来てね！

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