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Eike Exner@exner.bsky.social |
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Comics/manga history
Book: Comics and the Origins of Manga
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Cars Ruin Cities / 悪車追放
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Eike Exner
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Reactionary liberals/centrists hate leftists for revealing the emptiness of liberals' professed beliefs ("in this house" and so forth), so it's cathartic for them to pretend leftists are the ones holding back progress. Same with the constant Bernie Bros cost Hillary the election stuff.
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Andrew D Thaler
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Library funding is almost always justified through patron numbers. The more people a library serves, the more funding it gets. So even if you don't regularly use a public library, get a library card. It costs you nothing and helps everyone in your community.
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Eike Exner
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Why would the truck do this
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Kody Okamoto
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IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! If you're a U.S.-based comics creative - aspiring, working, or otherwise - and you do ONE thing to help out your fellow creators this year, let it be filling this survey out!
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Eike Exner
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Every reactionary centrist publication has their one fig leaf precisely for this reason (see also Serwer at the Atlantic)
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Eike Exner
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It was striking how mentally fit he seemed during the debate against Bernie after he'd been bumbling through most of the primary and many were expecting him to do really badly in a one-on-one debate. I feel like that was when most concerns about his acuity went away.
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Eike Exner
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Patriotism is merely a euphemism for nationalism. You can always choose right over wrong, whether you're in love with your local nation state or not. People elsewhere are just as deserving and human.
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試してみた感じ。ノドまで開けないやつは、なかなか厳しい！
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Vince Mpls
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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.
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Eike Exner
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Coming upon this sign in America is like catching the rarest of Pokémon
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Hey remember when I said it was a mistake to continue posting on a platform this guy owns and validating its existence? Vichy Twiter is a Nazi run propaganda engine.
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Eike Exner
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I can only assume that the author is Conor Friedersdorf and Yasha Mounk's firstborn.
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Eike Exner
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Only one of those groups will reward you with kickbacks, though. Kids really need to step up their bribery game.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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The Times keeps insisting on portraying the rise of fascism worldwide in terms of "division"--one side vs. another. No, it is an asymmetrical insurrection against all society's institutions (including journalism). Journalists choose to be blind to the reality, which only worsens it.
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Eike Exner
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Wasn't it relatively well established that Trump had the US Marshals assassinate Michael Reinoehl and he basically got away with it?
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R. Eric VanNewkirk
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I think a thing that's poorly understood about American history is that a lot of the progress made through the New Deal was driven by the political elite's fear of the Russian Revolution happening here and not by them having a sudden turn of heart after being visited by multiple ghosts or something.
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Eike Exner
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If Bernie had dropped out sooner, Biden wouldn't have had to debate him one on one, so Biden wouldn't have had to be injected with the good debate drugs so early and wouldn't have built up so much tolerance to them by now.
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Eike Exner
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And that's of course what makes them such an attractive option to the ultrawealthy
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Eike Exner
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Where's the Bernie polling? Did he do too well?
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Eike Exner
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That article only mentions the South but nice try. If you look at breakdowns by age, you also see that black voters, like all other groups, did not vote as a monolith. Iirc Sanders beat Biden among voters under 30 of all racial categories in almost all states.
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Eike Exner
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That was an oft-repeated talking point and certainly true in South Carolina but not true on the national level:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/mee...
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Eike Exner
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It's never really seemed to me like right wing "Christians" actually care about the Christianity part. It feels like religion merely provides a convenient cover for irrational beliefs as a protected category.
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Eike Exner
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Will never stop being weird to me how reviled skateboards are in public spaces while we massively subsidize and enable oversized death machines like SUVs and vanity pickups.
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Eike Exner
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Brb, authentically closing a couple of humanities departments
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Eike Exner
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Also a B5 episode: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
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Eike Exner
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Eike Exner
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Just found out from this article by Shin'ichi Hatakeyama that Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comic strip was published in translation in a Kobe newspaper for several months in 1930, with Japanese dialog written left-to-right.
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Eike Exner
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For some reason living off "unearned" money is always a problem only when it comes to the poor, for rich people it's totally fine to live off inheritances, capital gains, and the labor of others. Why is no one ever concerned about the lack of dignity among the rich?
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Eike Exner
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Tearing down a few neighborhoods to widen the roads and create more parking, of course.
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Eike Exner
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Whoever is responsible for making that happen and promoting it should be shunned. People will stop producing pernicious nonsense like this when no one in their field will take them seriously anymore.
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Eike Exner
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Gotta admit it's brilliant branding to call Regurgitating LLM "Generative AI"
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Eike Exner
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I wish I could go back in time and stop myself from buying or reading a single Harry Potter book.
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Eike Exner
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新美さんブルースカイ参上！ If you're interested in manga history, you should follow Niimi Nue.
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Eike Exner
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Watched another game and the pitcher and batter pitched and batted so hard that the bat broke in two, like a real-life version of the Giacobinid Meteor Shower Swing from Jump's The Astros. Japanese baseball: redeemed.
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Eike Exner
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Even if homeless ppl were housed in luxury units, that would be vastly superior to LA's previous approach: city council funneling millions to their hotel owner buddies. Also, people should react to this framing by demanding sth be done for them too instead of not doing anything for those worse off.
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Eike Exner
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Went to the Tokiwa-so manga museum today and the nearby store is selling the FLIP booklet that has my presentation and face in it (mostly because it also contains an interview with Suzuki Shin'ichi, who is the subject of a current exhibition, but still pretty cool).
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Eike Exner
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I got this theory that one reason why Japanese comics have been so successful is that unlike elsewhere manga creators never forgot that what made comics so popular to begin with was the synchronization of sound and motion.
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Eike Exner
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Took me a while, but I finally finished @kaerusan55.bsky.social 's Fukidashi-ron and greatly enjoyed it, especially the discussion of representations of telepathy in comics.
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𝘾𝙃𝙊𝙅𝙐𝙂𝙄𝙂𝘼 𝙁𝙇𝙊𝙂
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Tony Corsentino
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An easy way to support your public library is to make use of it—even if only to visit. We keep (anonymized) statistics not only on circulation totals but on attendance & visits and even on patron-staff interactions. Big numbers please trustees and municipal/county administrators. 📚
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Eike Exner
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Easy. You just move any stick over the equal sign to make it a not equal sign.
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Eike Exner
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If you're in Tokyo, check out the cozy gallery and store "Au Praxinoscope."
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Eike Exner
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Yeah, it's another manga history book
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“The Post identified at least 1,800 state and local law enforcement officers who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022.”
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Katie Mack
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Cities can be easy/fast to drive cars through or they can be safe/pleasant to be in but they absolutely cannot be both at the same time
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Eike Exner
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Next year!
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Eike Exner
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Thanks for carrying my book!
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Vote Jill Swinburn, your conservation candidate
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Academia is so weird cos half the people in it are just the most generous, passionate individuals you could ever meet and half are just absolute charlatans with egos built of spun sugar.
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Kameron Hurley
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When we talk about "taxing rich people" there's folks who think we're talking about Aunt Edna who has the second summer home. The astronomical levels of "rich" that now exist are almost unfathomable to people. It's the stuff of vast empirical dynasties. We're talking about taxing emperors.
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Eike Exner
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My little shopping hack... When I see something I want at the store I first put it into my bag Then run past the register This is how I always get great products cheaply
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