Sonny Rollins, who has just died at 95, was the last surviving jazz musician from among 57 seen in this 1958 group photo taken in Harlem bsky.app/profile/100y...
100 years ago news@100yearsagonews.bsky.social · last yr.April 9, 1925: Art Kane, a photographer who captured popular music icons in many memorable images from the '50s to the '90s, is born (as Arthur Kanofsky) in New York. His group portrait of 57 jazz stars on a Harlem street in 1958 inspired a documentary, "A Great Day in Harlem."
There are 38 issues of the early Japanese socialist women’s periodical 世界婦人 1907-1909 on Internet Archive to read or download, edited by Fukuda Hideko (福田英子). archive.org/search?query...
I created a deep linked and searchable table of contents index for issues of the prewar "Japan Magazine" found on Internet Archive, with over 200 issues and several thousand articles. Useful for history students working only with English sources: froginawell.net/indexes/japa... #japan
April 4, 1926: An Easter greeting from George Herriman’s “Krazy Kat.”
宗教信者限定マッチングアプリ登場 背景に出会いの壁「両親が嫌と」 www.asahi.com/articles/ASV... 運営会社によると、一般の婚活サービスを運営していたものの、身長や年収などの条件に評価が集中し、一部の人しかマッチングしない構造を課題に感じていたといいます。 宗教などの属性に特化したアプリなら、属性を共有できることで一番大事な価値観が満たされ、「身長や年収などの優先度が相対的に下がる」。 利用者からは「宗教のことを隠さずに出会えることに安心感がある」などの声が寄せられたそうです。
宗教信者限定マッチングアプリ登場 背景に出会いの壁「両親が嫌と」：朝日新聞
マッチングアプリサービスに、宗教に特化したものが登場している。信仰のために出会いや交際がうまくいかない――。宗教信者の中に、そんな悩みを抱える人が多いことが背景にある。 創価学会3世の30代の会社員…
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Another article now out, on literary and religious infrastructure in the Tang. Pleased to see it published in the journal Religion & Literature, from Notre Dame. Let me tell you why this one is important to me... 1/
I agree with much of this great blog but I think there is a reason to keep the label science and that is in order to identify who wins the epithet "science" in a crebibility contest, and then explain how that contest was won (usually identifying social causes).
will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 4mo agoThere’s no such thing as the history of science (and this is a blog post about it) (inspired by a great 2017 article by Lorraine Daston) williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t... 🗃️
It’s been another long, miserable week under our Chongzhen Emperor, but there are still good things in the world:
What's Good? A Collection of Small Nice Things
The dynasty is collapsing and the vibes are fucked. Other people have been here before. Here's a few of Jin Shengtan's favorite things to distract you.
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I got a discount code for sales of my book in March!
This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen
I call it, "Shoveling through a second blizzard when the previous snowdrift hasn't melted yet"
Volt Beleriand@yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 5mo ago
アメリカの在住者は この俳句の通りなのだろう 物いへば唇寒し秋の風 どうぞご無事で
東京大学 SNS 分散化プロジェクト@ut-sns-d14n.bsky.social · 6mo ago米DHS（国土安全保障省）はGoogle, Reddit, Discord, Meta(Facebook, Instagram)に対し、ICE（移民関税執行局）の情報や批判を投稿したアカウントの名前、メールアドレス、電話番号その他の個人情報を要求しました。応じるかどうかはユーザーではなく企業が決めるため、これはユーザーの自己主権の侵害です。巨大企業は自身の利害のためならあっさりとユーザーを裏切ります。企業の有する膨大な情報は監視社会の道具になり、国家に批判的な傾向は犯罪のように扱われるでしょう。ビッグテックに情報を渡すことは権威主義への加担であり、あなた自身の安全を脅かすことでもあります。
Crying about the 16 year old caring all alone for her 3 month old sibling who didn't eat for a day and a half, imagining how that baby must have been screaming Thinking oh God we're powerless but we aren't, the baby ate, caring for one another is a kind of power too 19thnews.org/2026/02/minn...
When one mother was taken by ICE, another stepped in to donate breastmilk
Moms in Minneapolis are donating diapers, food and time to help families who have been ripped apart by ICE.
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Hamilton's most effective piece of writing was the sleazebag letter from beyond the grave where he pretended he was going to waste his shot in the duel with Burr.
If I told you that a formerly straight-A student whose dad was detained by ICE at gunpoint, was now food insecure, housing insecure, traumatized, and not doing as well in school? That would make sense to you. There are ~100K people in ICE detention. There are ~400K people in pretrial detention.
余ノ友人オリオン・クラウタウ先生、近代日本ニ於ケル鎌倉仏教ヲ「宗教改革」トシテ解釈スルヿニ就キ、迚モ興味深キ大論文ヲ公ニセリ。是数篇ヨリ成ル論考ノ端緒ニ過ギズ、今後ノ続編ヲ待望スベシト。嗚呼！実ニ慶賀ノ至リ奉存候！ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Kamakura Buddhism as Japanese reformation: Hara Katsurō’s modern historiographical project
This article re-examines how the ‘new’ Buddhist movements of the Kamakura era (1185–1333) – the opening phase of what we now consider Japan’s ‘medieval’ period – were cast as a counterpart to Germa...
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Thanks to Bruce Winkleton for the kind review! It focused on the narrative analysis in the book, a pet passion and something an earlier version of the manuscript centered, until I pulled it back and refocused on Shugendō’s historical development (albeit via its frequent shaping through narrative).
Harumasa Abe on the decline of the New Left in Japan, arguing that the United Red Army incident and uchigeba in-fighting embody a "maximal tension" between two dynamics: centralization and fragmentation. illwill.com/uchigeba
Fragmentation, Centralization, and Civil War in the Japanese Ultra-Left • Ill Will
Harumasa Abe on revolutionary organization and internecine violence in 1960s and ’70s Japan.
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I was taking this quiz to learn which Japanese political party I'm close to. It has a bunch of normal stuff, then suddenly asks me this: Is the purpose of a constitution A: to limit the power of the state or B: to define the foundations and ideals of the state?
朝日新聞@asahi.com · 6mo ago【衆院選2026】あなたにマッチする政党・候補者は？|朝日新聞「ボートマッチ」公開中 www.asahi.com/senkyo/votem... ☑️ 時限的又は恒久的に消費税率を引き下げるべきか？ ☑️ 社会保険料を引き下げるべきか？.......etc 各候補者が回答したアンケートと同じ質問に答えることで、 1️⃣ 各政党との「一致度」をチェック 2️⃣ 各候補者の考え方との「一致度」をチェック 2026年衆院選は、2月8日投開票です。ぜひ投票時の参考にしてみてください。
Proof that Hutchinson was a true Bostonian: Give him a little free time and he starts developing an interest in Japanese culture
Revolutionary War 250@revwar250.bsky.social · 7mo ago30 DECEMBER 1775, TYLNEY HALL, HAMPSHIRE: Massachusetts Loyalist Thomas Hutchinson is a houseguest of the politician Welbore Ellis: “Finding among Mr Ellis’s books Kempfer’s History of Japan, which I had never met with before, spent what time the family rules admit of in reading;
New open-access article: "Kamakura Buddhism as Japanese Reformation: Hara Katsurō's Modern Historiographical Project." doi.org/10.1080/0048...
Kamakura Buddhism as Japanese reformation: Hara Katsurō’s modern historiographical project
This article re-examines how the ‘new’ Buddhist movements of the Kamakura era (1185–1333) – the opening phase of what we now consider Japan’s ‘medieval’ period – were cast as a counterpart to Germa...
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so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.
Born this day in 1884, on Neskuchnoye estate in Ukraine, the marvelous painter Zinaida Serebriakova. After my time, but worth making an exception! Here by herself at the mirror in 1909.
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 8mo ago'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
職員室を再現したという展示企画「あの職員室」って、こういう内容だったんだ。青春映画の物語みたいだ。行けば良かったなー（ただ単に職員室を再現しただけかと思ってた）（よくよく考えると、そんなわけないか……） note.com/20040831/n/n...
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Dec. 3, 1775: The first flag of the 13 United Colonies is introduced in Philadelphia. The ensign that features a British Union flag in the canton (upper left) and 13 alternating red and white stripes in the field, is hoisted from the Continental Navy warship Alfred by Lt. John Paul Jones. 1/5
For anyone attending the #AARSBL in Boston, come see the Buddhas in the West Pop-Up Exhibit this Saturday at CGIS S050 at Harvard University. We look at the early European depictions of the Buddha and Buddhist monks from the 1660s to 1850s. 🗃️ 📜 #Buddhasinthewest
