Oh no how will Winona police stalk their exes now 😢
Goldstein@goldstein.latinsky.app · 7h agoThey stole ALL the Flock cameras in Winona.
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Striphistoricus writing on Japanese comics and the history of the comics medium. More about my work at eikeexner.com. Name's pronounced Eye-kuh X-ner / アイケ・エクスナ.
Goldstein@goldstein.latinsky.app · 7h ago
All the leftist radicals demanding to "defund the police" are gonna look really stupid the day they will need the police who are *not* stalking them and their kids via an expensive for-profit network of ubiquitous surveillance to protect them from the police who are 😔
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 4d agoAn Atlanta-area police chief accessed Flock cameras 500 times to track the movements of his ex-girlfriend and her teenage daughter. At least 50 cops have been similarly charged with misusing Flock "including to stalk women without their knowledge or consent"
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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Some supposedly progressive podcasters seem to spend most of their time online sharing reactionary articles, huh
Pearl Harbor episode of Matsushita Ichio's Suishin Oyaji (Father Promoter/Onwards Father), the Asahi Graph's replacement for Bringing Up Father. Image from a 1942 anthology of the strip.
Pearl Harbor episode of Matsushita Ichio's Suishin Oyaji (Father Promoter/Onwards Father), the Asahi Graph's replacement for Bringing Up Father. Image from a 1942 anthology of the strip.
"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city" is nowhere more directly proven than at U.S. airports without a train connection.
Jake Gotta@jakegotta.bsky.social · 6d ago“Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city,” [says Jean-Louis Missika, Paris’s deputy mayor for urbanisation]. “They are parked 95% of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70kg. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is.” www.ft.com/content/882e...
“Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city,” [says Jean-Louis Missika, Paris’s deputy mayor for urbanisation]. “They are parked 95% of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70kg. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is.” www.ft.com/content/882e...
How Paris beat the car
Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model
ft.com
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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I guess "fantastic" is technically an accurate moniker for a text that makes a lot of stuff up eikeexner.com/2025/11/26/n...
Early Manga Historiography, the Importance of Consulting Primary Sources, and the Limits of Peer Review - Eike Exner
The post reviews the University of California Press book "Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989." It points out a number of severe factual errors and misinterpre...
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s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · last wk.HUGE congrats to my comrade @horbinski.bsky.social for her EISNER AWARD for her fantastic book, Manga's First Century!
Great article on the physical printing of comics by one of the foremost experts on the subject, Guy Lawley
The Origins of Vintage Comics Part 1
Comics historian Guy Lawley takes you on a deep dive into the warm, nostalgic aesthetic of vintage comics and the technologies used to print them.
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Not only did this book win the award but the University of California Press, (formerly?) a renowned publisher when it comes to academic books related to Japan, continues to promote it despite being aware of the problems with it, which is not a great sign for the field or academia more broadly.
Eike Exner@eikeexner.com · 3mo agoA book on manga history that was so full of errors and false claims that I felt like I had to write a blog post about it to warn people got nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Academic Work. Truly post-truth society 🤷♂️ eikeexner.com/2025/11/26/n...
There should be a Comic-Con that's about comics.
USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 2w agoJohnny Depp surprised fans at Comic-Con by showing up unannounced at an unrelated panel in character as Ebenezer Scrooge.
Two days ago some comics studies people got mad at me for saying I knew which book had won in the academic category, with one even reporting me to Jackie Estrada for some reason, so it's darkly funny of Comic-Con to accidentally publish the entire list of winners right after that.
Popverse@popversesays.bsky.social · 2w agoPossible Eisner Awards leak leads to concern from San Diego Comic-Con that it could overshadow Friday's awards ceremony and the winners. Read on: www.thepopverse.com/comics-eisne...
FLiP Vol. 2 now available digitally for just 500 yen, featuring articles on the history of the printing of cartoons and comics and on Matsumoto Katsuji
飯塚@kaludoro.bsky.social · 2w agoフォロー中の日本マンガ学会歴史学習部会さんが新しいその他書籍を公開したぞッ（メール文転載 今回はマンガ印刷史入門！ booth.pm/ja/items/854...
Hong Kong publication "Superstrong Sailor" (大力水手), known from "TV cartoons" (電視卡通), guest starring Ultraman (unnamed)
Weird Popeyes@weirdpopeyes.bsky.social · 2w ago
I do not post screenshots from the X app because I am not an importer of filth. All the filth you see here is organic and locally sourced
I'm always struck by how many in anglophone comics/manga studies seem to treat scholarship primarily as an expression of fandom, with no apparent curiosity about the medium and its history, content to forever recycle the same myths and tropes.
The percentage of Americans who are staring at their phones while driving is getting insane (roughly one in three whenever I'm crossing the street and count). Seems indicative of the deeper social rot in this country (though enabled in large part by Americans' preference for automatic transmission)
The right-wing mind is a wonder to behold. The book reviewed here is John Dower's War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War, in which the author goes to great lengths detailing Japanese war crimes, but also quotes racist and exterminationist rhetoric by Americans.
Think of the money that this will save American police departments by replacing the outdated helicopter technology they are currently forced to use to terrorize communities of color and preventing their children from getting enough sleep
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 3w agoI’m sure there will be no horrifying consequences as a result of the Trump regime authorizing the launch of ominously Tolkien-named satellites capable of illuminating 5 to 6 kilometer-wide swaths of the earth at night: www.wired.com/story/reflec...
We liberals demand 👏better 👏credentialed 👏death squad👏overseers
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3w agoThis man’s top achievement in life was running his family’s plumbing business. Now he’s running one of the country’s biggest agencies, with the results you would expect.
With two new ICE murders it's clear we now live in a country where neonazis are going to regularly murder people not just with impunity but with the full blessing and protection of the federal government, which is also paying the murderers handsome salaries out of our taxes.
Millions of people do good in their communities every single hour and if we uplifted each example, we would drown out those who spend their time doing evil. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/n... - RIP to both of these men.
Jayson Conner and Jeffrey Newman, Who Gave Backpacks to Those in Need, Die Days Apart (Gift Article)
The couple, who died within a few days of each other, provided needed supplies, like socks and wet wipes, to people living on New York City’s streets.
nytimes.com
I read an early draft of this book and recommend it to anyone interested in Dragon Ball.
Andy Hoberek@thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 4w agoIf you’re a Dragon Ball fan, or if you’re just looking for a great case study in the transnational circulation of contemporary culture, @vincenthaddad.bsky.social has written a book for you.
This thread is long overdue. There's an article in my field, one of the only published in a peer-reviewed journal in fact, that is so astonishingly bad and commonly cited that I need to warn people about it. I don't blame unassuming scholars for citing it. Expertise on Japanese aviation is rare.
Apparently there are fields of history where making stuff up still has consequences
Historian Kerri K. Greenidge and Her Book ‘The Grimkes’ Come Under Fire (Gift Article)
Kerri K. Greenidge appeared to lose her professorship at Tufts University after scholars began scrutinizing her 2022 book, “The Grimkes,” which is no longer listed on its publisher’s website.
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