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Andrea Horbinski

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Anime + manga expert, PhD History and New Media (UC Berkeley), writer + researcher. Bay Area. Preorder MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY: HOW CREATORS AND FANS MADE JAPANESE COMICS, 1905-1989 now! 日本語でOK She/her. Bay Area. linktr.ee/ahorbinski

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · Sep 3

MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY comes out October 28 in North America, so this is your last chance to save on your preorders at Barnes & Noble!

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mangas-fir...

"...“...a vivid ode to the variety and depth of an enduringly popular art form” – Publishers Weekly. Middle of the image shows a book cover with three comics images horizontal, a boy and Betty Boop, a girl and boy looking scared, and an adult man being harassed by an old-fashioned telephone. "Barnes & Noble members use code PREORDER25 for 25% off through Friday, September 5!"

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d

“London hits 'historic' clean air milestone 184 years early…a 'truly remarkable turnaround for the city's air quality.”

Quite a leadership achievement for @london.gov.uk’s government! While nations talk, (some) cities act. And get results.

London hits clean air milestone 184 years early - ULEZ makes 'big difference'

A professor has branded the success a 'truly remarkable turnaround for the city's air quality'

www.mylondon.news

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 17h

Just arrived! Andrea Horbinski’s “Manga’s First Century.” Can’t wait to dig in!!! #manga #BookSky

Book cover of “Manga’s First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989” by Andrea Horbinski. The cover shows three different styles & genres of early-to-mid century manga.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 1d

Ed "Big Balls" Coristine is able to immiserate millions because his dad owns this popcorn company. Get it out of your pantry now!

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wow, thank you!

Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly thrilled with this review from Kirkus. It's always great when you feel that the reviewer really got what you were trying to do (and thinks you succeeded!).

"Deeply considered and information rich, a useful, fascinating work of comics history."

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY | Kirkus Reviews

Digging into a popular medium’s roots.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Time to start expanding public transit!

Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 2d

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 1d

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 3d

Sent mine back today!

Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 3d

MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY gets a shout-out in today's issue of the newsletter! Laura's newsletter was a huge help to me in getting it published, including contract negotiations.

Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social · 4d

Out today: my behind-the-scenes interview with @dandipiero.bsky.social, author of the new book BIG FEELINGS, just released by @uofmpress.bsky.social

Read for some perspective on the ins and outs of publishing and promoting a second book

newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/big-fe...

Behind the scenes of a second book

An interview with author Dan DiPiero about the new book Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock after Riot Grrrl

newsletter.manuscriptworks.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 5d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 5d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 4d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 5d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 5d

Historian's note: the Tokugawa period didn't actually suck.

Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 5d

Grimly ironic that Shirato, a guy who hated the imperial state (with good reason! His father was arrested by the Thought Police and other kids beat him up for having a Marxist father!), wound up writing a manga reinscribing the imperial state's founding myth: that the Tokugawa period sucked.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 5d

A Roman votive stone to Asclepius and Hygiaea which was built into one of the north isle windows of the Church of St. John the Baptist at Tunstall in Lancashire. It probably came from the nearby Over Burrow Roman Fort. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #Tunstall

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 5d

Shirato really doesn't want to admit that the value of rice declined precipitously over the Edo period, impoverishing samurai while farmers became (relatively) much better off because the aforementioned sericulture and light handicrafts gave them a more valuable income stream than rice.

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 5d

Me, shouting to the farmers like Mr. Krabs: "Have the women start doing sericulture in the off-season! Sell the products at the nearby castle town! Participate in the market where the lord can't tax you!"

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 5d

Ultimately, I probably know too much history for this manga. But Shirato endlessly calling the Edo period "feudal" is just really old-fashioned. It was early modern! Calm down!

Also, I'm not even getting into "What was feudalism? Did it ever really exist for more than 50 years in Europe?"

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 5d

And now the swordmaster is just straight up regurgitating Marxist theory about the origins of class stratification! P.S. to those concerned, we have plenty of archaeological evidence that prehistorical societies did not kill and eat the old or the disabled.

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 5d

The Governor still hasn't signed or vetoed any of the 15 LGBTQ rights bills, which include trans rights bills.

Call (916) 445-2841 btw 9am-5pm, ask him to sign all Legislative LGBTQ Caucus priority bills, or message anytime at www.gov.ca.gov/contact/ lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/legislative-...

2025 Legislative and Budget Priorities | California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus

lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov

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