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Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz

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That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️ Anthropologist of (Japanese) religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Lecturer & Assoc. Editor @ Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant

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Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · Nov 8

Ppl making academia account starter packs r my heroes, thank you for the invisible service 🥹

I will try to share relevant starter packs below ⬇️🧵

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

Rodney Taylor still needs our help!

He’s still locked in an ICE camp.

He’s still going without his new prosthetic legs.

He’s still facing deportation to Liberia.

He’s still having necessary disability accommodations ignored.

Please keep sharing his story. Public pressure works!

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE

Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

www.disabledginger.com

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Lizstar @lizstar.bsky.social · 4d

This entire thread explains one of the REAL reasons I'm so pissed about this whole Bluesky CEO Waffles mess.

I liked that meme. That was a good meme. The waffles tweet from years ago was a *good tweet*, and they are DRASTICALLY misusing it and turning it into a freakin' dogwhistle for their ingroup

mcc @dryad.technology · 4d

So I'd like to show a demonstration of what this "waffles" thing is. Here's a conversation between *this site's* CEO, some random guy, and the cofounder of "Tangled", a GitHub clone built on top of Bluesky's protocol.

Please take a moment to really think, about the shape of this thoughtlessness.

Jay.bsky.team:

Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

Steven:

Then you should probably stop trolling your user base.

Anirudh Oppiliappan:

bro got mad at waffles

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 6d

I picked up several great-looking comics from this, loads to choose from!

ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 7d

It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!

Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 5d

brb asking my publisher for an edition of Because Internet that makes the dialup screech as you open it, like a novelty birthday card, and gradually heats up the longer you read it

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 6d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

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Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 6d

Link up with @kaihat.su! I haven’t started playing yet but will keep an eye out for issues like this when I do…

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 10d

Please kindly vote for your favorite library card design for the @pbs.org kids library card design contest 😁

And leave your graphic novel recommendations for myself and @arthurpbs.bsky.social’s Marc Brown! 🤩

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 6d

There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯

I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨

youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU

Smiling Mychal with hands raised wears an outer space shirt in a library. It is a still from an episode of Reading Rainbow.

LeVar Burton smiles with hands behind his head as he lies down on a colorful pile of books. ENEMY PIE book rests on his chest.

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Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 6d

I’m mega tired (it’s almost 1am in Japan) & didnt properly hype this. Posting again bc it deserves it:

Beloved kid’s literacy show #ReadingRainbow is back w the always kind & awesome Mychal the Librarian @mychal3ts.bsky.social as the new host, w prev host LeVar Burton’s blessing!! Truly good news 🥹

Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 6d

Some truly good news 🥹 youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU

Reading Rainbow🌈 | Official Trailer 🎬 | Educational Videos for Kids |@Kidzuko

YouTube video by Kidzuko

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 6d

I'm sure this isn't a novel insight but everything happening with tech platforms must, to some degree, be driven by their managers and developers actively hating their users and rueing that they have any autonomy as human beings other than being manipulable data points for behavioral experimentation

lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 6d

your imaginary friend who uses too much electricity is now also annoying

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Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 6d

Read more about it here: www.becauseofthemwecan.com/blogs/news/r...

Reading Rainbow Is Back With A New Host — Mychal the Librarian - Because of Them We Can

It’s in a book with a new look! Reading Rainbow is officially turning the page to a new chapter, and the bookmark has Mychal Threets’ name on it. After being off the air for two decades, our beloved s...

www.becauseofthemwecan.com

Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 6d

Some truly good news 🥹 youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU

Reading Rainbow🌈 | Official Trailer 🎬 | Educational Videos for Kids |@Kidzuko

YouTube video by Kidzuko

youtu.be

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Diane Ademu-John @junkyardmessiah.bsky.social · 6d

One of my 1st jobs in Hollywood was as a file clerk for a dept of Disney called “Pooh Licensing” *pause for snickering*. PL’s job was to go after ANYONE who used Winnie the Pooh w/o paying for the right. They sued folks from bootleggers to school teachers who hung Pooh on a classroom door. CUT TO:

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 6d

The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material

www.404media.co/openais-sora...

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus

The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.

www.404media.co

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jkshields (she/they) @jkshields.bsky.social · 6d

This is an excellent point I need to digest how it might reshape the recc's Doctorow proposes if we took the initial white-logic of platforms seriously as part of the development of their exploitative character...

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 6d

"Enshittification" factually depends on platforms being at the start. "good to their users" and when it started Black people IMMEDIATELY said

these platforms were never good to us

and COLLECTIVELY

Media , Tech , Journalism< Philanthropy

said

"shut up we don't care"

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Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 6d

I scheduled fieldwork this weekend like a loser 🫠 hope you can make time and enjoy!

a man is singing into a microphone with the words `` how could this happen to me , i made my mistakes ''

Alt: a man is singing into a microphone with the words `` how could this happen to me , i made my mistakes ''

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 6d

Faculty, alums, students and staff at universities across the country. Time to stand up. Your presidents and trustees need to hear from you. Stiffen their spines. Just say no to extortion.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 6d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 6d

Tfw you’re absolutely too swamped to play Ghost of Yotei on launch day even though you preordered 😭💀

a woman in a blue dress stands next to a bed in a bedroom

Alt: A GIF of Tiana from the Disney animated movie The Princess and the Frog collapsing onto her bed in exhaustion

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Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 12d

Yes I’m stress cooking chili at 11pm, why do you ask? 🫠

a woman in a white shirt says do you want me to cry .

Alt: Monica from the TV show “Friends” is pouring spices into a bowl and asks her friends across the kitchen counter dryly or sarcastically, “Do you want me to cry?”.

media.tenor.com

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Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 13d

I found one! In Porvoo. 😆https://maps.app.goo.gl/kKPL4WqpFdVgfqeF8

maps.app.goo.gl

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Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 14d

The real deal is this btw 👇 There are very few but the lower horizontal beam never just sticks through like that. If Hokusai drew it again today, I’d think it was a genAI hallucinating 😂

Photo of a three pillar torii gate at a Shinto shrine in Japan

Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 14d

We’re being trolled ~200 years later btw bsky.app/profile/quir...

Quirin Press @quirinpress.bsky.social · 14d

@kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social what do you make of 戈/才 ?

Typo ¿
Carver's misspelling ¿

Quirin Press @quirinpress.bsky.social · 14d

seems to read
三戈鳥栖さんさいとりゐ Sansai toriwi
some give 三才 Sansai / three-powers, but also three-parts…
戈 as sai does not tally, as 戈 is usually pron. hoko ?
but that does seem to be what is carved in the woodblock
【unless it is an abbreviation for 三歲 sansai 3 years of age ???】

Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 14d

It’s possible that it was a play on words (three spears instead of pillars) but I hate to speculate when basically he’s trolling us hundreds of years later 😅

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Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 14d

No one else uses さんさいとりい to talk about this rare form, just another cool but weird Hokusai-ism

Source: 「鳥居」by 谷田博幸 Tanita Hiroyuki (河出書房新社Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2014), page 190-191

Photo of the bright red color with thin white illustration of a torii gate, the cover of the book “Torii” by Tanita Hiroyuki

Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 14d

Tbf, not an Edo kanji expert, but I’ve found evidence of 戈 read as さい. The meaning ends up being immaterial imo bc Hokusai, true to form, made this torii up, probably based on a description of 三柱鳥居 that he heard from someone else. He did it w/ four pillars too, it’s just not the right architecture.

Photo of woodblock print of an imaginary “four pillars torii” drawn by Hokusai (1836)

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