Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social Writer and indie music scene person, based in Tokyo. Author of Quit Your Band! Musical Notes from the Japanese Underground (Awai Books, 2016) / バンドやめようぜ！ (Ele-king books, 2017) and owner of Call And Response Records.
Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social Sometimes I make YouTube videos. Right now I play a lot of chess!!! Tomorrow, who knows?
wahhhhh @wah.bsky.social Subculture Shithead + Commie + Kebab Lover / サブカルクソやろう + 共産主義者 + ケバブ好き
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Awai Books @awaibooks.bsky.social Tokyo/NYC publisher of great original books and translations. アートと文学と豊かなアイデアを、新しい出版のかたちで。東京から、ニューヨークから、世界中からお届けします。
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv video essay person and writer and what not, idk I mainly just post about my hyperfixations
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Tokyo Review @tokyoreview.net A publishing platform for academics, journalists and researchers writing in-depth, evidence-based work on issues related to Japan and its place in the world.
Melody Melancholy @melodymelancholy.bsky.social 🌟she/he/they🌟 🌈 I’m a flesh monster who makes shapes and colors! Please enjoy my macaroni art! :)🎨
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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social Filmmaker, Artist, Writer, Editor, Film Restorationist, NEShacker. Lost Media expert. orangecow.org. Thief and the Cobbler, Super Mario Bros (Morton Jankel Cut), Shamelessly She-Hulk, Jim Henson Muppet Rarities, Knights of the Lost Media, Raggedy Ann.
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Obsolete Sony @obsoletesony.com Embark on a journey through the obscure world of forgotten, odd, and obsolete Sony devices.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social Silent films and the silent era, same as the birdsite
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Daniel ／ 妥仁得 @kaihat.su Type designer, videomaker, scholar in Osaka.
Indigenous Studies (Ainu focus) grad student.
在阪タイプデザイナー、動画制作者と研究者。 アイヌを中心に先住民学大学院生。
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Johnny Woods @illumiknobi.bsky.social Comic artist based in Minneapolis
I co-write and draw the webcomic BLACK:
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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social Modern-day folk hero. For a good time, call willsloan.ca
Dr. Peter Neff @icy-pete.bsky.social Assistant Prof U Minnesota. Antarctic history from ice cores. Antarctic science. Views mine.
Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social bibliophile, minimalist, literary historian of subcultures. "Professor McKnight is very caring and knowledgeable. However she picked more eccentric pieces of literature and film to discuss." 2026~Long Take: Kurosawa Akira as World Cinéphile (Minnesota)
Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social https://www.hannah-shepherd.com/
Mark Cooper-Jones @markcooperjones.bsky.social Map Men Mark
Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social ‘This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong’ (the MAP MEN BOOK) is available now: https://lnk.to/mapmen 🗺️ 📕
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Hikosaemon @hikosaemon.bsky.social Tokyo based Vlog/Video podcaster & bilingual news geek 東京在住外国人ブロガーです♪ Livestream 10:00pm JST on YouTube every Sunday!
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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social Winning Pascal's Wager; wearing many hats (literally/figuratively); Paddington & Caligari stan.
Cue the music...
Retroist @retroist.com I host the Retroist Podcast and write the Retroist which focuses on nostalgia. I like slightly old stuff and I typo too much. You can find me at https://www.retroist.com & https://patreon.com/retroist.
Peggy’s Sugarfoots @sugarfootsribs.bsky.social King of the Hill fan account! 🤠 run by Gabi + Alejandra! ☀️
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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social Bea - said like 🐝 - creator of YGOTAS - voice of Freeza in DBZA - bisexual - she/her - 🏳️⚧️
Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/justindecloux, Podcasts: THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB, THE VERY FINE COMIC BOOK PODCAST, Feature Film Director: IMPOSSIBLE HORROR, Book Writer: RADIOACTIVE DREAMS: THE CINEMA OF ALBERT PYUN
Colin Cunningham @sgtzima.bsky.social NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE PODCAST @nosuchthingpod
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April Etmanski @apriletmanski.bsky.social Video editor, colourist, podcaster. Lover of bad movies and cats.
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No Such Thing As A Bad Movie @nosuchthingpod.bsky.social A podcast where Colin Cunningham, Justin Decloux and April Etmanski talk about what they love about weird, bad movies!
Available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify and Google Play Music!
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Sarah Gold McBride @sgoldmcbride.bsky.social Lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley | Historian of 19th c: race, gender, bodies, hair studies | Author of WHISKEROLOGY (Harvard, 2025)
Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love I'm chiitan Japanese crazy mascot
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Developer Soup @developersoup.net Software developer. Nerd, in many forms. Perpetually trying to recreate the cloud on local hardware. Fan of (some) lost causes. Recovering from 6.5 years in Big Tech. Into making patches now.
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David A. Conrad, Ph.D. @davidaconrad.bsky.social Author of AKIRA KUROSAWA AND MODERN JAPAN (2022)
Essayist for RAN 40th anniversary Blu-ray (2025)
New book on postwar Asia in progress
Part-time stay-at-home dad, adjunct, historian, old movie fan, conflicted Texan
Takuo Matsuzawa @matsuzawa.bsky.social Urushi Art Producer 🇯🇵
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Kintsugi
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Matsuzawa Urushi Kobo in Morioka IWATE
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All my English posts are translated by ChatGPT
Dan Orlowitz @aishiterutokyo.bsky.social Sports (& more!) journalist (ditto) in Japan | Lots of soccer but sometimes everything else | available for commissions | nerdy shit at @nerdy.tokyo | all hot takes my own | 日本語OK | Philly & Tokyo >>> | he/him | danorlowitz.carrd.co
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
PacificHistoryGuide.com @pacifichistoryguide.com The official page of PacificHistoryGuide.com - dedicated to providing military members, veterans, and their families with historical insights into their duty stations, TAD locations, and ports of call throughout the Pacific. New blog post every Saturday!
Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social Historian of Japan and East Asia. I only post extremely interesting things.
Author of "Japan at the Crossroads," out now from Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984424
Scenic Anime @scenicanime.bsky.social Anime scenes with no characters present. Aesthetic may vary.
New pic every day.
Kansai Culture @kansaiculture.com Kansai blogger, Kansai Photos
Litterbox Comics @litterboxcomics.com It's weird being a parent. Here's a comic about it -except everyone is animals, because I hate drawing people.
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Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the over 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!
Stephne Tate @quailtea.bsky.social Illustrator🌱 I draw. I make things.
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Pecos Hank @pecoshank.bsky.social Burrito connoisseur 
Thought Slime @slimemildred.bsky.social Gender fluid, among other fluids. Any/All.
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meyo 🌸 @meyoco.bsky.social She/her | Online store: meyocostudio.com | STORE INQUIRY: info@meyoco.art
George J. Horvath @landofobscusion.bsky.social Writes about obscure & forgotten anime/manga/games/media at The Land of Obscusion over on Blogspot. Hopeless fan of all things Masami Kurumada. Published (once) on ANN. Living contradiction. He/him... Who again?
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Kat "UNIONS 2026" Callahan @jezebelkat.bsky.social Labor Organiser, Journalist, New Mexican, Kimagure Orange Road Fan, Puncher of Nazis (New Formula or Classic Taste)
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
Chris Harding @drchrisharding.bsky.social Historian & broadcaster based at the University of Edinburgh
Mainly now here 👉 http://www.japan-and-the-world.com/
Writings/podcast/video 👉 https://linkin.bio/chrisharding
Hiromi @hiromicota.bsky.social She/they
Indigenous Okinawan & Yaeyaman, occupier 🇲🇽-🇸🇪-🇺🇸ian.
Creative worker doing a bit of everything, esp. TTRPGs & queer genre fiction.
Helping revitalize their peoples’ Indigenous languages (Uchinaaguchi & Yaimamuni).
Marco de Blois @marcodeb.bsky.social Programmateur et conservateur du cinéma d'animation à la Cinémathèque québécoise, directeur artistique des Sommets du cinéma d'animation. Vit à Montréal, s'y divertit. J'aime faire des blagues.
https://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/
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Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut). PhD, UW-Madison. Former visiting research fellow, Waseda University. Specializations include Modern Japan, Modern South Asia, and transnational Asian history. 🏳️🌈
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Nina Gonzalez @ninagonzalez.bsky.social Co-host & Business Manager - Mobile Suit Breakdown, Producer - The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne, Master Calligrapher (EA brush-calligraphy), crafter, nerd, hobby-collector. Español / 日本語 ok!
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Kevin O'Shea @madformaple.bsky.social Canuck 🇨🇦 living in Asia. Podcaster - host of Supernatural Japan Podcast 🎙️ 👺 - folklore, paranormal, travel, photography 🇯🇵 Currently based in 🇨🇳!
Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social Growing Up Goodness from the 70s & 80s - with Karen and Doug.
http://bronzeagebabies.blogspot.com
This is Doug, usually posting from the Chicago Southland - comics, pop culture, and various wonderings and wanderings.
Justin Sevakis @worldofcrap.bsky.social Pro anime/video nerd, CEO of MediaOCD / @AnimEigo.com / Whole Grain Pictures. He/him. Food, fitness, movies, general nerdery. No licensing questions please! 🇺🇸🏳️🌈📀🪩
Takahata101 @takahata101.bsky.social Vtuber Bartender | Twitch Ambassador |🔞| TFS | ART TAG:#Takart | Biz: TheWeary101@gmail.com l Links: http://linktr.ee/Takahata101
瀬戸マサキ / Masaki Seto @mskseto.bsky.social 文芸作家／英語講師。社会批評、社会運動論、エッセイを現代思想、エトセトラ、シノドス、Wezzy などに寄稿。2027年に社会運動史と個人史を絡めたエッセイ本と社会問題を絡めた語学書の２冊を刊行予定。 #社会派英会話 http://queeresl.substack.com お仕事のご依頼等は https://forms.gle/JiB4VDDTwFgqXwjH8 まで
Ellen Tilton-Cantrell @ellentc.bsky.social Developmental editor & workshop facilitator for scholarly writers. PhD in Japanese lit. She/her. Based in Minneapolis. www.tiliaeditorial.com
The Journal of Japanese Studies @jjs-jrnl.bsky.social 
Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social Ex-Hasid now fighting for a true pluralistic democracy | Writer: democracy, peace, extremism, antisemitism, & marketing | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.com
Steve Blum | VoiceMonkey/Voice Actor, VO Teacher BlumvoxStudios @blumspew.bsky.social VO Shmo (Spike, Toonami T.O.M., Wolverine, Starscream, Tank Dempsey, Zeb Orrelios, etc.) Teaches Voice Acting at BlumvoxStudios.com. Love my wife Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Our pupper Chewy, our friends, family, students and colleagues! And you!
Mike Toole @miketoole.com He/him. Semi-pro anime dork, longtime AV professional, enjoyer of soccer, beer, cycling, movies, and some other stuff.
Craig Oskow @craigoskow.bsky.social Artist, percussionist, cyclist, British car aficionado.
Akiko Yamagata 山形亜紀子 @graphiteediting.bsky.social Freelance editor, humanities & soc sci, esp. E Asian studies. Bilingual EN JP (+ bungo). UCSD copyediting instructor. I help scholars make their mark.
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Paul Klauda @pklauda.bsky.social Longtime journo, first in news, then sports, then back to news. All in Minneapolis. University of St. Thomas adjunct in St. Paul. Co-author of a book about a big labor battle at Hormel n the 1980s.
@avivalaviv.bsky.social @avivalaviv.bsky.social 
Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social Glider in the night, dancer in the dark, lover of lost rivers and paths in the woods and libraries and half-open doors. Moonlights as a writer.
Images/poems mine unless credited. AI must be consensual.
https://ko-fi.com/helenmccarthy51
Marianas In-Depth @marianasindepth.bsky.social Dive into the beauty & history of The Mariana Islands.
Saipan • Tinian • Luta • Guåhan
https://linktr.ee/marianasindepth
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Lunacial 🏳️⚧️ @lunacial.bsky.social Lindsey | She/Her | 22 | ENG & ちょっと日本語
I enjoy talking about games, anime & manga, film, and many other things : )
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Jeremy Siegel @jersiegel.bsky.social global transportation correspondent for The World and GBH, Boston's local NPR station
vicki @vickisigh.bsky.social matcha latte enjoyer mm yummeee
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Marijuana Masao @marijuanamasao.bsky.social New bong, who dis
High on modernism. My tokes used to do numbers. I still do.
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social Professor | Historian of law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, c.900-1300 | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
Background picture is of Nanaimo.
Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
LaShawn Toyoda @lashawn-toyoda.bsky.social 14 years in 🇯🇵. Former English teacher turned programmer. Love to travel, garden, and help new devs in my free time. Married.
Konrad Lawson @kml.muninn.net Historian of modern East Asia he/him; Lecturer at University of St Andrews; From Stavanger, Norway
Live in Edinburgh, Scotland. 林蜀道 https://muninn.net
Casey Beanpod @thebeanpod.bsky.social 
Alex knight @agk42.com Designer, photographer, start-up founder. Girl dad.
Building pocketseed.io
Nevin Thompson @nevint.bsky.social I like poetry, photography, languages (esp Japanese), and religion (esp Japanese). And movies (esp Japanese). And Bob Dylan. Epilepsy parent.
Old Tokyo @oldtokyo.bsky.social OldTokyo.com is an online collection and gallery of vintage Japanese postcards displayed with respective historical detail, 1895-1970. Thank you for "liking"! Bookmark the site! Pages often have multiple images. Repost, too!
Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social Author of Tokyo Stroll.
Retired librarian, writer on things Japanese.
At the age of 4 Gilles was taken by aliens to California and raised on a diet of science fiction, Loony Toons & honky tonk music.
Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social postdoc at @inrsciences.bsky.social // phd from Concordia University // working on anime/-ation, gender & technology // prev intern at Microsoft Research, Uottawa, UQAM 🤖💋 // she/her // 📍MTL 🇨🇦
https://www.aurelie-petit.com
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social Research fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture and editor of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. Follow @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social for journal and institute updates.
Jessamyn Abel @jessamynabel.bsky.social Historian of Japan at PSU, interested in democratization, infrastructure, international relations, sports, animals, and vending machines
Anoma van der Veere @anomav.bsky.social Correspondent NOS & NRC, senior (Japan) researcher Leiden Asia Centre. In Tokyo.
Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social Professor, music theory, ethnomusicology, Japan studies. Research in music & social movements, popular music, music & language. Author, Protest Music after Fukushima; Editor, Oxford Handbook of Protest Music, 33-1/3 Japan. Views my own. linktr.ee/nmanabe
Comic Tropes @comictropes.bsky.social I make some YouTube shows about comic book artists’ and writers’ techniques and history.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-dGYF1il5OP0lNHChHdhzg