@rvichot.bsky.social
Instructor, Commnicatiobn Studies
Researcher in Media Studies, Online Communities, Japanese Popular Culture and Queer Media
ORCID: 0000-0001-7732-0553
Researcher in Media Studies, Online Communities, Japanese Popular Culture and Queer Media
ORCID: 0000-0001-7732-0553
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rvichot.bsky.social
@rvichot.bsky.social
· Nov 14
I've been on bsky mostly using my 'off the clock' account, but given the influx of actual professionals in my field, I should set up a more professional account.
Quick Intro: I'm a college professor and researcher looking mostly at online culture and Japanese popular and/or queer media
Quick Intro: I'm a college professor and researcher looking mostly at online culture and Japanese popular and/or queer media
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Last night in Riverside, CA, what 6 months ago would’ve been on every new channel, was only on local news. A man drove his vehicle into protesters. At least one woman screamed that her sister had been ran over. /
June 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Last night in Riverside, CA, what 6 months ago would’ve been on every new channel, was only on local news. A man drove his vehicle into protesters. At least one woman screamed that her sister had been ran over. /
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Annie Lowrey of The Atlantic is another data point in favor of my suspicion that if I recognize your name and can't remember why, it's bad.
June 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Annie Lowrey of The Atlantic is another data point in favor of my suspicion that if I recognize your name and can't remember why, it's bad.
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i want to be as clear as possible: this is a fucking problem
June 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
i want to be as clear as possible: this is a fucking problem
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June 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
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They wanted to pass this evil budget to take away healthcare from millions earlier today. It’s still stuck in the rules committee cause House Dems introduced over 500 amendments and we are lined up to debate on them. Delaying is important. Keep up the pressure on these Congressional Republicans.
May 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
They wanted to pass this evil budget to take away healthcare from millions earlier today. It’s still stuck in the rules committee cause House Dems introduced over 500 amendments and we are lined up to debate on them. Delaying is important. Keep up the pressure on these Congressional Republicans.
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Oh look, another cis lesbian assaulted for using the women’s bathroom. I’d like to send a gigantic fuck you to every lesbian TERF who helped create this situation www.outsports.com/2025/5/21/24...
PWHL hockey icon Madison Packer 'told to go to men’s restroom' - Outsports
After a 'humiliating' experience, Madison Packer calls bathroom policing a by-product of anti-trans propaganda.
www.outsports.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Oh look, another cis lesbian assaulted for using the women’s bathroom. I’d like to send a gigantic fuck you to every lesbian TERF who helped create this situation www.outsports.com/2025/5/21/24...
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Akiko Higashimura and the art of shoujo manga writing
Higashimura is probably best known in English for Princess Jellyfish and her refreshing range of female character designs--and we've only seen a fraction of her full body of work.
www.animefeminist.com/creator-spot...
#josei #shojo
Higashimura is probably best known in English for Princess Jellyfish and her refreshing range of female character designs--and we've only seen a fraction of her full body of work.
www.animefeminist.com/creator-spot...
#josei #shojo
May 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Akiko Higashimura and the art of shoujo manga writing
Higashimura is probably best known in English for Princess Jellyfish and her refreshing range of female character designs--and we've only seen a fraction of her full body of work.
www.animefeminist.com/creator-spot...
#josei #shojo
Higashimura is probably best known in English for Princess Jellyfish and her refreshing range of female character designs--and we've only seen a fraction of her full body of work.
www.animefeminist.com/creator-spot...
#josei #shojo
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Hey you have TWO DAYS to leave a public comment on whether the government should make Covid vaccines widely available this year www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Hey you have TWO DAYS to leave a public comment on whether the government should make Covid vaccines widely available this year www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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The House Republican reconciliation bill will now ban both surgeries and HRT prescription under Medicaid for all Americans.
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
May 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The House Republican reconciliation bill will now ban both surgeries and HRT prescription under Medicaid for all Americans.
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
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When I wrote that these folks were segregationists, the response from some quarters was that I was exaggerating or missing the bigger picture.
But they are literally segregationists and increasingly open about that fact.
But they are literally segregationists and increasingly open about that fact.
Some Republicans Push to Put School Desegregation Officially in the Past
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
When I wrote that these folks were segregationists, the response from some quarters was that I was exaggerating or missing the bigger picture.
But they are literally segregationists and increasingly open about that fact.
But they are literally segregationists and increasingly open about that fact.
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Leaked internal documents reveal that Google was entirely aware that their project Nimbus contract with Israel could be used for human rights violations and war crimes, but they took on the contract anyway
theintercept.com/2025/05/12/g...
theintercept.com/2025/05/12/g...
Google Worried It Couldn’t Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal
Internal Google documents show that the tech giant feared it wouldn’t be able to monitor how Israel might use its technology to harm Palestinians.
theintercept.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Leaked internal documents reveal that Google was entirely aware that their project Nimbus contract with Israel could be used for human rights violations and war crimes, but they took on the contract anyway
theintercept.com/2025/05/12/g...
theintercept.com/2025/05/12/g...
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New KOSA. Same text. More problems. The reintroduction of #KOSA threatens to undermine all users’ rights, including kids. Handing more power to this FTC will only make matters worse.
May 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
New KOSA. Same text. More problems. The reintroduction of #KOSA threatens to undermine all users’ rights, including kids. Handing more power to this FTC will only make matters worse.
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The Education Dept's gutted office of civil rights is now "the most useless it’s ever been, and it’s the most dangerous it’s ever been," said a former agency attorney.
"And by useless, I mean unavailable. Unable to do the work."
New, @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social
"And by useless, I mean unavailable. Unable to do the work."
New, @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social
A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students
The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing i...
www.propublica.org
May 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The Education Dept's gutted office of civil rights is now "the most useless it’s ever been, and it’s the most dangerous it’s ever been," said a former agency attorney.
"And by useless, I mean unavailable. Unable to do the work."
New, @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social
"And by useless, I mean unavailable. Unable to do the work."
New, @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social
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One way that anti-feminism has been conceptually collapsed into a stand-in for all other political grievances is through the feminization of the state, which is cast as a scolding mommy for doing things like requiring milk pasteurization.
he goes on and on about the “feminization” of society and a “maternal surveillance system” and it’s like, are you mad your mom told you to clean your room once?
May 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
One way that anti-feminism has been conceptually collapsed into a stand-in for all other political grievances is through the feminization of the state, which is cast as a scolding mommy for doing things like requiring milk pasteurization.
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Today on Okazu – Comic Yuri Hime May 2025 / コミック百合姫2025年5月号
Another solid issue of monthly Yuri comic manga magazine Comic Yuri Hime.
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/05/01/c...
Another solid issue of monthly Yuri comic manga magazine Comic Yuri Hime.
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/05/01/c...
May 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Today on Okazu – Comic Yuri Hime May 2025 / コミック百合姫2025年5月号
Another solid issue of monthly Yuri comic manga magazine Comic Yuri Hime.
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/05/01/c...
Another solid issue of monthly Yuri comic manga magazine Comic Yuri Hime.
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/05/01/c...
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When I talk about transphobia operating on the logics of abuse scaled up to the communal or societal level, this is what I mean.
"Look how much it sucks to be trans, because I made it that way. You should just desist, because if you insist on it, I'm going to have to hurt you so much more."
"Look how much it sucks to be trans, because I made it that way. You should just desist, because if you insist on it, I'm going to have to hurt you so much more."
I'm not kidding. That's the fucking argument. "Kids will be harmed by the policy we rammed through once they grow up, so do conversion therapy on them."
May 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
When I talk about transphobia operating on the logics of abuse scaled up to the communal or societal level, this is what I mean.
"Look how much it sucks to be trans, because I made it that way. You should just desist, because if you insist on it, I'm going to have to hurt you so much more."
"Look how much it sucks to be trans, because I made it that way. You should just desist, because if you insist on it, I'm going to have to hurt you so much more."
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ICE WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2003 I'VE BEEN SMOKING WEED LONGER THAN ICE HAS BEEN AROUND WE DO NOT NEED IT IN ANY CAPACITY ABOLISH ICE IMMEDIATELY
April 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
ICE WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2003 I'VE BEEN SMOKING WEED LONGER THAN ICE HAS BEEN AROUND WE DO NOT NEED IT IN ANY CAPACITY ABOLISH ICE IMMEDIATELY
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A video of the "New Books on Japan" conversation between Simon Partner (Duke) and Laura Nenzi (Emory) on Partner's book "Koume's World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration" is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel!
youtu.be/HwbVWtMKkuI
youtu.be/HwbVWtMKkuI
New Books on Japan: Simon Partner (Duke) on "Koume's World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman"
YouTube video by Modern Japan History Association
youtu.be
April 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
A video of the "New Books on Japan" conversation between Simon Partner (Duke) and Laura Nenzi (Emory) on Partner's book "Koume's World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration" is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel!
youtu.be/HwbVWtMKkuI
youtu.be/HwbVWtMKkuI
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"Confined to 15-minute phone calls at a time in most cases, I spent the last few months listening to six trans people share their testimonies of loss, frustration, strategy, and solidarity to build a better understanding of what’s happening inside prisons and jails."
‘We Have Become an Endangered Species’
Six trans individuals share what it’s like being trans and incarcerated under Trump.
www.thecut.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"Confined to 15-minute phone calls at a time in most cases, I spent the last few months listening to six trans people share their testimonies of loss, frustration, strategy, and solidarity to build a better understanding of what’s happening inside prisons and jails."
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VIDEO: Millions of student loan borrowers in default could soon see their wages garnished under the Trump administration's policies, and Americans who entered public service fields expecting loan forgiveness could see that promise broken.
Watch CBS Mornings: Impacts of Trump's student loan policies - Full show on CBS
Millions of student loan borrowers in default could soon see their wages garnished under the Trump administration's policies, and Americans who entered public service fields expecting loan forgiveness...
www.cbs.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
VIDEO: Millions of student loan borrowers in default could soon see their wages garnished under the Trump administration's policies, and Americans who entered public service fields expecting loan forgiveness could see that promise broken.
I'm sorry I missed the CFP, but I'm so excited for this event. 100% in my research wheelhouse and I look forward to the papers presented!
Let’s goooo, link to the event: events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe... 💌💌💌💌 come hang out with us May 19-21 !!!
April 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I'm sorry I missed the CFP, but I'm so excited for this event. 100% in my research wheelhouse and I look forward to the papers presented!
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chat do we think it's a good idea to anger trans hackers
Over on X, Chris Rufo is out with a series of leaked internal chats between trans intelligence analysts at NSA, where they talked about things like coming out, bottom surgery, and their sex lives. So yeah, employees should be afraid of things like that even if they’re not fired.
NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones.
+ similar in the Department of the Interior
+ similar in the Department of the Interior
February 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
chat do we think it's a good idea to anger trans hackers
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I can’t compete with this
February 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I can’t compete with this