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Michael Röllinghoff

@roellinghoff.bsky.social

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Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, and Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto. Postdoc at UTokyo. Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 7d

New analysis of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first 100 days after the federal election show oil and gas, mining and other industrial groups made up about 60 per cent of lobbying records. Environmental groups couldn’t get a word in. thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...

Carney welcomed industry lobby, ignored environmental groups: records | The Narwhal

Records show resource industry lobbyists had regular access to Prime Minister Mark Carney in his first 100 days, while environmental groups were shut out

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Adrian De Leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 3d

Yall better grab a copy of my homie Irvin Ibargüen's new book!!! A pathbreaking study of the Mexican state's relationship with US-bound migration and border control. And watch our for some events we'll be doing together next year 👀

uncpress.org/978146968958...

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 4d

Hey friends! Sweet 30% discount on my book!!
www.pennpress.org/978151282786...

The Sweet Taste of Empire – Penn Press

A look at how seventeenth-century English literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shaped representations of Caribbean colonization...

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Michael Röllinghoff @roellinghoff.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a weird time to be someone who opposes US exceptionalism and happens to be from a country with an actual fucking king. 🤷

Michael Röllinghoff @roellinghoff.bsky.social · 4d

Is this true though? It’s dangerous for American liberals to continue to pin their hopes on their enemy knowing shame. People in Germany actively mocked the nazis, too. The problem is, the nazis knew they looked ridiculous.

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Chelsea Szendi Schieder @chelseaszendi.bsky.social · 7d

Occupation des universités, manifestations contre les bases militaires américaines d’où partaient les avions bombardant le Vietnam ; lutte contre la construction de l’aéroport de Narita sur une zone agricole ; naissance du mouvement de libération des femmes… Tokyo 68!

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 8d

a skull full of soup.

cinesthetic. @TheCinesth.... 13h
Teaser trailer for 'AMADEUS' starring Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany has been released.

Graham Linehan @Glinner 7h
How would you like to see Amadeus again, except this time Mozart is black?
Me neither! Yet here it is!

Clara @Americana Mama79 6h
That guy is black?

Graham Linehan @Glinner 6h
Apparently not but the point rrrremains!

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 7d

I just think AI is so exciting bc it's a machine that you can get wrong answers from, that yields environmental devastation, and is being forced on all of us

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Michael Röllinghoff @roellinghoff.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, the "genocide for some, miniature American flags for others!" approach to electoral politics.

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Michael Röllinghoff @roellinghoff.bsky.social · 8d

Likewise— I don’t know what I was expecting, but saying people ought to just accept mass murdering foreigners to keep pure the lifeblood of their democracy (and hope it ends some day through “slow incremental progress”) is craven.

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Department of History - Western University @westernuhistory.bsky.social · 9d

Join us on Thursday, October 30, 2025 at 12:30pm (EST) as we welcome, Assistant Professor Ethan R. Madarieta (English, Native American and Latin American Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Syracuse University). Prof. Madarieta will be speaking on "Critical Indigenous Memory Studies: An Invitation" #westernu

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 9d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Michael Röllinghoff @roellinghoff.bsky.social · 9d

Especially because the United States aided and abetted the very genocide he supposedly stopped.

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 9d

Small detail re: the former station reporter now FPropagandist who complained NPR "inserted" the word racist into a headline. I was an NPR correspondent covering race. I had to fight tooth & nail to call objectively racist things racist.

I was also told that systemic racism was a "contested topic"

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10d

John Oliver is good at his job

youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 12d

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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J'dis ça j'dis rien @jdiscajdisrien.bsky.social · 11d

Gaza

#genocide
#Gaza

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Michael Röllinghoff @roellinghoff.bsky.social · 11d

It's not exaggerated, though, it's always the exact same expression, from what I can see.

Michael Röllinghoff @roellinghoff.bsky.social · 14d

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 14d

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Decolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · 14d

Memories of German colonialism in Tanzania: Great report by Maike Schimanowski & Kristin Weber-Sinn about experiences as members of curatorial team for Tanzania exhibition at Humboldt Forum Berlin.

@kulturspk.bsky.social @diplo.de @hdilger.bsky.social

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