Craig Mod
Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years.
Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!!
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interesting people doing interesting things in japan
@hiromunagahara.bsky.social
MIT historian of Modern Japan MIT教員・近代日本史 https://history.mit.edu/people/hiromu-nagahara/ Currently researching: cultural history of diplomacy, Japanese Anglophones and Anglophiles City-walker and photo-taker
@macwright.com
writes, bikes, makes val.town, writes macwright.com, open source, geo, music and other stuff. posiwid twitter archive: https://bsky.app/profile/archive.macwright.com
@kumail.bsky.social
@benfry.com
Founder of https://fathom.info, co-founder of https://processing.org, lecturer at https://mit.edu
@jessesenko.bsky.social
Filmmaker, Photographer, but I'm most happy organizing fasteners in my garage. www.youtube.com/jessesenko www.jessesenko.com
@zeldman.bsky.social
Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, Designing With Web Standards & Taking Your Talent to the Web. Founder & Publisher, @alistapart.com. Formerly also A Book Apart, An Event Apart, Happy Cog, SVA MFA IXD faculty. zeldman.link
@samuholden.bsky.social
Urbanist & translator in Tokyo & Onomichi. I’ve built Tokyo Little House, Labyrinth House, and Inari-Yu Nagaya, and run bath preservation org Sento & Neighborhood. Writing at samholden.jp
@leebasford.bsky.social
@mjohnharrison.bsky.social
New novel: Serpent's Tail 2026, no title as yet Blog: https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/about
@rebuild.fm
@kozykitchens.bsky.social
Illustration and ceramics Kozyndanart.com http://kozy-kitchens.me/ https://www.patreon.com/kozyndan
@fernlimyay.com
Delighted nihilist. Nerdy actor-artist. Human plant. https://linktr.ee/fernlimyay
@gearoidreidy.bsky.social
Bloomberg Opinion columnist on Japan/the Koreas. “Final Boss of the Japan finance bro dungeon.” japanification. Retweets ≠ endorsements, opinions are mine.
@bcomstock.bsky.social
On a mission to discover what’s next. Nature nerd & writer. Author, Imagine It Forward.
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
Pulitzer prize winning Editorial Cartoonist Open Windows at http://anntelnaes.substack.com Archived work at http://anntelnaes.com
@alisonfincher.bsky.social
public scholarship at Read Japanese Literature (readjapaneselit.bsky.social) | co-editor for Japanese lit at Asian Review of Books | MSt English lit, 650-1550 | queer (historical/SFF) romance reader | ATL | genderqueer (all pronouns) | generative AI is bad
@dexdigi.bsky.social
ex-vice news, occasional japanese media studies professor, top 1000 super mario bros player (soon) whatupdex.com
@jasondiamond.bsky.social
“Writer" - The New Yorker. “Author” - New York Times. “A fabulous old soul” - Russ & Daughters Instagram account. “Unlikely model” - BBC. My novel “Kaplan’s Plot” is out fall of 2025 on Flatiron.
@shamblanderson.bsky.social
Staff Writer, NY Times Magazine writing: www.shamblanderson.com drawing: www.instagram.com/shamblanderson podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/animal/id1749201553
@patrickmacias.bsky.social
Author, editor, art director. Ex-Netflix & Crunchyroll. Repped by the Hill Nadell Literary Agency. Lives in Tokyo, Japan. 作家・編集者・アートディレクター。 東京に住んでいます。
@howtojapanese.com
Translator, writer. How to get used to Japanese (Additional topics: Murakami, New Orleans, Chicago, beer, writing, translation, basketball). Based in Osaka. http://linktree.com/howtojapanese
@ap.brid.gy
Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy/) bot user for the fediverse. To bridge your Bluesky account to the fediverse, follow this account. To ask a fediverse user to bridge their account, send their address (eg @user@instance) to this account in a chat message.…
@miekd.com
Everything is better with good people. 🎙️: @fullstackwhatever.com maykelloomans.com
@sweetsnbitters.bsky.social
Author of WATER, WOOD & WILD THINGS. Probably spending the rest of my life trying to fix a 100-year-old farmhouse in Ishikawa, Japan. www.hannahkirshner.com
@robertclarkphoto.bsky.social
30 years as a NatGeo photog. Clio Awarded Commercial Director. Books: Friday Night Lights; Friday Night Lives, First Down Houston, Feathers; Evolution a Visual Record. Proud Kansan living in Brooklyn. I beleive in people, Democrat.
@chadluibl.bsky.social
book dad. metal and hockey. lit agent at Janklow & Nesbit. www.chadluibl.com
@isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social
New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts (plus others) who often talks books on the Today Show. Next up? American Dionysus. 🍎 I walk a lot.
@rachellayown.bsky.social
writer | editor | social worker managing director @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social editor of THE ROCKFORD ANTHOLOGY debut novel HOW WE SEE THE GRAY both forthcoming (she/they) https://linktr.ee/rachelleon
@emilymandel.bsky.social
Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
@ansel-adams.bsky.social
Creative photographer & environmental advocate. This official account is managed by The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. linktr.ee/anseladams www.anseladamsbooks.com
@qntm.org
Creator of There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics), "Lena" (https://qntm.org/mmacevedo), Absurdle, HATETRIS and many other cool things (https://qntm.org)
@flakphoto.news
Hi! I’m Andy, a curator + writer in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. I study images and ideas, and in my spare time, I publish FlakPhoto Digest, a newsletter for photography people. 📬 https://www.flakphoto.news/about 📸 https://www.instagram.com/flakphoto
@readprocess.co
Photographer, independent curator (formerly ICP), photo book maker, newsletter writer. Published by New York Times, National Geographic, Wired, etc. ReadProcess.co — newsletter NewStyle.co — my new book Wesley.co — portfolio
@yalereview.bsky.social
“A great contrast to the usual magazine.” —Virginia Woolf Quarterly in print, weekly online. Join a conversation 200 years in the making. Read the latest: https://yalereview.org/ Subscribe: https://yalereviewstore.org
@kissane.bsky.social
Making and mending networks and knowledge. Co-founded the Covid Tracking Project, previously OpenNews, old web nonsense. Working/thinking at wrecka.ge, launching unbreaking.org
@multicore.blog
proprietor of www.multicore.blog editor at @japantimes.co.jp in tokyo formerly @theverge.com and @reuters.com dad of pascal the shiba
@mattalt.bsky.social
Pure Invention, Yokai Attack, etc. https://www.mattalt.com/ https://blog.pureinventionbook.com/ https://linktr.ee/mattalt
@yutakakubo.bsky.social
Researcher in Japanese cinema and queer cinema. Associate professor of film studies at Kanazawa University. Currently working on projects on food, loss and grief, aging, affect, gay porn, and queer archives. Works: https://researchmap.jp/y_kubo315
@ginnytkmr.bsky.social
Literary translator from Japanese Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings, Life Ceremony, Vanishing World (Sayaka Murata), The Little House, Things Remembered And Things Forgotten (Kyoko Nakajima), Mornings Without Mii (Mayumi Inaba), and plenty more!
@moekofujii.bsky.social
critic and essayist, I write a column on film for @orionmagazine.
@patrickterry.bsky.social
Adjunct Assistant Professor - Portland State University School of Film, PhD - Japanese Film - ポートランド州立大学、映画学部、邦画、映画産業
@kafkaesquekelly.bsky.social
MA @ McGill East Asian Studies. BA @ UBC History. Interested in modern Japanese tourism, film and media studies, and post-WWII Japanese horror cinema.
@elkazu.bsky.social
ECR Japanese art historian. In Singapore. Postwar Painting, Nihonga. Tanaka Isson and Amami Oshima. Lectures at National University of Singapore and University of the Arts (Singapore). Also sharing posts on Japanese art and culture events, in SG.