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jonathanbfine.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, Germanist jonathanblakefine.com
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I might forget what my name is, so it’s good to have it on my forehead

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

My kid has a German backpack. The son of the German woman at my kid’s camp does not have a German backpack. We will stare at each other every time we see one another but not speak once this entire summer.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

asking me to explain my tweets is a hate crime

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

sometimes people explain my jokes to me and they’re not even german

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

i’m hanging out in the giant colon in case anyone wants to join me

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

driving the discourse www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/profes...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

the sexiest words in the english language

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

he told me he was ok with the woke emily wilson translations

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

nah i’m good, thanks tho

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I am not above finding out who your Doktorvater was to publicly shame you

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I thought about doing something very inappropriate today* *submitting an abstract for a conference

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

I would prefer not to

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Father’s Day to literature’s number one dad, Oedipus

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

it me

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Six year old to her mother: Daddy needs boobs because he’s a gorilla

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

it’s so sad when your most dedicated twitter hater gets himself banned again

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

When people tell me how much AI has improved their work, I read that as a really negative comment about the quality of their work.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

talked about something critically important today with @llassabe.bsky.social for @americancampus.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I tweeted about English grammar a few weeks ago and people are still fighting in the replies.

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

I understand why you saw my post and thought that I was talking to you but in actuality I was talking to myself.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

saving this for later

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Wife: This is your time to shine. There are grown men acting like high school girls. This is literally what your dissertation is about.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

I’ve insulted a few people’s intelligence, so the day is off to a good start.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes people think I’m being self-deprecating when I’m just accurately describing a situation.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Hey everybody go listen to @jonathanbfine.bsky.social's TGS episode and hear why the Schmittians (like Yarvin) should scare the sh*t out of you

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

found this well-balanced meal on a neighbor’s steps while walking the dogs this evening

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

My youngest is looking at photos of me as a kid and telling me how weird I look in each one

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

what did i do now?

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

I think he likes me

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

few things disgust me more than the term “language arts”

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

celebrating america by drinking german beer

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

one of my favorite things about twitter is all the foreigners who cosplay as americans

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

What fun is that?

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

Finding out that Kantbot, the originator of the complete the system of German Idealism meme, hates my guts was a big blow to me. Not sure how I’m going to recover from that.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

i have it on the authority of anonymous twitter nazis that the only true scholars left are anonymous twitter nazis

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

I think my niche in academia is summer dorm storage for undergrads.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I enjoy the people on Twitter who think I’m some sort of big shot when I’m essentially a barnacle on the side of academia.

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

My episode of @thisguysucked.com is about a literal Nazi

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

this is the sort of idea that would never enter the mind of a legitimate scholar

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments