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guttergeek.bsky.social

Prof of lit, film & pop culture. Higher ed history nerd, academic freedom militant. Buckeye born & (pending) died. Hobbies include music, plants & counting pills. Ask me about my 🥄😵‍💫⚡️ 🕎 Opinions mine all mine http://campus-novel.ghost.io

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I think I might have let this get a bit out of hand 😬

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A pox on both of their houses seems the best blessing I can bring to this particular chapter in this hellish year.

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It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling. Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.

submitted 7 days ago • 142 comments

I’m starting to think the intrusive thoughts I’ve spent years trying to keep out were the rightful owners of my headspace all along. Sorry, guys. Have at it

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MAGA flying the flag of a country they want to go back to

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I know this is controversial—and saying it marks me in ways I might regret—but one never goes wrong—as Emily Dickinson proved—with too many em-dashes— never, ever —

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The Billionaires are not ok

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Sexting was not a thing until I was already a decade or two married as fuck. I have never sent nor received a nude. Until tonight, that is, when I sent and received a nude, to & from myself. In related news, I am in the market for a new phone. Also, it would seem, a new body 🙈

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Over at PCTM I pay homage to "Made in America," my favorite TV finale of all time (narrator: he fucking hated it when it first aired)

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I have a crush on everyone who is nice to me. Can’t stop. Maybe it’s time to go back to twitter

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The vulnerabilities of liberal democracy were identified long ago by fascist thinkers like Carl Schmidt, who wrote the playbook for how to destroy them. Not hard to do. What’s hard is defending liberal democracy despite its faultlines & working tirelessly to strengthen it against the next attack

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Over at Pop Culture Time Machine, I celebrate the birthday of my favorite webfooted celebrity.

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On June 8, 1949, George Orwell's 1984 was published, telling of a near-future in which conformity is enforced through constant surveillance & the manipulation of thought through language. 1/2

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Because I have no time to do actually historical popular culture scholarship thanks to the asshats trying to dismantle higher ed, I started this new bsky account for fun pop culture history facts

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The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight

submitted 11 days ago • 430 comments

Just 8300 followers until I am at 10k: cmon fam, we can do it !!! The above will always be the most squirmy genre of twitter/bsky post of all of the many icky ones out there

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I am officially late career now (and the “smart” part is always in doubt), but I don’t recall having a lot of agency in what I said yes to (which was of course everything). Eventually I had a nervous breakdown and people stopped asking, but I don’t recommend that as a solution

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People always say they want a quick painless death. That seems like a huge waste of an opportunity to complain loudly and at great length without anyone being able to tell you to shut up. Slow and painful for me, please

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