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Richard Menke
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Nineteenth-century fiction, print cultures, media, technologies, environments

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Jacques Dupuis @jacquesdupuis.bsky.social · 16h
So much good stuff coming into the public domain!
Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US l...
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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · 2d
Little known fact: if Bari Weiss were gentile, she’d be Barry White.

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · 21d
If Bob Hoskins were still around, I think we’d have a Bucket.

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · 21d
Which somehow also includes the Palliser EU, thanks to crossover episodes?

(I mean, here is god’s plenty.)

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · 21d
I’ve been reluctant to post daily word counts because I was mostly cutting and revising, so this would have been too painful.

So can I now just say 7132 words (err, since August) and an essay that is ready to be reread by my coauthor and then SUBMITTED to our editors!?! #acadecawriteathon

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · 22d
So I think I might finish a draft at some point? #acadecawriteathon

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · 22d
(er… beats) But works either way?

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · 23d
Breaking out the binaural beads for concentration and productivity, so look out, #acadecawriteathon!

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · 24d
Working on my footnotes, but #acadecawriteathon also convinced me to do more substantial work on some of the prose of a co-writing project.

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · 25d
Coauthoring means you can always blame your writing partner, right? (Kidding!) #acadecawriteathon

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Jun 11
"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda."

for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · Nov 10
Sooo long—even when it’s only 1700–1789.

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · Nov 10
None ever wished it longer than it was.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · May 24
Our current moment, explained: imagine that keeping your car idling 24/7 solved mad libs that told you to put glue on pizza

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · Dec 7
why is it that the only two stately things are Kublai Khan's pleasure dome and Wayne Manor

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · Nov 30
Aww, thanks folks! Happy to see the piece in such good company!

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · Nov 25
I always feel kind of embarrassed when a bland, descriptive phrase gets pulled from my report as a blurb, but now I understand why it happens!

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Holiday Ryan @ryanboyd.bsky.social · Nov 24
Twitter was dead, to begin with.

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JosephScrimshaw @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social · Oct 31
Actually Frankenstein was the name of the scientist. I, the person correcting you on this trivial point, am the monster.

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · Oct 19
Woo-hoo! Such terrific news!

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · Aug 18
This is it, this is the definitive essay on WVU's current situation. It's written by the brilliant, furious, and clear-sighted Myya Helm, recent WVU graduate, first-gen student, Black West Virginian, and now Marshall Scholar.
I Graduated From West Virginia University. The Travesty Unfolding There Is Breaking My Heart.
The student population got smaller and smaller while fancy new buildings appeared.
slate.com

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · Aug 15
Any time!

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Aug 4
Continually amazed at the conservative conception of free speech, which is so amorphous it can protect election fraud but so narrow it excludes drag queens

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · Jul 30
(large public R1 in the South, BTW)

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · Jul 30
generally, 25 for upper-level, 30-35 for sophomore surveys

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · Jul 28
Little Mary’s gift; little monkey’s grift
A Victorian illustration of a little girl on a balcony with a young woman, as the girl gives a coin to a monkey in a dress and a ruff collar. The bearded organ grinder watches. Original caption: “Little Mary’s Gift.”

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Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social · Jul 28
sanguinely?