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Bradley J. Fest
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associate professor of English at Hartwick College | criticism: C20-21 lit. & culture | poetry: The Rocking Chair (2015), The Shape of Things (2017), & 2013–2017: Sonnets (2024) | https://bradleyjfest.com
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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · Aug 19
I am beyond delighted that my long poem, “Postrock,” is now in @alwayscrashing.bsky.social. I am forever indebted to @inauthenticity.bsky.social and the other editors of AC for their ongoing support of my work. www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
BRADLEY J. FEST / POSTROCK — always crashing
Things show restraint. The guitar’s evening light, the decades, at least three ways of space running on, spilling over from us no matter the font of being’s omissions. It, that: here. Here . Let’s ...
www.alwayscrashing.com
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
We all saw the fellas grindin right? That may be a first for the super bowl.
February 9, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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ruhee.ca
No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
bradleyfest.bsky.social
Rediscovered this thing I wrote a few years ago. Check it. www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/bradl...
Bradley J. Fest — Does It Have Pockets
2023.29–30 | 2024.01–02 | 2024.03 | 2024.05–06 | 2024.08–09
www.doesithavepockets.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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brianphillips.bsky.social
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
February 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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glennsummers.bsky.social
New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped
February 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
It’s been frustrating how little attention legacy news has paid to how Silicon Valley is “helping this administration aggressively scale a data dragnet that will eat our civil liberties for lunch, if we let it.”

Grateful to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. We don’t have to let them build Big Brother.
Opinion | ICE Is Watching You
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
New seasoning technology that teleports you to different points in your life via Proustian memories of eating stew. Calling it “The Thyme Machine”
February 4, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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spiderfrog.bsky.social
Comes out January 27th, 2026. Mozart's birthday!
But this one is more for my fellow Salieris.
Head Cleaner by David James Keaton: 9781917415088 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
In this hugely original blend of thriller, sci-fi and horror, a trio of Blockbuster employees discover they may be able to change the endings of popular films and, thus, the world around them. The l...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
This is as close to motivational speaker as I’m ever gonna get.
Hope is precisely what the facts refuse. That's how Mark Twain defines it. And I've been thinking about that a lot, particularly given what's been unfolding in Minneapolis, Kyiv, Tehran, Caracas, Gaza. But I actually think, in the case of higher education, the facts are not nearly so stacked against us. Authoritarianism has always targeted public education, the free press, and other institutions of unsupervised knowledge production. Those infrastructures must be destroyed for authoritarian governance to get a foothold. If authoritarians are afraid of education and academic publishing, it must not be as powerless as it sometimes seems. Consider these facts. Since the pandemic, the infrastructure of U.S. higher education has been the object of continuous attack. There have been attacks on our funding through state budget cuts, federal grant freezes, reductions of federal student loan eligibility, legislatively-enforced Ponzi austerity, and other types of private capture of public funds, visa denials, and deportations of tuition-paying international students. There have been attacks on our labor force through hiring and salary freezes, erosion of tenure protections, program discontinuations, continued adjunctification, labor intensification, politicized interventions in curriculum and promotion decisions, and targeted political harassment of prominent university leaders and scholars. There have been deep-pocketed efforts to create competition through for-profit colleges, online micro-universities, and unaccredited partisan parallel institutions. And there has been a continuous culture war against student, faculty, and administrative constituencies, which has often garnered bipartisan support and been amplified equally by legacy media outlets and new media influencers. Every effort has been made by a powerful coalition of politicians, pundits, and billionaires to paint U.S. higher education as a woke, broke, broken, bad investment. And yet, college enrollment is up.
February 3, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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spiderfrog.bsky.social
I went to the nearest Barnes & Noble and awkwardly explained to someone at the help desk that I had a new book out and asked where it might be (it's genre fluid) and it was faced out (!) Then she took some pictures, had me sign their books, and said they'd already sold a copy. A win/win/win.
February 3, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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terre-strial.bsky.social
“With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for ‘the positive affirmation of peace.’”

— The Nation
February 3, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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bookjawns.bsky.social
I want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.
February 3, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
"Why did they do this? Because I asked them to, and told them it was worth it. I said that time was precious, and that we needed to take some of it back for ourselves. So we did."
Walt Hunter for The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
www.theatlantic.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time
Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers f…
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February 2, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
Hegel argues in Phenomenology that death happens twice, the first time physically, and, the second, symbolically when you start running ads
February 1, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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JFC
February 1, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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davis.social
yeah, so Fallout nailed it
Screenshots from Fallout showing Lucy, along with the words “One side is murdering people, enslaving them, crucifying them, and the other side is just vaguely problematic.”
February 1, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
taps sign
"IF YOU OFFLOAD YOUR CREATIVE & CRITICAL CAPACITIES IN EXCHANGE FOR CONVENIENCE, THE ONLY THING YOU'LL HAVE LEFT TO OFFER THE PREVAILING SOCIAL ORDER IS YOUR OBEDIENCEL"
January 30, 2026 at 10:49 PM
bradleyfest.bsky.social
Wow, revising an essay I wrote THIRTEEN YEARS AGO, touched up a bit back in 2018, and am finally now like, yes, this should go into the world. Writing is weird.
January 31, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
metastasizing IP = cultural stagnation

production of nothing, circulation of everything www.versobooks.com/products/303...
January 29, 2026 at 2:46 PM
bradleyfest.bsky.social
Who would have ever thought it possible: Now that I've moved all my writing assignments in class, my syllabi are getting SHORTER!
January 27, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
Once more for the back to work crowd.
"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos
Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?
open.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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daveweigel.bsky.social
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
January 27, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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traceyehm.bsky.social
A while ago, I was required to attend one of the endless stream of Ai-for-educators webinars. The warm up question was “the first word you think of when you think of Ai.” My word was, and remains, fascism.
January 24, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
January 25, 2026 at 1:34 AM