Brad Congdon
@brcongdon.bsky.social
Wrote a book about American literature, masculinity, and magazines
https://utorontopress.com/9781487522162/leading-with-the-chin/
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https://utorontopress.com/9781487522162/leading-with-the-chin/
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Theory: Georges Battaile’s The Solar Anus was inspired by him purchasing some star anise.
December 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Theory: Georges Battaile’s The Solar Anus was inspired by him purchasing some star anise.
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It’s December, time to put to the Bad Religion Christmas album on endless repeat.
December 1, 2023 at 7:29 PM
It’s December, time to put to the Bad Religion Christmas album on endless repeat.
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Coming soon: Disability and the Gothic: The Nineteenth Century. Cambridge Gothic Elements series. Publication date is 24 March 2026
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Disability and the Gothic
www.cambridge.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Coming soon: Disability and the Gothic: The Nineteenth Century. Cambridge Gothic Elements series. Publication date is 24 March 2026
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
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it finally happened -- a good student of mine vanished from class about six weeks ago. this student reappeared today and explained that they had been in ICE detention in another state during that time. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end.
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
it finally happened -- a good student of mine vanished from class about six weeks ago. this student reappeared today and explained that they had been in ICE detention in another state during that time. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end.
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I don’t like this contemporary trend of dudes in their forties being fit. When I was a lad, dudes in their forties were round, and everyone was ok with it.
December 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I don’t like this contemporary trend of dudes in their forties being fit. When I was a lad, dudes in their forties were round, and everyone was ok with it.
I don’t like this contemporary trend of dudes in their forties being fit. When I was a lad, dudes in their forties were round, and everyone was ok with it.
December 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I don’t like this contemporary trend of dudes in their forties being fit. When I was a lad, dudes in their forties were round, and everyone was ok with it.
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People catastrophizing about a precedent where no one can mark anything down anymore for being wrong when the real precedent is trans people not being able to do literally any job without an army of bigots launching a harassment campaign against their employer.
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
People catastrophizing about a precedent where no one can mark anything down anymore for being wrong when the real precedent is trans people not being able to do literally any job without an army of bigots launching a harassment campaign against their employer.
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Great news if you're a fan of my stuff in @mcsweeneys.net (and bad news if you're not): I have written a WHOLE BOOK of academic satire! It's available NOW from the good people at @humoristbooks.bsky.social.
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Great news if you're a fan of my stuff in @mcsweeneys.net (and bad news if you're not): I have written a WHOLE BOOK of academic satire! It's available NOW from the good people at @humoristbooks.bsky.social.
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My neighbor put a sign in her window asking what my cat’s name was. It was a lovely little bit of human interaction at a time when I really needed it.
November 30, 2025 at 5:03 AM
My neighbor put a sign in her window asking what my cat’s name was. It was a lovely little bit of human interaction at a time when I really needed it.
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chat are we cooked
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
chat are we cooked
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This broadly tallies with my experience of teaching, and what colleagues have shared, over the last decade or so, though of course there are exceptions
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This broadly tallies with my experience of teaching, and what colleagues have shared, over the last decade or so, though of course there are exceptions
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is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend
I’m increasingly convinced that, setting aside all other concerns, the thing about genAI is that nobody likes its output.
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I’m increasingly convinced that, setting aside all other concerns, the thing about genAI is that nobody likes its output.
Listening to a true crime podcast, and the host is like, “important context: it was common for parents to allow their children outside during the 1980s, even unattended. Older children even made their own social plans. It was a different time.”
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Listening to a true crime podcast, and the host is like, “important context: it was common for parents to allow their children outside during the 1980s, even unattended. Older children even made their own social plans. It was a different time.”
New book pickups.
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
New book pickups.
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Carney's energy minister, who was a colleague of his at Goldman Sachs.
People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Carney's energy minister, who was a colleague of his at Goldman Sachs.
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If I were trying to explain Canadian political parties to outsiders, I’d probably say that the Liberals are a party made up entirely of people voted Most Likely to Succeed in their high school yearbook.
May 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
If I were trying to explain Canadian political parties to outsiders, I’d probably say that the Liberals are a party made up entirely of people voted Most Likely to Succeed in their high school yearbook.
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Feeling definitive about this one.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Feeling definitive about this one.
“Leading with the Chin is a fascinating examination of the changing representations of twentieth-century masculinity in Esquire, America’s oldest men’s interest magazine.”
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November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Leading with the Chin is a fascinating examination of the changing representations of twentieth-century masculinity in Esquire, America’s oldest men’s interest magazine.”
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
Why aren’t more Hideo Gosha films available on disc? Criterion has a bunch streaming, but even there they’re missing GOYOKIN and TENCHU! #filmsky
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Why aren’t more Hideo Gosha films available on disc? Criterion has a bunch streaming, but even there they’re missing GOYOKIN and TENCHU! #filmsky
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I really enjoyed the first season of Last Samurai Standing, but I got the impression that the show did not think it was as silly as it obviously is.
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I really enjoyed the first season of Last Samurai Standing, but I got the impression that the show did not think it was as silly as it obviously is.