Doc Revan
banner
docrevan.bsky.social
Doc Revan
@docrevan.bsky.social
Chair of the Malachor V Institute on Posting Madness

The Dark Side of the Posts is a pathway to many replies some consider to be unnatural. This medicine can’t fix stab. Not a real doctor or Sith Lord
Ben Kingsley can probably play basically any ethnicity in Eurasia
The English mother/Gujarati father combo is like the skeleton key of ethnic movie roles
December 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
NCIS: It’s fine. It’s store bought bread, not from the fresh bakery aisle, but it does what it sets out to do.

(Statement only applies to early seasons because I haven’t seen any in years)
The NCIS vs Succession problem: one of these is a genuinely popular entertainment franchise and the other one has hundreds of articles written about it
The evidence I use for my friends is to tell them Tracker is the #1 show in the country and not one has ever even heard of it
December 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Meanwhile at the Pentagon, Hegseth:
December 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Reposted by Doc Revan
Kingsley is definitely the OG “looks vaguely ethnic unless the role needs him not to” actor.

I’d also nominate Edward James Olmos here.
December 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Reposted by Doc Revan
"Mr president, we don't have the tomahawks to strike iran effectively because SecDef told us to blow up that goat farm in nigeria big enough to excite you"
December 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Reposted by Doc Revan
Excuse me, these are all Berlusconis
two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` it 's anti italian discrimination ''
Alt: It’s anti Italian discrimination!
media.tenor.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This may be the Trump-iest looking foreign Trump
December 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Reposted by Doc Revan
Basically every middle to high-income country has its own Trump. And you can't say they were just imitating us, because many of theirs had careers going back to before 2016
guy looking at America in a world where right-wing populists are sweeping elections everywhere: actually this is entirely because Americans are dumb and uneducated
December 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
December 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
If you’re going to lie about going to a moon at least be ambitious and say Europa
December 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Reposted by Doc Revan
Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...
December 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reposted by Doc Revan
Really would like someone more insane* than me to chart out whose got connections/owes/loyalty to who in this administration

*I say this specifically because this would involve contemplating a lot of incredibly Keter-tier cognitohazard "who is fucking who" questions within the administration
December 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Reposted by Doc Revan
This makes me think of an antiphon from Lent rather than Advent: “They divided my clothes among each other, and for my robe did they cast lots”
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Reposted by Doc Revan
I mean that's how we treat CSAM, AI revenge porn treated like CSAM is the best and literally current solution and will be sufficient
December 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Reposted by Doc Revan
Tbh I’m also skeptical of claims that we just can’t ban GenAI because you can fire up a deepseek/qwen instance on last generations consumer GPUs but it also makes me skeptical we’ll be able to do anything about any job market or social fabric disruption as caused by AI.
Academics literally cannot make Gen AI go away. As in it is not possible to make it happen on a political, legal, and technical level. We do not and will not command the massive violence necessary to make chatGPT or Claude disappear. Responsible pedagogy grapples with the fact!
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Reposted by Doc Revan
Sinatra wouldn't play venues unless they allowed Sammy Davis Jr to perform with him and the rest of his crew. During the 50s, peak segregation times. And Frank would always throw his weight around for black entertainers
December 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Reposted by Doc Revan
Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
As it’s the Feast of Saint Stephen this is appropriate today

youtu.be/bjfgAV5KdDQ?...
December 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Some say the devil is dead, the devil is dead, the devil is dead
Some say the devil is dead and buried in Killarney
More say he rose again, more say he rose again, more say he rose again
And joined the British army
I asked him if he thought birthright citizenship should be repealed and he said “Ye dog! Hoist your rifle and send the bastard pudding eaters a-sea to King George in a pine box!”
December 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Reposted by Doc Revan
12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Reposted by Doc Revan
Started using "I age greatly every time you speak" thanks to @maladroithe.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Reposted by Doc Revan
I asked him if he thought birthright citizenship should be repealed and he said “Ye dog! Hoist your rifle and send the bastard pudding eaters a-sea to King George in a pine box!”
December 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Reposted by Doc Revan
Academics literally cannot make Gen AI go away. As in it is not possible to make it happen on a political, legal, and technical level. We do not and will not command the massive violence necessary to make chatGPT or Claude disappear. Responsible pedagogy grapples with the fact!
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Reposted by Doc Revan
The bloody ghost of my ancestor Lt. John Bacon, shot dead by a redcoat musket during the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19th, 1775, appeared at the side of my bed last night and said anyone can be American as long as they aren’t English
December 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Reposted by Doc Revan
The funny thing is that definitions of America based on ancestry leads to Obama to be more American than Trump.

Obama is a direct descendent (on his mother's side) of Mareen Duvall, who arrived in America as an indentured servant in 1659. And yet...
For those not following at home, “Heritage American” is a category of white supremacy covering people whose ancestors were white folks who were pioneers.
December 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM