Dr. M. Harris-Peyton
@drmbhp.bsky.social
fiction author; composition and literature professor; postcolonial crime media/games/texts as world lit PhD; crime discourse and IR/state formation guy; allegedly in possession of "your dad playing video games" vibes; he/him/any
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Attacks on Higher Ed and the New Illiberal Electorate
The right-wing destruction of American higher education institutions is a strategic move. Liberals need to answer with a strategy of their own.
www.liberalcurrents.com
The right-wing attacks on education--the grad student arrests, defunding battles, long-term reputation attacks--are a strategy, and so I've been thinking about what the big-picture counter-strategy is.
And then I wrote an article about it.
And then I wrote an article about it.
To my phone:
Oh, my posts-per-day are up, you say? Well have you considered that I have to compile the works cited for an academic article I wrote and I don't want to do that?
Oh, my posts-per-day are up, you say? Well have you considered that I have to compile the works cited for an academic article I wrote and I don't want to do that?
January 22, 2026 at 7:22 PM
To my phone:
Oh, my posts-per-day are up, you say? Well have you considered that I have to compile the works cited for an academic article I wrote and I don't want to do that?
Oh, my posts-per-day are up, you say? Well have you considered that I have to compile the works cited for an academic article I wrote and I don't want to do that?
I don't want to kink-shame an entire political project (and one guy from Dedham) but, uh
If you’re wondering what the 73% is thinking…
January 22, 2026 at 7:19 PM
I don't want to kink-shame an entire political project (and one guy from Dedham) but, uh
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an empire can never be held accountable; therefore an empire must never make decisions
January 22, 2026 at 6:22 AM
an empire can never be held accountable; therefore an empire must never make decisions
As a kid, my brain leapt firmly out of my head. It was also a gateway drug to my early "how to fix a computer" and "what is screen resolution" and "wait, user generated content?" experiences.
people won't like me saying this but when it first came out the sims /rightly/ blew people's brains
I actually am curious to know what people think are the earliest video games that have a serious claim to being the best in their genre. Not like “good for the time,” but like genuinely better than anything else out there.
January 22, 2026 at 12:25 AM
As a kid, my brain leapt firmly out of my head. It was also a gateway drug to my early "how to fix a computer" and "what is screen resolution" and "wait, user generated content?" experiences.
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hearing "assassinate your president" and "do a general strike" from people who are clearly unaware of the many different grassroots movements to stop the gestapo from kidnapping children makes me laugh because nigel farage is still alive
January 21, 2026 at 8:04 PM
hearing "assassinate your president" and "do a general strike" from people who are clearly unaware of the many different grassroots movements to stop the gestapo from kidnapping children makes me laugh because nigel farage is still alive
critical support to Comrade Drumstick in the ongoing battle against algorithmic enshittification
You gotta tell guys who work at x not to eat the bones or else this happens
The head of product at "X" and guy most responsible for all the horrible algorithm and feature decisions just got KO'd by a piece of fried chicken.
January 21, 2026 at 8:03 PM
critical support to Comrade Drumstick in the ongoing battle against algorithmic enshittification
*Historian Voice* and here we have the digital archives of Bluesky, the 2020s social media platform that was, allegedly, all liberal Capricorns born in the year 1988.
January 20, 2026 at 11:31 PM
*Historian Voice* and here we have the digital archives of Bluesky, the 2020s social media platform that was, allegedly, all liberal Capricorns born in the year 1988.
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You don't win against propaganda by insisting you're above propaganda. You create counter-propaganda.
A big reason that Russia focused on the methods it did is they were affordable and accessible. This is very doable.
A big reason that Russia focused on the methods it did is they were affordable and accessible. This is very doable.
look there's a simple solution: Europe and Canada must engage in sustained influence ops in the United States to promote the Democratic Party
January 20, 2026 at 5:46 PM
You don't win against propaganda by insisting you're above propaganda. You create counter-propaganda.
A big reason that Russia focused on the methods it did is they were affordable and accessible. This is very doable.
A big reason that Russia focused on the methods it did is they were affordable and accessible. This is very doable.
This should be the line for every single non-republican politician for the next year, right up there with "no, actually *do* abolish ICE and the DHS" and "day one we impeach and remove."
the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.
Genuinely insane we are living in a world where the Danish have to deploy a battlegroup to protect themselves against America. Makes my blood turn molten, honestly
January 20, 2026 at 10:38 PM
This should be the line for every single non-republican politician for the next year, right up there with "no, actually *do* abolish ICE and the DHS" and "day one we impeach and remove."
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My first personal computer was a lightly-used 486 that we coaxed into running Windows 95.
The sounds and the keyed lock on the tower hit me like a sleeper agent's activation phrase.
The sounds and the keyed lock on the tower hit me like a sleeper agent's activation phrase.
All these sounds make me so oddly nostalgic
I got a tour of Bluesky's server room today
January 17, 2026 at 9:05 PM
My first personal computer was a lightly-used 486 that we coaxed into running Windows 95.
The sounds and the keyed lock on the tower hit me like a sleeper agent's activation phrase.
The sounds and the keyed lock on the tower hit me like a sleeper agent's activation phrase.
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January 17, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Philadelphia would be a good backup, symbolically and logistically.
In this context it is also worth noting that the quorum for both houses is 50%+1, wherever they may meet. If the Republicans and Trump's goons occupy the Capitol and refuse to seat a newly elected Democratic congress, they can just meet *literally anywhere,* meete quorum and be Congress.
here's what happens after house elections, which are conducted by each state and locality:
the state certifies the winner
the winners go to washington
they convene a new house
they choose a speaker
notice who isn't involved here? the president or the current speaker or the senate.
the state certifies the winner
the winners go to washington
they convene a new house
they choose a speaker
notice who isn't involved here? the president or the current speaker or the senate.
January 15, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Philadelphia would be a good backup, symbolically and logistically.
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*My thoughts are that he's quite right. People really are speaking Delvish now. It's a dialect that's not of human origin, but it's a new, living dialect with which people speak to each other.
*There may even be a Delvish *cultural sensibility*
*There may even be a Delvish *cultural sensibility*
January 15, 2026 at 10:21 AM
*My thoughts are that he's quite right. People really are speaking Delvish now. It's a dialect that's not of human origin, but it's a new, living dialect with which people speak to each other.
*There may even be a Delvish *cultural sensibility*
*There may even be a Delvish *cultural sensibility*
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The process of turning the country off and back on again? The corrct technical term is Amerimaidan.
“A diplomatic source said: 'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'.”
what the fuck
have we tried turning the country off and back on again
what the fuck
have we tried turning the country off and back on again
January 11, 2026 at 7:11 AM
The process of turning the country off and back on again? The corrct technical term is Amerimaidan.
You ever read a sentence and are disappointed that you *do actually know* the context?
One day the antisemitism squirrel will get doxxed and arrested and I will not shed one iota of a tear.
January 10, 2026 at 8:43 AM
You ever read a sentence and are disappointed that you *do actually know* the context?
The thing where every other emotion feels like a puddle on the surface of a concrete block of rage and disgust is definitely not great.
One of my great selfish frustrations is that I worked very hard to let go of it from 2021-2024 and then, whoops, we're doing it again but louder.
One of my great selfish frustrations is that I worked very hard to let go of it from 2021-2024 and then, whoops, we're doing it again but louder.
honestly do not like the raw simmering rage and disgust that i experience day to day
January 9, 2026 at 9:28 PM
The thing where every other emotion feels like a puddle on the surface of a concrete block of rage and disgust is definitely not great.
One of my great selfish frustrations is that I worked very hard to let go of it from 2021-2024 and then, whoops, we're doing it again but louder.
One of my great selfish frustrations is that I worked very hard to let go of it from 2021-2024 and then, whoops, we're doing it again but louder.
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thinking a lot lately about our surprise when the victim of state violence is white, a citizen, a priest, a veteran, some category viewed as exempt from that violence. it’s time to understand you aren’t. no one is. whiteness isn’t the color of your skin it is a conditional privilege you can lose.
January 9, 2026 at 7:18 PM
thinking a lot lately about our surprise when the victim of state violence is white, a citizen, a priest, a veteran, some category viewed as exempt from that violence. it’s time to understand you aren’t. no one is. whiteness isn’t the color of your skin it is a conditional privilege you can lose.
Man, 2029 is going to have to be less "truth and reconciliation committees" and more "DeTrumpification in the Soviet Style" or it's just not going to work.
"Aggressively decontaminating the truth" is going to be a weird liberal policy position to sell, though.
"Aggressively decontaminating the truth" is going to be a weird liberal policy position to sell, though.
January 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Man, 2029 is going to have to be less "truth and reconciliation committees" and more "DeTrumpification in the Soviet Style" or it's just not going to work.
"Aggressively decontaminating the truth" is going to be a weird liberal policy position to sell, though.
"Aggressively decontaminating the truth" is going to be a weird liberal policy position to sell, though.
I bet Trump watched the film Air Force One within the week leading up to the Venezuela operation.
January 4, 2026 at 9:11 PM
I bet Trump watched the film Air Force One within the week leading up to the Venezuela operation.
Pancake Cybersecurity is critical to The Economy (tm).
Just downloaded an app, established a strong password, and proceeded through two factor authentication to order pancakes
January 2, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Pancake Cybersecurity is critical to The Economy (tm).
Listen, name your kid what you want, but if I look at the roll sheet 18 years later and can't tell if I'm looking at a person's name or a native ad for a pair of expensive sunglasses, that's entirely on you.
January 2, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Listen, name your kid what you want, but if I look at the roll sheet 18 years later and can't tell if I'm looking at a person's name or a native ad for a pair of expensive sunglasses, that's entirely on you.
I turned a grad school rant about how "aesthetics" as a concept is deployed as cover for bigotry into the 1st chapter of a whole book so honestly, that line in the bio is dead-on.
reading (the works of other deranged bigots in Europe)
&
aesthetics (racism and colonialism philosophy burrito)
reading (the works of other deranged bigots in Europe)
&
aesthetics (racism and colonialism philosophy burrito)
the funniest thing about this is that this guy’s bio is “reading & aesthetics”
Idiot. A Frenchman has no history in common with a German. Imagining they could create a country together is pure fantasy from a deracinated upper class.
December 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I turned a grad school rant about how "aesthetics" as a concept is deployed as cover for bigotry into the 1st chapter of a whole book so honestly, that line in the bio is dead-on.
reading (the works of other deranged bigots in Europe)
&
aesthetics (racism and colonialism philosophy burrito)
reading (the works of other deranged bigots in Europe)
&
aesthetics (racism and colonialism philosophy burrito)
I need this as a reaction .gif--the situational applications are endless.
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I need this as a reaction .gif--the situational applications are endless.
White genocide is when the nurse at the gastroenterologist tells me to stop eating "ethnic food" and when I ask what that means specifically she literally does the "you know the ones" meme.
White genocide is when a neighbor has a weird name.
White genocide is when you hear a new language for the first time and don't understand it.
White genocide is when the girl who ghosted you, after you generously offered to breed her, starts posting Insta pics of her new favorite ethnic cuisine.
White genocide is when you hear a new language for the first time and don't understand it.
White genocide is when the girl who ghosted you, after you generously offered to breed her, starts posting Insta pics of her new favorite ethnic cuisine.
This guy is talking about some people who were not white moving to a city because a company located there hired them.
December 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
White genocide is when the nurse at the gastroenterologist tells me to stop eating "ethnic food" and when I ask what that means specifically she literally does the "you know the ones" meme.