Geoff Klock
@geoffklock.bsky.social
Tenured full professor at BMCC-CUNY with an Oxford doctorate; I teach folks about oneiric thinking via Plato, Shakespeare, Proust, Kafka, David Lynch, and the X-Men
Pinned
Geoff Klock
@geoffklock.bsky.social
· Dec 3
post 4 characters that you relate to and let people make assumptions about you accordingly
Reposted by Geoff Klock
We’re gonna need a bigger hell
January 23, 2026 at 10:58 PM
We’re gonna need a bigger hell
Reposted by Geoff Klock
Weird how he feels the opposite way when it comes to Confederate stuff. No way of knowing why, though!
January 23, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Weird how he feels the opposite way when it comes to Confederate stuff. No way of knowing why, though!
Reposted by Geoff Klock
I honestly wonder how much of this is deeply psychological for Vance, the inability to reconcile that people can love their neighbors so much when his own mother abandoned him.
Vance in MN: "It's really cold outside. We in the Trump administration want to deport criminal aliens who are sex offenders. It takes a certain level of committed to sex offender criminal aliens to stand outside in -40 temperatures and attack the vice president, but they're committed to the bit."
January 23, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I honestly wonder how much of this is deeply psychological for Vance, the inability to reconcile that people can love their neighbors so much when his own mother abandoned him.
Reposted by Geoff Klock
This looks and sounds like a letter read aloud in a Wes Anderson movie by one of his precocious boys or broken men
January 23, 2026 at 2:38 AM
This looks and sounds like a letter read aloud in a Wes Anderson movie by one of his precocious boys or broken men
Reposted by Geoff Klock
This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.
Alcohol maker could be forced to sell off its inventory as bankruptcy stalls
Alcohol maker could be forced to sell off its inventory as bankruptcy stalls
Alcohol maker could be forced to sell off its inventory as bankruptcy stalls
Alcohol maker could be forced to sell off its inventory as bankruptcy stalls
www.independent.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Alcohol maker could be forced to sell off its inventory as bankruptcy stalls
Reposted by Geoff Klock
He's so fucking pathologically unfunny he *pre-emptively explains it before he gets to the punchline* oh my God
January 22, 2026 at 8:17 PM
He's so fucking pathologically unfunny he *pre-emptively explains it before he gets to the punchline* oh my God
Reposted by Geoff Klock
“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.”
“What does it do?”
“We were hoping you could tell us.”
“What does it do?”
“We were hoping you could tell us.”
Delicious to me
January 22, 2026 at 7:36 AM
“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.”
“What does it do?”
“We were hoping you could tell us.”
“What does it do?”
“We were hoping you could tell us.”
Pre-Raphaelitism was a 19th century art movement that "denoted an antagonism to ... classical compositions and forms in favor of a RETURN TO BOTH NATURE AND COLOR that that these painters saw in art before Raphael." Sounds a lot like rejecting genre, CGI, AI and relentless gray scale color grading!
January 22, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Pre-Raphaelitism was a 19th century art movement that "denoted an antagonism to ... classical compositions and forms in favor of a RETURN TO BOTH NATURE AND COLOR that that these painters saw in art before Raphael." Sounds a lot like rejecting genre, CGI, AI and relentless gray scale color grading!
Reposted by Geoff Klock
I got very choked up in class today showing my students what James Baldwin had to say about Shakespeare:
“the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”
“the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”
January 21, 2026 at 7:57 PM
I got very choked up in class today showing my students what James Baldwin had to say about Shakespeare:
“the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”
“the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”
Reposted by Geoff Klock
"Bologna saw road accidents fall by 13% and fatalities decline by around 50% in the year after [implementing] a 30 kph speed limit" but "a regional court accepted an appeal by a single taxi driver who argued that lower speeds increased journey times and reduced his earnings" #SafetyOverSpeed
Italian city of Bologna clashes with government over 30 kph speed limit reut.rs/3LUt50R
Italian city of Bologna clashes with government over 30 kph speed limit
The northern Italian city of Bologna is at the centre of a tussle to keep its 30 kph (19 mph) city centre speed limit despite a court ruling against it and hostility to the measure from Giorgia Meloni's national government.
reut.rs
January 22, 2026 at 2:42 PM
"Bologna saw road accidents fall by 13% and fatalities decline by around 50% in the year after [implementing] a 30 kph speed limit" but "a regional court accepted an appeal by a single taxi driver who argued that lower speeds increased journey times and reduced his earnings" #SafetyOverSpeed
Reposted by Geoff Klock
In Trump's telling, the US are the equivalent of the Nazis
Trump: "No nation is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the US. We're a great power. Much greater than people even understand. I think they found that out 2 weeks ago in Venezuela. We saw this in World War 2 when Denmark fell to Germany after just 6 hours of fighting."
January 21, 2026 at 2:10 PM
In Trump's telling, the US are the equivalent of the Nazis
Reposted by Geoff Klock
Health Speculations Swirl As Trump Seen With Damage Numbers Above Head https://theonion.com/health-speculations-swirl-as-trump-seen-with-damage-numbers-above-head/
January 21, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Health Speculations Swirl As Trump Seen With Damage Numbers Above Head https://theonion.com/health-speculations-swirl-as-trump-seen-with-damage-numbers-above-head/
This is why people in the world of the X-Men are fine with the Avengers and Fantastic Four but hate mutants
I do have to point out that even with a more-accepting society, there is a gulf between "I am okay with queers" and "I am okay with my kid being a queer". People can support LGBT rights in the abstract and then get spooked when their own precious cinnamon roll makes them a "non-traditional family".
January 21, 2026 at 2:52 PM
This is why people in the world of the X-Men are fine with the Avengers and Fantastic Four but hate mutants
Reposted by Geoff Klock
Barbara Kruger
March 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Barbara Kruger
Reposted by Geoff Klock
The English Department NEEDS to acquire the Philosophy Department and will do so By Force if necessary. Thank You for your attention To this Matter.
January 21, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The English Department NEEDS to acquire the Philosophy Department and will do so By Force if necessary. Thank You for your attention To this Matter.
Correct
This is the problem with a lot of vocational training: you are preparing yourself for what the job market wanted at the time you started not when you finish.
Study Philosophy to avoid this problem.
Study Philosophy to avoid this problem.
“College graduates in their 20s with computer-science and computer-engineering majors have one of the highest unemployment rates, according to a report last year from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — double that of pharmacy, criminal justice, and biology”
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
January 21, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Correct
We here at Marvel would like to apologize for that X-Cutioner's Song thing ... but we are ready to close that story in [checks notes] Cable 6-8
January 21, 2026 at 4:50 AM
We here at Marvel would like to apologize for that X-Cutioner's Song thing ... but we are ready to close that story in [checks notes] Cable 6-8
I spent $65 bucks on this 1600 page monster and I realized -- it's because I no longer trust looking up shit on the Internet or everything is under pop up ads or paywalls or is anonymous or generated by so called AI.
RETVRN.
RETVRN.
January 21, 2026 at 4:04 AM
I spent $65 bucks on this 1600 page monster and I realized -- it's because I no longer trust looking up shit on the Internet or everything is under pop up ads or paywalls or is anonymous or generated by so called AI.
RETVRN.
RETVRN.
Abstinence makes it sound so uncool but it's the coolest thing out there -- A WAR AGAINS ROBOTS A BUTLERIAN JIHAD
AI sits in billions of phones. Refusing to engage won't stop it, just leaves vulnerable people without knowledge. Demand ownership and control, not abstinence.
Abstinence From AI Is Not the Answer
Opinion | Refusing to use AI won’t protect society. Responsible resistance must include gaining knowledge about it.
f.mtr.cool
January 21, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Abstinence makes it sound so uncool but it's the coolest thing out there -- A WAR AGAINS ROBOTS A BUTLERIAN JIHAD
Reposted by Geoff Klock
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Reposted by Geoff Klock
Explaining to future generations that Steven Lockjaw was not conceived as a parody of Greg Bovino will be like convincing them that MTV did not exist when “Video Killed the Radio Star” was recorded.
January 20, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Explaining to future generations that Steven Lockjaw was not conceived as a parody of Greg Bovino will be like convincing them that MTV did not exist when “Video Killed the Radio Star” was recorded.