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Joe McLaughlin
@joemclaughlin.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at University of Toronto. Victorianist. Moonlighting Modernist.

💭: Proto-Fascism, 19th C. Liberalism and Empire, Marxism and BDSM.

🖋️: Dickens, Pointed-Fingers, The Police, and “Omniscience.”
Realizing (after grading my 20th paper on Stevenson) that this is an unironically good meme-summary of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
December 8, 2024 at 3:42 PM
He was so real for this one.
November 15, 2024 at 7:51 PM
I’m writing a lot about this right now but TLDR: Dickens loved a pointed finger and it’s a big deal.
November 15, 2024 at 2:52 PM
I’m GUTTED.
November 15, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Progress on the Wallpaper Front! (William Morris’s “Strawberry Thieves”)
March 21, 2024 at 9:46 PM
The most perfect album I know is a whopping 18min long.
October 15, 2023 at 12:04 AM
References for the Liza Minnelli Tattoo I want to get over the winter…
July 9, 2023 at 2:23 PM
My neighborhood has the highest density of vanity plates in North America.
July 4, 2023 at 12:14 AM