Michael D. Dwyer
@michaelddwyer.bsky.social
film, pop music, cultural studies // author, TINSEL AND RUST (oup 2025) and BACK TO THE FIFTIES (oup 2015) // both can't survive // michaelddwyer.com
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Well, my author copies came this week, which means it is really real.
If you want to review it for a journal or a podcast, if you want me to talk to your class about deindustrialization or hollywood's perpetual search for lower production costs, or if you just think it's neat, please @ me!
If you want to review it for a journal or a podcast, if you want me to talk to your class about deindustrialization or hollywood's perpetual search for lower production costs, or if you just think it's neat, please @ me!
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After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all
February 4, 2026 at 5:02 PM
After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all
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I've never been a conspiracy theory guy, but you're never gonna convince me that there hasn't been a specific cabal of ultra-rich dullards trying to buy, strangle, and bring to heel all of the most important reality-shaping machines since the uptick in power labor had during COVID
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM
I've never been a conspiracy theory guy, but you're never gonna convince me that there hasn't been a specific cabal of ultra-rich dullards trying to buy, strangle, and bring to heel all of the most important reality-shaping machines since the uptick in power labor had during COVID
"The future, Mr. Gittes!"
February 4, 2026 at 2:40 PM
"The future, Mr. Gittes!"
The Commitments
What’s everyone’s favorite dad movie
Trying to do a daily dumb little prompt to not think about The Horrors
February 4, 2026 at 6:00 AM
The Commitments
the first one that came to mind (lol)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5j1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5j1...
February 4, 2026 at 5:56 AM
the first one that came to mind (lol)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5j1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5j1...
the wackest people alive
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 4, 2026 at 2:56 AM
the wackest people alive
YES YES YES YES YES
Somehow I missed that Willem Dafoe was at La Bombonera supporting Boca on Sunday.
February 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
YES YES YES YES YES
when i was an undergrad at the U occasionally these dudes would make their way up to the canals on campus. I had a tough time adjusting to living in Miami but sitting by the water in january reading a book and having a manatee just come hang out for a while was a pretty magical experience.
timeline cleanse:
many manatees in the Coral Gables Waterway this morning
many manatees in the Coral Gables Waterway this morning
February 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM
when i was an undergrad at the U occasionally these dudes would make their way up to the canals on campus. I had a tough time adjusting to living in Miami but sitting by the water in january reading a book and having a manatee just come hang out for a while was a pretty magical experience.
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[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:
February 2, 2026 at 10:23 PM
[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:
In the 1980s some pgh-area United Steelworkers locals staged massive protests in churches where the city's financial power-brokers worshipped, the most famous of which was a disruption of Easter Sunday services in Shadyside. web.archive.org/web/20170828...
web.archive.org
February 3, 2026 at 4:13 PM
In the 1980s some pgh-area United Steelworkers locals staged massive protests in churches where the city's financial power-brokers worshipped, the most famous of which was a disruption of Easter Sunday services in Shadyside. web.archive.org/web/20170828...
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I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more
github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more
github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
February 3, 2026 at 12:30 AM
I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more
github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more
github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
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Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.
remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
February 1, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.
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A note from our editors:
February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
A note from our editors:
Josh Shapiro really wants to be President and I can imagine how he might believe that the best way to achieve that is to carve out the 'reasonable moderate' position but the bare fact is that man is 5'6" *at best* and nothing he says or does is going to overcome that. <pat_bev_too_small.gif>
Confused as to how Josh Shapiro thinks it is appropriate to compare student protestors to the KKK but inappropriate to compare ICE to the Gestapo
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Josh Shapiro really wants to be President and I can imagine how he might believe that the best way to achieve that is to carve out the 'reasonable moderate' position but the bare fact is that man is 5'6" *at best* and nothing he says or does is going to overcome that. <pat_bev_too_small.gif>
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absolute nazi shit. these are people who came here legally and are to be rendered criminals to populate concentration camps because of lies.
“about 350,000 Haitians will lose their status on Tuesday — ending their right to live and work in the United States legally and putting them at risk of immediate detention and deportation”
"‘Reminds me of Anne Frank’: Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump’s TPS end looms"
February 1, 2026 at 2:03 PM
absolute nazi shit. these are people who came here legally and are to be rendered criminals to populate concentration camps because of lies.
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we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
January 31, 2026 at 8:31 PM
we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
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Vaccinate your kids, you friggin nuts.
Measles cases this year have reached nearly 26% of last year's total cases, which totaled 2,255.
Measles Cases This Year Are Outpacing 2025 — The Worst Recent Year On Record
Measles cases this year have reached nearly 26% of last year's total cases, which totaled 2,255.
www.forbes.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Vaccinate your kids, you friggin nuts.
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And most of the major media did not take it as seriously as they should have because they were also often ridiculed by Gawker etc. An entire century thus far of reactionary politics from people getting owned online.
we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
January 31, 2026 at 9:27 PM
And most of the major media did not take it as seriously as they should have because they were also often ridiculed by Gawker etc. An entire century thus far of reactionary politics from people getting owned online.
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NEVAH FORGET
Happy Mooninite Day to those who celebrate!
For the unaware, this day in 2007 The Boston Police department confused guerilla Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie ads depicting the Mooninites made out of bootleg lightbrights for explosives and made CN pay for it.
For the unaware, this day in 2007 The Boston Police department confused guerilla Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie ads depicting the Mooninites made out of bootleg lightbrights for explosives and made CN pay for it.
January 31, 2026 at 8:57 PM
NEVAH FORGET
If Stephen Miller gets to live on like Henry Kissinger after this we're just not going to make it as a society. Maybe not even as a planet.
January 31, 2026 at 9:17 PM
If Stephen Miller gets to live on like Henry Kissinger after this we're just not going to make it as a society. Maybe not even as a planet.
Yesterday, I just got a rejection from a conference on nostalgia that I really didn't have the time nor the energy to invest in. Just last week I told my partner that I hoped I wouldn't have to go. And yet! Today I am alternating being indignant and wounded about it. Ego is a prison man.
January 31, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Yesterday, I just got a rejection from a conference on nostalgia that I really didn't have the time nor the energy to invest in. Just last week I told my partner that I hoped I wouldn't have to go. And yet! Today I am alternating being indignant and wounded about it. Ego is a prison man.
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This trend is giving me life. College is cool, knowledge is great. The liberal arts is rad. Being well rounded is the GOAT.
Fund all colleges and universities. We should be throwing money at them. Make it affordable for all. Let people take underwater basket weaving if they choose.
Fund all colleges and universities. We should be throwing money at them. Make it affordable for all. Let people take underwater basket weaving if they choose.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
January 31, 2026 at 12:35 PM
This trend is giving me life. College is cool, knowledge is great. The liberal arts is rad. Being well rounded is the GOAT.
Fund all colleges and universities. We should be throwing money at them. Make it affordable for all. Let people take underwater basket weaving if they choose.
Fund all colleges and universities. We should be throwing money at them. Make it affordable for all. Let people take underwater basket weaving if they choose.
I started using the 1st edition of this book in my intro class a few years back, can't recommend it enough
The Media Studies Toolkit, 2nd edition, dropped this week. I'm excited for this refreshed, updated, and expanded version to reach students and instructors of introductory courses in media studies. www.routledge.com/The-Media-St... A short thread about what's inside.
January 31, 2026 at 2:56 PM
I started using the 1st edition of this book in my intro class a few years back, can't recommend it enough
I just read that piece about students not wanting to watch films anymore but as is often the case with these stories I wonder if the size of these courses is a part of the story.
January 31, 2026 at 4:36 AM
I just read that piece about students not wanting to watch films anymore but as is often the case with these stories I wonder if the size of these courses is a part of the story.