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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The New York financier?
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The New York financier?
there have been few times in my lifetime where i could really be proud to be an american but these days it is just extra extra humiliating
November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
there have been few times in my lifetime where i could really be proud to be an american but these days it is just extra extra humiliating
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“For anyone out there struggling to write because you’re distracted, or tired, or sick, or scared—I’ve been there. Take care of yourself and your communities…. your book will be there when you get back.”
Thx to @nickcav.bsky.social for the wise advice
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/a-book...
Thx to @nickcav.bsky.social for the wise advice
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/a-book...
A book 15 years in the making
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“For anyone out there struggling to write because you’re distracted, or tired, or sick, or scared—I’ve been there. Take care of yourself and your communities…. your book will be there when you get back.”
Thx to @nickcav.bsky.social for the wise advice
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/a-book...
Thx to @nickcav.bsky.social for the wise advice
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/a-book...
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
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This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
America: Wreck coded
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
America: Wreck coded
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This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone
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They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
if it isn't primary it's gonna be some other verb
New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.”
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
newrepublic.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
if it isn't primary it's gonna be some other verb
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they’re calling it “horseglue” sunday
Ekko Astral - "horseglue" [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by Ekko Astral
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
they’re calling it “horseglue” sunday
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If the political opposition doesn’t put these ICE & CBP institutional criminals in prison, annihilate their budgets, purge the datasets and repeal their authorities, this will keep happening. And that opposition will reveal itself as a false, controlled opposition that is no less predatory on people
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
If the political opposition doesn’t put these ICE & CBP institutional criminals in prison, annihilate their budgets, purge the datasets and repeal their authorities, this will keep happening. And that opposition will reveal itself as a false, controlled opposition that is no less predatory on people
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Exactly -- austerity for everyone, except digital IT, especially AI. At one CT university, 44% of new allocations when to AI projects and another large chunk to the new School of Healthcare. Everyone else can get crumbs.
Austerity is dead…but only for AI?!?!
“The Ohio State University has announced a major Artificial Intelligence (AI) Faculty Hiring Initiative that will add 100 new tenure-track faculty with expertise in AI over the next five years.”
news.osu.edu/ohio-state-t...
“The Ohio State University has announced a major Artificial Intelligence (AI) Faculty Hiring Initiative that will add 100 new tenure-track faculty with expertise in AI over the next five years.”
news.osu.edu/ohio-state-t...
Ohio State to hire 100 new faculty with AI expertise
The Ohio State University has announced a major Artificial Intelligence (AI) Faculty Hiring Initiative that will add 100 new tenure-track faculty with expertise in AI over the next five years. The ini...
news.osu.edu
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Exactly -- austerity for everyone, except digital IT, especially AI. At one CT university, 44% of new allocations when to AI projects and another large chunk to the new School of Healthcare. Everyone else can get crumbs.
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You know those 24-hour Criterion flash sales that come & go before you can even decide which movies to spend too much money on? Well, Barnes & Noble is offering 50% off all Criterion titles for the next _month_. Let the seasonal physical-media-hoarding begin!
www.barnesandnoble.com/b/the-criter...
www.barnesandnoble.com/b/the-criter...
The Criterion Collection of Blu-rays and DVDs
Discover hundreds of movies from the Criterion Collection at Barnes & Noble®. Shop DVDs and Blu-rays of critically acclaimed films, including both classic and modern titles.
www.barnesandnoble.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
You know those 24-hour Criterion flash sales that come & go before you can even decide which movies to spend too much money on? Well, Barnes & Noble is offering 50% off all Criterion titles for the next _month_. Let the seasonal physical-media-hoarding begin!
www.barnesandnoble.com/b/the-criter...
www.barnesandnoble.com/b/the-criter...
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virtue signalling is good actually
Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason.
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
virtue signalling is good actually
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Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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It seems easy to misunderstand this phrase so let me be clear:
"Nuremburg trials is the moderate position" was also the reading of the situation the first time.
"Nuremburg trials is the moderate position" was also the reading of the situation the first time.
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It seems easy to misunderstand this phrase so let me be clear:
"Nuremburg trials is the moderate position" was also the reading of the situation the first time.
"Nuremburg trials is the moderate position" was also the reading of the situation the first time.
Your employer cares about you! That's why we want to offer you some resources that, if you are facing difficulty, dealing with addiction, or considering self-harm, WILL ALLOW YOU TO KEEP WORKING
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Your employer cares about you! That's why we want to offer you some resources that, if you are facing difficulty, dealing with addiction, or considering self-harm, WILL ALLOW YOU TO KEEP WORKING
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We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.
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That's one small sub for a man, one giant footlong hero for mankind.
"Jurors found Sean Dunn not guilty of one misdemeanor assault charge on Thursday in federal court in D.C."
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...
DC ‘sandwich guy' found not guilty of assault after throwing sub at federal agent
A man charged with assault for throwing a sandwich at a federal agent calls it an act of protest. Prosecutors are trying to prove that it was a federal crime. Jurors heard attorneys’ opening statement...
www.nbcwashington.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
That's one small sub for a man, one giant footlong hero for mankind.
but people *love* my rude or impolite posts including crude language and disrespectful language, without constructive purpose!
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
but people *love* my rude or impolite posts including crude language and disrespectful language, without constructive purpose!
oh jfc
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
oh jfc
I am not a New Yorker so it is truly none of my business but watching self-styled serious, centrist figures line up behind a serial sex pest, obstructionist legacy case who also happened to be an utter incompetent and unrepentant racist...people shouldn't forget who beclowned themselves thusly.
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I am not a New Yorker so it is truly none of my business but watching self-styled serious, centrist figures line up behind a serial sex pest, obstructionist legacy case who also happened to be an utter incompetent and unrepentant racist...people shouldn't forget who beclowned themselves thusly.