Paul Kelleher
@paulkelleher.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English @ Emory | Author: *Making Love* | Work: 18th- and 19th-Century British Lit, the Novel, Philosophy and Aesthetics, Sexuality, and Disability | Play: National Parks, Yoga, Criterion Channel, and roughly one billion TV shows
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Since Trump has claimed Elon doesn’t run DOGE, we wanted to make sure you know who is running our government. This list has been updated with 15 names.
February 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Since Trump has claimed Elon doesn’t run DOGE, we wanted to make sure you know who is running our government. This list has been updated with 15 names.
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we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
January 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
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Favorite Xmas Movie??
😂 WRONG Answers Only! 😂
Favorite Xmas Movie??
😂 WRONG Answers Only! 😂
December 24, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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Favorite Xmas Movie??
😂 WRONG Answers Only! 😂
Favorite Xmas Movie??
😂 WRONG Answers Only! 😂
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At least 75% of American punditry at this point is packaging the least challenging ideas imaginable as forbidden truths.
A key to the success of the whole Bari Weiss grift is that a lot of top media people actually sympathize with it. She pretends it's like pirate radio but it's actually a major strain of thinking throughout mainstream media.
News: Chuck Lane, deputy opinion editor for The Washington Post, is leaving the newspaper.
He’ll be joining The Free Press.
He’ll be joining The Free Press.
December 14, 2024 at 2:30 PM
At least 75% of American punditry at this point is packaging the least challenging ideas imaginable as forbidden truths.
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imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio
December 13, 2024 at 10:15 PM
imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio
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"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"
Inbox: [Sen. Tom] Cotton Introduces Legislation to Eliminate Federal Use of the Term “West Bank”
December 5, 2024 at 10:27 PM
"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"
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Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.
December 13, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.
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This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 11, 2024 at 10:43 PM
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
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Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 12, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
-Joan Didion
-Joan Didion
Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
December 12, 2024 at 11:06 PM
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
-Joan Didion
-Joan Didion
December 8, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
December 7, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
Wow, the Bad Place is making it SO hard to leave 😂🤢
November 29, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Wow, the Bad Place is making it SO hard to leave 😂🤢
So…
Trump 2.0 = Pandemic 2.0?
History has a grim sense of humor 🐦⬛😷
Trump 2.0 = Pandemic 2.0?
History has a grim sense of humor 🐦⬛😷
November 27, 2024 at 1:44 PM
So…
Trump 2.0 = Pandemic 2.0?
History has a grim sense of humor 🐦⬛😷
Trump 2.0 = Pandemic 2.0?
History has a grim sense of humor 🐦⬛😷
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Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇
November 19, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇
Behold!
“Populism” circa 2024:
Dumbass rich white fake-“alpha” men eating McDonald’s on a private jet
“Populism” circa 2024:
Dumbass rich white fake-“alpha” men eating McDonald’s on a private jet
November 17, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Behold!
“Populism” circa 2024:
Dumbass rich white fake-“alpha” men eating McDonald’s on a private jet
“Populism” circa 2024:
Dumbass rich white fake-“alpha” men eating McDonald’s on a private jet
@thedailyshow.com
Like during the Bush years, The Daily Show is 💯 doing the best political analysis right now
Their irreverent humor and satire 😂 + brains 🧠 + sprinkling of swear words 🙊 gets at common sense and truth in ways that are beyond the reach of most mainstream pundit robots 🤖
Like during the Bush years, The Daily Show is 💯 doing the best political analysis right now
Their irreverent humor and satire 😂 + brains 🧠 + sprinkling of swear words 🙊 gets at common sense and truth in ways that are beyond the reach of most mainstream pundit robots 🤖
November 15, 2024 at 3:25 PM
@thedailyshow.com
Like during the Bush years, The Daily Show is 💯 doing the best political analysis right now
Their irreverent humor and satire 😂 + brains 🧠 + sprinkling of swear words 🙊 gets at common sense and truth in ways that are beyond the reach of most mainstream pundit robots 🤖
Like during the Bush years, The Daily Show is 💯 doing the best political analysis right now
Their irreverent humor and satire 😂 + brains 🧠 + sprinkling of swear words 🙊 gets at common sense and truth in ways that are beyond the reach of most mainstream pundit robots 🤖
Amazing….how soon is the next State of the Union address? 🤔
Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
November 15, 2024 at 4:43 AM
Amazing….how soon is the next State of the Union address? 🤔
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Anyone you see on your timeline right now praising RFK Jr. is a person you never need to take seriously on anything ever again.
It is difficult to overstate just how extreme, conspiratorial, and insane RFK’s views are, on vaccines, microchips & beyond. He’s Alex Jones in a suit.
It is difficult to overstate just how extreme, conspiratorial, and insane RFK’s views are, on vaccines, microchips & beyond. He’s Alex Jones in a suit.
November 14, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Anyone you see on your timeline right now praising RFK Jr. is a person you never need to take seriously on anything ever again.
It is difficult to overstate just how extreme, conspiratorial, and insane RFK’s views are, on vaccines, microchips & beyond. He’s Alex Jones in a suit.
It is difficult to overstate just how extreme, conspiratorial, and insane RFK’s views are, on vaccines, microchips & beyond. He’s Alex Jones in a suit.
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You better fucking subscribe to The Onion. This is the kind of thing we will do with your money.
It allowed us to buy InfoWars. Now help us staff it.
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Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
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November 14, 2024 at 2:13 PM
You better fucking subscribe to The Onion. This is the kind of thing we will do with your money.
It allowed us to buy InfoWars. Now help us staff it.
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Also, part of the reason we did bought InfoWars is because people on Bluesky told us it would be funny to buy InfoWars. And those people were right. This is the funniest thing that has ever happened.
November 14, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Also, part of the reason we did bought InfoWars is because people on Bluesky told us it would be funny to buy InfoWars. And those people were right. This is the funniest thing that has ever happened.
Wow, Laurie Anderson is just incredible. Check out her recent performance of C. P. Cavafy's (alas, always timely) poem, "Waiting for the Barbarians."
“Why isn’t anything going on in the senate?
Why are the senators sitting there without legislating?
Because the barbarians are coming today.”
“Why isn’t anything going on in the senate?
Why are the senators sitting there without legislating?
Because the barbarians are coming today.”
Laurie Anderson's Mind-Blowing Performance of 'Waiting for the Barbarians'
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November 14, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Wow, Laurie Anderson is just incredible. Check out her recent performance of C. P. Cavafy's (alas, always timely) poem, "Waiting for the Barbarians."
“Why isn’t anything going on in the senate?
Why are the senators sitting there without legislating?
Because the barbarians are coming today.”
“Why isn’t anything going on in the senate?
Why are the senators sitting there without legislating?
Because the barbarians are coming today.”
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Bluesky is currently the #1 free app on the Top charts 🔵
Twitter (X) is no longer in the top 25
Twitter (X) is no longer in the top 25
November 13, 2024 at 5:57 AM
Bluesky is currently the #1 free app on the Top charts 🔵
Twitter (X) is no longer in the top 25
Twitter (X) is no longer in the top 25
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why are they so angry after winning
November 13, 2024 at 11:26 PM
why are they so angry after winning
