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Tobias Wilson-Bates

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Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · May 26

Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about gathering all 17 William Morris lovers together in a single online location!

William Morris giving you leaves and flowers like a boss!

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 6h

Too much singing for me

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 6h

a man in a superhero costume is standing in front of a blackboard with the words `` you and me '' .

Alt: a man in a superhero costume is standing in front of a blackboard with the words `` you and me '' .

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 7h

This is actually an inverse scene of his arrival in hell, but I like the phrasing quite a bit 😅

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 7h

The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.

Farewel happy Fields
Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang’d by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less then he
Whom Thunder hath made greater?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 7h

Woah!!!

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 9h

elmo is surrounded by flames and the words one of us are above him

Alt: elmo is surrounded by flames and the words one of us are above him

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 10h

Bars

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 14h

This seems hard to believe…given that Blackstone Inc. is only 40, KKR is 49, & Bain Capital is 41.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 18h

THE MEDIAN AGE OF A U.S. HOME BUYER NOW SITS AT A RECORD HIGH OF 61 YEARS, PER NAR.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11h

Among the many humiliating losses in November 2024 was the inexplicable election of this guy

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 15h

"Stop he's already dead" Simpsons' meme but it's George Eliot destroying Moby-Dick

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 13h

Enough characters for the first volume of a Dickens novel

Joke dog looking at you to help you appreciate the joke

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12h

Generation naming is hilarious, “these people are named after letters, and these others by their proximity to the new millennia?”

“And those ones?”

“Oh! They were named after their parents fucking so hard that the population went exponential!”

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 13h

Enough characters for the first volume of a Dickens novel

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14h

So angry that the landing page isn’t the illustrated Joseph

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 15h

here we go again

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21h

It clearly wounded you in a way that has left you forever in pursuit

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21h

No one misses polls more than you

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Classic Brontë fan behavior

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 1d

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single monster in possession of great loneliness, must be in want of a female with whom he can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for his being.”

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Why not just make one?!

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Not to worry, a young Swiss scientist has been diligently crafting a solution

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Austen is like your favorite memory relived with the vivid pleasure of looking back on a life well lived. Shelley is like being possessed by an alien parasite that changes your ability to understand the dimensions of time.

Just depends on your preferred vibe.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Austen is a goddess and I would fight a bear to defend her good name, but she’s not the Goth Queen of the Spiders and Myth-maker who carried the black calcified heart of her drowned lover

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

The great pleasure of life is in not needing to choose between them.
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(Shelley)

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 1d

You can only pick one. I’m sorry.

Jane Austen or Mary Shelley

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