rhetoric rob
@rhetoricrob.bsky.social
professor of rhetoric | focused on methods not politics | music lover | writer | neoliberal stomper | snuggler | teaches writing, music rhetoric, tabletop game rhetoric | cannot snap fingers
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I have a beloved family member who got polio just a couple years before the vaccine arrived. She has lived a long life with severe post-polio effects. Nearly all her siblings still voted for Trump
Me: Dr. Salk your vaccine will save so many children!
Salk: Well thank God
Me: Of course they will grow up
Salk: Well I hope so
Me: And get old
Salk: I guess?
Me: And eventually vote for lunatics who will try to stop your vaccine
Salk: what now
Me: And leave NATO
Salk: shit
Salk: Well thank God
Me: Of course they will grow up
Salk: Well I hope so
Me: And get old
Salk: I guess?
Me: And eventually vote for lunatics who will try to stop your vaccine
Salk: what now
Me: And leave NATO
Salk: shit
December 14, 2024 at 2:23 AM
I have a beloved family member who got polio just a couple years before the vaccine arrived. She has lived a long life with severe post-polio effects. Nearly all her siblings still voted for Trump
Can’t wait to see how @theatlantic.com frames this as another devastating blow to Biden’s legacy
December 12, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Can’t wait to see how @theatlantic.com frames this as another devastating blow to Biden’s legacy
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Important little thread 🧵
To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for:
1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;
1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;
December 6, 2024 at 6:11 AM
Important little thread 🧵
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We wanted to understand what’s going on in South Korea. So we talked to three Joe Rogan listeners at an Arby’s in Harrisburg
December 6, 2024 at 2:45 AM
We wanted to understand what’s going on in South Korea. So we talked to three Joe Rogan listeners at an Arby’s in Harrisburg
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The unnerving wait to figure out which side ends up being correct about this
LGBTQ activists: They're definitely going after Obergefell.
Many pundits and reporters: Stop being melodramatic with these exaggerated claims.
Them: We're definitely going after Obergefell.
Many pundits and reporters: Stop being melodramatic with these exaggerated claims.
Them: We're definitely going after Obergefell.
December 2, 2024 at 9:55 PM
The unnerving wait to figure out which side ends up being correct about this
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The meme I didn't know I needed
November 29, 2024 at 1:06 AM
The meme I didn't know I needed
November 29, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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REMINDER: Call your senators
Stop HR 9495:
This is not about terror
—it’s about Freedom Of Speech
vs consolidation of genocidal power.
Anti-zionism ≠ Anti-semitism
Call your senators
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
Stop HR 9495:
This is not about terror
—it’s about Freedom Of Speech
vs consolidation of genocidal power.
Anti-zionism ≠ Anti-semitism
Call your senators
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators
www.senate.gov
November 29, 2024 at 5:54 PM
REMINDER: Call your senators
Stop HR 9495:
This is not about terror
—it’s about Freedom Of Speech
vs consolidation of genocidal power.
Anti-zionism ≠ Anti-semitism
Call your senators
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
Stop HR 9495:
This is not about terror
—it’s about Freedom Of Speech
vs consolidation of genocidal power.
Anti-zionism ≠ Anti-semitism
Call your senators
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
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Please be mindful this season of people who are often forgotten during the holidays: people who prefer cake over pie. We deserve to be merry, too.
November 29, 2024 at 4:10 AM
Please be mindful this season of people who are often forgotten during the holidays: people who prefer cake over pie. We deserve to be merry, too.
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Take a moment and consider how many people had to sign off on the name for Capri Sun’s 2013 holiday flavor.
November 25, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Take a moment and consider how many people had to sign off on the name for Capri Sun’s 2013 holiday flavor.
yes. we need a rhetorical discussion of actual bias (spoiler: it’s neoliberal all the way down) and ditch these false left-center-right metrics from well-meaning journalist aggregators
I love NPR—yet I'd like to see journalism of the sort below end.
Don't pretend Americans disagree on an issue when half are just ignorant.
What we learned this year is that Americans have no idea what's going on with crime. If it drops, they think it's going up. If it's up, they think it's way up.
Don't pretend Americans disagree on an issue when half are just ignorant.
What we learned this year is that Americans have no idea what's going on with crime. If it drops, they think it's going up. If it's up, they think it's way up.
November 25, 2024 at 5:28 AM
yes. we need a rhetorical discussion of actual bias (spoiler: it’s neoliberal all the way down) and ditch these false left-center-right metrics from well-meaning journalist aggregators
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My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.
November 24, 2024 at 2:08 PM
My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.
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I used to love going to the salad bar but then they put up a sneeze guard and turned it into an echo chamber
November 23, 2024 at 10:08 PM
I used to love going to the salad bar but then they put up a sneeze guard and turned it into an echo chamber
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dunkins employee: careful, it's really hot
me: you too (spilling coffee everywhere trying to force the cup into a center console filled to the brim with pennies)
me: you too (spilling coffee everywhere trying to force the cup into a center console filled to the brim with pennies)
November 23, 2024 at 8:21 PM
dunkins employee: careful, it's really hot
me: you too (spilling coffee everywhere trying to force the cup into a center console filled to the brim with pennies)
me: you too (spilling coffee everywhere trying to force the cup into a center console filled to the brim with pennies)
just found out Mr. Mister were NOT saying “give me a reason” but kyrie eleison
November 24, 2024 at 5:42 AM
just found out Mr. Mister were NOT saying “give me a reason” but kyrie eleison
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The audiobook nonsense argument is pretty bad & there’s no need for it, but Naomi hit this point right on the nose.
I see we’re having that nonsense argument again, about whether #audiobooks are ‘real reading’. I’d like to shift the conversation to the question of why so few academic books are available in audiobook format. Because it seems to me that the former attitude is closely connected to the latter.
November 23, 2024 at 6:38 PM
The audiobook nonsense argument is pretty bad & there’s no need for it, but Naomi hit this point right on the nose.
#NewMusicFriday
Great day for new music, y’all. Of course Kendrick’s surprise LP drop (best since TPAB?)
Modernlove.’s lovely EP (fine-tuning that punky pop)
some solid post-hardcore with Common Sage
parody pro-lgbtq pop act Grant and Ash’s A Twink and a Redhead
Great day for new music, y’all. Of course Kendrick’s surprise LP drop (best since TPAB?)
Modernlove.’s lovely EP (fine-tuning that punky pop)
some solid post-hardcore with Common Sage
parody pro-lgbtq pop act Grant and Ash’s A Twink and a Redhead
November 23, 2024 at 7:34 AM
#NewMusicFriday
Great day for new music, y’all. Of course Kendrick’s surprise LP drop (best since TPAB?)
Modernlove.’s lovely EP (fine-tuning that punky pop)
some solid post-hardcore with Common Sage
parody pro-lgbtq pop act Grant and Ash’s A Twink and a Redhead
Great day for new music, y’all. Of course Kendrick’s surprise LP drop (best since TPAB?)
Modernlove.’s lovely EP (fine-tuning that punky pop)
some solid post-hardcore with Common Sage
parody pro-lgbtq pop act Grant and Ash’s A Twink and a Redhead
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What is this, Jeopardy!? Just tell us what Mississippi’s capital city is.
November 20, 2024 at 8:22 PM
What is this, Jeopardy!? Just tell us what Mississippi’s capital city is.
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another generic first Bluesky post.
things seem nice here
things seem nice here
November 23, 2024 at 5:13 AM
another generic first Bluesky post.
things seem nice here
things seem nice here