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David J.
@apocalypticdrift.bsky.social
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Reluctant literary scholar with a focus on the end (of the world)

American Studies at Universität Stuttgart
(Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)

Other research interests include video games (& ludology), zombie studies, sound studies, and dark ecology.
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”I‘d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.“
Close up shot of Mark Duplass in the film Creep.
June 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Bluesky: how it started vs how it’s going edition
Fifth Dimension on a stage surrounded by planets as they sing their hit song Age of Aquarius. Three dour white men wearing placards proclaiming the end times from left to right they read: the end is nigh; ye must be cleansed; and the end is nigh. There are two men in the background looking on with a sense of bemusement.
March 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Late to the game… did anyone do Peter Capaldi and Wittgenstein yet?
Photograph Portrait of Wittgenstein Photograph of Peter Capaldi wearing a dark blazer and light gray shirt
February 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Peter Falk would have been a shoe in for Derrida
Peter Fall sits, cigarette in hand, in front of a canvas which depicts Detective Columbo sketched in charcoal.
February 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Me subverting the word count in the footnotes.
Kendrick Lamar looking directly into the camera smiling immediately after addressing Drake during his Super Bowl performance of ‘Not Like Us’.
February 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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How I think I look when teaching / How I actually look
Adam Driver as Prof. Jack Gladney standing in an arched window delivering a lecture as sermon. His arms are raised in a prophetic manner. This is a scene from the film adaptation of Don Delillo‘s novel White Noise. Adam Driver crying hands clasped over ears. Scene from the film A Marriage Story.
February 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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In entertainment news… Twigs really hit it out of the park with EUSEXUA.
Album artwork for FKA Twigs’ latest release EUSEXUA featuring a close up of Twigs donning a range of most excellent piercings.
January 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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“We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr sits with hands clasps below his face.
January 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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David Lynch is recalling a day in 1981 when, he says, he "rescued" five Woody Woodpecker toys that he saw hanging up as he drove past a petrol station. "I screech on the brakes, I do a U-turn, go back and I buy them and I save their lives," he says seriously. "I named them Chucko, Buster, Pete, Bob and Dan and they were my boys and they were in my office. They were my dear friends for a while but certain traits started coming out and they became not so nice." Looking straight ahead he says with a grim finality: "They are not in my life anymore."
January 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Gilles Deleuze. Born 18.01.1925

One of the great minds with a lot to answer for.
Geordi La Forge meme with the words Deleuzians and Deleuze. The approval is towards the latter not the former.
January 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Merry Christmas One and All 🎄🎅🏼♥️
Christmas at the dinner table scene from Fanny and Alexander directed by Ingmar Bergman
December 25, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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You'll be visited by three spirits.

The three spirits:
Cher (middle) Dionne (left) Tai (Right) of the movie Clueless strike hard poses on a staircase.
December 24, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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You'll be visited by three spirits.

The three spirits:
Left to right: Vladimir Smicer, Xabi Alonso, Steven Gerrard. The European Cup (champions league) sits on top of Alonso‘s head as the other two hold it either side. Celebrating Liverpool’s 2005 CL victory.
December 24, 2024 at 10:13 AM
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Name a non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring
Mr Blobby (an entity that takes the form of a pink blob with polka dots, arms and legs) in Blobby House. Arms stretched.
December 23, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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How your email finds me…
A still from Chris Marker’s short film “La Jetée” in which a time traveller wears an eye mask that records his memories and movements through time. The film is told through a series of stills and montages accompanied by voice over narration and a subtle soundtrack. This creates temporal dislocations in the film which reflect the changes of time set against the paradox of there being no escape from the present.
December 16, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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Google‘s new quantum computing chip looks amazing
Neural Net CPU housed in a glass jar flanked by images of John and Sarah Connor.
December 9, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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I‘m at this weird point in the semester where everything seems to be going a lot faster than I am. It’s like the dream where you run but progress really slowly as if held back by an inexplicable ooze.
Screen cap from 1988 The Blob. A human is caught up in the ooze of the blob arms outstretched, failing to escape. Consumed by the noumena.
December 4, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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Meme depicting Karl Marx in the role of Troy McClure from the Simpsons in a parody of planet of the apes with the words: I hate each ruling class I see from bourgeoi-a to bourgeoui-zee
November 26, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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I refuse to join Bsky; I don’t want to help build an Umberto Eco chamber.
A solid portrait photograph of Umberto Eco.
November 17, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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The weekend is for… Große Kehrwoche
George Michael Junior of Arrested Development walks across a barren landscape with a sense of dejection
November 16, 2024 at 9:20 AM
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Did the protest thing (an important and privileged thing to do) yesterday.

Shouting at The Länd BW over their 2026-2030 Higher Education Funding Agreement (HoFV III).
Crowd of protesters gathered in Stuttgart protesting Higher Education Funding Agreement Crowd of protesters gathered in Stuttgart protesting Higher Education Funding Agreement
November 16, 2024 at 8:31 AM
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A picture of Hannah Arendt accompanied by the quote: Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
November 15, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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I even caught a case of the invalid handle
My Bluesky profile showing invalid handle bug.
November 14, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Meme depicting a person wearing three pairs of shirts in layers with the names of cultural theorists/philosophers Jameson, Žižek, and Fisher and the quote above “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than an end to capitalism.” Indicating the same sentiment repeated over time with Jameson as the first author and Fisher as the third.
November 14, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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Me reading my paper back when I compare it to the abstract.
Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone from the film The Godfather with the caption “look how they’ve massacred my boy” adapted to say “look how I’ve massacred my boy” for the purpose of the joke.
November 13, 2024 at 12:17 PM