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Chet Scoville
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Academic knuckleballer.
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Here come old flat top.
He come grooving up slowly.
He got joo joo eyeball.
He one holy roller.
He got hair down to his knee.
Got to be a joker he just do what you please.
The Pope, in front of a small crowd of clergy, looks as if he is singing into a microphone in front of him
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Fascinating review of a fascinating-sounding book. archive.ph/2025.11.21-1...
In this milieu, a coherent worldview was secondary to shared revulsions. A market had opened up for illiberal transgressions, no matter how banal and empty. According to Marx, cultural inertia accelerated this development. "We see how this cultural stagnation has political consequences," he writes, adding that the MAGA movement's "rejection of liberal values" had been taking shape in a reactionary subculture that seized on a vacuum in the mainstream. "This long-term project to rebrand conservatism as cool and transgressive succeeded precisely because we removed cultural invention as a potential countervailing force."
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I saw one hanging around near the back of my building once, but I don’t know if downtown Toronto counts as “the wild” exactly
Big brown owl perched atop a security camera, which is mounted on a brick wall
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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K just texted me this, and now you can see it too
Two still shots from “The Two Towers.” Theoden and Aragorn are talking in Edoras. Theoden: I know what it is you want of me, but I will not put up decorations before Thanksgiving. I will not risk early Christmas. Aragorn: Christmas time is upon you, whether you would risk it or not.
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Batman in silhouette on a rooftop, seeing the Bat-signal beam over Gotham City — except that instead of the Bat symbol, the signal features the face of the guy from the “Sickos” meme
November 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Cats are always a good bet
Two black cats lying next to each other, turning their faces to look at each other
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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A bit of what I said at the time:
All that said, the book has limitations. For example, while Berg and Seeber note the casualization of academic labour, they do so in little detail, and this notice does not extend far into their own recommendations. If full-time faculty decide to slow down, how will this affect less securely employed academics? Could a slow movement among full-time faculty make the problem of casualization, and, indeed, of corporatization, worse than it already is? What, indeed, are the armies of sessional instructors, who do not get paid if they slow down, supposed to do with this book's advice? A more detailed consideration of how and, indeed, whether slowness can work for people in multiple forms of academic work would improve matters; although the authors acknowledge their privilege as tenured faculty, the implications of academic hierarchies problematize their recommendations. Another objection might be that the slow movement is in origin an ethical consumer movement, based on individual choice. But if the "fast" academy is a product of neoliberal corporatization, then it is hard to see how actions based on such a model can form an effective resistance. The continued dominance of the global fast food industry suggests that the slow food model upon which this book is based has had, at most, only limited success; it may have improved the lives of some individuals, but surely it has not worked as a form of systemic resistance.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Repost with an iconic fictional band
The Mos Eisley Cantina band
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Two panel cartoon of a dog with a computer. First panel: the dog looks at the computer and says “What a lovely day on the inter—“. Second panel, the dog looks at the viewer with a faintly horrified expression and says “Good lord”
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Two black cats sitting next to me on a sofa. One is half-sitting up, semi-alert, while the other is lying on his right side sound asleep
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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I could smell the mustard and the onions
Sean Bean as Boromir, tragically dying as he speaks to Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn at the end of “The Fellowship of the Ring”
November 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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The Blue Jay cocktail. Here we go!
A shot glass filled with a baby blue, milky liquid
October 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Post something random or you’ll have an awful November
An art installation from 2014 at the sadly-no-more yearly “Come Up to My Room” show at the Gladstone Hotel. The installation is a series of lighted green cubes, stacked and piled together apparently at random, illuminating a darkened room. On the sides of one cube are images of the face of former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, in extreme and very undignified closeup.
October 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.
Lou Reed’s “New York”
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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“Still waiting”
A creepy blood spattered hotel room with the words “caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent.”
October 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Can’t recommend this book by @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social highly enough.
Cover image of “Together: Changes for a Better Now”
October 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Okay I just got home and realized that I was so brain-fried from last night’s game that these are the boots I was wearing all day
A mismatched pair of Doc Martens Chelsea boots: left, brown; right, black
October 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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It’s so beautiful 😭
2025 MLB postseason bracket, filled in, with the Blue Jays and Dodgers advancing to the World Series
October 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Pitch 7. Strike three. Cry about it.
The strike zone to Suarez, clearly showing that Bassitt’s final pitch was a strike.
October 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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You know the ones
Still image from The Simpsons. Bart’s skateboard lies upside down in a puddle at the bottom of a grungy grey stairwell. There is a door with a sign that reads “The Legitimate Businessman’s Social Club.”
October 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Tapping the sign again
A modified still from the Futurama episode “I Dated a Robot.” The narrator of the hygiene film “Don’t Date Robots” is saying “Don’t date robots!” next to a large caption that says “DON’T DATE ROBOTS!”
October 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Stills from Monty Python’s “Upper-Class Twit of the Year” sketch
October 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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The chasing goose meme. In both panels the goose is asking “Who did Antifa fight in the Weimar Republic?”
October 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Screenshot of the ALDS postseason bracket, reading “TOR leads, 1-0”
October 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Tapping the Futurama sign again
Still shot from the “I Dated a Robot” episode of Futurama where the narrator of the “Don’t Date Robots” hygiene film says “DON’T DATE ROBOTS!”
October 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM