David Lydon-Staley
@dlstaphilly.bsky.social
Associate Prof. Annenberg School for Communication at Penn. Curiosity, time, brains, substance use, health comm, D&D, stories 🏳️🌈 he/him
Congrats to @xinyiwang.bsky.social on defending her dissertation, "Investigating Environmental and Biological Factors that Shape our Curiosity for New Information", today! 🎉
April 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Congrats to @xinyiwang.bsky.social on defending her dissertation, "Investigating Environmental and Biological Factors that Shape our Curiosity for New Information", today! 🎉
“But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a real son, a real kid brother, a real husband, a real wife. Jim wasn’t a substitute for anything. And there is no substitute for Jim, if you’ll forgive my saying so, anywhere.” #booksky 📚💙
March 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
“But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a real son, a real kid brother, a real husband, a real wife. Jim wasn’t a substitute for anything. And there is no substitute for Jim, if you’ll forgive my saying so, anywhere.” #booksky 📚💙
Mega Mart asking the important question:
March 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Mega Mart asking the important question:
This is why we need inter generational friendship because how am I gonna win bingo that has H.R. Pufnstuf as a square?
March 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is why we need inter generational friendship because how am I gonna win bingo that has H.R. Pufnstuf as a square?
Come on National Park!
March 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Come on National Park!
I’m in the desert
March 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I’m in the desert
“Not so long ago his thoughts ranged more unpredictably, over a longer list of subjects. He suspects he’s becoming a dupe, the willing, febrile consumer of news fodder… It’s an illusion, to believe himself active in the story. Does he think he’s contributing something, watching news programmes…?” 📚💙
March 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“Not so long ago his thoughts ranged more unpredictably, over a longer list of subjects. He suspects he’s becoming a dupe, the willing, febrile consumer of news fodder… It’s an illusion, to believe himself active in the story. Does he think he’s contributing something, watching news programmes…?” 📚💙
“To allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk. It means allowing yourself to be open, to be exposed, to be hurt. It is the human equivalent of the dog rolling on its back - I know you won’t hurt me, even though you can.” 📚💙 #booksky
March 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
“To allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk. It means allowing yourself to be open, to be exposed, to be hurt. It is the human equivalent of the dog rolling on its back - I know you won’t hurt me, even though you can.” 📚💙 #booksky
Was walking Stacey this morning and someone passing said: “that’s a cute dog! Well, it’s ugly, but it’s cute.” 💀
February 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Was walking Stacey this morning and someone passing said: “that’s a cute dog! Well, it’s ugly, but it’s cute.” 💀
“”You been looking right through women…your entire life! You don’t stop to consider what’s going on inside of us. No, not at all! Why do that, shit for brains? What would be in it for you? That’s why you didn’t bother to notice lesbians have been helping make your world go round…”” 📚💙 #booksky
February 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
“”You been looking right through women…your entire life! You don’t stop to consider what’s going on inside of us. No, not at all! Why do that, shit for brains? What would be in it for you? That’s why you didn’t bother to notice lesbians have been helping make your world go round…”” 📚💙 #booksky
“I always feel as if I don’t really know people unless I’ve gone to bed with them; in the same way I’m disappointed by novelists who leave out the sex scenes because they’re embarrassing or “irrelevant” or technically too hard to write convincingly.” Devoured this 📚💙 #booksky
February 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“I always feel as if I don’t really know people unless I’ve gone to bed with them; in the same way I’m disappointed by novelists who leave out the sex scenes because they’re embarrassing or “irrelevant” or technically too hard to write convincingly.” Devoured this 📚💙 #booksky
“…it’s also why we need poems, I think: they exist in a different relationship to attention and to time; it’s impossible … for harried readers checking their phones, to see and feel what’s happening in them. Whole strata of reality are lost to us at the speed at which we live…”
February 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
“…it’s also why we need poems, I think: they exist in a different relationship to attention and to time; it’s impossible … for harried readers checking their phones, to see and feel what’s happening in them. Whole strata of reality are lost to us at the speed at which we live…”
It’s that easy! Proud of Stonewall Sports for recognizing that you can’t legislate our trans/non-binary friends out of existence. We’re here, we’re queer. Get used to it
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It’s that easy! Proud of Stonewall Sports for recognizing that you can’t legislate our trans/non-binary friends out of existence. We’re here, we’re queer. Get used to it
I’m sorry. But the school photographer came to my class and took these action shots and sent them to me and WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TELL ME THIS IS THE FACE I MAKE WHEN THINKING? One of my friends just said “Beaker” and like… accurate.
February 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I’m sorry. But the school photographer came to my class and took these action shots and sent them to me and WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TELL ME THIS IS THE FACE I MAKE WHEN THINKING? One of my friends just said “Beaker” and like… accurate.
Researching ereaders - I’m a physical book person but thinking about going digital at least for some books. And there’s a reader with ads?! Is nothing sacred? 😭
February 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Researching ereaders - I’m a physical book person but thinking about going digital at least for some books. And there’s a reader with ads?! Is nothing sacred? 😭
Started Dungeon Crawler Carl today and I am living 👏
February 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Started Dungeon Crawler Carl today and I am living 👏
“”How come they never describe the white characters in relation to foodstuffs and hot liquids? Why aren’t there any yoghurt-colored, egg-shell-toned, string-cheese-skinned, low-fat-milk white protagonists in these racist, no-third-act-having books?”” 💙📚
February 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
“”How come they never describe the white characters in relation to foodstuffs and hot liquids? Why aren’t there any yoghurt-colored, egg-shell-toned, string-cheese-skinned, low-fat-milk white protagonists in these racist, no-third-act-having books?”” 💙📚
I started using HappyFeed - a gratitude journaling app - because of *gestures around* and it’s basically just daily photos like this with notes like “I got a good hug from Stacey today”
February 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I started using HappyFeed - a gratitude journaling app - because of *gestures around* and it’s basically just daily photos like this with notes like “I got a good hug from Stacey today”
“”It’s too much, Mammy. I can’t be the one to save everybody all the time.”” 💔
January 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
“”It’s too much, Mammy. I can’t be the one to save everybody all the time.”” 💔
A college grad escapes small-town Ireland for Philadelphia’s Gayborhood. When he falls for another Irishman with dreams of returning home, he must confront his fear that coming out will tear his family apart, or risk losing the chance to live and love on his own terms #YouDeservepIt #Q #A #LGBT
January 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A college grad escapes small-town Ireland for Philadelphia’s Gayborhood. When he falls for another Irishman with dreams of returning home, he must confront his fear that coming out will tear his family apart, or risk losing the chance to live and love on his own terms #YouDeservepIt #Q #A #LGBT
Finally got around to this one in prep for my spring Adolescence & Media course
December 14, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Finally got around to this one in prep for my spring Adolescence & Media course
I’m basically a cowboy now 🤠
December 4, 2024 at 1:40 PM
I’m basically a cowboy now 🤠
And Stacey (the pug) is feeling bolstered by Vito’s win too
November 29, 2024 at 2:10 PM
And Stacey (the pug) is feeling bolstered by Vito’s win too