Scott MacKenzie
@henrythe5thelement.bsky.social
He/him. UMiss Prof. 18th-Century literature, political economy, scarcity, & porridge
Pinned
This reactionary centrist idiocy is so vile and self-defeating. These topics are not distinguished because they are controversies. They are far right talking points continually raised and re-raised in order to devalue sophisticated critical analysis.
This thing appears to be real -- I photographed it myself, promise. When it appears in pretentious New York Bakeries, will it be named the Crozza? No! It will be named the Pissant. Copyright!
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This thing appears to be real -- I photographed it myself, promise. When it appears in pretentious New York Bakeries, will it be named the Crozza? No! It will be named the Pissant. Copyright!
Can you believe the absolute fucking grift of these people?
Uh, hi scott, we made a problem for you and now we have a great deal for you, where you can pay to make the problem go away. 🤦♀️🤦🤦♀️🤦🤦♀️🤦
Uh, hi scott, we made a problem for you and now we have a great deal for you, where you can pay to make the problem go away. 🤦♀️🤦🤦♀️🤦🤦♀️🤦
September 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Can you believe the absolute fucking grift of these people?
Uh, hi scott, we made a problem for you and now we have a great deal for you, where you can pay to make the problem go away. 🤦♀️🤦🤦♀️🤦🤦♀️🤦
Uh, hi scott, we made a problem for you and now we have a great deal for you, where you can pay to make the problem go away. 🤦♀️🤦🤦♀️🤦🤦♀️🤦
Jeezus, Chronicle. Let me help you with your headline: "Two Bonkers, Far-Right Organizations Have a Political Strategy to Mainstream Their Fucking Gonzo Fascisticism and We're Helping to Legitimate Them. Bless"
They Have a Common Criticism of Higher Ed. And They’re Arguing.
The Manhattan Institute and the Heterodox Academy disagree on whether higher ed can reform itself.
www.chronicle.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Jeezus, Chronicle. Let me help you with your headline: "Two Bonkers, Far-Right Organizations Have a Political Strategy to Mainstream Their Fucking Gonzo Fascisticism and We're Helping to Legitimate Them. Bless"
Spoiler alert! Hannibal does NOT rhyme with vegan.
July 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Spoiler alert! Hannibal does NOT rhyme with vegan.
Academics are all familiar with emails from their own institutions seeking donations, to their own institutions. (I wonder how that strategy would go down at a bank or Walmart). It’s bullying and craven. This week my institution has come up with this “opportunity”:
July 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Academics are all familiar with emails from their own institutions seeking donations, to their own institutions. (I wonder how that strategy would go down at a bank or Walmart). It’s bullying and craven. This week my institution has come up with this “opportunity”:
Thanks AI, part 7222: thanks for bringing us this new “family experience.” I do not think that my feedback would be valued
July 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Thanks AI, part 7222: thanks for bringing us this new “family experience.” I do not think that my feedback would be valued
Dear others,
Please enjoy the below graphic
Please enjoy the below graphic
July 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Dear others,
Please enjoy the below graphic
Please enjoy the below graphic
Dear academic administrators,
Sorry I haven’t written to remind you recently (I’ve been overwhelmed by the tasks you keep assigning me), but your job is to support scholarly work not the other way around.
Sorry I haven’t written to remind you recently (I’ve been overwhelmed by the tasks you keep assigning me), but your job is to support scholarly work not the other way around.
June 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Dear academic administrators,
Sorry I haven’t written to remind you recently (I’ve been overwhelmed by the tasks you keep assigning me), but your job is to support scholarly work not the other way around.
Sorry I haven’t written to remind you recently (I’ve been overwhelmed by the tasks you keep assigning me), but your job is to support scholarly work not the other way around.
Reading quiz for Philip Larkin seminar seminar:
1. Which way, according to Philip Larkin, do your parents fuck you?
a. up
b. down
c. sideways
d. over
2. Who fucked up your parents?
a. Taylor Swift
b. The patriarchy
c. fools
d. The Daily Telegraph
1. Which way, according to Philip Larkin, do your parents fuck you?
a. up
b. down
c. sideways
d. over
2. Who fucked up your parents?
a. Taylor Swift
b. The patriarchy
c. fools
d. The Daily Telegraph
April 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Reading quiz for Philip Larkin seminar seminar:
1. Which way, according to Philip Larkin, do your parents fuck you?
a. up
b. down
c. sideways
d. over
2. Who fucked up your parents?
a. Taylor Swift
b. The patriarchy
c. fools
d. The Daily Telegraph
1. Which way, according to Philip Larkin, do your parents fuck you?
a. up
b. down
c. sideways
d. over
2. Who fucked up your parents?
a. Taylor Swift
b. The patriarchy
c. fools
d. The Daily Telegraph
Yes, Alex Shieh is a gross privilege-wart, but haven't we been trying to ask a not entirely unrelated set of questions to and about our academic administrators and what they are doing with the "resources" for a long time?
March 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Yes, Alex Shieh is a gross privilege-wart, but haven't we been trying to ask a not entirely unrelated set of questions to and about our academic administrators and what they are doing with the "resources" for a long time?
Another racist climate change denier coming to our idyllic campus. This year, we're celebrating William F. Buckley Jr.
Thanks Declaration of Independence Center for the Manufacturing of Excellence, or whatever.
Thanks Declaration of Independence Center for the Manufacturing of Excellence, or whatever.
a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland with hearts in the background
ALT: a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland with hearts in the background
media.tenor.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Another racist climate change denier coming to our idyllic campus. This year, we're celebrating William F. Buckley Jr.
Thanks Declaration of Independence Center for the Manufacturing of Excellence, or whatever.
Thanks Declaration of Independence Center for the Manufacturing of Excellence, or whatever.
“Two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”
Without that skilled editorial staff, no one knows how to spell “two pillocks”
Without that skilled editorial staff, no one knows how to spell “two pillocks”
February 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“Two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”
Without that skilled editorial staff, no one knows how to spell “two pillocks”
Without that skilled editorial staff, no one knows how to spell “two pillocks”
Awesome! The first trailer for season 5 of For All Mankind has dropped!
Adventure to the Stars: Orange Cat Family Goes to Outer Space! 🚀🐱✨ #OrangeCatAdventure #SpaceCats
YouTube video by Meow Orange
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February 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Awesome! The first trailer for season 5 of For All Mankind has dropped!
@tedunderwood.me: What are you doing? What kind of discipline are you building that does not ask such a basic question? You better find out before these faith leaders do, or your credibility will be toast.
February 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
@tedunderwood.me: What are you doing? What kind of discipline are you building that does not ask such a basic question? You better find out before these faith leaders do, or your credibility will be toast.
Three conclusions that mainstream economists would instantly draw if they took their own analytical models seriously:
1. Market capitalism will bring universal prosperity; supply housing, health-care, nutrition, etc to all; and reduce inequality to insignificant levels within FUCKING NEVER years.
1. Market capitalism will bring universal prosperity; supply housing, health-care, nutrition, etc to all; and reduce inequality to insignificant levels within FUCKING NEVER years.
February 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Three conclusions that mainstream economists would instantly draw if they took their own analytical models seriously:
1. Market capitalism will bring universal prosperity; supply housing, health-care, nutrition, etc to all; and reduce inequality to insignificant levels within FUCKING NEVER years.
1. Market capitalism will bring universal prosperity; supply housing, health-care, nutrition, etc to all; and reduce inequality to insignificant levels within FUCKING NEVER years.
Kids! Ask your B-Skool prof this question: Hey prof! How come you’re so big on disrupting and revolutionizing but you never talk about disrupting the property/credit/exchange system?
February 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Kids! Ask your B-Skool prof this question: Hey prof! How come you’re so big on disrupting and revolutionizing but you never talk about disrupting the property/credit/exchange system?
Hey kids! Ask your B Skool profs: if you know so much about Bizness, why aren’t you a billionaire?
February 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Hey kids! Ask your B Skool profs: if you know so much about Bizness, why aren’t you a billionaire?
This cover has been stolen from Ariana Grande's bootleg album "I Think Johnny Cash is Stalking Me"
February 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This cover has been stolen from Ariana Grande's bootleg album "I Think Johnny Cash is Stalking Me"
This email just showed up at 10pm on a Friday night. Literal paraphrase: we are panicking and shitting our pants, like, literally running around the office screaming “strike me down with lightning dear lord, strike me now!”
February 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This email just showed up at 10pm on a Friday night. Literal paraphrase: we are panicking and shitting our pants, like, literally running around the office screaming “strike me down with lightning dear lord, strike me now!”
You heard that some FEMA trailers were being held up somewhere and a person born outside the US harmed a person born inside the US so you want to close down the whole system. But more than 1,000 extra-judicial police killings every year is just a few bad apples.
January 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
You heard that some FEMA trailers were being held up somewhere and a person born outside the US harmed a person born inside the US so you want to close down the whole system. But more than 1,000 extra-judicial police killings every year is just a few bad apples.
Darth Vader: Let me disabuse you of something. The view of Imperial Commanders operating as planetary genocidists is just completely wrong. That’s like, priority No. 5 or something.
January 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Darth Vader: Let me disabuse you of something. The view of Imperial Commanders operating as planetary genocidists is just completely wrong. That’s like, priority No. 5 or something.
If you don't Maintenance Phase, you don't know. Like, anything.
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Cafe Gratitude's The Abounding River boardgame explained
YouTube video by Emmy Fritz
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January 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If you don't Maintenance Phase, you don't know. Like, anything.
@yrfatfriend.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Just to reassure anyone concerned that American C.E.Os may be prioritizing their own virtues to the exclusion of effective business optimizing, Andreesen means a highlander-style contest where only 1 can be a good person. All others must die.
January 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Just to reassure anyone concerned that American C.E.Os may be prioritizing their own virtues to the exclusion of effective business optimizing, Andreesen means a highlander-style contest where only 1 can be a good person. All others must die.
"Disabuse" is to "abuse" as "inflammable" is to "flammable"
January 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"Disabuse" is to "abuse" as "inflammable" is to "flammable"
At least, on a day like today, we can comfort ourselves that the owners of the means of production are focusing the enormous productive resources of capitalism on making sure they are good persons.
January 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
At least, on a day like today, we can comfort ourselves that the owners of the means of production are focusing the enormous productive resources of capitalism on making sure they are good persons.