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Ray Drainville
@raydrainville.bsky.social
I study the ways people use and interpret images.
It’s a pleasure to see you, too!
October 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I just gave a talk referring to this! It goes back even further. Carter wrote a GQ profile (May 1984), describing Trump's hands as "small and neatly groomed". Trump was so incensed he tried to buy all the copies of that issue. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump so upset by detail in GQ profile he ordered staff to buy up copies, writer says
The journalist wrote that Trump had ‘hands small and neatly groomed’ in his 1984 profile
www.independent.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Jesus, hasn't New College suffered enough?
April 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Shen-yi: I've taught about this! These are often referred to as "stereotypography"
March 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
!!! Good lord.
March 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Rather makes me wonder whether they thought you were a real human. Some people seem to think they’re just yelling at robots. It’s so easy to think that you needn’t try to interact when it’s just disembodied text.
March 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Eh, you didn’t give it enough time. They would have eventually
March 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
It is. In the other one you'd be hounded. Not sure what's the story is here, but I have long concluded that social spaces are poor venues for reasoned debate.
March 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
“Mistake”.
February 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If definitely goes without song
February 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Farm it out, man! Try the NYT, or then New Yorker
January 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I really think you should write this stuff up for publication.
January 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
That ticks a lot of boxes, to be sure
December 7, 2024 at 7:11 PM
I'd love to see your article!
April 12, 2024 at 12:13 PM