Rob Topinka
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Rob Topinka
@robtoes.bsky.social
rhetoric & reactionary digital politics

recovering lurker

Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London.

report: http://tinyurl.com book: http://tinyurl.com/4rzymwuz pod: http://tinyurl.com/2jv923r
The NYTimes is out here defending the Great Replacement Theory as 'normal'

I've been calling this ambient extremism - a once obscure French far-right conspiracy is now so ambient that one of the last avatars of the liberal order defends it, mistakenly attributing its origin to American politics.
September 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
checking into the shared X account I made for students in my digital method class.

The account only follows the Met Office. Haven't clicked or searched on a thing.

Here's the first post in my For You page.

The 'this is fine' dog in the fire memes are getting too literal
January 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
created a research account on X for a digital methods class I'm teaching, and these are the top suggestions. what a time to be alive and posting.
January 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM