Tristan Schweiger
@tjschweiger.bsky.social
C18th studies. Academic worker. Instructional professor of English/Humanities. SEIU Local 73 steward. He/him. Cohost, @betterreadpod.bsky.social
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Love schizophrenic Chicago spring.
March 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Love schizophrenic Chicago spring.
Way to eat shit, hoss.
February 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Way to eat shit, hoss.
We are ruled by the most pathetic dipshits in human history.
February 8, 2025 at 2:48 AM
We are ruled by the most pathetic dipshits in human history.
I’m not saying you fully explain modern conservatism by chalking it up to deep-seated psychosexual hangups — but you’d explain a good 95 percent of it.
January 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I’m not saying you fully explain modern conservatism by chalking it up to deep-seated psychosexual hangups — but you’d explain a good 95 percent of it.
Still true, eight years running.
January 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Still true, eight years running.
First day slide for tomorrow
January 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
First day slide for tomorrow
Get a load of fucking Walter Shandy over here.
January 3, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Get a load of fucking Walter Shandy over here.
The boy wanted to watch Wizard of Oz (which somehow I’ve never seen in its entirety) and I just needed to look something up re: dates
January 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The boy wanted to watch Wizard of Oz (which somehow I’ve never seen in its entirety) and I just needed to look something up re: dates
Pretty metal sentence here in the Wikipedia Thirty Years’ War entry.
December 31, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Pretty metal sentence here in the Wikipedia Thirty Years’ War entry.
Good lord Gaskell is such a dipshit Victorian liberal. She’s just described someone losing their child to disease and starvation, and her main thought is to try to come at “agitators.”
December 25, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Good lord Gaskell is such a dipshit Victorian liberal. She’s just described someone losing their child to disease and starvation, and her main thought is to try to come at “agitators.”
This (epigraph in Mary Barton) is apparently a 19th-century nursery rhyme, and it makes me viscerally angry at how phoned in it is.
December 24, 2024 at 7:22 PM
This (epigraph in Mary Barton) is apparently a 19th-century nursery rhyme, and it makes me viscerally angry at how phoned in it is.
Leftovers pie.
November 30, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Leftovers pie.
Inordinately proud of this unit title for my upcoming work in lit/film course.
November 24, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Inordinately proud of this unit title for my upcoming work in lit/film course.
Late Friday night and still in collective bargaining, but I like the message my laptop is sending management.
November 2, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Late Friday night and still in collective bargaining, but I like the message my laptop is sending management.
Check out the hat my amazing colleague made me for our program’s “prom.” Yes, that is an albatross on the stern of the British ship. The pirates are winning, as they should.
May 25, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Check out the hat my amazing colleague made me for our program’s “prom.” Yes, that is an albatross on the stern of the British ship. The pirates are winning, as they should.
Wrote Shafik a little note. I know how much upper management loves hearing from alumni.
May 1, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Wrote Shafik a little note. I know how much upper management loves hearing from alumni.
One of my better Facebook posts.
April 15, 2024 at 10:34 PM
One of my better Facebook posts.
No, I hacked this. You do history as an historicist literary critic rather than an actual historian. Then it’s just image two all day long.
February 3, 2024 at 9:41 PM
No, I hacked this. You do history as an historicist literary critic rather than an actual historian. Then it’s just image two all day long.
374 years ago today, the English Parliament did the funniest possible thing.
January 30, 2024 at 2:43 PM
374 years ago today, the English Parliament did the funniest possible thing.
PowerPoint title slide means it's happening.
(And yes, I know the Delacroix painting isn't actually about the 1790s -- the long history of revolutionary iconography, man!)
(And yes, I know the Delacroix painting isn't actually about the 1790s -- the long history of revolutionary iconography, man!)
January 3, 2024 at 8:15 PM
PowerPoint title slide means it's happening.
(And yes, I know the Delacroix painting isn't actually about the 1790s -- the long history of revolutionary iconography, man!)
(And yes, I know the Delacroix painting isn't actually about the 1790s -- the long history of revolutionary iconography, man!)
November 12, 2023 at 2:02 AM
Not my usual teaching attire (unfortunately), but I’m also helping organize a big all campus unions rally today. Jane Austen says “workers of the world, unite.” ✊
November 8, 2023 at 3:12 PM
Not my usual teaching attire (unfortunately), but I’m also helping organize a big all campus unions rally today. Jane Austen says “workers of the world, unite.” ✊
Week 8 in my “Radical 1790s” course this winter! New, from @versobooks.bsky.social
October 18, 2023 at 2:40 PM
Week 8 in my “Radical 1790s” course this winter! New, from @versobooks.bsky.social
Happy birthday to me, Nietzsche, and Foucault.
October 15, 2023 at 2:14 PM
Happy birthday to me, Nietzsche, and Foucault.