Andrew Ferguson
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Critic in residency at the Institute for Impure Science. Failure wizard. He/him.
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feel like at this point if you're still out there running interference for genocide and making excuses for military/police brutalization of students then i know all i need to about you and you probably know all you need to about me
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@OneShoup
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Saw him at an academic conference where someone pressed kinda aggressively whether he wrote “hard” SF & asked if he would’ve called it that if he lived a century ago & Ted thought carefully & said if he had lived a century ago he’d probably have died working on the railroads
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@JoshuaPHilll
congrats to elon for combining his support for multiple types of apartheid into a single action
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@_cingraham
@mobydickenergy
knew someone who worked that exact job for a couple decades who said they could not imagine a less demanding position
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@elmodernisto
The best ones unfortunately are the ones that will hurt for a long time, like “Ugly Girl Killed” or this very recent one with an all-time kicker
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gonna listen in to the town hall and try to see what possible justification they can offer for changing a rule so they could bring these folks to campus rather than just having a civil discussion with the student protestors
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@DanielPAldrich
@mel_hogan
not sure anyone has ever been as comprehensively owned as elon this past week or two
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@Cam_Oflage
@jakecasella
it's so difficult to break students of this, almost all of them have been taught to their tests & what the tests want is verifiable "facts" about narrative texts. so not just the enthronement of plot above all, also the dominance of "tropes" & simplistic readings of "symbols" &c
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@mcmansionhell
as a teacher of literature this makes me sad because it's already so hard to convince students that every single word—even the most seemingly innocuous detail—can be crucially important, and here's someone just like, nope
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@Liv_Agar
I just don’t think setup: cum / punchline: horse cum is really ever gonna produce a solid joke, one of those elements would have to change
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@Boringstein
@allahliker
as a university instructor, here to note that marketing is unfathomably easier to teach than almost any other subject you could name and the students are so easy to get high marks from all you have to do is not show open and obvious contempt for them at every turn
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I’m sure this will come as a huge surprise but turns out the cops were lying about being assaulted and now are holding a student without bond to cover up that lie and their own assault that predicated it
BREAKING: Geeta Patel, UVA Professor speaks out about the individual being held without bond at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.
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Happy Father’s Day, from your traumatically orphaned sons
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@InternetHippo
also who is going through 50 bucks of weed a day, is this just coke guys doing the Lucille Bluth banana thing?
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@JUNlPER
after all the jokey tweets Poland has actually seized its chance to do the funniest thing ever
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@neilhimself
Scooby Doo is the most horrifying fictional universe, because literally anyone you've come to love or care about could just be a scheming codger in a rubber mask.
How could you not check? And how could things ever be the same once you do?
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Riot gear! For tents! For students they know to be unarmed, and who they’ve had days to surveil as they made posters and read poetry
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The university line was that tents were the redline and they threatened students for days with it but they were full of shit and tents were allowed after all! So they changed the bylaws literal minutes before sending in cops to bust heads. The bile in my throat rn
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this fact needs to be reported in every single account of what happened today. calvinball for cop riots
after telling students their tents violated school policy, UVA administrators discovered the tents do not actually violate school policy so they simply changed the school policy without any notice whatsoever.
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@davidabbottbris
@DisabilityStor1
like so many things in academia it’s pointless hazing designed to pass along generational trauma for its own sake
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@MPPennekamp
@DavidAstinWalsh
Pynchon is one of the few contemporary novelists to pitch himself at remotely the level of weirdness required of his times
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@ChuckTingle
they are just about the only good cishet but also casually bi couple in film, impossible to be a part of that generation without having crushes on both Addams
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The rest of the student body was basically dormant. This group of students wasn’t just peaceful, they slept outside without tents, following a rule that didn’t even exist just to try to keep dialogue open with the university. Nothing about this had to happen.
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@KT_So_It_Goes
@chadloder
just remembering the ep of Better Off Ted where a black scientist got segregated out of the company by automatic sensors on doors, water fountains etc. that could only pick up white skin and how it did more interesting workplace comedy in 20 seconds than Dilbert has in 3 decades
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@NMamatas
we kept a curated list at the info desk of local authors who would come in and waste hours of people's time if allowed and would in particular seek out new employees who hadn't brushed them off before
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nice touch that the next most expensive is Chile, a country we did our absolute best to fuck up
The price of insulin in the United States is so high it has led to nearly 4 in 5 diabetics who rely on it taking on debt.
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@The_Wub_
Ok *but* Marion Stokes did that albeit far more systematically and since the networks routinely destroyed their masters her archive is literally the only documentation we have of just a huge number of news events as they were covered live
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@groenbot
obligatory
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@steinkobbe
@RottenInDenmark
As a scholar specifically writing a book about speedrunning, aesthetics, and labor, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for bringing this bounty to my attention
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@RottenInDenmark
as someone who teaches at UVA let me just say that nothing good has ever come of major media outlets using soft focus shots of the goddamn Rotunda
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@sgbuggs
@reclaimuc
wild of them to leave out that the enrollment gain (and kicking students out of dorms into distant hotels) was entirely due to giving scholarships to athletes at a school that neither needed nor wanted college revenue sports
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@dieworkwear
"well-known types of brown people"
you gotta get more bespoke in your brown people i guess
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in conspiracy classes to date I’ve screened The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor, Winter Kills, They Live, the X-Files Jose Chung ep, National Treasure, & the Da Vinci Code
what should I screen the next time or three (must be under 2 hours-ish to allow discussion time)
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@shrimpJAJ
@lukeoneil47
@sagaftra
it's wild how well you get the facial tics, especially that smile he pulls
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@BrandyLJensen
this is what they've been debating while the economics department goes around the world teaching client state dictators the most efficient ways to liquidate poor/indigenous populations
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@Elf_Chaser
the president of my great books school—where we all read so much aristotle that we have incredibly dorky boutique drinking game jokes about him—sent Shaq a letter congratulating him on the new nickname and the hopes it would raise the profile of the classics among basketball fans
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@RottenInDenmark
wait did he just tweet this but for real
Jif Slammed For New Ad Claiming Children With Peanut Allergies Just Lying For Attention
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@hamstertalk
@ryanqnorth
also how do you just, blanket statement, across the board, not like soup
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Student emails to apologize for missing Zoom session because driving home for family emergency, said they tried to tune in but couldn’t get a consistent signal while navigating car on interstate and y’all we have got to help get the cops out of these young folks’ heads & lives
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@zei_squirrel
def the best, cuaron saved the franchise after the wreck columbus left behind and the thanks he got was getting fired for a weak-sauce replacement
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@Kittenfish817
@HardSciFiMovies
Had a HS chem teacher who used a mic in class bc his voice was a quiet monotone. One day he left it on during a piss break. After the expected noises, he muttered to himself at the end, “No matter how much you jiggle or dance, the last few drops end up in your pants.”
Banner day
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@IwriteOK
it seems impossible this could continue and yet not only is it true, it’s accelerating
This is the stupidest day in American history, a record that will be broken by every subsequent day in American history.
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not fetterman specific but pretty well known around the metro area that if you're driving and see a car with congressional plates you stay way the hell away from them because they literally do not care about a single other human being on the road
Sen. John Fetterman is at fault for a car crash he was involved in over the weekend, according to a report from Maryland State Police.
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@lib_crusher
just politely asking every nurse who comes into the room to put the pillow over his face, they laugh it off, "oh mr. carter, you're so sweet"
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@semaforben
@letsgomathias
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@HuffPost
guess they found a topic that’s a little too forbidden
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@house_house_
@oscar_moralde
looking forward to the GOTY edition with all the making-of documentaries and concept art, DLC mission packs, various character skins, interviews with the townsfolk and the goose, etc
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I tracked down the Hackers novelization and it is spectacularly bad, isolated screenshots just aren’t enough, probably gonna end up giving it the
@ryanqnorth
Back to the Future treatment
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@SilentSamIAm
@gerrycanavan
making a career out of making presentations at Christian family festivals called “Frog and Toad are F*****s” where I just jangle keys at them for 20 minutes at a stretch
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@cwellmon
and absolutely nowhere to be seen the next day when Nazis encircled a black church hosting an interfaith prayer meeting and beat a young black man half to death in the cops’ very own parking garage
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@jbouie
somehow they still manage to sanitize him by leaving out the knife he was carrying to threaten the student with, and that he traveled from several states away to do it. what a dipshit
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@sethharpesq
a major drug trafficking ring operating out of fort bragg? hold on let me find my surprised face it’s around here somewhere
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@suspiriadam
@victoriabyard
As well as they managed to wrap it up in the end, I really, really needed all 5 seasons of that show. Like nothing else ever on TV, probably like nothing else ever again.
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@AllezLesBoulez
@Very__Regular
Bibi’s gonna have to go into exile back in the Philly suburbs
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@Esqueer_
seems fitting that the article immediately before it on their feed is about a youth pastor / elementary school teacher getting busted for CSAM
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@abndesigns
have read this so many times in the past hour and my favorite thing is the implication that modern YA fiction and in particular the whole dystopian subgenre exists to condition readers against adult engagement with actual radical fiction of any stripe
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can’t stress enough how much this would’ve resolved itself by letting them pitch tents for a week or 2 till graduation. you could’ve easily just pretended to treat with them, oh, sure, we’ll take up divestment next meeting 🙄that’s all it would’ve taken. but you sent in riot cops
Riot gear! For tents! For students they know to be unarmed, and who they’ve had days to surveil as they made posters and read poetry
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@EmilyGorcenski
issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to him"
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@MenshevikM
@gerrycanavan
something I think about almost every day: an old boss who dealt in rare coins & bullion saying watch out for anyone advertising the sale of precious metals etc bc the cost of the ads comes out of the amount they pay; the bigger the ad buy, the more they expect to fleece you for
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wrote an article draft about AI demonology esp. parallels between the summoning of nonhuman intelligences in ceremonial magick & AI queries and the urgency of warding against malevolent emergence in both. original outlet wasn’t interested but lmk if any of the rest of you are
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an evocative, mysterious, well-assembled twitter thread put together by a user named Dildo Gaggins really feels like a throwback to a bygone days on twitter dot com
On March 22, 1977, Charles Morgan disappeared after dropping his daughters off at school. Three days later, he showed up at his house with plastic handcuffs on his wrists and ankle, unable to speak, and handed his wife, Ruth, a note claiming he had been abducted and tortured.🧵
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At my Videogames & Videography class exhibition, where my first-years, most of whom have never done any video editing previously, are all debuting their video essays on Kentucky Route Zero.
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god it is just this, over and over and over again
Elon Musk: *slams dick in car door*
Musk Fans: Masterful gambit, sir
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@WritNelson
I still haven’t recovered from the knowledge that the Grimace was meant to represent a taste bud
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@julianfeeld
at least this one isn't someone pretending they bought the house their parents gave them? i dunno, i dunno anymore
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@RottenInDenmark
funny to hear from the guy responsible for introducing the normies to milking porn
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@IwriteOK
the idea that some sort of continuity of lore is the central task of storytelling is a really distinct contemporary sickness that needs stamping out
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@GuerillaV7
@AndreaAHarris1
@InternetHippo
yeah you gotta asterisk it c*sgender or similar which just goes to show they could do this with actual slurs if they wanted to
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@RobertSkvarla
only question is whether they threatened her directly or just limited themselves to steady drive-bys past wherever she lives
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@SAMOYEDCORE
always thought it was wild in WWZ that the solution was provided by bringing the architect of South African apartheid in to give them the ok to just cut off huge masses of the population from any chance of survival
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