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Michael D. Dwyer

@michaelddwyer.bsky.social

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film, pop music, cultural studies // author, TINSEL AND RUST (oup 2025) and BACK TO THE FIFTIES (oup 2015) // both can't survive // michaelddwyer.com

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · Sep 7

Well, my author copies came this week, which means it is really real.

If you want to review it for a journal or a podcast, if you want me to talk to your class about deindustrialization or hollywood's perpetual search for lower production costs, or if you just think it's neat, please @ me!

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 1h

@mls.bsky.social this sucks bigtime

Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 2h

As someone whose time freelancing for MLSsoccer was a vital step in my career progression, and someone who generally gleans insight from the observations of others:

This sucks so hard.

MLS is using generative AI to write match recaps. Writers used to get paid freelance rates to do that. Hssssss.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 21h

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 20h

This little ass. Disappeared all day. I thought she snuck out of the house or curled up to die somewhere. Canceled plans to host an oktoberfest party. Walked around the neighborhood in the rain looking for her. Agonized about when to tell my partner. She was just hiding in the basement all day long.

Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 1d

Cosign, it rules. Also: I burned this on a cd for my dad, he'd cackle and sing "Celine Dion / Shoulda been on / THE TITANNNNIC" (and he liked celine!)

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

every single dem should be taking notes. this is how you message around trans issues

(of note: i believe he is the only cis candidate for office to have trans people consult on his lgtbq+ policy platform)

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Bob E. Brown @buhbaynium.bsky.social · 1d

What’s Jim Leyland like? What does he smell like? I would think it would be like a combination of Marlboro Reds and cherry lip gloss

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d

The idea is that you're supposed to "grow out of" your youthful dalliance with Rage Against the Machine or The Clash or whatever, in order to graduate into adulthood, when you simply resign yourself to How Things Are. But you were right all along to believe in all that shit!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

me steeling myself to go to the job i prayed to god for

ben affleck miserably contemplating the ocean

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 5d

"Why would OpenAI and Microsoft spend $23 million to give 'free training' on how to use AI to teachers? Because they love teachers? No. Because they want to get their products into public schools in an attempt to cultivate the education market." — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

Thinking of AI as a Social Problem

No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 3d

at least the worthless developers who bought the hilltop steakhouse site left the cactus wtf is this junk

Ken Reid @kennethwreid.bsky.social · 4d

They released the plans for the Kowloon redevelopment. Not a joke. Look how insane this is.

Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 4d

"Lump lingered last in line for brains" is such a pleasing lyric, i love it so much still

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 4d

among other things, this is why intergenerational friendships are the key to wanting to stay alive and present in the world as one gets older (and certainly the only way to make a meaningful life in a place like NYC past the age of, idk, 32)

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 5d

social media has made people feel a little too comfortable with being mean to strangers

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, it's impossible to know if all the tumult and dysfunction of the program from 2014-2019 chased him away or if he just never would have cared about the national team. A real enigma of a player, but what a player.

Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 5d

Just saw him play in person for the first time. Maybe the biggest 'what if' guy in usmnt history?

Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 5d

The greatest number 8 in MLS history, certainly since the expansion era kicked off.

A centerpiece on four different MLS Cup winners - very few players of any position can claim that status, but nobody else did it at three different clubs.

Tom Bogert @tombogert.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Columbus Crew midfielder and MLS legend Darlington Nagbe is retiring after the 2025 MLS season, per sources.

Nagbe, 35, is a four-time MLS Cup winner (2015, 2018, 2020, 2023) with three clubs (Portland, Atlanta, Columbus).

One of MLS's best-ever midfielders 👏

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 5d

It is not supportive to maintaining the fabric of society to say that everyone should have to bear the cost of stuff like crypto mining or AI data centers when neither are public goods and are damaging to the limited public goods we have left

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 6d

$16 billion. That's how much the PJM market monitor estimates that electricity ratepayers will pay via increased utility bills to subsidize interconnection of data centers owned by Big Tech. A massive give-away to some of the most profitable companies in the world.

www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers

New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.

www.eenews.net

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 6d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 6d

forum wars took over the government. the 10,000-page thread spilled out into the streets. people are getting their doors blown open and hogtied so that nerds can win an online argument. they tanked the dollar and fucked the economy permanently to own you

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 6d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 6d

i watched the first episode and iirc it ended with the protagonist stealing a tip from a service worker and i was like "im good thanks"

Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve never seen one minute of Girls and I’m sure it’s great but I’m absolutely never gonna watch one minute of it (“I live in America, Louis, I don’t have to love it,” basically)

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 7d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 7d

I guess we disagree and that's ok

Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 7d

I specifically said 'separate from the firing' on purpose. I also disagree with the second part but people have different tastes.

Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 7d

As a fan it has been a very strange season imho. I mean, of course winning things is the goal. But between the way the org treated Jim (even separate from the firing), the maximum murderball style and Carnell's truly disturbing facial hair... Not even close to my favorite season.

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 9d

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Tom Bogert @tombogert.bsky.social · 9d

The parasitical business of ticket scalping for profit absolutely sucks

Herculez Gomez @herculezg.bsky.social · 9d

World Cup Final resale market is officially out.

Good luck getting your hands on a ticket. #2026WorldCup 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇨🇦

via @TeamStubHub

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