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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier

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Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. Americanist. „Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social. https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · Nov 12

Actually very proud to announce that I am doing a thing: a new book series called "TV Matters" with Intellect! Television / media / pop culture scholars, take note and get in touch if you wanna write about TV! Please share far and wide.

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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings!

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 9d

This Atlantic piece on AI and dating works oddly well with my review

www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...

And besides: Would you really want human connection to be so straightforward that a machine could crack it, just like that? For now, love evades understanding—which means that finding someone will remain, much of the time, a pain in the ass. It also means that when a connection is made, it will be so distinctive that no one ever could have predicted it.

Yet despite that, that film has a happy ending, and All of You just offers heartbreak. Both however seem to arrive at the same conclusion: that love isn’t something you can plan, or even worse, artificially create. At a time of Tinder, Hinge and Bumble, and now, the terrifying addition of people falling in love with chatbots, that seemingly trite message arguably holds newfound value.

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 8h

Or have some of your peers know. I think you may be overestimating the parents role when it also includes people in their early 20s who may long be at college or similar

Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 8h

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

WGA Urges CBS News Staffers Not Respond to Bari Weiss Memo Until Company Provides More Info on Purpose of Email (EXCLUSIVE)

The Writers Guild of America, which represents employees at CBS News, told members at the company to not respond to an email sent to staff by Bari Weiss, The Free Press founder who this week was appoi...

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 8h

I also had vastly different opinions on things like this 15-20 years ago it‘s also just life experience, I mean they have a lot more online access than even I did too so they do get more opinions than their parents

Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 9h

I also wonder if the trend to buy merch way oversized is just rehashing baggy clothes from the 90s and y2k or if there‘s something else to it given we‘re also getting body image bs from that time back but I just don‘t know enough about them kids these days I‘m afraid (I really mean the under 23s)

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 9h

Like not only do some people not recognize metaphors about anal (I hope they‘re just too young and that‘s fine!!) but there‘s just sth about how that generation (and alpha) skews prudish while still loving her music & are often anti alcohol while she does ads for Johnnie Walker & has drinking songs

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 9h

Unfortunately the algorithm on Instagram and TikTok is compelling me to think about Gen Z fans of Sabrina Carpenter and their relationship to sex and alcohol as well as body image cause there is A LOT GOING ON

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 11h

Which thanks now makes me realize just how much 27 Dresses kinda lifts from it just that nobody else is Julia Roberts

Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 11h

Tbf there‘s also Runaway Bride

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 11h

Watching 27 Dresses for the first time in a while. Thoughts will end up on @infrontofira.bsky.social!

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 12h

SAG-AFTRA is continuing negotiations re: AI and I wish we‘d think about this more in academia but then we‘d also need functioning unions 🙃 Or more scholars who actually consider this a threat. If you agree and haven‘t signed this…

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 17h

Yes thankfully - I just need to catch up with the work at some point; but at least that‘s the net positive, I can also grade that MA thesis on Sunday or do whatever reading my brain won‘t let me do today

Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 17h

I‘m doing 4 hours one way if you count it door to door and it‘s on time and I‘m lucky that a lot of semesters it wasn‘t every week and it‘s not during semester break and YET. I did back and forth yesterday cause I also want to limit overnights for various reasons and I‘m fucked today.

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 17h

I know there was a convo on this here before but it wasn‘t nearly big enough. Like it‘s not just the money and the time while you‘re on the trains / away from home for work it‘s also how much recovery time I have after. It used to be easier but I‘m older & post burnout, and it takes a serious toll.

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 19h

Would watch

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 19h

Instagram thinks I am interested apparently

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 19h

Committing crimes with Julie Andrews would be elite

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 19h

Omg lol I unfortunately get all of them but have you seen him „singing“ Sweet Caroline?! We reached new lows

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 19h

This is probably autocorrect for solving but I love either version 😂😂

Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 19h

@larkistin89.bsky.social

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 20h

I had lots of weirdass dreams tonight and one somehow involved being at the Emmys and watching a choir perform, then telling off Bavarian minister president Markus Söder when he wanted to join in singing

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 20h

Are there people over 30 who actually function after a day of long train rides, asking for a friend

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 23h

Yup

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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