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Colin Dickey

@colindickey.com

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Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · Oct 20

Hello new followers it’s Spooky Season and also Election Time so perhaps I can interest you in some books on ghosts, UFOs & monsters, or our long history of conspiratorial politics?

Three books by Colin Dickey: Ghostland, The Unidentified, and Under the Eye of Power

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 7h

Baby in a placenta I know I know, it’s serious

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 11h

The Melancholy of Resistance

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 13h

Choose your sexuality

A 1930 magazine ad for Packard cars that includes the line: “with a wide selection of colors, gay or modest, as you prefer.”

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 21h

The fact that this is turning into OpenAI office space is such a depressing sign of the times.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21h

Oh no, my second-favorite store is closing :((( gothamist.com/news/rei-shu...

REI shutting down SoHo store, its only NYC location

The company's Paramus location is also closing.

gothamist.com

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Elizabeth Harper @cadaverformosus.bsky.social · 21h

“Use ai to teach critical thinking because ai can’t think critically and is bad for critical thinking so it’s the perfect thing to think critically about!”

ok, or hear me out, what if I used my course subject.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · Jan 31

Rather apt passage from the opening of Krasznahorkai’s The Melancholy of Resistance

To tell the truth, none of this really surprised anyone any more since rail travel, like everything else, was subject to the prevailing conditions: all normal expectations went by the board and one's daily habits were disrupted by a sense of ever-spreading all-consuming chaos which rendered the future unpredictable, the past unrecallable and ordinary life so haphazard that people simply assumed that whatever could be imagined might come to pass, that it there were only one door in a building it would no longer open, that wheat would grow head downwards into the earth not out of it, and that, since one could only note the symptoms of disintegration, the reasons for it remaining unfathomable and inconceivable, there was nothing anyone could do except to get a tenacious grip on anything that was still tangible; which is precisely what people at the village station continued to do when, in hope of taking possession of the essentially limited seating to which they were entitled, they stormed the carriage doors, which being frozen up proved very difficult to open.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 22h

This is good and cool

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23h

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

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MP Broache @mbroache.bsky.social · 1d

If you get called for jury duty, you have to do it

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

I had a really fun conversation with this mortician Victor M. Sweeney for his podcast series; one of the more fun interviews I've done in awhile, if you're interested:

Death And Storytelling | with Mortician Victor M. Sweeney + Author Colin Dickey

YouTube video by Victor M. Sweeney, Mortician

www.youtube.com

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

It is a really good time to commit a federal crime, you probably won’t get caught

Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 1d

🚨A quarter of all FBI agents have been assigned to immigration enforcement www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

Slowest of claps

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

It’s also important to flood social media with this jury nullification toolkit so that potential jurors (You?) read it before they become actual jurors.

beyondcourts.org/sites/defaul...

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

Alas @highway62.bsky.social beat you to this one:

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 2d

There's more of gravy about you than the grave. Original line of prose do not steal.

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

Every single day we are presented with incontrovertible evidence that Donald Trump is not mentally fit for office and the media, the GOP, and most of the Democrats, entirely ignore this.

bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We call them the water drugs. The drugs that come in through water. They're not coming. There are no boats anymore. Frankly, there are no fishing boats. There are no boats out there period, if you want to know the truth. Does anybody go fishing anymore?"

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about the “compact” for higher education

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

You gotta keep at it, one night is not enough, being a writer is about *discipline*

Mon Mothman @gswilkinson.bsky.social · 2d

I scoffed a whole bag of haribo one night recently but it just gave me cramp.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

“My muse,” I say to a stick of butter

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 3d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 3d

That’s fair! So much of live phish for me is a real “you had to be there”

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 3d

Even their own!

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 3d

Oh good god there’s a Phish cover of this song…friends I do *not* recommend giving it a spin

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 3d

Really starting to get the sense that some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 3d

Fun story: in 1920 the Irish Republic loaned the Bolsheviks $25,000, who gave them as collateral the Romanov family jewels. For three decades, until the loan was repaid, these jewels were kept secret behind a fireplace in an unassuming house: 15 Marino Crescent—the birthplace of Bram Stoker.

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