Gunner Taylor
@gct.bsky.social
Looking for a second act in American academic life
Watched If I had Legs I'd Kick You last night and I think it's the most anxiety-inducing movie I've ever seen
February 1, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Watched If I had Legs I'd Kick You last night and I think it's the most anxiety-inducing movie I've ever seen
Disgusting
January 23, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Disgusting
Love to go to my local goop vendor for lunch and get a big bowl of various and sundry goops
January 15, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Love to go to my local goop vendor for lunch and get a big bowl of various and sundry goops
Freedom is when hamberder
There honestly cannot be a satire cutting enough to make fun of Americans. What the fuck do you mean the highest colonial ideal you could imagine was a parking lot with McDonald's on both sides
January 9, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Freedom is when hamberder
It makes me feel insane that all of this is happening while there's a movie in theaters named "Greenland 2: Migration"
January 9, 2026 at 3:49 AM
It makes me feel insane that all of this is happening while there's a movie in theaters named "Greenland 2: Migration"
You can't vote in the midterms if you've been murdered by the state
The only way we protect ourselves from ICE is by winning the midterms.
January 8, 2026 at 12:55 AM
You can't vote in the midterms if you've been murdered by the state
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starting to think Banned Books Week/Month/&c miiiiiight just be an excuse to reframe the teaching of relatively simple, basically canonical texts as something ~*radical*~
January 6, 2026 at 6:58 PM
starting to think Banned Books Week/Month/&c miiiiiight just be an excuse to reframe the teaching of relatively simple, basically canonical texts as something ~*radical*~
Well I've lived long enough to see someone try and sell a "I phone vintage"
January 6, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Well I've lived long enough to see someone try and sell a "I phone vintage"
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Loving America: good, normal behavior, aligns me with James Baldwin
Refusing to apologize for America: bad, freak behavior, aligns me with David Duke
Refusing to apologize for America: bad, freak behavior, aligns me with David Duke
I also love America and believe in its stated values.
And I understand that this pronouncement lands very differently when it comes from an organization that has intentionally been overhauled in order to curry favor with a jingoistic proto-fascist who says his opponents hate the country.
And I understand that this pronouncement lands very differently when it comes from an organization that has intentionally been overhauled in order to curry favor with a jingoistic proto-fascist who says his opponents hate the country.
Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor.
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
January 2, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Loving America: good, normal behavior, aligns me with James Baldwin
Refusing to apologize for America: bad, freak behavior, aligns me with David Duke
Refusing to apologize for America: bad, freak behavior, aligns me with David Duke
I read (and listened) to 110 books last year!
January 2, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I read (and listened) to 110 books last year!
Official accounts of the US government are fantasizing about "deporting" almost a third of the country, which just so happens to be almost the number of non-white citizens total
December 31, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Official accounts of the US government are fantasizing about "deporting" almost a third of the country, which just so happens to be almost the number of non-white citizens total
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giving this beautiful essay a Christmas Eve boost
This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
giving this beautiful essay a Christmas Eve boost
At first I thought this was a poem
December 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
At first I thought this was a poem
Love when I'm served something in a compostable dish and the restaurant doesn't have a compost bin
December 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Love when I'm served something in a compostable dish and the restaurant doesn't have a compost bin
Doesn't surprise me that this is the kind of "socialist" opinion that the Atlantic allows to be published. It's embarrassing to the left on purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Doesn't surprise me that this is the kind of "socialist" opinion that the Atlantic allows to be published. It's embarrassing to the left on purpose.
Ah yes, just "measure the time needed to earn the money to pay for a meal"
Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Ah yes, just "measure the time needed to earn the money to pay for a meal"
"a stock market for opinions" is something a stupid person makes up
December 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"a stock market for opinions" is something a stupid person makes up
Nothing has ever been more true about Philadelphia
This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
“I walk around Portland, and I go, ‘Fuck you, assholes. Portland is fine.’” - John Darnielle, @themountaingoats.bsky.social. We're proud to claim you as a Portlander, sir.
December 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Nothing has ever been more true about Philadelphia
Wake Up Dead Man is the second coming of Benoit Blanc (and Rian Johnson)
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Wake Up Dead Man is the second coming of Benoit Blanc (and Rian Johnson)
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I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
It's actually sometimes good to not be invited to something
www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/p...
Bush, Biden and former vice presidents honor Dick Cheney, while Trump, Vance snubbed for funeral invitation | CNN Politics
Political figures from across the aisle gathered Thursday in Washington, DC, for former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral — sending off a key figure of pre-MAGA Republican politics.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It's actually sometimes good to not be invited to something
www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/p...
Quiet Time! in the Labor Market
* WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC ADVISER HASSETT: THERE COULD BE A LITTLE BIT OF ALMOST QUIET TIME IN THE LABOR MARKET
@reuters.com #QuietTime
@reuters.com #QuietTime
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Quiet Time! in the Labor Market
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New insult to life itself just dropped
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
New insult to life itself just dropped