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Shawn Gilmore

@gipperfish.bsky.social

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Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of the @vaultofculture.bsky.social (https://www.vaultofculture.com/), Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · Apr 25

Now's a great time to check out my piece from a few weeks ago, considering how resistance and revolution are imagined in MachineGames' Wolfenstein reboots, over at @vaultofculture.bsky.social:
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“We’re organizing for a revolution in America”: Remaking Resistance in Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (2017) — The Vault of Culture

In this feature, Shawn Gilmore argues that MachineGames’ soft reboot entries in the Wolfenstein franchise, set in a world overrun by Nazi machines of war, increasingly humble (both physically and em...

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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 2h

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything by AI. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed with AI, or buy anything sold or processed with AI, or process anything sold, bought, or processed by AI, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed by AI.

Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t want to generate or receive an email, document, manuscript, PowerPoint deck, post it note, grocery list, novel, film, or hit list that has been generated with AI.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 4h

I write because I love writing. I love writing even when I'm struggling with a writing problem that is killing me. Finding a way through that problem is both intensely rewarding and also helps me become a better writer. There is no reason for me to ever outsource that.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h

I think Illinois took the right approach here, which was to meticulously document what was going on with video and the written accounts of law enforcement officers. The claims of ICE are habitually hyperbolic and often flatly false. That conclusion is obvious to anyone who looks at the materials.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 4h

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 4h

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 5h

From the Supreme Court opinion granting Trump immunity:

"Investigative & prosecutorial decisionmaking is the special province of the Executive ... allegations that the requested investigations were shams or proposed for an improper purpose do not divest the President of [his] exclusive authority"

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Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 12h

Alpha Flight’s Vindicator surrounded by a jagged yellow aura. From her left hand extends a yellow circle. She’s clearly about to fire at something as she says, “I’m NOT in a very good mood!“

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 4h

'Sleeping Centurion,' (c1765) is a preparatory sketch for a sleeping soldier in Ubaldo Gandolfi's fresco of the Resurrection, painted in the eleventh chapel of the Portico di San Luca, Bologna. The fluid brushstrokes achieve a work of intimacy and great charm.

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David Aja @davidaja.com · 5h

As DC Vertigo is coming with his classic logo, let's all praise its designer, the great RICHARD BRUNING.
He was DC art director for years and thanks to him we have Watchmen, The Dark Knight or The Killing Joke designs...

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 10h

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 7h

Shout out to my wife @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social who is as intelligent as she is hot and refuses to take her foot off the necks of people who profit off of transphobic Gein propaganda.

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Ryan Murphy’s ‘Monster’ Tried To Avoid the Transgender Killer Trope. It Didn’t

Ed Gein wasn't transgender, but that hasn't stopped Hollywood from indulging in the transphobic narrative that inspired Psycho and Silence of The Lambs.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 10h

I might end up talking about this graph all day.

I think one thing Dems need to realize is that "Americans" are not buying into the "cities on fire" lies of this admin.

It's JUST Republicans. So if you're a governor of a solidly blue state, or a blue-city mayor, the national story is NOT YOURS.

Gallup poll showing a wild divergence in "is crime rising" over the past two years, w GOP at 90, independents at 68, Dems at 29.

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Vault of Culture @vaultofculture.bsky.social · 10h

A truly classic string board appears in Site (dir. Jason Eric Perlman, 2025): www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/20...

NST #1289: Site (2025) — The Vault of Culture

A truly classic string board appears in Site (dir. Jason Eric Perlman, 2025)

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 18h

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

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Black Lodge Cult @blacklodgecult.bsky.social · 13h

DAVID LYNCH for Vulture, 2018. Photo by Sandro Miller

An abstract David Lynch photograph taken by Sandro Miller in 2018

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A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 20h

Twin Peaks: An Owl in the woods.

An Owl in the woods. Twin Peaks S01E05 - The One-Armed Man.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 14h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 1d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

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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

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 22h

Goose meme with text of “Who were the Antifascists fighting in Weimar Germany?”

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 1d

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

The administration is aware of black bloc tactics, was vaguely aware of clown bloc tactics, but was completely unprepared for the advent of Animal Crossing bloc tactics.