Michael Beck
@michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social
Mid-level university functionary. Views are my own.
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One of my favorite writers!
Remembering John O'Hara on his birthday 🎂
📷 Carl Mydans, 1962
"If you want to read a book by a man who knows exactly what he is writing about & writes marvelously well, read Appointment in Samarra."
- Ernest Hemingway
📷 Carl Mydans, 1962
"If you want to read a book by a man who knows exactly what he is writing about & writes marvelously well, read Appointment in Samarra."
- Ernest Hemingway
January 31, 2026 at 7:30 PM
One of my favorite writers!
NOEL COWARD! What are we even doing here if it’s not Noel Coward?
Obviously, I do not know how to put the diaeresis over the “e” in Noel Coward.
Obviously, I do not know how to put the diaeresis over the “e” in Noel Coward.
Do you have a historical figure you most wish got to be a poster? I feel like you must have a better answer than mine, which is Churchill. The guy started autobiography when he was 19 I think. And just never stopped. True poster.
January 6, 2026 at 9:54 PM
NOEL COWARD! What are we even doing here if it’s not Noel Coward?
Obviously, I do not know how to put the diaeresis over the “e” in Noel Coward.
Obviously, I do not know how to put the diaeresis over the “e” in Noel Coward.
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I am supposed to be a 'words' guy, yet I find that I lack the words to fully express the sense of rage and betrayal that I feel, having been raised to believe in the beauty of the United States as an - imperfect - pluralistic republic, to see these quislings try to turn it into a boring ethnostate.
December 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I am supposed to be a 'words' guy, yet I find that I lack the words to fully express the sense of rage and betrayal that I feel, having been raised to believe in the beauty of the United States as an - imperfect - pluralistic republic, to see these quislings try to turn it into a boring ethnostate.
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you there boy, what bullshit is this
December 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
you there boy, what bullshit is this
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very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
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“I don’t need this course” motherfucker you take your laundry home for your mom to do it. Shut the fuck up.
December 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
“I don’t need this course” motherfucker you take your laundry home for your mom to do it. Shut the fuck up.
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wish i could be cool and mysterious but unfortunately i can't shut the fuck up
March 11, 2024 at 7:12 PM
wish i could be cool and mysterious but unfortunately i can't shut the fuck up
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
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I am never more in my element than when talking about something absolutely nobody cares about.
October 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I am never more in my element than when talking about something absolutely nobody cares about.
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You never heard of this fucking guy six weeks ago. Six weeks! Just get another Guy!!
Look around. There's a Guy. Over there, another Guy. Now turn around...Guys. What do you think is around that corner? You guessed it: More Guys.
Look around. There's a Guy. Over there, another Guy. Now turn around...Guys. What do you think is around that corner? You guessed it: More Guys.
October 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
You never heard of this fucking guy six weeks ago. Six weeks! Just get another Guy!!
Look around. There's a Guy. Over there, another Guy. Now turn around...Guys. What do you think is around that corner? You guessed it: More Guys.
Look around. There's a Guy. Over there, another Guy. Now turn around...Guys. What do you think is around that corner? You guessed it: More Guys.
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“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy
September 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy
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[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit
September 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit
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we are in the Age of Enlightenment but for absolute dimwits
September 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
we are in the Age of Enlightenment but for absolute dimwits
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A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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i would prefer to not live in uppercase H History
September 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
i would prefer to not live in uppercase H History
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It's simple: we monetize crying
September 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It's simple: we monetize crying
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people’s medicine for fuel.
September 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people’s medicine for fuel.
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making college free as a means to harness educational polarization
Latinas might snap back to the Democrats. Particularly as more Latinas go to college. But working-class men without degrees are a staple of the modern right-wing coalition across the globe. Latino men are one of the groups least likely to have a college degree.
September 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
making college free as a means to harness educational polarization
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The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
August 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
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What a burden to be old enough to know who Dean Cain is
August 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
What a burden to be old enough to know who Dean Cain is
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ME, TENTING FINGERS ACROSS TBE TABLE: I am going to build a “Cracker Barrel of the mind”
MARC ANDREESSEN: Here is $50,000,000,000
MARC ANDREESSEN: Here is $50,000,000,000
August 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
ME, TENTING FINGERS ACROSS TBE TABLE: I am going to build a “Cracker Barrel of the mind”
MARC ANDREESSEN: Here is $50,000,000,000
MARC ANDREESSEN: Here is $50,000,000,000