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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 3h

Sports! (derogatory)

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 7h

Taking a break from grading papers to put together some IKEA bookshelves, like a modern-day Bo Jackson

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 7h

It’s easy to make fun of, but watching the president of the United States ask Andy Ngo and Jack Posibiec who the bad guys are so that they can be prosecuted for domestic terrorism is truly fucking terrifying. We have fallen a long way already.

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 8h

Oh look, the New York Times wrote an article about you

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 11h

It’s kind of amazing the similarities between my Gen Z students and middle-aged people online, in that both absolutely love to invent a hypothetical Gen Z caricature and roast the hell out of them

Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 11h

One thing I’ve learned from teaching college is that there’s no greater critic of the current generation than members of the current generation

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Chris Gonzalez @livesinpages.bsky.social · 15h

I have a new story out today @maudlinhouse.bsky.social! Writing it was heavily inspired by the increasing cost of groceries and general anxieties around money and trying to live a stupid little life!

Maudlin House @maudlinhouse.bsky.social · 18h

Tap It, Swipe It, Charge It by Christopher Gonzalez

maudlinhouse.net/tap-it-swipe...

Tap It, Swipe It, Charge It

This morning’s run to the ATM was harrowing. I dipped into savings! Seventh time this month. I tell Alicia all this in the middle of my second mojito. “Look, until the card declines it’s no one’s busi...

maudlinhouse.net

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, I take it back, Sum 41 is good now

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

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.

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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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of things to be irritated about with this Phillies series, but Taco Bell lodging Sum 41 into my brain is quickly climbing the list!

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 1d

I do feel like the underlying lesson of the class is "you can just do things, there aren't any rules."

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 1d

They settled on 2,500 words b/c we read @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social's story "Ghost" and they decided that was a length they liked--"kinda long, but without feeling long," so someone copy/pasted the text into Word to get an exact count, then rounded up. Editing!

Ghost by Kevin Maloney

originally published by Hobart, October 2014 re-animated by HAD, October 2021 Two days before Halloween I caught my wife having sex with my best friend Dave in a position we’d never trie...

www.havehashad.com

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 1d

My editing & publishing class at Temple will be opening soon for submissions for a special online issue of Barrelhouse, with the theme "The Dirty Issue." Fiction & nonfiction up to 2,500 words, and up to 5 poems. Usual @barrelhouse.bsky.social contract & payment.

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 1d

It is!

Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 1d

Finally saw Uncut Gems, which was great, except for the part where I had, like, three full-story-arc stress dreams and woke up exhausted

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know if it's a geographical divide or a cultural one, but I have learned that I cannot refer to a pizza as "a pie" without feeling like a fraud

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 3d

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Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 2d

Turned autocorrect off on my phone, which has been a surprisingly humbling experience

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 3d

and yet the guy who gutted it and laid off half the staff as they were unionizing keeps his job, huh. crazy how that works.

Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social · 3d

After a rough stretch, Quirk Books has been sold to Andrews McMeel Publishing.
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/10/quir...

Quirk Books Is Sold to Andrews McMeel - Publishers Lunch

Quirk Productions, which has been on an acquisitions pause since early this summer after “facing marketplace and operational challenges for the past few years,” has been acquired by Andrews McMeel Pub...

lunch.publishersmarketplace.com

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 3d

Whereas I would read something that kinda blew my mind and then lose way too much time either trying to imitate it or come to terms with the idea that my own "thing," whatever that was, could also be a worthwhile project.

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking about a friend from grad school who was very good at saying "oh, but that's not really my project" about writers/works she admired (or hated) as a way of not getting pulled into too many directions while trying to focus on her own work. And how that's probably a useful skill beyond writing

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 4d

Just popping in real quick to see if there are any recent updates on the ol' mortal coil, shuffling-wise

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

/4 Chappelle: did you ever notice how princes drive like THIS and Malaysian guest workers under the kafala system drive like THIS

Riyadh crowd: [rapturous joy]

Chappelle: y’all a great, this is free speech culture

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 6d

If this site ruins my enjoyment of waffles I’m taking it down with me

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