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Tobias Wilson-Bates

@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social

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Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · May 26

Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about gathering all 17 William Morris lovers together in a single online location!

William Morris giving you leaves and flowers like a boss!

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 29m

Like, the wolf eats Red Riding Hood and Grandma, but when the woodcutter gets them out of the wolf’s belly suddenly they’re fully prepared with further horrific ways to kill the wolf. You can understand why this wolf had to be so practiced in subterfuge 🤔

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 32m

Original fairy tales were basically just horror cinema with some great jokes thrown in every so often to lighten the mood.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 33m

New live action Disney films where they put back all the stuff Disney pruned out of the original folk tales. Cinderella’s dad demands that she marry him, the Beast takes off his skin at night, Mowgli brutally arranges the death of Shere Khan, a passing king knocks up Sleeping Beauty.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, I see the misunderstanding, but I’m specifically referring to my anti fasciitis views with this moniker

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1h

Cyberpunk dystopias really nailed the dystopian future’s bizarre over abundance of confusing acronyms

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3h

Is THIS who you want writing your essay????

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1h

Well done

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2h

Student: I need 4 pages on the Odyssey by tomorrow

[Weird] Al: he’s just a small town boy, returning from the war in Troooo-oooy

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2h

Student: here’s my homework prompt

Al:

Student: well? Can you do the work??

Al: sure, kid, tellyawhat, give me a trillion dollars and I’ll get you a C

Student: only a C?!

Al: that’s what I said on my wedding night

*audience goes insane*

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2h

Student: I need some help

Al: don’t get married until see her mother, so that you know what you’re in for

Student: no, I mean, I need 1000 words

Al: believe me, once you see her mother, you’ll only need one—“goodbye”

*tidal waves of laughter from the audience*

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3h

Is THIS who you want writing your essay????

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3h

✊✊🦶

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, I see the misunderstanding, but I’m specifically referring to my anti fasciitis views with this moniker

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 5h

You can write all of their names on water in a pinch

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 6h

That’s true for the album itself, but I find the ephemeral longing of the cover image to be much more Keatsian

Taylor Swift’s tortured poets album cover

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 6h

Sounds about right 🤔

Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department but with Keats

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 7h

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 9h

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 7h

Me: (blubbering) not that…not…that…

Ryan: (points at the moon)

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 7h

Stop trying to repackage Romanticism for the youth

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t think there are any easily scaleable solutions bc the assumption that nuanced education is achievable at a mass scale under any and all social conditions is itself a key part of the problem

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11h

We give assignments because they help students register and reflect on their own learning. If the classic assignment structure no longer performs that function than we need to shift what suite of tools help provide students with those insights.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11h

I remain convinced that any educational paradigm that stakes it’s legitimacy on “catching cheaters” has already fundamentally lost the plot on how to do education.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11h

The same thing is true of grades. These tools have worked well enough for long enough, but if they’re no longer serviceable then no amount of punishment and surveillance will preserve positive outcomes.

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