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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier
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Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. Americanist. „Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social.

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · Nov 12
Actually very proud to announce that I am doing a thing: a new book series called "TV Matters" with Intellect! Television / media / pop culture scholars, take note and get in touch if you wanna write about TV! Please share far and wide.
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josserme.bsky.social
Endlich widmet sich jemand den wahren Opfern von Epstein: Die armen Akademiker, welche sich doch nur nach Freundschaft und Unterstützung sehnten

Ey nein, immer wenn ich denke, absurder wirds nicht mehr, kommt so was...schon gesehen, @smittermeier.bsky.social ?
moodboardultra.bsky.social herta müller ultra @moodboardultra.bsky.social · 1h
das kann doch echt nicht euer ernst sein
zeit push meldung: Z Interview Joscha Bach ist der bekannteste deutsche Forscher in den Epstein-Files. Warum er dessen Geld annahm und wie er ihn erlebte. jetzt
February 12, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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smittermeier.bsky.social
This week‘s #Shrinking recap is up on @thespoilist.bsky.social! Harrison Ford and the writers - this episode‘s script is by Bill Posley - made me sob again.

www.thespoilist.com/recap-shrink...
Recap: Shrinking – 3x03 – "D-Day" - The Spoilist
Directed by Zach Braff Written by Bill Posley It’s D-Day! Delivery day, that is. Liz of course does treat it like war, although her plan immediately falters when Ava goes into labor earlier than expec...
www.thespoilist.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:35 PM
smittermeier.bsky.social
Die meisten „linken“ Akademiker sind eigentlich Liberale - es geht nie um Protest oder Arbeitskampf der eine wirkliche Solidarität erfordern würde, das Ziel ist immer erstmal das eigene kulturelle Kapital. Diversität ist in dem Fall auch nur „kosmetisch“ zu verstehen, reine Sichtbarkeit.
ajournomento.bsky.social Louis Berger @ajournomento.bsky.social · 2h
Dieses Projekt wirkt tatsächlich so, als wäre der Aufstieg der radikalen Rechten nur eine weitere Möglichkeit für ,kulturelles Kapital‘. Beim Zentrum für politische Schönheit ist es ja ähnlich.
February 12, 2026 at 8:35 AM
smittermeier.bsky.social
Has any lit scholar colleague yet done a piece on the Booktokification of „Wuthering Heights“ (otherwise I‘m claiming this term and will use it for … something)
February 12, 2026 at 6:46 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
James Van Der Beek, who starred in the teen drama series "Dawson’s Creek," has died at 48
James David Van Der Beek photo, looking Our beloved James David Van Der Beek passed peacefully this morning. He met his final days with courage, faith, and grace. There is much to share regarding his wishes, love for humanity and the sacredness of time. Those days will come. For now we ask for peaceful privacy as we grieve our loving husband, father, son, brother, and friend.
February 11, 2026 at 7:36 PM
smittermeier.bsky.social
This week‘s #Shrinking recap is up on @thespoilist.bsky.social! Harrison Ford and the writers - this episode‘s script is by Bill Posley - made me sob again.

www.thespoilist.com/recap-shrink...
Recap: Shrinking – 3x03 – "D-Day" - The Spoilist
Directed by Zach Braff Written by Bill Posley It’s D-Day! Delivery day, that is. Liz of course does treat it like war, although her plan immediately falters when Ava goes into labor earlier than expec...
www.thespoilist.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:35 PM
smittermeier.bsky.social
Experiments conducted with A.I. system are producing fascinating results - we spoke exclusively with the people who are faking these results because they spent billions on a product nobody wants because it doesn‘t work.
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20h
Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg
February 11, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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averyedison.com
sigh
Post from Avery Edison: I wrote "I am alive" on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
February 11, 2026 at 2:28 PM
smittermeier.bsky.social
Jetzt muss man bei der Abrechnung von Ausgaben über die Uni auch noch (sonst geschwärzte) Kontoauszüge beifügen um nachzuweisen dass man was auch wirklich gezahlt hat. Wusste nicht dass Gastvorträge zur Geldwäsche taugen.
February 11, 2026 at 10:49 AM
smittermeier.bsky.social
It is the last lecture/commuting day of the semester and I have
- tried to open my uni letterbox with my house keys
- grabbed a knife to eat a rice bowl with
- forgotten the word „semicolon“ twice and in both English and German during two separate lectures
February 10, 2026 at 8:31 PM
smittermeier.bsky.social
She Bangs (Not Me)
- if Ricky Martin released a remix in 2026
February 10, 2026 at 7:54 PM
smittermeier.bsky.social
Laughing tears on the train cause of this @makesomenoiseshow.bsky.social episode
Screenshot of the Dropout App Three actors on a colorful game show set Jacob Wysocki a white tall man in a grey shirt making a V with his arms, Angela a white short woman making the same gesture and Kurt a white bearded man in a Hawaiian shirt standing in the background watching Caption: „Jacob, Kurt, and Angela Have Fun with Filters“
February 10, 2026 at 7:09 PM
smittermeier.bsky.social
!!!

variety.com?p=1236657969...
‘Chicken Shop Date’ Creator Amelia Dimoldenberg to Star in and Produce Romantic Comedy About Celebrity Interviewer for Orion Pictures (EXCLUSIVE)
'Chicken Shop Date' creator Amelia Dimoldenberg will star in and produce a romantic comedy about a journalist who has a romance with a celebrity.
variety.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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smittermeier.bsky.social
Imho you should focus on shunning perpetrators & protecting victims of abuse on your own campus instead of mining this monstrous scandal for a line on your CV, like, are you gonna publish with T&F? A public event and open access publication, maybe but…
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...
Academics and Epstein deadline for submissions: March 7, 2026 full name / name of organization: Academics and Epstein: Upcoming Book contact email: academics.and.epstein@gmail.com In the early stages of understanding the scope of the most horrifying criminal empire in American history, we are grappling with academia’s role in it. Several faculty members and institutions have been implicated. A few were genuinely innocent and ignored Epstein’s invitations, and some were willingly complicit in crimes against humanity. Epstein’s co-conspirators have fundamentally compromised the student-teacher relationship and the student-university relationship. In this collection, we will consider how academic policies, environments, funding structures, and toxic subcultures were vulnerable to Epstein’s manipulation. Epstein was a narcissist who collected academics like trophies because they lent credibility to his "philanthropy." He used the reputation of esteemed institutions to make himself sound trustworthy. Every academic who thought they were benefitting from a "friendship" was used as a stepping stone, an anecdote at cocktail parties, and a way to boost his own ego. Epstein threw in just enough pseudo-intellectual buzzwords (and funding) that these academics convinced themselves that he was legitimate. He slowly tested the waters of their morality, pushing boundaries of inappropriateness to see what he could get away with, and pursuing relationships with those who never said no to him. The actions of those complicit with Epstein have shattered the lives of their victims. The survivors and the families of victims are owed not just reparations, but the knowledge that 1) they have been heard, 2) their tormentors are being held accountable, and 3) the rest of us are working to make sure that this never happens again.
February 10, 2026 at 7:17 AM
smittermeier.bsky.social
Niemand:
Kassel Versität:
Mensa Tafel mit Tagesgerichten „Protein-Kick am Leguminosentag“ Close up der selben Tafel „Leguminosen-Tag“
February 10, 2026 at 12:58 PM
smittermeier.bsky.social
In der Kassel Versität Mensa läuft grad einer rum der aussieht wie Hartmut Rosa auf Wish bestellt
February 10, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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slavagreenberg.bsky.social
Knowing he funded transphobic research, I do want to see a peer reviewed academic paper denouncing all the “scholars” who received this money and used it against my community. But I don’t think that this book is trying to do that.
smittermeier.bsky.social Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 2d
Imho you should focus on shunning perpetrators & protecting victims of abuse on your own campus instead of mining this monstrous scandal for a line on your CV, like, are you gonna publish with T&F? A public event and open access publication, maybe but…
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...
Academics and Epstein deadline for submissions: March 7, 2026 full name / name of organization: Academics and Epstein: Upcoming Book contact email: academics.and.epstein@gmail.com In the early stages of understanding the scope of the most horrifying criminal empire in American history, we are grappling with academia’s role in it. Several faculty members and institutions have been implicated. A few were genuinely innocent and ignored Epstein’s invitations, and some were willingly complicit in crimes against humanity. Epstein’s co-conspirators have fundamentally compromised the student-teacher relationship and the student-university relationship. In this collection, we will consider how academic policies, environments, funding structures, and toxic subcultures were vulnerable to Epstein’s manipulation. Epstein was a narcissist who collected academics like trophies because they lent credibility to his "philanthropy." He used the reputation of esteemed institutions to make himself sound trustworthy. Every academic who thought they were benefitting from a "friendship" was used as a stepping stone, an anecdote at cocktail parties, and a way to boost his own ego. Epstein threw in just enough pseudo-intellectual buzzwords (and funding) that these academics convinced themselves that he was legitimate. He slowly tested the waters of their morality, pushing boundaries of inappropriateness to see what he could get away with, and pursuing relationships with those who never said no to him. The actions of those complicit with Epstein have shattered the lives of their victims. The survivors and the families of victims are owed not just reparations, but the knowledge that 1) they have been heard, 2) their tormentors are being held accountable, and 3) the rest of us are working to make sure that this never happens again.
February 10, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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animalarchaeology.com
DinoCon with a more prompt response to academics complicit in sexual abuse than uh, the entirety of academia.
February 10, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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newjorg.bsky.social
“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? I don’t want it to breathe or fuck for me; I want it to solve cancer,” Verbinski tells The Hollywood Reporter in support Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’s Feb. 13 theatrical release. “Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
February 9, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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smittermeier.bsky.social
Yes absolutely. The way it is now this could easily be people just trying to collect names on who‘s willing to publish on this. I‘m just so used to people in academia doing this kinda self serving bullshit in the name of „activism“ that that‘s what I suspect it is but it could be much more sinister.
February 10, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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rheinze.myatproto.social
Academics: radical in theory, *shrug emoji* in praxis since 1856
smittermeier.bsky.social Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 2d
Imho you should focus on shunning perpetrators & protecting victims of abuse on your own campus instead of mining this monstrous scandal for a line on your CV, like, are you gonna publish with T&F? A public event and open access publication, maybe but…
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...
Academics and Epstein deadline for submissions: March 7, 2026 full name / name of organization: Academics and Epstein: Upcoming Book contact email: academics.and.epstein@gmail.com In the early stages of understanding the scope of the most horrifying criminal empire in American history, we are grappling with academia’s role in it. Several faculty members and institutions have been implicated. A few were genuinely innocent and ignored Epstein’s invitations, and some were willingly complicit in crimes against humanity. Epstein’s co-conspirators have fundamentally compromised the student-teacher relationship and the student-university relationship. In this collection, we will consider how academic policies, environments, funding structures, and toxic subcultures were vulnerable to Epstein’s manipulation. Epstein was a narcissist who collected academics like trophies because they lent credibility to his "philanthropy." He used the reputation of esteemed institutions to make himself sound trustworthy. Every academic who thought they were benefitting from a "friendship" was used as a stepping stone, an anecdote at cocktail parties, and a way to boost his own ego. Epstein threw in just enough pseudo-intellectual buzzwords (and funding) that these academics convinced themselves that he was legitimate. He slowly tested the waters of their morality, pushing boundaries of inappropriateness to see what he could get away with, and pursuing relationships with those who never said no to him. The actions of those complicit with Epstein have shattered the lives of their victims. The survivors and the families of victims are owed not just reparations, but the knowledge that 1) they have been heard, 2) their tormentors are being held accountable, and 3) the rest of us are working to make sure that this never happens again.
February 10, 2026 at 7:42 AM
smittermeier.bsky.social
Imho you should focus on shunning perpetrators & protecting victims of abuse on your own campus instead of mining this monstrous scandal for a line on your CV, like, are you gonna publish with T&F? A public event and open access publication, maybe but…
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...
Academics and Epstein deadline for submissions: March 7, 2026 full name / name of organization: Academics and Epstein: Upcoming Book contact email: academics.and.epstein@gmail.com In the early stages of understanding the scope of the most horrifying criminal empire in American history, we are grappling with academia’s role in it. Several faculty members and institutions have been implicated. A few were genuinely innocent and ignored Epstein’s invitations, and some were willingly complicit in crimes against humanity. Epstein’s co-conspirators have fundamentally compromised the student-teacher relationship and the student-university relationship. In this collection, we will consider how academic policies, environments, funding structures, and toxic subcultures were vulnerable to Epstein’s manipulation. Epstein was a narcissist who collected academics like trophies because they lent credibility to his "philanthropy." He used the reputation of esteemed institutions to make himself sound trustworthy. Every academic who thought they were benefitting from a "friendship" was used as a stepping stone, an anecdote at cocktail parties, and a way to boost his own ego. Epstein threw in just enough pseudo-intellectual buzzwords (and funding) that these academics convinced themselves that he was legitimate. He slowly tested the waters of their morality, pushing boundaries of inappropriateness to see what he could get away with, and pursuing relationships with those who never said no to him. The actions of those complicit with Epstein have shattered the lives of their victims. The survivors and the families of victims are owed not just reparations, but the knowledge that 1) they have been heard, 2) their tormentors are being held accountable, and 3) the rest of us are working to make sure that this never happens again.
February 10, 2026 at 7:17 AM
smittermeier.bsky.social
Digitale Erinnerungsarbeit die scheinbar ohne KI auskommt. Solls ja geben.
February 10, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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olivia.science
"no employee should even be expected to defend or overlook actions that conflict so deeply with our own moral values"

MFW she has more backbone than centuries old universities
popcrave.com Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 2d
Chappell Roan is leaving her talent agency led by Casey Wasserman after he appeared in the Epstein files.
February 10, 2026 at 7:02 AM
smittermeier.bsky.social
As much as I loved all the music at the Super Bowl apparently all ads were fucking AI?
February 9, 2026 at 9:48 PM