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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 23h

Told all my “let’s catch up soon” friends—you know the type—we could “catch up” over fall break, and now that is fall break I’m kicking myself for making the promise. I understand why people send out yearly newsletters.

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 1d

big difference, right? 😂😂😂

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 1d

just wondering: how skewed are your perceptions of the world / life / people in general if all or most of your friends are professors

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 1d

@totalvibration.bsky.social posted this the other day, and I sent it to my husband and was like "wow, this is great! The best recent thing I have heard lately." And he told me it's fucking 20+ years old, "that's why I liked it so much. 😭😂

David J @damjef.bsky.social · 1d

I nearly missed this! Just bought from Bandcamp.

errolshotwax.bandcamp.com/album/love-t...

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 1d

Teaching Prufrock to gen eds on a day I'm being observed by my chair for the first time is probably not the smartest idea (it went well, actually!), but I did my teaching demo here on Beckett's "Breath." I guess my life is so boring these days that this is how I get my thrills. Anyway, cheers 🥂

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 2d

I have! It's been awhile. I think I should try it again.

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 2d

☺️

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 2d

I was psyched when we were in KY

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 2d

I love the Krogers with Murray's, but they don't carry this one! And we don't have any here, if they did.

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 2d

Both my dad and my beloved dog died in the fall--2020 and 2022, respectively--so it's not my favorite season in the way that it once was, but autumn still has vacherin mont d'or going for it. 🤤

I'm pretty jealous of anyone who can just buy it locally www.murrayscheese.com/dp/vacherin-...

Vacherin Mont d'Or – a woodsy, buttery, and silky cheese | Murray's Cheese

Hailing from Switzerland, the elusive and divine, Vacherin Mont d'Or, is a gooey, woodsy delight that’s produced from winter cow’s milk.

www.murrayscheese.com

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 3d

I love Coon Bid’ness so much!

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 3d

Greg Foat is my favorite when he’s being a) sleazy or b) unhinged on social media or bandcamp

toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 5d

Only took about three months to get the record player hooked up. First listen is very on brand. But it *is* fall.

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 6d

James was scandalized by the opening scene of Sweet Sweetback 😂

My guy is the sweetest prude of all time

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

www.thetimes.com

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 6d

What if you taught Watermelon Man as an adaptation of The Metamorphosis? My husband, decidedly not a Van Peebles fan, says all the students would drop the class immediately after that assignment 😅

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 6d

Any interesting takes?

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 7d

That’s a good enough take, but you can’t leave out the Bob Welch era 😜

toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 7d

We must celebrate all periods of FM.

a blurred image of a person 's face behind a white wall

ALT: a blurred image of a person 's face behind a white wall

media.tenor.com

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 7d

I mean I can’t think of a single FM era that has *nothing* to offer musically. This just always strikes me as an extraordinarily dumb take. Just pure posturing.

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t think anything makes me roll my eyes harder than some wannabe purist exclaiming that they only listen to pre-Lindsey and Stevie Fleetwood Mac. Oh, we get it: you have taste. You’re distinguished. Sure.

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 7d

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d

Posted by the President of the United States.

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 7d

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 7d

Happy birthday to weirdo Lindsey Buckingham. By god, I can’t help it; I love his sleazeball 70s style

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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 7d

Another bandcamp Friday, another chance to scoop JJT’s exhilarating DUNZA LP. Def check it out tothindustrials.bandcamp.com/album/dunza

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