Tom Robson
@thomasmrobson.bsky.social
Disney scholar.
Phillies fan.
Star Wars nerd.
Gaygaygay.
Co-author: Disney Parks & The Construction of American Identity: Tourism, Performance, Anxiety (Lexington Books, 2024)
Opinions are obviously my own and not those of my employer.
Phillies fan.
Star Wars nerd.
Gaygaygay.
Co-author: Disney Parks & The Construction of American Identity: Tourism, Performance, Anxiety (Lexington Books, 2024)
Opinions are obviously my own and not those of my employer.
This is worth listening to today. The link should take you to the best part of the speech.
Really. Listen to it.
youtu.be/sXId4YyP6SY?...
Really. Listen to it.
youtu.be/sXId4YyP6SY?...
JFK'S SPEECH IN AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS (OCTOBER 26, 1963)
YouTube video by David Von Pein's JFK Channel
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This is worth listening to today. The link should take you to the best part of the speech.
Really. Listen to it.
youtu.be/sXId4YyP6SY?...
Really. Listen to it.
youtu.be/sXId4YyP6SY?...
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Critical University Studies and Performance is up on the Vanderbilt UP site! Check out the cover and slate of contributors (including Marisa Williamson, whose performance is featured on the cover). Use HOLIDAY50 to get 50% off your preorder.
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650032...
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650032...
Critical University Studies and Performance – Vanderbilt University Press
Critical University Studies and Performance explores how we contend with issues of power, race, class, and gender in higher education, specifically as they r...
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Critical University Studies and Performance is up on the Vanderbilt UP site! Check out the cover and slate of contributors (including Marisa Williamson, whose performance is featured on the cover). Use HOLIDAY50 to get 50% off your preorder.
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650032...
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650032...
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put me on a fucking payment plan for the rest of my life if that's what it takes
how much would you pay to watch someone beat the shit out of Donald Trump? just a Worldstar style ass-beating, bare fists pummeling his face, blood everywhere.
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
put me on a fucking payment plan for the rest of my life if that's what it takes
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Is It going to happen tonight? Is It about to happen?
December 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Is It going to happen tonight? Is It about to happen?
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Whew. Roll out that 25th.
December 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Whew. Roll out that 25th.
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we are led by disgusting trash
The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors.
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
House passes bill to criminalize transition care for minors
The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related medical care
www.nbcnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
we are led by disgusting trash
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President currently feuding with a beloved American comedy icon who was murdered 24 hours ago.
Trump doubles down on his Rob Reiner attack: "I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person... He became like a deranged person, Trump Derangement Syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country."
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
President currently feuding with a beloved American comedy icon who was murdered 24 hours ago.
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Not only do I have a bottle of champagne, I have separate protocols for if It Happens while I'm in Philly or Toronto.
Philly people: if It Happens when I'm at home, I'm hitting Broad Street as if the Phils just won the World Series and I better not be alone.
Philly people: if It Happens when I'm at home, I'm hitting Broad Street as if the Phils just won the World Series and I better not be alone.
i think we should all commit ourselves to, at minimum, a national 3 day party When It Happens. one bottle of champagne in the back of your closet is no longer adequate. be prepared
December 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Not only do I have a bottle of champagne, I have separate protocols for if It Happens while I'm in Philly or Toronto.
Philly people: if It Happens when I'm at home, I'm hitting Broad Street as if the Phils just won the World Series and I better not be alone.
Philly people: if It Happens when I'm at home, I'm hitting Broad Street as if the Phils just won the World Series and I better not be alone.
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Adolis García is going to unplug Morgan Wallen from the aux in the Phillies clubhouse and it’s going to be like one of those shouting scenes from Invasion of the Body Snatchers
December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Adolis García is going to unplug Morgan Wallen from the aux in the Phillies clubhouse and it’s going to be like one of those shouting scenes from Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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The ravenous, all-consuming narcissism that has rotted the mind of this man requires that every event, every tragedy, every circumstance be ultimately about him. Others in the world do not exist as fully human; they operate only to validate Donald Trump. This is a gross display of mental illness.
Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer were murdered. This is how Trump decided to respond.
December 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The ravenous, all-consuming narcissism that has rotted the mind of this man requires that every event, every tragedy, every circumstance be ultimately about him. Others in the world do not exist as fully human; they operate only to validate Donald Trump. This is a gross display of mental illness.
And at 9:20am on Sunday, December 14, 2025, all the grades for the fall semester were finished.
December 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
And at 9:20am on Sunday, December 14, 2025, all the grades for the fall semester were finished.
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Phillies photoshops until baseball is back - December 13
December 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Phillies photoshops until baseball is back - December 13
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This team absolutely, categorically, REFUSES to be normal around milk
got banned from my friends discord for telling them that philadelphia phillies backup catcher garrett stubbs posted a video on tiktok of himself taking a shot of his wife’s breast milk
December 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This team absolutely, categorically, REFUSES to be normal around milk
We love an in-park protest action. We ultimately didn't include any of the previous labor actions in our book, but there's a nice history of them. Good for these workers.
December 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We love an in-park protest action. We ultimately didn't include any of the previous labor actions in our book, but there's a nice history of them. Good for these workers.
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He's in poor physical health
December 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
He's in poor physical health
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and the powers that be chose to put the inferior white player on this committee’s ballot over the superior black player. as it was, so shall it be.
Annual reminder that Lou Whitaker has a WAR 20 points higher than Jeff Kent and is not in the HOF.
December 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
and the powers that be chose to put the inferior white player on this committee’s ballot over the superior black player. as it was, so shall it be.
Well....at least this means Chase will get in eventually.
December 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Well....at least this means Chase will get in eventually.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar
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People are borderline psychotic about this dumb tech
December 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
People are borderline psychotic about this dumb tech
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if you’re just considering them as archetypes, “Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise have to reunite and work together to save the movie industry they both fell in love with” is actually a really good premise for a romcom.
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
if you’re just considering them as archetypes, “Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise have to reunite and work together to save the movie industry they both fell in love with” is actually a really good premise for a romcom.
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you: PhDs in the humanities should teach entrepreneurship
me: a early modern spy-themed chain restaurant called Aphra Behnigans
me: a early modern spy-themed chain restaurant called Aphra Behnigans
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
you: PhDs in the humanities should teach entrepreneurship
me: a early modern spy-themed chain restaurant called Aphra Behnigans
me: a early modern spy-themed chain restaurant called Aphra Behnigans
This is a total stab in the dark for my #phillies fan friends out there.
Ages ago (15+ years) the Phils sold this Phanatic ornament. My brother and his family had one they loved, but lost along with everything else in the CA fires last year. I can't find one anywhere online.
Anyone have any leads?
Ages ago (15+ years) the Phils sold this Phanatic ornament. My brother and his family had one they loved, but lost along with everything else in the CA fires last year. I can't find one anywhere online.
Anyone have any leads?
December 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This is a total stab in the dark for my #phillies fan friends out there.
Ages ago (15+ years) the Phils sold this Phanatic ornament. My brother and his family had one they loved, but lost along with everything else in the CA fires last year. I can't find one anywhere online.
Anyone have any leads?
Ages ago (15+ years) the Phils sold this Phanatic ornament. My brother and his family had one they loved, but lost along with everything else in the CA fires last year. I can't find one anywhere online.
Anyone have any leads?
Every semester you can expect someone in higher ed to post something snarky about the number of dead grandparents that inevitably pop up around finals.
I'd rather acknowledge the very real family emergencies and tragedies that our students face. I've had three in the last three weeks.
I'd rather acknowledge the very real family emergencies and tragedies that our students face. I've had three in the last three weeks.
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Every semester you can expect someone in higher ed to post something snarky about the number of dead grandparents that inevitably pop up around finals.
I'd rather acknowledge the very real family emergencies and tragedies that our students face. I've had three in the last three weeks.
I'd rather acknowledge the very real family emergencies and tragedies that our students face. I've had three in the last three weeks.
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i would write braindead junk essays and have a packing peanut for a brain too if my mom was a Halloween Horror Nights clown
December 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
i would write braindead junk essays and have a packing peanut for a brain too if my mom was a Halloween Horror Nights clown