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Colin Dickey

@colindickey.com

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Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · Oct 20

Hello new followers it’s Spooky Season and also Election Time so perhaps I can interest you in some books on ghosts, UFOs & monsters, or our long history of conspiratorial politics?

Three books by Colin Dickey: Ghostland, The Unidentified, and Under the Eye of Power

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 11h

Slowest of claps

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 12h

It’s also important to flood social media with this jury nullification toolkit so that potential jurors (You?) read it before they become actual jurors.

beyondcourts.org/sites/defaul...

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 20h

Alas @highway62.bsky.social beat you to this one:

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 22h

There's more of gravy about you than the grave. Original line of prose do not steal.

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 20h

Every single day we are presented with incontrovertible evidence that Donald Trump is not mentally fit for office and the media, the GOP, and most of the Democrats, entirely ignore this.

bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "We call them the water drugs. The drugs that come in through water. They're not coming. There are no boats anymore. Frankly, there are no fishing boats. There are no boats out there period, if you want to know the truth. Does anybody go fishing anymore?"

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the “compact” for higher education

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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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 21h

You gotta keep at it, one night is not enough, being a writer is about *discipline*

Mon Mothman @gswilkinson.bsky.social · 21h

I scoffed a whole bag of haribo one night recently but it just gave me cramp.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 22h

“My muse,” I say to a stick of butter

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 22h

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

That’s fair! So much of live phish for me is a real “you had to be there”

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Even their own!

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Oh good god there’s a Phish cover of this song…friends I do *not* recommend giving it a spin

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Really starting to get the sense that some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Fun story: in 1920 the Irish Republic loaned the Bolsheviks $25,000, who gave them as collateral the Romanov family jewels. For three decades, until the loan was repaid, these jewels were kept secret behind a fireplace in an unassuming house: 15 Marino Crescent—the birthplace of Bram Stoker.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Nice!

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

It will be so much better than your 20s

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 4d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

It's giving:

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 4d

I truly love this exchange from that chapter

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 4d

This used to say “Charlie Kirk” but Brooklyn wasn’t having it

Sidewalk graffiti outside Prospect Park that says SAY HIS NAME! And then someone’s name that has been blacked out

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 5d

Went to see THE LONG WALK, you know, to relax. Which of course did not relax me AT ALL. Though, fun fact, I'd spoilered the ending for myself, but somehow got it wrong so the actual ending took me completely by surprise. Whole thrust of film pretty damn political. Hoffman & Jonsson both great.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 5d

It really seems like the core project of the whole tech industry right now is devaluing (and monetizing the devaluation of) everything that makes us human, including the experiences of love and grief

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

“Within seconds, the AI extrapolated from the limited amount of information that I had given it and, based on my somewhat intentionally emotional prompts, produced a personality that immediately reminded me of my father.”

ChatGPT Resurrected My Dead Father

My own private Frankenstein

www.theatlantic.com

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 6d

I had to read that sentence 4 times and I still don’t believe it.

One of my friends in CS and I were chatting about chat bots the other day and he said “they just answer organized word salad based on prompts; it’s not information” and that’s the most accurate description I’ve heard…

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 6d

Yeah

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 6d

Ask your doctor if the suicide-inducing sycophant is right for you

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