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Colin Brown

@colinmbrown.bsky.social

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AssocProf and UPD at Northeastern Poli Sci: immigration, representation, parties, Europe (esp. NL), pedagogy, SoTL. Co-editor: PS Educator. Intro Comparative Politics textbook w/Cengage. Chaotic Neutral. J! non-champion. Bad jokes. Erstwhile Oregonian.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · Oct 11

Looking through my old skeets in order to make a meaningless, silly pun and accidentally finding great teaching resources that I'd forgotten about, is about as on-brand as I get.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 35m

You got lucky. You don't know how it feels. Don't come around here no more.

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 37m

We're in the middle of survey design so I'm curious how cringe the college students find it and how much it's bubbled up b/c of course I'm working it in to the lecture

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 40m

Sometimes when you stare too long into Duo, he stares back into you

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 42m

On a scale of 1-10, how 6/7 is 7-11?

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 1h

Oh so you hate drizzles?

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 17h

I mean, I don't know if he watched the game specifically but he lived in New York it's not unthinkable

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 17h

Alexander Kerensky watched the Mets win the World Series

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 19h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 1d

As the brilliant Michael Kinnucan points out, it's more than a bit strange that there's a debate over whether New York can afford universal childcare. New York already has universal childcare! Every single child is cared for by somebody. Small children are never left home all day by themselves.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

"meme" is short for memento mori

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Wait Star Wars, that's the Georg Lukács joint right?

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 1d

You, what do you own the world?
How do you own disorder?

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Stan Veuger @stanveuger.bsky.social · 2d

Come to Harvard's Center for European Studies on Election Day (in the Netherlands) on October 29.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 3d

I think we're all relying on Robert's prosciuttorial discretion here now

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d

Being a podcaster costs $40 for a decent mic and $18 per month for hosting. The hard part is having something interesting to say. Get a degree in that!

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 4d

What's the worst that could happen? You discover a book that completely shakes your understanding of reality revealing a powerful interconnectedness with the broader human project of meaningful life calling into question a number of received foundational values?

Brian's Ghostly Visage @priorplanning.life · 4d

Seems sus...

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 4d

🎵Welcome to the land of fame, excess (echoed "excess" several times)🎵

Creepy kindly elder: "Oh, you'll fit right in"

Fade and repeat chord in minor transposition

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 5d

Today is a public holiday in Germany to celebrate reunification. Seems like the perfect day to once again recommend this amazing book on the rather incredible chain of events leading up to the opening of the Berlin wall!

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Aug 14

Just finished "The Collapse" about the precise events that led up to the opening of the Berlin Wall -- struggle within the Soviet Bloc and demonstrations in Saxony (most prominently Leipzig), bureaucratic miscommunication, and the chaotic and improbable events in the night itself.>

Cover of "The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall" by Mary Elise Sarotte. Cover shows a person peering through a crack in a wall covered in graffiti

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Hertie School @hertieschool.bsky.social · 6d

The Hertie School mourns the passing of Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology, an extraordinary scholar, teacher and colleague.

We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 5d

A sad gritty remake of Perfect Strangers:

Lonely Herders in the Building

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 5d

a tv show about an apartment complex where neighbors endorse each other's books:

only blurbers in the building

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not "mad". Please don't put it in a highly visible article that I wrote myself that I'm "mad" (obviously that other thing)

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Literally making up someone to get mad at on the Internet. But not mad, another thing, obviously

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 6d

Nah man just call me John XI, "Mr Pope" is my dad

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Personalized abridged versions of Anna Karenina with the buyer's name worked in as a character. The reviews won't be good, but at least they'll all be unhappy in their own way.

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry that ChatGPT doesn't work any more and also blew up its own servers; I asked it to summarize and analyze the Necronomicon for me.

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 6d

1993 (4th grade): I am shown the hard copy Oregon State course catalog. Blown away by the idea of so many things that anyone can study, I am immediately in love with the idea of "curriculum" and "electives"

2025: I submit the 6th draft of basically identical changes in Courseleaf and sigh *deeply*