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Stephen "Kip" Tobin
@kiptobin.bsky.social
Assoc Adj Prof(e) of Mexican and Latin American literature and film, specializing in sci-fi, cli-fi, and posthumanism. Lover of song, animality, pranayama, narrative, and theory, infographics and mind-maps. Also digs felines and affect.
Pretty solid trip-hop madrugada mash.

My non-AI generated "goes well with" recommendations would be "Love Me Sweet" by Kid Loco and "Ethnic Majority" by Nightmares on Wax.
December 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Also: "Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out."
By DAVID S. GLOSSER

www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thanks for the recommendation and inside info.
December 20, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Wow, very cool. And I'm heartened to hear legacy /physical media is still going strong enough to put out / sell out new re-releases.

Modifying Marx, not everything solid melts into air - at least not yet.
December 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
some solid sci-fi there. surprised to see New Rose Hotel.
December 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The cinematography is quite interesting, often opting for long shots with a single camera and foregoing shot-reverse shots for dialogue. It turns up the immersive / engaging quality (for me at least).
August 31, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Stay classy, 'brush.
August 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Stating "strong evidence" while not offering any evidence at all. Well played, sir.
August 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Thank Noah Hawley, who has proven to be a master at taking great films / film franchises and reworking them into excellent television narratives. At this point, he has my unconditional support.
August 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Years ago Duck Duck Go was presented by the right as al alternative to Google, so this is no surprise.

Ad Fontes Media remains the best way to determine media bias, reliability, and fact-based reporting. Stay within the green/yellow rectangle.
August 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I believe this is what they call a "bubble."

See Gizmodo's "Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist" by Luc Olinga, published July 17, 2025
August 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
so climate change is a hoax then?

(joking...sorry, although some people do think like this)
August 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Congrats on the contract! I remember your mentioning it during UC Mexicanistas this past spring, so I'm very happy to hear it become official.

I wanted to be the first one to congratulate here in bsky, hence no comment over there. This way, it feels more valuable or impactful.
July 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
@fafnirjournal.bsky.social

Thanks so much for the review! I appreciated reading a careful consideration of my first monograph byMichael Pitts.
July 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Incredible that this quote was created over 30 years ago.
July 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Not to mention this irony of ironies.
July 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Ad hominem attack. An argumentatively (very) weak retort to a serious accusation, but also par for the course in these post-truth times.
July 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
What a great resource, Thanks for sharing.
June 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I've noticed a lot lately - that the news reports on extreme weather but makes no link to anthropogenic global warming and its major contributors. No wonder there's such a disconnect and no action, and why I feel like we're frogs in a pot water with the heat turned high.
June 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
sorry for your loss
May 31, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I've rewatched the whole series out of sequence to prep for pt 8, and really been enjoying them. With some overall misses, it really is the best action franchise (next to Bond) in a market diluted with mediocre-to-bad films.
May 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
May 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I wholeheartedly agree that Trump + enablers are destroying the US and world post-haste. But to be fair, on CNN the world has been ending since at least 9-11-01, if not before. Maybe a screenshot of their front page is not the best proof of the Trumpapocalypse.
April 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
To be clear, it's just one university, and at that, it's the richest in the world.
April 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM