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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 1d

Shout out to anyone who listened to a lot of trance[]control on the old mp3.com circa 2001.

Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 20d

Look I know the world is falling apart in every way but can I at least be happy that this $2 CD has the magic ability to get me through the end of a long afternoon?

CD soundtrack to Alias, music composed by Michael Giacchino. Photo of Jennifer Garner and a white dude on the cover.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 29d

Woodhouse Mill, painting by Yorkshire artist Kate Lycett. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 28d

Almost posted this, figured someone else already had, opened the comments, and this was rightfully at the top. Well done.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 29d

so dishonored in the court

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 29d

Microwaving leftover pizza is an act of cruel optimism. Eating cold pizza is an act of reasonably attainable vice.

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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 29d

Never thought of it, but it seems like a kind/wise thing to do with no down sides.

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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · Sep 3

So apparently this album was written to simulate the artist's experience doing LSD in the forest, something I don't know anything about—but listening to this ambient song in headphones affects my body in strange ways: tingling, heaviness, etc. Unexpectedly powerful. open.spotify.com/track/4EIGit...

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open.spotify.com

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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's a little hard for me to believe that there was a time when people got meaningful office work done without access to recordings of Bach's cello suites.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Sep 1

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

www.nytimes.com

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Aug 23

The what?

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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · Aug 19

Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse than Death, beginning of chapter IV, p. 49.

Photo of book passage that reads: And listen to this:

"No matter where I am, and even if I have no clear idea where I am, and no matter how much trouble I may be in, I can achieve a blank and shining serenity if only I can reach the very edge of a natural body of water. The very edge of anything from a rivulet to an ocean says to me: 'Now you know where you are. Now you know which way to go. You will soon be home now.'

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onion person @junlper.beer · Aug 16

i’ll never get over how blatantly and proveably lying is one of the best political strategies of the modern age

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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · Aug 7

thanks to the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social you can now read through the entire run of one of the first video game magazines ever made

Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda

Preservationists at the Video Game History Foundation purchased the rights to Computer Entertainer, the first video game magazine ever written and uploaded it for free.

www.404media.co

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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · Aug 6

It happened again: I thought I could listen to Purity Ring while doing academic reading, but the music is just too too too captivating.

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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · Jul 23

Some of you, if you were revising an ugly 2014 video about rhetorical analysis for a student audience, would just start from scratch and make it look better, but haha nope I just rerecorded the narration and slapped it over the same PowerPoint visuals, too bad so sad: youtu.be/briea0LAfqI?...

What is a Rhetorical Analysis? (NEW narration in 2025)

YouTube video by Kyle Stedman

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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · Jul 11

Also btw is The Crow actually a good movie for well-adjusted adults?? I have NO IDEA.

Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · Jul 11

Maybe it's a mid-40s thing, but that pattern holds up for a lot of life: fannish love > lol > thoughtful reconsideration.

And I guess for things I thought were *silly* in high school, it's more: lol > thoughtful reconsideration.

The point is that thoughtful reconsideration is where it's at.

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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · Jul 11

Ah yes, I see, the life pattern is "listens to the score for The Crow because it's dark and moody" to "rolls eyes at young me for always liking things that were so dark and moody lol" to "hey this score is actually really good, should never have packed that CD away for so long."

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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · Jul 8

I'd like my first-year students to spend time exploring how the act of reading words compares to engaging with other forms of content (audio, video, etc.). Do you have any favorite readings / content / activities on that topic that you've used in class?

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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · Jul 4

Here's Kurt Vonnegut, speaking in 1974.

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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · Jun 25

I am so remarkably excited to learn that Jennifer Kabat has a new memoir out. _The Eighth Moon_ changed me deeply; can't wait to dive into that voice and place again.

Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Jun 25

"When you live in a place, you develop relationships with things in your environment. This feels true for me with the plants that I encounter. There’s this kind of magic hemlock forest that I live on the edge of. When you observe another creature intimately, it becomes a familiar."

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Jennifer Kabat Discovered Kurt Vonnegut’s Brother Caused Her Town’s Catastrophic Flood - Electric Literature

The author of “Nightshining” on connecting to place, Nabokov's blue butterfly, and America’s mid-century rainmakers

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Antonio Byrd @writesantonio.bsky.social · Jun 18

In light the Supreme Court decision on banning transgender care (🙄😒😑) this podcast series seemed cool. I only have listened to part one. Can also be found wherever else you listen to podcasts. Of course.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Protocol

Society & Culture Podcast · Series · A six-part podcast exploring the story of medical treatment for transgender young people — how the care began, the lives it changed, and the legal and political fi...

podcasts.apple.com

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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · Jun 12

Really, it's hard to imagine what this world would be without Christina Chong and Celia Rose Gooding there to make you cry whenever you need it, sheesh they're amazing.

a group of people are dancing in a room with a sign that says t on it

ALT: a group of people are dancing in a room with a sign that says t on it

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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · Jun 12

After a hard day (for me and the world), I watched the Strange New Worlds musical episode and am happy to report that it's still amazing, and is a helpful, emotional catharsis. Reporting in case it might help you, too.

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