Nicholas Troester
@ntroeste.bsky.social
Once and future gentleman of leisure
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It’s giving “why doesn’t Cordelia lie to me like her sisters, I’m gonna destroy a kingdom about it.”
December 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It’s giving “why doesn’t Cordelia lie to me like her sisters, I’m gonna destroy a kingdom about it.”
I took a bunch of classes in literature and art history in college just because I wanted to, and all I got for my trouble was a rich inner life and an appreciation of the beautiful things human beings can do.
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I took a bunch of classes in literature and art history in college just because I wanted to, and all I got for my trouble was a rich inner life and an appreciation of the beautiful things human beings can do.
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@stephenkb.bsky.social In case you haven't read share.google/X6Iay6FStehf...
Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM
@stephenkb.bsky.social In case you haven't read share.google/X6Iay6FStehf...
Academia rewards good scholarship, not good people, and it sometimes shows. But I delight that the absolute best person I knew in grad school went straight to Princeton and has never left.
December 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Academia rewards good scholarship, not good people, and it sometimes shows. But I delight that the absolute best person I knew in grad school went straight to Princeton and has never left.
In grad school, I had a professor tell me (correctly, in my experience) that there’s a C paper hiding in every undergraduate essay, it’s just a question of how hard you have to look to find it. And, well…
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
In grad school, I had a professor tell me (correctly, in my experience) that there’s a C paper hiding in every undergraduate essay, it’s just a question of how hard you have to look to find it. And, well…
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What is your FOOD most take?
wait shit
go leave the room and come back in, fuck
wait shit
go leave the room and come back in, fuck
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
What is your FOOD most take?
wait shit
go leave the room and come back in, fuck
wait shit
go leave the room and come back in, fuck
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Fuck ICE.
November 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Fuck ICE.
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Woke 2 is gonna hit like Earl Thomas
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Woke 2 is gonna hit like Earl Thomas
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Fellow bitter southerners,
North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia all elected Democratic Governors. Georgia in 2020 wasn’t a fluke. South Carolina, Florida, Texas, All y’all of the y’allternative persuasion. Keep being loud. Keep getting into good trouble. Protect black folks and trans people. Vote
North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia all elected Democratic Governors. Georgia in 2020 wasn’t a fluke. South Carolina, Florida, Texas, All y’all of the y’allternative persuasion. Keep being loud. Keep getting into good trouble. Protect black folks and trans people. Vote
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Fellow bitter southerners,
North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia all elected Democratic Governors. Georgia in 2020 wasn’t a fluke. South Carolina, Florida, Texas, All y’all of the y’allternative persuasion. Keep being loud. Keep getting into good trouble. Protect black folks and trans people. Vote
North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia all elected Democratic Governors. Georgia in 2020 wasn’t a fluke. South Carolina, Florida, Texas, All y’all of the y’allternative persuasion. Keep being loud. Keep getting into good trouble. Protect black folks and trans people. Vote
“Are you just, like, casually reading Beowulf?!” —out here handing out candy to trick or treaters and making friends
October 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“Are you just, like, casually reading Beowulf?!” —out here handing out candy to trick or treaters and making friends
Pretty sure the final version of my dissertation has an “[insert citation here]” that no one noticed.
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Pretty sure the final version of my dissertation has an “[insert citation here]” that no one noticed.
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Shablicky-blows
October 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Shablicky-blows
I was very good at debate in high school, but unlike a lot of people who were good at debate, I recognized this as a serious moral failing I needed to suppress.
September 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I was very good at debate in high school, but unlike a lot of people who were good at debate, I recognized this as a serious moral failing I needed to suppress.
Because people are talking about that one problematic internet white dude, I was reminded of another, who masqueraded as a reformed womanizer and feminist whose shtick was “if you are a white heterosexual man, people are correct to be suspicious of you, bc other dudes have already ruined it for you”
August 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Because people are talking about that one problematic internet white dude, I was reminded of another, who masqueraded as a reformed womanizer and feminist whose shtick was “if you are a white heterosexual man, people are correct to be suspicious of you, bc other dudes have already ruined it for you”
God help me, some thoughts on the way to a blog post: I am a very boring middle-age cis white man with moderate to left political opinions. Since I was 16, the vast majority of my friends have been women; I have had periods where all my friends are women and none men, never the reverse.
August 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
God help me, some thoughts on the way to a blog post: I am a very boring middle-age cis white man with moderate to left political opinions. Since I was 16, the vast majority of my friends have been women; I have had periods where all my friends are women and none men, never the reverse.
<whispers very quietly> I occasionally allow my kids to get away with lies I know to be lies because it’s a skill they need to learn eventually.
(I also sometimes remind them I know they are lying, they’re not that good at it yet.)
(I also sometimes remind them I know they are lying, they’re not that good at it yet.)
I feel like an important part of being a kid is learning how to lie to authority figures effectively, and while this does help teach certain life lessons early and often, it seems to be counterproductive to other goals.
“Inside the heel of the shoe, a small insert can be lifted to reveal the compartment. Then, parents can track the location of their child — or, at least their child’s shoes.”
July 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
<whispers very quietly> I occasionally allow my kids to get away with lies I know to be lies because it’s a skill they need to learn eventually.
(I also sometimes remind them I know they are lying, they’re not that good at it yet.)
(I also sometimes remind them I know they are lying, they’re not that good at it yet.)
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My coauthors @lesja.bsky.social @karenguzzo.bsky.social & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com , which offers insights into why most demographers do NOT think there is a current fertility crisis and the panic about population decline is unwarranted.
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Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.
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July 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
My coauthors @lesja.bsky.social @karenguzzo.bsky.social & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com , which offers insights into why most demographers do NOT think there is a current fertility crisis and the panic about population decline is unwarranted.
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Just realized I haven’t seen anyone post the Tom Lehrer-2 Chainz letter yet today.
July 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Just realized I haven’t seen anyone post the Tom Lehrer-2 Chainz letter yet today.
It’s “wait in the car pickup line for the kids” season again, and my current books of choice are Dracula and Buddenbrooks.
I’m doing my part to make the world of the future a weirder place. Are you?
I’m doing my part to make the world of the future a weirder place. Are you?
July 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It’s “wait in the car pickup line for the kids” season again, and my current books of choice are Dracula and Buddenbrooks.
I’m doing my part to make the world of the future a weirder place. Are you?
I’m doing my part to make the world of the future a weirder place. Are you?
“Well, actually”: Monsoon Wedding is a better movie than Mississippi Masala.
June 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“Well, actually”: Monsoon Wedding is a better movie than Mississippi Masala.
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Counter-protestor told me “no kings but Jesus.” I’m like idk what YOU mean by that but you’re gd right sister
June 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Counter-protestor told me “no kings but Jesus.” I’m like idk what YOU mean by that but you’re gd right sister
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Just an unending stream of people in glorious Durham North Carolina
June 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Just an unending stream of people in glorious Durham North Carolina
I was in a march, saw an older person trip and fall over an unexpected rise in the pavement, and spent 30 minutes standing on that rise to keep people from tripping over it again until someone with chalk came along and we could signal it was there.
June 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I was in a march, saw an older person trip and fall over an unexpected rise in the pavement, and spent 30 minutes standing on that rise to keep people from tripping over it again until someone with chalk came along and we could signal it was there.
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While it’s never been more important to protect yourself from surveillance … if you look like me, if you’ve got privilege to spend, now is the time. If you do not NEED to blend in, it’s Opposite Day. Wear your PTA shirt, keep your phones on, record everything. Hoka dads, same for y’all.
June 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
While it’s never been more important to protect yourself from surveillance … if you look like me, if you’ve got privilege to spend, now is the time. If you do not NEED to blend in, it’s Opposite Day. Wear your PTA shirt, keep your phones on, record everything. Hoka dads, same for y’all.
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Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
June 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now