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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 7h

‘Great God Pan’ slaps, also Justified Sinner

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 17h

It doesn't make any sense to conceive of due process as a right that individual people can have or not have at all tbh. Bad framing from the start. Due process is a restriction on the government's actions, and by definition it applies to either everyone or no one.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 20h

PSA: Get yourself a Committee of No—a trusted group you can ask about opportunities, offers & obligations to figure out which you should accept and which you should decline. It's a real boon in thinking through workload issues. Plus, they'll inevitably text you funny things at stressful moments.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 19h

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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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 9h

Wonder if this has ever happened before in history in Troy or somewhere possibly

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 10h

We just call it Distant Reading 😜😜😜

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 14h

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

Newcastle upon Tyne from the East, painting by Niels Møller Lund, 1863-1916 (Laing Art Gallery). Danish-born, grew up in Newcastle. #NorthernArt

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14h

It’s unfortunate that the general aging population doesn’t get as much interaction with curious, hardworking young people as college professors do. They really will give you hope about the future on a daily basis 🤔

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11h

Mr Tradgrind

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 12h

Oh damn, there's a contender: "Now, what I want is Vibes. Teach our young men nothing but Vibes. Vibes, and only Vibes, are what our feeds crave. Follow nothing else, and block everything else."

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 13h

This rips

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 13h

Gave students an assignment to rewrite a snippet of Hard Times as, instead, a "condition of America" novel circa 2025. The winner: a scene from a school board meeting in "Woketown."

an older woman with blue hair and red glasses says absolutely perfect

Alt: Me appreciatively grading a student's essay

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14h

It’s unfortunate that the general aging population doesn’t get as much interaction with curious, hardworking young people as college professors do. They really will give you hope about the future on a daily basis 🤔

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately, in field of English all three are Victorianists

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

contracts professor / torts professor / constitutional law professor

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved his mandatory Compliance Training online tutorial.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

I think you're right!

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Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social · 1d

It’s come to my attention that some of you don’t know/forgot that Bari Weiss dated Kate McKinnon. This is a crucial element of her lore.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

we really do

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

They don't know meme, but it says "They don't know the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain"

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

😂😂😂

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

appears to be asleep at faculty meetings until anyone mentions Great Books discourse

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

I always says "fin. de. siecle." very slowly so that you can hear how he's pronouncing it. Also watches with an unblinking stare whenever somebody attempts to pronounce Walter Benjamin.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

the one on the left actually has a lot to say about how much we have misunderstood Branwell

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

he was hired as a Victorianist but now mostly teaches Beowulf along with some frightening interpretations of Anthropology

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