Ivan Kreilkamp
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English prof, easily distracted Victorianist Writing:
https://ivankreilkamp.com/
Imagine a possible alternate world in which āpopā & āoptimismā had not created an all-too-irresistible portmanteau term š¤Æ
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I guess I should feel lucky the feds arenāt locking down our offices & jailing our PhD students, for nowā¦?
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4 days ago
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Yeah, one single advanced assistant professor here at IUB English
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reference from
@theonion.com
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7 days ago
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āIt is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copyā
8 days ago
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Truly, it's a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma š§ [cue spooky/ mysterious music]
9 days ago
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Sam Cohen
10 days ago
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Mo Torres
13 days ago
"Our students are not wilting flowers. They can handle controversy. They do not need sentimental, cloying nostalgia. They need encouragement to face a flawed and unjust world head on, using the tools we've given them: critical reasoning, careful research, sympathy for the oppressed."
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University of Michigan professor defends pro-Palestinian commencement remarks: "Michigan is not a finishing school"
"The idea that graduations should be apolitical is ridiculous," University of Michigan history professor Derek Peterson said as a follow-up to his graduation day remarks.
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/university-michigan-professor-derek-peterson-commencement-speech-israel-gaza/
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pauline kael bot
21 days ago
The American public is a sucker for the corrupt tastefulness of well-bred English epics. (1970)
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ās āEmpire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAIā hits hard
12 days ago
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Philadelphia Inquirer
13 days ago
Journalist Julie K. Brown, a Bucks County native who spent years at the Philadelphia Daily News, has received a special citation from the Pulitzer Prize committee for her work regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
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Julie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein case
Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. āHer work, and the governmentās release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.ā
https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/julie-brown-pulitzer-prize-20260504.html?utm_campaign=edit_bsky_traffic&int_promo=newsroom
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Local advocacy led our Indiana town (
@citybloomington.bsky.social
) to vote to end a contract with Flock recently
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18 days ago
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Also shed a tear for the hopes unfulfilled of Pamela
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19 days ago
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Pretty badass lady ššš
20 days ago
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Sad weekend here in Bloomington but on the plus side, this guy was able to borrow a bike to get to his metal vocalist audition ā¤ļø
21 days ago
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Trump doesn't like it when people go after his friends and allies
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25 days ago
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Prince died 10 years ago yesterday-- I published this obituary essay, in which I consider his music as "a project of ecstatic de-repression," in
@publicbooks.bsky.social
a few days later. Still miss him (& Bowie)!
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Princeās Erotic Democracy - Public Books
In the 1980s, in the shadow of AIDS, Prince (along with Madonna) brought post-disco polymorphous perversity to the mainstream. As Richard Kim beautifully put it in The Nation last week, āIf you were ....
https://www.publicbooks.org/princes-erotic-democracy/
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J.D. Vance in 2020: "My growing view is that too many American Catholics have failed to show proper deference to the papacy, treating the pope as a political figure to be criticized or praised according to their whimsā š¤
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Ok I gather thereās some controversy but I listened & donāt really get it? āA flying āVā never fails to draw attention, but the geese on display arenāt forming letters for our benefit. In this book, beginning readers will learn about the many habits of geese.ā
29 days ago
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Gwendoline Riley tells it like it is in re: the violence of a bad editor
about 1 month ago
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Well, I guess that worked last time with Trump
about 1 month ago
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And āPutinās mouseā (self-described, remarkably: āAccording to a leaked transcript of the phone call, OrbĆ”n also compared himself to a mouse rescuing a trapped lion after it spared the rodentā)
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about 1 month ago
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Praying that OrbƔn is going DOWN
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about 1 month ago
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Iām so embarrassed I just spend $500 to participate in a suspiciously unfocused conversation with āPatrick Radden Keefeā about P.G. Wodehouse
about 1 month ago
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Boots Riley
@iucinema.bsky.social
@bootsriley.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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āThe board member was not the only person who, unprompted, used the word āsociopathicāā¦. Not long before his death, Aaron Swartz expressed concerns about Altman to several friends. āYou need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,ā he told one. āHe is a sociopath. He would do anythingāā
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about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
It is difficult to focus on work when our president is threatening to unleash a horrific collective punishment on a modern nation of over 90 million people in the midst of a war one of the premises of which is that the majority of that population do not support the regime under which they live.
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Trump threatens Iran with āHellā over Strait of Hormuz in profane post
Trump escalated threats against Iranās power plants, bridges and other infrastructure in an expletive-laden post on Truth Social on Easter morning.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/05/trump-iran-strait-hormuz-easter-threat/
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's essay prompted me to finally read Carr's (very wonderful) novel! Glad he concludes with the amazing bit about finding traces of the medieval painter's beard in the paint: āhe was fair-headed; hairs kept turning up where his beard had prodded into tacky paint"
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about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
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Rusty Foster
about 2 months ago
Itās funāa macabre sort of funāthis parlor game of āWho Goes AI?ā And it simplifies thingsāasking the question in regard to specific journalists.
www.todayintabs.com/p/who-goes-ai
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Who Goes AI?
An interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game.
https://www.todayintabs.com/p/who-goes-ai
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Yeah I can see how that would be discouraging as a Republican, lol
about 2 months ago
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Anna Kornbluh
about 2 months ago
brb writing a new book chapter
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I had not realized that Michel de Montaigne got so horny
about 2 months ago
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For Arendt, āthinking properly depends on our setting up windshields, walls perhaps of canvas not of brick, behind which we can draw a breath and focus our eyes more acutely on what lies out there in the glareā
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about 2 months ago
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How did āsexistentialā go unused in pop history until now. Saved for Robyn
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about 2 months ago
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Essss
about 2 months ago
āā¦the college assumes we want efficiency at all cost through automated rather than hand-pulled coffee.ā I maintain that human services, including library services, are often inefficient when they are good, because the care & connection of humans is not quick work. Oberlin Luddites, I stand with you!
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Victorian Studies
about 2 months ago
Check out Alex Murrayās blog post about his article āGatekeeping: Publishersā Readers, Gender, and the Literature of the 1890s,ā which explores the often reactionary and sexist genre of the readerās report during the complicated cultural politics of the 1890s.
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Had an amazing meal (pizza and beer; we brought our own salad) at Scratch Brewing in Ava, Illinois (semi-finalists for a James Beard Award for best bar this year). Foraged beer! -- made from e.g. wild carrot, nettle, pawpaw, & fig leaves foraged from the property or the woods around it
about 2 months ago
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Grey Gardens shoutout!
2 months ago
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Rebecca Baumann
2 months ago
āFrom the moment when somebody invented a way of duplicating books from moveable type, the mass-produced sixpenny became inevitable.ā āAllen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, 1938. (Le livre de poche est mort. Vive le livre de poche)
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The Femcels are hilarious- āYouāre Gay and Youāre in Love With Me (Please Let Me Touch Your Boobs),ā āNo One Will Fuck Me When I Wear Two Different Shoes (One Jordan, One Gucci Flip Flop),ā āPlease Donāt stab Yourself (Like Elliot Smith)ā
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This whole situation is such a PK Dick nightmare to me
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2 months ago
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Bloomingtonians w/ blue/purple/whatever hair ftw
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Phillip Maciak
2 months ago
This rules. JCO won the Canon Wars.
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so true from JCO
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I keep making Adobe Acrobat tell me I have too many tabs open, feel perversely proud of this. Feels like, 'oh you can't handle this, huh??'
2 months ago
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This meme will never not be funny (as long as we have Nazi types in our government, anyway)
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2 months ago
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Haha I came here to see what the
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take on Noem would be. Good one
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2 months ago
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Always reassuring to see Archduke-Ferdinand-assassination analogies š¬
2 months ago
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āSargantās prescription for her? Since she was trapped in a miserable situation and her husbandās sociopathy was incurable, she should have a lobotomy. That would make her āindifferentā to her husbandās mistreatmentā Jesus!
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Sadism as Psychotherapy | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jon Stockās recent book examines the deplorable career of prominent psychiatrist Willam Sargant and his brand of bio-therapeutics.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/william-sargant-electroshock-lobotomy-sleep-room-jon-stock
2 months ago
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