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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My old commute. Bavaria, January 2017.

Cyclist covered in winter wear on bicycle path cleared of snow.

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some of us needed to have it spelled out.

Still from "The Lion King." A cloud of dust spells out "sex."

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I once submitted a dissertation chapter with a few lines my cat had written. My advisor was very confused. 🙀

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Yes sweetie, cars drink a special juice made from decomposed plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. It smells yucky when we pump the gas or burn it because it has toxic chemicals that poison the air and water. It’s also heating up the earth, making life harder for your generation.”

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"She Bought a Bicycle and Bloomers Instead of the Furniture" The Illustrated Police News (UK) November 21, 1896

Illustration featuring a woman dressed in a puffy-sleeved outfit with bloomers riding a bicycle on a street and waving to a many in a sailor uniform standing on the sidewalk holding a sack.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking

Background photo from North Macedonia, where “sidewalks are mostly used to park cars” as explained by photo contributor Carl-Henrik Barnekow. Text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. #WarOnCars #UrbanTruth

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Since I'm knee-deep in Nazi film history for a current project, I just read a 1934 letter complaining that were only "nine good film directors" left in Germany after folks like Fritz Lang left and Jewish filmmakers were denied future projects. The far right has always had an "artists" problem.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Adalbert Stifter, "Der Nachsommer" ("Indian Summer"). I'm on Bluesky to represent! #LitWiss

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Ben Alpers @benalpers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Martin Guerre?

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the greatest president on climate change in history and all y’all do is complain

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I came back from Europe with a suitcase full of vinyl and CDs. My lige has gotten richer since I began rebuilding my collection of music on physical media.

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As late as 2007, a lady flipped out because she heard men on a plane speaking Arabic, delaying the flight and forcing everyone else on board to wait until next morning to depart. The men were Iraqis working for the US military. www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna21587...

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Iraqis men sue American Air for discrimination

Six Iraqi men living in Michigan filed a race discrimination lawsuit against American Airlines on Thursday claiming they were publicly humiliated when they were escorted from an aborted flight in San ...

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Could we get a panic going about how reading physical books will hasten the apocalypse? Maybe we could revive a version of how reading novels makes people solitary and useless?

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 10/09/2026

the media’s reaction to this anthropic guy’s tweets are a great demonstration of how they don’t want to inform the public, they’re just happy to go along with a sensationalist narrative handed to them by deluded and self-interested tech people

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sara Ahmed compares reading theory to learning a language: when you practice it, you can start to move around in it. I think that's basically right, and it shapes my approach to my own theory classes.

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bush's crisis of legitimacy was gone overnight. Intolerance for dissent reached a fever pitch, the country launched disastrous wars, and, 25 years later, here we are. If you showed me your middle finger between 2001-2004, my DMs are open.

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I taught "The Magic Flute" this week. My first time assigning an opera. And now I'm walking around singing "pa ... pa pa pa... pa pa pa pa..."

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is the other dream. We can all decide to do this whenever we like. The machines have off switches.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 07/09/2026

AI in Ed advocates should just come out and say it: you want to replace human systems with tech bc humans can’t be as easily controlled. They can make demands, organize, strike, etc. It’s about labor discipline and control. Control higher ed workers and control students, the future workforce.

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Let's all celebrate western civilization, which, according to statistics, is actually meh.

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I got another sideways look telling a twenty-something yesterday that "artificial intelligence" is neither artificial nor intelligent.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

You can do anything on a bike, including escape from a prisoner-of-war camp, as James Coburn's character does in 1963's The Great Escape #BicycleBirthday James Coburn August 31 (1928-2002)

Film still featuring a man in a jacket and flat cap standing next to an old-fashioned bicycle.

Via ridesabike.com

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Right taking Moby-Dick

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#UKtoGermany2026, km847: Die Luft ist kühl und es dunkelt, Und ruhig fließt der Rhein; Der Gipfel des Berges funkelt Im Abendsonnenschein.

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#UKtoGermany2026, km. 645: The source of the Ahr. Irreligiosity aside, I genuinely hold springs to be sacred.

Red bicycle by a spring. Spring is ina wall protected by a grille.

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#UKtoGermany2026, km 484: Brussels. Doing some more WG Sebald tourism. Sebald had some choice insults for Belgium, and gets his digs in in "Austerlitz" & "Rings of Saturn." The Palace of Justice was the epitome of Belgian ugliness, he wrote. #LitWiss

Belgian Palace of Justice. Cavernous entrance dominates.

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Kristoffer Ekberg @krekberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ny vecka, ny ansökningsportal att logga in i...

Bild av pojke med texten, Ever since I was a little boy I knew I wanted to log into Microsoft Authenticator 27 times a day, create deliverables for key stakeholders, and boil the ocean

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#UKtoGermany2026, km. 230: Finally crossing the English Channel.

Cars and cyclists linedup at ferry terminal.

Red bicycle in front of EU sign for France.

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is the second ass-covering piece in as many days that The Guardian has run on its roll in the Arday story.

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Every text theorizes itself, and even the most trivial texts theorize, if nothing else, triviality as such. Sincerely, -A Literature Professor

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

That's right.

Graphic that says "In this house, we believe: cars ruin cities, streets are for people, accessibility is a human right, honking won't help, you'd be happier biking, there is life after cars."

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"Dates to 1390" is the answer to every "why do Americans say..." a good 90% of the time.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/08/2026

Why is academia the only industry in which people who know nothing about it yet hate it get to represent it and opine about it in the media? The fossil fuel industry and weapons producers get friendlier coverage in the MSM than universities. It’s wild!

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

hires happen because there's a sudden teaching need or the provost just read a story about "mega-cities" or a donor has a bee in his bonnet or a program is about to lose accreditation or a star wants to move there is no magic merit market or pond where departments fish for the most meritorious fish

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I also think that if you're excited about co-authorship with AI you've probably disqualified yourself from the plagiarism convo

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🎨Robert Ariail

Four-panel cartoon illustration: The first panel shows a man looking at a gas station sign that says, "Gas $4.00.9". He takes the digits down to the ground and builds a bicycle with them, and rides away.

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"...es war ein überaus trauriger Augenblick – deckend stand nun Scheibe auf Scheibe – ... ein einstimmiges "Ah" aus aller Munde, und dann Totenstille, es war der Moment, da Gott redete und die Menschen horchten." -Stifter, Die Sonnenfinsternis

Solar eclipse as seen through protective glasses.

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hello, Republican state legislators? I study 19th century German authors who were basically all conservatives, antirevolutionaries, and Otto von Bismarck stans.

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RITTÆR @rittaer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Stell Dir vor, Du gibst ca. 1300.- Euro für Eintritt + Anreise aus und bekommst dafür billigen KI-Slop auf die Augen geschmiert. Jeder einzelne Buhruf war echt hart gerechtfertigt.

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Working on my syllabus for my seminar on Romanticism's cultural legacies. Kant to the usual suspects to "Caligari" to "Alien." The darkest class I've ever taught. #LitWiss

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you?

Section of reptoduction of Lübecker Totentanz.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

epistemic warfare

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